so in the end he literally didn't do anything wrong

>>315302479
Why did he have to do that uncharacteristic and retarded tweest at the end?

I didn't want to kill him, he was a great character

But muh Broche and Thaler

How he should've dealt with Roche, Thaler and Ves
>Geralt, meet me at my office
>Roche and co are being eliminated right this second. We need a strong Redania to hold the north and a vassal Temeria compromises that
>Join me Geralt, support me in this

>have the choice to either join him, or kill him, fight through all the guards at the bathhouse, and have a timed sequence where geralt tries to figure out where Roche and co are
>get there in time and save them from the assassination

That's how it should've been

Instead Djikstra has like 4 guards with him against Geralt, Roche, Thaler and Ves. Was pretty dumb

I don't even know what he was going to do because I didn't take part in murdering Radovid like a retard.

>all is not perfectly dandy on our side, let's just kill the only guy who can stand against our biggest enemy!

>>315303169
Just kill the Temerian goons and disregard CDPR's attempt at yet another character assassination.

Dijkstra is objectively a better politician, administrator and frankly, a better power player than Roche, who is the Witcher World's "literally who". Dijkstra has an actual plan for Redania (which was the most powerful Northern kingdom before the war anyway), Roche is just blindedly patriotic, as if Temeria ever did anything for him.

Furthermore, I despise Ves and consider her death irrelevant enough. She's spiky and edgy and, let's be frank, butchy as shit. I don't need this and I don't need her, a special snowflake-turned-"commando" who got muh raped™. Yes, I didn't kill Henselt. He's more important politically, also just better written than Ves, he's just an enjoyable and possible character. Also god-tier in the books.

Thaler, oh God. His loss was sought by me actively. Thaler was always a gimmick character, relying solely on vulgarisms and stolen dialogue bits. In TW3 he got a little better, but at the core it's still Thaler. A little shit not worth spitting on.

In the end, the choice between Dijkstra's actually potent Redania and Roche's marionette Temeria was simple. Shame that Roche had to die, but he precisely *had* to die for the cause. He's that much of a simple character with no human emotions and aspirations, just ploughin' lilies and muh vengeance.

Dijkstra has more weight (hurr durr) and more depth to him.

>>315303523
>not helping the north get some beautiful nilfgardian order

pleb

>>315302479
>lets go melee on a witcher and foltests personal killing machine

>>315302479
He decided to try and kill Geralt, that was a pretty big mistake.

>>315303681
Mutti Merkel pls go.

>>315303595
edgy

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Dijkstra is probably one of the few characters who don't give a flying fuck about the whole Ciri gimmick. That alone is worth respect.

>>315303182
Honestly he shouldn't have told you the plan until after they had been quietly dealt with.

And through a note given to you by a messanger, and then you never see his ass again until he becomes ruler.

>>315303970
it's an old /kurwa/ general copypasta commonly known as "Dickstra"

>>315302479
He got keked by an owl.

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>>315303595
>Shame that Roche had to die, but he precisely *had* to die for the cause

>>315304184
at least he recognized best girl

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>Relies on Geralt breaking his Code to kill Radovid
>Relies on Geralt staying true to his Code to survive

>>315304306
>implying the Code exists

>>315302479
He did try to appeal to Geralt's reason and forgot that he does not give a flying fuck about the politics.

If you help him, you get freedom for everyone. Roche and Thaler were fools.

>>315303169
>uncharacteristic tweest
You have not read the books, did you?

>>315302479

thaler/broche>>>>>>>>>>this fat fuck.

>>315302479
I prefer to think about him more in the ,, those that we coudn't save'' cathegories. He did nothing wrong but stand for what he believed in, but so did I. Compromise is not an option sometimes.

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Fuck yea my decks just came in !! Can't wait to play that Monster deck yoo. Who else /gwent/ in here?

>>315306797
Wait, the 4 decks come in the box? i thought there were only 2 decks in the first expansion box.

