Funny thing that only just hit me about the Wild Hunt
The elven race they belong to are called the Alder Folk, and it was driving me nuts where I had heard that specific tree mentioned in a folkloric context
And then I remembered my Goethe!
And realized that this means Eredin is Der Erlkönig
helped Eskel with the Forktail and Lambert with the phylactery.
How far into the game am I now? I've finished the majority of the Velen, Novigrad and Skellige side quests outside of the gwent and racing stuff and a few Skellige contracts.
You're in Act 2.
To be a bit more specific, if you're done the majority of the sidequests up to Ugly Baby then you're probably about 70% done with the game, give or take
Funny thing that only just hit me about the Wild Hunt
The elven race they belong to are called the Alder Folk, and it was driving me nuts where I had heard that specific tree mentioned in a folkloric context
And then I remembered my Goethe!
And realized that this means Eredin is Der Erlkönig
And the previous king was Oberon. Whic is either a Shakespeare reference or a Zelazny reference. Or both.
I don't get the fast travel complaint. There are tons of signposts everywhere.
one thing is it destroys immersion, because you are often forced to run in the opposite direction of your goal to get to the nearest signpost that lets you teleport closer to the objective
which makes no sense in the world, only in its arbitrary game mechanics
How can anything that covers up those guns be called an enhancement?
They should have just gone full fantasy armour logic with it and make each improved version cover less and less until it's just two gloves and the pendant.
I kinda wish I knew that second spoiler before I went and did Triss' stuff last night.
But Yen's actions during the nameless quests rubbed me the wrong way so hard that I immediately left the Isles and went to talk to Triss.
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Like... (Nameless/The Calm before the Storm)
I get why Yen was in a hurry and all that. But I'm so not down with using someone else's powerful religious site as a battery to talk to a dead guy and also necromancy is pretty fucked up! That corpse was screaming!
Starting to enjoy this a fair bit; it has way too many quests. Like, they're fun and all, but there are too many? There are too many.
The fast travel continues to annoy. Summon horse, ride to nearest signpost, dismount, travel to signpost nearest quest marker, call horse, ride to objective. Yoooooooo. Yo. That is not okay.
I kinda wish I knew that second spoiler before I went and did Triss' stuff last night.
But Yen's actions during the nameless quests rubbed me the wrong way so hard that I immediately left the Isles and went to talk to Triss.
yes betgirl
join us
Like... (Nameless/The Calm before the Storm)
I get why Yen was in a hurry and all that. But I'm so not down with using someone else's powerful religious site as a battery to talk to a dead guy and also necromancy is pretty fucked up! That corpse was screaming!
Fuck all of it, no thank you, check please
bad parent opinions
Eh
I was very much not into it.
I get the "do anything for your kids" argument, but I'm gonna draw the line at resurrecting the dead and destroying a community's religious gardens.
I rarely use horses and boats. The Witcher 3 is a run/walk/swim game for me. The racing is soo bad.
I think the Encumbrance system is bad though. Even with the best saddlebags, I'm generally rolling with 144/160 when I sell my excess items.
Meaning, I'm carrying an extra set of witcher gear and the rest of it is ".01" individually weighted crafting supplies.
I can't pick up much loot, even with the fiend decoction bumping the weight maximum up to 180.
There really should be storage somewhere.
I kinda wish I knew that second spoiler before I went and did Triss' stuff last night.
But Yen's actions during the nameless quests rubbed me the wrong way so hard that I immediately left the Isles and went to talk to Triss.
yes betgirl
join us
Like... (Nameless/The Calm before the Storm)
I get why Yen was in a hurry and all that. But I'm so not down with using someone else's powerful religious site as a battery to talk to a dead guy and also necromancy is pretty fucked up! That corpse was screaming!
Fuck all of it, no thank you, check please
bad parent opinions
Eh
I was very much not into it.
I get the "do anything for your kids" argument, but I'm gonna draw the line at resurrecting the dead and destroying a community's religious gardens.
