The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Paul_cz]

The bit at the party bored me and I lost interest.

I agree about D2, nearly finished my non-lethal Emily play through. After something else, for a break, I'll do a Corvo Mental-kill-everything play through, like I did for D1

You mean the wedding? Damn..how anyone could be bored by that..I was laughing all the way through

 

[Paul_cz]

Guys blood and wine or hearts of stone first? What one is the shortest?

Thanks

Hearts of Stone is shorter but you can still squeeze over 20 hours from it if you do all it offers. Blood and Wine is intended as the closure, so play that last and take your time with it.

 

[Paul_cz]

Best place to sell swords and armour in version 1.31 ??

Hattori in Novigrad, the girl armorer in Crow's Perch and the master blacksmith in Beauclair.

 

[Paul_cz]

I know this is horrible offtopic, but does the forum looks completely different to someone else ? Is there some thread where I can read about this change ?

 

[Paul_cz]

Anyone use an Xbox 360 controller to play this? Mrs would love this game but she wants to play it like a console.

Finished it twice with x360pad, works perfectly (although it is even better if you download Immersive Cam mod and its submod Immersive Motion, and select alternative movement response in menu).

 

[Paul_cz]

Just done The Whispering Hillock/Family Matters/Ladies of the Wood quests (they all seemed to tie into one).

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Did you free the tree spirit or kill it? I tricked it then killed it and remains to be seen what happens as a result.

I still have of yet been unable to craft the Viper silver and steel sword. The blacksmith required to do so requires me to do a question that is level 24. I'm level 8 and the sword is only level 1 (but still better than what I have). That can't be right surely?

If you are talking about Hattori in Novigrad, his quest is 24 but I did it on level 12, it just requires a bit of persistance.

 

[Paul_cz]

So the question I have is:

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I told Triss I loved her whilst she was getting on the boat out of Novigrad and she came back to me. Does that mean that I will not be able to indulge in the delights of Yennifer later in the game?

You will be able to indulge in some of it, but there will come a point where you will have to make a decision what to say to Yennefer. And if you repeat what you said to Triss...I will let you discover that

 

[Paul_cz]

when you guys do a new play through are you doing new game+ or just standard new game?
I'm going to do a play through of witcher 2 then import my save as i feel I've missed quite a bit of the story and references by not doing this but i feel like playing witcher 3 again everything will feel the same and i won't get a kick out of it as I've already done the story + first expansion meaning everything will come back to me as i play. Much like when i try watch a series again i get bored because i remember it all.

Also i feel it might get a bit tedious starting all over again if i don't do new game + but at the same time boring having all the starting gear in new game + i can't win haha

When I replayed the game, year after first finishing it, I did it in normal new game. I do not like NG+ since it means all skills already unlocked etc and the game then remains fairly static in character development and skill use etc. But to each their own of course. I did enjoy my second playthrough just as much as the first though, the game is so big that I already forgot lot of it, did some different choices etc.
Definitely a good idea to finish Witcher 2, I would play even Witcher 1 btw, still a great game even if production values are bit lower.

 

[Paul_cz]

Do you know if any of your choices in the first game carry all the way over to number 3? like import 1's save into 2 then that save into 3 and say for instance a character that died in 1 is still dead in number 3 maybe?

I own all 3 of the witcher games so it is something i could give a go.

Witcher 3 has few callbacks to Witcher 1, but afaik none of the choices in TW1 have any impact on events in TW3. You can import save from TW1 to TW2 and see a bit of consequence there, but TW3 takes place another 6 months after TW2 in another location, so events from TW1 do not play a role there.

 

[Paul_cz]

Ah cool, I'm definitely going to give TW1 a go then as i never actually got round to playing it. Gonna see if i can find some graphics mods/ENB presets and use DSR to spruce the dated graphics up abit

Witcher 1 is not a technical powerhouse, but the art direction is strong and the game has a strong sense of atmosphere. I took these five years ago, no mods:

 

[Paul_cz]

They actually look pretty decent for a 2008 game, got it on download now do you remember roughly the amount of playtime it takes if you go through all the side quests etc?

It is pretty long, I would say those 50-60 hours.
Couple words of advice

- use OTS (over the shoulder) camera
- read tutorial screens and learn the right timing for combat, select hard difficulty (at least try it)
- invest some points into Aard sign, it makes final boss of first chapter much less frustrating

combat sucks though just started a game.

Hard to give any advice to such post. For me it doesn't suck in any of the three games, although TW2 has weakest combat (still fun). Most importantly though, combat is not what these games revolve around.

 

[Paul_cz]

Good to hear, as I currently suck at combat!

Have just started TW3 and clearly still need to practice combat, or rather get used to playing with a console controller.

It does take some practice. Probably most important thing is learning to dodge. Rolling away is just for when you really need to get the **** outta dodge, otherwise sidesteps are where it's at.
Also make sure to use all the tools Geralt has. Read the bestiary, use the signs (some good for crowd control), potions, bombs as you craft them. In the menu options enable "alternative movement response" if you haven't already. Parrying and riposte is also very useful, particularly against humans, although some animal attacks can also be parried.

