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l33t b4c0n posted:Does Geralt ever use bombs in the books? It's a big mechanic in the games, and I can't really recall any specific instances. Hell, he rarely even uses signs from what I remember. No. He uses Aard a few times, the heliotrope sign from W1 which is Quen I suppose. He uses Igni once to mend a pot.
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JaucheCharly posted:No. He uses Aard a few times, the heliotrope sign from W1 which is Quen I suppose. He uses Igni once to mend a pot. The most mundane of witchers.
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Aug 30, 2015 16:30
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This game worth replaying? Lost my saves a couple of months back, haven't played since.
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Aug 30, 2015 16:34
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It is if you liked it
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Aug 30, 2015 16:34
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If you feel like playing it, it's worth replaying.
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Aug 30, 2015 16:36
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On my fourth playthrough( first NG+ one) and I'm still finding new things/quests/characters.
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Aug 30, 2015 16:37
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I did three playthroughs on PS4, started a NG+ run, then realized the game actually ran much better than thought on my PC, so now I'm starting a new one on that. What I'm saying is, the game sucks and you shouldn't play it.
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Aug 30, 2015 16:45
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There's definitely enough content that you could miss a bunch of stuff on one play through, enough for dozens of hours of gameplay, but it really depends on whether you liked playing the game the first time
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Aug 30, 2015 16:48
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anatomi posted:This game worth replaying? Lost my saves a couple of months back, haven't played since. What did you think of the combat? That seems to be the most divisive part of the game with some players strongly disliking it. If you thought the combat was at least decent, definitely play it through because everything else (well, except the inventory/crafting UI and weird level progression) is amazing. Even if you didn't like the combat, I would still recommend trying to finish the main Velen questlines on the lowest difficulty.
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Aug 30, 2015 17:11
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JaucheCharly posted:Totally agree. It's all about Ciri. Once you read the books, you'll be surprised how little witchering there's in there. I think there's like 3 or 4 situations where Geralt drinks a potion. Barely any monster hunting compared to all the other stuff that happens. Geralt kills shitloads of people though. Less than in the games though. Geralt would likely not survive many of the situations that occur in the games, in the books. This is another reason I don't think Ciri is too overpowered for a sequel. It's a lot more plausible for Ciri, the way she's depicted, to be able to take out Dethmold or Philippa or a huge crowd of guards that are actually prepared to fight her than Geralt. To be fair, Geralt doesn't drink as many potions in the books because 1. They have very harsh and unpleasant side effects (Yennefer actually admonishes him for using them in both the books and games) 2. He loses access to his chest after Book 4. Swedish Horror posted:On my fourth playthrough( first NG+ one) and I'm still finding new things/quests/characters. I'm on playthrough three. I thought I was the biggest witcher sperg.
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Aug 30, 2015 17:43
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Refresh my memory: which quests will autofail when I go to open up Kaer Morhen? I know I need to finish Following the Thread, The Last Wish, and Now or Never, but what else? Do I need to do Keira's quests? What about Roche's?
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Aug 30, 2015 18:06
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Crappy Jack posted:I did three playthroughs on PS4, started a NG+ run, then realized the game actually ran much better than thought on my PC, so now I'm starting a new one on that. Were any of these completionist playthroughs? It took me 160 hours to beat while doing everything, and it's exhausting to consider doing that all over again. A ng+ run where I only do main and character quests sounds reasonable.
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Aug 30, 2015 18:37
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Why would you ever do a "completionist" playthrough of an open world game? That is insanity.
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Aug 30, 2015 18:42
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CVagts posted:Refresh my memory: which quests will autofail when I go to open up Kaer Morhen? I know I need to finish Following the Thread, The Last Wish, and Now or Never, but what else? Do I need to do Keira's quests? What about Roche's? Dandelion's as well, not sure on the others but probably.
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Keira's quests will keep at least. Not sure about Roche's. I think the ones involved with people that can be recruited for the battle will keep. Like the last of the Skellige quests for Hjalmar and Cerys, for instance.
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The Sharmat posted:Why would you ever do a "completionist" playthrough of an open world game? Because some of us have crippling OCD? Good point, though. Still bummed that I killed Madman Lugos before playing him for his gwent card so I'm locked out of that.
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Anti-Hero posted:Because some of us have crippling OCD? Good point, though. Still bummed that I killed Madman Lugos before playing him for his gwent card so I'm locked out of that. At least with Dijkstra, I'm pretty sure I got the card when I killed him. The part that bothered me about the Gwent quests was that after reaching some point in the main quest, there were people like Dijkstra and Roche who either lost the option to play or wouldn't talk to me at all since I dragged my feet starting the Gwent quests.
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Aug 30, 2015 19:16
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ENDING SPOILERS, DO NOT WATCH IF YOU HAVEN'T BEATEN THE GAME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDNhwraf6Fo Cut dialogue. Apparently originally the Lodge amnesty was 100% confirmed as a sham. Yen screwed them. Somehow managed to get Triss out of it, but Philippa is a dead woman walking. Kind of weird she'd help Triss but not Margarita. Of course this is cut dialogue, so it can't really be viewed a official characterization. Still interesting.
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Orv posted:Dandelion's as well, not sure on the others but probably. Cabaret fails? Dang, all I want to do is get some Wolf Armor but now I gotta do that nonsense first. 
