Great screenshots here
Some of these may have been posted before, but I’ve never seen the album. Obviously there’s some injection-processing wizardy here.
Thanks for the link, Tim, grabbing me some new desktop backgrounds.
JMR
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Some really nice ones in that gallery.
This one is my favourite…great quest
Look at those happy little clouds.
Some of those pictures would be great hanging up on the wall.
Almost deserves a thread of its own: Roach stars in a new video/paid DLC
mono
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Here’s a link straight to the YouTube video!
This is the right way to do April Fool’s: focus on amusing content first.
How Gwent came to be:
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-making-of-gwent/
“A producer usually says something like: ‘And you need how many cards and concepts done?!’” Monnier says. “‘Who is going to draw all this?!’” Luckily, Gwent’s creators were able to enlist help from others within The Witcher 3’s development team. “Anyone who could help played the prototype with us and was on board instantly. We got help from our art crew, and even from the marketing department, who helped with UI design. It really was a massive team effort.”
There’s an apocryphal story about the album Tommy, by The Who. One of the most influential music critics on the planet at that time was a guy named Nik Cohn, who wrote for The Observer and NME. He heard a rough mix of the album and was all “Meh.” Pete Townshend, the principal writer in The Who discovered though that Cohn was a fanatical pinball player. Thus, Townshend wrote “Pinball Wizard” and made Tommy a pinball-playing wiz…and Cohn ended up giving Tommy its most influential and glowing review.
And so as god is my witness, I really thought CDPR put Gwent into The Witcher 3 to ensure that Tom Chick specifically played that game front to back. Alas.
MikeJ
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Every time I see “As god is my witness,” I mentally append “I thought turkeys could fly”.
I strive to be the gifted person that Mr. Carlson was.
That sounds super-familiar, but I’m not placing it. When I hear “As God is my witness” I think of Scarlett O’Hara finishing the thought with “I’ll never be hungry again!” silhouetted with a gnarled tree against a red sunset (probably because it was the first film scene in which I heard it used).
I put off a 2nd play through all winter, but that article pushed me since I sorta ignore Gwent during my first play. Also going with the higher difficulty level, which I just discovered prevents meditation from regenerating your vitality. Guess I need potions, which I sorta ignored previously too.
ShivaX
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Food can help a bunch as well.
Squee
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Just finished this for the first time last night. I put it off for a long while since I was going crazy checking question marks, but the secret to enjoying Witcher 3 appears to be completely ignoring question marks and just doing main quest/notice board/side quests. The XP rewards scale so you get absolutely piddly rewards for doing quests you grossly overlevel, and the main story seems to give you a good 70% of your total XP rewards anyway, so there’s a hell of a lot more side content than you really need (And arguably want) for one playthrough. It also helps that my videocard was a hell of a lot weaker when I first started playing, and I was getting framerates in the teens on absolutely rock bottom settings, and now I can get 40-60FPS on ultra.
Anyway, once I stopped open worlding I had a hell of a lot of fun. Going to step back so I can dig in to Dark Souls 3, but once Dark Souls 3 winds down I’m going to scoop up the season pass and play Heart of Stone (And Blood and Wine if it’s released by then). Had I played this in time for the GotY voting I probably would’ve put it on my list somewhere. I don’t think it would’ve dethroned AoD or Nuclear Throne at 1 or 2, but it probably would’ve knocked Pillars of Eternity off.
