mgs2master2
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this is just from observation.... i need a definitive list. I need to make
my bro a bro again and plan story accordingly with those questions.
The Witcher 3 | Review Thread
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MrRoflWaffles
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Thanks for the advice! Dying and having to replay 15 minutes of game because of the autosaving being so bad has driven me nuts. Hopefully this will put an end to all that
Also hopefully TW2 awful autosaving is sorted in TW3 - have any reviews mentioned this explicitly?
zkorejo
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Christopher Odd
His playthroughs of TW1 and TW2 are really good. He is right now replaying TW2 with another Path.
He really takes his time to read and explain the world of the Witcher. I really like his videos.
Give it a try.
Wolvesinthebathroom
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Damn I forgot about this. I played through both sides and I preferred going with Roche.
I mean where else are we supposed to talk about the witcher in general?
orthodoxy1095
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Well I wasn't sure, and I really waffled about it today, but I broke down. Preordered from Best Buy. Time to play my first Witcher game!
truestatic
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Thanks for the advice! Dying and having to replay 15 minutes of game because of the autosaving being so bad has driven me nuts. Hopefully this will put an end to all that
Also hopefully TW2 awful autosaving is sorted in TW3 - have any reviews mentioned this explicitly?
Abuse F5 too, if you're playing on PC. I don't know how to console quicksave.
MrRoflWaffles
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mgs2master2
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The voice acting is great in all games. What you mean?
You're trolling me, aren't you? I only played the prologue chapter before the game stopped working for me, but what I heard was not good. In fact, I considered looking for an option to enable the original Polish dub.
Not at all. It's one of my favourite aspects of all three games. Is it considered a low point by many?
I made this if you want the basics.
Great thanks!
I don't know. Like I said, I only scratched the surface of the game. What I heard sounded really flat though. I know that Charles Dance is in the third, so I'm looking forward to that.
ChosenPredator
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quick question Witchers used to be cool with Witches? She said something in the trailer along the lines "A witcher would never hunt a witch" or something
Blooddimond
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Nah, Witcher's are only cool with monsters if they 1. Have intelligence and 2. Are peaceful and not acting violently against others. She was more saying that she was too dangerous for many other witchers to try taking her on, basically warning Geralt that she wasn't going to go down easily.
OmegaDL50
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Witcher story spoiler stuff, Highlight at your own peril.
I have a question.
Do we know how old Geralt is.
From what I understand it was the
I understand that The Witcher 3 is the end of Geralt's story according to CDProjekt RED.
I have a question.
Do we know how old Geralt is.
From what I understand it was the
Trial of the Grasses that caused his hair to become completely white / grey and nothing to do with age in particular.
I mean Yennefer is apparently 100 years old during the events of The Witcher 2, was this an effect of her having magical power or a side effect of her being a Quadroon?
I mean Yennefer is apparently 100 years old during the events of The Witcher 2, was this an effect of her having magical power or a side effect of her being a Quadroon?
I understand that The Witcher 3 is the end of Geralt's story according to CDProjekt RED.
I don't know if Yennefer's long life span was a side effect of her partial Elven blood or it was because she could magically extend her life span.
So who's to say that the Mutagen's that altered Geralt's physiology also didn't also give him a boost in life span.
So who's to say that the Mutagen's that altered Geralt's physiology also didn't also give him a boost in life span.
I made this if you want the basics.
Does this not remind anyone of Game Of Thrones?
Yennefer is "young" (94/95 years old during the events in Tower of Swallow) by sorcerers standars. They usually can extend their life spans by a lot thanks to potions, lotions, etc. Sorcerers and Wizards tend to keep his natural aged appearances to show a wise and experienced image, meanwhile Sorceress and witches tend to alter their appearances (the majority if not every woman with the ability to channel magic has some kind of physical defect) to be more beautiful and tempting.
The Witchers also can have pretty long life spans (though they tend to die without reaching it due to their line of work). Vesemir is PRETTY OLD (some centuries old for what it can be inferred in his dialogues). I suppose it's because the rites and mutations, but i don't think it was explained how exactly works...
About Geralt's age, i think that Sapkowski said in an interview that Geralt was around...55?
OmegaDL50
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No. The Witcher (2007) predates the Game of Thrones TV series (2011) by four years.
And even if we take the books into consideration George Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice debuted and were first published in 1996
Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books The Sword of Destiny (1992), and The Last Wish (1993) came out several years earlier before George R. R. Martin's material did.
truestatic
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I found it much improved in Witcher 2, but in Witcher 1 it felt super wooden. Geralt's performance in particular felt like night and day from one game to the other.
In Witcher 2 he retains his sort of... very calm, even tone of voice. But I found he manages to bring a great deal more presence and character, despite.
The voice acting hasn't been the high point, in the original game before the EE it was downright terrible and EE made it good. It was much better in Witcher 2, combat though.. eeh, hasn't really improved, just roll your way to victory.
OmegaDL50
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Considering Geralt's relationship with Yennefer being a longer thing predominately in the books and both Trish and Yennefer being apparently close friends, no.
Geralt and Yennefer are actually married or it's at least implied they had a Wedding in one of the books
I think mainly Trish IS taking advantage of Geralt's memory loss. If Geralt didn't lose his memory, I don't think he would be as close to Trish as it is portrayed in the games.
