1e03f6 No.14231160
So, were they the Dark Elves (Druchii)? of the Witcher universe?
73a06d No.14231333
>>14231189
>good games are reddit now
48991e No.14231335
>>14231333
It's decent, at least vanilla. Blood and Wine and Heart of Stone are amazing though.
3181e8 No.14231347
My Geralt is still level 3 when I reached the first Ciri quest. Am I playing it wrong? Does Axii work on non-humans?
963cbf No.14231353
>>14231347
yeah but it required a lot of stat investment and it's not worth it if you ask me, stick to poison + bleed
48991e No.14231354
>>14231347
Yep, it can stun and at higher levels turn pretty much any enemy (or two) into your ally temporarily.
76c551 No.14231358
>>14231335
Hearts of stone is pure kino
8faff1 No.14231364
Just a side note, but does anyone else think the Witcher series story is really f'ing good for a video game?
I'm thinking this story would be good enough to make a TV show or book series out of.
73a06d No.14231369
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>>14231358
>>14231335
heart of stone had the best ending
963cbf No.14231370
3a3884 No.14231371
>>14231364
They should make a netflix original film.
9d90cb No.14231391
So am I the only one who prefered Witcher 2's semi-linear style to 3's open world?
412374 No.14231393
>>14231364
yeah like a prequel novel could be cool or somthing like that
cdd25b No.14231401
>>14231391
My problem with 3 is that the open world had too many " fuck you moments." Level 10 zone, meanwhile level 28 monster by the river that is unbeatable till you're closer.
ecc788 No.14231405
>>14231333
Witcher 1 is a good game, Witcher 2 is mediocre and 3 is leddit-tier crap.
963cbf No.14231406
>>14231391
I didn't mind that, but I hated the combat. Witcher 3 has the best combat out of the three, even if some aspects of the whole process are streamlined.
9d90cb No.14231407
>>14231364
Witcher has a good story, but they need to work on its gameplay. Just because it's an WRPG doesn't excuse the series being mediocre when it comes to combat.
3fff24 No.14231418
>>14231160
>(1)
>Single sentence
So was the OP a retard of cuckchan?
Was this the darks souls of dubs threads?*
73a06d No.14231420
>>14231405
ok I will bite. When exactly is a game "reddit" ?
9d90cb No.14231424
>>14231405
>Witcher 1 is a good game
3fff24 No.14231437
>>14231420
>very basic (insultingly so) mechanically
>open world but not always
>all of the humor is a reference to some other medium
>pseudo intellectual themes
9d90cb No.14231441
9d90cb No.14231444
>>14231437
Wait, there are actual reasons? I just thought it was shitposted and deleted some of it.
2520b1 No.14231455
>>14231407
Yeah, it was just basic batman block/dodge/attack combat but with a sword. I wish they made killing in the witcher contracts more complex, like if you had to fight a certain way to kill the monsters beyond "hit its weak point here with a crossbow" or "use this kind of oil". I Liked the oils, but do something more with the combat to make it challenging.
73a06d No.14231460
>>14231436
shes a bitch
>>14231437
>very basic (insultingly so) mechanically
>open world but not always
not reddit
>all of the humor is a reference to some other medium
>pseudo intellectual themes
this could be reddit but it doesnt really apply in here. There were references to other media but the main theme of the universe is european folklore and legends.
3a3884 No.14231467
>>14231455
They have their own attack patterns though.
0b19b0 No.14231474
>>14231460
>the main theme of the universe is european folklore and legends.
as viewed by a distinctly (((modern))) perspective.
>>very basic (insultingly so) mechanically
>not reddit
no, this is pretty accurate. redditers can't handle complex games, and the witcher 3 is about the simplest you can get. It's pretty weird how long cdpr got by getting so many basic game design elements wrong.
dfbdfd No.14231488
>>14231160
They were a all new race - the mad gains elves.
>>14231369
>tfw you can't cuck Olgy
>>14231364
Only if there's a kang recast.
>>14231436
W3 does go a bit overboard on the stronk wahmen shit but I think some of it is done as a joke like the Brienne wannabe in B&W who doesn't shut up about how she's gonna get roasted for losing and Geralt just shrugs it off with "It's the [CURRENT CENTURY]. Do whatever the fuck you want."
I think the one egregious thing is how Radovid is portrayed as a cartoonishly loony mad king with a raging hate boner for magicians for absolutely no reason. Anyone who knows W2 might unironically say RADOVID DID NOTHING WRONG.
bce73e No.14231497
>>14231474
>redditers can't handle complex games
Yes they can. Name any game and there's probably a subreddit for it. Do you even know what reddit is?
