Yennefer. Triss was a side fling while Gerault lost his memory, even though their feelings were true. Plus, I just found Yennefer to be more attractive.
Yennefer. Triss was a side fling while Gerault lost his memory, even though their feelings were true. Plus, I just found Yennefer to be more attractive.
Yeah, however one of CM from CDProjectRED tweeted that she's alive.
As for the actual topic:
I think the specific endings gives a lot insight, with Yen, Geralt will just be with her away from society and enjoy her company.
With Triss...i'm not sure if the Geralt would like this life, i mean living in a big city, Triss being a big person at court would involve a lot of balls and whatnot, just doesn't seem something Geralt would like.
Technically, by picking Triss you're also swapping gloves since Geralt had been together with Yennefer before Witcher 1.
Yes, I picked Shani as well in Witcher 1. That being said, are witchers immortal or just long lived? For Geralt was already 100 years in Witcher 1 and Shani was 20 and some and she lived 70 more years from then, meaning Geralt would be 170 when she died.
Plus, Shani is beautiful in the expansion besides having a great personality:
Yes, but in the books Yennefer also took advantage of Geralt by sort of mind-controlling him to say bad stuff around everyone and getting him arrested simply because he tried, in his mind, to guess what diformity she might have had before learning witchcraft.
Also, as far as I remember, also in the books it's stated that Yenn and Geralt had a rocky relationship where they'd break up at times then return together.
So it's not all black and white.
Why is she better suited for Geralt? Also, since the Geralt in the game is you, you choose the canon choice in the end.
But that's the thing, how do we know Yennefer wasn't also a thing because of the genie wish?
Well, if you played long enough in W3. you do a genie quest with Yennefer that break the bond between the 2. After that, its your decision (RP) to go either "I still love you Yen" or "I dont feel anything for you anymore". If you decide to go the I still love you, than in your story we can definitely say that it wasnt only a thing because of the genie. It all come down to how we RP this story, dont think there is any wrong answer, just personal feelings.
Triss every day of the week. Yennefer is one hell of an interesting character, and I really like her in that sense, but as far as human qualities go she loses.
Yen's stuck-up, manipulative, bossy egomaniac, which would be a lot of fun if she was a main character in her own game, but as a romance option? Hell no.
Triss isn't as high class, but she's just a better and more likeable person and one I'd be willing to put way more trust in than the other.
Also, how is there not a poll for a topic this important?
Yennefer because I never liked Triss's voice
he WAS trying to do something he specificaly knew she woudln't want him to do, but she also fixed that trouble Geralt got him self into due to her revenge over his intrusiveness.
no, its not black and white, however.. what Genie's wish did was bind them together. in that if one dies, so does the other. it did not relaly create an emotion though.
yes, they had a rocky relationship, because they are both very stubborn people and Yennefer is very defensive about her inability to have children, her original appearance, the way she is treated due to being a woman and a sorceress, a lot of her behavior is figurative (and sometimes literal) armor. is it ok that she takes it out on other people? not relaly. but its part of what I like about her as a character. she is not perfect.
moreover - Geralt does a lot of the same things. he is sarcastic as hell, he pushes a lot of times when he really shouldn't, in short they BOTH need to grow. they inspire each other to grow. their personalities mesh best even as they clash, because in a lot of ways - they share the same values in life, and they function in a lot of the same ways which makes for better understanding of each other (of course on a flipside, pride and stubbornness, also means that sometimes they split up instead of fixing their issues, but hey.. no one is perfect and different relationships between different people have different dynamic)
and when people say canon choice - they mean canon for Geralt as a preexisting character. yes games allow us to play Geralt in different ways but honestly? it just becomes AU Geralt. he has a very specific defined personality in the books. for me at least playing him in any other way feels ... wrong.
I chose Yen just because they were a thing from a long time ago but if I ever play Witcher 3 from start again I would go with Triss. She is way warmer it seems like and Yen seems to be that hot but crazy woman you would avoid irl.
Yen does anything to get her will through and I dont like that. Wouldnt have gone with her if I knew that from the start.
I slept with both because i have this philosophy that i need to play Witcher as a dating sim and i don't regret it. :P
Here was a level 85 Enhancement Shaman. Now there is just an epitaph.
I picked Yen, but only because it was the "new character" in the games and I wanted to experience that story arc first. If I'd have to choose from a less completionist and more in-character point of view: books -> Yen, games -> Triss.
But, judging by their past and their egoistic and manipulative nature, I'd like to think that overall Geralt would not settle down for either in the end.
I played through the game twice and picked each one once. I picked Triss first and Yennefer on my second playthrough.
The game is definitely more rewarding/makes more sense/has more feels when you choose Yennefer though because that's basically the canon choice and the one that the devs spent the most time working on. Picking Triss is fine, but she basically becomes non-existent throughout most of the game after Novigrad. Whereas Yennefer is front and center from the time you go to Skellige onward.
You know, I thought a bit about the whole Triss not telling Geralt about Yennefer when he had amnesia... ok, fine, she didn't tell him because she loved him and wanted to be with him. That's a bit of a shit thing to do, but not what I want to discuss about.
Vesemir, Lambert, Eskel, Dandelion, Zoltan etc, all knew about Yennefer. Why didn't any of them tell her about her?
given certain story point in books back when Ciri was still a teenager and the way Triss basically managed all of them when first arriving to Kaer Morhen ? my guess would be, Triss pulled a bunch of favors/threats/lied that it would be a bad idea to bring up Yennefer in Geralt's current state and since Yennefer is probably a more difficult sorceress to deal with than even Triss? they went along with it.
Dandelion has grudgingly come to respect Yenn, but he never liked her or she - him (though to be honest, I have a hard time liking Dandelion myself. in the end he is loyal and means well, but holy hell the amount of trouble he gets Geralt in due to just being a dumbass who doesn't listen? is just staggering)
Yen is not exactly popular among Vesemir, Eskel and Labert, they even told Geralt they'd rather ask Triss for help in Witcher 3.
The more important question would be, why did Geralt kept dating Triss even after he recovered his memory to the point where he remembered that he was dating Yen?
Dandelion even pointed out during Act 2 that Geralt was going after two women during that time.
Perhaps they didn't think it was relevant. Yennefer was gone, no one knew where she was, and not everyone really understood how deep Geralt's amnesia was either, I suppose - perhaps they thought that he was aware of his past with Yennefer.
Another explanation is just that the story is better this way!
Yenn first play through because unicorn sex scene and lulz
Triss in my current play through because why not.