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@nickhead: Yeah I think it having to be more than one album. It's just almost all the best tracks are the ambient open world tracks and none of those are in there. Maybe we can get something official but I'm glad people are getting those songs out there has they can.

Yes that is what it reminds me of. I am a big fan of the band Moonsorrow and it brings to mind that kind of sound.

It is disappointing to see so many great tracks left off the soundtrack. The soundtrack to this game is pretty fantastic overall. A lot of great ambient tracks to listen to as you explore.

One of the best line's in the whole game was Ciri saying, about the White Frost as she's about to face it (butchering it, but just by memory): There's nothing you can do about it, you're just a Witcher silly, to Geralt. I know the White Frost is Ciri's battle but I mean I played 3 games as Geralt so I like me some Geralt and his battles. I get that this battle is above Geralt but still, I played as Geralt so I think they could have tied that in to his strugges in a better way. That's all. I gave some ham fisted ways how they could have, but obviously there's more complex ways that could have gone about it. I'm not saying it absolutely came out of nowhere (you even see worlds destroyed by Frost) but it's just something outside the scope of the game really but it decides the whole ending of the game so it makes it feel disconnected in an unsatisfying way to me.

I loved the little epilogues in 2 and here in 3 and personally thought it was cool that if Nilfgaard wins the war, at least in my outcome, Redania actually comes out of it being Redania even if it is technically a vassal, so that nuance was appreciated and I was glad the choices I made worked out for the best. I just cared a lot about the relationships and the world state so I wanted to see a bit of it, even if you could assume some of it. Like yeah, you assume he isn't with Yen if he's out hunting monsters in the bad ending but even in the good he's out there helping Ciri be a Witcher even though the epilogue has him retiring with Yen happily so I could have used more.

Again, we just disagree on some minor points. I didn't need it to say the fate of every last character but in a series with great writing and characters I just wanted a bit more even in a bad ending.

I was wondering where he was at E3. So young!

Sooooo...... damn that was intense. Pretty interesting developments throughout the episode but the ending really brought the heat. Very well done and extremely brutal scene. Interested to see what comes of the fallout. Didn't really even know where that lead was taking them and the relevance to the overall story.

Almost wondering about he mayor. His "you sure you need all this manpower" line. He seems corrupt as fuck so I'm not going to be surprised if he's involved.

I don't know if they are ever coming. They did great with the stuff for IV but I think it wasn't a good return for them. I think they could do better now but alas I think there's not going to be anything.

I think they have just gone with online instead, like @unsolvedparadox says above. There is an audience for the multiplayer.

So good/creepy!

I actually think it's better than a lot of American action movies and games and stuff towards the Russians. The Russian bad guys in 3 are an off shoot and radical wing of the Russian military. It's not like 24 or something where they had stereotypical Middle Eastern terrorist group as bad guys but then the RUSSIANS ARE REALLY BEHIND IT! Russians are an easy group to use as a bad guy around here.

Defintiely agreed on the moments w Ciri. As I said in my post, there were just a lot of moments before that where you can be doing what the story wants you to do to reach a good ending but those didn't count. Just felt mechanical. Most of the game feels very organic with its choices and consequences so that was a bummer.

I do think the fact that there's more left up to interpretation is interesting but the game and series has so much to do with a lot of side characters that just isn't quite enough for me. They spent all the time with the love interest for example. Give me a little something to see what happened there. Like with mine, have a moment where Yennefer is pleading Geralt to join her far away as I agred to in my playthrough but Geralt can't fulfill his promise with how devastated he is now. Fair point on the monsters swarming the hut about the Conjunction, didn't think about that. I think it could have just been fleshed out more. On a basic level it was fine.

I guess part of my feeling is just the ending works as a positive one but otherwise feels a little hollow with Ciri. Like it being either she lives or just dies and that's it. I would have liked to have some other end state as a bigger factor. I'm not sure exactly what it would be... maybe Ciri's power being warped somehow to be evil and then Geralt has to deal with more monsters and some reminder of Ciri also terrorizing people that he has to deal with or something? The Emperor's wrath in some kind of way because his daughter was lost? (Like he takes it out on Geralt's friends and everything or something). Obviously I'm just going off the cuff here but at least there's more nuance there. Frankly the White Frost just kind of is thrown in at the end like OH THAT TOO WE GOTTA STOP IT. Works when it's positive ending alright but when it's negative it just feels a little abrupt and unsatisfying. Like oh because you didn't trash the lab she thought she couldn't make it. It's not like if she fails the White Frost even destroys the world or starts to at all in the bad ending, doesn't even get mentioned. Just not that satisfying to me. Not awful or anything but certainly not great. Better than most games out there manage but considering how much I love the game, especially story wise, it didn't quite nail the ending.

@jonny_anonymous: Oh I get the historical reference. Still doesn't make any sense.