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

Yes break her heart!

melbella i didn't had this trouble with enemy level scalling. On the contrary it was the only way to stop me from pretty much kill the djinn in two hits since i was way over leveled to that quest.

I was very :sadface: to find out there was no Shani in TW2. When my first pt of TW2 happened and Geralt was in bed with Triss I was like WTF?!?!?!

As for phoray and her pt: are you going to feel bad when you dump Yen? I remember I couldn't stand her my first pt and lol'd when I broke up with her........then felt bad later

I probably will feel bad. Unless Triss' scenes get better from here, I'm in the Yenn camp for sure.   Just not for this PT.

I really don't have in it me to play a third time, so I hope I can just take bits and pieces from both PTs and set it into my head as "canon".

I'm on my 4th pt in B&W now. I actually like both Triss and Yen, but I will forever be salty about Shani   At least we will always have HoS!

This has reminded me that I think I once put up a couple Witcher vids on my  youtube.  I don't recall what they were though.  Now I'll have to go see if they were the romance ones :-o

I know you can say that, as that was an option I chose in 2. I also sidelined her every step of the way in the first game where she seemed absolutely pissed with me by the end. My Geralt was pretty intent on starting some type of life with Shani and yet still magically ended up in bed with Triss in 2 while telling Foltest he was going to take her and leave once everything was over. Triss positively hated me at the end of witcher 1....and even if they still wanted a shani break up, Triss should not have been so in love with me by the 2nd game; her mooning over my Geralt just started to appear desperate without any self respect for herself. So in 2? yeah she certainly was pushed on me imo. I could also say that while Yenn is pushed on you in Witcher 3, you can least end up with Triss in the end despite her pitiful lack of content. However while I may not like Triss all that much, I also know Triss fans got robbed in 3.

They did a lousy job carrying over my decisions from 1 just like they did a lousy job carrying over the Triss romance into 3. I don't know why they did this honestly, as Geralt's wish only tied his destiny to Yenn, not his love. He should have been capable of loving Triss just fine without the Djinn mission and he shouldn't have had automatic flirts with Yenn. I'm still puzzled over their decision there.

Why Bizarre?
She was certainly inconsistently written, but then they botched so much of the writing, compared to the books that had very good attention to detail and very few inconsistencies (Dandelions age being the only one that springs to mind.)
Triss had put her own life on hold for two years to stay with Ciri at Kaer Morhen at Eskel's (and Ciri's) request.
She was the only non witcher welcome there.
Admittedly she had charmed Geralt to have sex with her the first time, but this was a very common practice for sorceress' (Yennefer often did it)
Although, given Geralt's nature, I doubt she needed to.
He made how he felt about her very clear to her after Dandelion told him she had survived Sodden hill.
She traveled with Geralt and Ciri to Ellander and when neither she nor Nenneke could do anything about Ciri's nightmares and premonitions, Triss convinced Geralt to write to Yennefer for help.
He hadn't spoken to her for years at that time and wanted nothing to do with her, but eventually agreed for Ciri's sake.
Triss and Geralt left together before Yennefer got there, because Geralt didn't want to see her.
On the morning before Geralt and Yennefer's death in Rivia, Triss and Yen fought openly, with Triss saying she would no longer stand aside for her.
With Witcher 1 starting with Yennefer being presumed dead for years, if not Triss, who else?

Is that a happy dance I see? That was pretty much my reaction too.

Then I did the quest with Cerys(sp?) afterward and she kept talking about Yennefer!!

I'm a little irked that Iorveth doesn't appear in TW3 at all.

Seems like a lost opportunity considering they did found a way to insert the son of a whore in the story.

They are both murderous elves.

I played the games before reading the books so in TW3 Yennefer felt forced on me and I just really felt no interest in her at all as she has the sort of personality that just drives me nuts.  I was not a Triss fan during TW1 and I gave Alvin to Shani and pursued the romance with Shani. Was so pissed in TW2 when Shani was dropped BUT I am glad in a way cause I thought Triss was great in that and I had no hesitation therefore in continuing with Triss in TW3 and so with the quest with the Djinn, it was see ya later Yenn. 

As melbella said kudos on the happy dance icon   

I did stay back and just watch Lambert kill the man by himself. Felt that was good neutrality there.

Black Pearl Quest. Nidas called Geralt a youngster.