 

[Paul_cz]

o h m y g o d the live musical performance done in Krakow last year is amazing.
https://www.gog.com/movie/video_game_show_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_concert

I recommend the 4K version

 

[Paul_cz]

witcher 3 scenes from a marriage what an amazing experience.

It is something else. I wonder if with all the hype behind Horizon if it also has quests that reach similar emotional heights and general quality.

 

[Paul_cz]

Whilst Horizon is an absolutely superb game, it cannot be really compared to W3. Horizon's true triumph is its combat, robotic Tomy Zoids and it's new take on an apocalypse. It isn't lore laden like Witcher is. Quests are decent but nothing we've seen before and Horizon's quests are more akin to Fallout 4's more than anything. Imo there isn't a single game today that can match Witcher 3 - it has set the bar massively high, and it's 2x DLC's are works of art.

Thanks for impressions. I am still looking forward to Horizon - it and Yakuza 0 are biggest reasons why I plan to buy PS4 Pro - although I wish it had the kind of personal imaginative writing Witcher has.
I was just playing another hyped up game, Dragon's Dogma, and after 5 hours and 12 finished quests later, I decided to shelve it..the quests were just so lazy and simplistic, characters had zero interesting personality, world was incredibly generic and it was mostly just combat combat combat, which, while good, doesn't sustain my interest for long.
I hope Horizon will be more imaginative than this, but a friend of mine who loves Witcher says Horizon is the first game since Witcher that cought his interest to similar degree, so I am hopeful.

Just when you think you have seen it all and you start Blood & Wine for the first time!! WOW!! Does this game ever stop being awesome?

Yes, after Blood and Wine's credits roll, assuming you do not click on new game+ option afterward

 

[Paul_cz]

It is a terrible game!

I know people who consider it 10/10 game. I can see how it could be that if all the player cares about is combat. But...it's not for me

The Witcher 3 has some of the best graphics and artwork to ever be released into a game. I completed the Main Story and Heart of Stone DLC, but for me the most impressive part of Witcher 3 came when I first started Blood & Wine DLC!!

Toussaint looks stunning, but it looks even better without the HUD and with the yellow filter toned down via reshade

 

[Paul_cz]

Shame I never saw scenes like this before.
It's usually just some open field or some tiny village, but this area makes the game seem impressive.

Think I may have to throw £20.99 at gog this weekend

You know the main game has Novigrad, right ?

And Skellige Archipelago:

But even Velen with its "fields and tiny villages" has plenty to see and do and experience

 

[Paul_cz]

Eurogamer has a very cool article/interview with Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of the novels

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-sapkowski-the-writer-who-created-the-witcher

I love the guy, he can come off as abrasive but when seeing him in person, he uses sarcasm a lot and is very funny, which translates well into the books.

 

[Paul_cz]

I have like 4TB of hard drives full of games, right back 10/15 years +, i uninstall no games, i like having them all at tap, just in case mind you with new games taking 100GB alone to install, that may change.

hah I remember making this thread almost decade ago (insane how the time flies)
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...ou-have-installed-and-what-are-they.18076108/

sadly the picture is not visible anymore, but I had about 200 games installed back then...now I only have around 70.

Witcher trilogy is of course included. I also like to take a stroll through Skellige or Toussaint from time to time, the music and atmosphere never get old.

 

[Paul_cz]

Wow. The "Possesion" side quest.

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Who's a child killer like me then?

Me too. Hym is such an interesting creature.

he seems like an stuck up snob to be honest
oh the Witcher Game is a massive hit due to my Books, Maybe in poland. However i bet theirs more copies of the games than their are books.

Witcher books have been blockbusters in central/eastern europe long before the games - in my country (Czechland) for example, I read the book saga in 1999. They were huge in Russia etc also. But games definitely made the books popular in the west.

I bet he is kicking himself for wanting the money upfront instead of royalties.


Just a quick question for anyone that has completed the game:

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I have just done the epic battle with the wild hunt and am now in a quest with Ciri to find and kill the leader. I was under the impression I could go back and do other quests at some point after the isle of mists, but so far seem to have been locked into quests. After I do this can I still go back and mop up the side quests and contracts?

Also wondering when i should do the two dlc quests.

You will still be able to travel the world later. But leave both expansions after the main game. They work better that way and Blood and Wine particularly is the series closer, so play it last.

HELP! I'm in love with 2 women and I don't know which one to choose!? I just know the time is coming and I have no idea what I'm going to do! The anxiety is more and more agonising the further I progress into the game and the more time I spend with one of them. My head is telling me to go with the softer option but how can I let a women like the other one go! Such an incredible dilemma. What to do, what to do!?...

When in doubt, think What Would Geralt Do ? Yennefer