Decisions in the Game: Being Geralt?

[kenhennen]

Decisions in the Game: Being Geralt?

en taro adun, maybe anyone brought this up already, but i didn't noticehere's the deal:throughout the game, you face some decisions, like - saving or forsaking Abigail, giving Alvin to Shani or Triss, fighting vampire mistresses or covering them, killing or saving Stryga, joining Skoya'Thaels or knights, and so on.most of those do not have a real difference in the game results - slight changes in quests, different characters on last level... BUTI have got the feeling that I am challenged not only to decide for myself, but to figure out what the REAL Geralt would do in every case....and I also get the feeling that the game rewards me for "lucky" choices, in a very inobtrusive way.it's best explained on example.taking Alvin to Shani or Triss? well if you take him to Shani, later you get to write a mail to her, and there's an option of starting it with "Dear Friend" (not sure if same translation in English version). this relates to actual thing Geralt did in Sapkovsky's books, in his mail to Yennifer... so I understand this choice was "Geraltic". ]:->there's a few more samples I've noticed;meanwhile I'm intrested, is this just my imagination, or did anyone think about this, too? ???it's also possible that there's an addition to the story, in the final dialogues, if you get all of these correctly...

 

[username_2073070]

Don´t know the Books and I´m not through the whole Game but I think you always have the Choice between Order and Chaos...Triss is a mysterious Mage and shani wishes a normal Live, the Family Thing....The Knights stand for Law and Order, the Scoia´tel fights for Revolution....So I chose like I would in real Life...chaotic Order ...don´t harm the Innocent but bring Hell over those who stand in your Way ]:->

 

[username_2071599]

I have read all the books, and I think that most answers to the choices presented in-game are actually quite "geralty". Maybe not in the most literal way, but I think that "the REAL Geralt" would always find some sort of reason to select one choice in preference to the other, especially since they are rarely very clear morality-wise or suchlike.The one choice that I think is really a "Geralt - Not Geralt" one is the one with the werewolf. Witchers don't kill sentient beasts, and Geralt has often stated this clearly and made an example (saving Nivellen, for instance, or Torque). Furthermore, witchers not only kill monsters - they also lift curses. So I think that "the REAL Geralt" would never, ever, kill the werewolf...The situation is a bit different with a striga, as he mentioned in the short story that sometimes curse cannot be lifted - and we have seen that Adda relapses.

 

[username_2071369]

You'd think that Adda's attack supposedly after the curse was lifted would have made him a bit more skeptic about not killing sentient monsters.Besides, i want my mutagens.

 

[Tracido]

The one choice that I think is really a "Geralt - Not Geralt" one is the one with the werewolf. Witchers don't kill sentient beasts, and Geralt has often stated this clearly and made an example (saving Nivellen, for instance, or Torque). Furthermore, witchers not only kill monsters - they also lift curses. So I think that "the REAL Geralt" would never, ever, kill the werewolf...

Too bad she doesn't give as near good a potion as wolf man. I didn't like killing Vincent but, the repressed anger inside me towards authority when those who cover up to save face and stay in the 'status quo' are the NORM drove me to it since he only showed his true nature when in Werewolf form (ok, so I did enjoy doing a reverse throat cut fatality, but still; felt a tad evil afterwards).