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Sir Teabag posted:All the ladies wanna gently caress Geralt, all of them. They have multiple quest lines where they explicitly make fun of you for assuming that you'll get laid as a result. An elf that you save from racists and a succubus who basically says "ew no you smell like monster blood." Maybe others, but I haven't finished the game. But yes, part of the Witcher 3 is that you will get "some".
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True confessions I tried to play both Witcher 2 & 3 but just for whatever reason did not like the gameplay enough to wade through the dull open world questing. I really did try to like it but it just never clicked with me.
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Sir Teabag posted:I guess it depends on your play style, but I found some of the leveling options to be pointless. Especially since you are limited to the amount of abilities you can have active at one time. I found that I essentially never took alchemical abilities because I would rather just be better at combat and spell casting. I did end up taking some of the ones that give you more HP or things like that, but I don't really give a poo poo about making stronger potions when I can just raise my defense or attack stats permanently instead. Alchemy builds are secretly the Tank spec and they're ludicrously strong. They do, however, benefit from going deep into the skill tree (aside from grenades) and picking up on skill synergies in a way the other trees don't. You also get the benefit of having visible Sith veins when you're roided out with a decoction and a dozen potions, and the potions all have their durations extended to last as long as your blood is still toxic as gently caress, which effectively means they last until long after the fight's over. And that's before getting into the stuff B&W adds.
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Witcher 1 was a surprisingly good and ambitious game for a first time developer. My main criticism is actually that the middle act was padded heavily, I think the devs mistook 'long' for 'epic'. Witcher 2 was far more concise and a huge improvement. Witcher 3 going open world was surprising and the amount of character and story they filled it with is incredible. The sex cards only feature in the first game and as I understand it were added very late in development. It actually features very little nudity other than on those terrible, terrible cards. There is more nudity in the other two but still not that much and it is usually far less gratuitous. if it is in the main quests then it probably makes reasonable sense why it is there.
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Apr 6, 2017 00:06
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TKIY posted:Sorry ME:A is a legit fun game. My Biotic Sniper is kick rear end and the action components of the game are the best Bioware has produced since Jade Empire. please stop owning yourself with bad opinions my man
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Moola posted:please stop owning yourself with bad opinions my man There are no bad opinions, only gimmick posters posing as fleshless skulls.
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Xarbala posted:Alchemy builds are secretly the Tank spec and they're ludicrously strong. They do, however, benefit from going deep into the skill tree (aside from grenades) and picking up on skill synergies in a way the other trees don't. You make it sound like you can play as Bane. Maybe I'll give it a shot next time I play through. Avenging Dentist posted:They have multiple quest lines where they explicitly make fun of you for assuming that you'll get laid as a result. An elf that you save from racists and a succubus who basically says "ew no you smell like monster blood." Maybe others, but I haven't finished the game. Ah you're right, I forgot about that one. I'm sure there are other things I'm forgetting, I started playing it around the same time my mother was diagnosed with cancer so I was heavy into the escapism but very preoccupied at the same time.
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I just assumed the cards were there because, the story was written by someone in Denmark or Poland, where people don't give a poo poo about what sex should/shouldn't be, supposedly, maybe, no idea. That was the reasoning i ran with. And hey, at least it doesn't restrict your choices by age. In the first area, you can bone some aging farm maid, i think.
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Maybe I'm misremembering somewhat but in the books Geralt really isn't shacking up with every other lady he meets. If anything Dandelion is much more the ladies man and Geralt sort of above it all with more romanticized notions about love. The ideal of all of these women wanting to get in bed with the mutant (aside from ones with ulterior motives) seems mostly fan-wankery to enhance his macho badass factor.
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Thankfully that stuff was dialed way back after the first game because you're absolutely right. Geralt is more of a dorky dad trying to play up a fantasy batman persona in the third game.
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Something I just remembered, Witcher 1 was built with the same engine as Mass Effect 1. Back then Bioware were really starting to push the relationships angle of their games. Maybe someone on the Witcher project (I still think they worked in marketing) was looking too hard at what Bioware were doing, missed the point entirely, then insisted that their game must also have the ability to shag everything! Possibly related, but Witcher 1 had budget troubles. I read a thing about how the studio was contracting out a side game (on the Witcher IP) for consoles that was meant to grow the brand. But the contractors kept running out of money. So CD Projekt Red gave them some more to finish. Repeatedly. It ended up being so expensive it almost broke the studio. Maybe someone in management got really desperate to sell more copies and started grasping for cheap ways to broaden the game?
