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twistedmentat posted:I think what made me realize just how crazy powerful Triss is is when you've taken her to Witch Hunter HQ and you have to just completely trust her to take care of herself. And she does, in an spectacular way. That's one thing I love at the Battle of Kaer Morhen having read the books. Triss starts obliterating space elves left and right and then I remembered, well yeah, come to think of it she is a war hero after all.
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Nah, in Witcher 4 you should play a newly trained, less mutated witcher on their very first contract... ...from the School of the Swallow 
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Arcsquad12 posted:But where would they find the mutagens to create new Witchers? Vesemir only had a limited stock and he didn't know how to make more. That's why I said less mutated, like they did with Ciri. Minor steroids (until Triss asks them what they hell they think they're doing again) but no actual trial of the grasses or cat eyes. I dunno, after the conjunction of the spheres in the ending they have an excuse to up the monster population a bit. Might need a new breed of witcher... Of course to make up for the lack of mutation they'd have to rely even more on cunning and dirty tricks 
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Feb 26, 2016 20:30
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The trickster god-spirit-thing that fucks you with your own wishes shows up in tons of real cultures, not just Stephen King (though he did provide the name) or the Christian devil. Hell he also shows up in tons of Witcher world cultures. Because  HE'S REAL
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Feb 27, 2016 21:47
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Transmetropolitan posted:So, I just now realized Charles Dance voices Emhyr (took me a while due to the faux-foreign accent thing Nilfgaardians have). After Tywin Lannister, he is pretty much the best guy for hardass cold-as-stone magnificent genius bastard in a fantasy medieval setting. Great choice. And he totally nails it in the Witcher ending, when he asks if Ciri ever said anything about him before going off to maybe die. He's totally incapable of turning off his political mind but in the end he genuinely wanted to know his daughter 
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Feb 29, 2016 23:26
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Arcsquad12 posted:I think my favorite thing about the animation in this game is the subtle stuff like the laugh lines and cheek folds actually moving when somebody is talking. I really noticed it on Triss and it makes a world of difference seeing skin move like its supposed to. Ciri's fake sulky face when she loses rock paper scissors with Geralt is probably the most endearing animation ever made. That and Geralt's ten-year-old smirk when Yen (I think) makes some totally oblivious innuendo.
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Mar 1, 2016 21:27
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I remember an early interview where they said they had HEMA type people mocap the fighting for regular people, then did the Witchers' moves totally separately to make them seem that much more different.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:12
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I enjoyed the heist. The music helped! Though it does seem that every major RPG these days includes ones (1) heist quest.
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Mar 1, 2016 23:43
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Palpek posted:Well, originally the influence could be seen in the amount of spices used. In medieval times Polish cuisine used a lot of pepper and nutmeg - way more than other European countries because of good contacts with Oriental merchants - prices of those spices were considerably lower for Polish people than for the rest of Europe. Oriental spices were also used for meat conservation during the winter. Hence the need for enterprising merchants such as Emhyr var Emreis. A trader. In spices.
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fickle poofterist posted:My annoyance with isle of the mysts was that I would like to have explored it. I bet there is a heap of cool loot I missed. Actually that's my only real complaint about the game. I can practically guarantee that there wasn't any cool loot at all. I'm not one of those people that enjoys searching every peasant hut, but it would have been nice to a few unique hidden gems like the  Emmentaler. Things that (most importantly) weren't easily outclassed by everything.
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Mar 5, 2016 15:41
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I think they did a good job of having life be luridly unpleasant and luridly beautiful often at the same time. Especially in the Hearts of Stone areas, which really drive home that it's war that's hell, not farming. (When you fight the Ofieris I actually though Geralt had ended up on an island somewhere because the water was so blue and the sand was so gold. Then turned the camera around and oh it's Novigrad)
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Instead of the W2 dark mode in the enhanced edition, the W3 enhanced edition should have possessed-by-vlod mode. For the whole game. "I mean... tis I! Geralt! A Witcherrrr" Strategic Tea fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Mar 6, 2016 |
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HoS weirdly makes me want to go back and help a certain spy secure the future of Redania. I think just all the time you spend around Oxenfurt and the wedding town drums in that it's a cool rear end country worth saving. Temeria was the original peasant misery simulator in TW1 and was clearly struggling not to fall back into the dark ages. Get hosed Roche 
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Mar 6, 2016 18:30
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In the books he embarks on a similar invasion but with about 1000% more brutalised refugees designed to jam up the roads and demoralise the North. Although one other quirk from the books - Nilfgaard has full institutional equality between genders, by order of Emhyr's father. To be honest, Nilfgaard winning is probably best for the common good, I just think it's a shame to lose all the patchwork squabbling kingdoms 
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Mar 6, 2016 20:36
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Come to think of it, one of the political themes of the books is that the Northern Kingdoms just aren't viable any more. Just out of living memory, when they were warrior kings carving civilisation into the wilderness, Temeria etc made sense. Now that they've won their place in the world, centralisation and ruthless efficiency are the order of the day, whether that's under the Lodge, the conclave (lodge precursor), Redania, or Nilfgaard. It makes perfect sense that none of the endings set things back the way they were, because that world had been dead for quite a while.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I’m using the extra skill slots mod when I get to NG+ because I’m only level 34 and I haven’t felt able to equip anything new for about six levels now. This is just my nerd speculation but as I see it it's the Conjunction of the Spheres. Basically the worlds didn't just meet; they merged together. In the books Geralt is talking to a scholar-priestess who is growing plants that just won't survive under sunlight anymore. She basically explains that the sun has flat out changed since the Conjunction. It's also one reason the elves failed - their main food sources flat out went extinct in the new world. My take is that the White Frost does the same. It doesn't just come barrelling out of outer space - it literally seeps into your world, and by the time it's done things have merged together and your world is Tedd Deireadh. That's why Avalach says something along the lines of 'this place is every world, sooner or later'. As for the Hunt's connection to the Frost, I think that's one of the cooler things about them and I wish they'd gotten more time to develop it. They're scared shitless of it to the point where it rules them. The Hunt are so terrified of death that they wear skull masks (they actually customise their armour to the species they're fighting) and spin legends about themselves to inflict the same fear on other worlds. They're so terrified of the Frost that they bring it in their wake as their deadliest weapon and hope that as long as they keep conquering their turn will never come.