>>315303523
LITERALLY INSANE

he was so butthurt by a woman that he decided to eliminate magic from the world
nevermind that it heals better than any medical science
nevermind that it is a huge source of power for soldiers
nevermind all the things that would be completely impossible without magic and all the conveniences it gives


it's the equivalent of if the IRL government turned around and said "we're destroying every computer and killing anyone who knows how to use them because hackers can use them too!"

can you even imagine how far back our society would be set? that's what radovid was doing
he would lose the war and then cripple the future of mankind because he was angry at a woman

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>Only missing a few cards from my gwent deck but have no idea what I need
>Finish all gwent related quests and run around looking to buy cards from any merchant I can find
>Still incomplete
>Go into NG+ expecting to keep my gwent deck
>tfw

>>315307229
There are I managed to get the other two on ebay. Some dude was selling them from his xbox collectors edition . But the expansion pack ones have like 14 more cards per deck and lvl 15 heroes so they are more OP.

>>315304306
What code exactly? Geralt cuts through a small batallion worth of people since the first game until the end of 3

>>315304793
>>315304306
Wasn't Witcher's Code some bullshit Geralt came up with so he can not get involved in certain things?

>>315306372
neither have you if you actually think djikstra would be retarded enough to get caught like he did

>>315308549
>What is Thaned?

>>315307473
What the fuck CDPR
How am I going to complete my shit if I can't buy a 200 euro fucking collector's edition that EVEN if I afforded, I wouldn't find anywhere at this stage?

>>315308891
I´m guessing/hoping the Temerian and Nilfgard Decks will be coming for Blood & Wine.

>>315308891
OH SHIT THERE'S ONE LEFT IN A GAMESTOP 200KM FROM WHERE I LIVE
And it's 140 Euros

Time to blow some money

>>315308661
not the guy you're replying to, but you'd think Dijkstra wouldn't be retarded to consider even POTENTIALLY crossing the witcher after Thanedd

especially considering he had more men with him on Thanedd

>>315306797
>By the time I had enough money to participate in the promotion, the deal ended.
>I had my money only one day after it ended.

Feels bad, man.

>>315309954
He crosses Geralts all the time in the books, even after Thanedd, I am pretty sure of that.
I am re-reading them at the moment, and I read the part where Geralt broke his leg maybe 4 hours ago.

>Tried to kill Thaler, Roche, and Ves right in front of Geralt instead of waiting until later
>Jumped into the fight himself with like 7 guards against Geralt and two Blue Stripes commandos

He was a fucking idiot. Should have just waited until Geralt left.

>>315308535
Yeah. It's literally just an excuse for him to say no to powerful people if he wants to.

>>315302479
>just want to defend my broche
>not kill dijkstra
>i had to kill him once i made that choice
that was kinda bullshit

>>315308535
Exactly.
Fell back on the 'code' whenever he was asked to do something he disagreed with.
He also pretends to be an emotionless mutant, but as we know that isn't the case at all.

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>>315302479
Obviously that's why I let him win.

>>315308535
Yep. That whole "Witchers don't hunt dragons" is just Geralt being a faggot. George was a real Witcher, he hunted dragons.

>>315310785
How is he pretending? Is this in the books?

>>315304064
He does in the books, but doesn't in the games because she's obviously out of reach since learning how to teleport.

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>>315302479
If you had saved Anais with Broche in W2, there should've been an option to bring the two factions together, with Anais on Redania's throne, Djikstra as a chancellor, and Roche as leader of special forces.. She's engaged to Radovid at the end on W2, and having a Temerian rule a Redanian Empire should've calmed Roche's Temerian autism. He was willing to serve Redania before.

>>315310230
Geralt and Djikstra never meet or have any interaction after Thanedd where Geralt's breaks his leg.

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>>315302479
>Djikstra... Men don't get metaphase
Holy shit I was dying. God him and Geralt were just below Ciri and Geralt when it came to my favorite character interactions.

