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Jan 8, 2017 15:56
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That baby was a vicious botchling, you gibbering nincompoop. Now hand over the 123 pieces of gold that we painstakingly haggled over before I whirl and rend you.
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Dr Cheeto posted:Geralt keeps mentioning that time he killed a Zergul while up to his waist in sewage, he's really weirdly proud of his gross job. It's CDPR's goto reference to "hey the first game happened, guys" since not much else from it really comes up other than the opening cutscene.
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Jan 8, 2017 18:23
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I've recently loaded this back up after over a year of not touching it. I've noticed that I don't see any item tooltips on items that I loot in the loot window. Is this is a toggle I've missed somewhere? It's really annoying.
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Jan 8, 2017 18:52
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Fuzz posted:It's CDPR's goto reference to "hey the first game happened, guys" since not much else from it really comes up other than the opening cutscene. In a different vein, theres a couple of quest lines that you feel would have lead to a sex scene had they been in the first game ( thinking of the fencing lessons, plus the random street girl you can 'save' from thugs in Oxenfurt ), but don't here. I always felt those were partly the writers saying "Yeah, we've grown up since then".
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Jan 8, 2017 21:28
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DoctorTristan posted:In a different vein, theres a couple of quest lines that you feel would have lead to a sex scene had they been in the first game ( thinking of the fencing lessons, plus the random street girl you can 'save' from thugs in Oxenfurt ), but don't here. I always felt those were partly the writers saying "Yeah, we've grown up since then". Yeah, seriously. It also seriously undermines the narrative with Yen in this one, since Geralt himself is supposed to be older and more mature now, with his memories back intact. Honestly, the whole card thing in the first one was probably a good idea. They were taking a weird foreign IP with a really old engine (albeit a great graphics engine for the time) and weird gameplay and presenting a really strange and lore-heavy world out of left field as a fresh company that no one knew what to expect from, plus the game was stuck in dev-hell for several years and even had a complete rebuild from initial design like 2 years in which is usually a TERRIBLE sign in this industry. Throwing in some random boobs as not only fan service but also generating a little bit of controversy with it actually drew attention to the game and made people try it out. While it was childish and silly, a whole bunch of people ended up with the argument of, "well, it was silly and unnecessary but underneath it there was actually a really drat deep and cool game there, plus a lot of cool characters and a world whose lore I'm now kinda interested in..." The handful of choices that changed the world outcome also helped because it slapped you in the face with morally grey decisions instead of the up-until-then-standard Bioware "be a saint/murder and eat babies" dichotomy. Without that initial spike of interest with a relatively conservative (in terms of narrative) story, people wouldn't have bothered with Witcher 2 and more people would have complained about the deep politics of a world they barely know about or fully understood, getting assaulted with a bunch of kingdoms and confusing names out of nowhere. That in turn setup the landscape for Witcher 3 which is the real story CDPR always wanted to tell - the true capstone to the storyline of the characters from the books. It was a brilliant strategy on CDPR's part, and I'm sure some of it wasn't entirely intentional and this wasn't necessarily some grand master plan scheme of theirs, but it ended up working out that way and god bless 'em for it because a whole shitload of people (myself included) now have the world of the Witcher on their radar and CDPR is now a powerhouse for making reliably high quality games with great storylines.
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Jan 8, 2017 22:21
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Witcher 2 question, but that thread is pretty dead so: I've finally gotten around to playing this game. It's great and all, but for some reason it deleted not one, but at least two of my saves when I died so I lost about an hour of progress. Is this a known bug or whatever? I don't want to keep playing it if I'm risking periodically losing progress.
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Jan 8, 2017 22:30
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The only issue I remember with Witcher 2 saves was that it didn't overwrite autosaves, so you could easily end up with GBs worth of autosaves eating up memory. I don't recall it ever deleting saves itself though.
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Jan 8, 2017 22:41
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Red Crown posted:Witcher 2 question, but that thread is pretty dead so: Be sure you disable your cloud saves syncing option. quote:1/ Disable steam cloud (if you cant launch your game to disable steam cloud, cut your internet access) Drifter fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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Fuzz posted:*snip* I think that's giving them rather too much credit there, I don't sense much of a strategy to the content in W1 beyond "put boobs in to get us noticed". Certainly turned out to be good marketing - and let's not forget that Bioware had recently pulled the exact same trick with Mass Effect - but while I'm pleased it worked out for them I'm even more pleased they've grown out of that phase now.
