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Dongattack posted:The Bitcher 3 haha
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:09 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:57 |
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the real game were all looking forward to is cyberpunk 2077
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:26 |
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Geralt is a ripped, hot, badass who can't get you preggers or give you diseases; who wouldn't be banging him every time he rolls in to town?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 06:58 |
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I know sorceresses can't get preggers, but can they give you diseases?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 10:17 |
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Archimago posted:I know sorceresses can't get preggers, but can they give you diseases?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 12:49 |
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 16:09 |
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You done hosed up.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 16:20 |
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I look forward to the Witcher 3, hoped all the new posts was some talk about new information
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 17:08 |
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I too was looking forward to reading new info after seeing the thread had all these new posts. Though what we got instead is much better imo.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 18:01 |
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Archimago posted:I know sorceresses can't get preggers, but can they give you diseases? Some sorceresses can get preggers, it's just very rare. IIRC all male mages are sterile though.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 20:41 |
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Magic basically makes your egg/sperm production areas wither and become nonfunctional for ~reasons~ though obviously the non-babymaking bits still work just fine. So a mage generally is unable to have kids after a few years of working magic. As for diseases, barring some freak allergy to magic (*cough*Triss*cough*) they can cure themselves of just about anything they pick up magically. So they're probably safe partners in that regard. Now, is the parrying of crossbow bolts with shields done actively or is it them just smartly hiding behind the shield? Because if its some reflex blocking that really takes the piss out of the Witchers' feared ability to parry bolts...
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 21:41 |
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OAquinas posted:Magic basically makes your egg/sperm production areas wither and become nonfunctional for ~reasons~ though obviously the non-babymaking bits still work just fine. So a mage generally is unable to have kids after a few years of working magic. Don't they have pretty intricate gestures and words they have to say to do spells? I'd imagine it's more like the shield in the CGI opening of W2 where the mage has to do an elaborate arm gesture to get the shield up.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 21:51 |
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Sorry to interrupt blood-sorceress-sex-magic chat, but I have a real question I bought both W1&2 from GOG so I have the W3 discounted pre-order available which is tempting, except there's no way my PC will be able to run it - is there any way to get the discount applied towards a PS4 pre-order of W3 instead?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:16 |
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Stentorian Hoot posted:I thought just his hair turned white from the trial of the grasses. He really isn't much of albino outside of that. He certainly isn't flush with color though in either Witcher 1 or 2. Must be that high mountain winter living in Kaer Mohren.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:21 |
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OAquinas posted:Magic basically makes your egg/sperm production areas wither and become nonfunctional for ~reasons~ though obviously the non-babymaking bits still work just fine. So a mage generally is unable to have kids after a few years of working magic.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:31 |
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Yennefer goes through exact forms with Ciri in Blood of the Elves, where she smashes a shack accidentally. I don't recall if exact chants are explicitly mentioned anywhere up to Baptism of Fire.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:38 |
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the wildest turkey posted:Sorry to interrupt blood-sorceress-sex-magic chat, but I have a real question get a better PC alternatively, buy the PC version for that far off future when you don't own a poo poo PC, rent the PS4 version for right now
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:52 |
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The Sharmat posted:It's not just that, though that is a factor. Even the fertile ones tend to have kind of hosed up offspring that tend to be very powerful but also insane. Genes that allow magical talent seem to be linked to some generally maladaptive poo poo. Wasn't Geralt's mom a sorceress?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:54 |
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GuyUpNorth posted:Yennefer goes through exact forms with Ciri in Blood of the Elves, where she smashes a shack accidentally. They stole that bit in Witcher 1 too. Specifically, the exact same thing happens with Alvin and Triss. Lareine posted:Wasn't Geralt's mom a sorceress? Yeah. Which may be why he's unusually good at signs.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 23:06 |
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The Sharmat posted:Yeah. Which may be why he's unusually good at signs. Is sorcery even genetic in any form? I know Ciri was a source which made her powerful but didn't Sapkowski mention in Last Wish how sorceresses were just ugly regular women who no one wanted to marry so their fathers shipped them off to the magic school?
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 00:28 |
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GrossMurpel posted:Is sorcery even genetic in any form? GrossMurpel posted:I know Ciri was a source which made her powerful but didn't Sapkowski mention in Last Wish how sorceresses were just ugly regular women who no one wanted to marry so their fathers shipped them off to the magic school? Because the pretty girls were more useful being married off. Even if they were capable of magic, they weren't sent to learn it. Sorceresses are comparatively useless to the family because they produce no offspring.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 02:06 |
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the wildest turkey posted:Sorry to interrupt blood-sorceress-sex-magic chat, but I have a real question No, the discount is just for GOG and there's no GOG version of the console edition.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 21:19 |
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Archimago posted:No, the discount is just for GOG and there's no GOG version of the console edition. I had a discount on Steam for having both games?
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 22:06 |
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The Sharmat posted:Because the pretty girls were more useful being married off. Even if they were capable of magic, they weren't sent to learn it. Sorceresses are comparatively useless to the family because they produce no offspring. I thought the point was just supposed to be that there were no ugly sorceresses, because even the ones that started ugly could change their looks with magic, not that only ugly girls were sent to become sorceresses. Also I'm pretty sure a sorceress could be plenty useful to her family even without being able to breed, what with all the magic making amassing enormous amounts of wealth and power easy. Edit: VVVVV Huh, consider me refuted then. Crigit fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Crigit posted:I thought the point was just supposed to be that there were no ugly sorceresses, because even the ones that started ugly could change their looks with magic, not that only ugly girls were sent to become sorceresses. Also I'm pretty sure a sorceress could be plenty useful to her family even without being able to breed, what with all the magic making amassing enormous amounts of wealth and power easy.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 23:09 |
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The fun bit is the subtext of that scene is that Geralt is trying very hard not to find Yennefer attractive.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 23:44 |
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Just cracked the first Witcher book after getting a used copy from Alibris for $3. The first page or so is soft core porn... But it is extremely well written soft core porn. Must continue anyways. O hey cool, incest already and I'm only like 5 pages deep. Please tell me this starts to pick up and get less weird and splergy. It's like reading Twilight if it were written by Fiodor Dostojewski.
