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Sugriva said:
All this Witcher 3 hate makes me happy. Combat sucked, story sucked, world felt bloated with fluff. I couldn't figure out for the life of me why it was so popular.
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I'd say the popularity of Witcher 3 is due to Bioware collapsing in on itself. Bioware pretty much made their own subgenre of RPGs, the "cinematic RPG" with Mass Effect and arguably Dragon Age but that was way more niche.

As noted by other posters there was a big drought in content during the 8th Gen, but truly Witcher 3 was the biggest "cinematic RPG." Coincidentally that's why Cyberpunk 2077 sold a bajillion copies. LMAO if EA just had told Bioware to make an FPS RPG they could have done that too. Instead they made ANTHEM.
 
I'm normally not one of those /v/ contrarians who hates things just because they're popular, but in the specific case of RDR2 and TW3, it's refreshing to see people shitting on those games and giving valid reasons in the process.

To me, RDR2 and Witcher 3 both represent the two sides of the bad game coin.

RDR2 has great gameplay but everything else about it is bad. Tumblr-grade writing, an empty boring world, characters I don't give a fuck about, and bad quest design.

The Witcher is the opposite: I love the lore, the world, and most of the characters, but the gameplay is so bad it's almost mystifying. It feels like Geralt has cerebral palsy or something.

They're both inches away from being two of the best games I've ever played, but both ended up being a delicious piece of chocolate cake with a dog turd on top. No, I'm not going to "eat around" the dog shit. It shouldn't be there to begin with.
 
Megaton Punch said:
I'm normally not one of those /v/ contrarians who hates things just because they're popular, but in the specific case of RDR2 and TW3, it's refreshing to see people shitting on those games and giving valid reasons in the process.

To me, RDR2 and Witcher 3 both represent the two sides of the bad game coin.

RDR2 has great gameplay but everything else about it is bad. Tumblr-grade writing, an empty boring world, characters I don't give a fuck about, and bad quest design.

The Witcher is the opposite: I love the lore, the world, and most of the characters, but the gameplay is so bad it's almost mystifying. It feels like Geralt has cerebral palsy or something.

They're both inches away from being two of the best games I've ever played, but both ended up being a delicious piece of chocolate cake with a dog turd on top. No, I'm not going to "eat around" the dog shit. It shouldn't be there to begin with.
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Okay I'm glad I wasn't just mentally ill while playing Witcher 3.

The combat feels like skating on gravel, especially if you're fighting something that takes a lot of hits to kill. Some of the quests are fun but the character progression feels...aimless. I didn't feel very different fighting one of the wild hunt guys than I did fighting the first ghouls or bandits you run into. The only thing that really feels like it changes is the equipment you have.
For me this meant I never really knew when I was strong enough or not, so I'd throw myself at challenges that were way above my level because I had just found some gear that made me feel sort of strong. It was all weird.

That being said the fun part of the game for me was walking around and solving problems for people, and roleplaying as a cool fantasy guy. Watching Geralt pirouette up against a scrotum monster spoiled that a little bit but there was still fun to be had.
 
Megaton Punch said:
RDR2 has great gameplay but everything else about it is bad. Tumblr-grade writing, an empty boring world, characters I don't give a fuck about, and bad quest design.
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Are you basing it on the single player or the multiplayer writing? It seems topical to me. And I've yet to play the single player.
 
BOTW fans are irreconcilably different from Zelda fans, with the main difference being BOTW fans are coomers pushing their gay and tranny fantasies on Link because of all the six gorillion gay porn on him and that one time he crossdressed in BOTW
 
The Ugly One said:
I largely enjoyed the combat in Witcher 3. But it took a while to click, and I can understand not liking it. But if you didn't like Witcher 3, haha, holy shit, will you ever hate Witcher 1. It also is somehow even worse in the "every big-boobed demoness wants to bang this autistic weirdo" department.
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I kind of had to respect how crass W1 was. Bioware was getting tons of shit from FoxNews-watching boomers at the time for daring to acknowledge sex exists, but CDPR went ahead and made banging whores into a collectible card game.

I'm not expecting that to be carried over into the remake.
 
ShiftyBoi said:
Okay I'm glad I wasn't just mentally ill while playing Witcher 3.

