WEBVTT - Episode 59: The Witcher 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.680 How's it going, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Nernificent. 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.080 I am your host, Iffy Wanyway, Kenny Fernandez sat this 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.319 one out. She's a busy lady. It's her birthday. She 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.320 got stuff to do. Happy birthday, Danny. It won't be 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.600 your birthday by the time this comes out. But I 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:29.920 have some friends here, you know, I have some friends. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.640 They're hanging from the like, we're not going to be 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:39.280 on the mike. Let me go get them over in 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.080 the break room, you know, they're they're just in the back. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:48.440 You know. One has a spinner smoking a cigarette, ready 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.320 to talk to us. Apparently we work at the docks. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:59.600 Oh my gosh, you know. Just I'm deciding do we 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:01.600 do take this from the top again or do we 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:05.920 just keep going? Oh my gosh, this is what we 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.200 assume people want. Yes, I mean, I've heard podcasts, right, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:10.560 this is what it is. I don't know, I don't know. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:17.240 There's three people talking. It's a podcast. Every every uberpool 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.520 you've ever been in is a podcast. Every time I'm 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.440 on an airplane, what do you do? Every every time 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:29.720 I'm in a room with someone and I'm just you know, talking, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.479 how many times, like since you're in l A. You're 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.280 working all the time. How often you realize like, oh, 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.479 I only talk to you and we have a podcast? 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:42.680 Oh yeah, right now? When you pointed this, you guys 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.959 know if podcast anyway, those voices are Keith, Keating Bay 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:52.760 and from the New Players Joined podcast. If you couldn't 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.000 tell I was stalling because I didn't know your last name, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.280 It's fair. I could have asked before, but we just 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.640 jumped in. I'm gonna be real with you. When you 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.560 were on our show, before you showed up, I was like, okay, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.200 I have to look at a video clip real quick 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.600 where somebody introduces Iffy because I am not going to 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.160 take a stab at this last name. What's funny is 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.600 like when you think about like man one, like we 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.280 often don't know our friend's last name because we refer 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:22.960 to him just in the first name, and then if 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.959 we do lots of times, we don't know how to 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:31.000 pronounce it, especially if you got some days, Oh my gosh, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.760 how are you all doing doing good? How are you 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.200 good good? You know? The way we like to start 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.360 off the pod now is to ask about something you're 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.360 geeking out about this week. So yeah, so if you 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.480 have something in mind. Why don't you tell me what's 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.480 your geeking out about. I'll start to give you time, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:51.160 because I think I did just bring that on. I 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.480 got took up your last name, like I gotta look, 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.760 Danny's the one who keeps it on the rails, you 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.280 know now that it's just iffy, It's it's like out 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:07.480 of sorry. But but yeah, no, I'm I'm gosh, yeah, 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.400 I'm still kind of freaking out about the footage that 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.000 came out. We were just talking about it for the 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:18.120 Final Fantasy seven and you know, I and also I'm 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.080 nerding out about the fact that you know, I'm starting 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.200 to get the good you know, no no desk in 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.079 any of the smaller devs, but like the bigger devs 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:28.240 are sent to me appointments for E three and like, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.240 let me see that, and it's always like very sneaky. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.720 It's like, it's this game we already announced in two 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.520 unannounced games. Yeah yeah, let me, let me, let me 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.640 add let me in there and playing it. What about y'all. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.320 I'll say that non game related, I'm geeking out a 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.320 little bit over Barry on HBO, which shocked. It's a 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.080 show that I was like I'm not gonna like this, 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.080 so I'm feel good. I was like, I don't even know. 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.560 They're sad comedy and I started watching, like this is 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.480 the best show. Yeah, it's so good, so funny, so 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.640 good to plays. No, ho, Hank is my new hero. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.280 Oh yeah, that's actually a buddy of mine, Anthony carry. Yeah. Yeah, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.080 we met through we volunteer for this camp called comfort 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.120 Zone Camp. It's a camp for kids who have like 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.400 lost a parent or a loved one, teaching him good 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.320 coping methods and you know, you get paired off with 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.800 there's little buddies that get paired off with big buddies. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.280 And then I was he was like I acting. I 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:27.560 was like a word, Yeah, he's he's super dope, dude. 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.080 He's question Also, Victors is as from Gotham. He was, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.600 that's who who he also plays. It's mostly just actors. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.560 Oh no, no, that's who Anthony played. So he was 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.880 I'm sorry, I'm confused. So you're saying that these men 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:49.800 aren't the character. Yeah, yeah, sorry, I have to break that. