VG247 Article - How Bioware is losing its heart

What game did you play??

Geralt spends over half the game searching for his daughter. He goes to Novigrad to find Triss because there is a chance Ciri (his adopted daughter) contacted her. It takes less than five minutes to find Triss. Triss is in love with Geralt (after all, she is one of the main LIs in the game and had a past relationship with him) but she is not making "googly eyes" at Geralt. Her number one concern is moving on with her life and rescuing her fellow Mages. She pushes Geralt away. It's Geralt who can convince her to give him a second chance. 

Yennefer's concern is finding her adopted daughter (Ciri) and she only asks for Geralt's help when she is left with no other options but to track her whereabouts. She too, has a past relationship with Geralt spanning over 20 years. She wants to break a love spell Geralt asked a Djinn to cast on them to find out if their love is real or the work of magic. 

Geralt is actually quite attractive for his age (I think he's over 100) but he's also a nice and helpful person who would protect the people he loves, not just women.  Also Sorceresses are not as beautiful as they appear. Triss is heavily scarred herself and Yennefer is actually a hunchback. They use magic to cover their imperfections.  Thing is, Geralt saw their imperfections and still loved and accepted them. 

You can sleep with Keira before locking in your relationship with either Yen or Triss.  And there is no reason for any of them to find out because they are all in different countries and Keira doesn't give a flying fig about Geralt.  Only Yen and Triss discover a cheating Geralt (when they all reunite) and make him pay dearly for it. So cheating does have consequences. 

No one cares about brothel whores, and even then, this is an option for the player. Just like how the player could romance companions in DAO and DA2 and still visit brothels. 

None of the women throw themselves at Geralt. Geralt is constantly used and taken advantage of by women. The only woman Geralt saves in the game is his daughter Ciri.  The rest he helps out with their own tasks, which is no different than the loyalty missions in ME and DA.  Except, the characters don't just fawn over Geralt and see him as their bff because he aided them with one task. 

I get that you may have an issue with "straight male perspectives" but it has distorted your view on both the story and the main character, big time.   My canon Geralt was 100% faithful to Triss. 

My least favorite games of all time were "Dragon Age Inquisition", "Fallout 4" and "Mass Effect Andromeda" and that was because they were all badly written. In each game I wanted to say things like, "You think magic is dangerous? Not nearly as dangerous as I am with my sword" and don't get me started on the father/son thing in Fallout 4 where the best option for Boston was to kill all the scientists and synths with yet another radioactive device rather than put them on trial and then use their knowledge to clean up the wasteland. In fact that was a game I couldn't even finish. As for this latest offering, it was boring. Pick a dialogue option for flavor but not for any particular outcome.

See, I don't get the complaint that most of the side stuff in ME:A is a chore. Pick an area to go to, do the side quests and tasks you find along the way, do what you went over there to do in the first place, maybe do a couple more side stuff in that general area....It's not like you need to drive around the map doing one quest chain but ignoring the others, then start over with the next quest chain, then repeat.   My first playthrough was 75 hours, with 90% completion, and a VERY large portion of those hours was spent talking to my crew, doing the main path content, and the meatier side content. Maybe, MAYBE 10 hours total was spent doing the tasks. And the tasks are the ones people seem to have the most problem with.

Mountains out of mole hills, in my opinion.  Mountains out of mole hills.

What percentage of Skyrim players actually uses mods?

There is a difference in how Skyrim radiant quests and Andromeda tasks effectively works.

Skyrim radiant quest: early on in the game when visiting the College, the guy whose job is enchanting stuff for outside people sends me to obtain an item from a customer. The customer is on... Solstheim, an island added by the DLC. It barely covers my travel expenses. Still it covers the travel expenses, and my character wouldn't go to that island that early on if it weren't for that.

Andromeda task: scan unique rocks. even if it's randomized, it's still a quite evenly spread-out collectible.

No.
the problem is the boring open world and boring repetitive fetch quests

ME is about the story not boring exploratio and boring fetch quests, not driving for hours

I do. I care about my brothel whores.

Lmfao. And a triple facepalm for the agenda.

In the trilogy everyone had daddy issues.

That's why I said "conventionally attractive" that has nothing to do with personal taste or your personal dislike of the character.