The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect Andromeda thread

1. You can criticize TW3.  Just criticize what was actually in the story instead of guessing and making stuff up. I'm not gonna say Ryder did something he didn't do just because he didn't appeal to me as a character.

ie: I stopped playing MEA at the 3 hour mark. Ryder is such a terrible person who hates everyone he meets. He chased down a pregnant woman to kill her and her baby, and he could careless about saving the galaxy and stopping the Kett because he sat a trinket on a rock for some guy...and this totally goes on all throughout the game. 

2. I doubt that is the opinion of most people in a BW forum. Even if they are unhappy with the certain state of their games.

3. See #1.  And ew.  Sounds like the people who wanted Hawke to bang his sister.

MEA has yet to define what it is a Pathfinder even does. So I can't say what quests are Ryder's job or not. I know placing trinkets on rocks for lazy bums isn't it.

As for Geralt, his job is a Witcher. That is literally his job. He doesn't get paid if he doesn't do this work. Without it, he can't have the weapons, potions, decocations, and armor made to help defend Ciri or anyone else against the Hunt.

MEA has yet to define what it is a Pathfinder even does. So I can't say what quests are Ryder's job or not. I know placing trinkets on rocks for lazy bums isn't it.

As for Geralt, his job is a Witcher. That is literally his job. He doesn't get paid if he doesn't do this work. Without it, he can't have the weapons, potions, decocations, and armor made to help defend Ciri or anyone else against the Hunt.

What makes anything memorable? 

The romance?  The romance is a means to an end a fun little optional thing you can do or not. Why in the hell do you keep focusing on these random meaningless details in much larger quests? Is that the only way you can justify the Idea that Mass Effect did it soo much better? 

I don't even remember a lot of these conversations you are bringing up and I've played ME3 four times. So I guess because I can't remember them they aren't "memorable"? To be fair though I only have one playthrough where I didn't leave Ash on Virmire.  Kahlee Sanders was meh as far as characters go in general. 

Again, Geralt has his more personal interactions later in the game. 

Comparing MEA to the The Witcher 3 is absolutely laughable.
Comparing CDPR to the Biovar or EA is even more laughable.

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Then answer the question - Why you find Kiera's quest line so memorable? 

... and I stand by that assessment.  The quest physically involves nothing more than - 1) talk to two guys after stumbling across the ruin 2) look around and go to basement 3) kill monster  or not 3) return to original 2 guys you talked with.  Yes, the conversations are cut scenes, but it is still not a complex Witcher Contract of anywhere near the depth of the Griffin one in White Orchard.  There are those little textual paragraphs for all the little quests... even the ones one just stumbles on like "Sunken Treasure."  I don't think the Allgod text is any more revealing about Geralt's character than Shepard opting to pass on a dying message or not.  In the case of ME3, that revelation about Shepard's character is just not laid out in a textual journal wrap up (which is merely a game mechanic).  Another example... Benning Evidence.  There are a couple of different ways to approach that quest - 1) obtain the quest by overhearing Ambassador Osoba and offer to  help him 2) overhear the soldiers talking in Purgatory 3) just stumble on the dog tags on Benning.  Then Shepard decides... do I take them to Osoba or not.  Doing the former reveals that it's important to him as a soldier to not leave relatives of the fallen hanging... regardless of how he acquires the quest).  Not completing it after overhearing all the anquish Osoba and the men in Bilal's unit are going through, says that he can be a pretty callous guy.  The difference is that it's just not spoon-fed to the player in a journal entry.

So, perhaps one improvement that could be suggested to Bioware is to spoon-feed the character results of each action in some sort of textual journal entry on the PC.  I don't know how the character tracking system in ME:A works (until I start playing the game itself).  No one has really mentioned it here.

Objection! Blood and Wine is better than 90% of all games I've ever played. HoS was excellent, though.

Overuled! Everything in Heart of Stone is the best thing in the game...I have spoken.

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