Gaming The Witcher Series (PC RPG of the Forever)

It really wasn't any choice for me. Sorry, Triss. (Also I picked up the Yennifer statue when I got an Amazon gift card for Xmas).

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I sometimes will go back into my Witcher 3 game just so I can redo the conversations with Yen at Geralt's new home.

 

Yeah they just wrote better lines for Yennifer.

Awesome legacy for Whoresome. Killing him was the right call as it turns out. Nice that nobody spoilered me the Dude twist.

 

You monster !

(I totally deserved it though, and thank God they didn't know about Keira)

 

Now I’m not accusing the game of inconsistent baseless moralizing but

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Not only does Keira not matter to that sequence in the slightest, it’s arguably “objectively” better to have a fling with her.

… Okay, so maybe I’m accusing the game of inconsistent baseless moralizing.

 

Yennefer is the only appropriate choice.

 

Keira was fun.

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I let her get burned. Maybe i'm morbid, but I like my tales to have tragic realistic outcomes. So Keira and Lambert i let die.

 

If someone hasn't played the previous games, when you have to choose whether kissing Triss you know almost nothing about Yen.
But anyway it's clear that in the first game playthrough I just tried to maximize the number of sex scene, I mean duh? To not have sex I already have real life lol.

 

If you are achievement hunting, there is an achievement for letting all of your companions (Keira, Lambert, etc) survive so they can participate in a certain story moment. I didn’t know that on my first playthrough, and so I let Keira die.

 

So far only Ciri's mentor and the baron died, among the important characters.

 

I was wrong about Lambert, apparently. The people you need to recruit for that story moment are

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Keira, Ves, Roche, Hjalmar, Triss, Ermion, and Zoltan. The baron isn’t relevant to that achievement.

 

Oh it's much hairier than you think, if you've played the other games but haven't read the books you might erroneously assume Triss is the "real" love interest while still knowing basically nothing about Yen, and the first game mechanically incentivized sleeping around.

Again, I don't think there's a good through-line on this stuff, I think the writers wanted a clever "gotcha" comedy moment that IMO really just means everyone involved needed to have some frank discussions about their feelings, their relationships, their boundaries, etc. GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER, STRAIGHTS.

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And no, this isn't coming from a place of bitterness, I was a way, way worse person and had Geralt tell Yen he didn't love her anymore. The almost brutal levels of stunned shock and resulting awkward divorced parents energy were hearty sustenance for the lengthy endgame.

 

Ur so mean, Ramza...

 

Playing through Witcher 2 makes it clear - as Geralt recovers his memories about what happened - that Yen is his true love.
Plus, it's Yennifer. C'mon.

 

Yennifer is arguably the best character in the game, it's a no brainer. Next playthrough I will have to refuse Triss so that I won't end up bound to a bed.

 

While I did give that entire town the plague because the ghost tricked me, going to Radovid was such a transparently terrible idea I talked Keria out of it.

 

Yennefer.

 

I re-played everything and I let Triss go, so hopefully Yen will want me, unless I ****-ed up some lines of dialogue again.....

What I don't get is that now Triss has gone, so I guess she won't be there helping out with the Wild Hunt?

 

She still shows up to help at Kaer Morhen.

 

Nah, Yen loves Geralt despite her best attempts to not do so. If your Geralt loves her those crazy kids are all set.

 

Yeah, messing up with Triss and Yen doesn't mean they abandon Geralt - it just means he doesn't have a romantic relationship with either of them, that's all.

 

Yeah but I want Yen as partner.
It should work this time. I haven't slept with anyone else and after a moment of hesitation I left Triss go.

Btw I couldn't let Keira go even the second time. Her plan was just too insane and I like the character. I'll google what would have happened if she went to Radovid offering knowledge about a plague (though I think Ramza implied she'd get burned)

 

Oh, I see, there are as many as three possible outcomes in Keira story.
In order to check all outcomes of all story lines this game should be played about 10 times

 

I knew there were three possible endings when I played, but I didn't want to look things up and "engineer" the outcome I wanted. Instead I tried to play the choices the WWBGD way (What Would Book Geralt Do?) as best as I could and I happily got the best result.

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Ciri becoming a witcher.

 

I was happy with the ending I got for the main game. Ditto for Hearts of Stone. Now, Blood and Wine, that one I screwed up pretty bad, not gonna lie.

 

Yeah, I messed up Blood and wine too


Both times