If you choose not to play dice, fist fight, or have sex with the women, are you missing out on any substantiative quests or content (no spoilers please)? Do some worthwhile conversation paths open up if you partake in these mini-games?
Everytime you advance in dice you gain experience likewise when you defeat the fist fighting champ of each chapter. If you don't want to have sex with women you miss nothing but the card. There is a side quest in Act 4 where you have to sleep "job-related" with a woman to proceed in the game.
It is not in act 4 it's in act 3. You can advance in the quest even if you don't sleep with celina.In act 3 there is "blue eyes" that need to lay with a woman.
Sure... Act 3... I always have a problem with numbers and counting ;D
well even if i am a girl, i like to watch the cards and do those miniquests. It's another funny challange. But i think it should be something for us too.What about a sexy Geralt for us? The CD Projekt should think about in the next version.... 
Hi everyone, i got a problem with fist fight at Act 2. i was doing good at Act 1 ,actually some how mastered it . But in Act 2, i cant get Geralt to hit the timing i want and i found out thats a triangular pink cursor btm. May be i added the skill 'BRAWL' . Can someone teach me how to attack...tried many fights and loses as hes not hitting most of the time. Cant win anyone in Act 2 inn =( . Pls assist me guys . thank you all . THE WITCHER ROCKs
I think there are 2 power-ups involving fist fighting (maybe). One of them gives you a power bar, similar to powering up your Signs and the other gives you combos (which he usually does on his own.)I never had much trouble with fighting, but I did notice later on some of the fighter (esp. the bosses) would start dodging a bit. Basically just do what you've been doing. When you see the fist icon, left click. When you see the other icon, right click and hold until they finish swinging and have missed you.You can try holding the left mouse button and powering up your hits also if you've unlocked that talent. If you time it right, Geralt will often throw a couple punches and maybe a kick or two.I dunno what else there is, sorry!
Without trying to spoil anything- From what I understand- if you become the ultimate fistfighting champion in Act 5, you get an item which can be given to another character as part of a very elaborate quest which you can get in Act 3 that lasts to (Act 5?) if you finish it, it will net you one of, if not the, best Steel Swords in the game.I didnt finish the dice game all the way through my first time playing, so I don't know what you end up getting from that.
He sleeps in the Hairy Bear Inn were the fighters are - if you try waking him he says "come back in the morning" - I've never been in the Hairy Bear when he isn't there. Trying to Zoltan (now there's a name that rings bells but can't think from where) after first meeting him in the Hairy Bear is hard cos he just goes a wanderingsaidean said:
For me playing dice and fist fighting was a good way for Geralt to get cash when he was short on cash (which was most of the time when I played him) Also as I recall beating the top fighters you get choice of some item or cash. Winning some drinking contest gets Geralt items. There were some funny conversations with women that Geralt flirts with and who flirt with him.
woootNimue said:
Did I miss something? I didn't receive any special sword or other special item for beating all fistfight champs. You can get a special reward (silver or steel sword) if you get all trophies in the game and favour Zahin Smartz with all teeth he wanted. Or... maybe there was a special fistfighting reward as well and it was so lousy that I simply forgot ;DIf you give the teeth to Zahin you'll receive a special gift (it's surprise! )The special sword (the Devil or whatever it's called) you receive from Velerad if you save Adda instead of killing her. It's a pretty good sword but it's a pity you received so in late in the game so you cannot have enough fun in kicking ass! :'(
)The special sword (the Devil or whatever it's called) you receive from Velerad if you save Adda instead of killing her. It's a pretty good sword but it's a pity you received so in late in the game so you cannot have enough fun in kicking ass! :'(It take a bit of timing in Act 2 If you have the power up and you see the pink bar when it light up get loose it took me a while in the first time around to get the timing also helps if you block and move around when the fighter swings at you Hope that helps
there is also as just one example a couple of side-quests that can (optionaly) end up with you sleeping with an NPC. take for example SPOILER WARNING>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the quest you can get in act 2 from your average "Thug" who lives in the house acrost from the warehouse you meet vincent in. go in the house and talk to the thug. he will give you a "haunted house" quest for another house in the slums area. when you go into the house and save the half-elf girl inside the quest will finish.( this point is the offical end of the quest but it can be continued as follows) if you speak to the half-elf girl she will tell you to meet her at another house (strait in front of vivaldies house). if you go to that house and speak to her and tell here the right things she will sleep with you.there are a couple of these (Vesna Hood in act 1) where you can get exp for completing the quest and can then sleep with the quest NPC if you so choose but that part is always optional and usualy requires you to bring them a specific object or say certain things to them.
In my opinion not playing the game to it's fullest is missing out on content. I try to do everything just so I don't miss out on various little goodies here and there.There are some quests (well one for sure that I know of) where a final reward can be sex, or not. The decision is entirely up to you. I know I screwed up in the beginning and didn't play dice with enough people, so I am stuck playing novices in act 3. It can be a good way to make some cash.I guess I don't feel the minigames are there as much to break up the tedium as in some games. I think the mini-games are part of the storyline more than time wasters. Sure you could go out of your way to get with every woman in the game, or you could just take what is presented. I think the minigames add another element of challenge and fun personally.
I would have to agree on the mini-games being part of the storyline. I roleplay very intensively through the game, and IMO the mini-games add realism: Geralt may be a professional monster killer, but its just a job to him, but he is always broke, scrounging for money, gambling for both fun and money, getting drunk with friends and just people he meets in bars, partying, hitting on anything in a skirt, worrying about if his job will always be relevant, getting in fights (and fighting for money, he's not high class type like some of the folk that hire him out for merc jobs, and he needs the money), hanging out and chewing the fat with people over a game of dice .... its just so immersive. And if you skip the mini-games, you also miss out on some of the most hilarious dialogues....damoose79 said: