King Foltest: Adventures in Slaying Bitches (literally)
mono
1942
QFT. Thanks for the pointer JR.
Cool, because Roche could be his sidekick. :D
Kurina
1944
Oddly, the English version of Eurogamer is hinting the opposite.
Hmmm. Now that is just strange. Well I damn hope it is not just console port.
There’s another thread talking about how E3 is all about consoles, so it would make sense.
I love these snarks of yours : ).
No, seriously! Why would you announce your new awesome PC game at the Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft trade show?
Maybe no one told them what E3 is like these days. They’ll show up in their monk outfits, completely wasted, with topless European booth babes, ready to market their new hit to Americans. There will be an awkward silence when they walk in the door.
I don’t agree with this. Or rather I agree with the VO (almost everywhere except Triss - where is she from?) but the writing itself has exactly the same not-quite-coherent quality that the first game had. Successive phrases don’t always follow on quite logically and there is a painful lack of context awareness for a dialogue-heavy RPG. Examples I can actually remember - talking to Triss after a long scene towards the end of Chapter one and the only option you have is ‘I think my memory’s coming back!’. After the preceding scene, which looks like it took months of effort, they couldn’t spare the effort to mark that line as no longer valid… let alone put a new line in which makes sense given the lavish scene they just staged? Likewise go and see Sile after your meeting with the big SPOILER and she’ll say ‘Any progress?’ Huh? Well… yes actually, don’t you remember? And there are quite a few lines that are just a bit… huh? Which was true of the first game as well, both editions.
It’s actually what I’d like them to polish ahead of anything else, but I know I am in a minority of one here.
If/when they release the tools I’d love to make a mod about a witcher (not Geralt) who plays pretty much like Geralt in TW1: ploughing females of all sorts and killing monsters, no grand story, just… witching around.
Also SPOILER WARNING
Mavrick the Crapper on the Kaedweni camp had me laughing so loud I woke my baby daughter.
I am near the end.
I won’t spoil but… i had a thought about this game and the background of the books. While The Witcher I was more or less a standalone story with a clear conflict (order of flaming rose vs scotiael, salamander as bad guys) in this second part you really benefit of knowing all the players in the game of power: Temeria, Redania, Aedirn, Kwaden (sp?), the circle of mages, the Nilfgaard empire, etc, and some past happenings of the story in the books.
In that sense i think the people who has read the books will understand and love the game more than the rest.
The drunkard quest and the visionary quest (both from the same chapter) also made me laugh out loud.
I know this is nitpicking, but I’m getting somewhat annoyed with the word plough, and it sure is used a lot in the game. It’s like a kid that just learned a new dirty word. What’s wrong with fuck?
Sorry, just had to get it off my chest. :)
Just like BSG uses frack. Nothing wrong with fuck. It’s just their way of saying it. And they obviously like saying it a lot. :)
Wendelius
It’s like frak in Battlestar Galactica; they use it instead/more commonly than fuck. If they would use “fuck” all the time it too would get boring pretty quick.
Edit: doh, too slow. Funny how we both thought of BSG.
Except that “fuck” is also used in The Witcher, leaving you to wonder exactly what the proper use of “plough” is as opposed to “fuck.”
It’s as if words had near synonyms.
Ahhh, screw that. The dialog is clearly boned.
My eyes do sort of glaze over when they start talking about the various kings and factions. I really can’t keep track of all the extraneous people and what their goals and motivations are. Nilfgaard seems to come up a lot, and I gather they had a war with someone, but I can’t remember if that was in the last game or if it’s just something from the books.
Happily, all that stuff seems to just be a backdrop the game’s story and really has nothing to do with Geralt’s motivations. So far the quests have been pretty easy to understand, and I know why I’m going places and what I want to do there. The complicated backstory adds to the richness of the world, and as long as I’m not required to understand it, I’m happy to just nod and wander off whenever someone starts going on about king whatever and his deceitful nephew.
Well, it’s an euphemism, that’s what I reckon.