73a06d No.14231502
>>14231474
>redditers can't handle complex games
they suck paradox cocks good tho
>as viewed by a distinctly (((modern))) perspective.
it is true sapkowski is a fedora tipper but I havent noticed anything in the games
0b19b0 No.14231504
>>14231497
this is not a good look
75ac6d No.14231519
>tfw I love the Witcher games despite knowing I shouldn't
The gameplay could be better in all three, the roleplaying could be better in all three, the quest designs could be better in all three and more, yet I love the games to the point I don't care about their faults.
73a06d No.14231527
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>>14231502
>it is true sapkowski is a fedora tipper but I havent noticed anything in the games
wait, there is a quest where you can punch student commies. go to 4:10
de8c82 No.14231528
>>14231455
"hit its weak point here with a crossbow" or "use this kind of oil"
that was all in game at some point even the unique biome thing but it all got cut because downgrades.
de8c82 No.14231532
>>14231488
>W3 does go a bit overboard on the stronk wahmen shit
I dont know if you read books but Sapkowski is obsessed with them. His latest book is like something you would expect from western sjw writers
bce73e No.14231533
>>14231504
I have no idea what this response is supposed to mean to anyone. Are you going to admit that you said something objectively false, or are you trying to deflect?
3a3884 No.14231540
>>14231474
Strawmaning about sidequest that were either gags or written by some random non pol employee and being upset about a guild of bitchy female mages ain't gonna prove your point.
>>14231519
A lot of things can be better in many games but the general tone of all of them is great and makes them worth playing.
3fff24 No.14231545
>>14231532
>actually reading more than one of sapkowski's books
>not reading superior Wędrowycz Saga by Andrzej Pilipiuk
0b19b0 No.14231549
>>14231533
I'm just saying, you're defending reddit and it's not a good look. red flags.
>>14231540
inconsistent quality of content is a pretty notable flaw. It's just inherent to how open world games work, part of why they're a bad genre to make games in.
de8c82 No.14231566
>>14231545
its great teenage reading.
3a3884 No.14231574
>>14231549
Nigger, there are probably 4 instances of stupid crap in total writing wise in W3. Quest writing in the game is great.
>refuting your retarded claims is defending reddit
Its you who made the wrong assumption.
0b19b0 No.14231583
>>14231574
>Nigger, there are probably 4 instances of stupid crap in total writing wise in W3. Quest writing in the game is great.
I'm sure we can find more in the time sinks. I mean, the sidequests.
>Its you who made the wrong assumption.
No, I made no assumptions. I was right in concluding this is a reddit game (it is.) I just found it weird you would defend reddit. There was a time where 8chan hated reddit as much as cuckchan, but it is weird to see one, the far softer one, is now accepted.
3fe833 No.14231589
>>14231436
He's trying to say she's a bitch on a soft way, cant you read basic context
1894cd No.14231595
cyberpunk when? any news?
dfbdfd No.14231599
>>14231532
Haven't read the books but checked up on summaries in the Wikia and such, mostly for more info on some characters because of vaguely alluded things in the game (like the Emperor turning into a sort of hedgehog bear) or things that are played differently (like Eredin killing the king by accident with magic Viagra to bone Ciri).
I don't mind some of the stronk wahmen like Yen because when you shoot lightning out of your hands you kinda earned the right to act like a cunt or that Skellige chick you can help become queen because her brother's a hothead and she finds a different way to prove her worth besides "kill all the things". What irks me in 3's storytelling is that it omits the events of 2 and makes the sorceresses look like victims when they all had it coming. Also, it's overall a LOT lighter on its themes and how it portrays characters (Roche in particular); there's some fucked up moments but 2 feels much more messed, maybe virtue of being shorter.
It's a enjoyable but has a lot of warts. I agree with those saying that it would probably be better in shorter stories like the expansions.
A couple of things that irk me are the fact that straying off course can ruin some quests by accidentally skipping many steps, the greatest example being Lord of Undvik - in my first playthrough, I wandered about and found Craite, went and killed the giant and that was it. Next playthrough, I stayed on rails and the quest took me around the whole island, including several places and encounters I had missed entirely. The other, much plainer, is that you can't get NPC/boss sets like in DaS. I like those Wild Hunt armors.
