The Witcher 3

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Buy 'em or pick 'em.

I'm not sure how much I have left in the game.  Feels like I'm almost finished the main quest.  I've been delaying it by doing a bunch of the side quests (pissed off that I ended up breaking the Gwent questline by finishing a story mission before I'd got all the cool Gwent cards.  Guess all those sweet 15 strength cards are out of reach now.)

[GibbyG]

As SDR said, you can buy or pick.  When you wander around you will see a ton of herbs.  And a lot of the villages have herbalists.

[jamus34]

As SDR said, you can buy or pick.  When you wander around you will see a ton of herbs.  And a lot of the villages have herbalists.

Yeah after I killed the noonwraith I found the herbs I needed right in the contract owner's garden.

[Toonces]

So I've had this a while now but have only started really investing time in it this weekend.  I think I played something like 4 or 5 hours. 

A botchling?  Really?  Those dudes at CD Projekt have some sick minds.

Anyway, all of the reviews are so damn glowing and gushing over this game, but I feel like I'm watching a movie, not playing a game.  I feel like I'm missing something.  The story is interesting, don't get me wrong, but the way it transitions constantly to cut scenes just destroys immersion.  I like Skyrim oh so much better than this.

I'm going to stick with it because it's been so overwhelmingly praised that I know the problem must be me, but damn.

[Con]

Stick with it....the humor and the way the story weaves together so you never feel as like you are grinding out a worker compensation in quests to level is sublime. 

[Gusington]

Witcher 3 is my favorite RPG since Skyrim. But if you are not particularly in to eastern European legends and history I can see how you would be less than enthused. I loved it for the creatures alone!

[MikeGER]

A botchling?  Really?  Those dudes at CD Projekt have some sick minds.

the whole story is based on several novels (a very good read! - to get in the immersion mood) by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski not CD-Project,
who salvaged all kind of eastern Europe fairytales, myths, and local folk religions for a hundred fold of entities

in medieval times the local folks just needed a colorful explanations for each and any unusual (scary) things they encountered and all kind of mischief happening to poor Villagers at night or walking (and disappearing ) into dark woods, swamps, while working or when on travel on small trails to the next little settlements or the road to the next city marketplace
add to this the pagan religion remains parallel to overlaid crude Catholicism and living in a constant war-torn situation between local counts / landlords  mixed up with bands of traveling mercenaries turned into bandits between two jobs ...and all this without CNN with NGOs sob-stories 'to explain 'n blame' it on breakfast TV ^-^.   

i reckon those "botchling"-explanations was invented by midwifes when confronted with remains of distorted miscarriages/ abortion or deformed stillborns  and later medical problems by that same mother or other pregnant villagers,  ...puerperal fever.

All those fairy tales also had a social behavior educational function at that time. 
to steer behavior in a wanted moral driven direction without an explicit order or prohibition
that abortion or filicide (and so also getting in a situation fristhand where abortion is needed) is a dangerous idea,
or to keep children and youth away from dangerous areas like swamps for a playground and to stay in general in sight of the hut and not stroll outside of home at dusk where a tenfold of monsters are lurking         

[Gusington]

Love me some botchlings. I love the whole Witcher bestiary, actually.

[mirth]

Does it include the dreaded Gusling?

[Gusington]

Smaller but more grotesque than the botchling! Of course.

[MikeGER]

"Guslings" seem to still exist today in the remote area woods on the Swiss/German border ^-^

(F.Wrousis police pic)

...just yesterday one exemplar attacked an office in the small town of Schaffhausen (sounds like picked from Witcher maps too) with a chainsaw it had found 

[Gusington]

Although small I am a much better physical specimen than that guy.

[MikeGER]

Although small I am a much better physical specimen than that guy.

sure!
...its more about that some witcher creatures might had made it into our universe too when that Conjunction of the Spheres had happend   :o

[Sir Slash]

That does look scary. And confused too. Probably needs some Bacon & Beer to snap it back in shape.

[MikeGER]

i saw a pic on twitter that suggested: its a member of a lost Neanderthaler tribe that somehow survived and adjusted to our times ???