I just played Geralt being topless for like an hour until I was able to level up and wear my top armor again. I even fought a bear!
rei
5104
Topless Geralt is Best Geralt.
It’s pretty interesting how they’ve handled the character who is the narrator of the story. First I spent weeks listening to him, and now I’ve spent weeks in Novagrad looking for him and listened to people talking about him. I can’t decide, when I finally meet him, if I’ll love him or hate him.
Certainly an interesting way to introduce a character who is almost completely off stage. Is this the first Witcher game he is in? Or was he in the first two Witcher games too? Maybe I’m already supposed to know him if I had played the other games?
Yeah, I think he’s in all of them. He was actually in the pre-Witcher 1 proof of concept, looking almost identical.
You should get the “Putin” achievement for doing this.
Dandelion is a pretty major character in many ways, both in the games and books. I gotta confess I didn’t like the “loading” tidbits in Witcher 3 (it doesn’t sound like Dandelion at all, in my mind, even older), but his portrayal in the actual game was spot-on.
Wait, he isn’t old? He sounds so old in the narration, I had this great image of him built up in my mind of a dirty old man who chases after all these women and woos them despite his age and weathered looks. Don’t spoil this image for me!
He is old in the narration (since he’s narrating Geralt’s adventures as they happened in the past, when he was younger), but not in the events that happen in the game proper.
Thinking about Dandelion has put me in a good mood again.
I suppose I preferred him in TW2 with his laid-back hijinx. Here he has plans and stuff, which is weird. And his quests are interminable.
JeffL
5113
Whoa, wait - that voice is Dandelion? Just read the first couple of books, and have an image of Dandelion in my mind, and he did NOT sound like that! I assumed this was some old guy with long grey hair and a long grey beard narrating. Dandelion should have a higher and more melodic voice, this guy would sing bass!
JeffL
5114
Ahhh, OK. I don’t know if its a spoiler that the voice is Dandelion, but I’m glad someone posted it; I’m still early in the game, and now listening to the narration takes on a new perspective!
I definitely wouldn’t consider it a spoiler. I don’t recall whether it was the case in the first game, but at least in TW2 and TW3, the quest log text and narration are both done from the perspective of Dandelion looking back on events.
Yeah, there’s hints earlier in the narration in Witcher 3, but it becomes crystal clear who the narrator is once you get to Novagrad with the way the narrator phrases his references.
Yeah once you get to Novigrad he even says something specifically like “Something something, and me, the bard Dandelion”
JeffL
5118
Cool, that makes the narration more interesting. I’m glad I started reading the books before playing.
rei
5119
Am I the only ones who find the voice actors or voices for Lambert, Eskel and Triss to be jarringly American or ESL-ish?
All the Witchers sound American. I thought they were all really well voiced.
rei
5121
I don’t know–I like Vesimir and Geralt but the rest sound out of place to me. Letho included. Or badly acted or somehow. Goes back to the previous games. too. Maybe I just hate Lambert and Eskel.
rei
5122
I don’t know–I like Vesimir and Geralt but the rest sound out of place to me. Letho included. Or badly acted or somehow. Goes back to the previous games. too. Maybe I just hate Lambert and Eskel. That or their delivery seems flat to me, like they’re reading audiobooks.