48991e No.14231602
>>14231549
Yeah, the Witcher 3 is a bunch of tell tale series stapled together with a map in between them. It's a fun game, but mechanically it was superior in the second game (traps, better enemies except the endgame warp wizard faggots)
3a3884 No.14231608
>>14231583
>I made my conclusion on false accusations and now that you are trying to refute me I will accuse you of the same falsehoods.
Yeah, fuck off.
75c2ad No.14231609
>>14231364
Read the books, they are actually really good, and its much more grim than the game, the romance is one of the best fantasy book series ive read, its complete fucked up what they do with Ciri, makes you feel for the little girl. Geralt is complete OP and puts his dick in every woman, the jokes are dark humor.
0b19b0 No.14231615
>>14231602
I found them to be mechanically shit for different reasons. the witcher 2 was mostly an unbalanced disaster where the game became a joke to cheese through but it was thoroughly encouraged. The witcher 3 however has a lot of inconsistencies in how it approaches its game design. It plays like a college student project. There's no hit stopping, there's variable animation lengths for the same attack just as an example. I don't know what they were thinking, but you do not make an action game that way. Action games aren't about showing the player pretty things, they're about giving the player predictable controls and mechanics used to approach challenges which test your understanding of the mechanics.
It's like if when Nintendo were making the first super mario bros they made it so mario always jumped a random height instead of letting you control how high he jumps just because "it looked cool."
>>14231608
You are in enemy territory, telling me to fuck off is just silly.
000000 No.14231643
witchers
1 = 2/10
2 = 3/10
3 = 4/10
7dce0b No.14231646
>>14231461
I recently played through it, and I noticed a few dialogue lines like this. For example, in blood and wine I did some quest involving elven statues coming to life and slaughtering people. Afterwards, the humans were complaining about elves. There was an option to say humans weren't that great either. Picking that turned Geralt into a full blown sjw for 30 seconds.
<It was you humans that conquered them and stole all their land
>Why are you saying "you humans" like you aren't a part of us?
<I am I am just sometimes ashamed to admit it.
The thing about all of this is: I haven't seen too many of these lines in the main story. There have been a few, but none has been nearly as bad. I am pretty sure that your picture is also from the hearts of stone dlc. Something probably changed between the release of the main game and the release of dlcs to let that shit in.
48991e No.14231656
>>14231461
It's important to realize that's immediately after the party where Shauni falls for the 'chauvinist' irishman ghost, who is a total bro. It's a joke. Geralt is a drip.
48a462 No.14231676
I played the first Witcher, besides the whole "Winter is coming" rip off, why didn't they just make it a full fledge infinity engine crpg?
3a3884 No.14231682
>>14231676
What do you mean? The original idea was it to use the universe but your character would be a custom witcher.
48a462 No.14231705
>>14231682
I can't even describe it, the game felt like it was trying to be three different games at once. The story was okay, I read up on the 2nd and 3rd, none of that interested me.
27b53b No.14231716
>>14231676
Didn't it start as a nwn mod?
963cbf No.14231722
>>14231646
Geralt:
>super mutant with incredibly powerful senses, can kill otherworldly beasts, has an extensive knowledge of alchemy, can commune with man and beast alike
<is considered a freak by some and therefore ostracized as a wanderer or lech or bandit
>regularly rubs shoulders with the top echelon of society, attending balls and parties filled with noblemen and kings
<despite his prowess as a capable warrior, leader, and intellect, he is still seen as nothing more than an errand boy for the aforementioned nobles
>known the world over, he's a celebrity who is loved by the common folk
<is often purported to uphold justice and liberty, but will not be held liable by angry people if he commits criminal activities or morally questionable actions
>even though he's considered a freak, does not suffer from any outstanding impediments and therefore gains the favor of practically everyone he meets, including women
<we are expected to believe that because he is a "minority" that he bears the brunt of prejudice and suspicion which has an adverse effect on his life and interactions with others
He's the perfect Gary Stu. He's depicted as this masculine and domineering figure who is also witty and attractive. He's designed to appeal to both men and women alike. Men get a rugged and capable man's man they can aspire to be just like, and women get a rugged and handsome lady's man who they can always rely on to say and do the right thing. He's blessed with all this incredible ability, but at the same time he's considered a freak. This means he can be a hero, and gain the favor of both kings and the common folk, and also be a social outcast who gets all the fucking victim points.
He's written so that no matter what you choose to do or say, it's not wrong, because he's P E R F E C T.
1894cd No.14231744
>>14231722
he is not really a ger stu since he is hated by majority of common folk, ciri on the other hand…
1e03f6 No.14231874
The Witcher is Polish so it's inherently right wing and redpilled on that alone.
Everybody is white and the women are attractive.
