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[The Witcher Thread] HEARTS OF STONE xp out 13/10/15. Comes with 2 physical gwent decks
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And yeah, that means I think a lot of the other large decisions shouldn't have been a choice. Geralt is a very unique personality with a LOT of background to him. His choices should match that, and shouldn't be about what we want to see. I love the games, but I do think CDPR dropped the ball with adding so much choice.
If they had just been okay with telling a specific story with Geralt and leaving the choices with just the side items and quests and optional stuff, the story would've been even MORE amazing. And it was pretty fucking amazing as is.
Confess, you monster!
No offense, but screw that. :twisted: Give me all the choices. There are plenty of games out there on rails; I've always liked the ones with alternate endings. W3 ending
I'm about Betty/Veronica, together (no Archie, he's with Jughead). If that makes me a monster, then rawr, baby.
That said, Triss/Yennifer would be fucking terrifying and any Geralt that angles for that particular triforce is an idiot.
Books:
Geralt is not cause-minded, he is family-minded. He thought Yennefer had betrayed Ciri because he didn't know Triss even had the information, and he was preparing himself to kill Yen because he was under the impression she had gotten Ciri killed. When he heard she might be alive, he was fully prepared to torture a guy to get information on another guy who might have a lead on where Ciri was; when a witch told him to step aside and let her handle things, he did, knowing that it would probably break the guy's mind and not caring.
Yen is actually softer than Geralt is, in most ways. In spite of everything she breaks and is willing to destroy to get her daughter back, her risks are more calculated than Geralt's ever are; it's why what happened on Skellige didn't end up mattering too much to Geralt or Yen.
The two of them are basically wolves looking to protect what's theirs.
And, you know
Triss has betrayed Geralt at least twice, in the most fundamental ways possible
Geralt even tells the other witchers who are getting pissed at Yen that they can go to Triss if things don't work out with Yen, but the opposite isn't true because Yen is crazy and jealous. Who throws a perfectly good bed off the balcony?
But the instant chemistry between Geralt and Yen in the first scene they share in private, the way Geralt's body language changes when he's around her, is also a pretty clear indicator that that's where his real attraction is. It was actually jarring enough for some people coming out of Witcher 2 that it made their choices feel kind of marginalized in that Yen was clearly the canon romance
That kinda seems like suicide.
In the first game Geralt wakes up with amnesia (after escaping the wild hunt whom he joined to save Yen) and then Triss attempts (and may or may not succeed) to seduce Geralt in that bed... With the purpose of abusing the amnesia to make Geralt believe that she was the woman he had loved all along.
Having played the past Witcher games, I get it...but I can totally understand how someone who only played Witcher 3 would think Triss was the superior choice.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Raven haired women drive me crazy on the other hand.
People ascribe character traits to hair color all the time, though. "Firey redhead." "Blondes have more fun," etc.
They needed to balance the scales from how fun & hilarious the dead man's party was.
Yeah, HoS really rides a high note for its final third or so.
And that's without delving into the Runecrafting stuff. What's the final balance on investing the coin into that? I'm done the main game plus HoS, and I'm sitting on about $20k cash - is it worth it to blow that to upgrade the rune merchant, or do I save it for B&W?
I regretted blowing 50K on upgrading a bunch of mastercrafted witcher sets I could only use one of at a time (and ended up not using at all after I got the vampire plate mail in B&W), instead of funding runecrafting that I would always use. I ended up taking like three sessions of gameplay time to harvest smuggler's caches in Skellige to get the cash to get the runes maxed out. It was quite boring.
There's no mixing and matching between Steam and GOG right?
Which way did you go with that? Final decision was easy for me (the one before that less so), but I've heard a surprising diversity on people's feelings on it after the fact.
Well, I'm going to get him to the first level ($5k) and see what's up I think, and likely start Blood and Wine before sinking any more into him. From what I hear, B&W has its own gold sinks too so I might need to be selective. Unless I go farming in Skellige.
The Grandmaster gear is really really expensive. Buying the mats to make a full set can probably run 30k+ at least.
I wouldn't blame him for taking the check instead of royalties considering that he was dealing with an unproven developer that absolutely no one would have guessed will have blown up like it did. After all, you're not going to be courting EA with this property, where you can expect the big bucks, so you mind as well get some upfront cash from these people.
Hindsight, 20/20, and all.
Yes, you have ignorant people who confuse the origins of the series, but a literate and competent individual can do the proper investigating to find out about the books; I'd imagine those folks would be his audience anyways; not those looking for a quick $1 read.
If W3 was a tv series, I'd absolutely say the choice was clear.
But i think the game aspect of the story is really what shifts many folks over to triss. The game places us in geralt's boots and asks us to make any number of decisions that have an impact on all sorts of stuff, including geralt's personality, his relationships with others, and even their personalities.
With that freedom, and being able to "live" the experience of yen vs triss, it's pretty obvious how toxic their relationship is. It's not unexpected that many people would choose not to continue it.
Basically, i think triss vs yen is about how you'd rather watch geralt be with yen, but you'd rather be geralt with triss.
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Also for anyone has been holding off on buying Witcher 3 GOTY or the Season Pass or any other Witcher games on Steam, they're on a nice discount till Thursday.
Time to finish Skelliga (or whatever the hell it was) I guess. Was gonna do Andromeda before coming back to W3 but eh, feels like it could use a few patches first.
(Sale is on until 3/31 if you want to let your friends know)