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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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Won the Gwent tournament last night. The third match was the first game I had lost in around 30-40 hours or so. He managed to destroy my substantial lead with two scorch cards and the card that destroys your highest scoring close combat card (if the total is over ten). I swear he cheated. I had to load an earlier save and beat the second and third contestants again. The last round was very easy though.
ChubbleDucks
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No, Molly the Chambermaid is the best girl ever
Was my original intent, but I gave up after a while.
It can make things uselessly complcated.
Playing with minimap + no POI, is a good trade off for my needs.
Dark_castle
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You're about 2/10 into the game.
Turin Turambar
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3/4.
Have a specialized merchant that collects monster heads then or a rich guy that likes having animal heads on his walls.
dragonelite
Member
Im also wondering how much harder DeathMarch is compared to Broken bones.
You can only win 1 card from a single person. For the 2nd/3rd/... matches they just give some ingredients/consumables.
And, yes, they draw from a pool that eventually runs out. At that point, the only way to get new cards is to find merchants who sell them and/or play characters that give cards in various other situations (mostly gwent-focused quests but at least one quest has nothing to do with gwent but rewards you with a card anyway).
Denton
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Yeah I agree Triss is a good person on the whole and I like her very much, but from Yen's perspective, what she did is not something that can be made up for
I am very curious about their interaction, I assume Triss will also come help to
Kaer Morhen to fight.
Admiral Woofington
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If there's a new game plus you'll find out.
ScepticMatt
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I can't jump this ledge? Ridiculous! There are two plebs going up and down on this roof.
(obvious invisible wall)
Well, traversal in general could use some work..
(obvious invisible wall)
Well, traversal in general could use some work..
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I don't know how anyone could just start this game again immediately. I'm in Skellige and must admit I'm running out of steam. Not going to play another rpg (especially fantasy based) for a good long while aftertthis game. It's great, obviously, but I always hit a wall in these very long games where my interest starts to faulter.
Turin Turambar
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I wonder why people can't notice the REAL reason Triss didn't mention Yen to Geralt in The Witcher 1.
It was the same reason she didn't mention anything else, as she knew Geralt from years before. She could have tell him a lot about himself.
The real reason is... because the same reason Geralt had amnesia in first place. It was done not because of narrative reasons, but because GAME reasons: To start as a blank slate for the player. To avoid all the complex past characters and relationships from the books. To not infodump the player just as the start of the game, and make their own new story.
It was an excuse for game developers to make new presentations of characters that Geralt already know, like Zoltan or Dandelion. etc etc
It was the same reason she didn't mention anything else, as she knew Geralt from years before. She could have tell him a lot about himself.
The real reason is... because the same reason Geralt had amnesia in first place. It was done not because of narrative reasons, but because GAME reasons: To start as a blank slate for the player. To avoid all the complex past characters and relationships from the books. To not infodump the player just as the start of the game, and make their own new story.
It was an excuse for game developers to make new presentations of characters that Geralt already know, like Zoltan or Dandelion. etc etc
I can't jump this ledge? Ridiculous! There are two plebs going up and down on this roof.
(obvious invisible wall)
Well, traversal in general could use some work..
The fuck? This looks terrible. Is there a mobile version of the game I am not aware of?
LonelyGreyWolf
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If you look in the bottom right you'll see that he's on a computer. He/she just has a weak PC and is playing on the lowest settings.
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Was this really necessary?
No one deserves cheap shots either.
This is a really good review of the game (http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2015/06/08/the-witcher-3-review/1) and then again, this is there :"Also, while racism has been a major theme of the Witcher since the first game, literally every person you come across, whether elf, dwarf, or human, is white-skinned. I don't think this is malicious, given CDProjekt's nuanced portrayal of the treatment of non-human races, but it is a pretty big oversight on their part."... like, really? And suddenly I have no words for them..
dragonelite
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I'm planning to do a second playthrough on deathmarch, as soon as i finish Broken bones one.
But if its only hard the first 5 levels i might just wait till new game plus is available.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
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So, at level 11, I bought my way to the Skel islands without meeting
in Novi... I dun goofed? Or, is it cool I skipped a bit forward. I think Skel mission recommendation was 17, and Novi was 11.
Also, when I got to the island, the dude who was looking to
... I cut him in half after he started speaking ill of
. Now I'm half expecting everyone on the island will be trying to kill me.
Triss
Also, when I got to the island, the dude who was looking to
rob me of my jewelry while I was passed out on the shore
Yen
Denton
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Yes, this is true, hence why TW1 is least consistent with books and a bit fanfictiony, unlike its sequels.
Still, from the narrative standpoint it doesnt change anything. What happened, happened.
Denton
Member
Yes, very much in great detail. Their first meeting is a bit turbulent, to say the least
.Sadly it's missing a lot of tracks.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Was listening to it long before the game even came out. You're missing the best songs on the soundtrack as well, such as "The Sword of Destiny" (it's on Youtube).
And some important characters don't have their own tracks/themes, which is kinda weird IMO
Yes, the first book's titular short story tells how they met. There is a lot kind of left unsaid about the relationship throughout the books though.
Yep.
I love the shift toward Slavic folk roots, it fits very well the mood and the soul of the project.
Collaborating with Percival was a neat move:
https://youtu.be/ZfJ-LTnDZ6w
And I'm loving also every rearrangement of the classic Witcher theme.
I've been trying to find the Frankfurt theme that plays in the game but without the singing. Music is soo good.
So I know CDPR is a polish developer but was the script for this game originally written in English? If not the localisation team did an incredible job. Honestly this game has some of the best writing of any I've played, which considering just how much of it there is is even more impressive.
Yes!!
Can't get this one out of my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RINIEb3qktk
The theme of the Crones is also fantastic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8J9HXcOxrs
YankeeDonB
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Agreed. And this is from someone who found the writing in Witcher 2 pretty blah.
If that's the guy I'm thinking of (In Velen), here's the resolution for that quest:
You eventually run into him again outside of Novigrad, but he's with a gang of men who are killing random passerbys who don't pay a fee. It was a really gruesome sight, with a man pierced with a wagon spoke. I had no choice but to kill him and his gang.
The short story book The Last Wish covers all the meeting with Yen. It also referenced in this game a few times they way CDPR have handled book plots and characters is pretty incredible
Well then.
Glad I left him there then. I figured he'd turn out to be a series killer or something, which isn't too far off I guess.
The Last Wish book (short version of the short story) can be found from
Triss' room lol
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