There is no diversity agenda. How is this game reddit tier?
3fe833 No.14231884
>>14231874
Honestly the gameplay is really bad it's only worth pirating if you're really into the universe
dfbdfd No.14231895
>>14231722
>He's written so that no matter what you choose to do or say, it's not wrong, because he's P E R F E C T.
I get your point but in defense of that, I like the idea that no matter what you choose, the character plays it straight though a better example would be the Yakuza series where the choices given can be straight up stupid. And similarly to Yakuza (or other nip games), Geralt does make an ass of himself and quite often at that which is very uncommon in western games.
A small note regarding the lack of impediments; he's sterile. IIRC sorceresses are barren as well.
>>14231874
>Everybody is white and the women are attractive. There is no diversity agenda.
There were some kebabs in HoS. The few ones in the story are all well and good but the merchants are pretty obnoxious.
1e03f6 No.14231901
>>14231884
It's no worse than the Batman Arkham series.
1894cd No.14231902
>>14231884
gameplay is okay
3fff24 No.14231919
>>14231566
Unlike witcher which is shitty reading at any age (^:
>>14231874
>book written by an obese, lefty alcoholic during the post-war era
>right wing
1e03f6 No.14231929
>>14231919
Unrelated question but how do you feel about Warhammer?
3fff24 No.14231933
>>14231929
I started Horus' Heresy.
Enjoyed playing deathwing and vermintide as well as mordheim.
4023af No.14231984
>>14231369
>letting Olgierd live
>good ending
Olgierd is a massive piece of shit and deserves to have his soul taken by the Master of Mirrors.
de8c82 No.14232070
>>14231919
>book written by an obese, lefty alcoholic during the post-war era
>right wing
yeah fucking this. whats with americans always having illusions about eastern europe.
3fff24 No.14232091
>>14232070
The alcoholism would be excusable, if he could handle it, but he can't and was banned from biggest fantasy convention in Poland.
4e96ee No.14232097
>>14232091
So he was no christopher hitchens then.
de8c82 No.14232106
>>14232091
yeah his alcoholic escapades are legendary.
75ac6d No.14232161
>>14231984
Good thing about HoS is its very gray, not black and white. Olgierd wanted to be a good man for his wife, but his pride and shame drove him to the occult. He paid the price by dealing with the devil and his own good nature died over time. He was a thrall, corrupted and transformed by O'Dimm.
He deserves it but also doesn't.
7dce0b No.14232419
>>14232161
Fuck him.
>You can have anything you want in this mansion as a reward for this trapped contract
>I burnt the mansion and all that was in it while you were away
He was as good as dead as soon as he pulled that shit.
4caaa1 No.14232476
>>14231160
They were the pre-/tg/ elves
1e03f6 No.14232641
>>14232091
That is fucking hilarious.
1e03f6 No.14232697
Here's something I dont get though.
Why the fuck does Geralt need a silver sword and a steel sword. I'm sure silver would work just as well on human flesh. Why not just carry one sword?
4332d7 No.14233039
>>14231405
Witcher 1 is shit, 2 is overrated, and 3 is pretty good. Fuck you if you disagree, you are objectively incorrect.
>>14231519
Like all good games, the successes outweigh the flaws.
>>14231532
Sapkowski's a fucking retard if you read pretty much any interview he's done, that's no surprise. Keep in mind, this guy hates videogames as a fucking medium and was so goddamn retarded he made CDPR pay him one lump sum to use the license instead of royalties, so he's eternally buttblasted that the massive runaway success of the games results in zero shekels for him. =
18f486 No.14233103
>>14233039
wasnt witcher 3 made by bioware?
42d16e No.14233133
>>14231461
Anyone who posts this without realizing its taking the piss is someone to be disregarded as a) someone who didn't play the game OR b) shitposter.
727950 No.14233135
1e03f6 No.14233161
>>14233135
Okay.
Monsters generally have harder flesh than humans. He fucking fights golems with the softer sword at times. Why not just give him one really badass intricate looking silver sword that puts every one else's weapons to shame so you wouldnt even care about looting other weapons, but still be able to find cooler silver swords hidden throughout the world, like in a FF game.
Weapons you get in other games, mostly JRPGs are found as relics, are few and far between and make more of a difference instead of "oh I need to loot this because it has a point of attack higher than the identical sword i'm carrying now"
Just a thought.
1e03f6 No.14233167
>>14233161
it would make for better gameplay too in my opinion.
