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Hey so I picked up Witcher 3 base game on the Steam sale. I wasn't sure if I liked the game so I didn't want to pick up the GOTY edition. Is there still a lot of content in the base game itself without the addition of those two DLC/expansions?
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Jan 4, 2017 12:42
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SkySteak posted:Hey so I picked up Witcher 3 base game on the Steam sale. I wasn't sure if I liked the game so I didn't want to pick up the GOTY edition. Is there still a lot of content in the base game itself without the addition of those two DLC/expansions? You can spend anywhere between 80-120 hours on the base game, you'll be fine.
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Jan 4, 2017 12:47
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SkySteak posted:Hey so I picked up Witcher 3 base game on the Steam sale. I wasn't sure if I liked the game so I didn't want to pick up the GOTY edition. Is there still a lot of content in the base game itself without the addition of those two DLC/expansions? lol yep
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Jan 4, 2017 13:15
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There were people in this very thread that finished the game in 45 hours (they claimed they still did lots of sidequests) but that's close to a record.
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Jan 4, 2017 13:42
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Palpek posted:There were people in this very thread that finished the game in 45 hours This sick filth makes my stomach churn
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Jan 4, 2017 13:46
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I wanted to end up with Cerys.
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Jan 4, 2017 13:58
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If they weren't playing on death march and used quen and archgriffin decoction, that's at least 20 hours shaved off.
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Jan 4, 2017 14:07
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Yates posted:I wanted to end up with Cerys.
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Jan 4, 2017 14:36
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Ugato posted:At best she just doesn't want to take Geralt down with her. Yea this was hardly a sacrifice but the pragmatic choice, since taking Geralt down with her would hinder him in pursuing their mutual goal. Dunno why this keeps being brought up as her "see, she actualky does care" moment...
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Jan 4, 2017 15:04
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I wanted to end up with that Nilfgaardian chick that you have the option of tutoring. I was kinda intrigued to see where they'd take her, but was pretty disappointed when she turned out to be just another detached aristocrat.
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Jan 4, 2017 15:08
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I wanted to end up with Roche. Again. 
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Jan 4, 2017 15:20
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Joda posted:I was kinda intrigued to see where they'd take her, but was pretty disappointed when she turned out to be just another detached aristocrat. I think it was cool, no matter how much she idealizes a life outside the constraints of aristocracy, she can't magically get rid of the marks of her upbringing, and can't function among common folk.
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Jan 4, 2017 16:34
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I wanted to end up with that Nilfgaardian chick that you have the option of tutoring. The nazi?
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Jan 4, 2017 16:53
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:The nazi? Being blonde, snobby, and having an accent doesn't make you a Nazi.
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Jan 4, 2017 16:54
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With names like Himmelfart and Dudu it's like this game was written by teenagers. and I love it "When was the last time you saw Dudu" sent me into a giggle fit.
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Jan 4, 2017 17:06
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Fuzz posted:Being blonde, snobby, and having an accent doesn't make you a Nazi. What makes her a nazi is that she literally doesn't think nordlings are humans. She's not snobby, she's a racist nationalist who thinks it's acceptable to order your hired help to murder peasants. That's why you can't sleep with her, Geralt wouldn't touch her with Lambert's dick.
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Jan 4, 2017 17:33
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That seems to be a trait of nobility in general, to be fair. And its the nordlings who have non human ghettos and semi regular pogroms yet Geralt was happy dicking around with many of them.
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Jan 4, 2017 17:55
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:What makes her a nazi is that she literally doesn't think nordlings are humans. She's not snobby, she's a racist nationalist who thinks it's acceptable to order your hired help to murder peasants. That's called being pre-WW1 aristocracy. The Nazis didn't invent or codify any of that, she is literally a top poo poo feudal courtier that has been raised from day 1 to think that most of the world's population exists to serve her. She doesn't make any great overtures about loyalty to the state or ethnic cleansing, as I recall, and she doesn't scapegoat religion or a specific ethnicity (which the Northern Realms all did re: the Elves and anything not the Holy Fire for Redania) as being the cause of the world's problems, either. Nilfgaard is literally the Roman Empire. Their soldiers are even armed similarly.
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Jan 4, 2017 17:59
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Fuzz posted:That's called being pre-WW1 aristocracy. The Nazis didn't invent or codify any of that, she is literally a top poo poo feudal courtier that has been raised from day 1 to think that most of the world's population exists to serve her. She doesn't make any great overtures about loyalty to the state or ethnic cleansing, as I recall, and she doesn't scapegoat religion or a specific ethnicity (which the Northern Realms all did re: the Elves and anything not the Holy Fire for Redania) as being the cause of the world's problems, either. Yes, let's argue with one of the game's writers on what it really means.
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Jan 4, 2017 18:07
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Forget how most of the events in the Witcher world are just slightly tweaked events that actually happened to Poland and Europe in the 20th century. Aedirn's downfall mirrors Germany and Russia dividing Poland, while Temeria is occupied France.
