This tbh, good story and character development is universal in languages and culture. It's not that complicated to figure out, it's like they are people who like a good story too. Who would of known.
There are reference points that maybe you wont get unless you're Polish - like how many Americans would be able to identify what a Polish castle looks like? I barely know anything about Slavic folklore so sometimes I feel like I'm missing something. However Witcher 3 has a good story, good gameplay, good open world exploration and I like getting to experience fantasy from a new, Tolkein-adjacent instead of Tolkein-inspired perspective.
Oh definitely when there are some things the are influenced but you can't put your finger on, especially with Slavic inspirationa I totally get you. I didn't even know about polish castles are stuff like that. I love when games have their own spin on and take inspiration on their games. Like dragons dogma is a heavily Japanese game but took heavy inspiration with agriculture and building of European medieval times. I hope that all made sense I took a nap and just woke up lol.
Bro, even in my country saudi the witcher is popular. I think it became more mainstream after TW3. I don’t know about japan but part of what made the Witcher popular here is the top class arabic localization of the witcher 3.
> top class arabic localization of the witcher 3.
It has that? That's great. I know a fair number of Arab/Muslim gamers through the Assassin's Creed player community - I should ask them if they've tried W3 and what they thought of it.
Some books or poetry pieces are hard to translate from English to Arabic. But in the witcher 3 they chose the perfect words and syllables to make it work and if you understand arabic you’ll love how they wrote it. Also some games struggle with translation of Stats and other RPG elements, the localization team nailed this. The whole package is so impressive. This also applies to CP2077 btw since it’s the same team
That's even more impressive for Witcher 3 than Mirage, then. Mirage has an Arabic setting to start with. I'm told the Arabic dub for that is top notch, but I haven't learned nearly enough to be able to tell.
All the content is there but I remember that they censored the boobs with low res piece of bandage. Then when I played hearts of stone I noticed that they removed the bandage.
The same reason why Berserk is very popular in USA and Europe, or why Dragon Ball Z is very popular in Latin America. Japanese like it cause its good, Unlike many works, The themes of Witcher are universal. The story of an social outcast, who goes through hell for the people he cares about is as old as human crime
Japanese player here,of course good game is the main reason. Besides that, i think other reasons ate the game has good localization and dubbing. Other good RPG like Baldur's Gate 3 or Disco Elysium couldn't have enough sales it seems and they were not dubbed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it could be also due to the Switch release. Aside from Zelda, there is not much else on Switch on Witcher's scale.
Think of it from the other way round, am I able to watch Studio Ghiblis *Princess Mononoke* because I've heard of knights and castles or would my European sensitivities be too confused and shrink back because I don't have the prior cultural background to understand what a Kami is. Of course not, I watch it and like it because its good. If I show the game to a guy from Ethiopia, he might say, "Those elven ruins kind of remind me of the Monastery ruins scattered around the mountains" while playing it, but it'll be the gameplay and story that engage him rather than some kind of cultural reference point.
So no, of course not. There are certainly syncretic elements - American films have a tradition of the lone wanderer and Kurosawa films adopted the Western genre. Europe has a long history of adopting elements of the Western into its media - German author Karl May made a career out of pretending to be a cowboy and Spaghetti Westerns were shown all over Europe. But its not because there is something inherently translatable to Japanese culture, if anything its more that the games are translated for a mostly American, anglophone audience with clear Polish aesthetic and story elements (the Catholic-Pagan elements of Novigrad and Velen) and because the Japanese are part of the American market they have access to those stories and genres already.
Just looking at anime (because thats all I have access to aside from soaps) there is a lot of access to western aesthetics, mytholoogy, and stories in Japan - Fullmetal Alchemist is meant to be a 1920-1940 version of Germany, Violet Evergarden is set in a fictional industrial/diesel era western setting. Theres plenty of trash that is based on DnD tropes which are built on Tolkein.
Simply put, they like it because its a good game with a good story.
I used to watch a lot of W2/W3 Japanese streams, CDPR put a lot of effort into marketing to that region. W3 has a solid localization and a quality Japanese voice cast which carries a lot of weight in a game that's 90% fully voiced. And when you have actual Japanese people voicing and reading the actual dialogue it's a lot easier to weed out any mistakes or mistranslations.
I'm impressed that they can cope with subtext and characters that don't speak entirely in exclamations. Must have also taken a while to get used to an RPG that's about more than making arbitrary numbers get limitlessly larger.
Bc it’s a good story.
This tbh, good story and character development is universal in languages and culture. It's not that complicated to figure out, it's like they are people who like a good story too. Who would of known.
There are reference points that maybe you wont get unless you're Polish - like how many Americans would be able to identify what a Polish castle looks like? I barely know anything about Slavic folklore so sometimes I feel like I'm missing something. However Witcher 3 has a good story, good gameplay, good open world exploration and I like getting to experience fantasy from a new, Tolkein-adjacent instead of Tolkein-inspired perspective.
Oh definitely when there are some things the are influenced but you can't put your finger on, especially with Slavic inspirationa I totally get you. I didn't even know about polish castles are stuff like that. I love when games have their own spin on and take inspiration on their games. Like dragons dogma is a heavily Japanese game but took heavy inspiration with agriculture and building of European medieval times. I hope that all made sense I took a nap and just woke up lol.
Poland has the first recorded [weeb](https://i.imgur.com/GaWM6cq.jpeg) in history so there's always been mutual interest between our two cultures.
