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BrainMeats posted:I started reading through the books not too long ago. Done with the short story collections and currently I'm on Blood of Elves. They're not amazing works of literature but they're fun if you enjoy the setting and want to see where all these characters came from. A little repetitive on some vocabulary but it gets the message across. The main thing the Witcher series does well is A++ sarcasm every other line, I love it. Speaking of details, is there any mod that changes W3 combat to be 90% pirouettes as it appears to be in the books? ShakeZula posted:Also the developers really know their audience. Of the 4 game clips you can watch on the marketplace page for the game, 3 of them feature naked Triss. Wasn't there a Polish Playboy spread with Triss? Poles are crazy.
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GrossMurpel posted:The main thing the Witcher series does well is A++ sarcasm every other line, I love it. Yeah and those images were included as extras in the GOG version of the release of W2.
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Vikar Jerome posted:They get better, i found blood of elves to be the worst. Blood of Elves was the first main novel, right? I almost gave up on the series after that. It's all world building and moving the chess pieces around, the overall plot of the series doesn't even start until the next one. Imagine Frodo finding the ring halfway through Two Towers. It's not poorly written there's just nothing that happens. But yeah by the end I was all in. I mostly knew what would happen due to the games (and who isn't in them) but it was still a fun ride. Hoping the Netflix series can do them justice.
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GrossMurpel posted:Speaking of details, is there any mod that changes W3 combat to be 90% pirouettes as it appears to be in the books? this is in the game already if you just only ever use Whirl from the sword skill tree
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Litany Unheard posted:So at this point have more people read the books or played the games? I know his books are popular but I have no idea how large his readership actually is. I'm currently plowing through Time of Contempt and it reads just fine.
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redbackground posted:I'm currently plowing through Time of Contempt and it reads just fine. BrainMeats posted:I started reading through the books not too long ago. Done with the short story collections and currently I'm on Blood of Elves. They're not amazing works of literature but they're fun if you enjoy the setting and want to see where all these characters came from. A little repetitive on some vocabulary but it gets the message across. Guess I'll dive right in, then. Always down for some good trashy fantasy.
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May 25, 2017 19:37
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Now if only that Gwent game was on Steam. Then I'd consider getting it.
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Class Warcraft posted:I have a free copy on PC if you want it. Thanks, but I doubt my laptop could handle it. I'm a console gamer pretty much exclusively. Plus I have an Xbox marketplace gift card that I was saving for Mass Effect dlc and, well....
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Finally started playing Hearts of Stone. Would play a whole game of Geralt and Vlodimir Get Drunk
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Gwent is great. The recent gwent tourney is worth watching if you want to get a good idea of the game (vods on twitch). It has a lot less RNG due to larger hands and the 3 card mulligan. Ressurecting cards from the grave yard and interesting leader mechanics make it a fairly broad game in regards to strategy. But yes, it is a lot different to TW3 gwent. Give it a go, play some northern realms and spam siege towers.
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One great thing about the Gwent game is that all the in-game card shops/crafting stores etc. are run by cave trolls in all their broken language glory from the games. One thing that sucks is that while there's a lot of good music taken from/inspired by the games there are also some really awful tunes that sound like midi crimes against humanity.
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Finally got around to beating B&W. Hooly poo poo, I didn't think it was possible to have better set piece moments than in the base game but it went and did it. Fighting Detlaff is what all vampires should aspire to be. When he turns into a giant bat creature it's one if the few times I'm like 'oh holy gently caress' in real life. Then he proceeds to nearly one shot me with every hit. They couldn't have nailed the atmosphere/dread/anxiety any better if they tried.
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Apparently The Witcher 3 sold more copies Q1 2017 than it it did in the same period last year. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-witcher-3-sold-better-in-q1-2017-than-same-per/1100-6450351/ I'd be surprised if they never make another Witcher game.
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TV dog Wishbone of PBS posted:Finally started playing Hearts of Stone.  Palpek posted:One great thing about the Gwent game is that all the in-game card shops/crafting stores etc. are run by cave trolls in all their broken language glory from the games. I liked the stupid cave trolls in Witcher 3 but I do wish there were a couple of the somewhat smarter trolls from Witcher 2 as well.
