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The Sharmat posted:That part of her character is over with by the third book pretty much the instant Ciri calls her "mama" for the first time. I'm not sure that's how human beings function.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:23
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Snak posted:I'm not sure that's how human beings function. I was being hyperbolic. That was the culmination of a bunch of character development and the clencher for that arc. She had Ciri for about two years.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:27
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Just how big is this game anyway? I've been dicking around the the sidequests and I've only just hit level 10 but I've somehow clocked up almost 15 hours already. Thing is, i've not even touched any of the Witcher contracts or treasure hunts in Velen yet and i've still got about 100 points of interest to go look at as well as a few other side quests i've got to take care of (at my current level). If i understand correctly Velen is just the first of the 3 big main areas too right? Like after i do all of this, i get to do it all again in 2 new zones? And this is before the planned DLC?
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Aug 16, 2015 03:36
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Kin posted:Just how big is this game anyway? Wild Hunt is probably the biggest RPG I've ever played. I have played a lot of loving RPG's. And that's not just because of its size, but because there's very little padding in its content. Tons of poo poo to do and almost none of it"go ye forth and gather 16 drowner pelts" MMO-type dross.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:40
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Kin posted:Just how big is this game anyway? I think Velen is the biggest area. Even if the the second area is technically as big as it area-wise, it's half ocean. The third area is much smaller, more like the size of White Orchard. I skipped many points of interest and several major questlines and I know I spent over 200 hours on my first playthrough.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:41
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Kin posted:Just how big is this game anyway? The three main areas are Velen, Novigrad, and Skellige. Novigrad is the big city that's part of the Velen area. Then you've got White Orchard and Kaer Morhen, which are both relatively smaller.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:43
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yeah sorry, I don't differentiate between Velen and Novigrad because you seamlessly travel between them on foot/horse.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:45
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Snak posted:yeah sorry, I don't differentiate between Velen and Novigrad because you seamlessly travel between them on foot/horse. I can't figure out any other way to get "3 big main areas" though. Really it's just the two, with the others being smaller and more limited in how much there is to do.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:48
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pik_d posted:I can't figure out any other way to get "3 big main areas" though. Really it's just the two, with the others being smaller and more limited in how much there is to do. yes, it is really just two. I forgot that Velen and Novigrad were technically separate areas, and thought that someone who hasn't been there might not know that Kaer Morhen is not a big area. Novigrad is really not very big either, but it does have a high concentration of content.
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Aug 16, 2015 03:56
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Novigrad is clearly demarcated by the Pontar river, has different art assets, content, tone, and main story from Velen. I'd call it its own area even though the transition between them loads seamlessly.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:16
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But so is Oxenfurt, which is just in Velen.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:22
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Oxenfurt isn't in Velen. It's across the Pontar. It's part of the Novigrad area.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:27
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Yeah even the land surrounding Novigrad has different music and atmosphere from Velen.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:29
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At the risk of reopening a can of worms it feels pretty obvious that Ciri is totally fanservicey. She sticks her chest out when she walks (I didn't even notice this until it was pointed out to me), she's wearing loving heels, etc. And not just like the heels on normal riding boots, she's got serious heels on. She's designed to be look hot, just like all the other important female characters Geralt interacts with. The character is supposed to be very pretty, sure. It's just weird for someone who has been on the run for years to look like a supermodel. And like I said before, it's kind of weird (in a good way, I guess) because in every other RPG the attractive women are there for you to sleep with.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:36
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Oh, god the heels discussion again
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Aug 16, 2015 04:37
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Ciri dresses exactly as described in the books. It's an outgrowth of her character development therein. This is how the Rats dressed. That's all I'm gonna say this time because I'm immensely tired of talking to sex obsessed goons about female character design.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:45
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poptart_fairy posted:
What? Did people suggest that the succubi were supposed to be the black people of Witcher 3? Is that what you mean when you say 'minorities?' CDPR did a good job including a whole range of mythology in the monster selection.
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He's referring to the fact that the only brown skinned person in the game is a succubus in Novigrad. This is very problematic etc etc I've really wasted my day off here.
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Aug 16, 2015 04:49
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The Sharmat posted:He's referring to the fact that the only brown skinned person in the game is a succubus in Novigrad. This is very problematic etc etc I found it curious that when you meet her, she's wearing clothes. In a whorehouse. Where she works. The one in Skellige is walking around proper topless. Also lol @ people whining about no black people in the witcher 3. To think that a cross dressing elf and a gay man made it into the game, but no blacks!
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Aug 16, 2015 05:00
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TW1 was a lot more progressive. A black man was a major character in it. I mean yeah, he did tons of coke and beat prostitutes to death. But representation!
