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OPINION: I'm Choosing Yen For the First Time

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited January 2020 in News & Features Discussion

imageOPINION: I'm Choosing Yen For the First Time

After multiple play throughs of choosing Triss, The Witcher Netflix show has made me give Yen a chance.

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  • BelgaraathBelgaraath Member UncommonPosts: 3,205
    edited January 2020

    DMKano said:

    I think its admirable that this is written from "I wonder what happens if I choose X" perspective - but all endings are long known



    All 36 of them and there are guides and videos showing all outcomes.




    Not everyone watches all those endings, so there is no 'but'. I know I don't. So I'm going to try a second play through and do the opposite of what the author did, choose Triss as I already chose Yennifer on my first play through.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,060
    The correct answer is Shani. 
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  • 3dom3dom Member RarePosts: 889
    That's not because of the bath scene with Anya Chalotra - right?

    (actually she was great, Yen story should have been presented more)

    Thank you for your time!

  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936
    Arterius said:

    DMKano said:

    I think its admirable that this is written from "I wonder what happens if I choose X" perspective - but all endings are long known



    All 36 of them and there are guides and videos showing all outcomes.




    36 endings? Some of those have to repeat with just minor variables right? If not I really have to play the Witcher 3. I don't even think Disco Elysium has 36 endings.

    Only thought there were 3 ...
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  • LeFantomeLeFantome Member RarePosts: 698
    Aeander said:
    The correct answer is Shani. 
    Nope!
    Unicorn is.

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  • rojoArcueidrojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722
    I chose Triss on my first playthrough simply because i continued my journey from TW2 so Triss was my choice. I haven't done the 2 DLC so after i cover those i might do a 2nd playthrough and choose differently.

    Regardless of choice i play extremely carefully and save a lot because i like to always keep Kiera Metz until the good end of her story because she is bff all the way from TW1. If i screw up i reload a save file.
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  • ThupliThupli Member RarePosts: 1,318
    Nice write up. More like this!

  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    edited January 2020
    Dunno why but this article reminds me of the time I picked Aela in Skyrim for the first time. One this article did (for me at least) was make me remember just how rememberable a lot of these older games were, like trying to get with Morrigan in dragon age.
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    I'm a sucker for the more complicated women in all these games: Jack in ME2, Morrigan in DA and Yen in the Witcher. I always liked the Witcher best though because it lets you do some... err... sampling, before you have to make your final decision.
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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    Arterius said:

    Iselin said:

    I'm a sucker for the more complicated women in all these games: Jack in ME2, Morrigan in DA and Yen in the Witcher. I always liked the Witcher best though because it lets you do some... err... sampling, before you have to make your final decision.



    Jack was my girl. Then I killed her during the suicide run. Only time in a game I ever felt a pit in my stomach. Didn't reset either. I let it be. I will always remember Jack though
    Not me, I cheated and made sure everyone I cared about survived lol. It's nice seeing Jack's character develop in ME3 if she survives ME2.
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  • klash2defklash2def Member EpicPosts: 1,949
    edited January 2020
    If you didnt choose Yen did you even play The Witcher 3? Or did You play a fan fiction?
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    Well if I had chosen Triss before, her lame acting in the Witcher TV series would have made me look elsewhere a second time around. That is it would if such things mattered to me which they don't, the games stand on their own merits and the TV series is good is spite of them thinking a soap actress could handle Triss's role.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    edited January 2020
    Iselin said:
    Arterius said:

    Iselin said:

    I'm a sucker for the more complicated women in all these games: Jack in ME2, Morrigan in DA and Yen in the Witcher. I always liked the Witcher best though because it lets you do some... err... sampling, before you have to make your final decision.



    Jack was my girl. Then I killed her during the suicide run. Only time in a game I ever felt a pit in my stomach. Didn't reset either. I let it be. I will always remember Jack though
    Not me, I cheated and made sure everyone I cared about survived lol. It's nice seeing Jack's character develop in ME3 if she survives ME2.
    I would have done the same if I had played the ME series. 

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    It's just what I do.

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  • rodarinrodarin Member EpicPosts: 2,611

    DMKano said:


    Arterius said:


    DMKano said:



    Arterius said:





    DMKano said:



    I think its admirable that this is written from "I wonder what happens if I choose X" perspective - but all endings are long known







    All 36 of them and there are guides and videos showing all outcomes.












