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Azazell0 posted:This is probably the worst (best?) example on how a few lines of text can feel like a punch to the gut. 
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Jun 24, 2016 20:14
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Azazell0 posted:This is probably the worst (best?) example on how a few lines of text can feel like a punch to the gut. In true Witcher style when you found her she'd probably be a 16 year old whore with an abusive father and you can either give her money and have her plead with you not to beat up her pimp when he comes to take it or you can loving kill everyone she knows for being horrible shits and leave her sobbing over your "help".
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Jun 24, 2016 20:31
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You forgot that her father would be her pimp and that her mother's last wishes was for her family to stay together.
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Jun 24, 2016 20:34
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I only read the first book and I have to wonder, is Geralt even a big character in the series? I heard Ciri becomes the POV character from the third book onwards as Geralt can't really develop as a person to hinge a saga on him.
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Jun 24, 2016 20:40
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I only read the first book and I have to wonder, is Geralt even a big character in the series? I heard Ciri becomes the POV character from the third book onwards as Geralt can't really develop as a person to hinge a saga on him. The books split a running narrative between Geralt and his band of collected misfits (seriously this dude collects weird/badass mofos like Shepard in Mass Effect 2) and Ciri's multiple novels worth of being tortured in every conceivable way. There are parts with minor POV chapters from other characters but it's mostly Geralt/Misfits and Ciri.
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Jun 24, 2016 21:01
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I only read the first book and I have to wonder, is Geralt even a big character in the series? I heard Ciri becomes the POV character from the third book onwards as Geralt can't really develop as a person to hinge a saga on him. Geralt is the aragorn to ciri's frodo. Even the game makes it clear that he's just a simple Witcher while she is the true protagonist who is destined to save or destroy the world. Geralt literally says at one point "it was only ever about you, ciri"
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Jun 24, 2016 21:04
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How does Geralt compare in strength/talent to other witchers?
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Jun 24, 2016 21:11
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BaW has the April fools' Yokelicious haircut. Should have worn it to the fancy ball. 
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Jun 24, 2016 21:13
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Seriously though every single HUD element has disappeared except for witcher-vision outlines and I am a little perturbed about it. The HUD menu does nothing.
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Jun 24, 2016 21:17
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Try hitting the Home button
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Jun 24, 2016 21:38
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RatHat posted:How does Geralt compare in strength/talent to other witchers? Letho is easily his equal, and in the books eskel is considered even more magically talented than geralt.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:05
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Arcsquad12 posted:Letho is easily his equal, and in the books eskel is considered even more magically talented than geralt. Just as long as Lambert, that piece of poo poo rock troll racist, is weaker than all of them
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Jun 24, 2016 22:10
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I haven't read the books or played the previous games, but after looking online briefly I was surprised by how much it seems like Witcher 3 pulls more from the former than the latter. I figured I'd go in not really knowing any of the characters but wasn't expecting to read that Ciri & Yenn are barely even mentioned in Witcher 1 or 2.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:13
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Macaluso posted:Just as long as Lambert, that piece of poo poo rock troll racist, is weaker than all of them Lambert is the youngest, where-as Eskel and Geralt where trained together as kids. Eskel emenates magic more strongly than Geralt, but Geralt was subjected to more experimental mutagens due to his unusually high tolerance for the trial of the grasses. Exactly what those mutagens did or how they benefited Geralt is never expressely stated. Letho is a bad rear end and everyone loves him, but I'd never take him over Geralt. I'd actually put Letho at around Leo Bonhart's level. Leo was not a Witcher.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:22
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Hobo Clown posted:I haven't read the books or played the previous games, but after looking online briefly I was surprised by how much it seems like Witcher 3 pulls more from the former than the latter. I figured I'd go in not really knowing any of the characters but wasn't expecting to read that Ciri & Yenn are barely even mentioned in Witcher 1 or 2. Witcher 1 is just plain odd. You have Triss, but she basically acts like Yen does. Yen is never mentioned, outside of Triss alluding to her in very offhand manner due to Geralt's amnesia (this is a big part of why book fans dislike Triss as a romance option in the games). You're chasing after a child of destiny, who has all sorts of magical powers beyond their control, but it's not Ciri, it's a young boy. Nobody mentions that this all seems oddly familiar.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:31
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Pretty sure the experimental mutations are why Geralt has white hair. Also Letho did pretty well against Geralt in the elven baths, though Geralt didn't have his memory back yet.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:32
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Staltran posted:Pretty sure the experimental mutations are why Geralt has white hair. Also Letho did pretty well against Geralt in the elven baths, though Geralt didn't have his memory back yet. Yea, the white hair is from the mutagens. Also, Geralt meets Letho on the path by saving his life. Geralt and Letho are fairly evenly matched in the first fight but by the second fight Letho is totally outclassed.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:38
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Arcsquad12 posted:Letho is easily his equal, and in the books eskel is considered even more magically talented than geralt. The first time you fight Letho in Witcher 2 was one of the series' highlights for me. Not only was it one of the hardest fights in the game, but you rarely get to fight someone with the same abilities as you. Having two guys with swords push each other around with Aard made me wonder how much inspiration the creators took from Star Wars (in a good way).
