|
Reminder that the books are actually good and you should read them all.
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 01:34
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 16, 2024 02:10 |
|
|
Dark_Swordmaster posted:I was about to link that in fact. So what is it with the rest of the books not being officially translated in English?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 01:57
|
|
|
JerseyMonkey posted:Just recently it was announced that three additional books will be translated with the first, The Sword of Destiny, will be released in May. I reread both short story collections before reading the novels and it was definitely worth it. It's entertaining even if you remember roughly what happened in each story.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 02:48
|
|
|
Khagan posted:Just downloaded Witcher 2 EE, but finished the game before EE came out. Arena is completely separate from the main game. Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Here's another gameplay vid we posted yesterday: Section 31, could you put this in the OP? (it's the exact same as the three-part video I linked but official and in one video). GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Jan 27, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 12:14
|
|
|
Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Who said he's an antagonist? I've always been a fan of Nilfgaard, the northern kingdoms are unruly and cruel, they need some some order. But he wanted to (ACTUAL book spoiler incoming, but from what Gamestar said, it will be revealed in the prologue anyway) gently caress his own daughter Section 31 posted:Done. Maybe he's actually whistling for it like the player character in Two Worlds 
|
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 15:13
|
|
|
Suspicious posted:If you're going to play only one path, it should be Ioverth's because half the plot is flat out not explained on Roche's side. You still ge the gist of what's going on with the Lodge on Roche's path and I just like the characters better. Plus, Loc Muinne isn't half as bullshit to navigate. SunAndSpring posted:HEEERE BOY I have played the prolog about 5 times due to several HDD failure/upgraded PC shenanigans. I still hear "THOSE TREBUCHETS ARE loving POUNDING THE PULP OUTTA THEM! MUST BE SHITTIN THEMSELVES ON THE WALLS" in my head whenever I think of the game.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 18:49
|
|
|
Xander77 posted:Only a minor one. Roche's path explains a number of how and why's that aren't really that relevant. The big What's are revealed with Iorveth. Like which big Whats? I don't remember being amazed at anything revealed in my second playthrough and I went Roche first.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 19:09
|
|
|
Xander77 posted:Yes, that and the Sorceress Lodge intrigue around it. Basically, a large chunk of the game's plot that you're completely missing when you're playing on Roche's path. You definitely know about the Lodge and what they're doing on Roche's path. You don't know that they're controlling Saskia but given that they're sorcerers, it's fair to assume anyway that they have a hand in every major conflict Someone in the prolog even pointed out that the Dragon is only attacking Foltest's men, implying some kind of control which only a sorcerer could execute. Saladman posted:I'm pretty psyched for this. Is there any news that the combat is going to be different (i.e. not utter garbage)? I skipped the Witcher until I got it with GWG on the 360 and was impressed. It scratches the Dragon Age itch that I refused to scratch after I got herpes from Dragon Age 2. You actually have to dodge on Hard and above but once you got that down, there's not much difference between the difficulties. I also think Quen is useless because it can't take enough hits and the blocked Vigor regeneration just makes it worse than dodging. I think the only time I ever used it was against the Dragon because gently caress trying to get hits in with its 0.2 second attack animation. The combat seems to be similar in W3, trading pirouettes for rolls. GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jan 27, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 19:35
|
|
|
Dark_Swordmaster posted:I think I'm the only one to have enjoyed combat in both games. Save those swamp plants from TW1. No matter what I drank or did I could never kill them before they got me. I loved both combat systems as well. I guess 1 is more "RPG-y" where you don't have as much control but I like both ways. Just don't go into the swamp at night unless you wanna do the Echinopsae Contract. And when you do, Igni Igni Igni Igni Igni Igni Igni. sauer kraut posted:No you're not, I blazed through 1 in a weekend it's fantastic, but stopped playing TW2 somewhere between the awful arena tutorial and the ingame tutorial when you start fighting on those siege walls. What's bad about the controls? Aim at guys and click.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 27, 2015 20:51
