Episode 59: The Witcher

Turn on your Blood Scent, I smell a new episode of Nerdificent! This week Ify is joined by Jesse Neil and Keith Kingbay of New Player Has Joined to discuss the adventures of Geralt of Rivia from the franchise, The Witcher. Starting from the fantasy stories of the 80's to the multi-million selling video game series of today (mostly the games), the gang gets into all the clean and very dirty details of one of the World's most popular monster hunters. Save your daughter, and the rest of the World, on this week's episode of Nerdficent!

FOOTNOTES:

New Player Has Joined on Twitter

Sale of 'The Witcher' Over 33 Million

'The Witcher' Script Heavily Edited for English Audiences

A 'Witcher 3' Primer

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
How's it going, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Nernificent.
I am your host, Iffy Wanyway, Kenny Fernandez sat this
one out. She's a busy lady. It's her birthday. She
got stuff to do. Happy birthday, Danny. It won't be
your birthday by the time this comes out. But I
have some friends here, you know, I have some friends.

(00:30):
They're hanging from the like, we're not going to be
on the mike. Let me go get them over in
the break room, you know, they're they're just in the back.
You know. One has a spinner smoking a cigarette, ready
to talk to us. Apparently we work at the docks.

(00:53):
Oh my gosh, you know. Just I'm deciding do we
do take this from the top again or do we
just keep going? Oh my gosh, this is what we
assume people want. Yes, I mean, I've heard podcasts, right,
this is what it is. I don't know, I don't know.
There's three people talking. It's a podcast. Every every uberpool

(01:17):
you've ever been in is a podcast. Every time I'm
on an airplane, what do you do? Every every time
I'm in a room with someone and I'm just you know, talking,
how many times, like since you're in l A. You're
working all the time. How often you realize like, oh,
I only talk to you and we have a podcast?

(01:37):
Oh yeah, right now? When you pointed this, you guys
know if podcast anyway, those voices are Keith, Keating Bay
and from the New Players Joined podcast. If you couldn't
tell I was stalling because I didn't know your last name,
It's fair. I could have asked before, but we just

(01:59):
jumped in. I'm gonna be real with you. When you
were on our show, before you showed up, I was like, okay,
I have to look at a video clip real quick
where somebody introduces Iffy because I am not going to
take a stab at this last name. What's funny is
like when you think about like man one, like we
often don't know our friend's last name because we refer

(02:21):
to him just in the first name, and then if
we do lots of times, we don't know how to
pronounce it, especially if you got some days, Oh my gosh,
how are you all doing doing good? How are you
good good? You know? The way we like to start
off the pod now is to ask about something you're
geeking out about this week. So yeah, so if you

(02:42):
have something in mind. Why don't you tell me what's
your geeking out about. I'll start to give you time,
because I think I did just bring that on. I
got took up your last name, like I gotta look,
Danny's the one who keeps it on the rails, you
know now that it's just iffy, It's it's like out
of sorry. But but yeah, no, I'm I'm gosh, yeah,

(03:07):
I'm still kind of freaking out about the footage that
came out. We were just talking about it for the
Final Fantasy seven and you know, I and also I'm
nerding out about the fact that you know, I'm starting
to get the good you know, no no desk in
any of the smaller devs, but like the bigger devs
are sent to me appointments for E three and like,

(03:28):
let me see that, and it's always like very sneaky.
It's like, it's this game we already announced in two
unannounced games. Yeah yeah, let me, let me, let me
add let me in there and playing it. What about y'all.
I'll say that non game related, I'm geeking out a
little bit over Barry on HBO, which shocked. It's a

(03:49):
show that I was like I'm not gonna like this,
so I'm feel good. I was like, I don't even know.
They're sad comedy and I started watching, like this is
the best show. Yeah, it's so good, so funny, so
good to plays. No, ho, Hank is my new hero.
Oh yeah, that's actually a buddy of mine, Anthony carry. Yeah. Yeah,
we met through we volunteer for this camp called comfort
Zone Camp. It's a camp for kids who have like

(04:11):
lost a parent or a loved one, teaching him good
coping methods and you know, you get paired off with
there's little buddies that get paired off with big buddies.
And then I was he was like I acting. I
was like a word, Yeah, he's he's super dope, dude.
He's question Also, Victors is as from Gotham. He was,
that's who who he also plays. It's mostly just actors.

(04:35):
Oh no, no, that's who Anthony played. So he was
I'm sorry, I'm confused. So you're saying that these men
aren't the character. Yeah, yeah, sorry, I have to break that.
And also that this fellow you're talking about is not
more than one person very lost about how Hollywood works.

(04:56):
Game oh man, but yeah, no, I have to catch
up on season to a barrier. I have been so good.
It's so unbelievably funny and so well acted and so
well written to for video games. I'm still geeking out.
I just finished Persona five for the third time. Man
for the third I hear it's long, and I'm still

(05:16):
finding new things, and I just like, still love the ending.
If anybody out there hasn't played Persona five, get on
that because it is amazing. I feel like all we
do is promote that game. I feel like we promote
that game way more than our podcast. But guys, go
buy Persona five, subscribe to those Persona games. I'm playing

(05:38):
right now. I jumped in the Apex for the first time.
I keep jumping into games when they're dying. Yeah, I
keep doing this. I keep doing this thing where I'm like, like,
Apex is a new thing. Everybody's going for Fortnite. I'm like, yeah, whatever,
I don't want to do Battley ot Like basically, I
was like I don't care, but then it's free and
I jumped in. I'm like, oh, I get why this
is fun. But I just read an article that was like,
all their players are leaving because I'm not able to

(05:58):
update it fast enough for Pickle. I'm gonna call BS
on that. Then that's it's sensational journalism. And I hate
that they keep doing right because all it's doing is
trying to promote that crunch lifestyle. So or not even
a Respawn came out and made a firm stance of like, yes,
our updates are going to take longer to come out
so that our workers can have a regular nine to five.

(06:21):
And Fortnite reports came out that they have been working
like just almost twenty four hours because because of a pack.
So so I think you don't have to worry. All
these articles are so dumb and it's and it just
reminds you that gaming journalists don't even really have to
be real journals right now. Real journalists don't have Yes,

(06:46):
It's just it really does bug me when like, if you,
if you're like me who constantly are watching like game stats,
you're very aware of how much it fluctuates from time
to time. And I don't think the game is dying
the same way people look Fortnite is dying. When Apex
came out and now people are going to ford, the
people get bored and it's a free game exactly, exactly.

