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Toadsniff posted:There's probably quite a few nerds who don't like originality and like wasting incredible talent on derivatives that would love this idea. You realize the witcher is also a novel series right?
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Toadsniff posted:There's probably quite a few nerds who don't like originality and like wasting incredible talent on derivatives that would love this idea. While I don't watch or read Thrones, both The Witcher and Cyberpunk were established IPs before CDPR got to them.
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Jun 6, 2014 20:38
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Novel that no one read, a pen & paper game no one played, and the other has a huge tv series made after it. It's kinda like saying "Boy I wish CDPR made a Lord of the Ring game, that'd be swell!"
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Jun 6, 2014 20:42
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That Wild Hunt guy they focus on has real sweet looking and detailed armor. It looks similar to what Kentaro Miura of Berserk fame would draw. 
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Toadsniff posted:Novel that no one read, a pen & paper game no one played, and the other has a huge tv series made after it. It's kinda like saying "Boy I wish CDPR made a Lord of the Ring game, that'd be swell!" No, it's not. Tonally, there's some similarities between ASoIaF and The Witcher which means that it's reasonable to think a GoT video game by CDPR would be good. Lord of the Rings is about as far as you can get from the tone of those two while still being fantasy, and grim-and-gritting it up would not work (see also: the new not-Assassin's-Creed LotR game). There's no reason to think a CDPR ASoIaF game would be any worse than The Witcher game by dint of also being an adaptation, basically.
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Is Aryan La Valette's torture confession a genuine confession or a lie under duress (although I don't see how that would help Foltest)?
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theDOWmustflow posted:Is Aryan La Valette's torture confession a genuine confession or a lie under duress theDOWmustflow posted:(although I don't see how that would help Foltest)?
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Lycus posted:Well, he's dead. The lie helps the nobles who are arguing over who gets to inherit the throne if Foltest has no children who can. Yeah basically once Foltest bites it there is a huge conspiracy kicked off by some of the nobles to seize power/the throne for themselves. Foltest's bastards are a bit problematic in that regard so if they can be discredited itd help their cause greatly. Its possible Foltest never meant to honor his promise to treat Aryan with honor if he surrendered, though Foltest would probably have been more likely to straight up execute him for treason rather than torture him for shits and giggles, plus the confession only hurts Foltest as unless you import a save with Adda alive his line would end with his death if he doesnt acknowledge his bastards. Also if you kill Aryan then the Baroness LaVellete is being tortured and one thing you learn about Foltest is that despite their rather rocky relationship Foltest would never harm her.
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Not that CDPR wouldn't be perfect for an ASOIAF game, but licensing rights with HBO or GRRMs publisher would probably be extremely costly. Better that they use somewhat lesser known IPs that come cheaper and save their money for actual game development than spending it on the newly popular IP. Plus telltale is already making a GoT game. I'd rather CDPR make one about pirates. There hasn't been a pirate RPG since like, the last Sid Meyers one. (I don't count black flag since 40% of the game was spent talking about space aliens.)
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There's already a GOT RPG. The story is supposed to be decent but the gameplay is a bit clunky.
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COOKIEMONSTER posted:Plus telltale is already making a GoT game. I'd rather CDPR make one about pirates. There hasn't been a pirate RPG since like, the last Sid Meyers one. (I don't count black flag since 40% of the game was spent talking about space aliens.) Risen 2 - Dark Waters
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Unfortunately, it's somewhat flawed. I still beat it, because I've beat all Piranha Bytes games, but this was definitely not their best game. You should play the first Risen first and if you like that, play Risen 2 and use muskets as your weapon of choice. They're simply the only non-wonky combat style.
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They should keep the trend and make a game about Mordimer Madderdin, which would be even less accessible to most people, because author (Jacek Piekara) is right-wing, misogynistic and crazy as gently caress and is unlikely to have any of his books translated. Short description of book world: Christ died on a cross, but then a demon entered his body, left cross, massacred most of Jerusalem and set himself up as an emperor. Fast forward 1500ish years, action takes place in ultra-theocratic Holy Roman Empire, inquisitors are doing their stuff Torquemada style, but many of them also have some limited magical powers (more like rituals). One of covers Serious answer: I think they should just make their own world for other projects, or use Witcher's world but in different time/place. Maybe a game about advent of gunpowder with character from some other background, where witchers are distant memory.
