DXLelouch153
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Best rock slide ever.
i demand rock surfing races in the expansions
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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i demand rock surfing races in the expansions
JudgmentJay
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If you've done all the quests in White Orchard (there are like 6 or 7 I think?) and have gone to most of the points of interest you should be level 3-4. So it sounds like the XP bug.
It's a game set in a fucked up medieval based world. Of course men are going to call women whores/bitches and treat them like shit. This stuff only gets to me because you'd never see someone pull up random things like this when a rapist in a tv show slaps a girl around and calls her a bitch/whore because of course that character would.
The post above saying that there's a difference between something being sexist and their being sexism in the world is spot on.
Moff
Member
the alternate casting mode for quen made all the difference for me
truestatic
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Best rock slide ever.
edit: On a side note, has anyone on PC got a really good key layout? I've tinkered around with different set ups but I can't find a decent one where my fingers aren't playing twister during combat.
I'm pretty comfortable with mine but I don't know what degree of finger twister you're willing to tolerate. I basically just tried to recreate the controls of Witcher 2 as best I could. Included using mouse macros to one button cast aard, igni, and quen.
Okay so I think I've spent at least ten hours in Novigrad and I'm not even finished with it yet. But I this flute song has been stuck in my head all weekend.
I fucking love it.
I fucking love it.
I think overall she's trying to make the point that there are a lot of games with sexism against women and not enough without. That's part of why she examines tropes and doesn't just do a video series entitled "these games are sexist."
She's saying these sorts of tropes are overused and highlighting where they're used. Yes, we can come up with a lot of excuses why it's ok here or there, but that doesn't change that it's still a trope being used and that the general gaming landscape is using it a bit more than it probably should.
Points of interest??
Question marks on the map.
So close to 50 hour playtime and only just finished the Bloody Baron storyline lolz
Questline questions/spoilers below
Questline questions/spoilers below
Okay so I killed the tree spirit and reunited Anna and Baron and they rode off to look for an herbalist help in the mountains, but the orphans are just 'gone?' Are the kids dead? Where'd they go? I feel like I kept hearing that all choices in the bloody baron questline are tough and no outcome is 'perfect' but I just feel like there was no ramifications for accidentally killing a bunch of kids.
JudgmentJay
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I went all-in on a fast attack glass cannon build. Got the Cat School Techniques general skill, 1 point in Quen, and the rest in the combat skill tree, mostly focused around fast attacks and adrenaline point generation. Wearing all light armor of course. All +attack mutagens. I find the combat to be pretty easy on Death March, mostly because of Quen. That said, I had alot of trouble on the last part of the Botchling quest. It's pretty much the only spot in the game where I died multiple times.
Dictator93
Member
I agree that there is some link between creative works and the perpetuation of social negative values (Hello Jud Süß).
But there is also the compelling and simple argument that terror, horror, and angst (put on individuals by society, other individuals, ideologies, histories, etc) are more interesting to read about than stories that do not have these things.
I still think the sexism on the production side of games is a more interesting and critical path than the sexism found in game's stories.
plasmawave
Banned
There's this one point of interest in White Orachard that I can't figure out what to do.
It's one of the "occupied area" or whatever it's called where there's a rock statue and flowers and stuff but nothing is around that area.
It's one of the "occupied area" or whatever it's called where there's a rock statue and flowers and stuff but nothing is around that area.
From what I gathered, they were
delicious
Hmmm, there are still a ton of those. I guess I have some questionmarking to do...
truestatic
Member
Leave and come back, or meditate. There should be a group of ghouls around it, but they don't always show up when you first arrive.
How is it godlike when you are playing defensive and playing a waiting game?
I am playing on Death March, and the active shield is literally useless.
The best defense is the best offense.
plasmawave
Banned
Thanks, I will try that.
I turned those off because I wanted my exploration to be organic, but now that I'm seeing how large Velen I think I should turn them back on. I'm going to miss a lot of stuff without them.
I just think using some of these tropes are lazy writing.
Now, I realize CDPR are kind of trapped in a few things because of the source material. And then I also forgive some things because it's obvious Andrej and them were both heavily trying to get a realistic time period fantasy with spritzes of Polish mythology.
But I think they failed in a few things. The end of the Whoreson Junior was rather problematic to me.
They literally used women's bodies to make you dislike him. It's like they couldn't think of anything else and said hey let's just throw in some dead women!
I was going to turn them off too but yeah, Velen is huge and there's no way I was going to discover them on my own.
Moff
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what the fuck at the super dark turn in thequest?Cabaret
yeah I thought that, too. could easily have been done with another character
is this somehow related to
who you choose as the actress for the princess in the play?
I want some health I use the shield, how is that not godlike? I'll play the way I want to play, which happens to be reckless and aggressive. So having regen with the shield is godlike. How you much worth it has to you doesn't really matter. Useless for you? Sorry to hear it.
CarbonFire
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I've got one of those crazy mice with 10 buttons (<3 G502), but I've had good luck with this layout:
Mouse 1: Light Attack
Mouse 2: Heavy Attack
Mouse 3: Witcher Vision
Mouse 4: Bombs/Utility
Mouse 5: Lock-on
Mouse Thumb Button: Block/Parry
Mouse 6: Item 1
Mouse 7: Item 2
Everything else to default, except F for "use", because that's where "use" should always be. With so many different functions on the mouse, it saves my left hand up for movement and spell casting.
