Oh, just now seeing this but one of my favorite topics.
1. Doesn't surprise me you got the bad ending, Thork. I got the good one without even trying because I never even went back to the Emperor.
2. I'm deeply disturbed you wanted Geralt to have sex with Ciri, but again, I guess I'm not surprised.
Why are you surprised? They aren't related, and she's hot. She clearly has daddy issues with her real father being a bit of an asshat, and she can call me daddy. It would have been great.
I've been without internet all week. A bolt of lightning hit my house and fried the router. I didn't realise how loud thunder can be when you are in a building that gets hit. The whole house shook. Only damage was the internet though.
It smelt awful, the whole of upstairs stunk of burning circuit board.
The upshot is I have had lots of offline time and as I only own one game, I've finished Hearts of Stone (I chose to let Olgierd die and chose unlimited food - no regrets, he looked like David Beckham and so I just stood there and watched him die without a flicker of remorse.), I've done most of the bits I missed from the original game and I'm about half way through Blood and Wine, I think. I did manage to woo some student called Shani in this version, but she left me as well.
I tried really hard not to mess that one up, but she decided she'd rather go to front line of a raging war than be with me ... as put downs go, that's hard to beat.
I've had a few other small things that have annoyed me. I never got Geralt or Ciri in the Gwent decks. Looking on the internet I just didn't do all the quests in the order necessary so didn't get the opportunity. That's just a tough break I guess.
Also at no point have I managed to have sex with any elves. I like the ears. I haven't even seen an elf prostitute in the game.
Next year the developers are releasing a futuristic version called Cyberpunk 2077. The story telling is so good by this dev company, I'll probably buy it.