Talk:Phillip Strenger/@comment-118.101.255.69-20170814154602

This is amazing, the amount of butthurt hypocrites who claim everything is black and white as if they're perfect. This is a great character and so are the quest scenes which don't 'overdramatize' like every other mainstream game. Now let's see:

- Go to war, risk your life for country, your loving wife and your daughter

- Get cheated on for 3 years (cause the above mentionned was so f*cking horrible, and walking out the door and seperating at the time was too easy)

- Wife tries escaping and kidnapping your daughter

- Tear the home wrecker to shreds, wife untouched, tries to kill you with knife, you barely avoid death and you strike her just to stay alive (i.e. not kill her)

- Attempt fresh start with same wife, have another child with her and you both try to fix marriage

- Past events overshadowed all tries from both partners to have a nomal life. A shitstorm of "drunken assaults vs repeated attempted murder" ensues

[sidenote: Meanwhile the wife & daughter are treated like queens in imprisonment, the baron struggles to balance keeping Nilfgaardians happy with supplies (see the threat letter) and keeping his soldiers in line (ex: banning rape). His alcoholism make matter worse for everyone. The soldiers still wreaked havoc, how much of it is the baron's intention is debatable]

- Daughter turns to "angels" to save her and her mother from you, wife turns to "devils"

- Wife gets your unborn child killed as she wished, and fights you off to escape your possessive prison along with daughter

- Hire witcher to get them back, find that the wife is enslaved by the devils, very little chance of survival and you -still- go to rescue her

All in all, get offended you want. Rant on the internet about how bad I am and how good you are, then miss a spot while you're wiping your arsehole. But anyway, never in history will war trauma ever be compared to home loneliness or later assault and attempted murder. I'd feel sorry for that guy as much as I do for a Liberian child soldier who's killed tens of people; he ain't no angel, but circumstances had a big effect on how he turned out, unlike the wife who had much more control since the start of her situation.

It's amazing how in a fantasy world in a time so long ago how many relatable elements -despite how dark- were in that quest's story.