I want Geralt to look as haggard and fed-up as possible. So beard.

If you B-line no problem, Im at act 2 in The Witcher so i have to come up with something special.

haha i don't think i have the wherewithal/dedication/skillz. i'll resign myself to playing them backwards Memento style (or something)

Always as much beard as possible.

Wanna know why wizards always have beards? Because beards are MAGICAL!

Take the ugliest man and put a beard on him, I don't care how ugly he is, he will look better with a beard. No face, or your face was melted off; this is not an issue with a beard, because beards are magic!

let me simplify this for you: in witcher 3 you can grow a beard.

I think if the beard takes long enough to grow then I'll enjoy the journey of increasing gruffness, but otherwise I'll stick with a small but even amount of scruff.

In-game I will let the beard flow, just like I do in real life.

Need to see beards first.

Also this thread is pretty hilarious.

I'm thinking some Eastwoodian stubble, if that's an option.

I'm guessing Geralt doesn't have time to visit a barber everyday, so he can't have no facial hair. By the same token, he's not going to grow a huge beard- a definite liability in close combat. And he doesn't strike me as whimsical enough to go with a moustache or 'chops.

That's my long way of saying that I went with option B.

Clean shaven, all the time.

We've had enough bearded dad games in recent years.

I think he looks terrible with a full beard, so I wouldn't ever want to go past scruffy-looking before searching for a way to get it trimmed. Also, as a person who absolutely hates having facial hair whatsoever, I like my protagonists to never have a beard.

By the time i'm done, I intend to be Merlin with swords.

Long bear long hair. I want Geralt to embrace the "I'm all out of fucks to give" attitude I bring to the character

I wonder how far it will go and how long it will take to find out. More games need things like this.

I shall give Geralt the beard I can never have

Always be bearding.

Definitely Most Beardful.

What about half and half?

Question does anyone know if the beard will grow back if you do a shave at a barber.

Because the overgrown beard is a bit too much for my tastes, but the "full and clean cut" shave is not enough beard, while I really liked the middle growth stage after getting shaved for the emperor.

Hair protip: the "shaved head and ponytail" option is the best hairstyle.

@tennmuerti: yes it will grow back. For my taste the worst is when it is a "5 o'clock shade", middle stages i like a lot like you, maximum beard is not my favourite but is ok

I haven't found a barber in-game yet, so I'm just going full mountain man at this point. Can't wait to get a bowl cut and and some handlebars though, a classic combo.

@ripelivejam: Where in Flotsam? And no, not two or three hours; I don't think you could do it in that amount of hours even if you ran straight through the story. Getting to Flotsam you can practically consider the beginning. That said, The Witcher 2 isn't that long, especially compared to three. I am two days into The Witcher 3 (as shown by the in game clock), and I just played about two hours in the third open area: Skellige. The first being the smallest, but ten hours or so to complete what there was to complete at the time, and then the next open area around thirty, and that's not even all of it since you'll go back and do more, probably same as the first area, and then I am not upgraded enough to complete all side quests there. The game is huge. Unfortunately, it took thirty hours or so to get over the size of it and take a slower pace to really enjoy it best. I wanted to get into the main quests and unlock all areas quickly, so I went hastily, and running through a lot of areas back and forth made it (while still great) worse than it needed to be; it was just overwhelming. Eh, I could go on about the pros and cons of the game, but this isn't the place to go on about it, especially since it has nothing to do with the reply you need.

I shaved him once, and it all grew back over the hours I've played. I have been thinking about doing it again whenever I come across a barber. I might do it when I do it in reality :P.

The whole dynamic beard growing thing seems to bug out after you clean shave for the first time (after meeting the emperor).

My beard was growing far slower than before, I had a bit of a stubble and then BAM. Full beard. It seems to be skipping some stages now.

Full beard, because the alternative is shaving it constantly, so fuck that. Just like real life.

Prior to release I voted full beard. But having to play with low graphics I kinda need to go beardless. Not only because the beard looks like shit, but also because Geralts expressions are kinda masked by it.

@klager: This graphic is an April Fool's joke.

@mak_wikus:

I know.

I was planning on not bearding when the barber DLC comes out because to me Geralt = Witcher 1 = clean shaven.

But then I tried it and thought, man, Geralt has grown since I first met him. A lot. Clean shave just isn't for him anymore. So I kept the beard.

But sadly "most beardful" doesn't exist in the game, the most you can get from the barber DLC is a full yet shortly-trimmed beard.

@sunbrozak: This is what I do as well. It's fun.

Beard. Always beard. Without a doubt beard.