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I absolutely love the references to the first game in the trailer, the King of the Wild Hunt's spiel about choices and greater evil is pretty much taken verbatim from TW1. I do hope we get to revisit Vizima and the Outskirts, considering where we're gonna meet the emperor. Also holy crap, noonwraiths! The heat of the day was my favorite quest. 
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Ice Fist posted:I don't think there was an outfit I truly hated in W2. They were all awesome.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rjI1zjaSUE
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Toadsniff posted:Novel that no one read, a pen & paper game no one played, and the other has a huge tv series made after it. It's kinda like saying "Boy I wish CDPR made a Lord of the Ring game, that'd be swell!" Uh, The Witcher books are extremely popular in Poland which is CD Projekt's home country. Just because it's almost unheard of here doesn't mean it's not well known elsewhere. RagnarokAngel fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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mcbexx posted:Am I the only one wishing CD Project would make a Game of Thrones game after watching the Wild Hunt trailer? People has said that sine The Witcher's 2007 game so no, you aren't exactly the only one.
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When they did the zoom in on the group of witchers in that trailer, one looked pretty beefy. Wonder if it could have been Letho? That would own. It was just the guy's arm in the shot, no head or anything.
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Is it worth playing on Dark difficulty for the unique items while using the combat rebalance mod? I tried playing it a year or 2 ago and quit about 15 hours in because I was tired of getting killed in combat by stupid poo poo but the mod seems to fix all of that edit: just going to play through on normal Mustang fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Mustang posted:Is it worth playing on Dark difficulty for the unique items while using the combat rebalance mod? I tried playing it a year or 2 ago and quit about 15 hours in because I was tired of getting killed in combat by stupid poo poo but the mod seems to fix all of that The unique items are just armor and weapons to make Dark mode not as hard.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Uh, The Witcher books are extremely popular in Poland which is CD Projekt's home country. Just because it's almost unheard of here doesn't mean it's not well known elsewhere. I only just read the rest of his comment and  at describing CP2020 as "a pen and paper RPG no one has played," too.
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Toadsniff posted:Novel that no one read, a pen & paper game no one played, and the other has a huge tv series made after it. It's kinda like saying "Boy I wish CDPR made a Lord of the Ring game, that'd be swell!" I agree, a Lord of the Rings game done by a really details-oriented studio like CDPR would be really interesting.
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Lycus posted:Well, he's dead. The lie helps the nobles who are arguing over who gets to inherit the throne if Foltest has no children who can. SpRahl posted:Yeah basically once Foltest bites it there is a huge conspiracy kicked off by some of the nobles to seize power/the throne for themselves. Foltest's bastards are a bit problematic in that regard so if they can be discredited itd help their cause greatly. Oh, duh, right. For some reason I'd assumed that Foltest issued the order first. This also makes La Valette going out in a blaze of glory more sensible (honorable, even) instead of melodramatic and video-game-cheesy. On another note, I'm a little bit miffed at all the traits I've apparently missed by picking the wrong conversation options in the course of the game. The two big ones I just missed are Haggling when negotiating with the Kayran merchant guy (-20% on merchant shop prices) and Resists Magic (+20% magic resistance) by choosing the sex scene option in the Elf Ruin with Triss. The way the latter ability is gained could imply that Triss is/attempting to magically manipulate Geralt. Is this what's actually happening? Lastly, I finally found a functioning Witcher 2 respec mod. I've scoured the net for this badboy but the the only reference I've found is a blog post with a broken link. quote:HOW TO USE I've uploaded it here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/h5zzk7erh996k0d/gqWitcher2RespecMod.zip
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Mustang posted:Is it worth playing on Dark difficulty for the unique items while using the combat rebalance mod? I tried playing it a year or 2 ago and quit about 15 hours in because I was tired of getting killed in combat by stupid poo poo but the mod seems to fix all of that Apparently the combat rebalance mod breaks a lot of things that you'll notice later in the game. The comment sections for the mod on sites its uploaded on are rife with bug reports, even game breaking ones.
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I would just not worry about getting the traits, they're just little surprises that pop up every once in a while.theDOWmustflow posted:The way the latter ability is gained could imply that Triss is/attempting to magically manipulate Geralt. Is this what's actually happening? Lycus fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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The Witcher 3 on pre-order sale for 10% but on the Steam store page it was 20% off. I'm guessing this is a glitch? Either way, I'm really excited to play it. I recently started playing the first game, and I'm impressed with how amazing this game is. For something that came out in 2007, it looks fantastic, the dialogue, the music, the story, and how well the city is done in Chapter 2. I'm almost done with Chapter 2, but I heard the game is suppose to get even better in the next chapters.