(07:08):
You have the benefit. It's not like if it was
a full featured game that you paid for and you
saw players leaving, it'd be scary. But this game that
is free, people will just have it on their their
computers and then when it gets updated, they're going to
check it out. Exactly the new seasons jump, but the
other things that we're all talking about HBO and I'm
watching it consistently. It's like, because now TV shows, it's

(07:30):
just harder, right, you eventually get to them that sort
of thing, Chernobyl. I'm legitimately watching every week it comes out.
Everyone's saying, Chernobyl, good to check that. It's very scary.
The whole thing is scary and depressing and dramatic. But
the crazy thing about it, this happened, so just the
fact of watching it. I geek out on horrible nuclear

(07:52):
disasters whenever, like three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Like I
geek out on the actual like not the dragon Dragons
e po and go to hell with that. I'm I'm
locked into did real go down? I gotta know everything
about fishing. Yeah, I will explain the meltdown at your

(08:12):
novel to you whenever you Well, that's good. Well today
we're talking about some real stuff, really speaking of dragons
and go. This is a clean podcast, and that's the

(08:35):
first time I mean it and not a joke. You're
gonna be bleeped out so much. But that's also dance jobs.
So that's his problem. I'll try not. We'll forget this
in two minutes. I grew up in a locker room.
It's gonna be real hard from Boston, enough said. But yeah,

(08:58):
so we're talking about the Witcher. Which when did y'all
kind of get introduced to the Witcher? Because with me
it was Witcher three Witcher. The first time I saw
the Witcher was a trailer of the first one, and
it was when Gerald is chasing a werewolf basically over
all these like houses and all these sorts of things.
Remember showing it to my friend improv buddy Seawana Riley
at the time, being like, have you seen this game?

(09:20):
Do you know what this is? Basically? And it went
away and it like was a game. They'm like, oh,
that's fascinating. And then two came out and I bought
it on the PC, but my PC wasn't fast enough
it wasn't good enough. Then I got to three. Three
was my official like alright, like let's do this now.
But a game that I'm like, oh, I don't have
to know what's going on one. I don't have to
know what's going on to I can just jump into

(09:40):
three and enjoy it basically, And mine was to Keith
playing the Witcher three and here's the thing, here's your thing.
So every once in a while when Keith and I
we used to do this a lot more. When we
would get bored, we would just like watch what the
other one is playing for an hour, just like check
it out, you know, because you just got to watch
your friends if you're on the network. And one time
I saw that he was playing what or three, and

(10:01):
I was like, oh, I gotta check this game out.
I've heard so many amazing things Before he gets to it,
I'm playing what your three correctly, correctly correctly, so no
judgment here. I jump on and for like three minutes straight,
Keith is just playing gwent this only trying to the
card game. I don't see a single creature, not a storyline,

(10:22):
not a character. It just keeps gutting two cards. And
then this wolfman going would you like to play? And
I'm like, is this the game? And I'm like, Jesse,
I won string and you're like, well, I don't care
one string. You're health Beast conqueror. You should be able
to find string. It's everywhere. Okay, if you can ask you,

(10:44):
was this game too much? I need you now you
play Monster Hunter? I need to play games out of
inventory heavy. There's a lot to them. Were you like
this is too much? Because of my time they started
playing gwent to me. I was like, I have no
idea what the is going for me? It for me,
it wasn't too much. What it was was so I
was playing, and I was playing on stream, and I

(11:05):
was gonna just do normal mode because uh but everyone's like, no,
you gotta do hard mode. I didn't. I didn't realize
that this game normal mode, yeah, no more normal mode
is already bringing the heat. So I got I was
playing hard mode and I just just got. I got
to a point where you know how how oh man,

(11:27):
maybe maybe three, three, four or five? Maybe ten? Do
I played half the game? It was a blur. All
I know is that I got to a point where
you know how games auto auto save and if you're

(11:47):
auto saving, you get into a death loop. Because that's
what happened. I went into this one point where they
jump you and I'm having a hard enough time taking
one on right. Well, no, not the bar, I get out.
I'm doing missions, made missions, and there was one mission

(12:07):
where I get called into a camp and then like
we have a discussion, and the discussion ends in a fight.
So I'm surrounded and you got archers and do so
like I'm like trying to like stop time and use
imagine to be like, hey, everybody calmed down, and I
just would just get walloped, get back, respawn, get beat

(12:28):
up again. And I was like okay, and so I
just put the game down. Yeah, I put the game down.
I walked away from it for a couple of months.
By the time I came back to the game, all
the DLC came back. And for those who are not
keeping up with which or three, it took a while
for the DLC to care. So that means I put
down the game maybe for a year or two. This

(12:50):
this game came on two and still stands a test
of time, like this is an amazing game. Yeah, I
think I got back to it at two thousand seventeen
because every one was saying it was good. Felicia Day
keeps nerding out about it, and I was like, okay,
let me give it a shot, but let me just
try it on normal because I think I told somebody like, yeah,

(13:10):
I was doing it all hard and it was rough there,
like why did you do that? Yeah? It's literally like
Dark Souls. It's all that. Dark Souls has the kindness
of letting you know what kind of game it is.
When you died appears, it's like, oh, okay, so they
want me to go through this and struggle. What's your three?

(13:30):
You die constantly in the game kind of goes you
really suck at this kind of you kind of blue,
and you're like, it's me, It's my fault. So I
I do it on normal mode and I get pretty far,
and I was streaming it for a bit and it's
so funny because streaming is so funny in the sense
that you know, you're putting on a show, you're being yourself.

(13:53):
And then there was two things I kept doing that
made me take it off. There's two things that happened
that made me take it off the stream. It was
too many moments of me staring at my inventory. This
is a boring game to watch somebody play doing alchemy. Yeah,
all right, and I'll make that because there's so much

(14:14):
to this game. There was so much to this just
your inventory is literally resident Evil. You'll have so much
space where everything you have, and then you end up
looking like a clown because you don't know the inventory,
a beeping clown. Everybody. Um No, that's so fascin about
this game because seriously, like there's so much inventory, it's
hard to play in general. And then there's like here's

(14:35):
Gwent and Gwent. I know it's a joke, it's hilarious
or whatever, but Gwent has now become its own things,
its own game basically. But this game, like was highly
addictive and it was very important to the game just
even do question al. That's why I never played. I
did the tutorial and I was like, oh, this is dangerous.
This is gonna add a whole mother. The tutorial for

(14:56):
Gwent has more rules than most full video games. Yes,
it's totally true. I got to the tutorial and I
literally was like, Okay, I fault, and it's like but
then this other deck and I was like, oh, there's
more than one and then this, and I was like, okay,
but but then as long as she's the three and
then this card makes it, She's like I was a
can't Pokemon card trader who happens to be the sexiest

(15:16):
man on Earth and can't die. That's all I would
do in the game. That's what's so funny is when
you really think of Gwent in the context of the game,
it's wild because it'll be like, I need you to
find my daughter. She's gone. Careful a round of exactly
exactly put some money on it. It's so weird. This
guy everybody is dying and he's playing Texas. Hold him.

(15:39):
That's how the whole game, like like legitimately, Gwent is
such an addicting fun experience. As you collect cards, there's
different armies you build, like that whole sort of thing.
But also it's like just a side part of it.
I love games like that. Because Final Fancy eight has
a card game, it's like one of my favorite Phinal
Fancy games. Um, that's the same thing. I can take
a break from the game and take part in this.
There's so much you the witcher that's fascinating. Like I

(16:02):
try to explain to people and like it's like Game
of Thrones but there's gargoyles and like like it's crazy.
It's like that's a really good comparison because I feel
like Witchers are very similar to the Night's Watch ye
in the sense of life. They are not supposed to
put their hand in any of the politics, they're not
supposed to care, and they're just supposed to collect money.