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Aug 30, 2015 19:34
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The Sharmat posted:Why would you ever do a "completionist" playthrough of an open world game? True story I did all the "?'s" in the Valen/Novigrad area then I went to Skellige and simply deflated and did the main story. Much better game once I did that. Chaff from Wheat an all that.
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FauxGateau posted:True story I did all the "?'s" in the Valen/Novigrad area then I went to Skellige and simply deflated and did the main story. Much better game once I did that. Chaff from Wheat an all that. I wasn't foolish enough to attempt THAT, but completing every quest I found still took an age.
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I just did the exploration stuff and other contracts when I felt like it. Didn't remotely try to be completionist with anything that wasn't related to the main plot or secondary characters. I still missed stuff on both of those, though. I only just found the Eternal Fire shrine Tamara uses at Crow's Perch, for instance.
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drat it, Geralt. https://youtu.be/vvYqslgQPtc
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The Sharmat posted:I just did the exploration stuff and other contracts when I felt like it. Didn't remotely try to be completionist with anything that wasn't related to the main plot or secondary characters. I still missed stuff on both of those, though. I only just found the Eternal Fire shrine Tamara uses at Crow's Perch, for instance. I'm at the very least trying to be "completionist" when it comes to investigations so I found that even though I'm only on my first playthrough. I liked that a lot.
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I didn't realize you could go through her drawers and stuff initially so I missed the scent trail to find the shrine.
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Yeah, I was in a rush so I had to wrap it up but I was hoping to check out everything in that morgue in Carnal Sins, I may reload an earlier save because I have an undying thirst for worldbuilding.
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Geralt mistaking a female dwarf corpse for the one they're looking for because of the beard is cool. I hope Joachim von Gratz is in the October expansion. He was a cool character.
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Him going with you into the sewers with a crossbow and giving his speech about lancing boils are the coolest minor character moments I've witnessed so far.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:This gets compared to Dragon Age a lot so my comparison is that while this game has a better written story I still like Dragon Ages setting better. Also the normal people are written atrociously. Honestly if I lived in that world as Geralt I would see no reason to save it. Sigi Dikjstra alone has more personality than the entire cast of dragon age combined. I would love to shake the hand of the person who wrote the dialogs.
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The Sharmat posted:2. He loses access to his chest after Book 4. That does make it difficult to drink things, but what did his arms and legs attach to?
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Savy Saracen salad posted:Sigi Dikjstra alone has more personality than the entire cast of dragon age combined. I would love to shake the hand of the person who wrote the dialogs. Well, with the menopause and all... The Lone Badger posted:That does make it difficult to drink things, but what did his arms and legs attach to? Dandelion.
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The Sharmat posted:ENDING SPOILERS, DO NOT WATCH IF YOU HAVEN'T BEATEN THE GAME That's absolutely fantastic. But yeah, isn't Rita literally one of her only friends? Or am I misremembering that? That seems weird. But still, don't gently caress with Yennefer or her family.
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Rita is probably her closest surviving friend, yeah. She didn't betray her to the extent Triss did and actually had to be kept separate from Yennefer at the first Lodge meeting, presumably from fear she might help her. I guess they figured new players wouldn't give a poo poo about her fate, though? Kinda funny Yennefer making sure Triss got out alive given what happened in the reverse situation, though.
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The Sharmat posted:Rita is probably her closest surviving friend, yeah. She didn't betray her to the extent Triss did and actually had to be kept separate from Yennefer at the first Lodge meeting, presumably from fear she might help her. I guess they figured new players wouldn't give a poo poo about her fate, though? They generally do a good job of making the characters act like they would in the books. It's a weird omission, but it was cut, so who knows. I think having established characters helped them a lot with the writing compared to say, Dragon Age. Though they did a great job since I'd actually say Geralt is actually better in W3 than in most of the books. Less whiny at least. They've kept Triss' naivety while actually giving her a bit of a backbone. Ciri remains awesome.
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They did a good job with characters that were mostly defined by them as well, so I think putting it all down to the fact they're adapting book characters is doing them a disservice.
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The Sharmat posted:They did a good job with characters that were mostly defined by them as well, so I think putting it all down to the fact they're adapting book characters is doing them a disservice. That's true. I do think the world is a bit more interesting than Dragon Age. It plays with fantasy cliches as much as it leans into them. I wonder if we'll start getting a generation of better game writers soon. I think a lot of the current ones, especially at a place like Bioware, basically got their start as D&D nerds making campaigns. And while there have been some great games out of Bioware, Black Isle, Obsidian I think that heritage really shows. They are coming out of what is basically pure pulp and really want to be taken more seriously. Whereas Witcher seems much more assured of what it is.
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I hope so. I notice a lot of historical and literary references in these games. That might have something to do with it, maybe?
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I forgot about the delivery of the incredulous "No..." World-weary lead characters can be dull at times, but it makes putting him into awkward situations even funnier. Wrangling him into doing painting and acting got great payoffs.
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Mizuti posted:I forgot about the delivery of the incredulous "No..." The part where Geralt has to pretend to be a bandit for Dandelion is so good. "More like the Crimson rear end in a top hat."
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Savy Saracen salad posted:Sigi Dikjstra alone has more personality than the entire cast of dragon age combined. I would love to shake the hand of the person who wrote the dialogs. Djikstra is probably my favorite character. He's really well done.
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