Death Stranding is like that. There’s a scene near the end and then you skip forwards a week and play the ending. After the ending it sets you back a week and you are free to do whatever you want for as long as you want.
For many computer RPGs, there is a “nice guy” and “mean guy” way to go through the game. Usually I do the “nice guy” path first (with one character class, if it’s a class-based game), then I let it sit for a few months and try the “mean guy” path (with a different character class) if my interest has been renewed. So two plays is usually my minimum, if I like the game.
Thanks, I’ll give that a try. I thought I’d set it on the easiest setting, but I might have set it to “easy” and not to “story mode”.
“In Wolf’s Clothing” is a secondary quest I may just quit on. They keep directing me to locate a key and I have looked it up and seen what to do, but I honestly find the flood-gate and garden unfun and annoying. I hate this quest.
I kinda figured, hence the smilie 
. I get it, but I do enjoy quality rpgs and will often revisit favorite ones later down the road.I also re-watch films and re-read books which I know a lot of people shun as well.
Oh, yeah - that one can be frustrating. I sorta hate puzzle quests, especially those that require a lot of running around. I quit it a couple of times on my first go around and finally powered through (after reading a guide) on sheer completionist obstinacy. It’s a decent little story of course, but almost not worth the headache. As usual it was easier on my second play through, but still not irritation-free.
I agree, that location was really annoying, but you will still have to deal with it in the main quests even if you don’t do that secondary quest.
I dealt with it in the main quest, hopefully not returning there. Yen and Geralt were there for awhile. I stayed on to do the quest, but quit in frustration and did a “love djinn themed” quest with Yen.
I guess if I should pick a romance(not my kind of game), I am going for Yen. No, I did not romance anyone else before this. I…think I’m on track with her. She professed her love and I reciprocated.
The thing I am impressed the most with Witcher 3 is the scope and scale of it. Has there ever been a bigger game released? I remember when Skyrim was coming out, they made a big deal about how many lines of dialogue were recorded(same thing with Fallout 4).
Witcher 3, not even including the DLC, must have them beat. I was just swimming to shore after getting rid of a mysterious tower for a town and I could hear them on the shore, in the distance, saying “Is he alive? He is! And he’s swimming!”
I would love to hear Richard Garriot’s thoughts on the game. It is everything anyone who played Ultima IV-VII wanted in a game. It also inherited the “one quest ends up generating about 5 other quests” that Ultima was so famous for.
It’s not the greatest game of all time, but it is an all-time great achievement in design.
The romancing bit is definitely a part of the story so I think it is worthwhile if only to see it unfold. You can even screw it up and pissing off women as powerful as these are is not a great idea but can be fun to see play out on its own.
But if it ain’t your bag no biggie. Play as you like.
Just bear in mind that the most important relationship in Geralt’s life isn’t romantic - and that’s one relationship you definitely should not ignore.
Definitely. Roach is worth the effort.
I have a clearer idea of how I have done up to this point. I have been sent out to recruit a bunch of people to help with the battle against the Wild Hunt(we are then going to the Isle of Mists).
Alas, I failed whatever I should have done with Keira Metz. I didn’t really know what I was talking about, so apparently I did not send her to Kaer Morhen to meet me up. I guess if I had known for sure what that was and that I was going there, I would have. Instead, I sent her off elsewhere and she was labeled “too absorbed in her own doings to help” and that one mission falied.
Every other recruitable person, at least that I can see, is available and I have done their quests already. Made for a very smooth play up to this point. I can see having to go back and play countless hours just to recruit people, but I have already(I think) done every secondary quest and all the people are just standing around waiting to be asked.
So, I missed Keira Metz, but I think I got every other helper available.
Myself? I will presume you mean Ciri once I find her. The game has built it up enough that I will definitely be vested in the Father-Daughter relationship a ton.
I am tempted after I play all of Witcher 3 and its DLC to go back and play Witcher 1 and 2. I actually own both, but have never installed them. It must help with back story a ton.
The stories are consistently good, if convoluted and grim. The mechanics on the first are not that great and the sexually-themed stuff is a lot more juvenile( 'seduce women, collect ‘em all!’). The second is loads better and a pretty good game in of itself, but falls far short of three.
You get more exposure to Triss, Vernon Roche and Ves, the human-nonhuman conflict and some similar stuff. By the way did you meet Letho? He could have been at Kaer Morhen, but you only would meet him and get his quest depending on the dialogue choices you made way back while getting a shave/being interrogated at the beginning of the game. Basically those questions were designed to simulate the choices you would have made in the Witcher 2 storyline.
I found Ciri.
Wow, what a scene. Well worth the build up.
And I survived the battle against the Wild Hunt. As I played it, I thought how incredibly unique it must be, since everyone recruits a different set of helpers/allies. I have now read online that this sequence/quest was the most challenging to make since you can have a different set of people.
I had a good group of aid in my playthrough, though not Keira. Cerys(?) said no since she was Queen, but her brother came. I did not find Lotho(?), the optional witcher.
Anyway, a decent set of helpers and the battle was actually quite tough.
My Ciri has the alternative look that the DLC lets you pick, so when she "exploded’, you could tell it was actually a pre-rendered sequence. She was wearing the original outfit in it.
Letho is the other witcher. If you play Witcher 2 you’ll learn all about him, which I won’t go into since you’ve indicated you might play the game. In 3 you run across him at a heavily booby-trapped farmstead in Velen and can do a side quest with him.
So did Ciri survive in your game?
The battle? Yes, Ciri exploded in light and drove off the Hunt. I’m not at the end of the game, though. Time will tell, I guess.
Perhaps you thought I’d had the final boss battle. Nope, just the big battle at Kaer Morhen, which felt like a final sequence, but actually leads into more afterwards.
Where I am at now: I did some stuff with Ciri after that battle. She fought those witches in the bog and I fought the specific Wild Hunter that killed Vesemir. Both tough battles, but I am through those.
A quest titled “Final Preparations” just began and I saved and quit. We were, I think, back at Dandelions club/bar/inn.
Oops, sorry about the spoiler. I thought you had finished the game.