(16:24):
You're supposed to be really callous, like you're supposed to
be like, I'm a poor man, my daughter, good nut,
my ghost, and you're like, you got money to pay, yeah,
but I just don't. All right, now, you're one daughter poor.
I don't want to tell you, yeah, but to get
into the thick of it, because we got deep and
there's probably so many people listening, like I don't know

(16:48):
anything and they trust us. By the end of it,
you still want consider this You're thirteen hour tutorial and
you still don't pay to this game sixty hours. I
have no idea what it is, well at its base level.
The Witcher is an action role playing game developed by
CD Project Red and published by Atari, based on the

(17:09):
novel series The Witcher by Polish author uh Andreah Just
cursing in a different language. None of us know it?
I know, just do we just get this angry letter
from the Polish signed all of us. The story takes

(17:33):
place in medieval fantasy world and follows Geralta Rivia, one
of a few traveling monster hunters who have supernatural powers
known as Witchers. The game system of moral choices as
part of the storyline was noted for its time, delayed consequences,
and lack of black and white morality. So let's talk
about the story which So it's a fantasy series of

(17:54):
short stories and novels about the protagonist Geralta Rivia and
Sapowski's books Witchers are Witcher's, like Gerald, are monster hunters who,
with training and body modification, developed supernatural abilities at a
young age to battle deadly bees. The books have been
adapted into film, television series, video games, and graphic novel series.
The series of novels is known as the Witcher Saga.

(18:16):
The short stories and novels have been translated into numerous language,
including English. Did not know that until I read this
in English. Uh. The Witcher short stories by author Andre
Sapowski were first published in Polish science fiction UH and
fantasy magazines Fantaskia. That's you know, I know, but also

(18:38):
I like that there's like even Nerdier shown in Jump
was like took out all the pictures and just had stories,
you know. Uh. So the first short story was called Whitesman,
which is the Witcher in six. So this is this
is an old story and it was written for a
contest held by the magazine. In one third place, I

(19:03):
want I want andre to find who won fourth place?
First place was like where's your video game? Wouldn't it
be great if it was like George RR. Martin, Yeah,
I made Game of Thrones. Yeah, he's like, okay, cool.
Number two right, that would be wild. It's like, yeah,
number one, number number one. J R. R. Tolkien, Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

(19:29):
He just resubmitted The Lord of the Rings. I don't
know why they accept it. I mean that's all you
guys at there. Your short stories could be great. We
don't know, I know. Um. The first four stories we're
dealing with Geralta Rivio were originally featured in a nine
nineties short story collection titled Widseman The Wincher, now out
of print with Droga Z. All right, I'm gonna just

(19:52):
say what it says in English, UH. The Road with
No Retort uh, which is set in a world before
the Wincher stories and features Geralt Mother to Be, So
that that does that track for you at I followed this.
I heard you. I hear what you say. When you
play the Witcher three, you're not going to think about

(20:13):
any of this. I'm I'm kind of in that in
that zone, you know, girlt really because there's so many
different quests going on, so many different side stories, and
so many different monsters you meet, like a Sucky Biss,
and then you have to actually be an actor. Like
there's so many things going on. What's so funny is
the fact that all three of us entered at the
third means that we were even more out of the loop.

(20:34):
Because by the way this the i'm a I'm gonna
go scroll down to see when the first uh Witcher
came out. So the first Witcher came out in UH
three four? Yeah, you're you're very close. What was it
on PS two PC PC? It looked like it looked
like Fable. That's like the big feat and that sort

(20:55):
of thing. It looked like a Fable game. That's the thing,
because like I wasn't playing PC. No, it's like if
you miss PC, it's like it's just kind of over
just games in general, right, if you miss a year
a couple of years of PC with PlayStation the tend
you just came out in two thousand and seven, so
so so yeah, yeah so so, and then like the
third game came out. So when you think about it,

(21:16):
the first game two thousand and seven and then the
third game dropped like two thousand and fourteen. Yeah, that's
a long period of time of lore that we're just
jumping in on. The third way was like, let's go
also and too they have different endings as well, and
oh yeah, there's different endings. To me, I'm like, what
is there? You can follow the general idea of the story.
That's why I like went super nerdy and I went

(21:37):
through the wiki to see what likes because like it.
So for those who don't know, when you play three,
it does pick up from like one and two. So
if you don't have the save file, they essentially or
I think it just does it either way, because I
imagine it's probably hard to that much time past carryover
save file. But they ask you what you know, what

(21:59):
you did in the other situations, and if I'm sure,
like all three of us at this table, if you
haven't played the first two, you're just guessing because they
give you no context. They literally are like, did you
let this person live or die? That person is giving
you a bath and your naked tell me your secret? Ye?
But yeah, it has a fun way of questioning you

(22:20):
in this game. Yeah, but like they gave zero context.
They just gave you a name. It was like did
they live or die? So like even you coming in
at three, you're like, I'm just gonna roll the dice.
But I mean it's Mass Effects. I mean, if somebody's
like I wanna play Mass Effect two or three? Do
you have to play one and be like, no, you
don't have to. Like you can literally jump into those
games and understand what's going on. It's so interesting to me.

(22:41):
Like Mass Effect was the one that came to my
mind too, because it's notorious you're carrying over your save
files and like giving you some information. It's like, that's
why everybody was so mad about the ending for three
was because none of the choices seem to matter at all.
I mean I feel like they mattered, they just didn't matter.
In the way people liked because I was one of
the first ones who was cool with an original. But

(23:03):
I think there's like because I think when you play
a character, especially when you make a character, it's a
real sticking point for video game players if you don't
get to live at the end. But it's like that
is why the story is beautiful. Is like you have
to give up yourself to save the union, and all

(23:24):
these angry gamers just proved that they would not sacrifice.
I gotta I gotta sec I want to be like
you get that's not you right. Other stories like oh,
the whole universe has to die, well, I guess that
whole universe has to die. Well. This is also a
game again, like I brought up like it might have
been too much, because I don't think it's too much.

(23:46):
You never think it's too much. We play it now.
You have to study each enemy and what their weaknesses.
Like there's some enemies you can't kill them, and you
literally have to go find the book going into it.
Like that you're saying with streaming people are like this
is boring, and you're like, I don't know how to
do the boss battle. Let's read all of this you
could just see me swear at my TV screen for
four hours auto save on a death loop, or we

(24:08):
could read a book. Guys, knowledge is important. Oh man,
all right, let's break down some of these characters we've
been saying names and once again, like we said, that's
that's what's so funny about this is with stuff like this,
you may leave this episode not really understanding what the
heck is going on, but at the very least we

(24:30):
hope to make you want to go pick the game again.
It's like it's my first season of Game of Thrones.
By the end of the first season, I had no
idea what anyone's no idea anyone? Sorry hockey for so
long did you play on the Bruins? What are we doing?
I realizing that we swear so much on our not

(24:54):
mean we just swear a lot or not vulgar, no,
but off the podcast very very very vulgar, mean, very
genuine bad me. Well, that's what's so funny is that,
you know, I feel like, out of the both of us,
me and Danny, I have the worst potty mouth, like
I you know, I go back to the real world

(25:16):
because you know, when you're out here in comedy we're
all just bad people. And then you go back to
the world, real world and held a conversation, and then
you'll see someone's eyes perk up because you just made
a combination of swears that normally don't go. I just
blew this interview. Going to jail. Yeah, so I guess
I won't be able to enter this Army's every Can

(25:39):
I tell you something I don't know? My guts will
be the judge of that. All right, Well, it actually
seems like it's time for us to go to a
commercial break. But when we get back, we're gonna break
down these characters. I hope you're having a good time.
We are here too. Um did that sentence make sense?
Find out after these messages? All right, and we're back

(26:08):
from our bray. It's totally made sense, totally it makes sense. Well,
see if you heard it here back with the new
player has joined folks, and we're talking about the Whisher.
Uh So, first we're gonna break down the name we've
been saying the most which is girl, which, like even

(26:29):
I feel like if you're in the nerd world and
you even never played the game, maybe never even heard
of it, but you're a nerd you definitely seen a
hot cosplay. You've seen Superman with the wig on. You
know what it looks like. You've seen this guy, gray fox,
long hair, gorgeous man with the scar cut up. Is
basically a cat if it was turned into a human.

