I never understood why CDPR made a cut after Geralt demanding Triss to tell him everything about Yennefer. It was such a crucial moment, but instead of showing who Yennefer is and what she means to Geralt, they make a cut to black and jump to Flotsam...leaving everything to your imagination, if you didn't have read the books. They didn't need to make a 30min presentation of her, but at least tell the player some quick short facts.
Even though i am pro-Yen all the way, i also like Triss (like all sorceresses). The books also didn't exactly worsen my view of her, but make me understand her and her motivations better. She has reasons why she doesn't tell Geralt everything about Yennefer on her own, it doesn't matter, if she knows or not knows, whether Yen is alive or not. Yennefer wasn't just an affair at a weekend, but a long-term relationship with a child. You know, a woman you loved more or less 20 years is maybe dead, maybe not, oh and your daughter is missing too, you might think this is kinda important.
I'm actually curious how old everyone voting in this poll is.
I get the feeling that younger people prefer Triss while older and more mature people prefer Yennefer. I think Triss fits what most younger guys would see as an ideal woman, she's pretty young herself, younger than Yen and she's pretty adolescent, while Yen is older, more mature and more motherly, which would probably resonates well with the older chaps among us.
I'm 26 years old myself and I prefer Yennefer.
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I think i said once in this thread, somewhere back in the 1xx-ish pages that Triss appears to me like a teenager love. It's your first love, so everything is just perfect, she is perfect, the weather is always perfect, your relationship with her is perfect, your love doesn't have any flaws, because you know, she is just perfect, there is nothing to criticize. Your whole life is her/him at that time.
Until you grow up and become actually adults and then real-life hits you like a truck with countless problems.
You realize that your relationship was only built on butterflies, but with time those butterflies fly away and what will remain?
S/he has also other things to do than lying in bed with you the whole day, s/he has to work 40-50 hours a week and has barely any freetime to do something anymore. You realize that your teenager love was indeed
just a teenager love, that's nothing bad, on the contrary that's great, but it also didn't evolve into something more, something to cherish over the years, someone with whom you could imaging having a family and getting old.
You realize that you want someone who would go with you through thick and thin, into the hades and back and not just into an amusement park. You realize that s/he has flaws, sometimes even quite big ones, but you accept them, hell, you even appreciate them, make fun out of it and help him/her to deal with that problem. You realize that s/he isn't perfect at all, but s/he is perfect for you nonetheless.
Even if your relationship is right now not the best at all, you still want to overcome those problems for her/him, maybe not immediately, but with time, because it is worth it in the long run.
Such a relationship isn't made at a weekend, but it's also not just for a weekend. Such a relationship has to be built piece by piece, but in the long run it can hold forever. Love might be the first step, but a good working relationship is more than just loving each other. Trust, devotion, faith, reliance, support, sacrifice, gratitude.
And that's the way i see Geralt and Yennefer, they aren't fresh in love, they already had many ups and downs in their relationship, they are not perfect, their relationship isn't perfect, both have huge flaws, but still they always come back to each other and both would give their life for the other one without a blink anytime anywhere despite all that, because there is nowhere else someone like him or her again, they are made for each other just the way they are and just so.
If you think, you can also have the same with Triss, well, good for you, i can't argue your opinion away and i won't, but for me there was never an alternative. Geralt had already many alternatives, really good alternatives, sometimes even better ones to be honest and yet every time he realizes that there is just no alternative to Yennefer, there is only one Yennefer, it doesn't matter how many women he tries out, brown, red, blonde, they can't give him the same feelings like she does, the good and bad ones.
That woman can
appear cold or heartless, but just as she said, "if i weren't like this, you wouldn't have fell in love with me."
And at the same time you could also say that she wouldn't have fallen in love with him, if he weren't like this.
Sometimes i have the feeling that many people forget that Geralt isn't such a nice guy either. He can be sometimes quite a jerk in books and games, e.g. when Yennefer teleports him above a lake, why does she do it? Because Geralt couldn't stop talking and explaining himself, she just didn't want to hear it anymore, just stop, yet you still rub it in her face. Nobody wants to hear endless excuses, if you were left for another woman, you just don't want it, because it hurts just thinking about that.
If your ex has a new boyfriend, you won't or shouldn't look at their pictures on facebook as well, because that shit hurts.
My perception was always that Geralt can have fun with Triss (like with many other women), but with Yennefer he can grow old and only with her.
I get same impression, but that doesn't make sense... I mean, why focus on Triss so much then (especially in W2)? The only explanation I can find is this: there was a lack of clear vision how to tie events between the whole series (from W1 to W3). Maybe they had the general idea and improvised from there? We ended up with people who like(d) Triss (with her role in Geralt's life being largely disregarded in W3 by default) and Yennefer, whom most people will probably not like that much due to how she has been presented in the beginning (especially when compared to Triss).
As i said several times now, that thing Geralt had with Triss is nothing out of the ordinary, he had several affairs like that. The only difference now was the amnesia, but with the removal of it CDPR ended up with a problem. To make a relationship with Triss still plausible, although Yennefer/Ciri comes into the game. Did it work? Apparently not so well for many, but there are also people, who actually liked it this way and as i said in another thread, i can't imagine that CDPR didn't think this through. They had reasons to do that this way or that way, they didn't design the story/quest on a whim.
Yennefer doesn't have that much time to grow on players - only one game - and that's why I feel the prologue is time wasted so much. We were prepared to meet Yennefer since W2. Only to get a bucked of a cold water. Perhaps that was the intention of the developers or it means Yennefer stays true to her character, but if their goal was to lure players into thinking Yennefer was the right call after all (the rose, the starting dialogues and interaction between Geralt and Triss seem to hint that way), then they didn't do their job properly.
Yeah, that was really weird, after Vizima it takes maybe 15-35 hours before you see her again. For me as a book reader, i was quite satisfied with how Yennefer was portrayed, but as a player, who barely heard anything of her? Probably not that easy to understand or comprehend her, if you don't try really hard. Geralt needed more than a decade to figure her out
