I'm still neutral, I still love both. It's not my fault Geralt is a masochist! (;
Sapkowski's versions of the characters are so much more complex because they can be, there is only one way through it, the way he wrote it, but when you play it no matter how hard you may resist sometimes you'll have your bias' as to what 'Geralt would do' but it turns out that that isn't what he would have done in the books.
100% faithful fiction - game translations will never happen, its the small errors that CDPR made that add up, they didn't completely mess anyone up entirely *cough Apart from Dandelion cough*
I now have some respite now that my OCD about Triss' game appearance is being being fixed, which is a HUGE thing to me.. That's the one design decision I really hold against CDPR, Triss' appearance was entirely wrong (Yenna has a bit of a small nose for someone who supposedly had 'a prodominant nose' but I can forgive that) :x
I am not talking about Geralt here
That was not at the core of my post
Rather the other characters. And that, is something I KNOW CDPR can do. I dont have many problems with what Geralt can and cant do. My entire post is about other characters, in this case Ciri, Yen and Triss.
There was a way. As I have seen it happen in game. As well as other, unique but hard to do things...
I know it is off topic but I wonder what he thinks about a Ciri-Eredin relationship, I just read a fan-fic that was stablishing a relationship were the two were bound by destiny, I had to stop as soon as I read how they smiled at each other can't go any further for now...
Yeah you can still love both no problem - the thing is that if we are talking about books and Geralt in the books - there is only one woman he truly loved in the saga.
Yeah you can still love both no problem - the thing is that if we are talking about books and Geralt in the books - there is only one woman he truly loved in the saga.
That's why I am on a third playthrough and still haven't stayed with Triss - She knows what Yenna means to Geralt and is willing to hide her feelings towards him to try make it easier on him, admittedly not very well.
Another reason why I, personally, love Triss - But Geralt didn't sell his soul for her - He may now that he has had a real relationship in the games timeline with Triss, but before when she had been a fling and a friend I am not so sure, maybe just for the sake of being selfless.
My love of Triss and Yen I distance when I play the game - It's Geralt's story, and his true soulmate is Yen, but I personally think that if he truly ever wanted a quiet life it's not going to be with Yenna, she's too unpredictable, but that's just another thing he loves about her!
I'll answer with the spoiler tag in case anyone is reading it at the moment
In the fanfic, the writer doesn't say that it is their fate to be together, but he says that it is Eredin's destiny to capture her. And Avallac'h believes that he (he meaning Eredin) is the one ment for Ciri, not Galahad...
Just remember, as I've said multiple times now, back on like day 1 of the poll there was some definite dupe voting shenanigans, and I'm tempted to say there's been more in the last ~12 hours whilst I was asleep, but I can't prove that one, unlike the first instance which I know for a fact.
So I still don't really think the poll is indicative of much, and I don't think a Triss/Yen poll ever will be for a long while with people using dummy accounts to vote.
However the points you've made are more sort of common sense general deductions anyway, and have kicked off some kind of discussion, regardless of the poll. So carry on, and again folks, you're welcome to compare Triss/Yen or discuss both separately, that's the point of the thread, but there's going to be little tolerance for anything flambaity/insults/hostility etc.
Even for book readers, so much depends on personal preferences. The question out of the books is how does the reader see Yen at the end- the way Geralt sees her or the way other characters like Dandelion see her? I use Dandelion as an example because he dislikes Yen in the early stories (and let's be honest, she's not very likeable until Blood of Elves), but ends up respecting and understanding Yen later on. His respect doesn't mean he thinks she's "the one" for Geralt, however, and he is quite content to see Geralt with someone else (Shani or Fringilla for example).
I have read the books a while ago, so I do not remember everything, but I remember Geralt having adventures with several other women in the books. so that is Nothing new. I did not remember Yennifer being so bossy but, that's probably me.
Aside from that, there is the business of the rose of rememberance in TW2, when you give it to Triss, and it is supposed to mean eternal love. Having read other threads explaining all a bit more, I understand better the way Yen acts in the game. I think however that playing the previous two game tend to push you owards Triss a lot more.
There is also the Last Wish quest in TW3, which in my case was the last nail in the coffin. But even then, I felt the pain.
Anyways, I think CDPR did a rather fine job after all, because the characters came alive to me in a way no other video game did it for me. The only one that came close being Dragon Age. Heck, this is the first time I spend time posting on a video game forum for starters.