5ca262 No.14233174
>>14231405
I loved Witcher 1. It's probably the best game I've ever played. Witcher 2 was okay. Haven't gotten around to playing Witcher 3 yet.
1f4b40 No.14233290
>>14232697
What >>14233135 said, but also:
Silver's expensive.
and you're probably an idiot
1e03f6 No.14233361
>>14233290
Again, most monsters have stronger flesh than humans. More expensive isn't an argument either. Less is more. Just make the ones you can use rare and found as relics throughout the world. The way Witcher does 2swords is dumb.
3338a2 No.14233367
>>14233161
>>14233361
Silver is specifically deadly against mythical beasts according to most european legend, that's why he uses it. Though you could argue he could just have some sort of silver alloy to take on both people and monsters.
1f5310 No.14233425
>>14231676
>why didn't they just make it a full fledge infinity engine crpg?
Because you don't control a party and there are no D&D mages
Infinity engine games are braindead and dull if you don't use a mage.
1f5310 No.14233439
>>14231722
>and women get a rugged and handsome lady's man who they can always rely on to say and do the right thing
He is written as an autist who can't catch on to social cues in relationships even in the game themselves.
1e03f6 No.14233442
>>14233367
Mortals can be cut down by far less than a rock or tree golem, that can apparently be sliced down by a thin silver blade.
2d07c1 No.14233456
>>14231488
>W3 does go a bit overboard on the stronk wahmen shit but
Yeah, everything is about briana woo or whoever. Sapkovsky wrote all these books because he foreseen that feminist degeneracy will happen 25 years later. Fucking feminists ruining the past!
>Anyone who knows W2
Yeah, fucking newfags who only played w3 and didnt played w2 which is the start of witcher series.
Are you old enough to post here?
1f4b40 No.14233500
>>14233456
Anon, it looks like you're only seeing what you want to see. Could it be that you're projecting a bit?
8879c3 No.14234081
>>14233361
Unless my memory of books fail me, it originally was that both swords are for monsters, but steel sword also happens to be good against humans, whereas the silver sword is more for ghosts and other incorporeal beings that are unharmed by steel.
75ac6d No.14234203
>>14233442
Silver swords are usually made from meteorite as well if I recall. Its also magic, I don't have to explain shit.
7e769b No.14234212
>>14231160
>the nigger 3
Oh yeah those based dudes huh, poor non humans being discriminated against for no reason what so ever, it's almost like it's inspirations from real life. Take your lefty flavored soap opera and fuck off.
1f5310 No.14234215
>>14233442
You can kill anything with any sword, the silver one just does more damage to monsters because magic.
9e3b11 No.14234234
>>14231488
>absolutely no reason
The witch serving his father killed him and was part of the lodge, plenty of reason to gas all the magic users.
de8c82 No.14234326
>>14232435
its older story but there was a con in some school and he got into argument with teacher/principal or something like that
9ee654 No.14234449
I wish you were able to spend more time in the Elven world.
de8c82 No.14234491
>>14234449
third act of Witcher 2 was supposed to be Elven city in Elven valley but it got completely cut.
75ac6d No.14234523
>>14234491
Loc Muinne was an Elven city though. It was very bare content wise though.
3fe833 No.14234682
>>14234491
Really? It's mentioned a fucking gorillion times on all games and books, it would've been worth seeing
>>14234212
>I've never played the games and Im here to shitpost
Every time you help non humans on a harmless, benevolent way they respond with an anti human crime like robbing a bank to finance an anti human revolt, and many other human killing stuff
a22ec1 No.14234728
>>14231369
>>14231358
I felt bad for Olgierd. He was just a man that tried to do the right thing but got tricked. The ending made me feel very sad because the curse was lifted but the damage was already done.
e4e22f No.14235544
>>14231405
This exactly. Fuck this reddit/v/ which can't take diverging opinions and bans people who disagree with the hivemind, too.
333e9c No.14235839
So what's the argument for and against level scaling?
I recall hearing people disliking it, and aside from it breaking one boss making it almost impossible, I can't really find any reason why I wouldn't want it in my game.
2b54d8 No.14236133
>if you even pick just 2 or 3 of the "fatherly" decisions and don't let Ciri become stronk induhpyndent womyn who don't need no Geralt you get the worst possible ending
bravo CDPR
1e03f6 No.14236143
>>14236133
She dies? hopefully that's canon and they don't force me to play as the stupid bitch in Witcher 4 if there is one.
1ea3bf No.14236145
>>14236143
They already said they want to make Ciri games.