The combat feels like skating on gravel, especially if you're fighting something that takes a lot of hits to kill. Some of the quests are fun but the character progression feels...aimless. I didn't feel very different fighting one of the wild hunt guys than I did fighting the first ghouls or bandits you run into. The only thing that really feels like it changes is the equipment you have.
For me this meant I never really knew when I was strong enough or not, so I'd throw myself at challenges that were way above my level because I had just found some gear that made me feel sort of strong. It was all weird.

That being said the fun part of the game for me was walking around and solving problems for people, and roleplaying as a cool fantasy guy. Watching Geralt pirouette up against a scrotum monster spoiled that a little bit but there was still fun to be had.
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I remember for the prehype of The Witcher 2 devs were going on about how good the combat was. If my memory is right the director was boasting that Dark Souls was a influence. I don't know if they were lying through their teeth or don't understand From Software combat because the Witcher 2's combat was so lousy albeit pretty to look at. Nothing like From Software's action games whatsoever.
 
I wrote off Indivisible right away because the artstyle put me off. Like look at how long this girl's fingers are. Those are way too long. Her thumb is longer than my face.
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Thank goodness it's regarded as a bad game, and the studio is setting themselves on fire over wokeshit, lol.
 
Homer J. Fong said:
If my memory is right the director was boasting that Dark Souls was a influence.
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That would have been Demon's Souls but Demon's Souls came out a mere year before TW2. If they were figuring out combat a year before release, that speaks loads about how much of a mess development must have been. I remember that leaked TW2 internal tech video that showed much different combat than what was in the final version.
For the record, I think that TW2 has slightly better combat than TW3 but it's nothing special.
 
Unremarkable Anus Lover said:
I liked Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes specifically because it was so over the top and kino. Spent countless hours playing that game, much like I did with the original. They're honestly both worth playing for different reasons.
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I could ignore it's over the top bullshit if it at least had a better OST. Although there's a few that I really like.

There's not one instance in the original that has cutscenes with no BGM and there's at least a few in this that don't and it feels like the scene is in an vacuum with no air.
 
Wesker said:
I could ignore it's over the top bullshit if it at least had a better OST. Although there's a few that I really like.

There's not one instance in the original that has cutscenes with no BGM and there's at least a few in this that don't and it feels like the scene is in an vacuum with no air.
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Yeah, it definitely has alot of silly flaws. I guess I just wasn't autistic enough to care about them at the time the game was released.
 
Unremarkable Anus Lover said:
Yeah, it definitely has alot of silly flaws. I guess I just wasn't autistic enough to care about them at the time the game was released.
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I didn't either at the time since I was just a kid and I was excited to get a MGS1 remake while waiting for MGS3 to come out.

There is a mod, although I don't know if it was updated to have the classic OST over it and it completely changes the tone of the game.
 
Wesker said:
I didn't either at the time since I was just a kid and I was excited to get a MGS1 remake while waiting for MGS3 to come out.

There is a mod, although I don't know if it was updated to have the classic OST over it and it completely changes the tone of the game.
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Thanks a bunch, I'll have to check it out.
 
I'll give you a real unpopular opinion, I actually liked the Final Fantasy XIII series.

The music and graphics were amazing for the time, and barring a few characters the main cast isn't too insufferable.
I'm not stupid though, the story is as linear as it gets until like 40 hours into the game, and the combat is just hammering auto battle and hoping for the best. But the sequels improved on the combat system in fairness.

I'm mostly nostalgic for it because it was my first Final Fantasy game, and I played it when I was pretty young. I got that battered wife syndrome, the game keeps fucking up but I always come back.
 
Homer J. Fong said:
I'd say the popularity of Witcher 3 is due to Bioware collapsing in on itself. Bioware pretty much made their own subgenre of RPGs, the "cinematic RPG" with Mass Effect and arguably Dragon Age but that was way more niche.

As noted by other posters there was a big drought in content during the 8th Gen, but truly Witcher 3 was the biggest "cinematic RPG." Coincidentally that's why Cyberpunk 2077 sold a bajillion copies. LMAO if EA just had told Bioware to make an FPS RPG they could have done that too. Instead they made ANTHEM.
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Bioware games are also pretty trash. I dont like the "reading as a mechanic" thing these CRPGs tend to do, I play CRPGS for the character customization combat and interactivity, I dont play it for the story and choices. Give me an RPG which is JRPG-lite with build complexity, power levelling and good combat or a western RPG which is more immersive sim with systemic world design and combat options or a dungeon crawler with ton of loot shit and autism. These are the only RPG types I tend to play and Im sure most non DND people do as well.
 
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