Will ILX revoke my Kool Kid's Club Kard if I say that the flood of ?s on the Velen map make me want to skip all those sidequests and get on with the main story?
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Monday, 30 July 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
I mean my god: https://witcher3map.com/v/#2/128.0/111.9
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Monday, 30 July 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
do not try to do every sidequest in witcher 3 you will die
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 July 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
velen is the largest area by far fwiw
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 July 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
i did everything, in the main game at least, and have no regrets
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 30 July 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
Roberto r u a ghost?
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Monday, 30 July 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
no comment
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 30 July 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Regarding possible ways to die, I can think of worse ways than Witcher 3 sidequests.
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
it took me 2+ years to finish this game and I found myself forgetting the entire plot when I'd pick it back up..
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
I was a little disappointed after last night's session, because although I'm on the trail of the Bloody Baron's daughter, I did not open any areas with new Gwent players.
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
you should just get the gwent standalone game! i haven't played it but have heard it's pretty good
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 August 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
xp to jingles good grief
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
Bloody Baron: I'll never know what bloom would've been the favorite of my miscarried daughter, and the fault lies with me.Geralt: Wanna play Gwent?BB: LAY 'EM DOWN, PODNER.
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Thursday, 2 August 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
Not sure I'm actually enjoying this now (level 14), might need to take a break.
Don't care for these characters much TBH.
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Monday, 6 August 2018 06:24 (six years ago) link
I think that Geralt's general lack of affect may be why I'm connecting to him, but that doesn't explain why I'm not connecting with other, more colorful/expressive characters.
― Abercromb Metrion Finchos (Leee), Monday, 6 August 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
Is the story supposed to be good or merely good for an open-world RPG? I haven't been impressed, and I'm in Act II now.
― Gwent Stefani (Leee), Monday, 20 August 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
the overall story did not strike me as a strength at the time and i can barely remember anything about it now. i don't think that the main storyline/plot is ever done well in open world games, and the smaller stories you discover (or sometimes create) as you go about the world are where narrative elements can actually shine.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 20 August 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
What prompted me was actually a secondary quest, the one where you help the Irish viking princess help free a local chieftain from a demon tormenting him by...
SPOILERS BEGIN
... throwing his newborn infant into an oven -- basically, the demon needs to find a new host who genuinely has intense feelings of guilt, but the outlines of the plan were already described by Geralt so why would he feel real remorse?
― Gwent Stefani (Leee), Monday, 20 August 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
yeah people mostly like it for all the weirdo side stories and world building. i never finished the main quest, same as all open world games
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 August 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
I finished it on accident
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
i find the story more amusing than necessarily good but it still has some sense of character to it and a consistency within its own world. some of the skeillige scenes were hilarious, as an irish person. the acting and the diff accents from diff parts of ireland.
it's weird reading the diff reactions to it. i never played a single hand of gwent after the first 10-minute foray, and i was a magic the gathering nerd in my teens. just couldn't get into it.
prob be surprised if i ever enjoy a game as much as this tho i am already looking forward to their cyberpunk game.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSqi-8kAMmM
in a world
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
where you have to change your sword to suit your enemy
one butt is
flexin
*slow motion shot of butt muscles gently breathing in and out*
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:50 (five years ago) link
I just started this today ! I mean III. I hate starting games though and this one seems massive but I will try.
― L'assie (Euler), Sunday, 21 July 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
One butt cheek is for human enemies, the other butt cheek is for monsters.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
that explains the unbalanced tingling when the witcher walks through the woods
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
henry cavill sucks and is bad, therefore this show will suck and be bad
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 21 July 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
^
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link
Also the game is bad.
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
Nah.
All three instalments are worth playing. 1-2 do certain things better than 3.
― pomenitul, Monday, 22 July 2019 11:17 (five years ago) link
“One of the things that probably shifted the most once we cast Henry is that Geralt speaks a lot less than I initially intended. In the books, Geralt’s actually quite chatty. He talks a lot. What I found, though, is that on-screen—especially with Henry portraying him—a lot can be done in looks and in grunts. Henry’s a big grunter. I mean that in the best way possible,” she said.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-why-the-witcher-auditioned-207-other-guys-for-ger-1836600508
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
oh he’s a big grunter alright
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 July 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
this game really wants me to get into Gwent. I don't understand it at all, which is typical of me because I find most card games perplexing at the best of times
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
I've been playing this for a good few weeks but I'm still LV5. Seem to be trying to defeat the first Wild Hunt demon with the help of a high maintenance hippie witch who reminds me of my ex girlfriend's housemate
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
I only seem to be able to apply ability points to one ability (fast action swordplay or something). How does this work?
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
can't remember how the ability system works, do remember it fucking sucks
― devvvine, Friday, 8 November 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
you don't have to play gwent at all beyond that one time where they make you learn it. i certainly never played it again after that.
― na (NA), Friday, 8 November 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
i'mstarting to wonder why i haven't leveled up more than I have. It's making it rather hard to defeat this Nithral character
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 8 November 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
i recall that one being a tricky one. any guide online could tell you more but use the roll away movement as much as possible. i also think i was able to back out of it or get a previous save and go back and load up on healing potions
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 9 November 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
smashed it! although afterwards I seemed to end up on the other side of the map with a bunch of tasks to do way way away
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Saturday, 9 November 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
I'm loving this game, but there are a lot of glitches, which is to be expected in a game of this size. That said, I'm not a fan of Geralt suddenly forgetting how to open a door whilst in the basement of a rat-infested haunted tower.
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
Anyway, been playing lots of secondary quests and levelling up and I'm nearly ready to go visit Novigrad. Very exciting. Do you ever get to go to Toussaint in this game or is that one of the expansions?
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
it's one of the expansions, and is iirc even more sex-alicious than the main game
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
Ooh, I had some sexy sex last night. It was very sexual and uncannily like seeing mannequins grinding on each other
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 09:51 (four years ago) link
I take it it's normal to think 'Yeah I really ballsed-up that quest' on a semi-regular basis because you said the wrong thing? No matter how hard I try, I seem to piss a lot of people off. I really annoyed the Peller last night by not helping him, but I don't think the game actually gave me an option to help him at all. Similarly, some quests just kind of end anticlimatically and I'm suddenly left to my own devices in the middle of a wood or whatever. Perhaps the consequences come back to raise their heads later on...
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
One of the good things about the game is that there are many, many quest situations where you don't end up doing the "right" thing however you might define that, or how hard you try. And yes, sometimes quests just peter out with no successful resolution, good or bad. I think it's a really good way of world-building, and gives the game replay value- things might turn out different next time. Of course it's still pretty "on rails" really, but it does give the player a real feeling of agency IMO.
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 12:03 (four years ago) link
I like:
'Right, we've gotta go and kill the evil witches who live in the wood, with not a moment to spare. Follow us'
*You meditate for 36 hours*
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link