2b54d8 No.14236167
>>14236143
Yes and Geralt dies too. The only saving grace is that he gets to kill the last crone
e4e22f No.14236172
>>14235839
It prevents the obvious soft-gating mechanism of having high-level enemies guarding important items and whatnot, and often forces you to grind to break the level scaling (or to not grind - see tlr or to) lest challenges become mathematically impossible to surmount, i.e. it gives designers very little control over the level of challenge offered. Moreover it is a nuisance to the feeling of progression (since bandits are always just as hard no matter your level due to scaling, for instance). It also severely reduces enemy and item variety by its nature. Most of these traits were present in tw3.
1e03f6 No.14236308
>>14236167
Well that's shitty.
75ac6d No.14236364
>>14236133
It makes some sense. At least we get a fucking RPG where you get the ending you have been playing towards opposed to "pick an ending for Ciri" right at the end. Your choices are meant to make her more confident, so she doesn't doubt herself at the pivotal moment.
>mfw I got the best ending first playthrough where I tried to be as close to canon Geralt as possible
>mfw Ciri gets to be the Witcher she always wanted and Geralt and Yen live happily ever after in Toussaint
e4e22f No.14236416
>>14236364
>nation-wrecking whore who almost ended the world doesn't get her comeuppance
>cunt who caused her to go crazy and degenerate to this extent lives the happy life of a cuck with his stronk womyn, terrorizing the neighbors into submission for no reason
>good ending
Nah.
2b54d8 No.14236430
>>14236364
Don't even get me started on Yen
>pass up on milkies from redheaded best girl just so Ciri can have her adopted mother and father together
>1 kiss and 1 pre-rendered sex scene with wolf and deer allegory making up half of it is my reward
1e03f6 No.14236441
>>14236145
Ciri isn't a full fledged witcher so there's no reason for her to take over the main series. If they want to waste time with Ciri side games I can just skip, I don't really care.
1e03f6 No.14236448
addition: if there's one golden rule to this game and the choices you make, just don't be a dick to the Baron.
He's good people.
5ce898 No.14236508
>>14231502
>paradox
>complex
e4e22f No.14236536
>>14236448
Too bad the dialog realization is basically identical. Your choices are "I don't care" or "omg how dare you" but geralt says basically the same thing eitherway. What happens to the baron at the end likewise doesn't impact anything. Dreadful.
1e03f6 No.14236719
>>14236536
I hate how the game pretty much streamlines you to be an asshole to him even though pretty much nothing is his fault.
He didnt cause his wife to miscarry.
He only got physical with her when she cucked him.
His daughter is a bitch and he probably never even slapped her.
dc3e29 No.14236731
>>14236448
>first time playing Witcher 3
>set the spirit under the tree free because it'll save children
>questline ends in baron hanging himself when I didn't even realize the woman watching the children was his wife
e4e22f No.14236822
>>14236719
Exactly my thoughts on the subject. It's also a hard break from previous titles in the series (though multiple people say this is compatible with the way geralt is written in the books, one must remember this is a game series, don't advertise a continuation if it's a spinoff) and it's poor writing and game design (both in terms of fake choices and because of the discrepancy between written option and spoken option, not to mention the false dichotomy of options as there's no way for geralt to say he thinks everyone is at fault for different reasons),
And the worst part in my opinion is that the baron segment was by far the most fleshed out of the entire game before the DLCs, in spite of being so shallow and streamlined. All in all it really illustrates well the entire ideology behind the way the game is built: streamline, simplify and hope the pretty graphics and feefees carry everything.
2db569 No.14237952
>>14236731
I remember that anon…
I remember…
67b684 No.14238327
>>14236731
>>14237952
Baron did nothing wrong
4023af No.14238329
>>14236133
>tell Ciri not to blow up an elven laboratory in a fit of autistic rage after an elvish thot insults her
>decide to go with Ciri when she's summoned by the manipulative Lodge of Sorceresses, which has toyed with Geralt time and time agian
>offhandedly mention to Ciri that she doesn't have to be good at everything
>she fucking dies because I didn't let her be a strong independent woman
Excuse me for not letting a barely-trained, elder-blood fueled woman trash an elf's laboratory with god-knows what in it, because some elf whore hurt her feelings. Excuse me for giving her some backup when she walks into a den of magical vipers. And I'm so, so very sorry for telling her to man the fuck up over a drink instead of having a sissy fucking snowball fight. My mistake. I guess I'm just a terrible father figure.
20211c No.14238368
>>14233039
>>14231424
>>14231405
Witcher 1 is objectively the best game in the series. Whether the other two are good or not comes down to personal preference, but they're simply not as good as the first game.
