The Witcher 3 thread - now with more goat

Well, decided to give The Witcher 3 another go and see if it imparts a different impression on me this time around. Got it on sale for 20 on steam with all the dlc so, regardless, not a bad deal if I still don't end up liking it. Surely a game with such praise must be good.

It was just a combination of things that annoyed me just enough to turn me off of the game, I think. Such as:

I find the controls for the combat to be in the wrong places on the controller and there doesn't seem to be another controller layout or a way to remap the current one. (Disclaimer, following is in Xbox Controller lingo: Like I think the sword attacks should be in the RB and RT with blocking on LT. Evading should be on B, Jumping on A, Quick menu on LB, Abilities/Signs on X or Y, Sprinting on LSC, Horse on RSC, etc) As it is, I'm always clicking the wrong thing when trying to attack. I feel like I should note I'm playing it on PC with a controller and originally attempted playing the game on console. 


Another big thing for me originally was the lack of cool armor and inability to customization Geralt (I wanted to make my own character, but now having loved God of War and some others with set, pre-made characters, I wanted to give Geralt another try). I'm planning on just using the one armor I like all game, the starting armor. lol Unless, of course, any vets of the game can tell me where to get better armor that's similar in appearance to the default armor??


Past that, the sheer size I think turned me off a bit as I'm a completionist and there's just so many side things to do and lots of horse riding to get there (and I'm not the biggest fan of having to ride all over the place all the time to get to the next point in a quest, looking at you Hinterlands!).


It wasn't the story or anything like that. I quite liked the idea of the Wild Hunt chasing him/ciri down and them being mystical ice ghost things lol. And the witchers themselves are a cool idea on monster hunters. Mutated to have improved reflexes, sight, and abilities. 

 Most of the armor in this game is pretty ugly. In terms of early level armor thankfully they attempted to address this with some free armor DLC. The Termerian Armor being my fav of the bunch. 



The Cidarian Cavalry Armor from the Vanilla version of the game also grew on me. 

Looked them up... the witcher school gears definitely look better than most of the lame armor in the game, so I'll be hunting those down.

For non witcher armor I always loved the Nilfgaardian armor they added in but I'm also someone who loves black.

Wolf Armor is also the "cheapest" in terms of crafting requirements. Also, Grandmaster Wolf Armor does not require previous versions. I like all the Witcher armor at Mastercrafted or Grandmaster level. Griffin is probably my least favourite, but with armor dyes I found you could really make Griffin fit the overall colour palette of Toussaint, and I ended up mainly using Griffin when playing Blood Wine to my surprise.

'The Witcher' Netflix Series To Make Major Change To Ciri



Ofc the PC shiat had to come into play. Doubt I'll watch the TV show. Goddammit.

Same here. I hope they dont go down that route. They can put as much zerichanians there for diversity, and not mess around the world, definitely not Ciri. Because changing her would mean changing her heritage. And since the book if I remember correctly, said that she looks like Geralt, she can pass as her daughter, then Geralt will be black too. At least she found roach ☺ I wonder how many roaches they will use.

Yes, nothing quite gets me up in the morning like a good "worshipping" from my slave harem.

comicbook.com/gaming/2018/05/27/dragon-age-inquisition-bioware-witcher-3/

A few of months old but it's a good read.

May or may not be legit:

Netflix wants a black Ciri

OH HELL NO!!!

Omg, SJW strike again and kill the series before it's even filmed.

I cannot believe how bizarre things have become. If these dumbfuck network idiots go through with this, I will not watch a second of this nonsense so I don't get added to the ratings.

Gotta love total ignorance and disrespect for the source material. So is all of Nilfgaard going to be a black country now?! Because surely they know who Ciri's father is?
I already don't like ditching an authentic Slavic look with pretty boy Cavill and presumably other non Polish actors. But this is a product for the American market. So I can tolerate that. But leave minority politics out of it!
Ciri has gray/white hair similar to Geralt. This is iconic. This is important.

If Netflix wants to score points with the SJW tyranny we're all living in now, make up your own story about a black lesbian kickass heroine and her transgender sidekick but don't pervert an amazing book series.

Disgusting.

Okay. Right.

I very rarely use caps because it makes me look like I'm losing my shit, but...

THIS FUCKING BETTER ISN'T TRUE!