It is probably not true overall for the more than 6 million people that bought the game, but the small sampling of about 100 that voted here is likely biased towards book readers. I also suspect that the dupe accounts mainly targeted the "I read the books..." options, I mean, if they are cheating, why not also make their opinion look more authoritative ? Even on the forum, it looks odd that such large majority of posters would read the books before any of the games. I guess it would have been a better idea to create a public poll where it is visible who voted on what.
I wonder: If CDPR have statistic about people choices in games...like Bioware did in ME:3. For example: What percentage of players chose Cerys as a queen of Skellige or how many people chose Radovid over Emhyr and etc.
I wonder: If CDPR have statistic about people choices in games...like Bioware did in ME:3. For example: What percentage of players chose Cerys as a queen of Skellige or how many people chose Redovid over Emhyr and etc.
Not sure about that, but it would have been easy by creating an achievement for each choice that is unlocked at the ending. Without that, I do not know how they could collect the data. Although some other games like this one do collect a lot of statistics, it does not look like The Witcher 3 is doing anything like that. And the developers may not even consider this kind of information important.
1. Well since we're on a gaming forum, that's sort of a weird expectation to have, although a positive one. What you need to keep in mind when having such an expectation is that people are usually not going to admit they didn't read the books. Why? Because we're on the internet. This is a waifu war. The clash of favouritism. Triss that and Yennefer that. As much as I hate to say it: yes, people who believe Geralt can lead a happy life with Yennefer are mostly book readers. People who believe Geralt can lead a happy life with Triss commonly didn't read the last two books (they're not translated into english yet). Sometimes they've only read the short stories and I can easily see it in this thread. Peace, no submission,
a quiet life etc. All comments of this sort are more or less targeting short story Yennefer, where she could definitely be
a bitch at times. She had an emotional dysfunction and was infertile, frankly she didn't enjoy nor believe in life that much. Which reflected on her attitude and approach towards a relationship - she wasn't a woman you could just say no to. If you
didn't want to get hurt lol. She did what she believed was right and that was the end of it. There wasn't much peace, nor mutual recognition for poor Geralt. True that. It came later in the pentalogy. They both had to sacrifice a lot, even endure torture to understand what they really have in each other. A long road with many obstacles, such was their Djinn story. Nevertheless, in the end there was mutual recognition and peace for sure. No, I don't mean the "togetherforeverinheaven" ending, no. Already in Time of Contempt, Chapter Three. That was the first time when they turned their relationship into mutual experience. Only thanks to Ciri. The very first step. Sapkowski never wrote about Triss this way, she didn't share such moments with Geralt. And therefore some people truly believe that claiming they have read the books gives their arguments more value. I've read the books and I still chose Triss, but I like Yennefer too > I didn't read the books and chose Triss. This is just how it is and therefore the poll will be flawed from the very beggining. Honesty is a rare policy, especially on the internet mate. I don't mind to offend anyone. Just stating some facts based on my personal experience.
2. That's a very reasonable assumption. Again, we're on a gaming forum, discussing The Witcher 3 - a game. Actually the first game where Yennefer and Ciri have been introduced - Geralt's family. Triss was already in two previous games prior to that, as a main love interest. I'm not even going to get started on Shani stuff and the infamous transition from TW1 relationship with Shani into TW2 bed adventures with Triss in a tent. What's even worse though - TW2 turns out to have only one major love interest - Triss. The concept wouldn't be so boring, if it didn't turn out to be "save the princess" one. But yeah, such is the popularity of Triss in the games. She was there, all the time. Since the day one. And on the game forums she's going to be equally popular as Yennefer, if not more. I don't know how much dupe voting affected the poll, it's very hard to keep track of all the fake accounts. But my idea would be more of a 60/40 in the favour of Triss. We also need to keep in mind that Yennefer fans - mostly book readers (including me) are sometimes more eager to discuss than necessary, which would partially explain why we might not seem as such a minority. But well, I know that there are many people who played the games and romanced Triss (and hopefully liked the series so much that they're planning to read
the books) and don't even know about the forums. Which wouldn't be so common for book readers, since most of them noticed narrative flaws and wanted to discuss them (Yen and Ciri relationship for example). On the other hand, there were still plenty Triss fans who discussed the romance flaws, so I suppose the situation is pretty even on this field as well. Although I daresay, as for taking a part on the forum goes, it would be 60/40 in favour of Yennefer in this case. Which leaves you with a nice 50/50 after all, although with many Triss fans not even being registred and just enjoying the game. So in the long run, Triss is going to be more popular on The Witcher 3 forum.