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.200 And also that this fellow you're talking about is not 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.000 more than one person very lost about how Hollywood works. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.839 Game oh man, but yeah, no, I have to catch 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:01.800 up on season to a barrier. I have been so good. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.720 It's so unbelievably funny and so well acted and so 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.400 well written to for video games. I'm still geeking out. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.360 I just finished Persona five for the third time. Man 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:16.119 for the third I hear it's long, and I'm still 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:18.720 finding new things, and I just like, still love the ending. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.000 If anybody out there hasn't played Persona five, get on 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.640 that because it is amazing. I feel like all we 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.880 do is promote that game. I feel like we promote 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:29.800 that game way more than our podcast. But guys, go 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:38.159 buy Persona five, subscribe to those Persona games. I'm playing 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.120 right now. I jumped in the Apex for the first time. 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.400 I keep jumping into games when they're dying. Yeah, I 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.320 keep doing this. I keep doing this thing where I'm like, like, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.279 Apex is a new thing. Everybody's going for Fortnite. I'm like, yeah, whatever, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.080 I don't want to do Battley ot Like basically, I 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:52.760 was like I don't care, but then it's free and 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.880 I jumped in. I'm like, oh, I get why this 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.000 is fun. But I just read an article that was like, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.640 all their players are leaving because I'm not able to 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.839 update it fast enough for Pickle. I'm gonna call BS 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.119 on that. Then that's it's sensational journalism. And I hate 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.719 that they keep doing right because all it's doing is 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:12.159 trying to promote that crunch lifestyle. So or not even 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.400 a Respawn came out and made a firm stance of like, yes, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.200 our updates are going to take longer to come out 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.560 so that our workers can have a regular nine to five. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.919 And Fortnite reports came out that they have been working 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.240 like just almost twenty four hours because because of a pack. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.480 So so I think you don't have to worry. All 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.160 these articles are so dumb and it's and it just 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.719 reminds you that gaming journalists don't even really have to 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:46.080 be real journals right now. Real journalists don't have Yes, 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.720 It's just it really does bug me when like, if you, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.400 if you're like me who constantly are watching like game stats, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.800 you're very aware of how much it fluctuates from time 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.880 to time. And I don't think the game is dying 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.719 the same way people look Fortnite is dying. When Apex 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.680 came out and now people are going to ford, the 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:08.520 people get bored and it's a free game exactly, exactly. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.840 You have the benefit. It's not like if it was 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.760 a full featured game that you paid for and you 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.200 saw players leaving, it'd be scary. But this game that 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.120 is free, people will just have it on their their 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.600 computers and then when it gets updated, they're going to 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.720 check it out. Exactly the new seasons jump, but the 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.560 other things that we're all talking about HBO and I'm 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.520 watching it consistently. It's like, because now TV shows, it's 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.440 just harder, right, you eventually get to them that sort 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.320 of thing, Chernobyl. I'm legitimately watching every week it comes out. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.680 Everyone's saying, Chernobyl, good to check that. It's very scary. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.560 The whole thing is scary and depressing and dramatic. But 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.160 the crazy thing about it, this happened, so just the 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:52.200 fact of watching it. I geek out on horrible nuclear 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.440 disasters whenever, like three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Like I 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:01.000 geek out on the actual like not the dragon Dragons 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.400 e po and go to hell with that. I'm I'm 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.760 locked into did real go down? I gotta know everything 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.520 about fishing. Yeah, I will explain the meltdown at your 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:21.920 novel to you whenever you Well, that's good. Well today 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:28.080 we're talking about some real stuff, really speaking of dragons 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:35.000 and go. This is a clean podcast, and that's the 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.640 first time I mean it and not a joke. You're 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:42.040 gonna be bleeped out so much. But that's also dance jobs. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:48.240 So that's his problem. I'll try not. We'll forget this 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.920 in two minutes. I grew up in a locker room. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:58.600 It's gonna be real hard from Boston, enough said. But yeah, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.560 so we're talking about the Witcher. Which when did y'all 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.640 kind of get introduced to the Witcher? Because with me 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.839 it was Witcher three Witcher. The first time I saw 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.080 the Witcher was a trailer of the first one, and 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.920 it was when Gerald is chasing a werewolf basically over 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.800 all these like houses and all these sorts of things. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.920 Remember showing it to my friend improv buddy Seawana Riley 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.760 at the time, being like, have you seen this game? 