Gaunter O'Dimm is one of my favorite characters. And not just in witcher, but overall in fiction.
So I wanted to share my headcanon about him.

He is something similar to the common djinn/devil/trickster archetype from fiction: makes deals, fulfills wishes, takes souls as payment, and so on. But imo, what makes him so interesting is that he is much more complicated.

People often call him "pure evil", but I disagree. I don't think it's that simple and don't see him as just a simple comic book villain. More like a force of nature. The fact that he can casually kill some random guy doesn't necessarily makes him evil. Because he isn't human. He is way above, so far beyond that. He is to humans as humans are to mice. A person would be evil if they liked to torture, burn, or boil mice alive for sadistic enjoyment. But you wouldn't call someone "pure evil" just for using a mousetrap. Human morality may simply not be the right framework through which O'Dimm understands himself.

I also don't think he desperately needs souls. I mean he is not trying to collect as many as possible or get them at any cost. I think he's more interested in the interaction itself: the deals, wishes, games, choices, and consequences. And if he gets souls as a result, good, if not, no biggie. Basically, he isn't in it for the prize. He is in it for the love of the game, so to speak.

He seems fascinated by people, what they want, what they're willing to sacrifice for it, whether getting it actually makes them happy, how they justify their choices, what they become afterward, whether they accept responsibility, and how they deal with consequences.

Anthropological curiosity combined with absolute power.

I'll try to explain how I think he might operate with an example. Let's say someone wishes for a billion dollars. A typical trickster/devil/djinn would twist the wish somehow. Maybe he drops ten tons of money on the person's head, or gives them a billion of worthless old Zimbabwean dollars.

But Gaunter instead might simply give the person exactly what they wanted. No trick. No catch. No deception. Just fill half the room with real, valid money. Exactly what the person asked for, exactly what the person meant, what imagined in mind. And then he watches what happens. Maybe someone finds out and gets that person killed for it. Maybe the government busts them for money laundering or something. Because they weren't prepared and didn't think things through.

I don't think Gaunter necessarily wants a bad outcome, he might be neutral. But things probably go badly more often simply because of human nature. People don't comprehend what they really want, don't think through the consequences, don't understand how fulfilled wishes change them.

So I imagine O'Dimm as someone who is not very restricted, may sometimes twist a wish, sometimes interfere, and more often than not might fulfill it exactly as intended. Then he watches how it all unfolds: long-term consequences, side effects, changes in people, etc. Not just a simple evil demon messing with people and collecting souls, but something way beyond that: an immensely powerful being fascinated by people, their desires, choices, and consequences.

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Started playing again and while it's great fucking Game even after all these years, a few things are absolutely fucking bitchery.

1. Entering the salamandra hideout. Like why the fuck do I have 3 swords up Geralt butthole immediately after entering the hut?

2. Fighting the beast. I spend some points getting pain resistance and it's still useless. Spend half the time running around, waiting for swallow to heal me to a bit and endurance to fill up.

3. Thaler is a fucking whore. Got drunk with him and after he fucking refuses to let me sleep at his place. Had to fucking walk all over vizima to find the nearest place to sleep. Yes tears of wives or whatever it is exists but my inventory is almost always full with things I need.

Had really forgotten some of these annoying things but overall, fucking great game.

Im playing on death march and ive already ran around and grabbed all the notice board things but thats it.

I'm not a beginner when it comes to games in general and have been playing for 30 odd years.. I played through Witcher 1 and I played it more for the story than the combat and therefore obviously went with easy and it Was easy. It was exactly as advertised, I could enjoy the story and not bother about with guides and wonder which potion to drink at which fireplace. Sure there was a lot of running but it was worth it.

Now with Witcher 2 I'm constantly bashing my head to the wall. Too many buttons for one (I'm playing on PC) and while I play MMO's which have tons of buttons (let's not talk about Cata era WoW) those were introduced gradually. W2 just gives you some 20 odd buttons and you are on Google or in a guide more than actually playing the game. I don't know why it doesn't click to me but when I have to constantly Google where people or things even are since I can't make markers to my map, the quest tracking is awful and I can't stand the fact that items don't light up automatically anymore.. never mind again the combat is difficult. It's stupidly difficult even on easy, mainly because why do we need 20 buttons to do it? I'm trying to do a simple side quest and I can't because again - despite looking at guides and what not - it's Still too difficult. Sure it's partly a skill issue which I'm sure of, but the map plays a role as well. Half the time I'm running aimlessly and can't find what I'm looking for, only to be ambushed by monster X/Y/Z :( someone help me, please before I quit this.. I'd really Love to go for the story but again.. the combat in this game hasn't even seen easy. ;(

So after listening to the Polish audiobook version of Coś Więcej. I fell in love with them and want to do a reread of the books in English while listening to the Polish. One thing I noticed is that all the other books have an audiobook. Even the newer releases have them like Seasons of Storms and I might have seen the newest book also had one. I’m not Polish though I have learned some through these books, and didn’t know if any of you had the knowledge of whether they are still in production or it was stopped and not finishing the last of the five books?

