Here's why The Witcher 3 never revealed us Geralt's 100-year-old wang
The Witcher is pretty saucy. The books, games and now TELEVISION show like a little bit of skin, and here at PC Gamer we undoubtedly can't get enough of Geralt soaking in the tub. But CD Projekt Red never let us see 'little Geralt,' for example, even if we saw his lovely bottom. The response is obviously regional constraints.
It probably won't come as a surprise, as developers are often restricted to what they can reveal by local rating boards, particularly in more stringent countries like Australia where they didn't have an 18+ rating till 2013, and Germany, which until just recently enforced enormous constraints on what media covering World War 2, or anything that included Nazis, might illustrate.
GameStar reports that, in the case of The Witcher 3, nudity was specifically a concern when it pertained to its playable characters, Geralt and Ciri. While we see both of them undressed numerous times, the scenes constantly stopped brief of full nudity.
Quest designer Philip Weber informed the German site that there were a series of restrictions in all nations where The Witcher 3 was released. You can see them talking on a Twitch stream, however you'll require to understand German.
CDPR's Fabian Mario Doehla confirmed this, adding that "The minute you have (active) control, it is constantly examined in a different way." My German isn't exactly up to snuff, so this comes via Google Translate.
When it's a playable character swinging their dick around, the German rating board USK gives additional weight to nudity. "There is a greater threat of problems," states CDPR's Carolin Wendt, referring to the USK's fears that playing a naked character might affect a young adult's psychological development.
The USK validated this, informing GameStar that nudity itself wasn't thought about a problem on its own or destructive to young individuals, but "if undressed people are depicted in a sexual or violent context, a development-impairing-- in severe cases even a youth-endangering and for that reason pertinent to indexing-- is rather possible."
So if you wish to see Geralt's 100-year-old willy, you're simply going to have to hope CD Projekt Red makes him an NPC in another game. One can dream.
It probably won't come as a surprise, as developers are often restricted to what they can reveal by local rating boards, particularly in more stringent countries like Australia where they didn't have an 18+ rating till 2013, and Germany, which until just recently enforced enormous constraints on what media covering World War 2, or anything that included Nazis, might illustrate.
GameStar reports that, in the case of The Witcher 3, nudity was specifically a concern when it pertained to its playable characters, Geralt and Ciri. While we see both of them undressed numerous times, the scenes constantly stopped brief of full nudity.
Quest designer Philip Weber informed the German site that there were a series of restrictions in all nations where The Witcher 3 was released. You can see them talking on a Twitch stream, however you'll require to understand German.
CDPR's Fabian Mario Doehla confirmed this, adding that "The minute you have (active) control, it is constantly examined in a different way." My German isn't exactly up to snuff, so this comes via Google Translate.
When it's a playable character swinging their dick around, the German rating board USK gives additional weight to nudity. "There is a greater threat of problems," states CDPR's Carolin Wendt, referring to the USK's fears that playing a naked character might affect a young adult's psychological development.
The USK validated this, informing GameStar that nudity itself wasn't thought about a problem on its own or destructive to young individuals, but "if undressed people are depicted in a sexual or violent context, a development-impairing-- in severe cases even a youth-endangering and for that reason pertinent to indexing-- is rather possible."
So if you wish to see Geralt's 100-year-old willy, you're simply going to have to hope CD Projekt Red makes him an NPC in another game. One can dream.
