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Inspector Gesicht posted:I always drop Skyrim by the time I hit level 20, and even though I finished the Witcher 2 twice I wasn't terribly fond of it. My questions for the Witcher 3 to convince to me to buy it when's on sale:
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Jun 15, 2016 17:35
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You sound insufferable. It's a good game.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:39
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I always drop Skyrim by the time I hit level 20, and even though I finished the Witcher 2 twice I wasn't terribly fond of it. My questions for the Witcher 3 to convince to me to buy it when's on sale: You'll be fine, I have the same graphics card and RAM (with a better processor) and I run at 1920x1200. quote:What's the Killer-to-Filler ratio? The Assassin's Creed games are made ten hours longer because some sod dropped a valuable trinket in every corner of the map. Just how much of the game is bare-bone Scavenger Hunts? I don't usually mind them except when they make up the bulk of a game's content like Assassin's Creed: Rogue. There are a couple of underworld places to explore, but mostly it's overworld exploration, none of which is long and grindy. The only scavenger hunts you probably need to do is to get diagrams for better witcher gear, but it's not onerous at all. Inspector Gesicht posted:How bad is inventory management? Do I hold onto an oily rag for 30 hours because it may be used in the crafting of the Master Sword? At this point it's a non-issue. Pick stuff up and never think about it again until it turns out to be useful. quote:Do I need mods to the game going? Skyrim shipped with a UI from hell and Pillars of Eternity's load-times feel eternal with the auto-save being mandatory. No and no. quote:What are the points-of-no-return? I would hate to miss stuff in a 100-hour RPG because I don't plan on playing more than once. The game specifically warns you before they happen. quote:Do the sidequests actually reward you stuff? The Witcher 2 had the habit of giving you sweet-Fanny-adams for culling the Nekker population and stopping Majora bring the moon down on Termina. No, but they're fun anyway.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:50
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Arglebargle III posted:You sound insufferable. I only beat on things because I love them, a philosophy that will get very interesting if I become a parent.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:50
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Does level scaling apply to all monsters or just quest monsters? I don't really feel the need to fight some level 60 drowner packs.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:52
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I always drop Skyrim by the time I hit level 20, and even though I finished the Witcher 2 twice I wasn't terribly fond of it. My questions for the Witcher 3 to convince to me to buy it when's on sale: I play on console so I can't comment on performance. Killer to Filler - there is a plethora of such activities, but most are not required at all for questlines. None of the main quests are simple fetch quests unless you are being reductive about it. There are literal scavenger hunts, but those are to find more powerful armor and weapons, are optional, and many involve some tiny story as well. If you ask more specific questions I can elaborate. There are 2 actual "dungeon crawls" of appreciable length. There are many "samey" (if you are being negative) caves, ruined buildings, etc but most are uniquely designed and are also not overly large, like 5-10 minute things, longer if you die in the monster fight. Often these are the scavenger hunt destinations. A small cave with a dead body and a journal, a pack of mobs, and a monster fight near the chest with an armor diagram. Some might also be the endpoint of a sidequest. Inventory has been significantly improved, it was not great at the start. Inv tends to get a bit overly cluttered with crafting components and the like, but armor/weapon management is fine. The removed weight stats on most crafting components and also put in a stash so you only really look at them when crafting something. Console so I never had mods, the UI just got improved yet again and works fine. load times are long on ps4. You cannot break any of the quests I know of, and most even have dialogue to acknowledge your out of order completion. 1 major story quest can be "gamed" to give an abnormally good ending, but doing so going in blind is rare. There is 1 hard point of no return that explicitly warns you that some quests will be failed if you continue. Other than that there 2 other quests people often failed but I believe those have been patched. Sidequests give good rewards at level, normally a sword. There are so many quests though that many will be done overleveled so the reward essentially is gold. However in general you will be using Witcher gear unless you deliberately choose not to as it is better then most other gear. Sidequests are extremely well done in this game, and normally have fully fleshed out stories and voice acted poo poo. Yeah you might not get a great sword, but you did cool poo poo and did something fun. Less esoteric than 2. The main plot is pretty well explained and elaborated on, though there are plenty of small details you can miss as its a very large story. One part of the ending is sometimes a bit confusing if you missed some details, but its not a major problem. Game tends to be its hardest for the first 12 levels, then steadily becomes easier as you gain more abilities and gear. On death march difficulty you are still at risk of dying to random mobs if you are not paying attention though. They also just patched in an enemy upscaling feature to enhance difficulty if you desire it.
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Jun 15, 2016 17:54
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Arglebargle III posted:You sound insufferable. this. game is the best but going by your requirements you'll hate every second of it. or do what you want, life's too short. when's gwent out Vikar Jerome fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Jun 15, 2016 17:54
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There is actually one more non-telegraphed point of no-return in the base game. A quest called 'Follow the Thread' will fail if you haven't completed it when you finish the quest, 'Ugly Baby.'
