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Dante9 on 09 February 2018
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Slimebeast said:
shikamaru317 said:

How the heck is Witcher 3, of all the games out there, the game you choose to call politically correct? As someone who cannot abide by politcal correctness in the slightest, I don't see it as politically correct at all, in fact I'd say it's anti-politically correct. In a world where feminists hate on any female game character that is sexualized in any way, shape, or form, CD Projekt fights back by making the majority of of female main characters in the series attractive. All of the sorceresses in the series are attractive and wear revealing outfits. Prostitution, not politically correct, yet you can visit whore houses in the game whenever you want to. Violence, not politcally correct, yet Witcher 3 is one of the most violent games I've ever played. The list goes on and on. 

But that is politically correct. It just doesn't censor things like SJWs do.

It portrays all the things you listed as negative things. Anti-politically correct would be to glorify beauty, the upper class ladies, prostition and sex and violence. But Witcher 3 is this clichéd "look how dirty and miserable our world is (because it's really a reflection of our world and all that is considered wrong in it by those who are politically correct)". The Witcher 3 is cultural critique against hierarchies, tradition, inequality, selfishness etc.

But the attractive sorceresses, I'll give them that perhaps. They're a bit too attractive and feminine to be considered 100% politically correct. But they'll tone down the sexyness of the sorceresses until their next game.

The world in Witcher 3 is a reflection of not our modern world (per se, of course one can always draw parallels), but our medieval past. And that past was miserable for the common peasant. Poor, filthy, disease ridden, unfair and brutal. No wonder people are having a hard time. It's not as if they had to come up with all the misery, they simply portray what the reality of that era was. Anti-correctness doesn't mean that you have to revel in ugly things, it simply means that you don't pretend that they don't exist. The game doesn't glorify anything, it actually gives a rather balanced portrayal of all levels in society. Not every rich guy is an asshole and not every poor guy is a noble paragon. Even the emperor is a complex character, not just "pure evil". And the main protagonist is something of an antihero. Everybody is simply trying to survive with what they've got. Of course there are the added fantasy elements and within that framework they have come up with the elves being oppressed and such, but it's part of the lore and history of the world. To me it was an interesting way of bringing social tension to the mix and you can choose for yourself whether you want to see elves as a threat or not, it's not really spelled out for you. The point seems to be that everyone should be judged individually, not as groups, and that is the antithesis of everything that the SJW crowd is trying to push. Politically correct the game is not, far from it. Female characters are sexy but yet strong in the right way, demonstrating that strong female doesn't mean a bland everywoman who Mary Sues her way through every obstacle just because. Whorehouses and such are a common thing, as they would have been in a medieval setting, that's why there's no need to either frown upon them them or glorify them, they are simply a part of life. You can choose whether your hero makes use of their services or not. As a contrast, Bioware has gone full correct with its unsolicited expositions of politics and sexuality, that's why the Witcher was a breath of fresh air for me. Sure, it does have its own take on some issues, but it is very subtle and natural instead of rubbing it in your face. Bioware says "X is wrong and you should think like Y", whereas CDPR says "this is the real shit, make up your own mind as to what you want to make of it".