>>315310230
>He crosses Geralts all the time in the books, even after Thanedd, I am pretty sure of that.

nah, they never meet again after Thanedd in the books
I'm re-reading them as well and I'm midway through lady of the lake; you get chapters with Dijkstra doing shit like visiting Esterad Thyssen to ask for money, or him hunting Vilgefortz, but his only involvement with Geralt after Thanedd was sending spies after him to report (and nothing else)

but even then I think he lost track of him after Brokilon

then soon after that Dijkstra himself gets targeted for assassination and is forced to flee and go into hiding

>>315311237
Yes Geralt in the books straight up admits that there is no witcher code and he made it up so he as an excuse to turn down contracts that he doesn't want to do and to stay out of political situations.

>>315311591
Don't the novels end with him going on a vacation to Zerrikania?

>>315311237
yeah witcher's are said to be stripped of all emotion to make it easier to do their job (no love, no fear, no hate)
and some witcher's believe it (geralt does too for a while in stories like "A shard of ice")

but it's a load of shit, most likely from "monstrum: a portrayal of witchers"

>>315311723
Yes him, Isengrim Faoiltiarna, and a man who escaped Stygga made a pact and went to Zerrikania to start a new life.

>>315307793
that's the point though - Dijkstra mocks Geralt for pretending there is a code earlier in the game and then he assumes he will hold onti this non-existent code

it just makes no fucking sense, the whole third act is a mess

>>315311403
what actually happens to Anais by the time of TW3? I honestly can't remember her even being brought up in conversation

>>315311791
Well they are kind of emotionally damaged due to basically growing up as child soldiers. Most of them get killed in the training and the rest usually die in the first year. The survivors are pretty battle-hardened in response to that.

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Time to remind you who really is the best character in the whole series.

>>315311935
Boreas Mun I think
guy who helped skellen track Ciri, but in the end has no faith in skellen and just let's geralt into vilgefortz' castle

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>>315311965
She's forgotten and never gets brought up outside of the conversation you can have with Voorhis.
>>315311939
While I love W3 I've got to agree. Djikstra, Eredin, Avallach, and the White Frost are all written pretty poorly in the third Act. I'm going to attribute that to having to meet a deadline, as Hearts of Stone proved they still have good writers.

>>315312030
That's not Iris

>>315311791
Oh I remember now in Witcher 1 the Professor was actually saying how the people who created Witchers failed to strip them of their emotions

Not sure though

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>>315312030
how u want ur eye senpai?

>>315302479
hi is an evil commie

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>>315312030
what did he mean by this?

>>315311979
Geralt had some serious emotional issues due to his childhood, he literally couldn't properly express how he felt towards Yen and tell her he loved her until Thanedd which was 20 years into their on again and off again relationship.

>>315312106
I think that's the name, it was brutal to read the section on the assault on Stygga. RIP Hansa.

>>315312254
I think Avallac'h pissed me off more than anything else
he was such a smug cunt in the books, and his only interests were for the benefit of the Alder elves/wild hunt, but the games make him out to be a good guy who wants to help

I'm honestly considering skipping his long, boring, annoying chats with ciri in the books, because it's just him lecturing her about how much better the elves are and talking in fucking riddles
I really wish the game had left him the way he was in the books...then let you kill the fuck out of him

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>>315311572

>>315312352
>the Professor
Funny how he should actually be dead by the time of Witcher 1, seeing how Geralt sliced him up in the second book.

>>315310887
>Ciri witcher end
>Retired witcher end

How hypocritical

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>>315312030
kind of looks like Marlon Brando in that angle

>>315312980
I'm fairly sure it wasn't the same guy, but I read the books a long time ago and don't remember clearly

>>315312610
>GG fag. i be back.

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>>315312610

>>315304793
>>315308535
>>315307793
>>315310531
>>315310785
>>315311057

I'm not saying the code exists you retards, just that Djikstra's plan is logically inconsistent.

Fucking redditors taking one part of a sentence and nitpicking it, ignoring the point.