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Mar 8, 2016 20:06
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If I'd a bent over I'd a puked! 
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Mar 8, 2016 23:49
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Ciri has a Cat amulet from the books. Problem solved!
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Mar 11, 2016 08:46
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hi im gerlat of rivera
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My dumb excuse is that the Frost expresses itself magically in whatever way is most convenient. Might tilt your axis like Avallach says. Might change your sun like a priestess from the books believes. Might just sit in space blocking the sun.
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Mar 15, 2016 18:20
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He is actually in the city of Rivia when he gets killed by a pitchfork though 
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Mar 16, 2016 09:00
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I tend not to interpret it as the 'Ciri scrounged for contracts to survive and died at 29 from a drowner she didn't see' witcher life. More travelling the world(s) but still keeping busy because wherever you end up they alway need someone to take out the trash 
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Mar 16, 2016 18:16
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Depends how you spread out your contracts and minor sidequests. I get the impression that they intended you to leave more till later (I didn't).
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Mar 18, 2016 18:45
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Last book spoiler Emhyr is a cool character. He personally brings an army to He also as a weird one sided fatherly relationship with a girl he has impersonate Ciri in order to fabricate a claim to the Cintran throne. The books never make it clear whether he ever brings himself to kill her once she becomes a liability. Dude's a lonely Machiavellian shitlord
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Avalerion posted:Ciri endings I personally feel intentionally keeping Ciri away away from the emperor so she can go on to be a witcher like Geralt is the controlling and bad-dad choice, if you make the offer it's still her choice to go see him, and all it does is tell her being empress is an option. The decisions itself are always hers. The alternative is basically withholding information from her so she chooses what you think is better for her. I dunno, when I did it I literally said 'let's see the emperor' then followed it up with 'but you know he's going to want something' and she decided not to go. I think it's really finely balanced to make either way a fair decision.
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Hey I'd love to bump into O'Dimm  The above statement in no way constitutes an expression of any want or desire. No verbal or written contract is implied and we explicitly reject any binding agreement etc etc
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Mar 29, 2016 22:16
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E: Double post he's onto me
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Mar 29, 2016 22:16
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I'm so glad I turned all POIs off before even playing the game. Sounds like they turn pretty fun natural exploration into an awful Ubisoft slog from marker to marker...
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Apr 4, 2016 20:33
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Missed stuff is just fodder for the inevitable thousand playthroughs I'll do in the future though!
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The best thing about Triss is they actually wrote some solid character development to bring her from books-Triss to mage railroad leadership-Triss.
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Strategic Tea posted:The best thing about Triss is they wrote some solid character development to bring her from books-Triss to mage railroad leadership-Triss.
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Palpek posted:And then the epilogue of the newest book happens. Geralt time-traveling 150 years after his supposed death. loving hell, I guess at least we can say
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GuyUpNorth posted:Mad Rad the Sad Lad carries on later, no worries yet. king raddy will die like his daddy 
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I tho Olgeird and O'Dimm are actually very similar people, with the difference being one of magnitude. "Let me tell you a story of a man, worse than most... who delights in the suffering of others" or something along those lines. They're like twisted reflections of each other in a... mirror
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Apr 14, 2016 06:11
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Spoiler quarantine begins now!
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Apr 14, 2016 13:24
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Where's that whippersnapper wandered off to? He could be beleaguered, I wager!
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Dongattack posted:I diiid, and it was the hardest choice in the game for me i think. I eventually rationalized that nobody in gaming has the balls to actually burn a baby and chucked it in there. They should totally have gone with it though, in true Witcher style. Yes, Cerys is cunning and political. She kills the heir to Spikeroog on false pretences, leaving her clan to inherit it. Now that's queen material 
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:How was Witcher 3 sexist though? I can see complaints about Witcher 1's sex cards, and even Witcher 2 had a few 'get sex as a reward' quests. What do people even have a problem with in this one though? Yeah but man have you seen rise of the tomb raider it has like all the emotions in it!!!!
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To be fair, I will give them that the vast majority of female characters are pretty attractive, while within the men there's much more leeway to have guys like Dijkstra and Lambert in big roles. Even then I think it's stretching it to say it's offensively out of balance though.
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I loved the quest but it was kind of crying out for a maybe she stopped loving you when you murdered her friend and fed his body to the dogs response
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