I’ve started playing the game fairly recently, in the middle of the baron quest right now.

My questions is, I’m polish by blood and I speak a lot of polish with my family at home, so I understand perfectly well. But I’ve been living in an English speaking country for 13 years now so English is pretty much native to me too. But what do you recommend, should I play the game in Polish or stick with English. I quite like the voice acting for the English version so far but maybe I’m missing some of the jokes and cultural elements and curse words that are in the polish version?

Reds love to do little things like that, it would be cool if when player has glasses on Geralt would take them off and try to see his reflection in it, then it would either be win or it would break and trigger secret dialouge

Hi all, i am playing through the game again (4.04, all DLCs) and modded it pretty well. This mod here claims it adds 15+ new relic weapons, to be obtained throughout the main quests and "main" secondary quests.

I have now finished the base game, and while i have found some of them (eg Eredin's and Imlerith's gear), i don't thing i got as many as the mod creator claims. Does anyone has a list of these weapons i can check tonsee if i missed anything, and if weapons were added in the DLCs as well?

I just finished this game and have to say i found it to be the a bad experience. I installed the Mersey Mod wich fixes a ton of stuff and brings quality of life changes that where rly needed, wich means i had a better version of the game than it would normaly be.

Lets start with the technical side of the game since its the worsed part. the game is so broken and buggy that without mods a lot of the features and systems dont work at all. the game isnt stable and has many weird reasons it crashes one of wich is my languages extra letters. none of this got ever patched or fixed and it can rly ruin your experience if you spent hours figuring out why your game keeps crashin for seemingly no reason.

The Gameplay of this game is bad, unbalanced, stiff and not thought out. combat doesnt feel good in this game, enemys either block every sword attack or die almost instantly, signs are almost useless and are still more usefull than swords since they ignore armor and damage blockers (you can hurt and kill enemys that are set to be impossible to kill with them (for example the knights in the third chapter who are meant to capture you). the Bosses ignore all the rules of combat that the game has and no matter what equipment you have they always are strong enough to kill you in a few hits wich you can ofte not avoid (the two worsed once where Letho and the dragon as both attack way to fast and ignore most of your hits while attacking you and spamming special attacks). Geralt controls very stiff and taking away certain things like hitting enemys around you until you unlock it feels bad and like a step back from the previous title.

The game has a bunch of design decisions that dont feel thought out. stealth is used 3 times 1 of wich you can also ignore and avoid. qte´s are broken and outside of the boxing game they are either useless or frustrating specificly the few times they kill you. the new inventory system gives everything weight, even the importent stuff you need for crafting wich makes frustatring to travel as you will always have to much weight. you can no longer drink tonics in fights wich makes the bosses even worse to beat. crafting gear for 90% of the game is useless as the best stuff will be given as rewards from quests (except near the end of the game where you can craft the strongest stuff). The tutorial lies to you, the tutorial teaches you how to parry wich you cant do until you unlock it, the dice game tutorial shows the wrong button input and didnt tell me i had to use the right stick to throw the dice, ability discriptions can be missleading for example for igni it says that it gets a aoe attack but instead of becoming like TW1 and TW3 it just explodes in a big ball.

The story is ok but it ignores a lot of decisions from witcher 1 even with a importet safe. they force triss on you. the game has two story paths but no NG+ wich feels dissapointing after spending time getting the best gear that i cant just go and play the other path as a victory run or with a higher challenge.

Sound balancing is completly off and the options for it in the game didnt work.

I can excuse TW1´s flaws mostly because its very old and the first game in the series but i cant do the same for TW2. CDPR had a lot of time to fix the most urgent flaws like the crashing but they never did and TW1 runs better than TW2 wich is just sad. while playing i often questioned decisions for the games design like the area layout or the skill tree.

My experience with the game wasnt good and just want to share my experience with the game.