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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #240 on: October 13, 2014, 01:10:18 pm »
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Turning Geralt into some emotional twat is something only Americans would do. They do that at every occasion in their shows and it's so fake, forced and disgusting I literally skip those parts whenever I see them. Pls no, not here.

Believe he turned into crybaby because asshole writer is becoming a bit sensitive when people call him names for various (valid) reasons, he is just channeling that through his main protagonist.

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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #241 on: October 13, 2014, 02:24:23 pm »
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It's just not very realistic for someone like Geralt to be, as Leshma so eloquently put it, an emotional twat. Nor is it very fun to play as a pre-teen who thinks nobody loves him. Aaaand Geralt is a fucking superhuman with the hottest girlfriendS ever, several great friends, "daughter", hasn't done real work for a day in his life.... every peasant, and probably a lot of other people, would switch places with him in an instant. What a horrible life he leads.
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #242 on: October 13, 2014, 07:26:40 pm »
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Turning Geralt into some emotional twat is something only Americans would do.

In reality Geralt is very far from being typical badass, à la Connan the Barbarian or Cayle from Moorcook's novels. He's a swordmaster and monsters hunter, true, but that doesn't mean he's not a "emotional twat". I'm talking about the books ofc.

It's just not very realistic for someone like Geralt to be, as Leshma so eloquently put it, an emotional twat.
Aaaand Geralt is a fucking superhuman with the hottest girlfriendS ever, several great friends, "daughter", hasn't done real work for a day in his life....

In books, both short stories gathered in The last wish and Sword of destiny and the saga, most of the time he has neither daughter nor girlfriends (and I wouldn't call Yennefer his GIRLfriend when she's 90+ :P). And how his ordinary day of life looked like he described in the last wish:

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I think that was the whole point not to make out of him some super hero who wrecks everything on his path and don't give a shit about anything, like some medieval Rambo. Not necessarily emoboy cutting his wrists, but also not a totallly shallow badass.
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #243 on: October 15, 2014, 07:35:15 pm »
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I quess it does make a bit sense if its in a videogame. Cause its majority gameplay and some amount of plot and characters, tbf Gerald does kinda work when put in a game.  But the persona he has in the games would totally suck shit if it was in more than one movie, or in a TV show or in a series of books.

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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #244 on: October 15, 2014, 07:38:31 pm »
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Just got myself a copy of "The last wish" which is supposed to be the first book...
I won't get to it in a while cuz I have another book running atm but I'm excited to see how it is.
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #245 on: October 15, 2014, 07:40:09 pm »
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Read around 200 pages in the first 3 days I had it, atm dont have time to read it till the end. Quite solid imo.

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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #246 on: October 15, 2014, 07:57:09 pm »
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Just got myself a copy of "The last wish" which is supposed to be the first book...

Actually THe last wish and sword of destiny contains short stories written by author before he wrote the saga. The elves blood is the first novel in Saga.

I doubt books will ever achieve as great success as they did in POland. The strongest point of them is language, Sapkowski is the true master of polish language, and all jokes, archaisms and references can not be translated without loosing theirs spirit.
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #247 on: October 25, 2014, 03:32:09 am »
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Yen  :mrgreen:

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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #248 on: December 14, 2014, 09:50:37 pm »
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And now he can't play because of "common sense" and he doesn't understand how this common sense works
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #249 on: December 19, 2014, 11:35:18 pm »
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So yeah, will there be granny porn this time around?
This is about being straight out retarded. Children see in slow motion like owls.

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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #250 on: December 20, 2014, 12:24:00 am »
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I'm on chapter 4 in the first game and it only took me 3 years to get there.
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #251 on: December 27, 2014, 10:21:50 am »
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One quick question:
Is it worth to get W3 without playing the first 2?  :?
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #252 on: December 27, 2014, 10:43:45 am »
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Probably. Yeah.  :shock:
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #253 on: December 27, 2014, 10:50:17 am »
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Is it worth to get W3 without playing the first 2?  :?

No one played W3 yet, so you wan't get the answear. But, in one of the interviews they said that they will introduce the player into the story at the begging of the game, some kind of a prologue, so I guess it's not really necessary to play previous the witcher series games or even read the books to get familiar with the main protagonist Geralt of Rivia.
But I recommend to try out The Witcher 2, damn good story and nice gameplay. Some of the fans of the Witcher books may not agree about the story as it's not really close to what they were expecting, mainly becouse it lacks the spirit of the witcher known for them from the novels, but fuck it. It is still a damn good game.
First game, was really great as well, but at this point the gameplay mechanic and graphics (if you care about it) may seem a bit outdated. Anyway, I highly recommend to play it.

I'm on chapter 4 in the first game and it only took me 3 years to get there.
Chapter 4 is the best part of this game  :shock:
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Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
« Reply #254 on: December 27, 2014, 12:42:39 pm »
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One quick question:
Is it worth to get W3 without playing the first 2?  :?

Probably gonna be something similar for TW2, if there already isn't.
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