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Jun 15, 2016 18:00
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Vikar Jerome posted:i never got this roach meme. roach never did anything weird for me. roach never wound up in weird places. dude just rides along the path like the game tells you he would and would always turn up when i shouted. Just so happens I got another Roach moment just now, couldn't mount him until I called again. Also are you saying the loving thing won't come to full stop when you're anywhere near a bridge? 
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Jun 15, 2016 18:11
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:http://wpc.4d7d.edgecastcdn.net/004D7D/mkt/document/Changelog-1.22-ENG_bt9orxuyou.pdf The art dealer was literally one of the only things I thought was left out of the game, thank you and the whole team for putting in such incredible effort!
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Jun 15, 2016 18:15
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Routah posted:Just so happens I got another Roach moment just now, couldn't mount him until I called again. Also are you saying the loving thing won't come to full stop when you're anywhere near a bridge? yeah i've not seen any weird poo poo like that. as far as i remember he's gone over bridges just fine in auto jog mode but i do remember him turning the other way when i came close to one.
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Jun 15, 2016 18:38
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Roach has been pretty cool to me he just tends to take a strong turn into the water instead of ever going over a bridge
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Jun 15, 2016 18:45
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The patch broke my mods and I can't play this without AutoApplyOils anymore  I actually gotta blow away my install and redownload it, one mod or another broke everything. W3 saves go to Steam Cloud, right?
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Jun 15, 2016 18:46
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Minor nitpick, but it seems that the occasional level-scaling going bonkers issue is still around here and there; just got one-hit bit a rat. Same goes for the djinn on the ship on the mountain that one-shoots and has a shitload of health. I'm so happy the sorting of new items got fixed though because my inner sperg forced me to find that flower I just picked in the bag just to get rid of the "new item" stars in the inventory >_<
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Jun 15, 2016 18:54
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Hobo Clown posted:That makes sense. It just seemed like everyone was "We've got our eye on you" with Geralt while anyone else is arrest & kill on sight. Plus, the reason the church is pushing for this whole poo poo is that they want to make bank by confiscating the property of the mages. Witchers tend to be both rather poor and exceptionally dangerous, so they make really bad targets for that kind of scheme. Magni fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Jun 15, 2016 18:57
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So now that I've actually gotten time to play W3 for the first time (damnit, sis, did you have to get married RIGHT THEN) I'm really getting into the groove of this game in a way it took me three tries to do for W2, but one thing in particular is kind of nagging me. I was playing on BBTB but had to drop the difficulty to kill the golem in Wandering In The Dark (main quest in Velen with Keira Metz) because otherwise I'd just have been chipping away at it forever until I hosed up enough dodges and it beat me to death. Looking at the bestiary/wiki after I guess it would have been vulnerable to Elemental Oil or Dimeritium bombs, but is it even possible to pick those recipes up that early? Or should I just have gained another level or 2?
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Jun 15, 2016 20:38
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Magni posted:Plus, the reason the church is pushing for this whole poo poo is that they want to make bank by confiscating the property of the mages. Witchers tend to be both rather poor and exceptionally dangerous, so they make really bad targets for that kind of scheme. Oh? Where do you run into that tidbit?
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Jun 15, 2016 20:46
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Dallan Invictus posted:So now that I've actually gotten time to play W3 for the first time (damnit, sis, did you have to get married RIGHT THEN) I'm really getting into the groove of this game in a way it took me three tries to do for W2, but one thing in particular is kind of nagging me. Another couple levels might have helped, but you're unlikely to have dimeritium bombs or elementa oil that early. It's kind of a grindy fight, golems and earth elementals tend to be fat sacks of HP like that. The difficulty in general drops off noticeably once you get into your teens and craft your first Witcher gear sets. So yeah, that's kind of an obnoxious fight. If you haven't finished that dungeon dive, the final boss is also a huge HP sponge.
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Jun 15, 2016 20:54
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Dallan Invictus posted:So now that I've actually gotten time to play W3 for the first time (damnit, sis, did you have to get married RIGHT THEN) I'm really getting into the groove of this game in a way it took me three tries to do for W2, but one thing in particular is kind of nagging me.
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Jun 15, 2016 20:55
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I just wanna say I can't believe it took me until recently to find the best card in Gwent, which isn't required for the Vanilla quest. Cow.
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Jun 15, 2016 21:28
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Arglebargle III posted:Oh? Where do you run into that tidbit? It's not just that. Radovid needs cash, sure. But he also really, really, really hates mages. And he's smart enough to know that if you give people a common enemy they won't attempt to overthrow you. A lot of people tell you he'll be coming for the nonhumans and freaks once the mages are gone. I'm sure he'd get to the witchers soon enough. They tend to get lumped in with the nonhumans in the books when people go the pogrom route. Also like a bunch of people have said: Witchers are crazy dangerous. And they're really rare at the time the game takes place. I realized I missed the gwent card during the heart of stone party. Can you get that another way?
