He has been boiled down to an essential Sagetness.

Skyrim did a pretty good job on diversity, even if dark elves are Nazi assholes mostly and gypsies = kitty cat men.

Oh, so I kind of made… the right choice? I guess?

I have a white husky mix dog who lays between the TV & me while I play, and he does NOT appreciate the wolf fights, or the whimpering noises they make when you put them down.

Definitely. Just a few days ago, I went swimming for treasure, forgot to bring a bow with (stupidly sold it because I wasn't using it), and thought i could just swim by the Drowners. They were true to their namesake and I flailed to death.

I like when games start me off weak, and let the leveling work so by the end I feel like a god. By the end of Deus Ex Human Revolution I was cutting dudes down left and right and blew away the final bosses in a moments.

I'm playing on teh second level of difficulty, and only once have I ever been stuck. What I did was figured out how to play the game better with what I had, and I learned my valuable lesson, and then moved on from there. It's no Bloodborne/Dark Souls at all.

I like that it weakens both you and your enemies compared to some series. You're weaker than you would be in Dragon Age, but your enemies are too. It makes fights more satisfying when you don't have to just keep spamming the same two attacks nad retreating to throw on a potion every minute - you just prepare smartly,…

You don't have to look at the bestiary on the middle difficulty, it just helps if you're having trouble with a mini-boss. It basically tells you which attacks work best on which beasts, and which oils you can use. It's all optional on medium, but the higher up you go in difficulty the more you need to use it.

Combat is way more satisfying in the Witcher, I think, and challenges you to use the space to your advantage. Plus, enemies don't take an insane amount of hits and drag battles out by minutes.

I liked Inquisition a lot but Witcher definitely knocks it out of the park. Inquisition might have been the best RPG of last year, but Witcher 3 is the best in the past 5.

I remember loving Skyrim, but honestly Witcher makes it look like a kid playing with legoes.

I rarely crack 10 hours in any RPG that's not made by Bioware or Bethesda, and I willingly throw myself into every single facet of this game. I actually get disappointed when I miss a side-quest. That's how good it is- even the "filler" in other games is tremendous here.

Aren't there like, 3 opportunities for Geralt to tell the witches that they don't look like the tapestry?

Oh, I killed the tree thing. now I feel bad.

Every plot with Yennifer seems to be "Are you coming along, Geralt, or not?"

From my experience with the third one only: Witchers and sorceresses tend to have sex a lot because of in-universe reasons - because of a sterility they share and a lack of STDs (at least on the surface) in this world. They both tend to have a laissez-faire attitude towards sex because of this (and their extended…

We do. All it requires is a plane ticket.

Varys doesn't KNOW he's safe though, as far as we know. That's why I feel bad for him. He's very likely frantically looking for Tyrion until word reaches him.

And whatever Tyrion's classy, witty version of "SUP BRA! THOUGHT I WAS DEAD HUH?" is.