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...
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... 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
I finished it on accident
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 23 August 2018 22:03 (five 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 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSqi-8kAMmM
in a world
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 July 2019 18:49 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
that explains the unbalanced tingling when the witcher walks through the woods
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 July 2019 20:32 (four 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 (four years ago) link
^
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
Also the game is bad.
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Sunday, 21 July 2019 23:27 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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
I think it's a really good way of world-building
Yeah absolutely. "That went wrong and sort of fizzled out weirdly" is the key mood of the whole game imo and what makes it feel distinct from everything else out there, it's definitely in the feature-not-bug zone.
― JimD, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
I lost a sidequest involving Gwent because the character I was supposed to play against died. Guess I'm gonna need to learn to play it or this'll keep happening and then I'll get a 'Great job, you suck!' ending. It does seem like quite a complicated game. I started watching a gruelling 1-hour YouTube on how to play it but the guy was just bumbling through and not getting to the point. The images were fuzzy.
My main concern is that because I haven't played much, I only have the starter deck of cards. Would it be best to go back to White Orchard and play the yokels rather than trying to take on the people in Novigrad? Or does it not matter?
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 21 November 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
Honestly, I'd recommend getting used to having a few failed quests in your history rather than bothering to learn gwent, it's not a great card game at all.
I've had a few pretty major plot lines end up marked as failed (including one where I just didn't go back to help out the bloody baron in time and he ended up missing and never heard from again) but none of them have been game breaking and it's one of the things that ultimately makes your playthrough your own, imo. Agree that the red text etc does end up implying a level of "you suck" but learning to ignore that is easier than learning a dumb card game that you won't enjoy anyway.
I mean even if you do want to play a card game you're still better off ignoring gwent and just playing hearthstone or something instead.
― JimD, Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
tbf I didn't buy this game to play Magic the Gathering
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 21 November 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
as someone who likes MTG and other similar card games, i didn't find gwent fun at all and ignored it for the whole game
― ciderpress, Thursday, 21 November 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
i only played one game of gwent
however, i think it's worth noting that a ton of people seem to love gwent, and it spawned its own separate game
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
(a lot of people also loved/love the card game in FFVIII as well, so who knows)
right. I'm on Skellige now. Still very much enjoying this game although now I'm almost fully versed in the way the game works, I am starting to find the main quest a bit tedious. There's a lot of fetching and following the map to where it tells you to go. Now I'm on a different map I'm starting to feel a sense of 'okay this again but with Northern Irish accents'. Decided to go back to Velen for a bit and just ride around and explore. Found a LOT of nekkers and drowners and bandit camps which was okay. Back to Skellige and whoa there are a lot of characters the game wants to assume I know all about. Had to spend a good while reading the character glossary and still don't quite get what's going on or why I'm doing the thing I'm meant to be doing. Maybe I'd like to start a different game. I have Dark Souls 3 and RDRII that I'm itching to play but I'd feel a bit like I'm putting a perfectly good book down without finishing it.
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:24 (four years ago) link
for open-world games it's more like leaving a museum without looking at every exhibit imo
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
yeah OTM. I'm playing W3 through again and just doing what I feel like then progressing the main plot to level up. It's fun just to roam around exploring the huge world, and I think I'm doing mostly new side-quests this time round. The game is absolutely vast!
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 07:37 (four years ago) link
i feel like i should maybe try this again as i played for maybe 40 hours and then moved on to the next MIND MUSEUM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
is there a way to tell how long you've played a game?
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
most games track playtime somewhere in the menus, not sure where it is in this game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
if I've played about 5-6 hours since I got my PS4 that would be about 60 or so hours... but it would be interesting to know for sure
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-21/medieval-fantasy-warrior-is-key-to-21-000-stock-gain-in-decade
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 23 December 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
played well over 100 hrs of this according to the stats tab and only recently got to Kaer Morhen.
Does make me wonder exactly how big the game is and what the average completion time would be.
I've been doing a lot of side quests and exploration, plus I've probably left Geralt standing there while I make a cup of tea a few times.
Still not bothered with bloody Gwent and probably never will.
Something I'd like to know more about is the Skills Tree / Character Build thing. Once I've leveled to 5 on an ability, is it worth keeping in my tree or will it not matter if I take it out?
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 3 January 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link