    36 endings? Some of those have to repeat with just minor variables right? If not I really have to play the Witcher 3. I don't even think Disco Elysium has 36 endings.






    Here is a decent checklist of all the major choices you can make in the game that determine outcomes



    https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/The_Witcher_3_decision_checklist



    It's pretty straight forward when you look at the choices


    just browsing through I would disagree. I am impressed that a RPG like the Witcher 3 has so many choices. I mean of course Disco Elysium does the game is a point and click game mixed with a choose your own adventure book. Since the game is done mostly through dialogue they can allow so many variables. 

    It is much more impressive when a game like the Witcher 3 does it and they have to account for cut-scenes and the like. Not to mention that most open world games tend to not have the most compelling stories to begin with.



    Compelling stories are expensive - witcher 3 was not a cheap game to make - budget is the #1 factor that determines the scope of game development 

    Witcher 3 was an $81 million game - considering that major portions were developed in Poland where the cost of living is about 3x cheaper than US (Warsaw vs California)- the dollar figure isnt indicative of the true bang for the buck as far as development cost

    Also many open world games that don't have the budget for rich content go the sandbox route where there is little to no story but a lot more freedom - example minecraft





    It is amazing how people are critical of a game like this which is still one of the best games ever RELEASED yet you have shit live SC which has raised almost 4 times that amount and is not even close to releasing anything and nothing even close to the detail and complexity of Witcher 3.

    I am no fan boy but it is still the pinnacle as far as I am concerned with RPG games in general. Sure you might not SEE all of them personally, but the fact they have that many options simply expands the possibilities for everyone who plays it.

    Red Dead Redemption was lauded as some great thing. IMO it was lame and predictable. The story ended the same way each and every time. The main guy dies (spoiler alert) so all those 'choices' they claimed were so important didnt mean dick. The guy still ended up dead and you played the same epilogue.

    You know what would be a coup? If they came out and said Witcher 3 actually has 50 endings not just 36. I am not sure if 36 was OFFICIALLY confirmed or not. Even if it wasnt true it would be interesting to see how many play throughs people attempted to find the other 14.
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  • NexeusSNexeusS Member UncommonPosts: 88
    edited January 2020

    rodarin said:



    DMKano said:




    Arterius said:




    DMKano said:





    Arterius said:







    DMKano said:




    I think its admirable that this is written from "I wonder what happens if I choose X" perspective - but all endings are long known









    All 36 of them and there are guides and videos showing all outcomes.
















    36 endings? Some of those have to repeat with just minor variables right? If not I really have to play the Witcher 3. I don't even think Disco Elysium has 36 endings.









    Here is a decent checklist of all the major choices you can make in the game that determine outcomes





    https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/The_Witcher_3_decision_checklist





    It's pretty straight forward when you look at the choices




    just browsing through I would disagree. I am impressed that a RPG like the Witcher 3 has so many choices. I mean of course Disco Elysium does the game is a point and click game mixed with a choose your own adventure book. Since the game is done mostly through dialogue they can allow so many variables. 

    It is much more impressive when a game like the Witcher 3 does it and they have to account for cut-scenes and the like. Not to mention that most open world games tend to not have the most compelling stories to begin with.





    Compelling stories are expensive - witcher 3 was not a cheap game to make - budget is the #1 factor that determines the scope of game development 

    Witcher 3 was an $81 million game - considering that major portions were developed in Poland where the cost of living is about 3x cheaper than US (Warsaw vs California)- the dollar figure isnt indicative of the true bang for the buck as far as development cost

    Also many open world games that don't have the budget for rich content go the sandbox route where there is little to no story but a lot more freedom - example minecraft








    It is amazing how people are critical of a game like this which is still one of the best games ever RELEASED yet you have shit live SC which has raised almost 4 times that amount and is not even close to releasing anything and nothing even close to the detail and complexity of Witcher 3.



    I am no fan boy but it is still the pinnacle as far as I am concerned with RPG games in general. Sure you might not SEE all of them personally, but the fact they have that many options simply expands the possibilities for everyone who plays it.



    Red Dead Redemption was lauded as some great thing. IMO it was lame and predictable. The story ended the same way each and every time. The main guy dies (spoiler alert) so all those 'choices' they claimed were so important didnt mean dick. The guy still ended up dead and you played the same epilogue.



