If, in some weird amalgamation of our world and that of The Witcher, Geralt was a gamer, what would be his preferred platform? We may never truly know the answer to that extremely obscure question, but we have the next best thing. Henry Cavill, who plays the titular character in Netflix's new fantasy series, was asked in an interview whether he preferred PlayStation or Xbox.
"PC," comes the immediate answer from Cavill. As it turns out, his father got him into PC gaming when he was young, and he's been playing games on computers since. To be honest, this sounds like it could be Geralt's answer, too. Would he really settle for anything less than the optimal gaming setup with the most powerful hardware? Probably not.
According to PCGamesN, Cavill has been an avid gamer to the point of putting his career at risk. He missed the call from Zack Snyder informing him he'd landed the role as Superman due to playing World of Warcraft.
Fair enough, Cavill.
[source nme.com, via pcgamesn.com]
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Uh-hu.
That makes sense as I tend to see that trend with people his age from Europe. It seems that PCs were more popular the NES and such when he was a kid in Europe at that time.
I got my copy for free with my Graphics card
"Geralt of Nvidia" best one yet!
@Tasuki Yes, but also at that time the term "PC" generally meant something entirely different, far more generic, and applied to any home computer. It wasn't the PC as we know it today, but covered the Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, and others. They were what was generally known as "a PC" in those days. While IBM released its first PC in 81, it took a while for the term to become synonymous with the desktop boxes as we know it today.
Consoles like the NES/SNES had a relatively tiny share of the market here, and as such we never had any real effects of the "video game crash" of 1983, the year he was born.
Gaming on PCs as we know them today didn't really take off until the late 80s, and even then in terms of the tech, they were well behind the 'home computers' of the time... the Atari ST and, in particular, the Commodore Amiga, were far superior when it came to games. It was only in the mid-90s and the advent of consumer 3D graphics cards that the PC format began to catch and surpass the other platforms.
When he says his dad got him into gaming on PC when he was "very, very young", I actually wonder just how young he means. Very few people would have bothered gaming on a PC until at least the early-to-mid 90s (when he would have been at least 7 years old), as actual PCs were prohibitively expensive for the average user, and very poor for games.
he probably should have stuck to playing games, than appearing in a zack snyder movie.
@Paranoimia Nice post
@ShogunRok PushSquare's best taglines of the decade. Where's that article/poll? Crown one subheading to rule them all.
That tagline would've worked better if the Switch didn't have Nvidia hardware.
Well, the Witcher 3 has a ton of mods that make it look glorious on the PC. I do have it on that platform as well and I'm going to play it again next year. The decision comes down to playing with mods (PC) or HDR (PS4). I'm leaning towards the latter.
@Tasuki To be fair, the NES wasn't very popular at all here. The PS4 beat the NES entire European lifetime sales in a year or less here, IIRC. Sega was more popular, then Sony. Nintendo was always the kiddy one - oddly even when we were kids it still felt kiddy.
@Matroska I believe it was the same in Portugal. People tended to flock towards the Sega MegaDrive and not the SNES.
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