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

Oooooooo

I'd forgotten why I'd gone forward with the assassination of Radovid in prior game.

Because Roche wanted it to happen and his compass always did seem to run north so long as squirrels weren't involved

Roche, yer my bro. let's do this.

It's so weird and inconsistent. You can tell they were patching the narrative together with duct tape at that point. The best written romance in the whole game is in the DLC. I won't spoil it but I'd love to hear your opinion when you get there. There's a bit of irony to it. 

Lol the troll said "the shoes picked me"

I really, really hope you're not talking about the Blood and Wine "romance" 

If it's HoS you're thinking of, I very much agree. As for the irony you're referring to...

Ya, you're either finishing off an undead thing or finally granting him mercy.

The Tragedy that is the Witcher Trade is woven throughout, but these side missions where you go looking for Witcher stuff always seems to...tell you the story of how a School was wiped out, or a Witcher murdered, or even just a Witcher that died. Alone. And now, modernly, some are hunted. And then later at KAer Morhen, Daddy Witcher dies and there was talk of them abandoning KAer Morhen. Because I guess none of them have the heart to round up 50 boys so that 35 of them can die so they can make 5-15 new Witchers.

Other mission I wanted to mention was, Witcher Wannabe. I wanted to snatch that medallion off his neck so hard and really considered leaving him to the mob. Eh. my murder knife boner wasn't very erect so in the end he lived. I actually liked the outcome. He's working with the Elderman for a year, so if he did get the girly pregnant, they have teh time to get that figured out after all.

I'm in Skellige at Level 21

Last game I was annoyed that Geralt auto dialogue with Yenn the "you're beautiful" because I wasn't super into her yet.

This game I'm a bit put out because I'm trying to Play a Geralt in love with Triss and then he says that. Gah. Even the non flirt lines sound like flirt lines.

Taking a break for now. First thing I'll do when I boot up again is find Lambert. Left my bro Witcher hanging a long while on his revenge plot because I couldn't let myself go to another country across the sea without things being as done as I could leave them. Plus I just never want to go back to Novigrad.

Due to fast Traveling, I got to skip them murdering non humans. Sure it'll get me at some point

All the people going "oof" as I go through them. The horse can't do more than canter. REspawning Gangs I've killed 6 times already with women shrieking in my ear to make sure I, the player, know the gang has respawned. Not enough differentation between houses so I have to look up maps online to find Triss' house if there isn't a quest tagging her. 

More people to call me freak, more Eternal Fire Priests with their kneeling followers getting in my way, more Witch Hunters I can't murder. The inconsistency of theft in general and theft in front of the guard making me have to jump into the river or flee for my life via Battle Jumps like an idiot. Forgetable non soothing background music. 

Great job being realistic and all that, but it's not a relaxing place to be. I go to missions intermittently that take me back into the countryside and actually sigh in relief. 

Guess I'm not a city gal in life or as Geralt.

It's good, but it's no *guy makes fart noise with his mouth and has a hearty belly laugh over it*

Truth be told i don't remember much of this, i was usually kinda combative about her attitude ingame. Hmm, maybe my mind is playing tricks.

Skellige drives me crazy sometimes. Why there are so many damn barrels in the sea!?
And since i don't like letting a huge amount of question marks on the map i usually end up rowing a boat all over the islands.

I think it’s more that they planned out the Yennefer romance before the Triss one. Clearly they meant for Yen to be the love interest, and the only reasons they added Triss is that she was a recurrent “companion” in both previous games and they had already forced her on players in TW2, so it would be kind of a dick move to forced her out now.

Honestly, I’m still sore about that whole “thou must romance Triss” from the second game, and don’t feel too bad that they bungled her in TW3. Never particularly cared for the character; she was always written inconsistently and was a bizarre choice for Geralt’s sorceress sidekick coming from the books.

There is kind of an explanation for that actually. If you complete Yennefer personal quest later, you will understand that Geralt is pretty much being forced to behave romantically towards Yen. And after finishing the quest Geralt is finally free of that influence.