TW2 is definitely redeemed as a game by virtue of Roche, though.
7be257 No.14238418
>>14238368
story wise yes. but if you want a good story just stick to the books, after reading the books i wish i never played any of the witcher games.
1e03f6 No.14238970
Geralt seems to be the only character with an American voice. What gives with that? I'm going through it now, and it's something I didn't really think about before.
140199 No.14239015
>>14236731
That straight up pissed me off. Doesn't the game imply that the wife was getting help from the crones and that was why she ended up the way she did? Anyone who willingly got into bed with the crones without living their entire life in fear of them, deserved what they got.
9ee654 No.14239020
>>14238329
You should of known not to tell a woman what to do.
e2474a No.14239154
>>14231545
>Wędrowycz has his own statue irl funded and handcrafted by proud and noble denizens of Wojsławice
>cucked Geralt has some soulless marketing idol made in the name of corporate masters
1b9189 No.14239746
>>14239020
Current Year Geralt
so glad i never got into this series.
1ea3bf No.14239758
>>14239015
>imply
It outright states it. She gets a magical abortion from the crones in exchange for a year of her service and gets mind fucked in the process. If you free the tree spirit she gets turned into a hag and killed, if you kill the tree spirit, she stays retarded and the Baron takes her off screen to get healed. Baron was a bro.
145df5 No.14240209
>>14239758
the baron had a hard life
294590 No.14240306
>>14233039
The combat is horrendous shit, the plot drops the Witcher girl getting pregnant and bearing the messiah out of no where.
Only good thing out of 2-3 was the dragon that likes to to get gangbanged by dwarves.
d4e1e9 No.14240499
>>14239746
>Implying he didn't just say that to get some fug
e4e22f No.14240578
>>14240499
He talks like that to men, women, homos, heteros, elves, dwarves, dragons and demons alike, so obviously not.
dab00b No.14240745
Witcher was great gameplay and story wise (Siegfried was the biggest thing I missed in the next two games even if roche made up for it a bit) Mired by bugs mostly but excusable for a small game with a rushed final act
Witcher 2 is dogshit except for the story which is great, gameplay was the worst of the three with the absolute dogshit combat and quick time events. Witcher 3 gameplay was great but basegame story was mediocre and flawed (the fucking ending where sigi goes full retard and against his character for no reason). The DLCs made up for it HoS the best fucking thing ive played in the last decade and B&W being entertaining and a happy fucking ending for once.
Also only soyboi retards sided with the squirrels in 2
e4e22f No.14240760
>>14240745
QTEs aside, tw2 combat was decent. Significantly better than tw3 since you could actually control your animations and there wasn't momentum all over the place. Moreover attacks did not influence unpredictably. Gameplay balance revolving around combat was also infinitely better. Anyone who thinks combat in tw3 was good obviously never played any of the games.
dab00b No.14240825
>>14240760
combat was ok in witcher 3 since you can actually crowd control but I played witcher 2 on the top difficulty and its the least fun poor excuse for combat even if you prepare before each fight.
dont forget the kayran
d06a42 No.14240941
[CURRENT YEAR] jokes aside, the biggest thing that bugged me about Witcher 3 was the complete lack of any post game content besides the DLCs. You don't get to visit Ciri, you don't get to see your cottage with Yen or Triss, and everyone that played pivotal role in the story just vanishes from the game. Dandelion isn't even in his tavern with Zoltan. It feels so empty.
People praised this game for having so much attention to detail and little things that made it feel alive. But they completely ignored stuff like this. Yeah it would've been a lot more work to put into the game to tailor to everyone's choices. But maybe they could've actually done something smart like that instead of A FUCKING CARD GAME!
552e92 No.14241007
>>14240941
But anon, how would they have time to put all those current year remarks in the game? You better enjoy your independent strong womyn character or else some autistic /leftypol/ fags will shit talk you.
8543cf No.14241045
>>14240745
It felt like the Sigismund story line in Witcher 3 got cut hard, hastily edited then thrown under the rug for the main story.
1e03f6 No.14248929
It would have been cool if they based the Nilgaardian emperor on Sigmar Heldenhammer instead of some mean corrupt statesman.
a4b0d9 No.14249003
>>14248929
Emhyr var Emreis is a pivotal character in the book series and an integral part of the Ciri story arc (which I found to be somewhat worse than the stories of Geralt). Would be a pretty retarded move to replace him.
d06a42 No.14253025
>>14249003
I find it retarded they never bothered to try and bring up the fact he wanted to fuck his daughter.