3. Not much left to add. My previous two points hopefully merge well enough to answer this point adequately. Either way, again a good assumption you've made. Reasonable and much to be expected.
This partially applies to your first hypothesis as well.
Hypothesis 1 It is the less interesting. Naturally the people who read and post on the forums are more likely to be hardcore fans of The Witcher and Hardcore fans tend to consume every piece of content related to the brand they love.
Actually I won't say this is 'the less interesting' and definitely not the least interesting one. Honestly, you gave it a pretty decent start. A solid and good point to move from... People posting in this subforum do tend to care about the narrative
a lot indeed. There's a countless amount of great threads that address narrative flaws and then just general discussions about the characters from the witcher universe. Should it be people who are with CDPR from the early days and TW1, or people who joined later with TW2, or even TW3. It's been 4 months since the release of the last game. Time flies fucking fast, wow. I guess you could consider the fresh fans pretty hardcore already, they have surely finished one more game from the series or touched some of A. Sapkowski's work since then. CDPR made The Witcher a much more recognized brand, mainly worldwide and in USA so to speak. It's kind of sad that the english translations of the last two books from
the pentalogy aren't coming soon, but then again the short stories and the first three books are awesome already and it's worth the wait after all (but I have to admit - 2017 for Lady of the Lake sounds... far away). There are also some hardcore fans like you've mentioned - people who had read all 7 [8] books (perhaps multiple times) and had finished all 3 games too (perhaps multiple times). There are people who are buying The Witcher merchandise too, crazy stuff. Fan clubs and meet ups, pretty cool. All in all, people who would visit this thread of yours in particular and share their opinion (and vote) would tend to have a pretty deep insight of the series and would usually be very dedicated fans (the games and books are once upon a lifetime experience, you have to give them that). It's pretty sad that the poll was fucked rather fast, but such is life.
You can catch a lot just from the comments, I suppose they are the real votes, not the duped pol... Juicy mix of opinions.
Hypothesis 2 I expected Triss to be more popular (50 votes against 44 so far... not a big difference though) for a simple reason. Because she ego-strokes Geralt, while Yennefer does not. I don't want to go too deep into this because I don't want to start a flame war, but Ego-Strokes are a proven factor that drives player engagement and attachment. For examples of ego strokes please refer to the Enchanter lines of dialogue in Diablo III.
Now this is where it starts to get interesting, doesn't it? "I don't want to start a flame war" pretty much triggers the flame war, these are exactly the magical words required to make the spell work. You're quite lucky though - we already had that shit in August and we're past that. Worshipping war number godknowswhat (probably around 200), the red one versus the raven (crow would be more fitting though). My point being: this thread and voting is rather calm, and honestly, it's a huge relief to witness this. A big fucking relief. All the fans of all the characters, all discussing together in one thread for almost hundred posts without a massive moderation being required. No infraction and ban waves. That's a big step forward, more than some people might realize. Say one thing about Wasaabii28, say he's mildly amused. The situation used to be... way worse. If you opened a thread openly discussing Triss and Yennefer (oh boy, certainly a ballsy move) let's say a month or two ago, it would probably get locked within 24 hours with some people being banned (me included, most likely for sure, slav temper that is). Direct or indirect insults, plenty of sarcasm, but mostly a lot of off topic and an endless arguing over
a pair of tits (okay there's more to it than just that, but you get it). Ever since TW3 was released, this forum has been in sort of a Trojan war. People arguing over a woman (or two of them) - how base might that seem right? But I suppose it's
a working trope, it's been a working one for hundreds of generations. Our genes are to be blamed, not us. Trust me (don't). I know (I don't). As you probably already figured out, it ended up with forum more or less dying for a short period of time. Massive lockdown of character threads, not just Triss and Yennefer ones... Because when these two got locked, people would just transition their quarrels into the good old Triss vs Yennefer topic, if that got locked, Ciri topic would be the new destination and so forth. This is pretty much the first "Triss vs Yen" topic that I see working since then. Mild amusement it is indeed. But you've brought up a touchy topic. A cliché. I love and hate discussing it. Damn. Well, let's get to it then.