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Jun 24, 2016 22:40
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"If you acknowledge any gods, pray to them now."
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Jun 24, 2016 22:44
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Zak2k12 posted:The first time you fight Letho in Witcher 2 was one of the series' highlights for me. Not only was it one of the hardest fights in the game, but you rarely get to fight someone with the same abilities as you. Having two guys with swords push each other around with Aard made me wonder how much inspiration the creators took from Star Wars (in a good way). I always love a good mirror match and that was a drat good example of one. The only thing I disliked was that his version of Quen was temporary invulnerability that you couldn't smack through.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:47
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JetsGuy posted:No, it taunts you forever as incomplete. Fortunately, there's not too too many that are missable. The Baron is a big one a lot of people miss. I think Roche too. Lambert you have to get a card from as well, and I think it has to be when you meet him in the pub after/during his quest. They patched this when Blood & Wine arrived - now the Collect 'Em All quest will fail if you miss a card.
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Jun 24, 2016 23:05
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I started my Death March new game+ run and needed an appropriate outfit: Y'all seen my girlfriend?  Wearing black and white?  Like my oh so snug pants? 
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Jun 24, 2016 23:46
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Zak2k12 posted:The first time you fight Letho in Witcher 2 was one of the series' highlights for me. Not only was it one of the hardest fights in the game, but you rarely get to fight someone with the same abilities as you. Having two guys with swords push each other around with Aard made me wonder how much inspiration the creators took from Star Wars (in a good way). In theory it was a good idea but Aard was undodgable since it was so fast so it was very frustrating to me. Letho really likes spamming bombs too.
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Jun 24, 2016 23:53
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Letho's good, but he's not good enough to dodge the ultimate trap: actually literally ten bear traps. 
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Jun 24, 2016 23:59
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Arglebargle III posted:Seriously though every single HUD element has disappeared except for witcher-vision outlines and I am a little perturbed about it. The HUD menu does nothing. Did you press the Toggle HUD button by accident
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Coughing Hobo posted:Letho's good, but he's not good enough to dodge the ultimate trap: actually literally ten bear traps. I kinda miss traps, they were fun to use if you knew you were about to fight something. On the other hand it was also very annoying to walk into a bear trap every 10 feet. Thankfully your defense quickly becomes high enough that they did literally 0 damage.
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Jun 25, 2016 00:40
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Oh God, after I finish all these Points of Interest in Skellige, I'll have nothing left to do. Except maybe start a new game. Bad Dad Geralt, here we come!
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Jun 25, 2016 01:34
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I just finished Blood and Wine and I am now sad that there is no more Witcher content (aside from Gwent mission stories) for the foreseeable future. Anyways, does anyone have any information about the Witcher movie that was announced late last year? I can't dig up any information about it.
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Jun 25, 2016 02:11
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Finished Blood & Wine. It's almost surreal to be "done" with the Witcher 3 after playing so much excellent content. I never actually finished Hearts of Stone though, so I guess I'll go back and get that nasty scar off Geralt's face. While B&W overall was excellent (and Touissant as a setting was amazing) I found that the story kind of went downhill once Syanna was found. In general she seemed too petulant and obnoxious to lead anybody. I did find it funny that you have the option of banging her. Yeah lady, I'm really going to get romantically involved with you after literally watching the horrible, bloody aftermath of your last relationship not 30 minutes earlier. I also rolled my eyes hard at the duchess asking HER for forgiveness. Did you forget about how she brought a legion of bloodthirsty monsters down on your citizens? Whatever, it doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the expansion overall Looking forward to CD PR's next RPG.
