2016-06-05, 18:24
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Never mind Geralt hanging his swords, it's sad to come to the realization that this is the end of Witcher games. People keep making claims and assumptions that Witcher is sure to come back, but Witcher is not like Assassin's Creed where they pump out one game per year .. and that's good. That's not to say it will never come back with 100% certainty, only that Projekt RED has no future plans for Witcher at the moment.
Nevertheless, Projekt RED announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will be released sometime in 2017, and after that they will start working on another Triple A title that is NOT Witcher, and the development for this game would take place in 2017-2021. On that note if Witcher was ever to make a comeback, and with 3-4 years to develop a game, we'd see one in 2025 earliest .. That's 9 years  . If Witcher 4 was ever to be made, the story would have to follow some other Witcher. People keep suggesting Ciri, but that would not work simply because Ciri is not a mutant; She cannot drink potions or decoctions. She also has her powers of the Elder Blood and she'd be pretty damn overpowered .. Wouldn't make for a fun game. If Witcher 4 ever happens I hope the story follows one of the Witchers we've come to know from the previous Witcher games though, and not some entirely new character. I'd personally love to play as Lambert, given his personality .. but admittedly I don't think that personality in itself would be a good fit for a game  As far as Blood and Wine goes .. Haven't played much yet but seems top quality as expected. The dialogue and general banter of Geralt with various people he meets never gets old. Buncha good references to other stuff, like the aforementioned Leeroy thing. Music is really good too .. as expected. Not sure if story wise Blood and Wine can hope to be as good as Hearts of Stone though .. I completed HoS myself just yesterday and it was amazing. Well, most of it anyway. I really didn't care for Olgierd's back story much but I was really intrigued by the Master Mirror character. Sad we never found out what exactly he was, though. That should've been one of the rewards to choose from .. damnit. As far as Olgierd goes, that optional fight against him was goddamned epic .. I'm still left puzzled by what sort of powers he was using during the fight though because none of those powers were explained by his wish to Master Mirror and he was just a human. Still, loved that fight and it was damn hard .. Which got me thinking about the fact that why on earth the last battle against the Wild Hunt was so easy, and then there's this Olgierd character who's clearly stronger than all of Wild Hunt combined together .. talk about anti-climatic last battle. And wasn't only him, plenty bosses in HoS who were much harder than Wild Hunt.
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2016-06-06, 01:45
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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The true identity of Gaunter O'Dimm is more or less hinted at if you accept, prior to the final confrontation "on the Moon", an optional side quest at the University of Oxenfurt to find a scholar that had some past dealings with Master Mirror. The answer is not outright given, but it's pretty clear if you consider the Faustian (or more exactly, the Pan Twardowski-an) nature of HoS's story; additionally, if you choose to spare Olgierd instead of leaving him to pay his debt, you do get one mission (no boss battle, although there are some enemies that can seriously slow you down while the timer is ticking) where you get to know why O'Dimm is called Master Mirror and what he actually is.
That aside, the last boss battle in B&W is also rather tricky. Spoiler:
For now I'm in a bit of a bind. As I said in my previous post, Spoiler for unexpected bug due to unexpected circumstance:
I'm hesitant to reload the game to an earlier save due to two reasons: - I can't really remember when the Unseen Elder kill happened as I save frequently. - I'm pretty sure I already did three-four quests since then and I'm reluctant to redo them. Anyway, I'll see what I can do today.
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2016-06-06, 05:31
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Well I did spare Olgierd originally but the side mission didn't exactly reveal who he is - only why he is Master Mirror perhaps? Though people also call him Man of Glass which does not match with the trial he gave you. The scholar in the house only said that he is Evil himself but no specifics .. Remember Gaunter said if you knew who he is you'd go mad so he cannot tell you because he still needs you. That only left me more intrigued.
After looking up the rewards from not sparing Olgierd though, I opted in to load a previous save; That saddle is pretty damn sweet. Who doesn't want an evil horse? Though I am quite annoyed in Projekt RED's decision that if you don't save Olgierd, you cannot have the Viper Venomous Silver Sword, as the sword is hidden in the trial Gaunter O'Dimm presents you with.