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darnon posted:Maybe I'm misremembering somewhat but in the books Geralt really isn't shacking up with every other lady he meets. If anything Dandelion is much more the ladies man and Geralt sort of above it all with more romanticized notions about love. The ideal of all of these women wanting to get in bed with the mutant (aside from ones with ulterior motives) seems mostly fan-wankery to enhance his macho badass factor. Honestly it's because the games don't really follow the books that much and it's pretty clear they took a lot of pointers from other sources. Book Geralt is a really loving weird character, he's kind of a soapbox for the authors kind of vague sociopolitical beliefs. Like a combination of Elric and 80s bubsnikt era Wolverine, he's the ultimate aloof cooldude that a 14 year old would dream up. Game Geralt is honestly a much better character with a lot better motivations. It's clear whoever was writing him was taking a lot of inspiration from stuff like Name of the Wind and Leiber/Eddings/etc type of fantasy. Game Geralt is basically a critique of Book Geralt, revealing things like how his cold aloofness is really him trying to cover up insecurity and other similar ways to explore that character.
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Witcher 3 is a good game, Games Workshop is becoming a better company, you can find time to play multiple tabletop games, I hoe the cat survives and finds a good home, spectralent please get banned. Peace out.
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ijyt posted:you can find time to play multiple tabletop games sadly this is not always true
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:sadly this is not always true Not trying hard enough.
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Apr 6, 2017 10:38
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Yeah who the gently caress needs relationships and kids eh?
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Not a viking posted:Yeah who the gently caress needs relationships and kids eh? This thread likes to blame everyone but themselves. 
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TKIY posted:There are no bad opinions, only gimmick posters posing as fleshless skulls. motherfuckre Ill kill you!! hissssssssssssssssssssss!!!
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TKIY posted:There are no bad opinions, only gimmick posters posing as fleshless skulls. Moola is a skeleton IRL, please be gentle.
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Skeletons are to skin colour what bald is to hair colour.
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ijyt posted:This thread likes to blame everyone but themselves. Maybe a better way to put it is "not everyone wants to prioritize table top games enough to be able to play all the games, and therefore would make a hard decision as to which one to play. In which case, they might choose one that doesn't take so much time and money to spend and provide the most amount of "fun" [gently caress I said it didn't I] per time and money spent"
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Not a viking posted:"fun" [gently caress I said it didn't I] enjoy your ban
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Moola posted:enjoy your ban Mods?
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Not a viking posted:Maybe a better way to put it is "not everyone wants to prioritize table top games enough to be able to play all the games, and therefore would make a hard decision as to which one to play. In which case, they might choose one that doesn't take so much time and money to spend and provide the most amount of "fun" [gently caress I said it didn't I] per time and money spent" Like I said earlier, the other issue is that GW has a history of trying to push out competing games and monopolise game space. Their strategy of developing playerbases then cutting off support was specifically targeted to do that and it's going to suck for games they see as direct competitors when they do it again if GW manages to re-establish it's hegemon over plastic doll games. I mean, maybe they won't; it's not the 90s anymore and anyone can see other games exist and arrange to play them with a quick google or whatever. But anyone who thinks that GW would never do that is clearly relying on GW not doing a lovely thing that A: they've already done before and B: worked.
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TKIY posted:There are no bad opinions, only gimmick posters posing as fleshless skulls. Uuuuh I'll have you know that the correct denomination is Deathrattler. TIA
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spectralent posted:Like I said earlier, the other issue is that You don't say?
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Bad Moon posted:True confessions I tried to play both Witcher 2 & 3 but just for whatever reason did not like the gameplay enough to wade through the dull open world questing. Yeah this is me too. I got to the second area of Witcher 2 and immediately got a bunch of boring MMO style quests and just totally lost interest.
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berzerkmonkey posted:You don't say? I mean you just described the major problem with capitalism but GW has a particular history of, for example, supplying stores/clubs with support then cutting them off when the players went majority GW to force them to play/buy at GW stores. I don't really relish the idea of losing Infinity or Deadzone if they try and pull similar poo poo with Newcromunda.
