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Yennefer is very much a "deliberately-break-your-toys-now-and-apologise-later" person. She destroys a priceless artifact and ruins a holy-place just to acquire a handful of information that you probably could have learned about elsewhere on your own.
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Kennel posted:In Witcher 1 Yen is even less important than in W2. She's barely mentioned at all. Triss actually moves in on amnesiac Geralt by insinuating that she is the mysterious sorceress that used to be his lover.
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Oct 25, 2020 11:23
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Kit Walker posted:Also, while it is missable, the final romance quest for Yennefer is really good and I’d have had to have a heart as cold as ice to reject her at the end of it Having Yen declare her love first is one of the most spectacularly cruel things I've ever seen a video game do and I applaud CDPR for doing it.
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Oct 25, 2020 11:34
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A little thing that's a missed opportunity towards the end of Rogue Galaxy (currently halfway through chapter 12, got half of the drigellums) I'd have preferred if the barrier robot made had trapped Mother in the plaza, so that you could talk to her through the shield like the viggo painting in the Ghostbusters videogame. Just "So, you really want to kill me huh? Ruuuuude." "Your dad died? That sucks. Oh well, I'll reunite you soon." "You got first place in the Insectron tournament? Niiiiice."
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Oct 25, 2020 11:55
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The open-world from Mass Effect 1 was piss-poor and so bad it drove me to stop playing forever given it's numerous issues. Yet at the same time people lamented its removal from the sequels and felt that while the concept wasn't done properly, it did deserve another look-through. I really liked the vehicle levels of Mass Effect 2 because they broke up the cover-shooting, had appealing scenery, and made the galaxy feel big but without any time-wasting. I feel like the mission and hub-design of ME2 could be repeated again to great effect, but with a level-replay and without the missable collectibles and planet-scanning. That's not even the only Mass Effect 1 thing that's in that box. I'd also put the really granular form of skill progression and its weapon customization there; they didn't work great, but they didn't deserve to just be abandoned.
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Oct 25, 2020 12:35
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Weapon modding and more skill progression came back for ME3.
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Oct 25, 2020 13:32
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When you jump out of the Mako and shoot a Geth Colossus to death with your pistol for bonus xp
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Yennefer is very much a "deliberately-break-your-toys-now-and-apologise-later" person. She destroys a priceless artifact and ruins a holy-place just to acquire a handful of information that you probably could have learned about elsewhere on your own. yennefer has a very limited number of things in the world that she actually cares about and if she has to lend them aid then she does not give a single poo poo about collateral damage. ciri is right at the tippy-top of that list, so those gardens and that artifact never stood a chance she's one of my favorite characters in the series, mostly because she's so prickly and opaque that nearly everyone in the game misreads her intentions, geralt included. ciri seems to be the only one who really "gets" her
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Oct 25, 2020 15:16
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The only thing bigger than the chip on Yen's shoulder was the hump on her back. Everyone can just go to hell except for a handful of people.
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The Shame Boy posted:I'm currently playing through Witcher 3 as sombody that played a bit of Witcher 2 but never 1, i am way more attached to Triss than i am Yennifer. Like i know Geralt and Yennifer supposedly have a past and all but i went to Skelleige and good GOD can you make Geralt the most clingy, desperate,lovey dubey dude of all time if you pick those dialog options. Like some of the ones that tell her how pretty she is or how nice she smells kinda come out of nowhere sometimes. I know he's kinda been looking for her a long time and all but considering all the other options you can take, even with some of the other sorceresses in the game. It just kinda sticks out you know? I understand not liking it, but I thought it was cute tbh. Like, the fact that Geralt has dialogue options with Yennefer that are so different to how he talks to other characters immediately informs you on their relationship and how he feels about her. It IS really annoying that she's (and Ciri for that matter) not in the first two games and barely mentioned and then the third game entirely hinges on the Geralt-Yen-Ciri stuff. It mostly works, but if you just dive right into the game it feels like you're missing a prologue chapter or something unless you do a lot of background research.
