Some really cool things found on reddit :)
Also, I finally came back to Velen and Novigrad from Skellige. The contrast between these places…love it. And I like how despite my first playthrough taking 200 hours, I already encountered multiple quests I have never seen. Stranger in a strange land and Cave of Dreams were great.
And done. Now I have a Yenn to make wine.
Happy sigh.
The Witcher 3 GOTY edition has a release date now: August 30th.
Announcement trailer:
Will this be any different on PC than buying the Base game + expansion pass? Have they announced the price?
Still no official info on either question, I’m afraid.
Dont rebuy it unless you want to show the poles who wrote this piece of art some love. They gave out free updates to owners of older versions of their previous game when they made large updates to those. very cool of them.
I read somewhere today that it will be $49.99 and include the base game, the two expansions and every piece of official DLC.
So I found an interesting (red outlined) book on a toilet at Kaer Morhen. It is called The Wars Of The North: Myths, Lies And Half-Truths. Geralt mentioned it had some pages missing.
It took me a few seconds to get it.
Also, this never gets old
http://abload.de/img/1j4h1glwnwexf3sjs.png
And I just drank with the witchers again…so funny. Lambert, you’re genious!
PS4/XBone players beware.
They’ve also clarified a few things. From Marcin Momot:
The GOTY version of the game will be the base, both expansions, and all 16 free DLCs that they did. Plus there will be a standard patch updating/fixing some issues for all versions that anyone gets.
If you have the base on PC, you can buy the GOTY and you’re fine. But–they recommend you just get the season pass, because that’s cheaper. You’ll have all the GOTY content.
If you’re on console and just have the base game, also buy the season pass. Again, it’s cheaper, and you’ll get all the same stuff as in the GOTY version.
If you’re on console and have the base game and buy the GOTY version alongside it, the console environment won’t allow you to use your saves. Why you would do this is weird in the first place, but whatever. You should know though that consoles think of these as two separate titles and won’t let them cross-pollinate saves.
And…this isn’t anything new. I bought Arkham Asylum on release day way back when, and didn’t get around to playing it very much and figured I’d never play it all the way and sold it back. Then when Arkham City was coming, I wanted to play AA, so I went and got the Arkham Asylum GOTY version for 360. And the saves from my release day version didn’t work with the GOTY version.
The nice bonus to that is that even though the save games don’t work, having it be a different title means you can double up on all the achievements if you play through the game again for the GOTY version.
But, I don’t have that kind of time. The Witcher 3 took 6 months the first time. Even if I did play it again and played it faster by going only for the story, it would still require too much time. Maybe 3 months this time? The opportunity cost is to not play another excellent game from the backlog, not watch qt3 streams, don’t watch any TV or movies for 3 months, etc. I loved Witcher 3, and I love getting achievements on the Xbox platforms, but that’s going too far even for me. ;-)
So, second playthrough finished, 180 hours…completed every single quest I found, gathered all the gwent cards, even brought the books to the naive guy on Snidhall
It is great how much stuff got fixed and improved since release, although my two biggest story issues are still present…but I will consider
Dijkstra to be a doppler hired to impersonate him in case his betrayal did not work…not intended by the devs who definitely dropped the ball here, but I refuse to accept that Dijkstra could ever be so stupid and go directly against Geralt :)
My other issue was absence of Saskia, which was at least partly alleviated by the pretty good comics released with HoS.
Most of the important decisions I did the same as a year ago, just can’t go against my nature :)
Although I did some differently first, then reloaded. So I finally saw how Skelligers become Berserkers - damn gruesome - and I saw Baron end…sadly, which was terrible. I also watched the scene of Geralt taking the money from Emhyr - ugh so, so bad. Anyone who does that deserves the bad ending :D
And something I did not notice year ago, what world could this be ? :)
Now after finishing, I enabled the point of interest markers, saw that I still have some unexplored so I will do those and then onwards to Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.
Here are few postcards
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_07_31_10psr0.png
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_12_008uxq.png
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_15_0cmsqe.png
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_08_2o0kmk.png
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_11_2jqjr1.png
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_08_1pvktd.png
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_10_2xmj72.png
http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_07_31_1nss37.png
You’ve played Hearts of Stone once but haven’t played Blood and Wine yet, right?
Yep, couldn’t resist back in October. I absolutely loved it so I am looking forward to doing it again. Will choose different folks for the heist :)
And Blood and Wine will be my first time. Excited to meet Regis.
Ok, guess I better stay out of this thread. Only 60 hours in and haven’t seen any flying whales yet.
Sorry if that seems spoiler-ish, Lee! I’m not sure what the etiquette is for sharing awesome screenshots from a game that’s been out for a while now.
Not a big deal thanks, this game has been out long enough that the statute of limitations has long since expired.
I’m sure you’ll be peeing your pants throughout B&W.
