Topic: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt thread

@Arugula That really is a beautiful moment 😢

I don't know if I have a favorite scene. I guess if I had to choose one, it'd be when I first encountered the crones. They were genuinely disturbing.

@QualityGeezer Oh yeah that was so funny!
Has to be the bloody Baron mission for me, that was superb.

@QualityGeezer One of my favourite bits was when Geralt confronted his doppelganger who had been going around causing havoc. I enjoyed that mission.

OK, having gotten a bit further in the story, I REALLY like the bit where you infiltrate the witch hunters' compound with Triss, and you're forced to listen to the torturer rip her fingernails off as you try to get information out of your target. Gripping stuff, and very cool how they seem to give control of how long that goes on to the player.

@Gremio108 Just got done with that mission. Did you kill or spare the doppelganger? I spared him, despite that lessening my pay-out. Stealing to get by doesn't seem like a crime worthy of death.

@Ralizah Yeah, I let him go. It seemed too harsh to kill the guy. Plus, it's handy to have a doppelganger knocking about , just in case Geralt ever fancies doing something evil. "Everyone in the village burned by Igni? Must have been that guy who goes around impersonating me, officer."

@Ralizah Oh wow, I completely missed that, and didn't know how horrible that bit could have been. I instead chose the dialogue option to cast the sign Axii on one of the witch hunters, as Axii had always worked up to now. Other witch hunters noticed that, which led to a fairly generic fight between Geralt and Triss and all the witch hunters, and killing Menge without getting to talk to him. Afterwards, Triss complains to Geralt for being foolish enough to expect Axii to work there.

@Gremio108 Yeah, I also spared him. He didn't seem like a bad character, so I didn't want to kill him

@crimsontadpoles It sounds like the situation largely turned out the same, despite the wildly different ways of getting there. I'm guessing, despite a lot of the freedom of choice in how you do something, more scenarios only have one or two outcomes. In my case, I couldn't pry the information out of the target, and Triss ended up killing him in rage after escaping her torturer. I only get him to spit our the broadest detail about where Dandelion is being held captive, and have to find a doppelganger to play the role of Menge in order to have Dandelion released. I actually got a dialogue option where I asked the doppler I spared to help me, but he wouldn't go for it.

@crimsontadpoles @Ralizah I distinctly remember my version ending with the whole place burning down lol.

I wish the Switch version supported cross-save with PC. I'd buy that version to play on the go, and then switch back to PC once I had the opportunity to do so.

No point in getting it now that I'm 35+ hours in, though.

@Octane Oh yeah. I accidentally wandered into a bunch of witch hunters afterward and had to kill them all, so Triss set fire to the place afterward. I don't know if that changes if you manage to sneak out.

@Octane Same. I'd killed too many of them, so burning the place down was the only way to hide that.

Who was it that said money would cease to be an issue at some point? Have a cookie. I have money coming out of my ears now, and numerous extra swords and outfits (yet I just keep getting this one sword repaired, for some reason). I left the mask from the side quest with Triss on because I think it looks cool. Geralt can be some sort of medieval superhero, which... isn't horrendously far off.

Fun game. Probably going to take a break soon, though.

The quest, In The Heart Of The Woods, with the ancient Leshen in Skellige is ace. Proper gave me the creeps.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy And I'm only 40 hours in. Still have a bunch of stuff to do in Novigrad. I'm gonna be a millionaire by the end of the game. There's just no reason to buy most things. Best equipment is found in dungeons and points of interest. Active shield and food take care of healing. You find most of the stuff needed for alchemy and, once you've made something, you don't seem to need to make it again. What else is there?

I actually temporarily hung up the saddle at around 40 hours for Dragon Quest XI S and 60 hours for Fire Emblem: Three Houses (really need to get back to that), so I think 40 - 60 hours is about my limit for focusing on one game. Unless it's really special. I blitzed SMT IV: Apocalypse in 3 weeks over 105 hours. THAT was an experience.

Why not give ol' Geraldo of Rivera a spin for a while, eh? You'll appreciate DS3 more when you come back to it with fresher eyes.

I seem to be the opposite to everyone here, and often running low on gold. Maybe it's because I'll always try to buy new diagrams and slightly better equipment at every opportunity.

Recently it took a while just for me to get enough to pay the fare to go to Skellige.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Good luck! I struggled to get back into the game, especially straight after playing a SoulsBorne game.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy At the start, when the griffin is attacking the merchant, did you take his money?

I don't know how much you remember about this game, but if you want to play Gwent, buy the card from the innkeeper ASAP.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Don't say I didn't try and warn you!

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Sound like you're having fun with this. I did rather enjoy those witch quests, she's fun and nice to be around.

As for me, I'm really liking Skellige so far. It's got a different feel to the previous areas, and the people seem more friendly here.

Also had an interesting side quest with someone who suspected that Jarl Udalryk had a curse upon him, and wanted to free him from it. I decided to fully go along with her plan for lifting the curse.

Edit: That Towerful Of Mice outcome was better than mine. I naively believed her story and ended up freeing the plague maiden. She still killed her lover, and now she's free to wreck havoc elsewhere. That was the point of the game where I realised that my kind and trusting nature is going to cause problems in this harsh game world.