Are you one of those people who have a video game (movie, series or book) that they don’t usually mention in their Tops and Comparisons because it’s simply on another level? The classic “I don’t even count that one because he plays in another league“. This does not understand contrasts. Like the poem by Lope de Vega: “Who tried it knows“.
my game is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I can affirm without a doubt that today I would not be writing in iGamesNews if it weren’t for the work of CD Projekt Red. That’s how strong the roll is this week. I want to tell you a story that I have rarely told. Sit with me by this virtual campfire on the outskirts of Huerto Blanco.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a return full of nostalgia
It would take me quite a few lines to express what I felt when Alex, the great head of the iGamesNews team, wrote me to ask if I was interested in covering the analysis of the Next Gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The week was very uphill and The Game Awards 2022 gala was not exactly far away, but I was unable to say no.
I haven’t played The Witcher 3 in years. In January 2020 I started playing a game that didn’t last 5 hours. Before that, my last session dates back between 2017, when I completed the base game + DLCs on difficulty the death march + Raised Enemy Level. Complete madness. Don’t beat yourself up like that.
As the first few hours into my “review game” (I delete it at the end of the review) passed, more and more memories came to mind. It’s incredible the salvage of information I have this game in my mind that I didn’t even know I still had. And I kept remembering…
My world fell apart…
As you can guess, I’ve played The Witcher 3 several times. The point is that I did not know of its existence until months before its release. And if I saw it, I don’t remember and/or I ignored it. But I have an excuse! I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but it’s an excuse.
Back in 2014-2015 (more or less, everything is blurry), I was in my second year at the philosophy career. I was completely alienated and video games were secondary. They were there, but the books and the discussions in the college bar used to take up all my time. Quite the opposite of today.
Without winding up more. The second year I dropped out for personal reasons. It was a gut decision, almost improvised. Days later, I realized the reality: what the hell was I going to do now?! The world came crashing down on me and I’m pretty sure I went through some serious depression.
Weeks later, I went to work with a friend who was (and is) a graphic designer: I learned while working. He tossed me into the deep end of the pool. At the same time, I was focusing more and more on video games. One day he told me that he had to book The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which was going to be a great game. I am very special: the more you recommend something to me, the less likely I am to come close to what you recommend.
I ignored. The Witcher 3 has been released. One night he put the game on my PS4 and asked me to play it. A “ask” that bordered on obligation. I was going through one of the worst moments of my life. insecure and sad, but I listened and played. The next day we went for my physical copy.
… And then the world was filled with color
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt It hooked me like the Swords of Chaos to Kratos: it came to never leave. My time was divided between work and play with little stops to eat. And sometimes it wouldn’t even stop.
Meeting Geralt de Rivia, Dandelion, Ciri, Vesemir, Zoltan, Yennefer and Triss filled me with life; and living the stories of The Witcher 3, so full of decisions and consequences, made me feel like a lively, motivated and happy. The stories and dialogues have a lot of wisdom, something that made me reflect after turning off my PS4 and lying on the bed to eat roof.
Raw and sensitive, this chivalrous fantasy adventure, with its epic and mundane moments, made getting up in the morning to work and play that much more satisfying. The sadness and apathy faded away almost without realizing it. And also, my friend became my best friend.
I’ve been through something more than 453 hours playing The Witcher 3 since I first played it. Many of those hours in very bad moments and many others very happy. She has always been with me. It was the trigger for me TOTAL immersion in video games and the spark that ignited the engine of my motivation to dedicate myself to what I dedicate myself to today: writing in a video game medium.
Much more than a video game, a symbol
I think now you can get an idea of the tickling What I felt when they asked me to write the analysis of the next gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. My job is to talk about video games, which is already exciting on its own, but now it’s about THIS game.
For me, The Witcher 3 play in another league for everything he does, for his virtues and defects, and because he helped me get up when everything was gray, to move on and find my way beyond the life plan that had been crushed on me at school for years.
We are in 2022. I am going to spend Christmas playing The Witcher 3 and Destiny 2 (that the Eclipse expansion does not prepare itself), and while in iGamesNews I will be making guides and weekly publications like this one (we left Minecraft) of The Witcher 3. And this gives me a happiness that nothing and nobody can take away from me…
If you want to share my adventures in The Witcher 3 and/or answer any questions about your adventure, I am your wizard. Until then, I would like to know if you have such a game in your life. Tell me your story in comments. I read you!
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