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Tagaziel

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  1. Oh, man, where do I start...
  2. Co-op is what saves the game. That and the sexy catheter/colonic tube armoured suits.
  3. And you have an awesome setting (SCAF <3) to boot. Too bad it's wasted by a pants-on-head-retarded storyline.
  4. Just in case the nuclear ****storm didn't hit you: http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Blog:News/Blog:News/Survivor2299_was_a_hoax FAAAAAKE.
  5. It's these moments that make me glad I'm Polish and can enjoy the books at my leisure. Eilhart's character is unchanged from the saga. She is a very competent politician, ruthless, pragmatic, and manipulative, backed by the secret league of the sorceresses (the Feminist Magical International, as Yennefer put it elegantly and I inelegantly translated). She did have issues with her libido, including taking calls in negligee with lipstick smudges on the neck. Her conflict with Radowid runs a lot deeper than her simply assassinating his father. She was the woman behind the regency council, marginalizing little Radowid and his mother, humiliating him with her overt attempts to break and reshape him into her pawn. She even went so far as marginalize him during the victory parade in Wyzima, where she and Dijkstra (her lover, the Redanian spymaster she later betrayed) stood alongside kings where he, the heir should be. It went on for years, causing these deep seated issues you see. I wouldn't consider her mistakes being silly, though. They are a result of her character flaws, including the aforementioned libido and general disdain for non-magicians (she did underestimate Geralt at several points, but Geralt can't really pass for a stupid brute convincingly). I was quite surprised at how consistent her portrayal was with the books, including the mannerisms. By the way, here's a few calculations I made basing on the books and the official Witcher game map: Wyzima - Vengerberg 8cm = 4-5 days of intense horse riding Anchor - Gors Velen = 3 days Anchor - Tretogor = 7.5 cm = 300 mil 1cm = 40 miles 7.5 cm x 5 cm 300 x 200 mil = 60000 mil2 - Temeria 6 cm x 7 cm = 240 x 280 = 67200 mil2 - Redania 8 cm x 7 cm = 320 x 280 = 89600 mil2 - Kaedwen (UK: 88,744.8, don't remember the criteria, though) 1cm = 64 km 0.01 m = 64000 m Map scale: 1 : 6400000 So there you have it. Note that these are very, very rough and I may be off by several thousand square miles. I'm not even sure the miles in the Witcher universe are the standard Imperial mile. They might be using Arabic or German miles for all we know.
  6. The game's awesome. Highly recommended.
  7. I liked when they removed her eyes.
  8. The poll is skewed, since BG, NWN, and FNV have the same type of background and history for the character: a blank slate for you to write on.
  9. The point still stands, Geralt went AWOL in the middle of a guerrilla campaign after a fresh knighting. That's about as well received as taking a dump on the table during a royal feast and asking the queen to share her vestments for wiping. The Alder Folk probably hope that too. Too bad it's going to happen. Geralt vs. Aen Elle. Doesn't seem fair, does it? Maybe he'll fight blindfolded. I only want the option to side with Nilfgaard. Say what you will, but awesome Dutch Absolutist Empire is awesome and it will definitely bring an end to the internecine strife in the north.
  10. I was speaking about the Elves, not Emhyr. I just hope Geralt gets to share a beer or two with his old friend. Also, didn't Maeve get a fistful of armor in her face? Unless toothless rulers are your schtick, I'm not sure Geralt would be all that interested. Especially since he went AWOL on her.
  11. Given the ending to 2 settling that may involve swigging grog and a 'catch you later bro', though. Probably cannot solve an extraplanar invasion that way but you never know. You can't reason with the Elven Nazis. The Aen Elle make Thalmor look like peaceful, reasonable guys seeking a compromise and unwilling to resort to violence.
  12. Damn stealthed black hand troopers. It was always really easy to miss the distortion effect when you were running around shooting other people. Augh! Hotwire escorted mammoth tanks. Nah, popamole arties are way worse. You can block a Mammoth tank with a flame tank at point blank range and burn the Hotties, with the Mammoth pretty much unable to do any damage. Then your own techs can blow it up. Good times.
  13. Why does Garriot sound like the Deepak Chopra of video games? Half of that interview is smoke and mirrors. What the hell does "purpose-driven, rationalized events" even mean?
  14. Got proof? So far it's wishful thinking.
  15. The Survivor 2299 thing is making the rounds. I can't replicate the redirect, though. Here's a quick summary. http://fallout.gamepedia.com/Blog:News/The_Survivor_2299
  16. Because with an isometric camera you need to have a ****load of good content, while in first person you can distract gamers with shiny graphics.
  17. Hey, I already suggested they should title it The Watchers. They should also begin the game with a major adventurer being thrown out of the window of a tall building in Defiance Bay, before embarking on a journey that will deconstruct fantasy tropes and reinvent the genre as we know it.
  18. Wait, trailer with Cirilla? DID I MISS SOMETHING
  19. Dead Space 3? The story was terrible, but the core gameplay was fun and solid, especially in coop. Command & Conquer was looking decent. Its cancellation and closing down of Victory Games wasn't due to fan backlash, but corporate mismanagement.
  20. Is it wrong for it to feel so good? Talk to me more, darlin'.
  21. The first always sounded damn cool to me, better than the original title. Hmm, maybe I have an obsession with the word wicher and related ones that sound so... hard and edgy. Fallout doesn't translate as well, as you point. However, I warmed up to translating Half-Life as Rozpad. Holy crap, I really love words with z's, r's, and w's. Is that a symptom of something? D:
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