Matt Goldman Quits Bioware

Well it's not the weekend anymore. Guess we're not going to hear anything further.

If you truly believe this, then either you didn't play The Witcher 3, or we played different games. In my experience, while W3 certainly showed more of it's darkside in cutscenes, the overall tone wasn't that much darker than the first two DA games. Both worlds had complex characters and dilemmas with no easy answers. There were exceptions, but I saw mostly flawed heroes, sympathetic villians, and regular people just trying to get by.

Wasn't the ending of ME3 Casey Hudson's baby?

A few things:
-In my previous post, I did specify that I knew there were exceptions, that the series had plenty of monsters along with grey characters.

-Given a villain's history, motives and context of their situation, I can sympathize with particular characters and still acknowledge they need to be held accountable.

-So if Sylvia being born under The Curse of the Black Sun actually means something in the setting, is she even responsible, or a victim of fate? You can't have it both ways.

-You don't find Philip or Dijkstra to be villians. I do, as well as Letho and many others with grey motives.

-I suppose my biggest issue with your "everyone is the shittiest person ever" generalization is how often I found the opposite. Yes, The Witcher is dark fantasy, but I encountered so many scenes of love, faith and hope, camaraderie and fellowship, valor and humor, remorse and possible redemption. If the darkness was too much for your own tastes, fair enough, but you can't deny that's all there is to the series.

-Finally, if you really dislike The Witcher much, why play the games multiple times?

The stories are that the two of them did it over a short period of time together while the rest of the team finished other areas of the game.

Dijkstra wasn't a "villain" but he is a dark character or grey if you prefer. He may be a much better leader then radovid but in order to take power he kills his allies Roache and Vess who did nothing to him and were just fighting for their country in TW3. No Roache was a man who slaughtered elves who did nothing in his fight against the scoiateil -spelled that wrong- and in TW2 iorveth was fighting for freedom and equality sure but he killed innocent people just to cause fear. Yes there are some characters who are pure evil but the main story of TW3 is that noone is perfect. As for Alvin he was trying to fight the frost- can't remember the bloody name- and while he was wrong he was trying to do the right thing in his mind. So while there was clearly evil characters ALOT of it was how the vast majority of people are grey.

So you've played and beat any of The Witcher games? Given them a fair shake and not simply dismissed them out of prejudice?

Ultimately, for me such comparisons are less about The Witcher, and more about the future of Dragon Age. Given some of the dev comments, many fear that fans who liked and supported DA's dark adult fantasy will be betrayed for the lowest common denominator. That it's soul will be violated into the kind of Forgotten Realms-lite tale DA was originally meant to deconstruct. With all the tone and complexity of a Saturday Morning Cartoon.

We all knew that Dragon Age was dark adult fantasy coming in. Frankly Hanako, given some your stances , I'm surprised you stuck it out past Origins. If you prefer Idealistic media so much, what's wrong with seeking that out, and letting Dragon Age keep it's own unique identity?

I'm sorry to break this to people...but Dijkstra and Roach are the exact same person. Roach would have absolutely sold out Geralt, or anyone else, without a moment's hesitation if he thought it would save Temeria. If you think otherwise you are lying to yourself. They are both the fanatical patriot. Roach sold out the entire North so his country would remain as a fake slave state to the Empire, so to say they did "nothing" to him is quite a leap in logic. They sacrificed Redania, something Roach would never accept if the roles were reversed. 

Alvin "trying to do the right thing in his mind" means bloody nothing sir. No villain sees themselves as a villain. His actions were excessive and unjustifiable. Nothing he was doing would have had any effect on the White Frost, as evidenced by how Ciri stopped it. 

Every major character in the franchise is an asshole, on some level. Is that realistic? kind of, is that something I wanna play? a few times at most. Everyone says Witcher is a world of grey, but in order for Grey to exist, there must be people who are White to balance out the Black, and Witcher has absolutely none of those people. There is not a single individual in the franchise I can look at and justify their mentality. Everyone is a selfish ass, who occasionally does something nice, when it has no effect on their selfish goals. I'm sorry but that's just a little too cynical. I know it's popular right now to view real life as being exactly like that, and I'm sorry but that's not entirely accurate. Witcher has no Ghandi's, no Dalí Lama, no Louis Pasteur, no Martin Luther King Jr, etc etc. The real world has legitimately good people, who do great things for society. Witcher does not. It's artificially bleak and cynical because that's the artsy fartsy take on society that everyone thinks is cool. 

This is kinda like Brian Kelly's abrupt exit from Notre Dame with even the courtesy to tell his players.

They had to read about it on Social Media/Media news outlets.

I did enjoy the game, I'm just not under some illusion that the game is Grey in any possible way, or in any way remotely realistic with it's overwhelming cynicism. 

And once again, sure, they had an agreement to get rid of Radovid. They did. If you think Roach would have honored such a deal if the role was reversed, you are again lying to yourself. 

No roache would not have hesitated. Unfortunetly while the witcher 3 is cynical it is accurate in terms of politics and foreign policy. Look at the big players on the world stage and you will see stuff that makes you sick and not just "bad" countries and no not just america enginnering coups either. In terms of world politics the witcher is unfortunetly pretty accurate in terms of tone. Now is every other person a murder and/or rapist? No they are not. 

Bleeding talent.