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Jan 4, 2017 18:12
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wallaka posted:Yes, let's argue with one of the game's writers on what it really means. First, unless he wrote it personally... Second, just because somebody has an authorship over something doesn't mean they have a monopoly on meaning.
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Jan 4, 2017 18:23
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wallaka posted:Yes, let's argue with one of the game's writers on what it really means. Why's he calling her a socialist, yo? She just seemed really racist.
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Jan 4, 2017 18:29
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Drifter posted:Why's he calling her a socialist, yo? She just seemed really racist.
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Jan 4, 2017 19:22
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Geralt seems kind of socialist in some dialogue options... disgusting that they'd make a game where the hero is a nazi
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Jan 4, 2017 20:10
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2house2fly posted:Geralt seems kind of socialist in some dialogue options... disgusting that they'd make a game where the hero is a nazi The Witchers actively promote eugenics and the ubermensch. 
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Jan 4, 2017 20:15
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I'm sure it's actually because a snake god bit another god's basket and not just that the garden is both a favourable micro climate and heavy with magic. How silly to think some poo poo happened that's not simply scientifically explained away in a world filled with magic when she clearly states there's a large amount of magic in the area and she needs to use it. 
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Jan 4, 2017 20:54
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I'm really glad she decided to eat the super revered garden instead of just teleporting herself and the corpse to one of the 50 places of power that Geralt knows about.
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Jan 4, 2017 21:04
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I actually am glad of it
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Jan 4, 2017 21:07
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Yeah, ok, she's not literally a nazi, but she's still a goddamned monster geralt has no interest in. gently caress, it's like you can't even use nazi as shorthand for racist nationalist anymore without someone popping in to say, "Actually..." Though I agree that authorship doesn't mean a monopoly on interpretation. But it does mean that we can say, "No, Geralt wouldn't gently caress this woman." EDIT: I will also point out that Witcher 3 is not a historical document. It was written and created by humans living in the early 21st century about a world that never existed until it was invented by a cranky polish man in the late 20th century. Comte de Saint-Germain fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Jan 4, 2017 21:56
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Fuzz posted:Nilfgaard is literally the Roman Empire. Their soldiers are even armed similarly. lol @ romans with full plate, heavy cavalry and arbalests
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Jan 4, 2017 22:01
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:lol @ romans with full plate, heavy cavalry and arbalests I assumed he meant HRE, though they were never near as successful or competent as we portray Nilfgaard. The Holy Roman Empire, history's most disappointing sequel.
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Jan 4, 2017 22:03
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I don't know man, I think that's Australia to the 13 colonies.
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Jan 4, 2017 22:33
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Omnicarus posted:FWIW Shani ends up living happily every after to the age of 100ish and leaves a legacy of being one of the the most cherished and respected doctors/instructors at Oxenfurt. Source?
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Jan 4, 2017 22:34
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And neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
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Jan 4, 2017 22:36
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Arcsquad12 posted:2 is tonally very different from 1 and 3, but it has a great atmosphere. It essentially works as an extended prologue to the global events of 3, showing how the war with Nilfgaard was manipulated through a huge web of deception. There is a ridiculously complicated power play between so many different groups who each think they are in control of the situation, when in reality nobody is, and it all spirals out of control into an utter shitshow of backstabbing and open warfare. It's great. And in the middle of it all, not really caring what the gently caress happens to everyone else, is Geralt, trying to save his friends, his neck, and recover his memories. More than any other series, I'm so happy this one has turned out so well. I picked up Witcher 1 soon after it came out and was just sucked into its world. It's an oppressive world that somehow doesn't leave the player feeling like a poo poo. And the jump of quality can't be overstated between 1 and 2. At the time when it came out, it was the game I pushed on people saying this is what Next Gen graphics look like. And it was so cool to just be this little nobody in the middle of great events that you really had no control over. You could maybe change the tone of events but that was it at best, if you even wanted to bother. And as good as the jump was between 1 and 2, the jump between 2 to 3 was just as immense. To the point where after beating it completely at twice and working on a third playthrough it beat out Mass Effect as my favorite game of all time. I can only imagine what it would feel like to play 1 blind, skip 2 and jump right to 3.
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Jan 4, 2017 22:46
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Witcher 3 is so good that half the time I fire it up, my wife will move her iPad/magazine/whatever into my computer room so she can have it playing in the background while she reads. Unless I'm playing a bunch of gwent.
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Jan 4, 2017 22:51
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mlmp08 posted:Unless I'm playing a bunch of gwent. 
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Jan 4, 2017 22:52
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then she would be within her rights to file for divorce
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Jan 4, 2017 22:52
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Spikeguy posted:Source? The book series starts each chapter with an excerpt from an in universe manuscript, often detailing events that happened long after the story being told, but used to provide context. It's how people know that canonically, Morvran Voorhis becomes the next Emperor after Emhyr dies.
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Jan 4, 2017 22:57
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:lol @ romans with full plate, heavy cavalry and arbalests Meant the scutum style shields and short straight swords.
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Jan 4, 2017 23:26
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