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How do the shops work in Gwent standalone? If I only spend money on the base game am I going to be up against a bunch of whales who buy all the best cards?
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Hobo Clown posted:How do the shops work in Gwent standalone? If I only spend money on the base game am I going to be up against a bunch of whales who buy all the best cards? It's completely F2P so there's no up front "base game" purchase to make. You can grind up cards pretty quickly by just getting daily rewards and if you want you can mill cards for crafting materials, so you could mill all of the cards from the other factions to make a decent deck for your preferred faction. If you want to buy cards at some point it's about $1.50 to get a keg of five cards, cheaper if you buy the bigger bulk options (cheapest is about $1.16 per if you buy 60 kegs).
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Lurdiak posted:
Not that much smarter. More intelligible yes, but that river troll was a drunk.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Not that much smarter. More intelligible yes, but that river troll was a drunk. He had a reason! When drunk, get headache, but no pain in brain. They really struck me as simple rather than stupid, and they were charming because of it.
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I really wouldn't recommend the GWENT game at all. Match making is terrible as a new player expect to be matched against experienced players with better cards. I'm not saying every once in a while but the majority of the games I played were like this. Just dominated with no counter over and over again.
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axelord posted:I really wouldn't recommend the GWENT game at all. Match making is terrible as a new player expect to be matched against experienced players with better cards. I'm not saying every once in a while but the majority of the games I played were like this. Give it a week or two. It will shake itself out as the people who have been playing closed beta get moved up in the ranks.
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I'm doing Final Preparations now and man 2 pretty much had variations on jacket/slacks/boots, but 3 lets you get weird as hell with your look and i love it
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May 27, 2017 18:02
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Willie Tomg posted:I'm doing Final Preparations now and man 2 pretty much had variations on jacket/slacks/boots, but 3 lets you get weird as hell with your look and i love it For my next run of this game, I'm thinking of just turning god mode on and playing dress up without regard for how actually good the armor is.
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Ainsley McTree posted:For my next run of this game, I'm thinking of just turning god mode on and playing dress up without regard for how actually good the armor is. Don't need god mode for this! http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/780/
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Don't need god mode for this! Even better then!
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Skwirl posted:Apparently The Witcher 3 sold more copies Q1 2017 than it it did in the same period last year. 'we own the ip outright, it's ridiculously popular, we make games... look, you work it out. think it through.'
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I also remember a quote a couple months back where it wasn't even really implied, they just straight up said "yeah there will be more Witcher"
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I also remember a quote a couple months back where it wasn't even really implied, they just straight up said "yeah there will be more Witcher" Yeah, it would be asinine not to do it, likely after cyberpunk.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I also remember a quote a couple months back where it wasn't even really implied, they just straight up said "yeah there will be more Witcher" that was what I was paraphrasing.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Yeah, it would be asinine not to do it, likely after cyberpunk. I hope my grandkids enjoy it 
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I also remember a quote a couple months back where it wasn't even really implied, they just straight up said "yeah there will be more Witcher" What they said was that Witcher 3 was the end of Geralts story. Never ruled out other games in the same universe.
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I hope we're a Sorceress next game.
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The Lone Badger posted:I hope we're a Sorceress next game. Puke. Lambert. Lambert is who we should be.
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Hearts of Stone: If you don't like the tone of the DLC, just wait five minutes!
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What should I do with the huge pile of runestones? Add/waste them to my lovely low level weapons I'm replacing every other day? Sell them? Deconstruct them for materials?
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The Lone Badger posted:I hope we're a Sorceress next game. that is actually a loving awesome idea
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I wonder if they'd use the blank slate presented by the end of the original trilogy and have a customizable character, one without the same complex backstory and deep ties to the in-game universe. Maybe the last witcher of the Manticore School or something, come north to investigate whatever the big mystery is? Alternately, while we are done playing as Geralt, the rest of the games will be the adventures of Ravix of Fourhorn!
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