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Eastonās already posted a 4.5 minute followup to drill down on a point or two he thinks prominent yellmen are missing + hit one or two others.
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I am finally watching this television show and I must say I appreciate how it remixes characters from their core elements
Itās a pretty good show. Looking forward to the next season. Iāve been watching Henry Cavill be a giant nerd on youtube. Itās fun.
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i havenāt played a witcher or read a witcher but i watched a witcher on TV
I only knew vague secondhand details about Gerald Witchman, like the most experience i have with him is as a character from soul calibur. so i know that he has a fun moveset and that my original characters can kick his ass. I expected way more of a typical brooding fantasy guy so it was a nice surprise when i realized heās actually Wolverine. Like heās basically someones hot boyfriend OC they made up after watching x-men 2 and inuyashaā¦ like he has white hair and golden eyes and force magic, and everyone hates him everywhere he goes because hes the strongest and hottest dude around. i love it. i will definitely see more of his adventures
i also really liked hot goth gf witch for similar reasons
itās probably because ive been conditioned by years of playing video games and not because itās actually good writing but, i loved that the show constantly drops references to fantasy concepts and never bothers to explain them, you just have to figure out wth anyone is talking about from context clues. Like someone mentions the Conjunction of the Spheres and the Law of Surprise and iām just like āYes yep uh huh gotchaā. i mean the magic system is basically FMA alchemy so i got that pretty quick lol
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Of all the new pulp TV shows, Witcher is the only one I actually want more of. I have no idea how some misogynist Polish nerdās derivative fanfic got morphed into the most fun fantasy property but thereās about a thousand ways it couldāve gone very bad (the first game is one of them lol) so Iām glad weāre here.
I dunno your tolerance for lawnmower sims but the third game is quite similar to the show and is a blast. Itās justā¦ really, really long, and crammed with shit. If part of what you liked from the show was its punchiness, you wonāt get that in the game, butā¦ I still think itās worth a shot if youāre into the showās vibe.
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There is a mod that makes Witcher 3 combat a lot more satisfying, which is something Iāve used basically since day one. Because not being able to even dent an enemy because itās 4 levels above you is silly, and the same with enemies not being able to hurt you at all if theyāre 4 levels below you.
iāll try 3 at some point but i think iām actually gonna play the 1st game first lol. Iām very into experiencing this setting as a clunky point and click crpg
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2 is definitely worth playing, but I canāt say enough how much you donāt need to play 1 to follow the plot of the later ones, the combat system isnāt fun yet (and is not turn based point and click), it has the Skyrim kleptomania problem where your inventory gets full of fiddly little bits of shit, and the Geralt Fucks stuff is way way on the gross end of the gross-cute spectrum. Not that you shouldnāt play it, justā¦ be prepared for what youāre getting into
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I played the first game earlier this year due to wanting to play them in order and I had a better time with it than I anticipated. It has issues (the sex stuff with getting a card for every lass you bed is as dumb/bad as it sounds) and the combat isā¦ very much its own thing, but I liked how each chapter generally keeps you in a certain not too small but certainly not large area that you get to learn while there.
I would very much recommend the mod that increases your walking speed as the game very much needs it, plus a couple of the bug fix ones that apparently deal with issues that crop up frequently. Also make sure to rotate your saves as I did end up with a bugged save that made a boss battle impossible to complete, assuming it was an actual bug and not me simply being cursed when it comes to PC games.
I think Witcher 2 is the only one that actually makes you use the shit in your inventory, with the alchemy stuff being manual.
yeah, 2 is underappreciated imo (it was gorgeous in 2011, first hints of what the eastern european environment modelling industry would turn into over the following decade), itās got good pacing and doesnāt trip over itself and the archetypes are well done and the combat, while unintuitive at first b/c the animations donāt really match the mechanics and they donāt signal the extent to which itās all about crowd control, is actually really engaging.
1 is not underappreciated at all
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In Witcher 2 I read books about certain enemy weaknesses and the levels were small enough to find the herbs required to make the oils and bombs to kill them. But in Witcher 3 is there any way to know where to find herbs? Or do I have to run around the MASSIVE map until I spot with my Witcher eyes some Cocksblossom buried in the background detail? Massive disconnect in my experience.
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I finished the first witcher game and hated it, I got about 20 hours into the witcher 2 and did not like it but it was better than witcher 1. I got about 20 hours into witcher 3 and did not like it but it was significantly better than witcher 2.
The tv show is just about the least awful writing of the entire franchise tbh and its because they upped the himbo and dropped the constant background radiation of middle aged polish guy misogyny
i want to say i bought a lot of them from vendors but itās been a while
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when we say misogyny what are we talking here? Is it like, typical bullshit where itās bad but i can roll my eyes at it and move on, or is it actively repulsive? Ftr iām aware of the sex trading cards and consider that āroll my eyes and move onā territory
likewise how much less himbo are we talking, because i absolutely want to play Geralt as the biggest monster slaying himbo in the land
i appreciate the warnings about witcher 1 regardless, all three are on sale on steam for super cheap and 1 is the only one iām sure will run on my computer so iāve been tempted to scoop it up out of curiosity. I am prepared for the datedness.
Iād say by average it is the stuff that you just may roll your eyes at. Lots of it is depicted as mysoginy, so itās explicit instead of subtle. Most of it is just like everyone is fantastically receptive to the horniness of men. But this is kind of a personal thing so I canāt say if it will play the same for you.
But as far as himboā¦ I donāt think I ever thought of Gerald as a himbo in all my time playing the games. I would have liked to, and maybe I just didnāt see it, but I wouldnāt consider him a himbo.
Heās a bigger dumbass in the books
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