|
|
|
Those were the days.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 28, 2015 11:27
|
|
|
Lycus posted:I still remember how I couldn't play Witcher 2 when I bought it because I was one of the people hit with that bug that made bombs unusable until they fixed it a few months later. That sucked. Why would you need bombs though?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 28, 2015 22:01
|
|
|
Terminally Bored posted:I have a question for Comte de Saint-Germain, not sure if he can answer it but. Why was Yennefer added so far into the series? Won't it be a little difficult to make the players care about the character if Triss was in both previous ones? Or was it due to the fact that Sapkowski's fans (me included) didn't really like Yennefer as a character? How can you not like Yennefer after reading the novels?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 29, 2015 10:46
|
|
|
Yennefer is basically a female Geralt; independent as hell, doesn't know how to deal with other people, completely shocked at the prospect of having her fate tied to a single dude.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 29, 2015 12:54
|
|
|
Arcsquad12 posted:A couple of her line readings were off "Did you dreeeeam of the Wild Hunt again?" but for the most part I didn't mind her. "Oh yeah the Brothel sounds lovely." I just realized that the Witcher games fail to live up to the standard set by Sapkowski in one regard: Less than 75% of all dialog lines are sarcastic 
|
|
#
¿
Jan 29, 2015 19:43
|
|
|
dud root posted:Theres a mod that increases run speed by a small amount, 20 or 30%, which makes the swamp much more bearable. You can just outrun everything- at that point it doesn't give any xp anyway. Just beeline towards your destination You can do that exact thing in vanilla anyway, not like anything does any damage to you.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 3, 2015 02:35
|
|
|
Dark_Swordmaster posted:Here's hoping they've finally implemented some sort of rolling quicksave system. Having over a few hundred MB of saves in TW1 and TW2 combined was loving HORRIBLE. I actually didn't like how you saved over your quicksave slot every time in W2 and only kept the autosaves. In W1 you had the possiblity of reloading every old save in case something went wrong later.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 4, 2015 11:12
|
|
|
Eldragon posted:I must be in the minority, I prefer saves that just keep piling up rather than rolling. If I got too many saves laying around I just delete them manually. I prefer infinite saves as well. I mean, it's not like 700MB of saves should really matter anymore these days. Dark_Swordmaster posted:I literally had to save prior to every. Single. Load screen. I don't get why that's bad. I usually quicksave before every event (conversation, combat, area change). If no events happen, I reflexively quicksave every 10 seconds.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 4, 2015 18:03
|
|
)
|
fanged wang posted:
Pretty sure my Witcher 1 playthrough was 60 hours.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 18, 2015 22:26
|
|
|
fanged wang posted:did you spend 40 of them lost in the swamp Nope, I actually ran through the swamp directly towards my quest objectives while ignoring the drowners and bloedzuigers. There's just a lot of sidequests.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 19, 2015 11:09
|
|
|
I said come in! posted:Remember when the Witcher 3 was suppose to be out this month? Downgrading every texture in the game manually takes time.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 21, 2015 12:54
|
|
|
OAquinas posted:Magic basically makes your egg/sperm production areas wither and become nonfunctional for ~reasons~ though obviously the non-babymaking bits still work just fine. So a mage generally is unable to have kids after a few years of working magic. Don't they have pretty intricate gestures and words they have to say to do spells? I'd imagine it's more like the shield in the CGI opening of W2 where the mage has to do an elaborate arm gesture to get the shield up.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 22, 2015 21:51
|
|
|
The Sharmat posted:Yeah. Which may be why he's unusually good at signs. Is sorcery even genetic in any form? I know Ciri was a source which made her powerful but didn't Sapkowski mention in Last Wish how sorceresses were just ugly regular women who no one wanted to marry so their fathers shipped them off to the magic school?
|
|
#
¿
Feb 23, 2015 00:28
|
|
|
Crigit posted:I thought the point was just supposed to be that there were no ugly sorceresses, because even the ones that started ugly could change their looks with magic, not that only ugly girls were sent to become sorceresses. Also I'm pretty sure a sorceress could be plenty useful to her family even without being able to breed, what with all the magic making amassing enormous amounts of wealth and power easy. 