An ego-stroke. Supposedly proven to be a driving factor for player engagement and attachment. Interesting observation. The sad part: you're right. The good news: it's not supposed to be like that. Triss is just designed that way, in the games, mainly in The Witcher 3. Very much like "the infinite fight for a woman", this is also a trope, and very close to the one I've just mentioned. A working trope, a wet dream of weak men for centuries. Instead of wasting even more text than I already did on explaining my point, I'd rather dare to share some quotes of my not much older and not much wiser pal Vilgefortz.
‘Do you think it is possible to bind a woman to your will? I am, of course, talking about real women, not girls. Is it possible to rule over a real woman? Conquer her? Force her to yield to you? And if so, then how? Answer me.’
‘You understand,’ said Vilgefortz at last. ‘And it seems like you have always understood. So you will also understand that once the concept of will and subjugation, of domination and submission, of male master and female slave, is gone and forgotten, only then we can truly achieve unity. An attachment and a bond. Mutual diffusion. And once we achieve this, death will no longer matter.’
***
‘I ran away to the end of the world. And there, at the end of the world I met a woman. A sorceress.’ I did not know how to handle the feelings I harboured towards the woman. Neither did I understand her feelings as she tried to help me. I left. Because she was promiscuous, arrogant, angry, numb and cold. Because she was impossible to dominate and her dominance was humiliating.’
‘I left because I knew she cared about me just because of my intelligence, personality and this fascinating mystery blurred the fact that I wasn’t a sorcerer. She gave the favour of more than one night only to the sorcerers...
I left because... Because she was like my mother. Suddenly I realized that what I felt for her was not love but a feeling far more complicated, powerful but difficult to identify. A mixture of fear, anger, rage, remorse and the need for atonement, guilt, loss and damage, a perverse need for suffering and punishment. What I felt for this woman was hate.’
‘I left because I could not live with the emptiness which has surrounded me. I suddenly realized that this is not the lack of the woman that was causing the void, but the lack of what I was feeling. A paradox right? I think you can guess the rest. I became a sorcerer. Out of hatred. I realized how stupid I was. I mistook the stars reflected on the surface of a pond for the sky at a night time.’
Notorious trope indeed. Something that's been driving us crazy for ages. The concept of dominance and submission. And the black and white, so to speak. Do you see what I'm trying to say? The two major romance options, love interests, filthy heathens, sorceresses, however are they called, are designed just within the expectations of this indelicacy. Whether this was the intention of the writers or not, I won't even dare to ask. Deep inside I know my answer. It's their legacy after all, isn't it? The whole point of The Witcher 3. Free and open world. Your decisions. Diversity of options. Freedom of choice. Dominance and submission. Before I get way too deep into this, I have to ask myself: is it really so linear? This isn't what the author originally meant to say, or at least from my understanding. Warning: I'm going to dive into the books now!
You see, Triss and Yennefer aren't really like that in the books, not at all. Alright, okay. They might've possessed some
of these personality traits, but that's in the past. Triss isn't the "yes-girl" and Yennefer isn't the "no-woman". There's a lot more to their character development than just that, and it took hundreds and hundreds of pages to lay that out there haha. In TW3, we see two simplified versions for the mainstream. Triss lacks her character refinement from Lady of the Lake Chapter Twelve. She's not the "attention pls" girl anymore. She's past that point. She's a woman on her search for dignity. Whether or not was that sudden gain of maturity called for with a solid background, or more or less just a plot tool (even deus ex machina perhaps?) - it's still what the author wanted to say and so he did. He spoke his mind and that's a clear fact. Yennefer on the other hand, completely lacks her purpose (which is motherhood, yes). Without it, she's more or less just a dumbed down sex tool for the masses, very much like Triss herself. Yeah, they both have some quests and help you with advancing the plot a little bit, their characters are still very lackluster though. Again, it's extremely hard to picture this in a video game of this format, so we should be glad for what we have. But can we really be happy with it though? Simplification isn't always the best possible approach when it comes down to sexuality, but it seems like TW2 wasn't enough of a lesson (it's a repeated mistake honestly). You can see that from numerous posts in this thread, but also just from the reactions of the player base in general. People who romanced Triss refer to Yennefer as the "cold manipulative bitch" and people who romanced Yennefer refer to Triss as the "naive stupid girl". The very much concept of submission and dominance itself. The purpose of Yennefer is lacking because of simplification - her relationship with Ciri. That's what her character has been driven with and affected by the most. If you remove that, she loses her meaning and role intended by the author of her character. Her path is worthless, her other personality traits and flaws are pointless. The refinement Triss is lacking - her maturity. She isn't the woman who would play hurt and seek Geralt's attention, and then suddenly open her legs in a blink of an eye as he says the magic words. She's not desperate