For what purpose?
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In TW2 he was planning to more or less retire with Triss, so it's not something that just came out of nowhere. It's also in line with the books where Geralt gets pretty tired towards the end, not caring that much about the witcher work anymore (even giving up being a witcher at one point) and only having the fate of the people close to him motivate him.
Yeah, the implied urgency kind of sucks. I think it's a missed opportunity that they always gave you a very clear goal at all times, where to go to and who to talk to, instead of giving you more vague clues à la the first game or even Fallout 1, where the main quest unraveled piece by piece through interactions with different people, as you talked to people and hoped that one of them would give you a lead that would get you closer to Salamandra or the water chip. Instead of getting a clear quest to go see a specific guy in Velen, you could simply travel around the place, do quests for different people, ask around and maybe have someone eventually direct you towards the Baron, for example. Alternatively they could've just made the threat to Ciri seem less imminent.
23? in the way it unfolds?- 4 color cupcakes done in orderly fashion( finding Ciri)+ gather your team for a suicide mission ( Kaer Morhen Battle) + defeat the Catalyst after a great battle (Naglfar+ White Frost Tower)
Yeah, but it's also kind of a bullshit excuse unless only used in appropriate places, and you'd ideally want to give the player multiple ways to get past such an obstacle (like they did with the pass to get over Pontar, for instance). It also would've required a more fine-tuned economy to avoid the BG2 situation of just running around doing quests despite having gathered the money required to save Imoen a dozen hours ago. You could use some kind of a light reputation system for a similar effect, though, at least when dealing with important people that aren't in a desperate need for a witcher.
Have you tried the newest patch? It makes the controls a lot more responsible and improves performance as well.
Carrion said:
Carrion said:
They clearly draw from some same sources, there are some similar elements (the Wild Hunt and the White Walkers being one of the more obvious ones) and TW3 probably has some direct ASOIAF-influence especially on Skellige, but I don't think they're all that similar. You could never have something like a cursed princess wandering around with seven gnomes robbing and impaling people in ASOIAF, but it's pretty much everyday stuff in the Witcher universe. The style of Sapkowski's prose couldn't be much further from GRRM either, although in the games it's of course not quite as clear to see.
I tried playing without the minimap, but the game's clearly designed with it in mind. Especially in Novigrad you've got dozens of fake merchants that are indistinguishable from real ones but can't be interacted with, and only the map icons show the real ones. The minimap is also required for navigation in certain parts of the game, like the horse races that don't always have clear markers on where the track goes. It's also easy to initially miss some of the exclamation mark side quests, as people keep shouting at Geralt all the time and certain events are triggered when Geralt is quite far away, which might lead to you missing out on some minor stuff permanently. I think a decent compromise would be the option to remove quest compass from the minimap while still keeping the quest markers on the main map.
