DA Fan gives TW3 a shot: Text Based Let's Play

Would understanding why she is a bitch, made her any the less of a bitch?

Yes at least I know the reason why she is that way.

@dustyelf and smilesja I like Yen just fine. I thought she and Geralt had some cute scenes.

I think the game definitely wants you to pick Yennefer.
While Yennefer has been part of Geralts life for 20+ years, in the books Yennefer and Ciri were only together a year at most before they were separated at Thanedd Island.
The game extended this by swapping Triss for Yennefer at Kaer Morhen meaning they were together for maybe two and a half years
In the books Triss saved Ciri by arguing long and hard with the witchers at Kaer Morhen to stop them from putting her through the Trial of the Grasses
In the end they bowed to her greater knowledge of sources
There is no doubt that Geralt has grown to love Yennefer.
The 2nd Genie wish is just a game mechanism to allow you to pick Yen or Triss for romance.
Even if Geralt had come to love Triss more, I really couldn't see him telling Yennefer he didn't love her.
And neither of the women would ask him to make that choice.
Yennefer had known he had been sleeping with Triss for years, She only bought it up when she wanted something from Triss.
And Triss prior to witcher 2 put the Lodge ahead of Geralt.
When Yen asked Triss to help Geralt, Philippa butted in and said it's not in the Lodge's interest, and Triss bowed to Phillipa's will.
Both of their love for Geralt was conditional.
I think the number of people who choose Yen over Triss means they fleshed her out enough, and left out enough that would have made her less desirable.
I think there is many other things that the game left out that would have made it easier to understand what was going on.
I imagine their are many people who have played all three games, but not read the books, who couldn't tell you the reason for the Slaughter of Cintra.

This reminds me. She didn't even blink when Uma vomited on her. I was impressed with that

I'm one of those people who find Yen's bitchiness endlessly amusing. No way in hell I'd settle down with someone like that in real life, but you just can't get bored around her, and in all that bickering there is more than a little clever banter. This confession reminds me of when I and some friends read The Importance of Being Earnest and we all, without exception, came up with a different favorite character. Mine was Algernon. "But he's an asshole!" "Exactly."

At any rate, video game LIs are often too deep in the fanservice well, and it's pleasant to see one who's... an acquired taste. Even Morrigan only was bitchy to other people; to the Warden she was all "my, my" and "u so hot" from the first moment. That's a big reason why I find Yennefer vastly preferable to Triss. The latter is a different character every game, and none of her incarnations are close to her book persona, but in Wild Hunt in particular she's just a generic RPG girlfriend, with nothing special to make her interesting. Yen's got more bite and rough edges.

I'm still #TeamShani though

On that note, olnorton, in the enhanced edition for TW2 you get a codex explaining how Geralt ended up with Triss, if you picked Shani in the first game and import the apropriate save.

TW1 and TW2 Triss are actually connected. There's some disparity in character, yes, but her motives and deception and her infatuation with Geralt are all there. It's in TW3 where she becomes the nice girl alternative to Yen that infuriated a lot of fans. But enough derailing this thread into the bottomless pit that almost took down the CDPR forums.  

I find it hard to imagine the Yennifer vs Triss debate destroyed a forum.

That's what the series gets for having so few options for romance

I'm inclined to believe you, I asked for help modding witcher 3 on 3 different forums and never got any.
The people who know how seem to want to keep things secret.
Of course it could just be me.

But ask for help modding a bioware game and people go out of their way to help you.
Same if your modding Skyrim, very experienced modders will help out total noobs.

Don't die otherwise it will be an emabarassment

Told you Roche is a badass!