(26:52):
It's literally what I got one for you do it?
Medieval solid snake. Yeah, that's Girls medieval and how he
acts has the Batman voice like Baldwin voice, will our
Net voice. So Girls is the central character. Uh, and
he is a witcher. Shortly after being born, Girl's mother, Vicina,

(27:14):
gave him away to undergo training and eventually become a
witcher at care more hint the stronghold of the Wolf
School of Witchers, which if this doesn't go into it,
I will say now there are many different school of Witchers.
There's the School of the Snake, and there's like one
more other school one if you haven't figured out. Nothing
is simple, and but also like getting to see the

(27:34):
other schools involved and it's really cool. Yeah, that's super cool. Yeah,
you nailed it. That and nailed it. I nailed it.
The Stronghold of the Wolf School of Richard. Girl survived
numerous mutations during the trial of the grasses, thanks to
which he gained practically superhuman physical and mental abilities with

(27:56):
minimal side effects. And it's so funny, literally ding he
just meditates all day, he gets his vials or whatever
and go ahead sex with someone. He's say. He resisted
the changes brought on by the trial of grass is
better than most, which encouraged his makers to perform even
more dangerous experiments at Oh wow, Wolverine really took them

(28:19):
pretty good. Let's throw him into a vulcaneuh and this
made him lose all his body pigmentation. So mine now
my new headcan And his girl was black. He was
black experiment to him, it's pretty good, will be able

(28:44):
to convince me otherwise. Because of his pale skin and
white hair. He is known in elder speech as Gwinble.
When Winbley listen, this is a clean podcast. Winbley the
White Wolf, despite his name girlt does not come from Rivia,
although he learned how to mimic a Rivian accent and
is later nighted for service to the Queen of Rivia.

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Young Witchers were encouraged to make up Surtin names for
themselves by Master Vessemir to make their names sound more trustworthy.
He wants claimed uh. He once claimed that his first
choice was Geralt Roger Eric de Haut Bell Guard, but
this was dismissed by vessemir as silly and pretentious. I
love that, Like, you know, this game also implemented code switching. Essentially,

(29:30):
this Garlt is like any child with immigrant parents. He's
not actually gonna Yeah. So, after completing his Witcher training,
he received his Wolf medallion, the symbol of Kremorn, and
embarked into the world on his horse called Plotka, which
as the best name. I thought, literally, roach, I call

(29:53):
this horse. I thought Witchers like all didn't have emotions.
Is he the only one that has zero emotions in
this game? Well, they literally kept poisoning him. He just
doesn't smile. They took a happy, young black boy and
they made him white, and then they started calling him

(30:15):
the white Wolf and they were like, deal with that,
and He's like, yeah, exactly, don't like this. Take it out.
I feel like our head canon is making it make
more sense. I'm starting to put the trauma behind Yeah,
yeah exactly, but yeah, I mean he I feel like, yeah,
he definitely is stoic. He is essentially for the most part,

(30:36):
John Wick, but he does smile before every sex option
in the games. There are so many, but we can
we talk about that. We're gonna get to that. Okay, cool, okay, okay, cool,
We'll get to the bus. When you see the herbalist
for the first time, come on, come on, come on. Yeah,
that was literally walk into a hut with a when

(31:00):
bending over and it's like she's wearing yoga pants in
the medieval times, like yoga. Developer lost what went down
that project? Fred was like, well, we gotta sneak this in.
It's subtle as all hell. And in our show, we
have a segment called can you gets his name of
VideA based so somebod doesn't play video games suscribes the

(31:20):
video game to us where Jesse's girlfriend watch this video game.
We have somebody come in and gives them hints based
off what she knows is in the game. And she said,
the game with all the great butts, it was like
the first was the first thing. Everybody's butt is the same.
It's how she described it with your three and she
was corr absolutely correct. Well, I'm gonna have to go
play against We really get it in. Even though girl

(31:43):
did not believe in destiny, He unknowningly demanded the unborn
child of Princess Pavetta and her husband Doooney as a
reward for his services by invoking the law of surprise.
The child turned out to be a girl, Siri, otherwise
known as Zeri, coming from elder speech in the world
word zero L meaning hello. At first did not take
her because women cannot become witchers. However, fate or blind

(32:06):
chance caused Garralt and Sirie to cross the past thrice,
and after the death of her grandmother, Queen Calath of Centria,
Gerralt ends up taking the girl into his care, training
and loving her as his own daughter. I just want
to say, says swallow, way too much in this game,
way too much voice. If you don't know the backstory

(32:27):
of that name, it's it's like it is so confusing,
because he says, it's so tenderly, and you're just like,
what's what's happened? He writes it on a sword for her.
Following the short stories, the novel unfold as Garralt is
pulled into a whirlwind of events and his attempt to

(32:47):
protect Syrie from those who would do her harm, becoming
reluctantly embroiled in the political contentions of monarchs and emperors. Uh.
And then there's an analysis on Geralt, which I'm a
skip because I think we already get of our now. Yeah,
I think we figured plays cards and smashes, that's all.
Uh So then we have Unifer, who this is info

(33:10):
that let's see, there's just so much info trying to
explain Lore is so deep and you need surface level
to really appreciate the game, and then the deeper you go,
there's He's like, Okay, now I love it. Like the
game to me is like my daughter's missing. I'm trying
to find her. Like that's the easiest way I can
explain it to anyone, Like there's all the backstory I

(33:32):
could explain to you. It does not matter. It's a
man looking for his dog. It'll enrich it. But if
you start there, it's still awesome because because it's Unifer
born on Belloteen and everyone's gorgeous. Everyone's going, okay, wait,
I because I need to touch on this before we
go on. No, the main characters in the named characters, okay, everybody,

(33:54):
every NPC in this game, okay, is hideous, missing teeth,
every single man l n PC looks like they are
disguising a horrible haircut by wearing a wig of a
worse haircut. They are god awful ugly. It is so funny.
They have bowl cuts that extend an inch past their scalp.
I don't know how it works. It is amazing how

(34:16):
ugly these men. Anyone who's not an NPC, so we
have I had to get that. The sources who lived
in Verneberg, the capital of there's given me all these
city names. Again it's Game of Thrones and like, don't know,

(34:39):
it's just words. She was girl to Rivius true love
and mother figured a Siri whom she viewed like a daughter,
to the point that she did everything she could to
rescue the girl and keep her from harm. She helped
advise King Demvin of Adn, though never was a formal
royal advisor, a close friend of Tris Mary Gold, and
the youngest member of the Supreme Council of Sorcerers within

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the Brotherhood of Sorcerers after its fault, the Lodge of
Sorceress has attempted to recruit her, but they didn't see
eye to eye, as the Lodge wanted to advance their
own political agenda. By using Sirie. In the third game,
Unifer is one of the main characters, as voiced by Denisco.
Her face was originally intended to be based on a
three D scan of Polish model Claudio Roble. However, after

(35:23):
initial in game test, the developers decided to reshape the
face in order to give Unifer a colder and meaner look.
Her first appearance is in the opening cinematic, when she
is escaping from a battle between the NILF, Guardian and
Northern Forces, probably one of the best cut scenes I've
seen on place. Having recovered most of her memory, she
has agreed to serve the Emperor Emeror's interests in the

(35:46):
hunt for Syrie. There's also free DLC, which gives Unifer
an alternate outfit. I don't different favorite thing that every
game does. And I was like, would you like a
different outfit? And everyone's like, oh, I don't, yeah, give
it some there's a reason they do it. So so
who did you? So this is one of the like

(36:07):
two main romance game. So did you go with Jennifer?
Did you go the other Tris or Jennifer? Because you
you see Jennifer first, but then Tris is the is
the only time he actually gets a probably hook up.
Yeah yeah, because well the thing is this, you see Unifer,
you get all that romance and then she dips and
then Tris pops up. It really is like a test

(36:29):
of loyalty. She she ditches, but she doesn't. Just the
backstory of this is that girlt Head or Gerald I
never airis aries whatever. Um loses his memory when he's
with Jennifer and then finds Tris and forgetting that Jennifer
exists because there was like some charm put over him.

(36:49):
He hooks up with Tris and then when the charmers lifted,
he's like, oh no, I hooked up with the major first,
I forget what her name is. No, no, no, there's
another one. She's Lawn and she's in the woods, and
you go with her and you fight the first boss. Essentially,
you go into the dungeon with her. You can like
hook up with her if you keep talking. Comes blund

(37:11):
No Trump does come later. Yeah, yeah, the blonde, that's
the one that I ended up romancing. But then I
went back to universe like forgive me, and also the
that that that boodro of all those women also forgive
all of them. I am such a corn ball when
it comes to game, when it's romancing, I stay, I
stay the course. Oh my god, I didn't go to

(37:33):
any of the brothels. You were like tempting me, and
I was like, if this is a video, I'm talking
about this all the time. When I played Person of five,
I did one person and only one person until you
realize you need to be doing all those people until
I wanted the achievement. So I did you get an
achievement in the game. If the game will tell me,

(37:54):
good job, you're a good boy. Yeah, everybody you know me.
I'm so direct on myself as if I romance Ione
in the game, I do not. I feel guilty. Okay,
this game too, the sex. This is the first video
game I've played where they're like change positions. Here's them
have like you see everything there. You see boobs for

(38:17):
the first time, like they don't. There's no worry. I
want to for the first time. That's when I saw
boobs for the from Grand Theft Out. There's no warring.
If you think of how far we come from, like
Jesus christlf yourself. Uh, that's just an unfortunate pun. But

(38:39):
if you think of how far we've come from, like
when there was that hot coffee just mod you can
get in g t a San Andreas such a controversy
and to like and then too like we are literally
part of the game is banging. Yeah, it's not part

(39:00):
of it, A big part of If you ask people
what this game is about, there like, oh, yeah, that's
silver Fox. He smashes and then he cuts that. He's
either smashing or he's got a stort out whatever. As
the time goes on, you can grow a beard, your
hair gets longer, you can trim all that stuff up,
how you can want to look in all this sort
of things, like, there's so much to this game. So
yeah that was but but so Univer was my I

(39:23):
mean you, I will always fall for the thick Goth bank.
I will never be able to resist that ever in
any circumstances. Any any woman character that shows up in
a game, and it's just like, Hey, I'm gonna call
you in your crap and I'm gonna piece I'm like,
I love you, like are uh So. Then we have Siri,

(39:48):
who is the child figure who we've been chasing across
the world, whose whole name is ciially a Fiona Ellen Rhiannon.
What can what can I possibly say about her? Oh?
This is like this is like from the game, Like
this is this is the the the text about Yeah. Yeah,
that we call her Sirie for short. That she was

(40:10):
born in twelve fifty one, That she has ashen hair
and a scar on her cheek. All true. And that's
the Ceilia I know best, one I first laid eyes
on those many years ago, the one who seemed thoroughly well,
not ordinary, but certainly not as extraordinary as she in
fact is. For Cerelia is also a highly skilled witcher,
heiress to several thrones, the last bearer of the Elder Blood,

(40:32):
a powerful source endowed with exceptional magic talent, and the
lady of time and space. Her hair, color, and date
and birth seem rather rather incidental, now, don't they. I
could all tell you that she has Gerralt's adopted daughter,
but that would be a gross simplification. Series much more,
she is his destiny, his unexpected child, someone bound to
the witcherd by fate's most inextricably tangled fetters. Following age

(40:57):
old Witcher tradition, garral took Siri to care more when
she came into his care there, he investedmir taught her
the ways of the professional monster slayer. It was then
that her magic talents were first revealed and they discovered
she was a source. Uh series gift proved a curse
as well. Because of it, she would one day have
to hide from the entire world, even growled its vestair

(41:21):
is really the point of the whole game, Child drink
beer with an old uh No. Siri is like the
whole point of the game. It's like the whole secret
thing you all leave us girl, But really it's like
Series are ways stronger. She's way more powerful, She's way
more fun to play as. Basically, it's like you have
a souped up version of girl. You know what it is.
You play as Wolverine, but she's Phoenix. Yeah oh yeah,
where like even in the moment like she has the

(41:44):
mental freak out where her power really shows you, like,
oh my god. And that's the crazy thing is that
that spacetime is a very big thing. She can travel
through time, and that's why everyone's wondering if she's going
to make an appearance in cyberpunk real like not even
like a solid like one, but maybe an easter. And
I think that would be super cool. Like even if

(42:06):
she's like in the background, like I would be dope.
Just just like tending bar somewhere, you just order a
drink from her once, that would be so and you
just never see her again. Just based off of Witch
or three, I am so excited for so that Cyberpunks
because now we're like that, like that is my I
love it. Yeah, like the fact it's like you get
to make Blade Runner now with technology advancements and you

(42:26):
get to do with the depth that you have with
The Witcher, like I am so, I am so excited.
I mean, if you've played The Witch or three, you
know why it's taking so long. There's gonna be so
much augmentation and all that. The driving looks really good too,
which I was. I was very curious about that because
you know, open world in like a fantasy medieval setting

(42:47):
is very much different than like open world in a
more uh you know, if you crash into things, well
you can crash into things. And also there's a lot
more traffic, like horse traffic. I mean that's just a
field guy's fun fact about l a back in the
eight hundreds to get from horseback from Santa Monica. To
here during four PM. It was everywhere gosh, and don't

(43:11):
get me started on the small which stink clouds from
the uh So the last character will discuss before really
diving into this game. Uh Is Tris Marigold. Tris Marigold
of Maribor was the legendary to marry and sorceress of
the thirteenth century. Called of the Hill by her contemporaries

(43:31):
because she was erroneously thought to have been killed during
the Battle of Sotton Hill. She passed into history as
Marigold the Fearless, a member of King full Test Royal
Council along with Furkhart and Kira Metz. Kira Mets is
the one that you bank. Yeah, Kira mets It is
so funny to interject in all of this like deep,

(43:52):
deep lore that is written very well and at times
very beautifully, to be like, oh, that's the one that
you banks. I could remembers uh as well. As a
founding member of the Lodge of Sorceresses, she was involved
in politics for most of her life. She's friends with

(44:14):
Jennifer and which are withdrawal to Riba, but also unhappily
in love with the latter man. Tris took care of
Syria caremorn for some time. It is like an older
sister to her. It was through her intervention that Siria
was not subjejected to harmful hormone changes at hormone changes
and Karen Morhan stripping her of her secondary gender traits.

