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Geralt has a very agile and graceful jogging style.
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"A sex scene...in the tutorial?!" You weren't kidding when you said you barely know anything about the series. 
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Jun 7, 2019 02:36
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Take a look at the "before I play" wiki to get at least a bit of a grasp on some stuff.
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Jun 7, 2019 14:06
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The book you picked up was anti-Witcher propoganda. In their society, witchers face discrimination and are treated as inhuman mutants.
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Jun 7, 2019 15:43
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Xander77 posted:Take a look at the "before I play" wiki to get at least a bit of a grasp on some stuff. I recorded some episodes in advance of making the thread, over concerns about schedule slip due to my chronic migraines. So it'll be a little while before I can put any of that into practice. (And frankly some of what it had were basically spoilers, so I'm not entirely happy about having read it at all.)
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Jun 7, 2019 16:02
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CirclMastr posted:Episode 2: "Every inventory item is sacred" Honestly, nowadays whenever people laud the series for its writing, I think they're mostly referring to 2 and 3. I agree with you that the dialogue in 1 comes off odd and kinda disjointed, for the reasons you mentioned in the video. And some of the lines are also just... weird. It seems to me like the voice actors had very little direction when recording. I feel like a big part of the reason why this game's storytelling made such huge waves back then was that this kind of gritty, "mature" style* of fantasy wasn't really a thing in RPGs at the time. It was like a breath of fresh air, except the "fresh air" in fact stank of blood, sweat, poo poo and piss. *: I bolded the quotation marks for a reason. I think in the later games the word mature can actually be applied unironically a lot of the time. EDIT: Also, the thing Triss taught you that you were confused about : It was an alchemy formula for the Cat potion. It's pretty easy to miss in the mess of other popups that whizz by after the dialogue. Nordick fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jun 7, 2019 |
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Jun 7, 2019 16:13
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What does the cat formula do? Conjure cats? Give you extra lives? Instead of sex scenes it makes Geralt back out of the room on all fours meowing?
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Jun 7, 2019 18:01
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Poil posted:What does the cat formula do? Conjure cats? Give you extra lives? Instead of sex scenes it makes Geralt back out of the room on all fours meowing? edit: Do I need to spoilertag this if we've already got the formula? Well, whatever.
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Jun 7, 2019 18:08
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Nordick posted:Honestly, nowadays whenever people laud the series for its writing, I think they're mostly referring to 2 and 3. I agree with you that the dialogue in 1 comes off odd and kinda disjointed, for the reasons you mentioned in the video. And some of the lines are also just... weird. It seems to me like the voice actors had very little direction when recording. What is this crap Shove off
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Jun 7, 2019 18:12
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steinrokkan posted:What is this crap but but but the lords!
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Jun 7, 2019 18:35
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Episode 3: "Also, who are you?" It's the first episode of Chapter 1, and that means collecting quest objectives. And talking to NPCs.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:16
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You should try out the boxing next time. It's totally fun. Was for me, anyhow.
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Jun 13, 2019 19:20
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Christ, this looks and sounds terrible. Are the dialogue lines randomized? None of this makes any sense.
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Jun 16, 2019 03:23
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Darkest Auer posted:Christ, this looks and sounds terrible. Are the dialogue lines randomized? None of this makes any sense. To choose an example we've seen already, Vesimir went "Triss, babe..." instead of "Triss, child...". Not even talking about the lack of lip-sync (or any mouth-flapping).
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Jun 16, 2019 07:08
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Also far as I remember, Geralt has a bunch of stock lines for short phrases that get reused, and sometimes the tone is pretty out of whack with the rest of the given conversation.
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Jun 16, 2019 19:40
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While playing the game I got into a habit of looking slightly past the screen while dialogue was going on. I could still see who was talking but did not see the anemic animation or lack of it. I'm not kidding that it improved the experience for me. That habit was hard to shake come the next game. (I still like this game, mind you, but dialogue is really jarring.)
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Jun 18, 2019 06:05
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you know so far this is feeling like a fantasy version of Mass Effect and I feel the only really big difference is that there is actual nudity (in the uncensored version) in this game compared to Mass Effect fading to black. Also much like Mass Effect the first game in the trilogy has aged not as well as the second and third entries (though I guess The Witcher 3 was waaaaaaaaay better received than ME3 so that's a plus) both from a gameplay standpoint and an acting standpoint
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Jun 19, 2019 06:52
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Episode 4: "But unfortunately my hopes have been shattered" Dice poker is the worst and I hate it, but it's also apparently the only steady money in the game. I guess I'll have to scum it out off-camera.
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Jun 20, 2019 17:25
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CirclMastr posted:Episode 4: "But unfortunately my hopes have been shattered" You REALLY don't need to grind for money in general, much less abuse dice poker.
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Jun 20, 2019 19:50
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There's plenty of opportunities to get bestiary entries for free, either from skills, looting the book from somewhere or gaining them by talking to npc's.
