What choices did you make in The Witcher 2? (spoilers obv)

[endtherapture]

Never really had the chance to discuss this with anyone, so what major choices did you make in TW2 and how do you think they'll play out in the sequel?

1. Saved Aryan la Valette
2. Sided with Roche in Chapter 1, didn't give Iorveth his sword
3. Let Roche kill Henselt
4. Went after Triss in Chapter 3
5. Saved Sile from Letho's sabotage
6. Killed the Dragon
7. Let Letho live (couldn't bring myself to fight him)

 

[Zhukov]

1. Killed that guy on the tower at the start. (I didn't think he'd surrender if I asked.)

2. Sided with Iorveth. (He was the only character I liked. Something about that utterly world-weary attitude was oddly endearing. Gave the impression that he was only still fighting because he didn't know what else to do.)

3. Didn't get that choice because I sided with Iorveth. Can't remember what I chose for the equivalent.

4. Went after Triss. (I didn't like that choice, it gave be absolutely no indication of what the consequences would be.)

5. Didn't kill the dragon. (Didn't see a reason for it.)

6. Couldn't be bothered fighting Letho.

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While The Witcher 2 is a game I like to criticize every chance I get, there's no denying it did a good job of handling player choice and consequence.

 

[endtherapture]

1. Killed that guy on the tower at the start. (I didn't think he'd surrender if I asked.)

2. Sided with Iorveth. (He was the only character I liked. Something about that utterly world-weary attitude was oddly endearing. Gave the impression that he was only still fighting because he didn't know what else to do.)

3. Didn't get that choice because I sided with Iorveth. Can't remember what I chose for the equivalent.

4. Went after Triss. (I didn't like that choice, it gave be absolutely no indication of what the consequences would be.)

5. Didn't kill the dragon. (Didn't see a reason for it.)

6. Couldn't be bothered fighting Letho.

...

While The Witcher 2 is a game I like to criticize every chance I get, there's no denying it did a good job of handling player choice and consequence.

I didn't know the Dragon was Saskia in my first playthrough, so I killed it out of mercy.

I'm debating my second playthrough right now whether to get the cure for Saskia or to go after Triss. Triss gets saved by Letho anyway (so she can be around in the next game), but leaving an angry, eyeless Philippa with the control of a dragon doesn't seem like a very good idea.

Saving Triss seems like the "neutral" path because you're eschewing politics and going after your friend/lover instead of getting involved. Plus that dickhead Nilfgaardian had it in for him.

The equivalent of the Henselt issue is saving or lyching Stennis I think.

 

[Zhukov]

... but leaving an angry, eyeless Philippa with the control of a dragon doesn't seem like a very good idea.

Was Philippa evil though? I don't remember her exact objectives or motivations, but she seemed to be more of an ends-justify-means sort of lady rather than outright bad.

Saving Triss seems like the "neutral" path because you're eschewing politics and going after your friend/lover instead of getting involved.

Ya, that was basically my attitude. "I'm not the least bit interested in your empires and schemes, so I'm gonna grab Little Miss T&A and get the hell outa here."

In retrospect, I'm glad it gave me a neutral type option. Would like to see more games do that.

 

[Hogbinladen]

1. I reasoned with him. At that point in the game I had almost no grasp on the combat.

2. I punched Iorveth in the gut and sided with Roche.

3. I let Roche kill Henselt.

4. Went after Foltest's child and Dethmold. I suggest you go through with that if you're on Roche's path.

5. Killed the dragon, I also let a certain someone die.

6. Didn't fight Letho.

I went through Iorveth's path on my second playthrough and with regards to Roche I felt like such an asshole.

 

[endtherapture]

... but leaving an angry, eyeless Philippa with the control of a dragon doesn't seem like a very good idea.

Was Philippa evil though? I don't remember her exact objectives or motivations, but she seemed to be more of an ends-justify-means sort of lady rather than outright bad.

Saving Triss seems like the "neutral" path because you're eschewing politics and going after your friend/lover instead of getting involved.

Ya, that was basically my attitude. "I'm not the least bit interested in your empires and schemes, so I'm gonna grab Little Miss T&A and get the hell outa here."

In retrospect, I'm glad it gave me a neutral type option. Would like to see more games do that.

The beautiful thing is that no characters in The Witcher 2 can really been seen as good or evil!! Except maybe Saskia who's pure good, and Dethmold who can be nothing but complete evil. The Nilfgaardian ambassador is pretty evil too.

Philippa wasn't evil but considering she's a powerful sorceress who's just got her eyes cut out, she's going to be pissed off. Having a powerful Dragon at her command isn't ideal, she's going to seek vengeance in some way probably.

I loved having the neutral option, my "canon" Geralt is neutral, he went neutral in TW1 (somehow, I'm not sure how, I thought I was more friendly to Yaevinn) but yeah, played that through. I only care about Dandelion, Zoltan, Triss, my fellow Witchers, and to an extent Roche.

5. Killed the dragon, I also let a certain someone die.

Oh yeah Sile, I let her live, I didn't know if the megascope would explode and kill me.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Well, it's going to be interesting to see if Triss can actually be trusted - most of my decisions in both games have given her more power in various ways haha.

In my playthrough, I killed Letho and Sile, although when I do another one I'll almost definitely let them live. After reading some bad translations of the short stories, that seems more like what Geralt would do - he's less of a harsh utilitarian than my RPG characters tend to be.

 

[Hogbinladen]

5. Killed the dragon, I also let a certain someone die.

Oh yeah Sile, I let her live, I didn't know if the megascope would explode and kill me.

It was worth the risk.

What irked me about it was when Letho told me I made the 'kind choice'. Tell me that earlier next time.