>>315303595
Youre the worst friend ever.

>>315313092
Sure sounded like him, with the fancy glasses and way of speaking.

>>315313096
This basically.

>>315312669
I did enjoy Eredin's chats that he had with Ciri. I thought he was most interesting Aen Elle elf but yet cdpr barely used him in the third game and yeah Avallac'h becoming a good guy was weird.

>>315313037
How is it hypocritical?

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>>315312030
>if you complete HoS before isle of mists he tells you can ask him about ciri and he'll basically tell you how to avoid worst ending

ABSOLUTELY BASED

>>315312254
>Djikstra, Eredin, Avallach, and the White Frost are all written pretty poorly in the third Act. I'm going to attribute that to having to meet a deadline, as Hearts of Stone proved they still have good writers.

I'm fairly annoyed that for all the little details CDPR gets from the books they didn't even bother with the big ones like the White Frost or Eredin and Avallac'h. After playing through HoS and their side quests I'm convinced CDPR should stick with the stories without all the epic fantasy end of the world schtick and instead craft personal stories similar to the short story books. The series has always functioned a lot better as a postmodern take on fairy tales than try to be the next big thing in fantasy.

>>315314115
I was convinced I was the only person who hated the books after they moved away from the small, personal short stories into grand, sweeping fantasy novels.

Thank you.

>short stories are written better than the books
>expansion is written better than base game

P O T T E R Y ?
O
T
T
E
R
Y
?

>>315314115
Well W3 got the white frost and wild hunt out of the way, we won't have to deal with them again. A Witcher 4 with a bunch of short story arcs (like the hearts of stone story or the blood baron story) would be really cool. The biggest problem really is the playable character. I think Create-A-Character would ruin, but Ciri seems viable if they integrate the elder blood stuff well into the gameplay instead of having dashspam.

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>>315313142
Sorry I got you so mad anon :( I only wanted to ask a question :D
No need to lose your temper :)

>>315314437
From my anecdotes it seems the more popular opinion is that the short stories are better written, paced and memorable than the novel saga. Sapkowski and CDPR to an extent aren't bad writers, it's just that their skills and the universe they write in aren't very good for a grand fantasy story.

>>315310887
What a shit ending.

>>315315034
Theyll have to tone down her powers somehow if she is going to be the protagonist in a 4th game. Defeating the White Frost could've diminished her powers and they could write her Elder Powers into working similarly to Witcher senses somehow.

I dont see how her not undergoing the Trial of Grasses writes her out as a potential protagonist like everyone else does. They teased it very well with that corpse examining and even just letting you play as her that Id be surprised if she isnt the protagonist in TW4.

Ill be pissed if she doesnt get a cool easter egg quest line in CP2077 though. They built it up way too much with that first dialogue in the Isle of Mists and she was there for 6 months apparently.

Should I play witcher 2 before 3? I was playing through 3 and having fun until that sequence where the nigga asks me 20 questions on shit I dont understand obviously just to guilt me into knowing nothing of the story.

I only ask about 2 over the first because I'm a normie faggot who needs playable gameplay.

Will playing 2 without 1 ruin that game too?

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>>315316140
Just start with the first game sempai

>>315316140
Playing 2 or 3 before 1 will surely ruin it

Don't be a fag anon play them in order, trust me.
If you don't enjoy 1 even after chapter 2 (not even midway) then you can skip it.

>>315316140
>that sequence where the nigga asks me 20 questions on shit I dont understand obviously just to guilt me into knowing nothing of the story
Did you pick "emulate a save file"? iirc the point of that sequence is to establish what you did in TW2 in case you lost your save file.

>>315316035
When Ciri becomes the protagonist they lose out on part of the alchemy which is part of being a witcher. She can make blade oils alright but what about potions.