anymore. She used to be until the very last chapter of the very last book. Author decided to close her fate this way, but it gets ignored, just like the only purpose of the crow. Triss moved way past that point already, it's what redefined her character and made her somewhat respectable, despite all the mental scars. Every obstacle made that self-realization possible though, and yes, that also includes her previous immaturity and clinginess. It's what makes her character believable and very easy to sympathize with - she's just like every one of us. We fall, but we get up. We make a mistake, but we fix it. The whole purpose and symbol behind her story in the saga written by Andrzej Sapkowski was self-awareness. And the search for it. That last scene was the result of her crusade, the final destination. Yennefer "dying for Geralt" and Triss was just standing there, motionless. The reign of Yennefer is over, her purpose is fulfilled, she found true love and a daughter. Triss is the next generation and finally the child who matured after a very difficult puberty. The first big step on a new and arduous path, her character remains open, seeking for its purpose, while Yennefer already found hers. Some people might dislike the concept, but Sapkowski pretty much pictured the passing of generations, one onto another. Triss is finally respectable and we see the true quality and potential of her character - after she's finally able to deal with her demons - something which took Yennefer her whole life. That's the contrast between them and the beauty of the moment. Triss' time is only about to come. Did TW3 do her justice? Not at all in my opinion, she's the same old clinngy and insecure girl. But then again I'm a yenfag, so what do I know. Seriously though, the story of Triss is very easy to relate with. We all search our purpose. Triss was originally obsessed with Geralt, but eventually she matures, understands and distances herself - very visible in the last scene. In the books, she never had the chance, this was her personal search for truth and self-esteem.
Therefore I refuse to work with The Witcher 3 misconception of Triss being the "ego-stroke". That's just an insult to her character development, which wasn't easy. It was painful. I don't care about her TW3 portrayal. Don't touch my Triss!
Hypothesis 3 This one is the most tricky because there are reasons to believe in my hypothesis and reason to think it is wrong. Of course Yennefer is a bit too cold and bossy in TW3, moreover the first 2 games build up the relationship between Triss and Geralt, while barely mentioning Yen. This of course drives players that didn't read the books to choose the redhead rather than the brunette. We need to consider another fact though: in TW3 the default relationship is the one between Geralt and Yen. If a player decides to go with the flow he has to choose Yen. That's why I was curious about this particular hypotesis. I wanted to see how many players had the "strength" to go against the default plot.
I don't have much to add lol. You pretty much nailed it. She's a bit too cold and bossy, which along with the progress of first two games doesn't help with decision making at all. Now which plot is default though? That's the question, also my only sort of an objection with your third hypothesis. Because the thing is, the first real introduction of Yennefer and Geralt comes in Skellige. White Orchard and Vizima is naught but a shallow prelude, where you get to see the "cold and bossy" and not the "loving and caring". Then you have to go through whole Velen, Oxenfurt and Novigrad. Baron and The Crones. Triss. I mean of course you can head to Skellige sooner, but the game just wasn't designed this way and so 99% of the players meet Triss before they "truly" meet Yennefer. What's that in average? Around 80 hours? Or even over a hundred for dedicated explorers? So yeah it's pretty hard to say which way the Nile flows. Because not everyone is so patient you know. Especially after being introduced to the "cold manipulative bitch" Yennefer in WO and Vizima... Her The Witcher 3 character is sometimes hard to understand even to book readers (Ermion for example) - what about the newcomers then? Afterwards you meet the sweet and insecure Triss in Novigrad... Well, it's just hard to resist sometimes. So I wouldn't say that Yennefer and Geralt relationship is "default" in TW3, or the one that's being "forced" onto you (yes, this is really what some people claimed, force that is). Or at least not for the majority of player base. And from what I've seen, some people actually regretted their impatience after they arrived to Skellige and saw the, ugh, how do I put this, hidden tenderness of the vile ravenhead? This is a perfect example of "each to their own", different people with different opinions and feelings. Hundred players, hundred interpretations. Everyone had to find their strength at different moments. Some of us in White Orchard and Vizima, some in Novigrad, some in Skellige. And then again, Geralt being all flirty around Yennefer is more
or less natural, even if you romanced Triss just a while ago (in Novigrad). It's the mother of his daughter and his soulmate of many years, it's kind of hard to kill the chemistry so fast. To some it feels forced, to some it seems reasonable, simple as that. "Default" is a bit of a strong word based on these subtle remarks (it's much more visible to book readers though). I'm not going to discuss Yennefer and her character development in the books versus in the games. I've already touched that topic briefly. There are many threads addressing it. To put it in one sentence: her TW3 portrayal lacks the essential feature and most of her good personality traits, first and foremost: the Ciriluv. It's pointless to repeat myself ad infinitum.