He was a crazy serial killer who liked killing women. How is it lazy writing for there to be dead women there?
There's a place where the enemies you fight are called "cannibals", throughout their camp you can find chopped up bodies. Is that also lazy writing?
There's a place where the enemies you fight are called "cannibals", throughout their camp you can find chopped up bodies. Is that also lazy writing?
truestatic
Member
Most of that stuff in Velen IS disposable. You probably won't miss out on a great deal of value if you just rely on organic exploration, so long as you're pretty thorough. It's easy to burn yourself out on the question marks if you turn them on and start obsessing over them.
Emperor_Uriel
Member
Narrator is old Dandelion, presumably recounting Geralt's story decades after the events of the game. All of the bestiary/character/quest entries are written by him as well.
SkinnerSw33t
Member
Active shield does increase DPS because it lets you sit in the pocket and not have to dodge.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
Man, I suck at Gwent.
I generally believe that context matters (actually my main problem with a lot of Sarkeesian's work is how often she overlooks context in order to make a point, but that's a whole other discussion). There's a clear difference to me between something like Duke Nukem Forever, where sexism is pictured positively as being fun and "manly", and The Witcher which does contain sexism but never makes it look acceptable. With all the choice you get in the dialogue, I don't think there's a way to make Geralt sound like a sexist/racist asshole - I never came across such an option I think. In fact I'd go as far as saying that the way he treats everyone equally is one of his most important traits, that most set him apart from the rest of the world he lives in.
Bottom line, I never felt like playing a Duke Nukem game - as a woman, I feel like it's a "boys club" of sorts where I have no business going. And I really love The Witcher games' setting in a way - as much as I'd hate to live there.
Moff
Member
well my first and only real flaw in this game after 80 hours are the points of interest in skellige in the water. they are 100% useless shit.
now I commended this game for having really interesing open world points of interests earlier, and I still do, but all those "smuggled goods" POI's in skellige water, and there are about 50 of them, should have simply been cut. I understand you don't have to do them, and they probably served a purpose at one point in the game development when you actually had to discover all the islands yourself and couldnt just buy the quick travel points, and acted as some kind of diversity. but damn, that's just bad content and easily the game's worst content.
now I commended this game for having really interesing open world points of interests earlier, and I still do, but all those "smuggled goods" POI's in skellige water, and there are about 50 of them, should have simply been cut. I understand you don't have to do them, and they probably served a purpose at one point in the game development when you actually had to discover all the islands yourself and couldnt just buy the quick travel points, and acted as some kind of diversity. but damn, that's just bad content and easily the game's worst content.
Emperor_Uriel
Member
There are also plenty of quests where blindly siding with a beautiful woman comes back to bite you. Or where the woman feels patronized by your constant attempts to coddle her.
Major Spoilers:
Ciri, for example.
viveks86
Member
Minor Spoiler from Ladies in the Woods. It was a total "Holy shit" moment for me:
http://gifyu.com/images/witcher32015-05-3103-18-18.png
http://gifyu.com/images/witcher32015-05-3103-18-18.png
1.21Gigawatts
Banned
the sisters ate them. That was the whole point of the orphanage.
Alternate progression of the quest:
free the tree spirit and he'll save the kids but destroy the village. Also anna will be cursed by the sisters for failing to look after the kids. She'll turn into a water hag. You can eventually lift the curse. She says goodbye to baron and tamara and then dies. Baron then goes ahead and hangs himself so you should get his gwent cards beforehand.
iNvid02
Member
Spawning back at Kaer Morhen completely empty was a little sad. It already feels as if choosing Yen/Triss didn't matter, post-game feels like the choice of Geralt being a lone monster hunter has come to pass.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Ha, this Ladies of the Wood quest is pretty cool. Made me feel like I was in Blair Witch for a moment there
As much as I have enjoyed this game so far, there are some really annoying design choices.
Things like ekimmara hide are limited as the monsters that drop it don't respawn, so you can't upgrade every decoction and oil. People will end up using the hides without realising they are limited, or know they are limited and save them for later and never use them.
I have 1 ekimmara hide so far, which I know I will never end up using as I either have to settle on the upgrade recipes I have currently or wait until I find more. So I will probably just end up completing the game without using them.
Things like ekimmara hide are limited as the monsters that drop it don't respawn, so you can't upgrade every decoction and oil. People will end up using the hides without realising they are limited, or know they are limited and save them for later and never use them.
I have 1 ekimmara hide so far, which I know I will never end up using as I either have to settle on the upgrade recipes I have currently or wait until I find more. So I will probably just end up completing the game without using them.
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
The problem is, you don't know he likes killing women before you get to his hideout. It could've been anything, but they just took the easy way of making you hate him. I personally think it would've been better if they took the women-killing stuff out, and just left you with the choice of snitching him to Dijkstra, or keeping his secret. Dat twist was really heavy-handed, and unnecessary.
His Majesty
Banned
Turn the PoI's off is all I can say. It's nice to sometimes stumble upon them but I can see how hunting down all question marks a la Ubisoft style would be frustrating filler.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Holy shit I don't know what they did with the fight music but it's fantastic right now.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
On the contrary, I found that I was actually doing only the quests that I wanted to because I cared about their story. If it was scaling XP, I might be running around trying to level up forever. Without the XP, I'm playing what I want to play for the intrinsic reward thereof.
indigo-cyclops
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I have
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
I just stumbled up on it. Is it worth doing?
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