How "rated M" is The Witcher?

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specifically on the sexual content?

i've been put off by a lot of games lately and the "hollywoodization" of the content..


how is the actual content in Witcher? is it similar to Oblivion (even though the epansion was worse than the actual game)..
 
there is sex, and you get little promiscuous cards from people you have sex with in game. Its pretty weird.
 
You dont get see anything other than an artists impression of females with no top on.
A static picture, no animation.
 
However weird the "Sexy Card" thing is, the game is real sweet best RPG ive played since Oblivion. The game play is similar in ways to Oblivion because its not to linear, but the combat system takes time to get use to.

Defanatly worth picking up... unless your like 12yo or something. ;)
 
I just finished it, after getting distracted in the middle of Act V over christmas and only just getting back into it, but I loved every minute of it. I thought it took a big dump all over Oblivion.

The "M" content is nothing to get excited about. It's incidental and not at all sensationalized within the game. Of course in the post-Janet Jackson climate we're not allowed to know that people have nipples, at least in the US, and you have to remember that the game was developed in Poland where evidently they're a bit less repressed.

There's some great swearing in it, though :)
 
I just finished it, after getting distracted in the middle of Act V over christmas and only just getting back into it, but I loved every minute of it. I thought it took a big dump all over Oblivion.
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Agreed.

And I figure the M-rating is more due to the copious amounts of gore. Lobbing off heads and limbs, impaling people, etc. etc.
 
I think I speak for all the rational and sane people when I say that you guys need to relax a little bit.

There is practically no nudity in this game (hand drawn breasts at worst) and even if it wasn't it would hardly be the end of the world...If you meet the age requirements to buy the game then it's fine.

If you get offended by anatomy like this you're going to explode in a large volcanic eruption of stress at some point in your life, so just chill out a bit ;)
 
Litfod said:
I just finished it.....
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I wish I could finish it. I'm having chronic crashing issues with the game - on both Vista and XP.

Every 30 minutes or so it'll just crash right to desktop. After about the 3rd act I got fed up.
 
The sexual content in The Witcher is very tame. I'm not sure why it got an M rating. If you chose to copulate then you see a fuzzed out video with a card with a picture of the woman over the top. I don't understand why the censors are so hung up on sexual content? God forbid that you should see a digitised nipple in a game!

I never got why the, "Hot Coffee Scandal" upset so many people either. Maybe it's because I have a far more liberal attitude to such things. Must be a European thing.

PoweredBySoy - have you tried the suggestions under here. http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.0
 
I'd say its no worse than most R-rated movies out there. It's got some adult themes but it's pretty tame.

Might not want to show it to your 6 year old, mainly for the language. The "sexy" parts of it are tame, hardly worth mentioning.
 
There are some boobs, everyone has a giant cleavage, they endlessly swear and not every chick that you meet will have sex with you.
 
Endurancevm said:
There are some boobs, everyone has a giant cleavage, they endlessly swear and not every chick that you meet will have sex with you.
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^^^Almost every one dose lol it gets repetitive some times, but you know what its cool in my book :cool:
 
The Witcher shouldn't be played by anyone say under 16.

If you get the international version there is nudity in the sex/conquest cards, and there is a race in the game that is nude or mostly nude.

There is a fair about of swearing, blood and gore.

Also the game IS focused on adult players, there is adult style decisions to make in the game. (the developers even said it in the making of content)
 
I own the Euro version of The Witcher. The content in the American version is an after school special compared to the Euro version. The sexual content in the euro version is much more explicit. The sex cards are mostly nude (nipples) or fully nude (in some cases). The sex scenes where you get the card are explicit.

The violence also kicks it up a notch from the American version with, IMHO, more copious amounts of blood flowing.

I've also found the dialog to be coarser in the Euro version.

If you want to buy it, you can get the Euro version on Metaboli. It's ~50euro.
 
spicey said:
The sexual content in The Witcher is very tame. I'm not sure why it got an M rating. If you chose to copulate then you see a fuzzed out video with a card with a picture of the woman over the top. I don't understand why the censors are so hung up on sexual content? God forbid that you should see a digitised nipple in a game!
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Remember.. Sex is a demonic summoning activity people must inflict on each other sinfully and shamefully in order to propogate the species!

Umm.. Or that's how some very vocal whackjobs view it. And vote seeking sycophant politicians. :rolleyes:
 
The sexual content is sensitively handled in the UK version. I found myself drawn to the characters in the game. The way it gets you to choose between different women is quite unique. CD Projekt RED should be praised for putting the mature back into PC gaming. Sex, profanity, drug use and all! You can't say anything bad about a game that uses the words, '♥♥♥♥' and 'motherfucker' - it just feels natural and fits the game.

All the great RPG's draw you in and the sense of escapism is highly evident with this game. I see today the CD Projekt RED have announced that the game has sold 600,000 copies and that there will be a big Witcher surprise coming this Spring....an addon perhaps?

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=182492&site=cvg

Onto Act 4....
 
I'd love for the events of the game to be considered canon and novelized. I've imported the UK english versions of the novellas and read through them.
 
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