>Dijkstra fucks off as soon as he hears a mere mention of The Wild Hunt and gives you a piss poor amount of gold as a consolation prize
>Broche fights by your side against any foe to save your daughterfu

I'm a Witcher, I'm fucking neutral to politics so I'm going to help my friend when given the chance

>>315316548
Yeah this pretty much

>>315316548
All they need to explain anything with Ciri is LOL ELDERBLOOD. I know thats a blunt answer to your argument but I would trust CDPR to write it in and not make it seem stupid.

>>315309698
Most likely will be. They can't make xbox fags winners.
>>315309703
Fuck yeah u lucky af man that cloth map too. Just make sure its the XONE cuz it was the only one

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>>315313690
>Helping the mirror satan
>Not saving based Olgierd who did nothing wrong

>>315302479
>supposedly elite former spy, mastermind conspirator, experienced crime lord
>tries to take on the leader of the Temerian special forces (aka Captain Temeria), his right hand woman and a superhuman mutant killing machine (whose effectiveness he knows first hand) by himself with his crippled knee and like 3 random idiots

Bravo CDPR!

>>315316354
>>315316362
>>315316386
You might be right on the emulate a save file thing, and ill play 1 now, thanks guys.

>>315316548
Perhaps they can substitute potions with powerful magical spells? For all we know when she relinquished her sorcesses powers in the desert she just put up a mental block. Just have Yen remove it and now she as access to a wide variety of magical spells that can be used instead of potions.

>>315303169
This was probably one of the worst things about W3's plot.

There's absolutely no fucking way Dijkstra would EVER try taking Geralt on with some four armed chucklefucks. And even if he did, he wouldn't stick around to see the outcome.

>>315317720
A more robust magic system could easily replace the potions AND signs if it was deep enough. It would be a nice change in pace gameplay wise after 3 games of the sign system. CDPR changed how those worked for the games and nobody batted an eye. Geralt almost never used them in the books.

>>315316917
That faggot sacrificed his own brother to a fucking demon. He put money and a women before his own loyal blood. Fuck him.

>>315316917
>Literally sold his soul for power
>Treated his wife so badly she just straight up died

I'm glad he turned into a skeleton

>>315318813
>for power

He did it so he and Iris could stay together. He only treated her that way because O'Dimm turned his heart to stone.

Blood and Wine better take place after the main quest is over, that way they can incorporate some more Ciri into it.

I bet we'll finally meet Regis, maybe Iorveth as well.

>>315310380

Djikstra was definitely ruined by that ending. I wonder if CDPROJEKT will ever go back and alter it

>>315302479
>I'm too fucking dumb to understand what this character did wrong so I'll just act like they did nothing wrong in the first place

When will this meme end?

>>315306797
monster deck sucked dick when the CPU used it. The only thing you had to do is play with your dick till it popped all its melee spam units. Then use frost to cockblock it

>>315316035
>Elder Powers into working similarly to Witcher senses somehow.

Not really necessary, the first 2 games had no witcher senses and it's a heavily criticized mechanic in W3. I'd imagine the whole system gets reworked.

>>315316548
Surely there are non-witcher's potions for healing and stuff. The crazier potions like Blizzard would have to be replaced by spells. More gameplay mechanics would be cool and CDPR has no problem making them up like bombs and oils.

>>315322145
>Surely there are non-witcher's potions for healing and stuff.
Nope.

>>315313690
Only option I can understand picking. After seeing what happens to people who deal with O'Dimm why the fuck would you ask for anything else?

>>315314437
What? I thought everyone hated the Saga with its focus on Ciri, compared to the short stories. Sapowski only wrote the Saga because people pestered him too, and it shows that his heart really wasn't into it.
>>315315034
They're probably going to want to make their own IP. How long do they even have the rights anyway? I doubt it's forever.

>>315315612
>Not liking happy endings
>Wanting muh bitter sweetness
ME3 tried to force it and that shit sucked. Fuck the developers locking out the option of a happy ending.

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>>315316917
>Hurting Iris
Hope the faggot roasts in hell.

>>315324135
I still saw that option as asking for something, so chose nothing instead