The Witcher Witcher 1 remake from The Thaumaturge devs

[Wunderbar]

he dies in the first game if you side with scoiataels.

people did this?

i did this, but only on my third playthrough.

It's funny how on multiple occassions CDPR made a game about "tough moral choices", and said choice was picking between an awesome bro or a pompous twat.

 

[Lambach]

Is Cavill leaving the show because he's going to be filming something else with a much bigger paycheck attached or because they botched Season 3 so badly that not even he could stomach working on it anymore, despite allegedly being a massive Twitcher fanboy?

 

[CyberWhale]

Is Cavill leaving the show because he's going to be filming something else with a much bigger paycheck attached or because they botched Season 3 so badly that not even he could stomach working on it anymore, despite allegedly being a massive Twitcher fanboy?

Supposedly he's going to be starring as Superman again. Money makes the world go round.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Is Cavill leaving the show because he's going to be filming something else with a much bigger paycheck attached or because they botched Season 3 so badly that not even he could stomach working on it anymore, despite allegedly being a massive Twitcher fanboy?

Probably both. He was unhappy with S02 which completely shat on the books it was supposed to be adapting and made it's own (retarded) thing. He, a big Witcher novels & games nerd, even stated in an interview he hopes S03 will course correct and be closer to source material. I guess it did not.

Superman role obviously helped him make a decision but it's not like they would start shooting for the movie im 2023. They don't have neither a script nor director yet, it's all very early in pre-production.

 

[Lord_Potato]

he dies in the first game if you side with scoiataels.

people did this?

i did this, but only on my third playthrough.

It's funny how on multiple occassions CDPR made a game about "tough moral choices", and said choice was picking between an awesome bro and a pompous twat.

It's the same in W2. Broche is a great dude, Iorveth a twat. And yet the non-human half of Act 2 is longer, provides more context to the story and even some more exp levels I think.

 

[Wunderbar]

To their credit, the choice between Broche and Dijkstra in TW3 was much tougher. They learned.

 

[Lambach]

Never understood why these people even want to adapt existing material if they're not happy with it and want to drastically alter it. Just make a show about a Warlocker called Jeremy of Rio de Janeiro if you want to do your own thing, ffs.

 

[Wunderbar]

Lambach sir this is a Witcher 1 remake thread, not Netflix' Witcher series thread.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

To their credit, the choice between Broche and Dijkstra in TW3 was much tougher. They learned.

dijkstra acted entirely out of character and it's the worst quest in the game

 

[ERYFKRAD]

To their credit, the choice between Broche and Dijkstra in TW3 was much tougher. They learned.

Lmao who sides with fatty

 

[Wunderbar]

To their credit, the choice between Broche and Dijkstra in TW3 was much tougher. They learned.

dijkstra acted entirely out of character and it's the worst quest in the game

yeah but it is a tough choice.

 

[Lambach]

In one scenario Dijkstra is shown as such a competent strategist that he beats back the Emperor and in another he figures a dozen common goons or so will be enough to take out one of the greatest swordsmen alive and two elite veteran soldiers. That, plus the fact that he's the one who attempted to backstab his partners made the choice much easier.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

Witcher 2 disregarding your romance to Shani was a big pile of shit too. Saying: "Oh... it just didn't work out." between games was such a lame excuse. Like, if you're gonna railroad, do the brave thing and at least kill off the character.
"What happened to Shani? Oh, she died of catching plague." At least that wouldn't go against the choices you made in the previous game.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

In one scenario Dijkstra is shown as such a competent strategist that he beats back the Emperor and in another he figures a dozen common goons or so will be enough to take out one of the greatest swordsmen alive and two elite veteran soldiers. That, plus the fact that he's the one who attempted to backstab his partners made the choice much easier.

Geralt already beat dijkstra while unarmed and outnumbered, it's why he walks with a limp.

 

[Wunderbar]

Witcher 2 disregarding your romance to Shani was a big pile of shit too. Saying: "Oh... it just didn't work out." between games was such a lame excuse. Like, if you're gonna railroad, do the brave thing and at least kill off the character.
"What happened to Shani? Oh, she died of catching plague." At least that wouldn't go against the choices you made in the previous game.

In TW1 siding with The Order ruins your friendship with Dandelion and Zoltan, yet in TW2 you are still friends. I think it was worse than Geralt's romance with Shani.