Yeah, I just started Witcher 2 and already voice acting seems much better overall.
lordfuzzybutt
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She has no other choice than being OK with it. She is desperately in love with Geralt but she understands Yen is Geralt's the one.
She is in no way as powerful as Yen magic wise so basically there is literally nothing she can do. Well other taking advantage of Geralt when both he and Yen lost their memory.
LegalEagleMike
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I think you mean is Yennefer ok that Geralt is having illicit relationships with the red-haired woman.
I think Doug Cockle (Geralt's English VA) has come into his own and is much more comfortable sounding in the third game.
I think the thing that probably excites me the most about the Witcher 3's world is the mix of big cities and rural areas. I really like the idea of having quests that center around finding people or places inside a large city. It's the one thing I found sorely lacking in a game like Dragon Age: Inquisition, where the overwhelming majority of the quests take place in some remote forest/jungle/rural land seemingly far away from any actual major town or city. And while that had it's charm as well (namely the variety the different types of environments), it feels like The Witcher 3 strikes a nice balance between having both.
Gravemind IV
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So, I am gonna have to do the 'decisions' cutscene at the start of the game. I am pretty much torn up about Iorveth and Roche. I haven't played the W2, and I can't find the time to play through it twice in order to experience both sides to the story.
Hmm. Well, that's gonna be difficult.
Hmm. Well, that's gonna be difficult.
And he actually wrote the first short story for a magazine around 1986.
Nah I'm not saying that somebody copied somebody. I just see some some similarity with the many realms with one big Kingdom and a dangerous group of mythical beasts coming in the winter.
And that makes me very excited since I recently started watching and got hooked to GOT.
Even then, no. They have entirely different vibes imo.
Hmm you may be right. I wouldn't mind either way
There's a lot of similarities between the franchises, though obviously magic is a lot more prominent in the Witcher series. They often have similar themes, plots involving complicated political schemes, and are somewhat reactionary works toward traditional fantasy.
You're definetly not the only one that sees it. Gamespot even had a feature along the lines of "Why the Witcher 3 is the Game of Thrones game we've been waiting for" a few months ago.
If we're talking strictly about the literature, I'd agree.
However, I'd definitely say that Witcher: Wild Hunt has been visually influenced by HBO's GOT series. Emhyr's throne, or even the depiction of the Wild Hunt, looks like it could've been ripped out of the series. It's undoubtedly a good move, too. Watching The Witcher blossom from a little-known PC darling into a huge AAA release is pretty astounding, and I'm sure it's been from CDPR's ability to make smart design decisions that keep the game true to its roots while adapting to current trends in gaming and pop culture.
They're both violent, political, sexual, and complex, but these are superficial similarities imo.
The actual feel of the characters, the world, the way the stories are presented and explored are very different.
TW feels more like a magical nursery rhyme come to life whereas GoT feels like a historical political drama.
I can see the links but I don't feel them.
truestatic
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Temeria? Foltest? They may not be ideal but so far as kingdoms and monarchs go I think Roche could certainly do worse.
Like that whoreson Henselt.
In my opinion Iorveth, although incredibly cynical because of his experiences, has the intelligence and capability of being more compassionate and even keeled. His past transgressions are pretty heinous, but Roche is no saint himself. I'm not saying he'll embody those traits at any point, but I see potential for change and evolution in his ethical fiber. Basically I think he has a chance to be a decent guy. He also seems more interesting than Roche in general. So I went with Iorveth as I could understand his cause, although his means border on cruel rather than simply Machiavellian. He's more than a fringe lunatic commanding zealots, he is sly enough to see a bigger picture and why being a bit more tame in his methods could yield positive results for him and elves. Having said all that, he has work to do to become entirely sympathetic. Maybe those conflicting feelings are why I like him as a character.
On Roche's path, you basically become Henselt's errand boy, and then have to pick up the pieces when it all goes to shit because Henselt is a POS.
On Iorveth's path, you fucking liberate a threatened city run by one of the world's few heroines, Saskia.
Alls I'm saying is, having played both paths, I know which one felt more fulfilling.
truestatic
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I'm actually playing the end of act 2 Iorveth's path as we speak, having played Roche's last year. Does feel pretty good!
Yeah, it looks pretty much the same, but shorter animations, less bullshit and more responsiveness alone go a long way in making the combat more fun, I'm sure.
Different XP rewards on different difficulty settings and no XP from killing foes is kind of lame too, I feel like it makes choosing what difficulty to start on a bit harder. I dunno, I guess I'll just go with the "normal" one. If combat turns out to be actually fun, I'll crank it up, if it's as unfun as it was in TW2, I'll turn it down. Thank god for difficulty settings you can change on fly.
No XP for killing foes is actually a really good idea and I´ll explain why.
In an open world game it is pretty hard to balance the game, because of that most of them use lvl scaling, like Skyrim.
Witcher 3 doesn´t use that, so if you could get an unlimited amount of XP from respawning foes, you could get a much to high lvl to fast and the game gets much to easy.
But with removing XP from defeated foes there is a set amount of XP you can get, so the game can be balanced around that.
I agree, that it is not such a good idea to include the amount of XP you get into the difficulty settings, a far better solution would be to seperate it.
At the moment it is impossible to play the game with a moderate difficulty, while also be able to explore a lot without to out lvl everything to fast.
It is also impossible to have a real challenge while only playing the main story.
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