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Jun 24, 2019 22:45
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Episode 5: "Well that was the inside of his head" I finally start doing some of the many quests I've accumulated. But not nearly as many as I'd hoped. I'm starting to think this LP is going to take a long time.
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Jun 27, 2019 20:58
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is this all solo commentary?
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Jun 27, 2019 22:46
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CirclMastr posted:I'm starting to think this LP is going to take a long time.
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Jun 28, 2019 00:03
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Herr Tog posted:is this all solo commentary? Unless and until I get a decent internet connection again, yes. I'm currently not even able to do voice chat reliably.
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Jun 28, 2019 00:05
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I think it's important that people remember that the dialogue sounds awkward in this game because the english dialogue is essentially a dub. It's a polish game, the dialogue was originally written in Polish, and the lip syncing is to the Polish. The English translation is pretty mediocre - I don't think it was translated by native english speakers - and that's why the dialogue is so awkward. I also don't think they used professional voice actors; or if they did they aren't native english speakers. From what I've read the dialogue in the english dub was also truncated substantially to save money. The difference in quality and voice acting is very noticable if you switch to polish with english subtitles. I haven't got around to playing the Witcher 3 yet but even in 2; the quality of the english dub is far better - it really shows how far CDPR has come as a company.
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Jun 30, 2019 16:18
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I'm finding the annoyed LPer here to be strangely amusing. "You can stop slow-motioning!" And I admit that I'm now basically rooting for a bunch of barghests to randomly spawn every three steps the hero takes. I can only imagine what new depths of pain the future will bring.
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It's pretty entertaining. He sounds like he's already lost the will to live, and yet he's only a short way into the prologue.
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Jul 1, 2019 11:34
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I'm just always shocked by the interface. I know The Witcher, I've played it, but I don't remember the inventory and skill screens being so overdone. The mind forgets, to protect itself. Also I always forgot how jiggly the amulet got in the corner of the screen.
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The Lord Bude posted:It's pretty entertaining. He sounds like he's already lost the will to live, and yet he's only a short way into the prologue. The quality of my voice has definitely been affected by my chronic migraines. On the other hand, the first bit of feedback I got about my first ever LP was "You sound depressed" so maybe it's just me.
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CirclMastr posted:The quality of my voice has definitely been affected by my chronic migraines. On the other hand, the first bit of feedback I got about my first ever LP was "You sound depressed" so maybe it's just me. Well I hope you’re enjoying the game at least. I notice you seem to have overlooked some of the controls that were taught in the tutorial; so I thought I’d remind you: You can double tap the WASD keys to somersault over enemies to reposition yourself. This becomes useful when you have to fight larger groups. Also; you can use the aard sign in combat to knock enemies away from you while you focus on one; or to stun an enemy so you can do a 1 hit kill.
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Jul 2, 2019 02:34
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This is the second version of the dub/translation as well. The initial release was even worse in English.
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Pharohman777 posted:This is the second version of the dub/translation as well. The initial release was even worse in English. And it was still one of the best pc-rpgs in years at the time. There had been a bit of a drought.
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Jul 2, 2019 05:49
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You'll want to hold on to a single barghest skull, just toss it in your bank somewhere.
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Jul 2, 2019 12:54
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Episode 6: "It's all a scam" Dice poker is a scam, revisiting the witch over and over is a scam, buying books in order to do quests is a scam. But I'm still making forward progress, so take that! Asehujiko posted:You'll want to hold on to a single barghest skull, just toss it in your bank somewhere. I'm not at all worried about running out of barghest skulls.
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Barghests do become rare later in the game. And yes, a lot of things in life are scams. The good ones sometimes become video games.
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You could have slept it off at Odo's house, rather than stagger around drunk you know. Also: If you made yourself a cat potion to drink; we wouldn't have to stare at a near black screen when you wander around at night (don't think this is a spoiler, you should be aware of potions by this point in the game and Tris explicitly gave you the recipe in the prologue.)
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Episode 7: "I have no idea what that means" Apologies in advance for how much of this episode takes place at night. The Lord Bude posted:If you made yourself a cat potion to drink; we wouldn't have to stare at a near black screen when you wander around at night This is an issue with Sony Vegas that I haven't been able to solve yet. Everything looks fine until the video renders and then it's suddenly too dark to see.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:35
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Fisstech is basically witcher-verse Cocaine
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CirclMastr posted:This is an issue with Sony Vegas that I haven't been able to solve yet. Everything looks fine until the video renders and then it's suddenly too dark to see. edit: Actually, now that I think of it I'm starting to doubt myself. That is definitely how I've fixed videos I've rendered using a frameserver, but surely rendering in Vegas itself should work alright? In any event, that absolutely sounds like an RGB levels issue. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jul 12, 2019 |
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Doc M posted:Event FX -> Levels -> Computer RGB to Studio RGB This seems to do the trick, thanks. I've been re-rendering videos all day and should be able to get them uploaded overnight.
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