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Costume wise I did like that the rich people are wearing, in general, some outfits in cloth that looks sumptuous as hell. I am not sure what is going on with a lot of the armour though, I guess that articulated plate stuff for arms is expensive? Because you have supposed royalty who (apart from Folest) wear like a breastplate, a helmet and weird bracer things then just cloth over their arms.
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Tehran 1979 posted:The general consensus is that the first episode is not very good. There's a big improvement episode by episode and you'll know whether or not you want to keep watching by the end of Ep 3. Checked the quality the other day, it's a man and the book starts with a battle.
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Am I imagining things or was there something in the books /games about how Yen wears trousers loads cos dresses are loving stupid if you're trying to move at all? Thought we were gonna get that after a few scenes of her struggling to run.
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You did see a move away from arm and leg protection as guns became more common on the early modern battlefield.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Am I imagining things or was there something in the books /games about how Yen wears trousers loads cos dresses are loving stupid if you're trying to move at all? Thought we were gonna get that after a few scenes of her struggling to run. I’ll have to re-read, but I’m pretty sure it’s Triss that wears trousers all the time. Yen is pretty much dresses and all in silver and black. (Although I think she does trousers when she knows she’s going to ride horses) And Yen is less of a run away and more of a stand and immolate/explode people kind of woman. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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Dec 22, 2019 00:02
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Haven't finished, but they don't adapt "A Grain of Truth" this season, right? That's one of my favorite short stories, but I get why it wouldn't be a priority.
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Rocksicles posted:Checked the quality the other day, it's a man and the book starts with a battle. One of us has something mislabeled, Last Wish for me begins with a sex dream. Next chapter is a fight in a tavern. Any other readers able to weigh in? Also how close attention should I be paying to the world building? ASOIAF level where remembering same random color patterns can decipher plots, or more laid back?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Who knows. Given the way the games begin and develop over time I don't think a direct translation of them would really work. Nonsense! A season per game. For the first game, they'll have to have at least two episodes dedicated to Geralt wandering around the swamp.
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Tehran 1979 posted:One of us has something mislabeled, Last Wish for me begins with a sex dream. Next chapter is a fight in a tavern. Any other readers able to weigh in? According to audible, the book order is right, but with the short stories (which aren't short) have a read order i haven't looked up. 
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Dec 22, 2019 00:16
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Blood of Elves begins with a bunch of people arguing about the outcome of Sodden Hill at one of Dandelion's performances while he robs them all and fucks off. I finished the last episode today and I think that the finale could have been done a bit better. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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Tehran 1979 posted:One of us has something mislabeled, Last Wish for me begins with a sex dream. Next chapter is a fight in a tavern. Any other readers able to weigh in? The Last Wish was i think originally published as individual short stories in a magazine. They were later collated into a book, then again but with an extra story that gets told in chapters between the original stories. The first book should start with either the chapters "The Voice of Reason" or "The Witcher". Rocksicles posted:According to audible, the book order is right, but with the short stories (which aren't short) have a read order i haven't looked up. You want to do The Last Wish, then Sword of Destiny, then the numbered books in order, then Season of Storms. The show covers 8 or so of the short storied from The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny and ends at the end of Sword of Destiny. CJ fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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Debating whether to watch this with my wife, who has an aversion to graphic torture and rape scenes, it’s why she couldn’t watch game of thrones. Some violence is ok as long as its not too intimate and nasty. LotR style stuff is fine. How much of that is in this series? I’ve never played the games or read the books.
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Hmmm well a character has a hysterectomy without anaesthesia. But she elected to undergo the procedure.
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There's disembowelment and decapitations and slit jugulars and lots of blood. Just finished the season. So we're back to the old style of filmmaking where "we have fifty thousand men but our budget can only handle twenty extras."
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Halfway through ep 2 and why on earth is the bard dude, I assume that's Dandelion? more pale than Geralt? It's so obvious when they're walking next to each other, I thought witchers were meant to be 'i'm a white-haired mutant' vampiric deeply-unhealthy creepy level corpse skin but Geralt is looking like a west coast surfer. They Trumped him.
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Arcsquad12 posted:There's disembowelment and decapitations and slit jugulars and lots of blood. Well I like the old style when you had to wrangle poo poo together to come up with interesting effects and making things seem bigger than they were. Jason and the Argonauts is a favorite, another was the AT-ATs on Hoth. Both made amazing use of miniatures and stop motion. Hell the noise for the tie fighters was literally them recording what an electric razor sounded like spinning around a glass bowl. That tradition of wacky noise making lives on, Mortal Kombat has used people cracking, crushing and smooshing various fruits and vegetables to get those fatality noises. Don't get me wrong CGI is great if you do it right, Jurassic Park aged really well, and it can be an eye rolling nightmare like X Men Origins Wolverine, Green Lantern or an Aviation Gin commercial.