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Jun 15, 2016 21:53
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Marzzle posted:
Not to be that poster, but The Witcher 2 is pretty loving bad about homosexuality. Everything involved in that Deathmold scene was loving horrendous and tremendously upsetting.
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Jun 15, 2016 22:06
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Deathmold was a gayman type?
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Jun 15, 2016 22:12
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Arglebargle III posted:Deathmold was a gayman type? Yes, he's a major villain in Witcher 2 who is a homosexual and has a sex slave.
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Jun 15, 2016 22:19
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Arglebargle III posted:Oh? Where do you run into that tidbit? A few people talk about it, IIRC including Bedlam and Triss. You also get to see it firsthand at Triss' ransacked house when Menge has those looters arrested, telling them that the Temple Guard is entitled to confiscate the property.
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Jun 15, 2016 22:25
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It's really good that Dethmold was punished for being gay with being castrated and choked on his genitals
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Jun 15, 2016 22:54
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I always thought the game tried to convey that Dethmold was a pederast without actually saying pederast out loud.
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Jun 15, 2016 23:44
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:It's really good that Dethmold was punished for being gay with being castrated and choked on his genitals See now I thought that they were punishing Dethmold for, you know, murdering Roche's entire family and trying to overthrow Temeria.
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Jun 15, 2016 23:50
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So I'm playing the main game again on Death March since that is the last achievement I need to get. Figured it wouldn't take too long if I just played through the main storyline-related quests and not allow myself any distra- Academic in the First Inn: Wanna become obsessed with Gwent again? Geralt: Yesssssssssssssssss 
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Jun 15, 2016 23:52
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Anyone having any weird graphics buggery with this patch that just went up? At least one NPC (Sasha from the high stakes gwent tournament) has a glitch where everything but her hair, eyes, mouth, and feet go invisible and while walking. It doesn't happen during dialogue scenes either and it was just fine before I installed the patch so I assume it's not my GPU dying or somesuch. edit: oh, looks like I just had to verify it. Because for whatever reason GOG Galaxy decides to redownload half the game for a patch and then manages to gently caress up doing that too. Gobblecoque fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jun 16, 2016 |
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Jun 15, 2016 23:55
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Mastercrafted Wolf Trouser diagram isn't at the watchtower where it's supposed to be. Lame.
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Jun 16, 2016 00:23
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I still can't build my Skellige deck, and removing cards from my current assembled deck causes them to disappear. That's new and strange as gently caress 
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Jun 16, 2016 00:26
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Also speaking of that High Stakes quest, I like how the game forces you to split the money with Sasha. Geralt even calls bullshit on her trying to split it but then the game forces you to do it anyway. I don't even care about the cash because I'm at the point where I have way more than I'll ever need anyway but it's the principle of it. gently caress you lady, I beat you and did all the work in finding the thief.
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Jun 16, 2016 00:40
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Hahaha you can buy the young ciri in a dress painting at the new art dealers.
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Jun 16, 2016 01:30
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Jerusalem posted:So I'm playing the main game again on Death March since that is the last achievement I need to get. Figured it wouldn't take too long if I just played through the main storyline-related quests and not allow myself any distra- I did the same. Said gently caress it and decided to do a no witcher gear run, was just going to focus on story quests to hit HoS and B&W content asap. Then I crushed the Bloody Baron's gwent deck with little more than the starter deck. Guess I gotta get them heroes for the Skellige deck..... Also patchnotes said they fixed roach, but i still get tailless horse, guess I am forced to stare at roaches butthole until I hit Skellige Willfrey fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Jun 16, 2016 |
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Jun 16, 2016 01:32
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No Witcher gear? 
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Jun 16, 2016 01:36
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Arglebargle III posted:No Witcher gear? Figured I could try out other armors, swords. Noticed a lot of high level stuff I never tried because of witcher gear. Plus I found the diagram fetch quests a bit tedious
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Jun 16, 2016 01:38
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Arcsquad12 posted:See now I thought that they were punishing Dethmold for, you know, murdering Roche's entire family and trying to overthrow Temeria.
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Jun 16, 2016 01:45
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Has anyone tried The Appearance Mod? Stealing Roche's hat is tempting, but it looks super complicated and I'm not sure it's worth it.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:No other character in the game gets or can get a punishment so linked to sexuality and genitalia. When it happens to the one gay villain you have some weird subtext. That's reaching pretty far considering W2 Philippa was also gay, one of the big villains and yet also portrayed as a victim that suffers immensely.
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