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2016-06-07, 10:22
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Sleepy Lurker
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I also chose to spare Olgierd in light of the end-game rewards, though I was much tempted to let this selfish bastard have his just deserts. Getting hints on how to get the best ending for the base game's main storyline, a couple months after clearing it, just wasn't worth it...on the other hand, I really could do with that nifty unique silver sword...I'm kind of an obstinate collector/hoarder...
Speaking of which, there's also a hidden silver sword hidden in Blood & Wine's unique "best ending route" mission. Anyway, I reloaded an earlier save (before that unfortunate and totally unforeseen encounter with the Unseen Elder) and it seems to have freed my game from those "out of bounds" errors. I am however still annoyed with small collision bugs: small obstacles on the ground, barely two inches tall (like a raised patch of ground/rock) can block Geralt although he is more than capable of running over it - and I therefore have to jump to clear the said nuisances, which is ridiculous considering the small scale of these said features. And Geralt seems to have problems climbing certain ledges, especially in caves, which appears to be due more to bad level design rather than bad programming. BTW, how do the hell do you get enriched ingots? I have recipes for most ores and ingots, but I can't seem to figure out how to craft an enriched one - or even where to find it. I need two enriched dimeterium ingots for a sword whose schematics I just found. EDIT: never mind. It turns out the recipe for enriched metals cannot be learned; ingots and plates of such sort can only be crafted by the Grandmaster smith in Beauclair, Lafargue.
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2016-06-12, 14:38
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I don't know what's happened but I can't bring myself to play the game anymore because it just got way too easy. Either my game's broken or the mutation system is broken ..
I recently unlocked Euphoria, which combined with my constant high toxicity made Geralt some sort of demigod. Enemies still hit like trucks on Death March, but so do I. In fact, I killed one of the side-quest bosses in four hits, even though I was looking forward to that fight being fun .. After all, you don't get to fight too many one on one battles against Mages in W3 .Spoiler for Side-quest boss:
I love challenge, and I loved Witcher because it was difficult. I used to play on Blood and Broken Bones pretty much until the very end of the main story, and it was still difficult. Now I'm on Death March and it feels like I'm playing '' Just the Story '' .. wtf Now you could argue that I could just turn Euphoria off (if that's what is causing this) but that's dumb. That's like saying you should wear worse gear to make things more challenging .. Purposedly gimping myself to make a game challenging is not fun
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2016-06-21, 06:21
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It's true that compared to the base game, there are some things that deserve criticism.
One thing that disappoints me ATM (for some reason this shortcoming has only become very glaring lately; I seem to have not minded it at all until last week) is the graphical differences between the regions. On Sunday I practically completed all side quests in Toussaint (contracts, too) and decided to get back to Velen, White Orchard and Skellige, and let's just say the differences blew up on my screen when I jumped back to the northern parts of the continent. Skellige - click on thumbnails to enlarge:    And then back to Toussaint - click on thumbnails to enlarge:   Noticed it? Just to be clear: I'm running everything on Ultra settings and even Nvidia hair AA is on. Honestly? I know that since Toussaint is an extremely sunny region, the antialiasing is dialed all the way up to 11 (some sort of super-TXAA) thereby blurring and drowning a great deal of details (colors are saturated and overlit, too), but in the more downcast Skellige or Velen, model and landscape details are so sharp you could practically get papercuts walking around in fascination and the contrast between both environments is staggering. At the end of the day and in spite of the end result (Toussaint remains a beautiful and idyllic country that seems to be copy pasted from the most beautiful backdrops in Italy and southern France), I sometimes feel like I bought some low-quality game. Yes, I'm exaggerating, but when you hop from one region to Toussaint and back, the disappointment inevitably rears its ugly head. My other gripe at this moment is that W3 will never reach the level of sandboxing that Skyrim enjoyed...and its lack of a true and deeply powerful console command system. I'm already aware there ARE console enablers for Witcher 3 out there (already used them to spawn two quest items a certain merchant NPC in Novigrad just wouldn't display), but they're usually limited to merely spawning items (or at least that's what they're used for the most) rather than going more in-depth, as in changing quest progression and other values. Why? Well, to my greatest chagrin I now have TWO bugged quests in Skellige that I can't seem to fix: Hard Times (I can't talk to the blacksmith in Kaer Trolde) and Muire D'yaeblen (the quest giver just won't give me the said quest details). I have no way of interacting with NPCs and force-forwarding their respective storylines. It's no use reloading earlier saves, since I know Muire D'yaeblen has been acting iffy for a long time already (probably all the way back to before the Kaer Morhen battle; I was hoping some patches would fix the issue, but no cigar on that front) and I'm not about to start a New Game+ because going back through such an enormous game and two DLCs is a daunting task for me. I already did it once in Skyrim and I'm not sure I want to retry that time-consuming experience. T_T P.S. The devs are practically breaking the fourth wall in the Equine Phantoms quest; I was nearly constantly chuckling during the second half of the mission.
