Poll: Favorite TW1 Cutscene

[Etainne]

sorry Cory- this one is my second favorite if you need a list agon swims up, as Geralt gets ready to face him- you know me, the lady of the lake makes me dive for kleenex every time

 

[Nejat_Sari]

These are my favorites. Also, I love the small cutscene at the beginning of Act 4, when the villagers of Murky Waters are watching the ancient, underwater Vodyanoy city appearing in the lake just as Geralt teleports to the shore.

I had forgotten about this one. I can't honestly say it was one of my favourites, but I did think it was very beautiful. Not sure how many people played or remember Final Fantasy X, but this scene always reminds me of seeing the moonflow for the first time.

As for my favourite, I have to categorically go with Leo's funeral. One thing I love about the witchers more than anything is their place in the world, how they're hated and distrusted by just about everyone but always called for when needed, they're the quintessential outsiders. I loved in the game how they took it further than just racial differences (nonhumans seeing them all as humans and humans seeing them all as mutant freaks) with the Professor's comment about how they are essentially relics of a bygone era. Regarding Leo's funeral, Vesemir having just told Geralt they're abandoning Kaer Morhen, the final witcher apprentice dying, and the fact that - aside from Berengar - these are probably the last four witchers in the world, the whole scene is like their swan song to me, the last act of a dying breed.

 

[GuyNwah]

I had forgotten about this one. I can't honestly say it was one of my favourites, but I did think it was very beautiful. Not sure how many people played or remember Final Fantasy X, but this scene always reminds me of seeing the moonflow for the first time.

As for my favourite, I have to categorically go with Leo's funeral. One thing I love about the witchers more than anything is their place in the world, how they're hated and distrusted by just about everyone but always called for when needed, they're the quintessential outsiders. I loved in the game how they took it further than just racial differences (nonhumans seeing them all as humans and humans seeing them all as mutant freaks) with the Professor's comment about how they are essentially relics of a bygone era. Regarding Leo's funeral, Vesemir having just told Geralt they're abandoning Kaer Morhen, the final witcher apprentice dying, and the fact that - aside from Berengar - these are probably the last four witchers in the world, the whole scene is like their swan song to me, the last act of a dying breed.

It is a very moving scene. It may indeed be the last time the remaining Witchers of the Wolf school are together. Triss has a wonderful line toward the end, "No goodbyes. I'll cry, and there's nothing more pathetic than a sorceress in tears."

 

[Corylea.723]

Triss has a wonderful line toward the end, "No goodbyes. I'll cry, and there's nothing more pathetic than a sorceress in tears."

That IS a good line, though I'm amazed that they redid it for the EE. I thought the actress nailed that line the first time around, and then for the EE, they had her re-record it so that she spat it out as quickly as possible, without the emotion that was in it the first time around.

Every time I re-play the Prologue (which I've had to play a lot, what with testing various mods), I think that I should make my own version of the Prologue dialogues, one that preserves the nastier, more sarcastic Lambert from the original version and the good voicings of many lines Triss had that were redone for no reason I can see (her "I mean the laboratory, and you know it" was also MUCH better in the original) while still preserving the good changes that the EE made, like having Vesemir call Triss something other than "babe." But then I figure it would take a long time to make, and hardly anyone would want it, so I don't.

Still, those of you who've only ever played the EE version of TW1 might want to experience the original version of Lambert, if you ever get access to the original version of TW1.