(44:38):
She was a skilled healer and carried with her many
magical potions, but she never uses them on herself because ironically,
she was allergic to potions. She was also quite a
powerful maid, certainly when it counted to most. She a
wore an ambulance sapphire overlaid with silver. That that just
sentences always allergic to potions, Like no, that's like being

(45:00):
like I'm allergic to juice. Yeah, exactly what what is it? What? What?
You hiped her up pretty hard and that's how you ended.
But she doesn't sample her own good. It's just it's
a chef going, I can't eat food. She gets science
infections a lot. But yeah, Tris is great because she's

(45:22):
part of this like extremely big love triangle that you
get in. And what sucks for anyone who's like me.
I was already so committed to Unifer that by the
time I met Tris I was like, hey, hey, dude, Hey,
what's going on with what's up? My gud tap hugs

(45:42):
the tap hugs. You wanna do you want to hang
out in a group? Oh? Man, I love that you
are like a sister to me. But everybody I thought
that too. But then they're like, you can't have kids.
I'm like, I can't have kids like you to do it.
I don't know that there's something that there's anything you
can say in that voice that doesn't sound awesome, that

(46:04):
doesn't sound it doesn't sound awesome. I bought some scratch
tickets yesterday. Oh my god, I thought I was allowed
to park at this cost. Hey, I need some more
pills from my aerial belt. Yeah, I don't think that
was kind of kick ass. Still, you're taking care of it, man,

(46:30):
sound irritable as hell. All right, So we have to
take another break. And in this break, we are, After
this break, we are, we're we have a huge feet
ahead of us because we are going to dive into
explaining one, two, and three and uh, you know, kind
of given our last thoughts before wrapping up and talking

(46:50):
about this this show that's coming out with Henry cavill As.
It's clearly Superman with a wig on. It's clearly super Me.
The week is not gonna be good. I mean working
at the casting and it's really not go Just everyone

(47:11):
is all the the like I just look at the
side by side of Unifer and Syrie and they're both
just too young. Guys. I just I just found the
one sentence he can say that doesn't sound cool. I'm
going to be played by Henry Cavill. Yeah, oh man.
But we'll get into all of that after these messages.

(47:36):
Oh all right, and welcome back. You listen to Nerdificent,
So I meant to say X a new player has joined,
you know, like you remember street Fighter X tech and uh,
we're gonna lose. We'll see. I'm weakened by all these Lacroix.

(47:57):
Are you allergic to your potions? It's those those MMO
missions that you get that you keep forgetting to read,
where you're like, use this item to weaken the innimator,
like why is this guy beating me up up? And
why is this thing in my bag that won't go?
Oh my gosh, but yeah, so um so yeah. Which

(48:17):
one came out. It came out to mostly positive reviews,
like on Metacritic, it has eighty one out of a hundred. Uh,
and it's you know, it's kind of kicked the whole
thing off, and it really had the Aurora engine rocket
in it, and it was it kind of worked exactly
as the developers envision and rather using a tile based system. Um,

(48:40):
all right, so which one? What's real fun is we've
kept making the mass effect. Uh comparison, So what's your
one used BioWare's proprietary Aurora engine. Yeah, so uh's in
the console version ended up not being released until two
thousand nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it came out in
two thousand and seven. Uh, you were able to get

(49:01):
it on console on two thousand and nine. And I'm
sure that kind of came with Like I don't want
to say no fanfare. I'm just saying I didn't hear
about it, and this game is definitely something I would
have been into. That's usually the opposite, like most comes happens. So,
but it was you know, it's just like we're saying,
it followed Gerrault. Uh, and it talked and it follows

(49:23):
him where he you can go to down three different paths.
That affects the game storyline and it's with alliance with
the Societail Gorilla Gorilla freedom fighting group of elves and
other non humans, and alliance with the Order of the
Flaming Rose, whose Night protect the country of Tameria, or
an alliance with neither group to maintain Witcher neutrality. And uh,

(49:46):
and that's kind of what you went down. Just another
one of those choices that kind of, uh, kind of
determine your whole story. And what's cool is like, you
know the big war that's actually happening in three is
that marry and war. Yeah, And what what's funny about
it is they really want you to keep this neutral stance.
But the Nylph Guardians are so just obviously evil. They're

(50:10):
all wearing black. It's like Vampire's a little bit because
I was like, I will try and be neutral, and
then you got this dude talking smack to me or
I was like, I can't wait to kill you, like
I'm going And that's the number one thing. That's why
like any video game that's like open world, you can
do what you want. It's like, don't talk spicy to me,

(50:31):
like I will kill you every time. He's a very
impressive homeless man. He goes everywhere, talks to you in detail,
and then after it's like he's like your piece, bleep
me out everybody. He's like, Garrel's like your terrible man,
You're this, you're that, And he's like, okay, do you
have any money? That No matter what, I don't care

(50:51):
what we have to say. It's very hard to emotionally hurt.
But so then what your two comes out The Assassin
of Kings and the gameplay of which you're too kind
of uh splits a bit. Combat is more complex uh
and it has additions in the form of abilities to
lay traps and aim and throw range weapons, and Garalt

(51:11):
has an improved offensive and defensive arsenal with a wild
range of melee and ranged weapons, armors, bombs, traps, and
secondary wedge weapons such as hatchets and shovels. Upgrades are
divided into four distinct paths. An initial training path, which
includes generalized upgrades for various core abilities and must be
invested in before other paths can be access swordsmanships, which

(51:32):
improve garlt sword fighting abilities, Alchemy, which includes perks such
as reducing the negativeffects of potion, magic which improved whicher signs.
UH which by three is insane, Like, yeah, the the
tree alone in which are three is so intense, and
it's so funny because I just kept it simple. I
just boosted attack and just didn't worry about potions. If

(51:57):
you get overwhelmed, it's so hard to build a character
effectively without planning for hours. Also, in this game has
uh there's a system in the which are called toxicity,
So every time you take a potion, it poisons you essentially,
so you unless you're boosting that up so that you're
getting less toxicity, like, it's never really worth it for me.
But like you were saying, there's some bosses where you

(52:18):
have to take specific potions, so you're like, I guess
I'll work on the alchemy tree a bit, and then
your weapons become dulled very Everything is constantly like updating,
getting new weapons, getting new gear, and then realizing like, oh,
I'm doing a bad job at collecting gear because there's
so much going on. You can go have people build
special gear for you. There's so much oh my gosh. Yeah,
and there's a whole like quest chains you can go

(52:39):
down to get more armor, but everything also is expensive,
and then you're wondering how you're gonna make money, and
then you're like, oh, the main way for you to
gain income in this game is doing these witcher missions
and then you're doing this whole other side thing. It's
it's a hustle. It feels like real life and that
you're just like, oh man, I'm working so much just
to eat. Right now, you have two swords. You have

(53:03):
to switch back and forth without even knowing you have
to switch back and forth. That was the only mechanic
that was like the crux of this game. I'd be like,
that's awesome. It's challenging and it's thoughtful. That's the first
thing that happens, and then the rest of the game
so much more. And just so just so you know,

(53:24):
you you mentioned this earlier. Uh, so I want to
point it out. Is uh the game said that it Uh.
It's been said that the game drew influences which are
two from Demon Souls, which was the first iteration of
Dark Souls, Heavy Rain, and Batman Argument Asylum. And I
feel that every bit of this is a detective game.

