The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect Andromeda thread

They handled the political maneuvering and fallout real well in TW2. I need to start TW3...

I prefer TW2 aswell. Not that invested in the main story of TW3, also a few of the storylines i've been Interested in since the first game didn't really pan out the way i expected. The expansions for TW3 however are pure gold, love em.

A very good plot doesn't help if you're unable to finish the game because of the damned QTEs. I really wanted to see the rest of TW2, but my motivation got totally sapped in the Kayran fight. I wish I could just cheat *past* these kind of fights. Cheating *through* them isn't enough.

Hmm....maybe there are mods. *Goes off to the Nexus* *Nope. No such mod*

No, he does not return...
I was a bit disappointed about that. Roche returns for a pretty important questline. Even Letho does depending on your choices. Several popular book characters. But not him, sorry.

That stupid Kayran fight was so annoying... don't recall how many attempts it took.

I almost gave up on the game right in the intro, lol. I kept dying during the very first fight inside the castle. Took me maybe ten tries to figure out how to stay alive.
NEVER struggled with a game like that before. Usually the first fight is a super easy tutorial.

The game was frustratingly difficult for me at first. At some point it got better and I started enjoying the combat. LOVED combat right away in W3. The game is much easier from start to finish. Which in this case is a good thing imo.

As far as I can tell, Iorveth in TW3 can be found only here (a bigger image at witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Where_is_Iorveth%3F )

I was under impression that the plot holes in TW3 are mostly continuity goofs with regard to the books, for example there is no word of false Ciri during Geralt's meeting with Emhyr.

Hard to tell exactly, you can even simulate your choice from TW2 whether you sided with him or Roche, but it has no effect in the game. They probably decided to cut out some content for some reason.

UGH! Don't even get me started on what TW3 did to Radovid. Didn't Ciri have a crush on Eredin in the books? I don't recall.

Late to the party when it comes to this topic but all the same here's my two cents. BioWare should stop trying to mimic the Skyrim's and the witcher's of the world and go back to what they do best. What they need to realize is that they are not good at open world games. They create these massive Maps and fill it with nothing except pointless collectables. Me personally but I want them to go back to where they shined. Dragon Age Origins in Mass Effect 2 and 3. Creating detailed small Maps that ooze with atmosphere are what they are best at. Despite the plot problems that Mass Effect 3 obviously had, you can't deny that you were sucked in by that finely detailed maps. When they did this they had more time to focus on things like Story character development and many other things. Of course these are two separate apartments the writers and game design, but one can't help but wonder if the maps were more detailed I would have more focus and dedication to the story itself. The actual plot uses about only 10% of the actual map Space the game has. For me personally it made me hard to get sucked into story. I had the same problem of Inquisition. In fact I don't think I even finished my intro playthrough of the game and when I bought it. For me this is war Dragon Age Origins shined. Because you have detailed maps finite space allowing the player to I was right into the world and surroundings and characters. Every inch of space felt like I meant something. BioWare does not need to try to catch up The Witcher or Skyrim. It's clear they don't know what to do to copy their success so they should go back to what they know best. And that is intimate finely crafted world's that you can get lost in the atmosphere of in a much smaller space.

Hmm I was listening the other day to that guy who talks so much on the youtube about video games, and he actually surprised me by saying that when he had been playing TW3, he had started making up a theory, taking the cue that wherever Wild Hunt appears there is this chill, frost, snow, ice - that somehow the very act of using portals between worlds tends to bring this drop of temperature, sucking out energy, etcaetera - and so that it hit the homeworld of the Wild Hunt the harder the more they sought a solution for it elsewhere. And that is something that I am okay with - that the phenomenon surged in recent years passing between books and games, and everybody jumped in to call it "White Frost", because there was some well-known prophecy conveniently perpetuating around, while the conjecture that it is of the same natural science origin as the Earth ice ages, well... that idea was not very well advanced among Geralt's contemporaries. And that generally suits as an extension to the book series lore; I don't even remember the book instances of Wild Hunt to freeze stuff around on scale that big. But I would hardly suspect that people would go that geeky on a video rpg game plot as this guy did.

Well, shorter I imagine.