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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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When wife comes to bar looking for you XD [WO spoiler don't look if you are still in WO]
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Witcher Contracts and some of the bigger sidequests give a lot of XP too.
Finished the Return to Crockbag quest. (spoilers)
Knew that it was possibility but thought I was faring pretty well and will not get the baron suicide end game. Can't say I feel much for him though. Is it possible to save Anna ? Damn dark spirit of the forest. Thought he would be a bit more benign being. If the Crones weren't so hideous I would have killed you !
Agreed here. I'd argue that books/notes should actually become part of a new codex tab when read for better reference. No real need to have them as inventory items at all outside of the quest-specific ones. A shame they clog up the consumable list.
Not sure if you knew, but Right stick will zoom you back and forth between the left and right side of inventory lists(such as switching quickly between your inventory and a vendors). Strangely this is not listed on the controls at the bottom of the screen which is why most miss it.
Kind of wish that you can freely customize the radial wheel slots at will. Highlight one of the six slots and open a menu with instant access to bombs/potions/items. Breaking it up into pairs and forcing you to comb through inventory to swap is totally unnecessary and inefficient. A weird oversight.
Not a bad idea, but really just having them just make better use of the radial menu would be a nice fix for that stuff too.
Mad Season
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Could someone photoshop out all the words etc.. and just leave in the cast of members? it would be great for wallpaper!
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No.
orthodoxy1095
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In regards to Ciri and Whoreson Junior:
Holyyyy crap her special power is awesomeeeee.
Summer Haze
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Palette Swap
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2015 award of creative swearing right there.
Huevos de Oro
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I find the boat addition to be something neat, but I'm still unsure about its usefulness. I mean, besides reaching your destination a wee bit faster than if you swam there? I've found myself in need to reach some place in the middle of a body of water, and most of the times it's easier and faster to dive in and swim than to find some boat. If I use swift swim or whatever it's called (shift) no monster can catch up to me anyway.
Unless things change as you level up and move forward with the story and new areas and monsters show up.
Unless things change as you level up and move forward with the story and new areas and monsters show up.
LookAtMeGo
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This is good news, my eyes are shit.
link1201
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Sailing has been my go to ....love it.
Saw a loading screen say that you can use Fast Travel whenever you're in a boat, rather than riding to a crossroad point.
It captures the feeling of traveling across the wild countryside better than anything I have ever played. It also captures that 'old world' feeling better as well, despite being fantasy.
it's not your eyes most likely if you're playing on say a 50" screen at 8-10 feet back (normal for most games) it's just too damn small to read.
Newtype-001
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I dont have the game yet but that thread title makes me smile.
I realized how big this was last night when I realized I've spent more time in it than most entire open world games and I haven't even set foot in Skellige yet and that the Wild Hunt, who the game is named after, has only made a couple brief appearances.
Not Spaceghost
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Yeah the moment when I held down Q and I saw what it did I lost my shit for a good 15 seconds, I want a whole game where you play as Ciri.
Veritigo_X
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My eyes aren't shit, but this game does a good job at making me feel like they are. Especially when I read that there are people with no problems with the font size...
They are scattered in the various villages. I usually just head to one of the cities for crafting though.
LookAtMeGo
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Im like 5 feet from a 50. It is indeed too small but my eyes are shit. My one eye anyway. I can read it if I close my right eye. I need glasses.
Huevos de Oro
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YES! Team Keira represent! Love her.
well the main reason is you can't fast travel on a whim - you have to get to a signpost. At least for me.
Not Spaceghost
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I've had the quest to find a boat to skellige for ages now but I can't bring myself to go until I finish up everything in novigrad.
I know what you mean, man. Prepare for your jaw to drop even more whenever you decide to make the trip Skellige. The game just keeps growing and stunning me with it's beauty and sense of exploration. God, I have a ton to get back to just in Skellige alone.
You shouldn't just rely on Quen and Ingni as generic CC. Some creatures are weaker versus other signs such as Axii and Quen and Ingni are largely ineffective.
Wraiths, for instance, use Axii to incapacitate one while you deal with the others.
The rest is golden.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I feel what could be game's greatest accomplishment and what really defines its identity is its classic novella approach approach to many side quests, narrative driven within the scope of a freely playable open world ARPG. Quests almost if not always discard traditional video game structuring and instead adopt the idea of short story literature, where our story begins with an unfortunate predicament or even the protagonist doing something routine, which then leads to a story often different from how it began. The latter path is especially wonderful in the context of a video game where game systems and objectives are typically predictable, the best examples here being when you embark on (either willingly or accidentally) a monster contract, because that's what Witchers do, and that develops in unexpected ways or leads into a new quest arc that has nothing to do with the original contract.
As a fantasy ARPG the success of this presentation and quest structuring goes a long way to making the journey memorable, as it prevents you from picking up quests just because you want to rise through the ranks of some guild, acquire some item, grind XP, or work towards some unlock or bonus. Playing Wild Hunt is like having a tomb of short stories you're accidentally stumbling upon.
As a fantasy ARPG the success of this presentation and quest structuring goes a long way to making the journey memorable, as it prevents you from picking up quests just because you want to rise through the ranks of some guild, acquire some item, grind XP, or work towards some unlock or bonus. Playing Wild Hunt is like having a tomb of short stories you're accidentally stumbling upon.
Yea, her arc was great.
Swordsmith is in the Baron's fort. Human woman standing right next to the dwarf armorsmith. I missed her myself the first time I visited.
lol. this reminds me of DA3 and "leave the damn Hinterlands"
LOL
I ended up
killing her. She wanted to take the research and sell it, and i just could not have that fall into the wrong hands. My brother said he sent her with the Witchers.
Thug Life.
Expert wording of my favorite aspect of the game. Everything is it's own story and is contextualized in a way that makes sense for Geralt to take his time to do them.
YankeeDonB
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Oh man, so after kicking it with Triss
Looks like there's going to be some major awkwardness down the road a bit!
in Novigrad Geralt professed his deepest feelings for her, and sent her off to the Witcher Keep. But... he already sent Keira there, and still has his thing for Yen too. Is this shaping up to be an anime harem comedy?
W00t! Now release the patches from certification Sony/MS...
like i said in the other thread
fuck
Wish I had 1/3rd of the time like that to play it.....over the next 2 months...LOL.
Probably be lucky to get in 15-20 hours by the end of July.
She opens up a "bubble", and anyone inside the bubble, she'll do a teleport sword slash, at multiple enemies" Think like Nightcrawler with a sword.
Same here. I've put in close to 60 hours, which by that time I was wrapping up DA:I, yet in this game, I'm less than half way through with a ton of high level quests in my questlog.
Been thinking the same thoughts while playing.
Goddammit I didn't realize there was anything new. Wish those sections were more than five minutes long. Too short and I love playing them.
Yeah, I have a rather long list of quests in Skellige, plus more I have not found. Not to even mention all of the hidden treasures and such. Saying it is smaller kind of sells it short.
Huevos de Oro
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Completely, absolutely agreed.
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