(53:48):
Like when you're a witcher, it's like you're putting the
game on pause to now go discover a monster or
what have you, and you might even not even kill
the monster. You might not even just like go about
your way. But Son should be twelve hours long. Jason

(54:08):
Jay That character ended up in Red Dead Redemption to
hal In like Gavin, I forget it's Gavin, but it's fine.
Those guys are all over. So now we have Witcher
three the Wild Hunt, and I feel like what made
it such a hit even to people who are new

(54:30):
to the Witcher is it had a lot of fantasy
elements that are familiar because the Wild Hunt are chasing
series because they want to use your power, and the
Wild Hunt feel like the Nasol. They feel like they
essentially are the Nasol. Like I was like, oh, we're
killing the Nasul. And it was cool because they will
pull up to a place decimated and like their big

(54:51):
like bad guy. Cool thing is that it would be cold,
ye like it's just it's just the night, and so
they pull up and everything would be covered in snow
and it was like really cool and creepy. And those
dogs were the worst. Finding them was a pain, but
like all the story elements of it was really great.

(55:13):
They were very imposing, Like just just to see them
visually is incredibly imposing and then their strength and power
throughout the game is Yeah, and there's like little little
tidbits of like when they were kind of like building
it out because like I guess, with the first play through, uh,

(55:34):
it indicated that uh that the open world, despite its
content in generation around the quest, seemed empty, and as
a solution they added like points of interest to kind
of help you get to places. And originally the game
had five thousand bugs and that's why it had to
be postponed. I it sounds like a player of known battlegrounds. Look,

(55:57):
I love you, pub but too good to pass up. Um,
there's it's so massive that would be it would be
almost impossible to imagine this without that much. And yet
again the game director Conrad to Thomas Hewitz and senior
game design uh Damian Monier cited dark Souls and demon
souls as influences on the combats. Felt like Yeah, I

(56:20):
was like, man, it really did. Like there's a lot
of rolling and harry and you would think, you know,
leveling up would make things not hurt as much. No,
you're still getting the smack smack. This is the only
game I know of where like the soldiers that are
around can just kick the che they can just kill you.
They can just kill you, kill you, but they can

(56:43):
kill you. Yeah. That's the thing. In most games, you
can just bully like anyone. Yeah, but in this game,
they're like what you can just push you down and
you're done. Like I remember when I first tried to
do do the play through, and so you do this
mission for Nelf Guardian and he's like and you find
like it's it's crazy because like it's such a good

(57:06):
storytelling element and like it's when you have to kill
the Griffin. When you first meet him, he's like telling
like girl that the Guardians are actually good and the
the there's like a farmer of their newly taken over
territory who's like, oh, sorry, I don't have anything. He's
like it's fine, you can come back. You know, just

(57:27):
you need time and you know you need to eat
and we need to eat. We're here to take care
of you. And then by the time you're done with
the mission, you come back and he's like that same
farmers there and he's like what is this? This is rotty.
He was like, I'm sorry, I can't he was like, no,
you gotta get lashes boy, Like he totally flips. You
get to see that wild and like Gralt kind of like, oh,
the nice guy act is up and he's like and

(57:48):
then he says some disrespectful stuff. So initially because in
the way I work in most of these games, I
slashed him, uh and not only did the slash not
kill him, but now I'm in enough Guardian territory and
there's like soldiers ready to ready to just take me out.

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It's this game is adult Skyrim. It's like, what is Skyrim.
It's little little child, Yeah, but this is Skyrim with consequences,
and like, actually this is Skyrim with death. That's that
is the funny thing because like, yeah, in the game
with Skyrom, there's a point where you can go and
slaughter a whole town and no one can do anything.

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But this one is like, oh no. It's because it's
almost like that balance of almost like something I noticed
with john Wick. John Wick is the best assassin Barnett.
You don't know, no one can stop him, no one
can beat them, but they can. They just don't catch them.
They don't quite get there, but they there are moments

(58:52):
where it's like, oh, they're about to kill him. And
then he just barely pulls out. And that's I think
what makes John Wicks so interesting. It is like about
this like overpowered person, but they give the moments you're
still human. Yeah, it really shows, like especially um, you
know not. I don't want to get into specifics of three,

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but like there's points in there where you're like, it
looks like you ain't gonna with yeah, but like and
then he does, and so I feel like that is
the experience in which it were. It's like, yeah, you're
the main story character of the story. Yeah, you're strong,
but anyone can take you on because everyone has swords. Yeah, exactly,
you're a man with two swords. You are twenty men

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with one. Like what is your strategy to beat the game?
Because your strategy might be a terrible strategy. You might
not even realize that that sort of thing. And like
going up the skills tree fighting the first boss, these
Nazia Gold dudes, basically like it's impossible to kill them
if you're not even good at the game. Initially, like
you can't. It's not Kingdom Hearts. You're not gonna slash
them slash slash until you get there. It's like you
have to figure out your timing. Then you have to

(59:54):
figure out which potions you want to use, what magic
skills you want to use, what actual mexicals you want
to build up. I did Igney all the way because
I wanted to go slap anyone who's around me in
the area. You get set on fire, and I delay
you for at least one or two seconds and then
I can attack you. It's clutch, But you don't realize
how much you need something like that in this game
because it's so it's hard to heal yourself if you

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don't have potions. You're constantly eating food and even even
trying to understand the inventory system of how to heal
yourself mid game and do all those sorts of things
because it's up arrow and down arrow on analog on
your controller. So I was playing on mass and keyboard.
This is this keeps happening to me at the games,
and I miss PC gaming so much of how many
games I've played, and I'm like, oh, I'm not good

(01:00:37):
at this because I don't have a PC like Fortnite
or well, that's what's so funny, is my friend said.
Because this was before I joined the Master Race. Um,
we played dragon Age and looking at someone on I
remember I was looking up a video and looking at
how people on PC played dragon Age was a whole
different because it was literally like a turn based thing

(01:01:00):
where they go, stop, we're doing this, we're doing this,
We're doing I was like, we're not doing that with
the controller option. Yeah, we just got the option to
do that. But PC is like, no, I'm gonna do
this spell on the plan that the inquisition. They were like,
you can do both, and everybody on PC was stopping,
and everybody on console was going, yeah, it was crazy.

