This released waaaaaay before Blood and Wine. HOLY SHIT

This released waaaaaay before Blood and Wine. HOLY SHIT

You can't argue that CDPR are absolutely brilliant developers.

it's a shame that Geralt goes back to wearing that shitty armor after the events of B&W

Geralt is a man of his word, gotta give him that.

daily reminder that this teaser takes place post-B&W where Geralt is given a contract to kill Orianna

I think it makes the ending where Annarieta and Syanna kill each other canon. Beauclaire looks super run down at the end there. Geralt is still on the path as well which means he didn't settle down.

It should be canon. Geralt shouldn't kill the guy who regenerated his vampbro. Syanna definitely deserves to die one way or another. Getting her off scott-free is a bad ending.

>you will never play a witcher game where you can become a vampire and fuck people up

Replaying vtm is getting boring now, I need my vampire game fix.

I wanted to let Detlaff go.

Then I ran through down and watched his friends butcher dozens of innocent folk, ripping them apart.

Couldn't let him live.

That's not Beauclair

Oh damn you are right. They look very similar though. This isnt Vizima, Novigrad or Beauclair.

Do I need to play 2 before I play 3? I care about story.

>You can't argue that CDPR are absolutely brilliant developers.
and yet they kill the golden dragon, who was key to the end of the last game, offscreen in a shitty tie in comic, as if they want to be bioware in terms of between game continuity.

Genuinely perplexed how they manage to get it both perfect and the key example of wrong.

I would at the very least watch a summary.

If you care about story, yes absolutely. A lot of decisions you make carry over into 3 by loading in the save file.

Plus 2 is actually a pretty good game in it's own.

Well alright. Just I tried to run 2 years ago and had like 7 fps. Played up until the first big monster that way and it just left such a bad taste in my mouth.

turn off ubersampling

I don't know how you expect to run 3 if you can't run 2

I should have mentioned this was on a different computer. My newer rig could do it no problem.

The story isn't extremely important but the characters definitely are. Although you'd want to read the books for them as well.

Though Witcher 2 does show why the political situation is the way it is in 3, and why people hate the sorceresses so much.

>and why people hate the sorceresses so much.
but one of the endings has them not hated, only the lodge who are all dicks to you so you know why they are hated.

Trailer was released so long before B&W I could see them not having finalized what Beuclair looks like. The architecture is very similar.

Oh, ad if you play 2 as a precursor to 3, pick Roche

2 has the best main story, so yes.

Why would Geralt kill Orianna tho? She did not do anything mean

Its so good you will enjoy 3 less because its story will disappoint you.

She harvests children with some bizarre stockholm syndrome shit.

What? Is that why Iorveth and Saskia aren't in 3, CDPR killed them?

what's up with the stupid webcomic art cutscenes? what happened to the badass paintings?

Feeding off children; not the greatest.

Exploiting children in any way at all is pretty fucking bad.

read the comic
iortheth mia
saskia flew off somewhere

Iorveth was intended to be in the game
Saskia is "fucked off elsewhere", according to Phili

You mean ugly shit painted over game models? Marvel has copyright on that.

Didn't know there was a comic.

Iorveth was originally going to be in, and play a fairly substantial role in Novigrad, but was ultimately cut for unknown reasons.

Saskia was never planned to appear, though Iorveth would have likely talked about her. Should she survive 2 there is a comic that highly suggest she was killed trying to defend Vergen against Nilfgaard, though it is left open ended. Iorveth traveled to Dol Blathanna and is confirmed by Cdp to still be alive.

so witchers are bad?

>Iorveth was originally going to be in, and play a fairly substantial role in Novigrad, but was ultimately cut for unknown reasons.
never heard that.

Is being cut why we don't hear anything about Foltest's heir?

Witcher 3 has a ton of cut content, There was going to be more in the Novigrad chapter regarding Iorveth the Scoia'tel and Roche, Iorveth was going to be able to fight at Kaer Morhen too. The Wild Hunt was also going to get more content in the last part of the game fleshing it out a bit and the entire final battle was going to be completely different.

But to answer you question, nothing regarding Foltest bastards was cut far as I know. Seems Cdp just forgot about them along with a ton of other important Witcher 2 stuff.

The game checks if you handed Anais to Radovid, so that probably comes up in a dialogue at some point.

It doesn't. Game only checks if you helped Roche save her, doesn't keep track of who you gave her too. And the only reason that choice is checked is because of the conclave, no Anais. Her mother is even in the game and doesn't mention her at all. Its like she never existed.

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Yeah, but that actually doesn't effect anything at all. I played through the game importing a witcher 2 save where he has her and there literally isnt even any dialogue about it. Maybe they planned so at one point and thats why its in the files, but in the finished game there is nothing.

Also notice the check there for Henselt being alive, which is total bullshit as he is dead no matter what in every game.

IMO witcher 3 is a pretty poor sequel to witcher 2. It's a great game but there's so much shit that isn't really followed on well especially when the devs always go on about having complex choices but then turns out they literally don't matter.

Only complex choice in 3 was what to do with the spirit in the tree. Nearly every other choice had a decision that was obviously better then the other.

>Henselt ded way before the invasion
>Henselt dies like a hero during the invasion
That's the difference. It's immaterial, but it's there.

Yeah, fair enough. My point was that the check is there, that's all.

Isn't Toussaint deep in the south though? I figured it doesn't even snow there and the trailer is set in winter or at least fall because it was cold and some patches of snow. Orianna looked a lot more humble there so I figure she had fallen on hard times at that point and had to resort to killing people for blood and thus the contract on her. Geralt fights her by a barn. No reason for a rich noble to be out by a barn at night far from the city.

Its not deep south, I imagine they probably have a seasonal climate with snow in the winter.

Isn't it within Nilfgaard region which is in the south part of the continent?

Do monsters breed? Or is it legit that the Witchers are becoming obsolete because they've effectively murdered every (easily killable) trapped after the Conjunction of the Spheres.

Yes but its in Northern Nilfgaard. The City of Nilfgaard itself is far south of Toussaint.

Toussaint itself is not that far south of the Northern Realms.