    You know what would be a coup? If they came out and said Witcher 3 actually has 50 endings not just 36. I am not sure if 36 was OFFICIALLY confirmed or not. Even if it wasnt true it would be interesting to see how many play throughs people attempted to find the other 14.



    Well said, and the mere fact that The Witcher 3 (on Steam alone)... has reached 100k in 2019-2020. A single player game released in 2015 (SINGLE PLAYER) speaks a lot why ppl are so hype.

    Ofc all this is due to The Witcher Netflix series, but this shows how much ppl are appreciating The Witcher universe and most likely there will be another Witcher game since CDPR already did another deal with the salty boomer Andrzej Sapkowski.
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  • azarhalazarhal Member RarePosts: 1,402
    I choose Yen the first time I played TW3 (and that happened after I had completed TW1 and TW2 at least twice romancing Triss) and...I'm choosing Yen the second time around. The reason: I read the books before TW3 released.

    I also didn't finish Family Matters (the Valen main quest) before I started both Novigrad and Skellige main quest already (they clearly fixed the content level after writing everything as it support being played "out of order" with altered conversations).
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499
    Anyone who would have guessed a year ago that the first article of 2020 on this site would be about which romance option someone chose in a single-player game that launched several years ago as a result of watching some television show, and then marked as opinion for some inexplicable reason, as though what he chose in his own play through of a game is a matter of opinion and not fact?  I realize that there haven't been a lot of big MMORPG launches lately, but this is getting really far afield.
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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936

    klash2def said:

    If you didnt choose Yen did you even play The Witcher 3? Or did You play a fan fiction?



    I think a lot of people, having played witcher 1 and 2 know and are shown the Triss relationship quite a bit more.

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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,060
    I had actually picked Yen by accident in my first playthrough.

    After completing the Triss mission, I had sent Triss away, thinking I was keeping her safe from the religious zealots. But silly me, that was the relationship ender. Whoops. 

  • NeoyoshiNeoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,489
    I did Yen AND Triss for my very 1st playthrough; and that was not fun..... xD

    So i did a pure Yen playthrough and that was very enjoyable.

    I am now starting a Triss only playthrough.


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  • MurmaiderMurmaider Member UncommonPosts: 123

    Scot said:

    Well if I had chosen Triss before, her lame acting in the Witcher TV series would have made me look elsewhere a second time around. That is it would if such things mattered to me which they don't, the games stand on their own merits and the TV series is good is spite of them thinking a soap actress could handle Triss's role.



    To be fair, Triss is way more fleshed out in the games.

    Going off of looks, the actress they chose to portray her in the series was not what i had in mind.
    However, i actually think she did a good job for the material given to her.....which wasn't much.

    I honestly think they will flesh her out more in the next season.

    Since Yen is Geralts "true love" and, I believe, Ciri is such a huge focus in the books- I believe they decided to focus on them and will flesh out the rest later.
    Scot
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    edited January 2020
    Some people are questioning do we need this sort of article? I take my adventures helm off to Poorna for coming up with this idea for a 'jump onto the bandwagon' article, but yes it is a bit of an outlier. However had the article been say on Witcher cosplay would some have drawn a line there? Also we have been promised a "Would You Play The Witcher MMO" article, if that had come first not sure we would even have people concerned this was an outlier.
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,060
    DMKano said:
    Neoyoshi said:
    I did Yen AND Triss for my very 1st playthrough; and that was not fun..... xD

    So i did a pure Yen playthrough and that was very enjoyable.

    I am now starting a Triss only playthrough.

    Witcher 3 doesn't allow you to have both - if you do attempt a love triangle - you will lose both Yen and Triss in the end - neither will have anything to do with you.

    IMO the best option for me would be to kill both of them - but nope - story based RPGs never allow this type of freedom, so Witcher 3 killing Triss for example is not allowed 
    Having consequences for romancing both isn't the same as not romancing both. It would be a lesser game if such consequences did not exist. 

    And the best option for you would be to completely break the characters and world? 

    I'm starting to think that maybe you just have no appreciation for a good story RPG, and your opinion on the Witcher shouldn't be taken seriously. 
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  • MendelMendel Member LegendaryPosts: 5,609
    Here I thought this was a thread discussing cash shop currency naming, like PWI or others.  Consider me educated.



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