General Gaming Chit-Chat and Tea-Time

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Continuing the discussion from Girls care more about playing as girls than boys do about playing as girls:

@adonai

@anon50609448

I thought you had to play as a male in the Witcher 3 but I just googled it and I think I was wrong about that.

The bulk of the game you do, although there are segments where you play as a different character who is female. It’s not really comparable to RPGs like Dragon Age/Elder Scrolls/Fallout though, as the series is defined by using a pre-rolled character.

I think I need a new term for games like The Witcher. In many ways it feels closer to the Batman Arkham games and Shadow of Mordor than it does to a proper RPG like Skyrim. More of a role-inhabiting game than role-playing.

This quote kinda touches on my feels on the subject

Don’t get me wrong, I have fun with them all, and have put 200+ hours into each of the series (viz., witchers, arkhams, TES). But the experience is qualitatively different for me - in The Witcher I’m unlocking new scenes to watch someone else play an established role.