The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

farfrael · 2016-01-12T13:48:17.000Z

JeffL:

If you’ve never played a Cyberpunk game and aren’t familiar with that world, any recommendations on a couple of books that are good reads but also do the best job of familiarizing you with the lore/world/backstories?

FWIW, the wikipedia page looks fairly exhaustive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020
Also this sub-page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cyberpunk_2020_books

Most of it is clearly old-ish by now but i can find some of the titles via a cursory search on amazon.

Nithrakis · 2016-01-13T10:36:28.000Z

“The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine Features a More “Complex” Story and “Charismatic” Antagonist”

http://www.onlysp.com/69058/

Telefrog · 2016-01-13T10:45:56.000Z

Internal CDPR thank you video for their employees.

There are English captions.

TimJames · 2016-01-13T10:52:26.000Z

I hope “charismatic antagonist” doesn’t mean “look at this wacky comic book villain we created!” But I think we’re in good hands.

triggercut · 2016-01-13T11:26:59.000Z

Telefrog:

Internal CDPR thank you video for their employees.

https://youtu.be/PKgTg3kpPdQ

There are English captions.

I love how there are also captions in Polish too, because there’s English language and French spoken in the video. Seriously, what language do they speak around the studio at CDPR?

robc04 · 2016-01-13T11:32:44.000Z

triggercut:

I love how there are also captions in Polish too, because there’s English language and French spoken in the video. Seriously, what language do they speak around the studio at CDPR?

Tamerian?

Telefrog · 2016-01-13T12:14:52.000Z

robc04:

Tamerian?

Pam param pam pam paraaaam!

JMR · 2016-01-13T12:34:45.000Z

Telefrog:

Pam param pam pam paraaaam!

Arrrrg stop it!

Editer · 2016-01-13T12:45:21.000Z

Telefrog:

Internal CDPR thank you video for their employees.

https://youtu.be/PKgTg3kpPdQ

There are English captions.

Love the bit with the motion capture for the horse riding.

Alistair · 2016-01-13T15:43:10.000Z

I watched it again to see that. Very funny. 1500 people though… jeez.

Rock8man · 2016-01-13T17:16:24.000Z

Alistair:

I watched it again to see that. Very funny. 1500 people though… jeez.

1500 people, really? Is that even bigger than most Ubisoft Montreal teams? And those were the biggest development teams I knew of. Except maybe Rockstar. They’re a big mystery.

Alistair · 2016-01-13T17:29:21.000Z

It does include orchestras :)

Paul_cze · 2016-01-14T01:34:58.000Z

Rock8man:

1500 people, really? Is that even bigger than most Ubisoft Montreal teams? And those were the biggest development teams I knew of. Except maybe Rockstar. They’re a big mystery.

That number includes everyone who touched it including hundreds of voice actors over 8 languages they did etc

Actual development staff started at around 120 and peaked at 240 or so. Ubisoft and Rockstar productions are still much more bloated.

Elhokar · 2016-01-15T16:13:48.000Z

Are there any negative consequences for not doing Triss’s A Matter of Life and Death? I’d like to just move onto Skellige and I’m gonna romance Yen anyway.

triggercut · 2016-01-15T20:20:25.000Z

Elhokar:

Are there any negative consequences for not doing Triss’s A Matter of Life and Death? I’d like to just move onto Skellige and I’m gonna romance Yen anyway.

Just off the top of my head, there are things that happen later in the game, like hugely important story quests, that are easier to complete if Triss is around…and the only way she’s around is if you settle things one way or the other with her as far as your relationship goes.

JeffL · 2016-01-16T07:02:47.000Z

Love this game. Just played a side quest in Skellige that I was cleaning up before closing out Act 1, and even though I’m used to twists and turns I was STILL surprised at where the quest went. And then absolutely loved that, in the dialog, my past choices had a huge direct impact on my dialog choices which had a huge impact on the direction the quest went. And not in a “gamey” way - it felt 100% natural to bring up these past decisions in the interaction.

JeffL · 2016-01-16T08:00:13.000Z

farfrael:

FWIW, the wikipedia page looks fairly exhaustive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_2020
Also this sub-page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cyberpunk_2020_books

Most of it is clearly old-ish by now but i can find some of the titles via a cursory search on amazon.

Almost everything on Amazon are books that are basically game books - i.e. rule books, etc.

I was hoping there were a bunch of novels like the Witcher novels/short stories set in the Cyberpunk 2020 world (which is the world I think they are creating the new game in.) I found two novels total, both paperback only. I’m surprised.

TurinTur · 2016-01-16T08:06:06.000Z

Yes, it’s a tabletop rpg in its origin, not a novel unlike The Witcher.

Elhokar · 2016-01-16T09:20:50.000Z

Damn, I wanted to be as nice as possible to Triss while not romancing her but I still felt bad in the maze.

Rock8man · 2016-01-16T09:57:47.000Z

Elhokar:

Damn, I wanted to be as nice as possible to Triss while not romancing her but I still felt bad in the maze.

Yeah, there’s a history there’s not of my doing. I’m not sure what happened between them in Witcher 1 and 2, but whatever it was, after that, a broken heart is inevitable in some form.