|
|
#
¿
Feb 23, 2015 23:09
|
|
|
Arcsquad12 posted:The best part is that Yennefer knows this and proceeds to gently caress with Geralt by bathing while invisible and then calling him out for perving on her. I also liked the topic of ugly sorceresses changing their looks via magic, but still being considered unattractive because nothing could hide the bitterness and low self esteem that drove them to change in the first place. Their eyes are still ugly. I got the feeling she didn't really gently caress with him. She sounded actually mad that he ogled her during that scene but was repulsed by the bitterness you mentioned. Plus, I think it's mostly because of his Witcher senses and poo poo that he notices that, I don't think a normal person could read that much into sorceresses. Like Chireadan in that scene, he seems pretty smitten. Archimago posted:This is another drunk post., What if I bought them both physically and just activated the keys on GOG to get the discount for W3?
|
|
#
¿
Feb 26, 2015 11:14
|
|
|
Strom Cuzewon posted:I feel there was a little too much going on in that dinner party. This guys been cursed, but wants to marry the Princess, but she's magic, and so is her mum who wants to marry this other guy but can't, and his son wants to marry the Princess but these other nobles won't let him, and they both want to fight the first guy. There's like 5 different points where Geralt deduces something and doesn't reveal it to the audience until right at the end. I think at one point Mousesack drew a rune while Geralt was looking and Geralt just nodded knowingly, I still don't know what that was about. Something about Pavetta being about to use magic, I'm sure. E: Nevermnind, I read it again and the rune just said "CAREFUL". GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Feb 26, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Feb 26, 2015 18:40
|
|
|
Haha that point of the new spell floating in the air and the guy just quickly running away. Looks pretty good for a massively downgraded game though. Also, playing with a controller looks pretty annoying since you either have to lock on or work hard to keep the enemy in your view.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 4, 2015 18:52
|
|
|
Drifter posted:I'm a keyboard and mouse man myself, but I've never had any major issue with third person knifey games and using a gamepad. I guess you can still accurately attack dudes by aiming with the left stick but I'd get annoyed as soon as enemies start circling around me, out of view.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 4, 2015 19:04
|
|
|
Dark_Swordmaster posted:An added difficulty that makes the game ridiculously hard and unforgiving. The main feature is its ironman gameplay in which if you die it wipes the save. It's not really that hard. If you can dodge things on Easy, you can do it just as well on Normal, Hard or Dark (or Insane I guess but that's for insane people  ).The only problem for me were gargoyles because they home in on your roll. Drifter posted:Does it really add much to the gameplay? Were they balanced interestingly at all? Well I liked Dark because for once you couldn't just stand around between 5 swordsmen and survive by just left clicking, until you got that skill that makes your sword hit everyone at once at least. The crafting itself really isn't interesting, you need to get a lot of money so you can't just hold onto every crafting material you find, you have to sell most of them unless you want to farm forever. I looked up beforehand what kind of materials I'd need and made sure to stock enough of them. Even so I ran out of materials and money in chapter 2 and had to do the harpy gully run about 10 times or so.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2015 12:32
|
|
|
Captain Scandinaiva posted:Yeah, at least without the new equipment, you can only afford one mistake against most enemies. So you need to be on your toes even in random encounters. Is Alchemy focus actually viable? I always heard people saying it's even more OP than swordsmanship but I never saw a skill that would help you so incredibly much. I don't think I ever even sold anything having alchemy components in it, just make sure you have enough money from chapter 2 to buy everything in chapter 3. Senjuro posted:http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/18805/the-witcher-3-to-be-bundled-with-high-end-maxwell-graphics-cards.html Haha. Is the 970 the card that dies once it uses over 3.5GB of VRAM?
|
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2015 13:28
|
|
|
The game is about finding Ciri? Wow, how original  Seriously though I'm hyped. E: Are the KB+M controls done yet? Don't like how everything they show is using a controller. GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Mar 7, 2015 |
|
#
¿
Mar 7, 2015 18:59
|
|
|
GoldenNugget posted:You can one hit kill some of the optional difficult bosses if you dump in this tree. Game was actually a lot easier that way than my first playthrough in which I distributed everything over all the trees. Well yeah I don't think a jack-of-all-trades is supposed to work. Lycus posted:and the post-Letho bosses are super easy. Letho isn't? 