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Jun 25, 2016 02:59
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PantsBandit posted:While B&W overall was excellent (and Touissant as a setting was amazing) I found that the story kind of went downhill once Syanna was found. In general she seemed too petulant and obnoxious to lead anybody. I did find it funny that you have the option of banging her. Yeah lady, I'm really going to get romantically involved with you after literally watching the horrible, bloody aftermath of your last relationship not 30 minutes earlier. I also rolled my eyes hard at the duchess asking HER for forgiveness. Did you forget about how she brought a legion of bloodthirsty monsters down on your citizens? Whatever, it doesn't lessen my enjoyment of the expansion overall To be fair, that wasn't her fault. She was totally willing to go see Dettlaff but it's kind of hard to do that when you are imprisoned. The gruesome murders of four prominent knights and the plan to murder the duchess herself? Yeah, that was totally all her.
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PantsBandit posted:I did find it funny that you have the option of banging her. Yeah lady, I'm really going to get romantically involved with you after literally watching the horrible, bloody aftermath of your last relationship not 30 minutes earlier. You missed out on the best sex scene in the game, my friend. Also Geralt has no moral sexual objections 
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Jun 25, 2016 03:09
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Lareine posted:To be fair, that wasn't her fault. She was totally willing to go see Dettlaff but it's kind of hard to do that when you are imprisoned. The gruesome murders of four prominent knights and the plan to murder the duchess herself? Yeah, that was totally all her. And honestly, I kinda can't really blame her for the murders all that much. I mean, if there was ever a reason to go on a spree of revenge killings, she had it. Not that revenge killings are a totally rad cool thing to do, but it feels like pretty much everybody does it at some point in the Witcher universe. The real evil thing about her to me was tricking Dettlaff into doing it, which was a pretty monstrous thing to do especially considering he has the emotional maturity of a five-year old. Someone earlier in the thread compared Dettlaff to Lenny from Of Mice and Men and I think that's right on the money.
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Jun 25, 2016 03:27
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come on, people. she blackmailed an emotionally unstable higher vampire. Just because she wasn't able to fix it at the last second doesn't absolve her of responsibility when poo poo hits the fan.
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Jun 25, 2016 03:29
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Macaluso posted:You missed out on the best sex scene in the game, my friend.
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PantsBandit posted:come on, people. she blackmailed an emotionally unstable higher vampire. Just because she wasn't able to fix it at the last second doesn't absolve her of responsibility when poo poo hits the fan. No, but when said higher vampire goes "meet me at the spooky castle in 3 days or the streets will run red with blood" and her response is "OK, see you then" and then her sister goes "NO LOCK HER IN FAIRY TALE LAND", you kind of have to spread some of the responsibility around.
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Jun 25, 2016 03:32
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Digirat posted:Did you press the Toggle HUD button by accident The toggle HUD button was added after I stopped playing the game for the first time. So yes. 
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Jun 25, 2016 04:49
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Arglebargle III posted:The toggle HUD button was added after I stopped playing the game for the first time. So yes. Question:  Why is there a skeleton with a hat and gauntlet in your secret mansion cave?
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Jun 25, 2016 06:08
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Uh, where else do you keep your skeleton with a hat and gauntlet? I mean the guest room already has your nude portrait. Sindai fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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Jun 25, 2016 06:11
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Sindai posted:Uh, where else do you keep your skeleton with a hat and gauntlet? I saw that edit, was wondering why you'd think Yen would be in the guest room.
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Dear God I love gwent but this tournament where you have to play as Skellige. Goddamnit. Not only is it just bullshit playing with this deck but making it just annoying to save scum it. Then couple ps4 takes a year and a day to load. EDIT: AAAAAND I just lost to Nilfgaard Deck 3x in a row so the autosaves overwrite themselves so that I gotta play the Monster deck guy and start over. Thanks a lot whichever rear end in a top hat didn't let you save between rounds JetsGuy fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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