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  1. WDeranged
    This is similar to what I initially thought was going on, but like you I'm still satisfied with what I got. I had 80 solid hours of fun and I must have skipped half the sidequests, replay value is going to be huge. I did appreciate the story not being entirely Geralt's but I don't think we got the best possible version of the story, feels like they had to compromise. Even so, considering the whole package, it's hard to complain
  2. WDeranged
    Looks like The Witcher 3 is my game of the year, followed closely by GTA V and Pillars of Eternity.
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    Anything other than their entire presentation? I get that long time readers/players will know the history of the hunt but as a new player I feel like they pulled a bait and switch here. I'm not completely bent out of shape over it, I just think they could have fleshed it out better for us noobs. They're even more vague about the White Frost, if I hadn't read a certain in-game book I'd have been dumbfounded by Ciri's actions at the end.
  4. WDeranged
    I think that initial burst of fun made the failures more bitter for me. For the first 10-20 hours I thought it was going to be their best game, it had the potential
  5. WDeranged
    Well it is who they are in the books. Oh I suspected as much, it just seems like they were mishandled here. I'm thinking it's time to read those books.
  6. WDeranged
    *end game spoilers* Finished the main quest and found it pretty damn satisfying. I'd say my biggest disappointment was finding out that the Wild Hunt are just a bunch of cosplaying elves with Goa-uld voice masks. The twist that they're also trying to prevent apocalypse didn't sit right with me, they're portrayed as ice wraiths ffs, you even get a glimpse of the future where the White Frost has engulfed everything and the Wild Hunt hounds are everywhere... Ultimately all sins are forgiven because of the charm and humanity of the journey, I wasn't really thinking about plot issues towards the end, I just wanted to set things right, with violence
  7. WDeranged
    I found myself wishing they hadn't made The Institute playable and just went the traditional 'defeat big bad' route. At the very least you could have uncovered some darker secrets (an FEV lab apparently isn't worth mentioning) while working for them, anything's better than the derpy railroading we got.
  8. WDeranged
    Considering how little he changed over the years you just expected him to be around forever
  9. WDeranged
    Yep, companions also break into their 'now I trust you implicitly' speech in the middle of battles and other conversations.
  10. WDeranged
    Just did the battle at Kaer Morhen and then wiped out the hags and that elven dude, still having a blast. Now I'm back at Novigrad and there's been a wee bit of a purge, I'm guessing this is my fault for not doing anything about Radovid
  11. WDeranged
    It's apparently their best selling game but it still doesn't seem to be conquering the world like Skyrim did.
  12. WDeranged
    I love how maze-like the city is, exploration and random amusement are the reasons I'll end up coming back to this game once the rage fog subsides.
  13. WDeranged
    God help me but I thought the father/son thing in Fallout 3 wasn't Bethesda's worst example of a human relationship, that award would go to every relationship in Fallout 4
  14. WDeranged
    Yeah I found this particularly annoying too. Some of their actions could be described as evil and I don't make a peep about it, then within two missions I've been announced as the new leader. There was potential for interesting conversations about ethics and free will but noooo, gotta go blow some **** up
  15. WDeranged
    I can't fault that quest because the references were subtle but I still dislike when media starts using references. It just takes me out of the story. THIS...IS...SKELLIGE!
  16. WDeranged
    I was ****ing livid when the final boss involved me screaming "BACAWK" at a cloud for 2 minutes. I did like Skyrim's story even if I was slightly let down by it. I'd been following Kirkbride's apocryphal writings and I hoped Alduin would be a black hole with teeth, a true world eater. I wanted the final battle to be atop the Throat of The World, above storm clouds writhing with Alduin's infinitely coiled body Turns out I got screaming at clouds instead but I thought Sovngarde was impressive and quite true to the lore. Meeting the lost souls of the various nords who died in the MQ was a great touch.
  17. WDeranged
    Loved PS:T but I dunno if it's the best RPG ever, best RPG writing perhaps.
  18. WDeranged
    Three drunk witchers dressing up in Yennifer's clothes...so much fun Though I realised soon after that I've ploughed the MQ a bit too hard, the game asked me to rally my allies for battle so I've gone back a few saves and started doing more side quests.
  19. WDeranged
    I'm thinking that writing and recording all the dialogue ages before the game was finished is partially to blame for these moments
  20. WDeranged
    I'm finding lots of interesting content dotted around, unmarked. Fair enough there are a lot of enemies but they've all been low to mid level so far, not much trouble.
  21. WDeranged
    I did too. Just a few moments after the initial meeting with 'Father' I experimentally filled him full of boomstick and kudos to Bethesda for not making him essential.
  22. WDeranged
    I don't know if I could cope without the minimap, at least not until I know the game well. I dunno exactly why but I feel less spatially aware in 3rd person games, if there was a first person mode I'd disable minimap in a heartbeat.
  23. WDeranged
    I have to admit I still think that the game might well have benefitted from choosing one area and focusing upon it more robustly, for instance I would have loved to see a siege progressing in No Mans Land, skirmishes between Redanians and Nilfgaardians and whatnot, or Novigrad brought to life as well as Vizima was, which I think they failed at by a slight margin. However one cannot really fault an RPG that actually has different cultures, armours, clothing, accents, landscapes and architecture within it, it made a nice change of pace and showed that the developers are going the extra mile in adding detail and verisimilitude, as well as sticking to the series focus on its (simulated) historical accuracy. Edit: I for one enjoy it for that reason. I couldn't have put it better. I'm really enjoying all the small cultural details, one recent example I noticed is that the residents of Skellige take the fingernails of their dead to deter the Wild Hunt from using them as ornamentation for their ship. Doesn't feel like busy work so far (no more than the mainland), I'm mostly just enjoying the change in culture and landscape.
  24. WDeranged
    There's a scene right after this where Valentine starts speaking with Kellogg's voice. I thought it was going to develop into a thing but it's never mentioned again
  25. WDeranged
    I've gotten used to it but for the first ten hours I did find it jarring. Even during some terrible weather you rarely see motion in the trunks of trees, certainly nothing like the rubber forests of The Witcher 3
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