I agree with Gregski and Synvael. Playing a mage would be a refreshing experience. I bet REDs would come up with cool combat spells.
I don't want to play as mage, I don't want to choose class...The name of the game is "The Witcher", and Geralt is predifined character and this is final chapter of his story...And that is 8 books and 3 games...And I don't want to Yenn, Ciri, Emhyr, Odrin or Vesna steal that from him...If that is for short period of time or some specific region, that will push story forward-than fine-I am OK with that...
But If sole purpose of that is to cause reactions like "Wow, playing as sorcerer is cool", "Ciri should have her own skill tree", "Yenn should be main protagonist of some future game", "We want dwarf warrior in expansion pack" - than CDPR shoul start a new game series...
Still disappointed that the 2nd playable character won't be Dandelion. Him or nobody. At least playing with him would have been a creative, out of the box, unusual experience in amainstream RPG....
Or is it just another shenanigan to lure more Skyrim fans to play the game? People who only play fantasy games if they are able to play mages? Hm...
Yes, just red that in another thread..He said "significant"...What that means? 10% of time? 20%? 50%?
Someone's gonna steal the game from Geralt
Agreed, both of them are important in the books...We never met them in the games, though...Ciri and Yennefer are almost the main characters as well as Geralt.
Play as Yennefer would be great.
Even Batman Arkham City is named Batman, but we can play as Catwoman.
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I don't care about Batman...Never played it and I don't intend to
Well, if W3 is 100 hours long I wouldn't mind playing as Ciri for 15...Given the length of time that you played as other characters in TW2, I interpreted it as "more than five minutes".
Maybe I will...problem is I never liked superheroes with "man" in their namesDo it, it is a great action/adventure...if you like Batman, of course.
Main story is only about 50 hours long. And I guess we won't be able to use the 2nd character to explore the world freely...Well, if W3 is 100 hours long I wouldn't mind playing as Ciri for 15...
I was talking more about percentage-15% of playing as 2nd character is more than enoughMain story is only about 50 hours long. And I guess we won't be able to use the 2nd character to explore the world freely...
I was talking more about percentage-15% of playing as 2nd character is more than enough
Or playing as Dandelion while trying his luck with some succubus againWell, I would personally prefer less than 5%. Or being optional...
Well, I would personally prefer less than 5%. Or being optional...
Guys. Damien said it was someone in this trailer. That restricts it to being Ciri, Yennifer, Lambert, King Of The Wild Hunt, or that random peasant. @FILTHYKOALA should've mentioned this in his OP.
Yeah, I don't really expect it to be optional. You usually don't put a lot of effort into a certain feature and mechanics into optional features. Well, if anyone pulled sth off like that it's CDPR but I still doubt it. Hope it doesn't interfere with immersion and atmosphere too much though. I worry there is much potential to diappoint or even anger gamers (and especially fans of the series)...I don't know why, but I interpreted as being part of the main story, so not optional. But, given CDPR's past history, it also wouldn't surprise me if it only happens if certain choices are made.
Well, Hjalmar is now a grown up, Viking-like warrior from Skellige...And still in love with Cirilla, I am afraidSince Damien said to watch out for the character in the trailer, then it can't be these peeps:
- Yennefer
- Ciri
- Lambert
Because they're obviously in there. If it has to be someone hidden, then it's the guy in the thumbnail of the trailer. And he resembles a lot to Hjalmar:
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Hjalmar
I don't know anything about him but according to the wiki, he plays an important role in Skellige and "He was in love with Ciri." Maybe you play him in the Skellige island portion of the story?
Since Damien said to watch out for the character in the trailer, then it can't be these peeps:
- Yennefer
- Ciri
- Lambert
Because they're obviously in there. If it has to be someone hidden, then it's the guy in the thumbnail of the trailer. And he resembles a lot to Hjalmar:
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Hjalmar
I don't know anything about him but according to the wiki, he plays an important role in Skellige and "He was in love with Ciri." Maybe you play him in the Skellige island portion of the story?
Possibly your right. When i think of Skellige Isles, i think of ocean and ships... do they not look like ships burning in the background of that scene?