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So is there some kind of resource for downloadable save games yet? I've been completely screwed by my own stupidity and plain bad luck. I played the game for about 50 hours, finishing the Velen and Novigrad main quest lines and most of the sidequests below level 15 or so. Then I went ahead and installed windows 10, forgetting that GoG Client doesn't have cloud saves enabled yet. So I restared the game, replayed up to the end of Novigrad storyline, for about a total of 30 more hours. Now last night I find that my SSD has died for some reason, and it refuses to be recognized by any PC I plug it in to. I really want to finish the game, but good god I don't have the will to do the same content for the third time in a row. 
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:
log off I'm replaying on Death March, and I can't wait for a difficulty mod. Once you hit level 6-8 the game just becomes a cakewalk :/
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Aug 16, 2015 06:35
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Is there any way other than farming a disgusting amount of monsters to hit level 50? I finished the game and I was 3/4 of the way to level 35. I did every point of interest except for the 48 Archgriffin in Skellige and only failed a few side quests.
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Attestant posted:So is there some kind of resource for downloadable save games yet? I've done much of Velen and the first couple quests of Novigrad. Unpack the following into Documents/The Witcher 3/gamesaves https://www.dropbox.com/s/hsd8ew96tati6nt/gamesaves.rar?dl=0 No guarantees if it'll work especially since this is steam but I wish you luck in any event.
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The Iron Rose posted:I've done much of Velen and the first couple quests of Novigrad. Unpack the following into Documents/The Witcher 3/gamesaves Thanks, I'll give it a go once I get my new SSD set up. Just not having to do large chunks of Velen would be a lifesaver.
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Ice Fist posted:Afaik Geralt gets shortchanged twice during the course of this game: Once when killing the foglet near crookback bog and the guy admits he doesn't have any money but can pay you double in a week The guy does pay you double if you come back in a week though, that's one hell of late-payment rate.
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75 hours, I'm feeling the burnout coming. I just brought the ugly baby to Kaer Morhen, how much main story is left? 
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You're about 2/3 through the main story. You have 12-15 hours of it left. There are a dozen or so discrete main quests left and most of them branch off into a handful of subquests, e.g. "Help Tom do the thing", "Rescue Dick from the thing" and "Talk to Harry about the thing."
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:What? Did people suggest that the succubi were supposed to be the black people of Witcher 3? Is that what you mean when you say 'minorities?' CDPR did a good job including a whole range of mythology in the monster selection. Well, when the only black people of note are soul sucking demons it does tend to send across a fairly certain message - intentionally or not. This all comes back to my thing about the Witcher series getting glossed over on matters other games have been shat on for. I mean remember in DA2 when the supposedly transgender character is the punchline of a pretty vile joke in DLC content? Regardless of the writer later clarifying the character wasn't transgender (just a really deep voiced woman despite the "best of both worlds" thing...), and that the joke was about her being a prostitute, Bioware didn't really have anyone to blame but themselves when there was a blowback. This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum and the fact the game handled both a gay man and cross dresser without relying on crude stereotypes just raises the question of why said black people were exotic soul sucking monsters in the first place. 
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I have beaten every Gwent opponent and gotten every card. I feel as unto Alexander, as he wept, seeing no lands left to conquer.
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limp_cheese posted:Is there any way other than farming a disgusting amount of monsters to hit level 50? I finished the game and I was 3/4 of the way to level 35. I did every point of interest except for the 48 Archgriffin in Skellige and only failed a few side quests. You're not supposed to grind up to level ~48 for that Archgriffin. Just fight it at level 34 like everyone else.
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poptart_fairy posted:This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum and the fact the game handled both a gay man and cross dresser without relying on crude stereotypes just raises the question of why said black people were exotic soul sucking monsters in the first place. Was like the only other succubus even black? I forget what she looked like but I wanna say not, barely remember. Either way there's obviously regular old black people in the Witcher world and in the games, succubi aren't the only things with dark skin.
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Aug 16, 2015 11:43
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The other succubus was white.
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Aug 16, 2015 11:56
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Wanna hear a Limerick? Lambert, Lambert, what a prick.
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Just finished the cheese thing (I hope this is clear enough and there aren't any other cheese things in the game. I really hope there aren't). There is a cave mark on my map, right on top of the house, that I cannot find the entrance of. Any ideas of what I'm talking about, and how to get there?
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There'll be more cheese things than you could've ever imagined, just you wait. But really, I'd assume maybe the cave icon is just in reference to the teleport?
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GhostDog posted:Wanna hear a Limerick? Not bad
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webmeister posted:Was this ever discussed, because I'm pretty sure I never remember it! I'd only spoken to Emhyr twice prior, once after the prologue and again after resolving In Ciri's Footsteps; so it's possible that I missed it completely, but it sounded like the kind of thing I'd remember! When Geralt first meets with Emhyr and they discuss the reappearance of Ciri, Emhyr answers "She'll be getting what she deserves" when Geralt asks him what will happen if he actually finds her. It sounds more menacing than it probably was intended (bad voice direction maybe?), but in hindisght it appears Emhyr is hinting she will follow him on the throne. Snak posted:It's funny how I can sympathize so much with Iorveth in W2 and hate elves so much in W3. What's not to like? 
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