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spectralent posted:I mean you just described the major problem with capitalism Tell me more. 
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Tell me more. Monopolies are bad. Incentives to create monopolies encourage them. Sorry if my crazy soviet beliefs are controversial.
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spectralent posted:I mean you just described the major problem with capitalism but GW has a particular history of, for example, supplying stores/clubs with support then cutting them off when the players went majority GW to force them to play/buy at GW stores. I don't really relish the idea of losing Infinity or Deadzone if they try and pull similar poo poo with Newcromunda. Well, hopefully that was more a problem with the previous GW management. But here's a serious question: how much support does Mantic or Corvus Belli give stores/clubs for Deadzone or Infinity? And what kind of support is it? I only see so much support a company can give a game - if the store owner wants a game to thrive, he's going to have to do some promotion as well, and not just rely on the company to be sending a steady stream of trinkets. GW doesn't have to step in for the store or club to say "Hey - we're going to have an event next month!" Maybe it's just my group, but I don't understand the constant cry for "store support or my game will die!" from gamers. If the company is putting out new models, rules, units, whatever, then I don't see how they are not supporting the game. Even if they don't support the game, you can still play - my group plays quite a few "dead" games.
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spectralent posted:Monopolies are bad. Incentives to create monopolies encourage them. Sorry if my crazy soviet beliefs are controversial. 
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Moola posted:enjoy your ban Get a spinal column, you bonedeathlerrattleblight.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Well, hopefully that was more a problem with the previous GW management. But here's a serious question: how much support does Mantic or Corvus Belli give stores/clubs for Deadzone or Infinity? And what kind of support is it? I have no idea, Deadzone-wise, but I've been pretty impressed with the stuff Infinity's done with store support. Limited/promotional miniatures go through stores, they supply promotional kit (minis, tokens, badges, etc) and rules for tournaments (which they create rules packs for, too), and I believe they provide either an escalation structure or at least independent tournament promo stuff (I have a little ALEPH badge I've got sat next to some of my other models that must be from them). They also maintain both a really exhaustive wiki and online (and phone-app) list-builders which, while not store support, are certainly a nice community resource. Support for stores is ultimately going to matter for what a store wants to sell. You can promote anything but making it easier to promote stuff is going to make it more likely someone will. Why would you want to run an event for GW if you have no previous goodwill towards them and no interest in building their community for them? New miniatures are only good in that respect in as much as people actually want to stock stuff and there's a distinct lack of goodwill (at least in the stores I speak to) after how bad the static inventory was on the sigmar launch. As for dead games, yeah, you can play them in groups, but unless you had a really massive game to begin with (and I think a lot of GW specialist games are the only ones that come to mind here) you're not going to have any growth. Players will get bored and move on for whatever reason and the group'll dwindle. Hell, necromunda is a popular game the community took over and I still remember that happening to it where I used to live to the point where it stopped being possible to find regular games.
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spectralent posted:I have no idea, Deadzone-wise, but I've been pretty impressed with the stuff Infinity's done with store support. Limited/promotional miniatures go through stores, they supply promotional kit (minis, tokens, badges, etc) and rules for tournaments (which they create rules packs for, too), and I believe they provide either an escalation structure or at least independent tournament promo stuff (I have a little ALEPH badge I've got sat next to some of my other models that must be from them). They also maintain both a really exhaustive wiki and online (and phone-app) list-builders which, while not store support, are certainly a nice community resource. spectralent posted:Support for stores is ultimately going to matter for what a store wants to sell. You can promote anything but making it easier to promote stuff is going to make it more likely someone will. Why would you want to run an event for GW if you have no previous goodwill towards them and no interest in building their community for them? spectralent posted:Hell, necromunda is a popular game the community took over and I still remember that happening to it where I used to live to the point where it stopped being possible to find regular games.
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Bistromatic posted:Skeletons are to skin colour what bald is to hair colour. Excuse me, Moola is not nearly as fabulous as Patrick Stewart.
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TKIY posted:Get a spinal column, you bonedeathlerrattleblight. gonna need you to dial this racism way back
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Cat Face Joe posted:gonna need you to dial this racism way back loving Skeltal Lives Matter. Doot doot your way back to Skullfrica!
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