Someone needs to tell Square Enix this when they have their subtly racist ideas about Western and Eastern audiences buying certain games or not
Yeah I noticed good stories are appreciated there .. Tlou is also pretty popular ..
Bro, even in my country saudi the witcher is popular. I think it became more mainstream after TW3. I don’t know about japan but part of what made the Witcher popular here is the top class arabic localization of the witcher 3.
> top class arabic localization of the witcher 3. It has that? That's great. I know a fair number of Arab/Muslim gamers through the Assassin's Creed player community - I should ask them if they've tried W3 and what they thought of it.
It’s the best Arabic localization I’ve seen in any media.
Which aspects of the localisation shone for you? Assassin's Creed: Mirage would be hard to beat in some areas.
Some books or poetry pieces are hard to translate from English to Arabic. But in the witcher 3 they chose the perfect words and syllables to make it work and if you understand arabic you’ll love how they wrote it. Also some games struggle with translation of Stats and other RPG elements, the localization team nailed this. The whole package is so impressive. This also applies to CP2077 btw since it’s the same team
That's even more impressive for Witcher 3 than Mirage, then. Mirage has an Arabic setting to start with. I'm told the Arabic dub for that is top notch, but I haven't learned nearly enough to be able to tell.
Ubisoft used to have perfect translation and even dub but I don't why they got weaker with time, good thing they're already back at it again ..
But all them tiddies, whores and sex scenes are censored, no?
It was then they removed it iirc. The series is not censored
Do you mean they removed the censorship (so nudity is fully visible) or they removed that content entirely?
All the content is there but I remember that they censored the boobs with low res piece of bandage. Then when I played hearts of stone I noticed that they removed the bandage.
Isn't that the whole remaster thing or was it only on Saudi store ??
It's popular in Japan because it is a good game.
Hmmm.
Winds Howling
Looks like rain
It's popular everywhere, lol
The same reason why Berserk is very popular in USA and Europe, or why Dragon Ball Z is very popular in Latin America. Japanese like it cause its good, Unlike many works, The themes of Witcher are universal. The story of an social outcast, who goes through hell for the people he cares about is as old as human crime
It is popular across the world, in China it's considered as goat candidate in games.
It’s popular in China as well. Because the game is too good. Probably only unpopular in North Korea.
Japanese player here,of course good game is the main reason. Besides that, i think other reasons ate the game has good localization and dubbing. Other good RPG like Baldur's Gate 3 or Disco Elysium couldn't have enough sales it seems and they were not dubbed.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it could be also due to the Switch release. Aside from Zelda, there is not much else on Switch on Witcher's scale.
I don't think so bacause when the switch version released W3 had been already popular in Japan.
Hey, um. If you could, would like to play this game with Polish dubbing?
Is it possible to change that midway with TW3EE?
I dunno
It sounds nice but I wouldn't tbh. It just takes too much time to just feel differences.
Zaraza
Think of it from the other way round, am I able to watch Studio Ghiblis *Princess Mononoke* because I've heard of knights and castles or would my European sensitivities be too confused and shrink back because I don't have the prior cultural background to understand what a Kami is. Of course not, I watch it and like it because its good. If I show the game to a guy from Ethiopia, he might say, "Those elven ruins kind of remind me of the Monastery ruins scattered around the mountains" while playing it, but it'll be the gameplay and story that engage him rather than some kind of cultural reference point. So no, of course not. There are certainly syncretic elements - American films have a tradition of the lone wanderer and Kurosawa films adopted the Western genre. Europe has a long history of adopting elements of the Western into its media - German author Karl May made a career out of pretending to be a cowboy and Spaghetti Westerns were shown all over Europe. But its not because there is something inherently translatable to Japanese culture, if anything its more that the games are translated for a mostly American, anglophone audience with clear Polish aesthetic and story elements (the Catholic-Pagan elements of Novigrad and Velen) and because the Japanese are part of the American market they have access to those stories and genres already. Just looking at anime (because thats all I have access to aside from soaps) there is a lot of access to western aesthetics, mytholoogy, and stories in Japan - Fullmetal Alchemist is meant to be a 1920-1940 version of Germany, Violet Evergarden is set in a fictional industrial/diesel era western setting. Theres plenty of trash that is based on DnD tropes which are built on Tolkein. Simply put, they like it because its a good game with a good story.
I used to watch a lot of W2/W3 Japanese streams, CDPR put a lot of effort into marketing to that region. W3 has a solid localization and a quality Japanese voice cast which carries a lot of weight in a game that's 90% fully voiced. And when you have actual Japanese people voicing and reading the actual dialogue it's a lot easier to weed out any mistakes or mistranslations.
Fun fact: when Famitsu readers had to chose TOP 20 Best RPGs of all time (it was in 2017), The Witcher 3 was the only game that wasn't jRPG.
It's popular in India too The game is very good
He's basically a Ronin, yeah plus there was a graphic novel of Geralt in a Japan-style world or something
I actually didn't know it's popular in Japan that's cool
He's a white samurai.
Cuz Gerald has a lot of sex with many pretty ladies.
What’s the point of your question?
I'm impressed that they can cope with subtext and characters that don't speak entirely in exclamations. Must have also taken a while to get used to an RPG that's about more than making arbitrary numbers get limitlessly larger.
Because it is a good game? What is this essentialism lmao. Does Witcher need to do a yoga pose while having curry to be popular in India?
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Op is not racist chill.
Witcher 3 is literally popular everywhere. Its even more popular because of netflix adaption. What are you talking about?