I kinda wish I knew that second spoiler before I went and did Triss' stuff last night.
But Yen's actions during the nameless quests rubbed me the wrong way so hard that I immediately left the Isles and went to talk to Triss.
yes betgirl
join us
Like... (Nameless/The Calm before the Storm)
I get why Yen was in a hurry and all that. But I'm so not down with using someone else's powerful religious site as a battery to talk to a dead guy and also necromancy is pretty fucked up! That corpse was screaming!
Fuck all of it, no thank you, check please
bad parent opinions
Eh
I was very much not into it.
I get the "do anything for your kids" argument, but I'm gonna draw the line at resurrecting the dead and destroying a community's religious gardens.
Ciri isn't just a kid though, she is far more important than a single shrine to Freya.
It's absolutely understandable that the community would tell you to fuck off for that though. Not everyone knows the potential danger of Ciri's power.
Is the way Eredin talks all that good shit about fighting Geralt. He ain't scared of Geralt, he's got this witcher shit PEGGED, bring it on you pale little man
And by this point you're so beefed out on various things - and maybe you are running archgriffin decoction, like me - that the boss fight itself is a cakewalk because it can't be anything else
And the designers know it. In the cutscene that ends the fight Geralt is practically toying with him while Eredin is fighting for his life, he goes in for a serious blow and Geralt does the very sort of maneuver Eredin made fun of and takes out his god damn eye, and with the same nonchalance stabs him through the god damn chest
It was never a question of who was going to win that fight, because Eredin is an inter-dimensional wizard king motherfucker, but Geralt is Geralt and you're not going to be able to kill Geralt in a sword fight
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And then I remembered my Goethe!
And realized that this means Eredin is Der Erlkönig
To be a bit more specific, if you're done the majority of the sidequests up to Ugly Baby then you're probably about 70% done with the game, give or take
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which makes no sense in the world, only in its arbitrary game mechanics
He's from Sweden, that's kinda close to Poland! Good enough!
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How can anything that covers up those guns be called an enhancement?
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They should have just gone full fantasy armour logic with it and make each improved version cover less and less until it's just two gloves and the pendant.
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But it has a Tactleneck!
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They are such dorks
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bad parent opinions
The fast travel continues to annoy. Summon horse, ride to nearest signpost, dismount, travel to signpost nearest quest marker, call horse, ride to objective. Yoooooooo. Yo. That is not okay.
Eh
I was very much not into it.
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I think the Encumbrance system is bad though. Even with the best saddlebags, I'm generally rolling with 144/160 when I sell my excess items.
Meaning, I'm carrying an extra set of witcher gear and the rest of it is ".01" individually weighted crafting supplies.
I can't pick up much loot, even with the fiend decoction bumping the weight maximum up to 180.
There really should be storage somewhere.
also the turtleneck on feline armor looks dumb as hell
full Neeson, no exceptions
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It's absolutely understandable that the community would tell you to fuck off for that though. Not everyone knows the potential danger of Ciri's power.
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And by this point you're so beefed out on various things - and maybe you are running archgriffin decoction, like me - that the boss fight itself is a cakewalk because it can't be anything else
And the designers know it. In the cutscene that ends the fight Geralt is practically toying with him while Eredin is fighting for his life, he goes in for a serious blow and Geralt does the very sort of maneuver Eredin made fun of and takes out his god damn eye, and with the same nonchalance stabs him through the god damn chest
It was never a question of who was going to win that fight, because Eredin is an inter-dimensional wizard king motherfucker, but Geralt is Geralt and you're not going to be able to kill Geralt in a sword fight
Maybe he should've been in charge
Should've thought of a cool voice changing helmet, buddy
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....also I kind of want a reason to make a Cerys costume because she is neat-o
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But, fortunately for Skellige, what the Witcher universe needs is to break from as many traditions as possible
The two announced expansions are supposed to be 10 and 20 hours long
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