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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Coltrane

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Started Hearts of Stone yesterday. It's really good so far. Seems like a decent story and the new enemies have some variety from the base game:

I like the Ofieri stuff with Geralt being captured and put on the ship, then he has to fight the mage. Also, found some spiders in a cave who lurch away from your attacks which means you have to be a bit cleverer fighting them.

Also like the story tie in with the merchant who helped you find Yennefer in White Orchard.

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Uncle Mike

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So last night, in my end game revisit, I cleaned up the last of the Wolf and Griffin gear hunts, and earned enough finds to take the Heart of Stone tunesmith to the top level (fucking 15k crowns! Jeez.)

Still getting quests and finding new stuff! Very impressive.

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Nimmel

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Thanks for the earlier tips I'm level 19 and still knocking about Novigrad with a decent amount of gold now.

I'm amazed just how good this is, I mean I knew it was good due to the feedback here and reviews but this has really clicked with me. I love the way the game makes use of its tremendous open world rather than chucking you down a dungeon for every quest. The fact you can have a plan on what you want to achieve in an evening only to spend the time instead on doing what seemed to be an innocuous secondary quest. The narrative is so good that I'm 20 hours + into the game and haven't skipped a single piece of dialog.

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Vimster

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I'm tempted to pick this up but am not fussed about fantasy-themed stuff normally. I've heard the writing and quests are varied enough to make it stand out. Do you have to be a big fantasy fan to enjoy this or does the gameplay and story make it generally worthwhile?

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JoeK

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but...

The battle for Kaer Morhan isn't possible without Triss. You don't have to romance her (Yenn4life!), but she still turns up.

Yup - like some sort of terrible bad smell.

And I'm only half saying that in jest.

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I think Yen is one of the best written characters that's not a protagonist or antagonist that I've seen in a game. She's so full of agency which sidekick NPCs (especially love interests) just never have. "Geralt I'm going to do my thing, and if you wanna help then great."

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Coltrane

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I think Yen is one of the best written characters that's not a protagonist or antagonist that I've seen in a game. She's so full of agency which sidekick NPCs (especially love interests) just never have. "Geralt I'm going to do my thing, and if you wanna help then great."

Oh yeah, without a doubt she is a great character and a prime example of how well fleshed out the characters are in TW3 compared to other role playing games where motives and personality types are usually fairly two dimensional.

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Oz

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I joined the series at W2 and did the rose of remembrance thing with Triss and all of her side story. That is the game save I imported into W3. I liked the character so much that I was hesitant about what would happen with Yen coming back and whether that would fit for the arc for the story in the way I played it. But Yen really stole the show and won me over. My favorite was:

when she threw the bed out the window on account of seeing ginger hairs on it.

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Oz

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Liara was another gem of a character because of her story arc through the 3 games and how the character evolved. And also her sexual openness allowed for some interesting interactions with my femshep. ^_^ She never requested sexual intercourse on top of a unicorn though.

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JoeK

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Thing is with Triss - and this is where the background of her being so fleshed out in the books is great - she's a colossal bitch. Almost more so than any of the other prominent sorceresses in the Witcher world. She's always been after Geralt, seizes the opportunity to shag him rotten in the second game (not that G was not willing!), but knows full well that Yen and Geralt have such a huge history together and would never have done anything like that had he not have forgotten everything! She's terribly, terribly manipulative - and because she's clever with it, you'd not know you're doing it because she flutters her eyelids and prances about with that red hair.

I don't like her, but I do know that Geralt likes her, and knows exactly what she is, so I'm cool with it ;)

It's pretty awesome to be fair :D

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You played the Mass Effect games, Zeal? For me, Garrus Vakarian, and Liara T'Soni are still my favourites.

Stop being so wrong leChuck!

The Witcher 3 is about Triss and Rock Trolls.

Mass Effect is always only about Wrex and every other Krogan.

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JoeK

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Unless of course..

You killed Wrex in the original Mass Effect.

One of the best characters in the series is Garrus though, LeChuck is correct.

Mordin Solus was a close second for me.

Anyone who did that surely reloaded...only Hitler would have carried on.

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JoeK

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I did it on my second playthrough, just to see how it altered the games.

I couldn't do it...I always had to keep him in the gang no matter what.

Less clear cut was Space Racist or Migraine Man.

Usually Racist won the day, as the the alternative was so utterly boring (and the character model was really naff ;)

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