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.520 Do you know what this is? Basically? And it went 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.120 away and it like was a game. They'm like, oh, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.680 that's fascinating. And then two came out and I bought 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.080 it on the PC, but my PC wasn't fast enough 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.840 it wasn't good enough. Then I got to three. Three 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.280 was my official like alright, like let's do this now. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:36.960 But a game that I'm like, oh, I don't have 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.400 to know what's going on one. I don't have to 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.120 know what's going on to I can just jump into 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.800 three and enjoy it basically, And mine was to Keith 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.839 playing the Witcher three and here's the thing, here's your thing. 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.280 So every once in a while when Keith and I 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:51.400 we used to do this a lot more. When we 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.000 would get bored, we would just like watch what the 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.559 other one is playing for an hour, just like check 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.199 it out, you know, because you just got to watch 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.960 your friends if you're on the network. And one time 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.240 I saw that he was playing what or three, and 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:02.560 I was like, oh, I gotta check this game out. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.840 I've heard so many amazing things Before he gets to it, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.240 I'm playing what your three correctly, correctly correctly, so no 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.520 judgment here. I jump on and for like three minutes straight, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.400 Keith is just playing gwent this only trying to the 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.760 card game. I don't see a single creature, not a storyline, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.120 not a character. It just keeps gutting two cards. And 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.800 then this wolfman going would you like to play? And 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.160 I'm like, is this the game? And I'm like, Jesse, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.520 I won string and you're like, well, I don't care 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:40.040 one string. You're health Beast conqueror. You should be able 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.400 to find string. It's everywhere. Okay, if you can ask you, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.360 was this game too much? I need you now you 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:47.959 play Monster Hunter? I need to play games out of 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.640 inventory heavy. There's a lot to them. Were you like 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.040 this is too much? Because of my time they started 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.560 playing gwent to me. I was like, I have no 0:10:54.640 --> 0:11:00.400 idea what the is going for me? It for me, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.040 it wasn't too much. What it was was so I 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.400 was playing, and I was playing on stream, and I 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.760 was gonna just do normal mode because uh but everyone's like, no, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.840 you gotta do hard mode. I didn't. I didn't realize 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.520 that this game normal mode, yeah, no more normal mode 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.240 is already bringing the heat. So I got I was 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.400 playing hard mode and I just just got. I got 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:27.040 to a point where you know how how oh man, 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:34.640 maybe maybe three, three, four or five? Maybe ten? Do 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.240 I played half the game? It was a blur. All 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.000 I know is that I got to a point where 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.320 you know how games auto auto save and if you're 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:51.400 auto saving, you get into a death loop. Because that's 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.000 what happened. I went into this one point where they 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.960 jump you and I'm having a hard enough time taking 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.559 one on right. Well, no, not the bar, I get out. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:06.679 I'm doing missions, made missions, and there was one mission 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.160 where I get called into a camp and then like 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.160 we have a discussion, and the discussion ends in a fight. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.280 So I'm surrounded and you got archers and do so 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.000 like I'm like trying to like stop time and use 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.840 imagine to be like, hey, everybody calmed down, and I 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:28.280 just would just get walloped, get back, respawn, get beat 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.200 up again. And I was like okay, and so I 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.240 just put the game down. Yeah, I put the game down. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.920 I walked away from it for a couple of months. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.120 By the time I came back to the game, all 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.440 the DLC came back. And for those who are not 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.960 keeping up with which or three, it took a while 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.880 for the DLC to care. So that means I put 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.280 down the game maybe for a year or two. This 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.800 this game came on two and still stands a test 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.360 of time, like this is an amazing game. Yeah, I 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.880 think I got back to it at two thousand seventeen 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.760 because every one was saying it was good. Felicia Day 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.880 keeps nerding out about it, and I was like, okay, 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.280 let me give it a shot, but let me just 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.400 try it on normal because I think I told somebody like, yeah, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.160 I was doing it all hard and it was rough there, 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:16.920 like why did you do that? Yeah? It's literally like 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:23.440 Dark Souls. It's all that. Dark Souls has the kindness 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.240 of letting you know what kind of game it is. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.679 When you died appears, it's like, oh, okay, so they 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.440 want me to go through this and struggle. What's your three? 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.120 You die constantly in the game kind of goes you 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.600 really suck at this kind of you kind of blue, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.640 and you're like, it's me, It's my fault. So I 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.040 I do it on normal mode and I get pretty far, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.520 and I was streaming it for a bit and it's 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:49.040 so funny because streaming is so funny in the sense 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.040 that you know, you're putting on a show, you're being yourself. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.120 And then there was two things I kept doing that 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.200 made me take it off. There's two things that happened 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.120 that made me take it off the stream. It was 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.640 too many moments of me staring at my inventory. This 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:09.200 is a boring game to watch somebody play doing alchemy. Yeah, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:14.040 all right, and I'll make that because there's so much 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.640 to this game. There was so much to this just 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.600 your inventory is literally resident Evil. You'll have so much 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.760 space where everything you have, and then you end up 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:26.000 looking like a clown because you don't know the inventory, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.800 a beeping clown. Everybody. Um No, that's so fascin about 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.480 this game because seriously, like there's so much inventory, it's 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.600 hard to play in general. And then there's like here's 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.119 Gwent and Gwent. I know it's a joke, it's hilarious 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.480 or whatever, but Gwent has now become its own things, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.760 its own game basically. But this game, like was highly 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.800 addictive and it was very important to the game just 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.440 even do question al. That's why I never played. I 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.040 did the tutorial and I was like, oh, this is dangerous. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.200 This is gonna add a whole mother. The tutorial for 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.280 Gwent has more rules than most full video games. Yes, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.640 it's totally true. I got to the tutorial and I 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.520 literally was like, Okay, I fault, and it's like but 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.640 then this other deck and I was like, oh, there's 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.040 more than one and then this, and I was like, okay, 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:10.840 but but then as long as she's the three and 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.120 then this card makes it, She's like I was a 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.640 can't Pokemon card trader who happens to be the sexiest 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.480 man on Earth and can't die. That's all I would 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.520 do in the game. That's what's so funny is when 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.840 you really think of Gwent in the context of the game, 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.880 it's wild because it'll be like, I need you to 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:31.200 find my daughter. She's gone. Careful a round of exactly 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.880 exactly put some money on it. It's so weird. This 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:39.800 guy everybody is dying and he's playing Texas. Hold him. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.040 That's how the whole game, like like legitimately, Gwent is 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.520 such an addicting fun experience. As you collect cards, there's 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.920 different armies you build, like that whole sort of thing. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:49.920 But also it's like just a side part of it. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.800 I love games like that. Because Final Fancy eight has 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.920 a card game, it's like one of my favorite Phinal 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.320 Fancy games. Um, that's the same thing. I can take 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.800 a break from the game and take part in this. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.560 There's so much you the witcher that's fascinating. Like I 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.760 try to explain to people and like it's like Game 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:09.360 of Thrones but there's gargoyles and like like it's crazy. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.840 It's like that's a really good comparison because I feel 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.360 like Witchers are very similar to the Night's Watch ye 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.120 in the sense of life. They are not supposed to 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.040 put their hand in any of the politics, they're not 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.520 supposed to care, and they're just supposed to collect money. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.880 You're supposed to be really callous, like you're supposed to 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.000 be like, I'm a poor man, my daughter, good nut, 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.040 my ghost, and you're like, you got money to pay, yeah, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:39.800 but I just don't. All right, now, you're one daughter poor. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.800 I don't want to tell you, yeah, but to get 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.320 into the thick of it, because we got deep and 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.200 there's probably so many people listening, like I don't know 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.040 anything and they trust us. By the end of it, 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:55.320 you still want consider this You're thirteen hour tutorial and 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.400 you still don't pay to this game sixty hours. I 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:03.680 have no idea what it is, well at its base level. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.959 The Witcher is an action role playing game developed by 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.959 CD Project Red and published by Atari, based on the 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:20.399 novel series The Witcher by Polish author uh Andreah Just 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.000 cursing in a different language. None of us know it? 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.960 I know, just do we just get this angry letter 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:33.160 from the Polish signed all of us. The story takes 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.960 place in medieval fantasy world and follows Geralta Rivia, one 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.440 of a few traveling monster hunters who have supernatural powers 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.160 known as Witchers. The game system of moral choices as 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.720 part of the storyline was noted for its time, delayed consequences, 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.640 and lack of black and white morality. So let's talk 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:54.200 about the story which So it's a fantasy series of 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.639 short stories and novels about the protagonist Geralta Rivia and 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.360 Sapowski's books Witchers are Witcher's, like Gerald, are monster hunters who, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.840 with training and body modification, developed supernatural abilities at a 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.560 young age to battle deadly bees. The books have been 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:13.000 adapted into film, television series, video games, and graphic novel series. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.760 The series of novels is known as the Witcher Saga. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.280 The short stories and novels have been translated into numerous language, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.520 including English. Did not know that until I read this 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.959 in English. Uh. The Witcher short stories by author Andre 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.679 Sapowski were first published in Polish science fiction UH and 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:38.480 fantasy magazines Fantaskia. That's you know, I know, but also 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.879 I like that there's like even Nerdier shown in Jump 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:47.679 was like took out all the pictures and just had stories, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.560 you know. Uh. So the first short story was called Whitesman, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.960 which is the Witcher in six. So this is this 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.320 is an old story and it was written for a 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:03.119 contest held by the magazine. In one third place, I 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.560 want I want andre to find who won fourth place? 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.240 First place was like where's your video game? Wouldn't it 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.280 be great if it was like George RR. Martin, Yeah, 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.040 I made Game of Thrones. Yeah, he's like, okay, cool. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:21.000 Number two right, that would be wild. It's like, yeah, 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:29.280 number one, number number one. J R. R. Tolkien, Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.600 He just resubmitted The Lord of the Rings. I don't 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.320 know why they accept it. I mean that's all you 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.760 guys at there. Your short stories could be great. We 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:40.840 don't know, I know. Um. The first four stories we're 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.880 dealing with Geralta Rivio were originally featured in a nine 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.360 nineties short story collection titled Widseman The Wincher, now out 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.399 of print with Droga Z. All right, I'm gonna just 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.520 say what it says in English, UH. The Road with 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.119 No Retort uh, which is set in a world before 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.800 the Wincher stories and features Geralt Mother to Be, So 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:09.000 that that does that track for you at I followed this. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.119 I heard you. I hear what you say. When you 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.080 play the Witcher three, you're not going to think about 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.520 any of this. I'm I'm kind of in that in 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.639 that zone, you know, girlt really because there's so many 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.199 different quests going on, so many different side stories, and 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.320 so many different monsters you meet, like a Sucky Biss, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:25.879 and then you have to actually be an actor. Like 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.199 there's so many things going on. What's so funny is 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.280 the fact that all three of us entered at the 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.040 third means that we were even more out of the loop. 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.480 Because by the way this the i'm a I'm gonna 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:41.159 go scroll down to see when the first uh Witcher 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:45.400 came out. So the first Witcher came out in UH 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.399 three four? Yeah, you're you're very close. What was it 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.160 on PS two PC PC? It looked like it looked 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.400 like Fable. That's like the big feat and that sort 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.520 of thing. It looked like a Fable game. That's the thing, 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.159 because like I wasn't playing PC. No, it's like if 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.200 you miss PC, it's like it's just kind of over 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.600 just games in general, right, if you miss a year 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:06.680 a couple of years of PC with PlayStation the tend 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.000 you just came out in two thousand and seven, so 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:13.439 so so yeah, yeah so so, and then like the 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.880 third game came out. So when you think about it, 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.119 the first game two thousand and seven and then the 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.880 third game dropped like two thousand and fourteen. Yeah, that's 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.879 a long period of time of lore that we're just 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:25.800 jumping in on. The third way was like, let's go 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.720 also and too they have different endings as well, and 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.119 oh yeah, there's different endings. To me, I'm like, what 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:35.440 is there? You can follow the general idea of the story. 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:37.720 That's why I like went super nerdy and I went 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:42.560 through the wiki to see what likes because like it. 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:44.840 So for those who don't know, when you play three, 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.439 it does pick up from like one and two. So 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.640 if you don't have the save file, they essentially or 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.359 I think it just does it either way, because I 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.200 imagine it's probably hard to that much time past carryover 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.960 save file. But they ask you what you know, what 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.960 you did in the other situations, and if I'm sure, 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:04.639 like all three of us at this table, if you 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.760 haven't played the first two, you're just guessing because they 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.720 give you no context. They literally are like, did you 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:12.040 let this person live or die? That person is giving 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.520 you a bath and your naked tell me your secret? Ye? 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.479 But yeah, it has a fun way of questioning you 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.800 in this game. Yeah, but like they gave zero context. 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:25.760