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2016-08-30, 14:19
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Since GOTY was released today it's time do bump this topic... so GOTY with all DLCs is now available!
Also, after watching interview with Sapkowski I just can't believe people still thinks books are based on the games and he have problem with selling them because of this (people think books are adaptation and don't buy them thinking "I will just play game" etc). If anyone still don't know, Witcher saga ended in 1999* and games are it's non cannon sequel. Quote:
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2016-08-30, 15:49
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I've personally read a couple of the Witcher books and I can corroborate that the English translation is rather difficult to read. From what I've heard the original Polish prose is actually rather good but the English translation comes off as rather heavy which makes it a bit hard to get through without getting tired. That's probably the reason why I still have one of the books on my coffee table waiting for me to pick it back up 
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2016-08-30, 17:20
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2016-08-31, 14:13
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2016-12-23, 15:59
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Ok, I got this on black friday and I've put 40 hours into exploring, I'm level 13 and havent advanced the main storyline beyond finding Tamara in Oxenfurt, been exploring all the ? In the map.
So, following this I stumbled into a cave near what I assume to be Crook Back Bog, that contains an spirit trapped into a tree, and it wants to be released. As far as I understand it's part of a quest the Crones give you, but I trigger it before going with them, so what should I do, free or kill it? Would it change anything else? I dont mind spoilers of that part of the game
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2016-12-23, 18:10
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I'm intrigued that you can trigger that before going to the Crones though. I wonder if anything will change latter on. EDIT: I just googled a bit and, from what I could gather, you may have stumbled upon something that will change a latter quest. Pretty cool that the game allows it. Maybe I should go replay the game
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2016-12-23, 19:37
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¡Gracias Totales!
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So, what would change? I'm not inclined to release a spirit thats trapped into a would be evil heart in the middle of a cave in a swamp that send a werewolf after me....
On the second thing, I think the game doesnt mind you finding things before its due time, I stumbled into two lvl 21 wyverns and killed them, burned the nests and got 'rewarded' with a royal wyvern that took a while to kill , I also ran into what I believe was the archgriffin but I ran like hell of that one
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2016-12-24, 07:15
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Well, acording to the folks at reddit it seems like: Spoiler for Spirit in the Tree:
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2017-04-20, 11:47
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That's a bold thing to claim that his novels made the Witcher games popular rather than the other way around. Then again as Ashley and Mica said, the author is probably still angry that he didn't accept royalties when he sold the rights to the game, thinking it wouldn't sell well only for the games to become very popular and is now regretting and lashing out for his bad business decision.
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2017-04-22, 09:55
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The way I see it, Witcher storytelling is closer to a JRPG model
which means is that you not playing as yourself you the invisible hand guiding a characters who already has their own history and background and moral values and the creator deserve SOME credit for creating that background and the game studio also deserved credit for executing the concept But yes, the creator made a business decision that he regrets That is his own fault, sorry
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2017-04-22, 11:39
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I've read a couple of the books and have so far been unimpressed. Since I read the English translation I have avoided drawing much conclusions since I've been told that the translation isn't particularly good. However it is true that the fantastic world of The Witcher series would not exist if not for the mind of Andrzej Sapkowski, I just wish he wasn't so dismissive of an entertainment medium which he clearly has little interest in. I'd honestly put forward the hypothesis that the games have seriously improved the popularity of the books, especially outside of his native Poland. But what do I know? I just noticed that a translation was made in Portuguese this year which is kind of interesting since we aren't really a huge market for fantasy books.
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