|
|
#
¿
Mar 8, 2015 00:01
|
|
|
Snow Job posted:1. Optional boss. I think he was referring to the first fight, that's why he mentioned bosses after Letho. beer_war posted:I mostly used the radial menu to select spells / items and meditate and found it much more intuitive than mouse / kb. Some of the minigames (arm-wrestling!) I could only beat with a controller. The inventory would have been better with a mouse, but the game hides your mouse pointer if you select a controller as your input device. I also used the radial menu to select spells and stuff. Since when is there another menu for that? Also, I'm confused how you couldn't beat arm wrestling with a mouse. Like, you just have to move your mouse along with the thing. Lareine posted:I dunno, I tried playing with a controller once and it didn't really make sense to me after playing with mouse and keyboard. Granted, I did fiddle with the keybindings a bit to avoid hand cramps but the game comes across as a whole designed for M/KB. W1's menu is designed for KB+M. W2 has a list that fits like 5 items on the screen at once.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 8, 2015 13:04
|
|
|
CitrusFrog posted:Beating Letho on Dark was piss-easy once I decided to get more sign-happy. Aarding him into walls and then wailing on him with a mega-damage, oiled-up endgame sword felt so good after the faffing around and repeatedly dying during a past playthrough. Yeah the fight is basically rollrollrollrollroll while he has his Quen activated and Aard+attack spam otherwise. The Sharmat posted:Anyone that killed Letho their first time through has no soul. Can't wait for him to (hopefully) show up in W3.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 9, 2015 18:52
|
|
|
I think I remember reading that silver swords are for post-Conjunction creatures. That wouldn't really make sense though as that includes humans.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2015 18:38
|
|
|
Aumanor posted:Humans just crossed over from another world (possibly one similar to ours), while many of the monsters vulnerable to silver seem to have been outright created by the energies unleashed by the Conjunction. Othe rmonsters vulnerable to silver include undead(or do they? Funninly enough, I don't think there are actually any undead in the books) ghouls and other necrophages (I don't think they are ever stated to be undead in the books), vampires (also not undead) and the unfortunate victims of various curses like strigas or werewolves. Vampires aren't undead?
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2015 19:26
|
|
|
Manatee Cannon posted:Geralt takes on a pack of ghouls on at least one occasion. Yeah I read the books, but not needing blood doesn't mean they're not undead. I think having your head cut off and recovering from it is a pretty good sign for being undead.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 10, 2015 21:39
|
|
|
Drifter posted:Every time I get tempted by the newer, better gfx cards I take a moment and realize I'm still running games on a monitor whose max resolution is 1680x1050. I love my 1680x1050 monitor. Easier to max stuff on it and if I got anything bigger/with denser pixels I wouldn't be able to see poo poo with how close I sit to it. 8-bit Miniboss posted:I liked that quest so much that I kept the tattoo throughout the game despite there being a quest to remove it. I wonder if there is anyone who actually removed it.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 11, 2015 19:16
|
|
|
The Sharmat posted:I removed the tattoo because I thought it looked dumb. Also because Geralt isn't an elf hunter. I'd say Geralt is sick and tired of everyone's poo poo equally. Like in The Edge of the World, he's talking mad poo poo about Elves clinging on to their old ways. poptart_fairy posted:I would have spared Letho if he hadn't said "I will kill you this time That "nope Letho actually won the fight" thing was pretty silly and didn't fit the game at all.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 11, 2015 19:39
|
|
" with the smuggest face I've ever seen rendered in a game. You won the first fight because of plot mandated armour, you smarmy prick, not because you're a good fighter. 
|
8-bit Miniboss posted:You guys are gonna look silly for removing that tattoo when it turns out it's part of the save game import for 3. My uncle works at CDProjekt and he said the tattoo will be the deciding factor for whether Niilfgard wins or loses. Lycus posted:I would've liked it better if Letho would've been Epilogue strong and basically impossible for an Act 1 Geralt to beat, and legitimately losing triggers the cutscene. Epilog Letho is stronger? I defeated him with the exact same tactics and even faster due to higher damage output IIRC.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 11, 2015 20:01
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 16, 2024 02:10 |
|
|
sauer kraut posted:The code you get with a Nvidia card is for GOG right? For W2, the launcher told you if there was a patch and let you download it. Same for DLC IIRC. The EE was a new download though I think. You could also use that new GOG client I guess.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 19, 2015 23:10
|
|