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Jan 8, 2017 22:55
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Yeah there's definitely no TnA in the Witcher 3
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Jan 8, 2017 23:13
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DoctorTristan posted:In a different vein, theres a couple of quest lines that you feel would have lead to a sex scene had they been in the first game ( thinking of the fencing lessons, plus the random street girl you can 'save' from thugs in Oxenfurt ), but don't here. I always felt those were partly the writers saying "Yeah, we've grown up since then". iirc all the writing staff from Witcher 1 is gone edit: read back a bit through the posts of that guy from CDPR who posts here and I misremembered, oops 2house2fly fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Jan 8, 2017 |
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Jan 8, 2017 23:36
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I'm still really enjoying this. I'm probably about halfway through Novigrad's Chapter 1 story and have done most of the sidequests. I'm almost level 20, at which point I'll probably do some hunts in Velen. Currently garbed up in the basic cat gear. Gwent is really fun and I enjoy dropping spies and decoying the enemy spies left and right. I wish they had spent literally every second they spent making the weird uncanny valley sex scenes on more Gwent. I still have a fuckton of question marks to look after in Velen/Novigrad, which I'll probably try to attempt before jogging off to Skellige and cleaning up there. Will there be a time when the game sends me to Khaer Morhen naturally? Right now I feel like I want to wait until the end of Chapter 1, once I've explored all of Skellige.
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Jan 9, 2017 00:10
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Without spoiling anything, yes.
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Is there any decent behind-the-scenes stuff about CDPR and these games? I've only come across some really barebones stuff on Youtube.
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Jan 9, 2017 00:14
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Drifter posted:Be sure you disable your cloud saves syncing option. Thanks - as it turns out, I think it had to do with my clock not auto-updating after a power outage. The timestamps on my saves would have been from the future from the game's perspective, setting the clock correctly fixed it.
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Bicyclops posted:Will there be a time when the game sends me to Khaer Morhen naturally? Right now I feel like I want to wait until the end of Chapter 1, once I've explored all of Skellige. Yes, minor spoiler but you won't have access to Kaer Morhen until you advance the main plot past a certain point. You also aren't forced to go there immediately. So you can do basically all of the side quests in the base game before you go to KM, if you want, and you can always go to KM and then come back. There are only a couple points in the game where you won't be able to travel anywhere and do whatever you want. No timers, only a few quests can be failed and the game warns you explicitly about the point of no return. Honestly you should just visit KM when it first opens up, there's an extended and fantastic sequence with your witcher bros when you arrive and it's one of the high points of the game. Then you can leave and go right back to Skellige or whatever. Edit: that's one of my favorite things about the game, it's does open world very well and there are very few instances where you'll fail a quest or miss out on something. Just go do whatever you feel like, don't worry too much about itemization and ability setup, everything is viable and fun. It's good to mix up the different zones imo, do some Novigrad and then some Skellige/Velen or whatever. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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DoctorTristan posted:In a different vein, theres a couple of quest lines that you feel would have lead to a sex scene had they been in the first game ( thinking of the fencing lessons, plus the random street girl you can 'save' from thugs in Oxenfurt ), but don't here. I always felt those were partly the writers saying "Yeah, we've grown up since then". I honestly though that was were it was going. If not the woman you're teaching but one of her sisters. But nope, no sex. Actually I think there's only like 3 sex scenes in the base game? Kiera, and Triss/Yen depending on what romance option you choose. There's boobs, but those are in the bath house scenes. I think that's all.
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There's also the skillege shieldmaiden and the Nilfgardian spy during the gwent tournament.
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It's me again posting about Witcher 2 and 3. I can't decide if I want to finish Blood and Wine(still have probably 3/4 left. I finished up the quest to get the mutation abilities, I forgot what it's called) and did a few side quests, enough main quest to trigger the ability quest thingy) or start Witcher 2 right now. Generally since it's just the last DLC it would make sense to go ahead and finish it off, but I heard it's a good finisher for Geralt's story, so perhaps I can just come back to it last? I've already been taking a break from it for a while, so it's not like I would suddenly stop playing it. I'm frozen with indecision, so just decide for me goons.
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Go play 2 once, then B&W, then play 2 again and take the other path. I just got to that scene in Kaer Morhen you guys were talking about.  It's a travesty Lambert and Eskel weren't used more in the other games.
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OatBoy posted:There's also the skillege shieldmaiden and the Nilfgardian spy during the gwent tournament. The former is even in the gwent standalone game, but is passed over for other cards.  Speaking of gwent    Drunk Driver Dad posted:It's me again posting about Witcher 2 and 3. I can't decide if I want to finish Blood and Wine(still have probably 3/4 left. I finished up the quest to get the mutation abilities, I forgot what it's called) and did a few side quests, enough main quest to trigger the ability quest thingy) or start Witcher 2 right now. Generally since it's just the last DLC it would make sense to go ahead and finish it off, but I heard it's a good finisher for Geralt's story, so perhaps I can just come back to it last? I've already been taking a break from it for a while, so it's not like I would suddenly stop playing it. W2 is a more linear story that splits drastically, if you want to fully experience it, that might be 30 hours with different combat mechanics. It's probably best to do it in one go before returning to B&W.
