From what I remember The Law of Surprise is something the witchers do to replenish their ranks. He does it twice in the short stories. Both times the surprise is Ciri. There is a lot of Geralt fighting destiny in the short stories and the books are more that he has accepted that his destiny is linked to Ciri.
Maybe he does not do it anymore because Ciri is enough destiny to bite off at one time. Maybe he does not want to subject another to his kind of life.
Gendal
2043
I think they are missing a prime game mechanic here. For every person you rescue (which seems like a lot) you could have a choice to require a surprise. The possibilities for hilarity are nigh endless.
The Law of Surprise is more a thing that appear on the books. I was a bit surprised he mentioned he didn’t read the books. It seems he visited some wikis.
That 4K video, ugh. The game looks great, but the video is bit-starved. So much for “4K”, it makes it look like a normal 1080p (even worse, in fact, if you were to compare it to a HQ 1080p video).
Gendal
2045
Doesn’t sound like it, more just admittedly sour grapes over not getting a PC review copy:
http://penny-arcade.com/news/post/2015/05/15/universals1
That was awesome article
But, yeah - they’re basically the masters of lore. I don’t always read journal entries in games, but when I do, they are from The Witcher.
so damn true
God dammit. Could not resist. Just clicked through some one second fragments. Saw Geralt standing on some rocky cliffside with storm raging or something. Aaaargh it looks so good and it is so hard to resist watching all this, but dammit I want to see everything when I play it.
Cool video showing the difference between max and min detail in Witcher 3 configuration (on PC, presumably): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKadTifTRlY
Gorath
2048
PC Games Hardware has a screenshot gallery: 3200p @ultra settings scaled down to 1600p.
Bateau
2050
I can barely tell the difference. When will people learn that youtube is quite possibly the worst way to show differences in graphical fidelity in games?
Everything is awesome and nobody’s happy.
I’m happy. I hope I stay happy after actually playing the game. ;)
I’m happy. It just has to be quite a bit better than Dragon Age: Inquisition. It has to be…right?
Oh, I’m pretty confident it will be. Or at least I certainly hope so! :)
Heh. In the last 6 hours, the official forums have become officially unreadable.
I never even tried. As I said before, as far as forums on the Internet go, the only one I can stand nowadays (and actually like) is this one.
There are other forums in the internet…weird.
I’m sure I’ve missed this somewhere, but will there be an alternative to importing saves? I’m struggling through TW2, mostly to the mechanics, so I won’t finish it in time. (Yes, I am going to start playing as soon as I can!). Something like the DA keep?
Yep! I’m not going to get this 100% right, but hopefully you’ll be ok with 90%…;)
I think when you start up a game, it will ask you if you want to import a save, if you want to input your choices, or if you want to just roll with the defaults.
If you import a save or roll with the defaults, no big deal, you never see anything and the game has either of those game states.
If you want to input, there’s an early scene where you answer four or five questions of the Emperor’s scribe. Those questions will spoil the end of TW2.
That being said, if you want to do that and want to do it being informed, this video tells you what each choice is, and what it meant in terms of TW2:
