The Witcher 3 Shows What It Means To Kill Monsters

[Subscriptism]

So basically they want to be Game of Thrones now. Because real art is brooding and always depressing!

They aren't necessarily mimicking ASoIaF, The Witcher has always been a pretty miserable setting.

 

[Meatspinner]

So basically they want to be Game of Thrones now. Because real art is brooding and always depressing!

Don't have a cow man. Not everything has to live up to the MLP standard

 

[Ninjat_126]

Trailers tend to be overdramatic to appeal to people. Just look at the Dark Souls 2 marketing, and how relevant to the franchise it is.

Also, I thought we'd moved past the idea of "IT'S COOL BECAUSE GRIMDARK" and continued to move past it's younger sibling, "IT SUCKS BECAUSE GRIMDARK" and started to learn to judge stories on their own merits?

 

[Iron Criterion]

Why should it be any less good than a less depressing or a happy story, huh? Like Amaror said, it just happens to be good. It's not good just because it's depressing. You might as well call it realistic because medieval times sure were gruesome. If you don't like it don't play the game. Play Skyrim I can't even imagine a more "happy" fictional world.

At least Skyrim was better balanced with actually moments of lighthearted and triumph. What this teaser and this article basically says is that Life only has depressing, dark and brooding moments. I would say that is just as narrow minded and naive as people would call idealists. Anyone who sees the world as being only one extreme, whether it's happy or sad, is idiotic.

And yet you keep using GOT as your example, when I'd say it isn't that depressing. Yes there are depressing moments, certainly, but there are also moments of triumph and light heartedness. And besides the story isn't skewered against the 'good guys,' it's an amoral tale of amoral things happening to amoral people - just like in reality.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

He had all the power to knock those guys out while the woman got away; he chose to murder them in cold blood. Because any other situation wouldn't be "trailer-worthy".

Actually, considering the setting, it was probably safer for him to just kill them outright. If he knocks them out, they'll wake up and may come across Geralt again, only with 20 more mates. Plus you've deprived an invading force of three men: not a lot but not a bad way to spend five minutes.

Plus, knocking someone out is actually kind of hard to do without causing additional injury or accidental death.