You don’t need to read this. Usually my articles get big numbers. Huge numbers. The kind of numbers you wouldn’t believe. They get so many readers they had to make up a new name for the number, it had never been scientifically discovered until they checked the amount of readers I get. Big numbers. Huge. But today I’m throwing all that away. This is not an article aimed at the massive number of readers my natural literary talent attracts. Instead, it is entirely for my own consumption only. This is my little diary entry where I psyche myself up for yet another playthrough of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 3.

Okay Stace, despite your cynicism that it, like all games, would be delayed into next year, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CD Projekt Red has hit its deadlines and The Witcher 3’s new-gen update is arriving in December. To be honest, it’s not a great time for a new game to launch. You’ve only got nine of your ten GOTY list picks nailed down, and it doesn’t seem like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:God of War Ragnarok, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sonic Frontiers, nor 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Scarlet are making the cut. You probably won’t like Callisto, but there’s still 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Marvel’s Midnight Suns and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:High on Life, plus you could probably find time for New Tales From the Borderlands. Forget Hardspace, that Shipbrea🐼ker has sailed. Citizen Sleeper will have to be your cool hipster pick this year.

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Okay, so the timing isn’t great. But timing never is. It’s video games. They release not at all or all at once, get used to the new normal, kid. For some reason February is now a busy month too - a zombie graveyard for games that aimed for the Christmas window and missed. Or missed again if you’re 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dead Island 2. The point is, most big video games come out surrounded by other video games. It’s almost as if the publishers put𒁏 more stock in consumer behaviour than they do considerations for a journalist’s work-life balance in a World Cup month. Luckily all I do is sit around playing video games all day, so I never reall📖y work at all.

Geralt facing the camera and walking away from a group of thugs in a tavern in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The point is, timing just isn’t an excuse. Pull on the big girl panties and play some damn video 🐻games. Just think of all the juicy #content you can write on The Witcher, eh? All those bigly numbers you always get, you clever little skank. The Witcher gives you a head start. Not that you need one, you sexy little genius. Work-life balance matters not. Other games matter not. All that matters is #content.

This time will for sure be different. Yes, this will be your fourth time playing The Witcher 3. Yes, you’ve never previously finished it, or even gotten particularly far through it. You loved 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Bloody Baron quest, but after that the whole thing sorta petered out. Surely now, during the World Cup, right before Christmas, when you have three other games you’re enjoying kinda enough to beat and have more gam💫es you want to play coming out is the ideal timing. Look Stace, I’m not saying it’ll be easy. I’m not even saying it will be medium difficulty. It will be hard, but I believe in us. We got Taylor Swift floor seats, we can do anything baby.

Geralt attacking a horned enemy with magic in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3 is a staple of modern gaming. I know you know most of the story through the osmosis of being a video game journalist and translating the morse code sounds made by every other journalist wanking off to this game. I know you’ve ꦏplayed and the gameplay only clicked with Ciri, which was also when exploration and narrating was linear and dull. I know we’ve tried before. But let’s have one more go, eh?

I don’t really do gaming bucket lists, or even a backlog. I’ve got some games I want to get to eventually, but whenever the release cycle dries up, I don’t have a ready-made list of all the things I want to dive into next. If I did, I’d consider The Witcher 3 already crossed out as a failed experiment. And graphical improvements don’t impress me on games I like, so they definitely don’t matter on games I’m meh on. But still, something is telling me to give The Witcher 3 another go. If TheGamer is hit with a blizzard of Witcher takes in January, you al🔴l know why. Except you don’t, because this was my private diary and you weren’t supposed to read it.

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