And then CDPR repeated the same mistake by giving the player multiple significant decisions to make in TW2 (siding with Roche or Iorveth, saving Triss or Foltest's kids, killing Saskia or letting her live), and then disregarding all of them again in TW3.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

In TW1 siding with The Order ruins your friendship with Dandelion and Zoltan,

Only Zoltan actually. Dandelion still meets you in the courtyard after killing the final boss.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Siegfried not appearing if you took the neutral path sounds like a bug tho.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Never understood why these people even want to adapt existing material if they're not happy with it and want to drastically alter it. Just make a show about a Warlocker called Jeremy of Rio de Janeiro if you want to do your own thing, ffs.

They want already existing audience for their crappy creations.

 

[Lambach]

And then CDPR repeated the same mistake by giving the player multiple significant decisions to make in TW2 (siding with Roche or Iorveth, saving Triss or Foltest's kids, killing Saskia or letting her live), and then disregarding all of them again in TW3.

The thing about this in TW3 is that it mostly just doesn't address the consequences of these decisions rather than contradict them directly. Being railroaded as having sided with Roche is I think the only potential contradiction (and it also explains why Iorveth and Saskia are absent from the game). E.g. Triss gets saved either way, by you or Letho, and Foltest's kids are too young to have any part to play in the events of TW3 anyway so your choice here has no relevant impact on current events and is therefore simply not brought up (at least not that I remember).

Lots of other branching choices do get adequately addressed, though it's mostly just some flavor dialogue (other than Letho).

 

[Lord_Potato]

To their credit, the choice between Broche and Dijkstra in TW3 was much tougher. They learned.

dijkstra acted entirely out of character and it's the worst quest in the game

In the novels Dijkistra is pretty ruthless and doesn't allow anyone to stop him. If anything the game made him too nice that's why the final Dijkistra moment feels out of character.

While few people probably choose Dijkistra over Roche it is the last moment to save the independence of the Northern Kingdoms. And his vision of the North is much better than the one of Radovid. Pure iron fist rule, with zero religious fanaticism and no purges of non-humans.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

To their credit, the choice between Broche and Dijkstra in TW3 was much tougher. They learned.

dijkstra acted entirely out of character and it's the worst quest in the game

In the novels Dijkistra is pretty ruthless and doesn't allow anyone to stop him. If anything the game made him too nice that's why the final Dijkistra moment feels out of character.

While few people probably choose Dijkistra over Roche it is the last moment to save the independence of the Northern Kingdoms. And his vision of the North is much better than the one of Radovid. Pure iron fist rule, with zero religious fanaticism and no purges of non-humans.

In the novels he's not stupid. What he did was downright stupid, he was holding the idiot ball.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Witcher 2 disregarding your romance to Shani was a big pile of shit too. Saying: "Oh... it just didn't work out." between games was such a lame excuse. Like, if you're gonna railroad, do the brave thing and at least kill off the character.
"What happened to Shani? Oh, she died of catching plague." At least that wouldn't go against the choices you made in the previous game.

Shani is an established character in novels. We know she lives until old age and becomes a professor of medicine at Oxenfurt.

Unlike the tv series, the game rarely tries to retcon the novels.

 

[Lambach]

In the novels Dijkistra is pretty ruthless and doesn't allow anyone to stop him. If anything the game made him too nice that's why the final Dijkistra moment feels out of character.

The reason it feels out of character is because he seemed to have dropped about 60 IQ points and figured he and a handful of his goons stood a fighting chance in open combat against a legendary Witcher and two elite veteran fighters. Didn't even bother surrounding them with archers or nothing.

 

[Lord_Potato]

And then CDPR repeated the same mistake by giving the player multiple significant decisions to make in TW2 (siding with Roche or Iorveth, saving Triss or Foltest's kids, killing Saskia or letting her live), and then disregarding all of them again in TW3.

The thing about this in TW3 is that it mostly just doesn't address the consequences of these decisions rather than contradict them directly. Being railroaded as having sided with Roche is I think the only potential contradiction (and it also explains why Iorveth and Saskia are absent from the game). E.g. Triss gets saved either way, by you or Letho, and Foltest's kids are too young to have any part to play in the events of TW3 anyway so your choice here has no relevant impact on current events and is therefore simply not brought up (at least not that I remember).

Lots of other branching choices do get adequately addressed, though it's mostly just some flavor dialogue (other than Letho).

In one of the comic books it is revealed Saskia fought in defense of Vergen from Nilfgaard. Though I think her fate afterwards is not certain (most likely dead or captured).

They admitted the cut Iorveth from the game because lack of time.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

We know she lives until old age and becomes a professor of medicine at Oxenfurt.

I only read up to Baptism of Fire and the two compilations of short stories. Regardless, I'd have retconned it anyway. It's a nice bit of trivia but not terribly significant, and preventing the robbery of player agency is more important imo.