This is one hell of a gorgeous thread. Have fun and play nice lads and lasses. Quite refreshing to see so many different opinions in the same thread - without a disaster. It's sad that the poll got buttfucked though... Unlucky, what can you do.
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Blame @Sephira - she started this. Now I feel obligated to spam all my Sapko memes. Let's start with "polite" ones.
I wonder: If CDPR have statistic about people choices in games...like Bioware did in ME:3. For example: What percentage of players chose Cerys as a queen of Skellige or how many people chose Redovid over Emhyr and etc.
When it's an off-line game, the usual way for developers to collect these statistics is from the achievements recorded at whatever site the player uses, but I don't think they picked the right set of achievements for a lot of these decisions.
Shame, given that, as Vigilance.492 said, the results here were rendered pretty meaningless.
(And those of us who picked "both" on first playthrough can't even vote. Sulk.)
I have not read the books (But I will be buying them soonish), and I Chose Triss. For me it was a simple fact that during the 2nd game, Triss was there to help Geralt, albeit it was for her own cause, but in the 3rd game...Yenn was questioned on why she didn't look for him, and her reply just set in stone on the choosing of Triss. Lame excuse out of Yenn for her reasoning. Very selfish and standoffish.
On the other hand, there were still plenty Triss fans who discussed the romance flaws, so I suppose the situation is pretty even on this field as well. Although I daresay, as for taking a part on the forum goes, it would be 60/40 in favour of Yennefer in this case. Which leaves you with a nice 50/50 after all, although with many Triss fans not even being registred and just enjoying the game. So in the long run, Triss is going to be more popular on The Witcher 3 forum.
Actually, It is more likely to be the other way around, those who are not satisfied with how the game treats their choice tend to stop playing it sooner, and thus also post less on forums.
I've read the whole series after completing W1 and what I can see is that game version of Triss really differs from book, where she is depicted somewhat spineless and influenced by Lodge. The remains of that book image is visible in W2, but overall she is totally different person - more ambitious and involved in politics, maybe trying to compensate her past insecurity (even rescuing mages in W3 was more of trying to prove her leader qualities than pure altruism I think). On the other hand, Yen image is as close to book as possible with her generally self-centered nature and deep devotion to Ciri. Maybe that reimagining of characters was the main reason why I chose Triss over Yen apart from boobs and red hair inW3.
I've read the whole series after completing W1 and what I can see is that game version of Triss really differs from book, where she is depicted somewhat spineless and influenced by Lodge. The remains of that book image is visible in W2, but overall she is totally different person - more ambitious and involved in politics, maybe trying to compensate her past insecurity (even rescuing mages in W3 was more of trying to prove her leader qualities than pure altruism I think). On the other hand, Yen image is as close to book as possible with her generally self-centered nature and deep devotion to Ciri. Maybe that reimagining of characters was the main reason why I chose Triss over Yen apart from boobs and red hair inW3.
... but video game Yennefer is very much (at best) based on short story version Yennefer... and she developed a lot as a character in the Pentalogy.
Her character (combined with Ciri-Yen themes and interactions being cut, which is ... almost half of the entire Witcher saga...) is crippled in the game. Completely.
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I play Geralt as Geralt from the books, so as one would imagine, I have to choose Yen. That's not for any particular reason. It's for a variety of them, really. And I've also romanced Triss on a playthrough simply to hit that path and ensure I've completed absolutely everything the game has to offer. That, and I actually liked her as a character in the books - I find it a shame what happened to her in W3.
While I appreciate what CDPR attempted to do for fans of both W1 and W2, attempting to continue the story of both G and T together, it simply makes absolute sense to me for Yen to be in the picture, building on that family unit (which we're left to imagine happens, at some point, possibly, hopefully, dammit CDPR). Thus I'll choose her each time to complete the arc from my interpretation of said book lore.