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 11:12 |
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I don't remember any incest in the first book but it's been awhile. EDIT: Oh wait yeah, Foltest and his sister. Nevermind. It's not actually on screen incest though.
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 21:58 |
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The Sharmat posted:The fun bit is the subtext of that scene is that Geralt is trying very hard not to find Yennefer attractive. The best part is that Yennefer knows this and proceeds to gently caress with Geralt by bathing while invisible and then calling him out for perving on her. I also liked the topic of ugly sorceresses changing their looks via magic, but still being considered unattractive because nothing could hide the bitterness and low self esteem that drove them to change in the first place. Their eyes are still ugly. Avalanche posted:Just cracked the first Witcher book after getting a used copy from Alibris for $3. The Last Wish has kind of a wonky translation, and it can be wordy at times. As it stands, I found the later short stories better than The Witcher. The fight with the Striga is fun and well written, but the Butcher of Blaviken and the crazy Cintrian dinner party were the highlights of The Last Wish for me. I swear that Gollancz got a different translator for Blood of Elves, because the difference in translation quality is enormous. While I could tell that Last Wish was translated, I was hard pressed to believe that Blood of Elves was written in anything but English. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Feb 26, 2015 |
# ? Feb 26, 2015 04:27 |
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I actually think the Lesser Evil or whatever it's called where Geralt becomes the Butcher of Blaviken was the best short story. Geralt has sex with a woman in it though, so trigger warning.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 05:02 |
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This is another drunk post., The Steam discount for owning both games is new. You're a terrible person for buying it on Steam instead of supporting DRM-Free. Has anyone read the fan translated version of books? Are they as terrible as the phrase "fan translated book" makes me think?
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 10:02 |
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Jesus gently caress I hate my avatar. Edit: because i won't triple post. is the new version of Rise of the White Wolf good and worth playing through on TW1? Anyone tried it? Archimago fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Archimago posted:This is another drunk post., You freaked me out with that discount comment, thought I'd have to fight with Steam Support... but it looks like pre-ordering early worked out well for once: The Witcher 3 47.99 USD (Also before the AUD collapsed)
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 11:12 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:The best part is that Yennefer knows this and proceeds to gently caress with Geralt by bathing while invisible and then calling him out for perving on her. I also liked the topic of ugly sorceresses changing their looks via magic, but still being considered unattractive because nothing could hide the bitterness and low self esteem that drove them to change in the first place. Their eyes are still ugly. I got the feeling she didn't really gently caress with him. She sounded actually mad that he ogled her during that scene but was repulsed by the bitterness you mentioned. Plus, I think it's mostly because of his Witcher senses and poo poo that he notices that, I don't think a normal person could read that much into sorceresses. Like Chireadan in that scene, he seems pretty smitten. Archimago posted:This is another drunk post., What if I bought them both physically and just activated the keys on GOG to get the discount for W3?
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 11:14 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:The best part is that Yennefer knows this and proceeds to gently caress with Geralt by bathing while invisible and then calling him out for perving on her. I also liked the topic of ugly sorceresses changing their looks via magic, but still being considered unattractive because nothing could hide the bitterness and low self esteem that drove them to change in the first place. Their eyes are still ugly. I feel there was a little too much going on in that dinner party. This guys been cursed, but wants to marry the Princess, but she's magic, and so is her mum who wants to marry this other guy but can't, and his son wants to marry the Princess but these other nobles won't let him, and they both want to fight the first guy. There's like 5 different points where Geralt deduces something and doesn't reveal it to the audience until right at the end. It's like if the finale of either Vizima Outskirts or Flotsam happened without the previous 10 hours of gradual buildup explaining just who the hell everybody is.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 11:20 |
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Did they remove the 20% off total on steam? I swear you got 5% off for each game you owned, not just if you owned either. I would buy it off gog but it's more expensive than steam and I'm not interested in £5 credit really.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 11:41 |
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GrossMurpel posted:I got the feeling she didn't really gently caress with him. She sounded actually mad that he ogled her during that scene but was repulsed by the bitterness you mentioned. Basically Geralt is trying not to fall in love at first sight like a huge sap and failing.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 13:01 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I feel there was a little too much going on in that dinner party. This guys been cursed, but wants to marry the Princess, but she's magic, and so is her mum who wants to marry this other guy but can't, and his son wants to marry the Princess but these other nobles won't let him, and they both want to fight the first guy. There's like 5 different points where Geralt deduces something and doesn't reveal it to the audience until right at the end.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 17:21 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I feel there was a little too much going on in that dinner party. This guys been cursed, but wants to marry the Princess, but she's magic, and so is her mum who wants to marry this other guy but can't, and his son wants to marry the Princess but these other nobles won't let him, and they both want to fight the first guy. There's like 5 different points where Geralt deduces something and doesn't reveal it to the audience until right at the end. I think at one point Mousesack drew a rune while Geralt was looking and Geralt just nodded knowingly, I still don't know what that was about. Something about Pavetta being about to use magic, I'm sure. E: Nevermnind, I read it again and the rune just said "CAREFUL". GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 04:57 |
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-04-new-witcher-3-gdc-gameplay-footage I didn't preview this one but if it's new gameplay footage it's probably worth posting, our game is dope as gently caress.
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