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Mad Pino Rage posted:The Witcher 3 on pre-order sale for 10% but on the Steam store page it was 20% off. I'm guessing this is a glitch? Either way, I'm really excited to play it. If you made it through and enjoyed chapter 2, swamps and all, then you have a lot to look forward to in this game.
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Mad Pino Rage posted:The Witcher 3 on pre-order sale for 10% but on the Steam store page it was 20% off. I'm guessing this is a glitch? Either way, I'm really excited to play it. 10% to pre-order, an additional 5% for each previous Witcher title you own, for Steam and GoG. It's refreshing to play a high-production value RPG title that doesn't hold your hand and has the potential to gently caress you over in quests if you make obviously wrong choices. The game is quickly breaking habits I've learned from playing other modern RPGS that are too forgiving to the point that your actions and choices are largely inconsequential. Make moronic choices and NPCs will react accordingly (The meeting of Geralt and Zoltan with Iorvath in the clearing come to mind). I also like how I've stopped mindlessly picking the charity options once I realized how important money was and how little of it I had. gently caress chivalry, I gotta get paid son.
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theDOWmustflow posted:10% to pre-order, an additional 5% for each previous Witcher title you own, for Steam and GoG. It's not this for the UK, actually. The GOG preorder is 17% off base, with an extra 5% per Witcher game you own on GOG (but the discount reduces the amount of store credit you get because GOG are bad at maths ). The Steam one seems to be 20% base with 10% for each game, because it's currently -40% in the UK (the game still comes out at $50 with a 40% discount).
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theDOWmustflow posted:The game is quickly breaking habits I've learned from playing other modern RPGS that are too forgiving to the point that your actions and choices are largely inconsequential. Make moronic choices and NPCs will react accordingly (The meeting of Geralt and Zoltan with Iorvath in the clearing come to mind).
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vandalism posted:When they did the zoom in on the group of witchers in that trailer, one looked pretty beefy. Wonder if it could have been Letho? That would own. It was just the guy's arm in the shot, no head or anything. It was definitely Letho. Every visible part of his outfit was the same.
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On TW1: is it possible to kind of rush through the infamous swamps to get on with the good bits of the story? Or is it going to be the Witcher equivalent of the Mage Tower/Fade/Orzammar where you just have to deal?
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I think there's a way to partially rush it but Act 2 Spoilers: it ends up with you completely loving up the chapter quest so that Geralt never finds out about Azar Javed, leading to a much harder end-of-act fight
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Riso posted:There's already a GOT RPG. The story is supposed to be decent but the gameplay is a bit clunky. I liked it. Gameplay-wise it's pretty much The Witcher 1.
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monster on a stick posted:On TW1: is it possible to kind of rush through the infamous swamps to get on with the good bits of the story? Or is it going to be the Witcher equivalent of the Mage Tower/Fade/Orzammar where you just have to deal? Lycus fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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just a heads up, if you are like me and one of your games in on gog and the other on steam(and the steam key doesn't work on gog), somebody with both games on steam can buy Witcher 3 with the largest discount and gift it.
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COOKIEMONSTER posted:There hasn't been a pirate RPG since like, the last Sid Meyers one. (I don't count black flag since 40% of the game was spent talking about space aliens.) There were some good ones made by Akella - Sea Dogs/Age of Pirates, but that's still 5 years ago. Lycus posted:I don't know about as early as Chapter 2. But if you focus on speccing up Igni, you can eventually just run through the swamp spamming the sign key and quickly and easily kill everything without really stopping unless you want to loot their parts. I think I was doing that as early as Chapter 3, if I'm remembering correctly. Pyromancer fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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Cheston posted:I liked it. Gameplay-wise it's pretty much The Witcher 1. You mean clunky combat that is both overly complicated yet somehow tediously simple? Compared to W2, which has my favourite combat in any game, up with Dark Souls and Mass Effect 2.
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I'm thinking of replaying W2, as I never went Iorveth path, and I want to do so bfore W3 comes out. Is it worth using the combat rebalance mod? Back when it came out I heard a lot of good things about it, but a couple of people have mentioned bugs now.
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Davoren posted:I'm thinking of replaying W2, as I never went Iorveth path, and I want to do so bfore W3 comes out. Is it worth using the combat rebalance mod? Back when it came out I heard a lot of good things about it, but a couple of people have mentioned bugs now. I'll say it again, don't use it. It improves a couple things a bit but basically breaks a bunch of other mechanics and leads to major issues later.
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