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Vitamin P posted:Halfway through ep 2 and why on earth is the bard dude, I assume that's Dandelion? more pale than Geralt? The only visual indicators witchers really have in common are the yellow cat eyes, a large collection of scars, and a medallion of the school that trained them. Geralt's white hair is a result of his trials, but it's unique to him.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:and a medallion of the school that trained them. Speaking of, did we ever see the medallion vibrate? Also, the lack of Drowners was disappointing.
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The timeline of the show goes something like this: Ciri's pov takes place in the show's present. Geralt's pov starts around 30+ years before Ciri's. Yennefer's starts hers around 50+ years BC. They intersect here and there and they all converge in episode 8. Someone can make a nice graph for this with accurate dates. The benefit of this approach is that all 3 feel like a main pillar of the show, and that we get to "find" Geralt at the same time Ciri finds him. (The weakness is confusing people). mcbexx posted:Speaking of, did we ever see the medallion vibrate? Also, the lack of Drowners was disappointing. We see Cavill hold it a couple of times with some background noise.
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itry posted:The timeline of the show goes something like this: the other weakness is that while Geralt has a lot of strong material to take directly from the books, and Yen has a strong implied backstory that is easy to fill out, Ciri is largely stuck spinning her wheels for the entire first season - it will likely pay off in season 2 since it does highlight her as central to the show, but trimming her POV down for more Geralt and Yen would have helped the pacing of season 1 a fair bit
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Yeah, it's a little like hammering a square peg into a round hole, but it (borderline) worked for me.
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Scooter_McCabe posted:Well I like the old style when you had to wrangle poo poo together to come up with interesting effects and making things seem bigger than they were. Jason and the Argonauts is a favorite, another was the AT-ATs on Hoth. Both made amazing use of miniatures and stop motion. Hell the noise for the tie fighters was literally them recording what an electric razor sounded like spinning around a glass bowl. That tradition of wacky noise making lives on, Mortal Kombat has used people cracking, crushing and smooshing various fruits and vegetables to get those fatality noises. It isnt a deal breaker but I have been spoiled on battle scenes in television shows by The Last Kingdom. Game of Thrones has maybe one or two good fight scenes where armies actually clash, but Last Kingdom is the only show I've watched where formation fighting is not only used but emphasized as the path to victory. The camera work for Calanthe's fight in episode 1 was great but it was still the flashy "everyone pairs off into duels" style of battle scene. I'm also saddened that we didn't get to see the shitstompimg that King Foltest and King Henselt handed to Nilfgaard at Sodden.
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itry posted:Yeah, it's a little like hammering a square peg into a round hole, but it (borderline) worked for me. Just make the hole bigger, fill it with glue. Young carpenters trick
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So I've never played the Witcher games, is it worth picking up Wild Hunt?
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Scooter_McCabe posted:So I've never played the Witcher games, is it worth picking up Wild Hunt? it's the only Witcher game I've played. Well worth it. You should be able to get it with all the expansions for a cheap price. easy to get into without knowing the previous stories.
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Depending on how much free time you have, I'd still play 2 before 3. Its by no means necessary, but 2 is still absolutely worth playing.
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Be advised that the Witcher games assume the audience is familiar with the source material. They're easy to pick up but they treat several events from the books as known facts, so its a spoiler minefield if you care about that sort of thing.
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Scooter_McCabe posted:So I've never played the Witcher games, is it worth picking up Wild Hunt? Sony does this thing where certain games are system-sellers and they constantly sale them dirt cheap. On the Vita it was P4G and on PS4 it's The Witcher. Like the game is worth full price but given that it's on sale so often just grab it for £6 one day.
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Scooter_McCabe posted:So I've never played the Witcher games, is it worth picking up Wild Hunt? Most publications had it as game of the year 2015. If you like story rich RPGs it's one of the best. Play it on a controller. Get the GOTY edition, with both expansions it's easily 150 hours of content. Real content too, not just grinding encounters or time sink pap. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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King Foltest lookin like Rich from RedLetterMedia
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Arcsquad12 posted:Be advised that the Witcher games assume the audience is familiar with the source material. They're easy to pick up but they treat several events from the books as known facts, so its a spoiler minefield if you care about that sort of thing. I care more about the story and quality of story telling over spoilers. I'm that guy that will read the spoilers and decide if the movie is then worth seeing.
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Well Witcher 1 has Geralt with amnesia for plot convenience, but Witcher 2 has his memory return and Witcher 3 he knows exactly what he's doing. Like I said there are a couple big spoilers that are treated as fact in the games, so keep that in mind since it will colour your opinion of certain characters
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Never played the game or read the books. Just watched the pilot and the dialogue feels.... stiff. Not sure if it is the writing or the acting but hopefully it improves.
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Dandelion was perfect casting. I straight up loled when he was singing the song after they escaped from the elves and it hit 'he couldn't be .... bleaten'. Just *mwah* chef's kiss.
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If you're not on board by episode three don't feel bad about dropping the show. Episode 3 is gonzo and if it doesn't hook you nothing else will.
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