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Okay so I started reading the books after finishing Blood and Wine and I have to say, I was actually kinda shocked that Zolton doesn't come in until book 5, that kinda threw me for a loop considering he's such a big part of the games, particularly 2. But yeah, been enjoying the books, mostly reading them during lunch breaks or waiting in lines, so it's been slow going but I've made steady progress. Accidentally read book 2 before book 1, but they're both collections of short stories so that doesn't matter too much. Book 3 is like, all setup, all of it, setup, for all the poo poo that goes down in book 4, and now in book 5 everything is burning and it reminds me a lot of how Witcher 3 felt, at least in the early parts of this book compared to the early parts of Witcher 3 where you're surrounded by death and war everywhere. That said, it's kinda awkward reading the books now, like watching Return of the Jedi before A New Hope, there's just things that have happened that even though you didn't see it happen before, the new stuff fills you in, and now when you go back the twists are just plot points and now you know when they happened along with how. It's not really killing my enjoyment of the books too much, but again, I'm expecting Zolton to show up at some point because I already know he's important.
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Ciri plays Gwent, murders and robs her opponents and Geralt turns into Santa?
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I just realized there are some comics in the Witcher 3 folders..
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Restrained Crown Posse posted:Ciri plays Gwent, murders and robs her opponents and Geralt turns into Santa? In the same vein as Kazuma Kiryu, Ciri beats common sense and respect into people who don't realise they're playing with fire and about to get burnt. I AM BRAWW posted:I just realized there are some comics in the Witcher 3 folders.. I never liked the comic cutscenes in W2 and I don't like comics in general, if you really like the witcher universe then by all means. Delacroix fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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chaosapiant posted:The books are very good and will make you appreciate the games so much more. Certain scenes in W3 almost had me in tears because I had real context of who characters were and what they meant to Geralt instead of just codex entries. Can you give any examples?
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One thing I will happy about when leaving Novigrad is not having to figure out where the staircase is to go up or down toward a quest marker, because it is the thing I am definitely the most laughably incompetent at in this entire game.
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Bicyclops posted:One thing I will happy about when leaving Novigrad is not having to figure out where the staircase is to go up or down toward a quest marker, because it is the thing I am definitely the most laughably incompetent at in this entire game. Get the Friendly UI and turn on the 3D markers. SO much easier.
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OatBoy posted:There's also the skillege shieldmaiden and the Nilfgardian spy during the gwent tournament. What is with Geralt and Nilfgaardian spies?
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SirSamVimes posted:What is with Geralt and Nilfgaardian spies? Dat vaguely ethnic rear end!
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I've gotta admit that in hindsight I'd have enjoyed the games even more if I had read the books before playing Witcher 3. The writing is engrossing enough as it is and with greater depth on references (like that zeugl that Geralt keeps mentioning) makes you appreciate each line that much more. The way CDPR put their own touches here and there while balancing the precedents of Sapkowski in the game is what seems to have been the right formula for success.Spikeguy posted:Can you give any examples? There's gazillions of references to book events and characters that will only help immersion if you read through them, although if you super sperg it all you'll start to see a couple cracks of course. It's also asinine to strongly recommend reading the books before playing. But if you really like any of the games' stories beyond Act 1 ish I think it's not terrible to stop then and binge read the books and hopefully get Sapkowski a little more cash (although I suspect he's getting none now given how salty he is).
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I read the books and still went Triss 
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Yeah, but you're weird.
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Hey guys what's the name of the mod that allows you to insta cast signs with a controller?theres a couple of them in nexus and some of them seem way too complicated.
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Best order to read the books in? I've only read The Last Wish and Blood of Elves thus far and Amazon doesn't seem to give them any particular order.
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Jan 10, 2017 13:34
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Read them in publication order. The Last Wish, The Sword of Destiny, The Time of Contempt, The Blood of the Elves, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of Swallows, Lady of the Lake and, if you really want to go all-in, you can read Season of Storms too, which is a much more recently published short stories collection that received mixed critiques and was probably only published because the author realized the games were mad popular and wanted to bank on that.
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El Grillo posted:Is there any decent behind-the-scenes stuff about CDPR and these games? I've only come across some really barebones stuff on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMmFiQp3Q_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBWlnL6Tr6k
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