[SimeSublime]

I just carry around whatever looks cool, really. I only ever use the main two swords.

[Madam Corvax]

For your info, during Christmas/New Year break I finished the game. I liked it, the quests, dialogies and locationd and all, but the hero development sucks. I can only get ONE nice leather jacke tand I did not even bother to acquire the armour...On easy difficulty level all it took to oblitarate a whole roomful of creatures was a couple of Igni signs... I did not even bother to reach for my sword at times... Gosh it really sucked. I wasted so many talents to develop "fast" silver and steel skills and what not for absolutely nothing. All you needed to do is to improve your energy and develop Igni sign... and some silver skill, in case you encoutered effrits.

And potions well... in the end also I did not bother to produce more than the basic three..., Swallow, the one which improved the energy (don't know the English translation, it was Owl in Polish) and Withe Mead... Why bother with so many potions when you can only drink three at most? OK, Cat also was useful in some locations, but hell, what is gamma correction for?

Anyway, I am replaying it now to check other dialogue options, to chek if the gam is really non-linear as they claim. And the video at the end was really worth watchig, BTW

[SimeSublime]

Agreed. I finished it on Monday, and thought the ending was worth it. This is definately one of my favourite games. I played through choosing Shani and the Order, but I'll try a Triss Scoietal playthrough later. I need a bit of a rest from it at the moment though.

[Madam Corvax]

Funny, those were my choices too ... I thought Triss was a bit of double-crosser, but I am going to play her next time.

[SimeSublime]

Exactly. I felt that she was using me for her own ends, and as I haven't read the books to get much of a background on the sorceress', I didn't trust her. Plus, I thought she was annoyingly overbearing and found Shani to be much more agreeable.

[Madam Corvax]

You are right, from the books it could be guessed that none of the sorceress are to be trusted too much, since they all belong to the "fraternity" and put the good of their own "clique" above all else. ans Shani was very positive character, simple and unaffected girl.

BTW, what is the name of the bard, Geralt's fried, in English version? In Polish his name literally means the yellow flower "buttercup" and I am quite curious what did they do with this quite tricky translation.

[SimeSublime]

They went with "Dandelion", a similar type of flower.

[Madam Corvax]

Does that sound ok to you? I though maybe they chose Bluebell, to go with the flowe theme and connection to sound, but I have a feeling both those names sound a bit off in English...

[David-kyo]

Blue bell would have sounded too much like blue balls. I'm no native English speaker, but I think Dandelion was a good choice, it's just... gay enough to be a minstrel's name, but not TOO gay. :/

Deleted the game, by the way. I've grown tired of the loading screens. And the faffing about in the swamp. It's just... boring. I think I'll get back to good ol' Gothic 2.

This post has been edited by David-kyo: 15 January 2008 - 03:26 PM

[SimeSublime]

... Dandelion was a good choice, it's just... gay enough to be a minstrel's name, but not TOO gay....

Deleted the game, by the way. I've grown tired of the loading screens. And the faffing about in the swamp. It's just... boring. I think I'll get back to good ol' Gothic 2.

I agree with the name. It's rather flamboyant, but he is a minstrel. As for deleting it, your loss I guess. I've never played any of the Gothic games, but I picked up a copy of the third one for $20. I'll get around to playing it soon enough.

[David-kyo]

Well, I don't know about the third one, we tried playing it on my friend's new supercomputer and there were still instances when the framerate went down to about 5 fps. But the second one rocks, that is, if you have the determination to pass through the first part of the game where everything can kill you with ease.

To be on-topic, the combat is almost as quirky in that game as in The Witcher.

[Slade]

I have both the first and the second Gothic, I think (I may have deleted them), and I got completely lost in the first one to the point of being just plain bored from not knowing where to go or what to do after wandering around aimlessly and saving frequently to avoid the monsters that will devour you whole faster than you can blink if you get too close that hang out relatively close to where you start.

Maybe I'll get around to the Witcher at some point soon.

[Madam Corvax]

Gothic 3 is waiting on my shelf as well, together with Jade Empite, I hope to get round to playing it some time. David, really apart from loading and saving time, the game is absolutely worth playing so I agree with Sime that deleting Witcher is your loss. Swap is not half bad. Once you get past it, you meet some cool action afterwards.

BTW Sime, did you manage to turn the Striga into princess or is it totally impossible? I tried not to kill it and spend the night meditating in the dungeons, seemed to have no effect whatsoever, so I get tired and killed her.. But maybe there is a way to lift the spell.

Also, At the very beginning of the game I followed Vesemir to kill the monster, not Triss to the laboratory.. Seems to have rather interesting effect quite early in the game, I recommend to try it.

[Dr Lecter]

My PC isn't good enough to handle this game, looked pretty sweet. Tis a shame.

[SimeSublime]

BTW Sime, did you manage to turn the Striga into princess or is it totally impossible? I tried not to kill it and spend the night meditating in the dungeons, seemed to have no effect whatsoever, so I get tired and killed her.. But maybe there is a way to lift the spell.

The Striga thing is a pain, as it's not explained too well. When they say spend the night near her sarcophagus, they don't mean just in the crypt, but in that actual room with the thing. You have to wait until about midnight, then walk into her room. She'll attack you. I recommend downing a tawny owl and using aard to keep her off her feet. As you run around the room, the candles on the sarcophagus start going out. When the last one goes out, she reverts to human form. If you leave the room, the candles all relight. One good thing is, whilst you're in the room time goes faster, so you don't have to wait the full 30 minutes from 12:00 to 6:00.