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Lobok posted:The only thing bigger than the chip on Yen's shoulder was the hump on her back. Thats just Geralt 
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The open-world from Mass Effect 1 was piss-poor and so bad it drove me to stop playing forever given it's numerous issues. Yet at the same time people lamented its removal from the sequels and felt that while the concept wasn't done properly, it did deserve another look-through. I really liked the vehicle levels of Mass Effect 2 because they broke up the cover-shooting, had appealing scenery, and made the galaxy feel big but without any time-wasting. I feel like the mission and hub-design of ME2 could be repeated again to great effect, but with a level-replay and without the missable collectibles and planet-scanning. It was done very poorly but it had a perfect place in that space opera game..yeah the physics suck and driving through nothingness was full, but every so often you'd look up and see a swirling red sun right above you, casting a red glow over the entire world you're on, making you feel small as gently caress and goddamn if it didn't bring a sense of wonder to a game where a goal to attain is loving your crewmates.
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The Shame Boy posted:I'm currently playing through Witcher 3 as sombody that played a bit of Witcher 2 but never 1, i am way more attached to Triss than i am Yennifer. Like i know Geralt and Yennifer supposedly have a past and all but i went to Skelleige and good GOD can you make Geralt the most clingy, desperate,lovey dubey dude of all time if you pick those dialog options. Like some of the ones that tell her how pretty she is or how nice she smells kinda come out of nowhere sometimes. I know he's kinda been looking for her a long time and all but considering all the other options you can take, even with some of the other sorceresses in the game. It just kinda sticks out you know? Same, I found it really weird and jarring how he becomes an excited puppy around her. It ends up making sense when you learn about the spell later. When it's dispelled, you can turn her down and become normal again, which I was happy to do because she's annoying as heck. I'm on team Shani anyway.
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tripwood posted:Same, I found it really weird and jarring how he becomes an excited puppy around her. It ends up making sense when you learn about the spell later. When it's dispelled, you can turn her down and become normal again, which I was happy to do because she's annoying as heck. I'm on team Shani anyway. Nah, he's just like that. In one of the short stories he briefly gives up on trying to win Yennefer's love because a wizard (that she is also banging and is Geralt's rival) tells him that Witcher's can't genuinely feel emotions ands therefore what Geralt thinks he feels is just chemical reactions in the brain that he's ascribed meaning to and Geralt just immediately accepts this until she gets mad at him for being a dumbass. Also Geralt wished for the spell in the first place
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Been playing a lot of Assassin's Creed Origins recently; Oh, a weird blue meteor has fallen to earth, revealing a tomb! Looking inside, a fresco of a nearby giant sundial and the roman numerals XV under it "This number looks important!" says my man. Outside, figure the puzzle with the sundial after a couple false starts, run back to the tomb. A big glowing forcefield with an indistinct figure inside? Ok, 'Interact'. Cutscene: the forcefield fades and a steampunk-looking gent (we are in ancient egypt remember) walks out and all but winks at the camera - a giant robot space bird appears in orbit (!!) and fires a bunch of giant swords made out of light around this guy and teleports him away. Mission rewards: a clockwork sword, a fancy shield and a four-legged bird-camel. I was What the gently caress was that all about?? Am I meant to recognise any of that? Did I do an end-game mission by accident? Yes I have never played a Final Fantasy game and there was no indication there was any 'crossover' material in AC:Or I'm still riding my bird-camel, though.
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christmas boots posted:is just chemical reactions in the brain that he's ascribed meaning to Is...is that not what emotions are 
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This is great we're talking about. Not exactly the sharpest lightbulb in the drawer
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Reminder that the game is still set in a strange hybrid fantasy world. Doctors and alchemists might know about brain chemistry, but that doesn't mean everyone else does.
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Oct 25, 2020 22:14
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Also the Wizard in that story is very transparently trying to break Geralt’s spirit so whether or not his explanation makes sense logically is not the point
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Oct 25, 2020 22:21
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It's also pretty clearly not true. The "no emotions" spiel is just a convenient thing Witchers tell people to explain they have no emotional stake in their work.
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CJacobs posted:It's also pretty clearly not true. The "no emotions" spiel is just a convenient thing Witchers tell people to explain they have no emotional stake in their work. The outright-abusive training they receive as children tends to leave them badly traumatised. Shutting down and pretending even to thenselves that they don't feel anything is one of the coping techniques.
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I mean you can clearly see Geralt getting angry. In the show, at least (no idea if it's 'canon', or if this is in the books) at one point he hasn't slept for some time and he's extremely irate about it.