(01:01:20):
It's nuts. So everybody get those ten thousand dollars by
yourself a PC computer. You can you can make a
budget boy, but yeah, if you want to be playing
on the best settings looking at because it really is
like every time I'll see like I'll be like, man,
because I have, you know, this big PC, you know
with the Corsair car by case Corsair of course they're cooler,

(01:01:44):
you know, you know for Corsair r GB ramsticks. I'm sponsored, yea,
the sponsor, but they but like I'll be like, man,
is it worth it? And then like I'll play a
game and it just looks so good. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

(01:02:05):
Like now I get why they say master right yeah.
Oh man, but yeah that's pretty much three. You know,
I think it's still worth picking up. It's even and
you can probably find it for really cheap right now. Yeah,
I think I got it for likes. Yeah, and the
DLC is free. Yeah, it came with both the dalcs attacked.

(01:02:25):
It's free. And again, guys, I'd argue this is up
definitely up there with God of War five, Spider Man this,
and this came out right when PlayStation four came out,
so this game stands at test of time in my opinion. Also,
if you just want to jump into a game, jump
into a world and be like I just want to
I'm having a bad week, I'm having a bad month,
I'm going through a breakup, jump into the winch even

(01:02:46):
like I feel like, you know, no matter how you
felt about how it ended, if you like watch Game
of Thrones, I was like, I want experience like you
truly does like mirror that type of world, just with
the conflict between the Note Guardians and the Tamarians, and
you can choose whatever side you want or stay completely
neutral like you have every It's just just the freedom

(01:03:09):
within that because that alone changes the course of so much.
I mean, this game has a few different endings and
they're all they're all really well written and like your
choices matter at the at the end of the day.
You know, you play so many games they're like, we
have multiple endings and you feel like, yeah, but they're
all kind of basically the same, and there's not really
a huge difference in this game. It's like the variation

(01:03:32):
at the end is very notable, and it is emotionally impactful.
It's great, it's so well produced. The whole thing just works. Yeah.
I mean, and if you've already played this and you're
like wondering something, another kind of story experience that does
that pretty well. Dishonored. I don't know if you've played Dishonored.

(01:03:54):
I played I think I came in at one. I
haven't played two yet, but one really like your choices
matter because because if you decide, because you have the
option to kill people or do it without killing, and
that does change how you're ending, like goes. So it's
like very it's so I'm a hero. You murder. Yeah,

(01:04:21):
it's pretty much that. It's like you murder, you just
murder because essentially and it really does because of that,
It really does like kind of like play that part
that games don't ever play with, which is the fact
of like, Okay, if you're in a story situation where
there has been a unfair removal of power, everyone below

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you is not responsible for that. They're just kind of
falling in line. So everyone you kill is technically innocent.
To get to the person, the actual bad person, they're
just going you know, they're just in the rank and file,
foul rank and file, trying to yeah, just get their paycheck,
and you're just murdering them because they're just doing their

(01:05:06):
job and being like, hey, I have to tell the
king that you're here because he doesn't want to die. Yeah,
I forgot. In Dishonored, at the end of the game,
you have to apologize to all these children at the end. Yeah,
depending on how many bosses you killed, there's an orphanage. Yeah,
just like loads and listen, we joke about this, but

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who here played Snake Eater because one of the bosses
is literally just you walk down a river of the dead,
and if you kill nobody, you just walk down this river.
And if you kill a lot of people, you have
to avoid all these ghosts and they drain you of
their health and they're trying to march at you and
grad what yea why it's a it's a great game.
So so yeah, now that you know, there's the next

(01:05:48):
thing up is that there's going to be the fantasy
uh TV drama of the Witcher, created by Lord Schmidt,
his rich for Netflix, and it's based on the book series,
uh not necessarily the game, and uh you know, it's
you know, there was one video picture that kind of

(01:06:10):
leaked recently that looks pretty good. But what I'm seeing
in this doc right here, it's just I don't know
what it is. I think maybe it's just too bushy
of a beard, Like it looks very fake. He just
looks fake. It just looks bad. They chose a wrong
person to play the character, unless I'm wrong, unless he

(01:06:30):
just kills it and they just did a bad job
with makeup or costumes or whatever. But it's just hard
to do video game movies television. I mean, already this
unifer and I feel like I am gonna be yeah,
I'm going to be extremely biased because I was in
love with and I still are still are, you know,
I you know, talk about first video game crush, I

(01:06:52):
was like in it, you know, I mean, if they're
able to do the monsters really well, if they actually
developed a good story that we're all interested. That's the
thing to me is do they touch the moral ambiguity
or they just gonna go straight forward sex and moms
and which means I'm like, I don't care. I the
reason I loved Game of Thrones for so long is
because they had that gray area that I was like,

(01:07:12):
this is interesting, this is complex, And that's what makes
the Which Are Three such an interesting game to know
that's that's gonna be very interesting because yeah, you're gonna
have this guy who can't really step in it's against
his code. So we'll see. But yeah, no, I'm super
excited either way, just to see it. You know, video
game culture has gotten to this point we're finally getting

(01:07:33):
to see movie. Well, you know, since we kind of
wrapping up on the Witcher and there's not much we
can say about the TV show because there's not much
that really came out and we really got the game
top to bottom. I have been asking myself, and I'm
going to extend the question you if Detective Pikachu was

(01:07:54):
the first good video game movie. I haven't seen it yet,
but I've heard great reviews are that it's Here's the thing.
I don't think it's going to be like this movie
is perfect. But I think, to me, like, this was
a really good movie. We'll see I I enjoyed it. Yeah,
So I'm wondering, is it the first good video it is?
It is? No, it is. I've seen every Resident Evil

(01:08:16):
movie I've seen. Mario Brothers wasn't that. It wasn't that bad.
But if you just look at all of them, you're like,
these are bad movies. Let us not forget Assassin's Creating
Sonics coming out, Assassin's Creed. Like you said, um, there's
no video game World of Warcraft that came out. They
all make money. They all make money. Yeah, but the critically,

(01:08:38):
would you want to watch it over and over again? No,
people watch Mayer Brothers because it's bad. Warcraft could have
done it, but they rushed it because they wanted to
get to the cool stuff. And that's the problem that
you know, I I keep saying, and I promise you
actually do really like DC. I love the folks over there,
but d C, that's where they misstepped into their uh,
cinematic universes. They were trying to uh to the Justice

(01:09:00):
League instead of doing the slow bird. If you would
have just did like your solid Superman Batman. Yeah, but
we just really were You can tell they're gunning towards
ay so like so in in the same because like
the moment in Green Lantern when we started talking about

(01:09:21):
Sinestro becoming a yellow Lander Lantern and I was like,
do you understand how many years have built up it
was to get to the Lantern war that you shoved
into this movie. There was no way you hearing us
Game of Throne season eight? Are you here? Are you
hearing us leave a water ball on? Do you think
that's the problem? Not, it's not the problem. I mean

(01:09:42):
that was, but that's that's what happens when you like
you knew it. But but we all know what happened.
When when you hear that these David Wisson company are
getting Marvel money, they're like, yeah, no, we're done. Like
they probably weren't even in the office gone. They're like, y'all, sorry,
I'm over here, like chopping it up with the russo

(01:10:08):
don't they're calling them for like, hey, guys, can we
get some notes on this No, they literally just buy
burner phones and set up a voicemail acount where when
you call it, you says no and then it hangs
up on I take it back, Mortal Kombat, Greace video
games ever made that note? There was one really good.
It was a TV show. It wasn't a movie, um
and it was It was based on the Last of Us.
I think it was called The Walking Down There you

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