The Witcher Game Series

glumCunt said:
Thought the gameplay was just bad. Felt rotten inside after 15 hours or so of playing. And I loved the first game. Don't understand why people think this is a good game at all. But, whatever, to each his own I guess.
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I could write an entire essay on why the Witcher 3's gameplay is lackluster, but it's safe to say its reputation is wholly built on "good writing" and the voice acting. The combat, quest design, RPG elements and the choice of builds are all subpar.

What, you don't like following BAT VISION for every god damn quest in the game? Fuck you old-timer.
 
cummytummies said:
I could write an entire essay on why the Witcher 3's gameplay is lackluster, but it's safe to say its reputation is wholly built on "good writing" and the voice acting. The combat, quest design, RPG elements and the choice of builds are all subpar.

What, you don't like following BAT VISION for every god damn quest in the game? Fuck you old-timer.
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I'd read that essay.

I'm glad someone else picked up on the "good writing, though". I've maintained for a while that as a standalone, TW3 is fine. Not GOTY, but a fine game to waste time in. It's got a good atmosphere to its landscapes and the monsters are cool and it's alright as a 'baby's first grimdark'. But as a sequel, it's terrible.

I don't know how you go from making complex characters in the first and second games, building up a confrontation for Nilfgaard, only to make all of those characters retarded or dead and everything you did previously basically for nothing. At least the Elder Scrolls justifies it with each game being a hundred or so years after the last. Six months is all it takes for every NPC to turn stupid in The Witcher. Or, with the case of Dijkstra, a few quests.

At least the DLCs were fun.
 
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It always makes me laugh that when Ubisoft ripped off W3, they skipped the great writing, but threw in the ridiculous MMORPG region system where you can be a 15 level witcher, killing demons and shit in one part of the map, then go elsewhere and be knocked out by a level 20 drunk peasant wielding a twig.
Shame that W3 didn't take score from Mass Effect and adapted the game by importing the level you had in W2. Kinda sucks that you can fight off a whole Nilfargdian garrison by the end of one game just to get your ass kicked by a village mob of malnourished drunks.
 
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Warkrieg Battlebournion said:
Shame that W3 didn't take score from Mass Effect and adapted the game by importing the level you had in W2. Kinda sucks that you can fight off a whole Nilfargdian garrison by the end of one game just to get your ass kicked by a village mob of malnourished drunks.
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Geralt getting his ass beat by peasants is pretty accurate to his history. I agree on the desire for an import bonus or something akin to that, there's no way during the timeskip he utterly forgot everything. Unless the lice infestation nerfed him into irrelevance.
 
I'm about 8h in to Witcher 3 now. Enjoying it so far but am already slightly confused by some of the character stuff. Some of the names I recognise from the first two games but others are a mystery to me. I assume they are from the books? Like I just met a witch in a hut on the main quest and the characters know each other and my reaction is "who the fuck are you?"

Also am I the only one who can't get the parry/riposte timing to work? I just get killed every time. Must have got dropped a dozen times by a group of drowners trying to practice it.
 
Stasi said:
I assume they are from the books? Like I just met a witch in a hut on the main quest and the characters know each other and my reaction is "who the fuck are you?"
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I'll assume that's Keira Metz you're talking to. She's from the books, so if you never read them and only played the games, it's understandable you'd be confused. All you really need to know is she was apart of the Lodge of Sorceresses and was formerly King Foltest's advisor - just like Triss was. Since Foltest is dead and the Lodge has been disbanded, she's now hating her life when you waltz in.

It's worth it to help her. You get some neat things.

And the parrying is a matter of timing, but I think everyone just does the standard "dodge roll + signs + slash + dodge roll". Or at least that's how I went along. I usually build an archetype around Signs + Light Armor, but if you're experimenting with the other styles and including alchemy, I think you might have to start learning timing. That or start investing in the Aard sign. It helps knock enemies back and can even drop them to the ground so you can finish them off with a single click.
 
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Played 10 hours of Thronebreaker, was feeling bored and dropped it.

Thinking about picking it up again, can anyone here tell me if it's worth it?
 
Stasi said:
I'm about 8h in to Witcher 3 now. Enjoying it so far but am already slightly confused by some of the character stuff. Some of the names I recognise from the first two games but others are a mystery to me. I assume they are from the books? Like I just met a witch in a hut on the main quest and the characters know each other and my reaction is "who the fuck are you?"

Also am I the only one who can't get the parry/riposte timing to work? I just get killed every time. Must have got dropped a dozen times by a group of drowners trying to practice it.
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It doesn't really work on monsters. I'll have to play again to see if countering monsters is real, but it's definitely not reliable.

EDIT: Now that I've had, the counter for monsters is a weak sword swipe and it only applies to anything that's Geralt's size or smaller. For drowners, only their arm swipes can be countered as they are light attacks. Lunges can't be countered as they cause that stun status. Countering does work consistently with wolves, nekkers, and harpies/sirens.
 
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John Cakeless said:
Played 10 hours of Thronebreaker, was feeling bored and dropped it.

Thinking about picking it up again, can anyone here tell me if it's worth it?
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Depends. Did you like the characters and the option to make choices? Did you like the 'battles' using Gwent cards? If you say no to any of these, then the answer is probably not.

It's a good little game if you're into Witcher lore, but it's not for everyone.
 
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Stasi said:
Also am I the only one who can't get the parry/riposte timing to work? I just get killed every time. Must have got dropped a dozen times by a group of drowners trying to practice it.
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Here's my cheat sheet to Witcher 3 combat:

Use shield ability
Aggressively hit enemies until hit
Roll until shield ability recharges
If stamina recharges before you've lost shield use the flame or bullet time or axii or ardward or whatever the fuck they all do the same thing just with different visuals
Spam all consumables as you'll have 200 dwarven spirits in your inventory and can meditate after every encounter anyway
Repeat until all enemies are dead

And this was on the highest difficulty.
 
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Installing a shader mod that changed the game to look more like the E3 trailer changed the experience completely. It's over saturated out of the box.
 
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Radical Cadre said:
I would like more content added to Witcher 3. Same engine and all that. Don't get all crazy and fancy.

Anything new, I don't trust. You're going to fuck it up.
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Yeah, I agree.
But, that's not a wolf, and they've said Geralt's story is over, so at least they won't fuck that up.

Unreal isn't a terrible engine, and, rate me positive, I think they can still make a good game.
 
Gave W3 a fourth try and it actually caught me in this time, im enjoying it a lot, but... Am i the only one who finds Yennefer annoying?

Also, is it me or is the Gwent AI cheating sometimes?
 
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