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IIRC it’s left pretty ambiguous what the exact situation is. There’s enough evidence to shoot down the idea that they don’t have any emotions but they generally seem to be a bit more muted and it’s never made clear how much of that is a deliberate act or whether that was a result of the mutations or trauma from the training. I think it’s said somewhere that everyone responds differently to the trials and not everyone loses their emotions so that’s probably a decent indication that it’s more of a PTSD thing than an actual magical effect
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Morpheus posted:I mean you can clearly see Geralt getting angry. In the show, at least (no idea if it's 'canon', or if this is in the books) at one point he hasn't slept for some time and he's extremely irate about it. geralt is if anything the most sentimental of the surviving witchers despite insisting on the "no emotions" thing, and his compatriots give him endless poo poo over it
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BioEnchanted posted:Rogue Galaxy whoa, this game loving ruled, did they re-release it someplace? EDIT: oh, they put it on PS4? now if only someone would resurrect Steambot Chronicles... LordSaturn has a new favorite as of 09:17 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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You know that bit in Van Helsing where Dracula is screaming "i have no emotions! that makes me feel angry!"? That's how Witchers roll.
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The Mako sucked in Mass Effect and people tricking themselves into thinking it was good led to it being included into Mass Effect Andromeda, the dumping ground of all bad ideas for Mass Effect.
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We also have those people to thank for Andromeda's boring open-world exploration even though the fun parts about Mass Effect were the tightly scripted missions and setpieces.
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Geralt and Yen are two century-old teens who insist that they cannot feel love so they blame a genie for their feelings because they're both incredibly immature
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The Black Stones posted:The Mako sucked in Mass Effect and people tricking themselves into thinking it was good led to it being included into Mass Effect Andromeda, the dumping ground of all bad ideas for Mass Effect. Thinking about ME: Andromeda just angries up the blood. You're supposed to be exploring strange new worlds but instead of doing that you just exclusively go to places that people have already been to and have already established bases. Also for a whole new galaxy there's only one new alien race and you're once again dealing with ancient artifacts left behind by a precursor race.
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Decrepus posted:When you jump out of the Mako and shoot a Geth Colossus to death with your pistol for bonus xp Slight correction, it was generally “run over the Colossus with the Mako and park on it, then jump out and shoot it while it convulses under the tires” for me. I did appreciate THAT part of Mako gameplay at least. Too bad thresher maws could only be dealt with by parking in one spot and bunny hopping their shots while firing (and popping out last second to get the kill by hand).
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The Shame Boy posted:I'm currently playing through Witcher 3 as sombody that played a bit of Witcher 2 but never 1, i am way more attached to Triss than i am Yennifer. Like i know Geralt and Yennifer supposedly have a past and all but i went to Skelleige and good GOD can you make Geralt the most clingy, desperate,lovey dubey dude of all time if you pick those dialog options. Like some of the ones that tell her how pretty she is or how nice she smells kinda come out of nowhere sometimes. I know he's kinda been looking for her a long time and all but considering all the other options you can take, even with some of the other sorceresses in the game. It just kinda sticks out you know? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSk-8C76dc The adoration for Yennefer is part of the lore/game. If something's dragging down Witcher 3 it's...
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GTAV's clothing system. San Andreas was the last one I really played so maybe it's been long enough to forget, but I don't remember it so aggressively forcing your clothing options outside of missions where there's a plot reason. I feel like at least half the time I'll buy myself a spiffy suit, then the instant I start a mission I'm suddenly locked out of my wardrobe because Michael's gotta be wearing polo and khakies.
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My Lovely Horse posted:GTAV loads new clothing whenever you switch to a character, but when it uses a different one in a cutscene, it pulls the last outfit used from when you were playing him. I learned this when Trevor showed up for his big dramatic near the end fallout with Michael still in full scuba gear from collecting nuclear waste. I'm just mad that it won't let me change a lot of the time. I get it when Michael has to sneak in to a particular business, but there's no reason he shouldn't bike with his son in full dress suit 
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exquisite tea posted:We also have those people to thank for Andromeda's boring open-world exploration even though the fun parts about Mass Effect were the tightly scripted missions and setpieces. A lot of Andromeda was born from Bioware going 'let's try to do the things we did bad in ME1 well', and then literally every possible thing that could go wrong about that going wrong. I actually did really enjoy a lot of the open world stuff in ME1, and was disappointed that it all disappeared in 2, but... wow, Andromeda did not make a good case for that.
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