>>14241007
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
1e03f6 No.14253054
>>14249003
>>14253025
I just thought he was a generic boogeyman of socialists. Should probably read at least one of the books.
d06a42 No.14253071
Hooktube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>>14253054
You can watch this video too.
dab00b No.14253316
>>14253071
>says there is nothing redeemable about witcher 1
>says witcher 2 was the best game with superb combat
>throws in some "le trump nazi right wing DRUMPH" jokes
someone juts put a bullet in this faggots head already
d06a42 No.14254515
>>14253316
Well he is a stoner furry. What did you expect?
a80a37 No.14257542
>>14240499
>>14239746
>>14240695
this is why weeb games win
just this reason
only this one
6e6397 No.14262135
>>14240679
>doesn't even have the faintest clue about what a mary sue is
Ciri isn't even close to being a mary sue. All of her powers and capabilities weren't instantly mastered, but required training and tutoring to master. You can dislike her as a character as much as you want, but she's not a mary sue.
efbdb2 No.14262233
>>14240941
Because its one of those endings where the post-game is some weird timeskip back where the main story doesn't matter. Once you reach the end, chronologically, Geralt moves on to Toussaint. That's the only time in the game where the main story is talked about and in the past tense, where characters come to visit after you're done for good.
a80a37 No.14262795
>>14262135
No you're right, she's a Stockholm Syndrome dyke whose entire existence is to simply not get raped pregnant.
Literally her only and highest defining trait is "Don't Get Raped", unless it's by the dyke who helped you from getting raped by an evil penis.
The early stories are just reimaginings of old folktales. Later on the books devolved worse and worse, with Geralt in a dysfunctional relationship with a bitch and elves who kinda want to fill ciri's womb but don't because she's uggo part human
also feminist witch illuminati
Witcher sucks. It always sucked.
The games at least gave us a better Triss and removed the bitch and the kid but they needed to bring back the books so what was already weak - the games were never fun, even 2 - only got that much worse, to the point where everyone complained about the utter shift in 3 and wanted to see more of the character they actually got to know over two games instead of this random uppity twat
Anyone remember that? How they went and added a few extra bits of dialogue to make it less obvious that they read more of the books and suddenly wanted to make the games closer to the canon? That was funny
520048 No.14267809
c2f1e6 No.14268998
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>>14240941
before the DLCs were released, when you finished the last (main) mission the game says that the story is over and whatever you do now it has no effect on the world or something like that even if you still has side missions left.
I noticed during the later missions when Triss is on the boat you cant interact with her past a certain point and she'll just say a generic phrase from earlier in the game. It was similar with Ciri if you saved her, not sure if they ran out of time or it was just too much due to all the different outcomes.
>You don't get to visit Ciri, you don't get to see your cottage with Yen or Triss
In Blood and Wine they come and visit your house in Toussaint(only one of them depending on your main game choices) if you finish the renovation side mission.
907c2f No.14269031
>witcher is reddit nao
/v/irgins are normalfags in denial. You are so afraid of being shamed for bad vidya taste, that you play games in secret and shit on them as soon as they're over. The only games you admit liking are reddit's top 10 like system shock and shadow of the colossus because you don't expect criticism for it.
efbdb2 No.14269329
>>14268998
Its more likely that Geralt going from saving the world and fighting for his loved ones back to usual shit is a bit of anti-climax. Also the endings go against that other than Geralt alone (not with Triss or Yen). With Yen you two fuck off to seclusion somewhere, with Triss you go to Kovir, if Ciri dies Geralt is broken and dies in the swamp.
e02450 No.14272283
>>14231676
>"Winter is coming" ripoff
The 3rd Witcher book, in which there is first the notion of "The Great Cold was published in 1996, the 1st and 2nd book were published in 1992 and 1993.
"A Song of Ice and Fire" was published also in 1996 BUT the Polish edition came out in 1998.
bdd1a2 No.14272568
>>14253054
He is Ciri's father.
7be257 No.14272625
>>14253054
He was pretty smart in the books. Knew of the corruption and shit in his country, knew he couldn't fix it because of his reputation, needed his daughter so he can fix his country.
>>14253025
Who knew of that? Just him and Geralt. He never directly said anything like that instead didn't correct others who did. Even the Lodge of Cunts didn't know the whole truth. His country was corrupt right up to his advisers so he had to keep his plan a secret right until the end.
1e03f6 No.14273846
Has anybody given Geralt the Hulk Hogan look?
269bf3 No.14285797