Do people actually think this is good quest design...

Do people actually think this is good quest design? Pressing mouse right and letting Geralt guide you through the questline?

Witcher 3 quest aren't about giving you a challenge, they're about telling you a story. Geralt is the hero, he's the smart one who figures everything out, not you. You're just along for the ride.

Then why not make it a movie

too long

Because movies aren't art.

you gotta get from point A to point B somehow. Witcher senses just expedite the inevitable.

Any mod that makes witcher senses a bit less annoying to use? less zoom and camera effects basically.

Witcher 3 is great in pretty much every single way apart from the actual gameplay.

Because the video game medium allows for it to be more interactive and cheaper than it would be as a movie.

The "why can't it just be a movie" argument is such a cop out.

I actually just started playing this myself. Everyone told me to play it very carefully on the Hardest difficulty to have fun.

I'm maybe five hours in dicking around in White Haven or whatever and I'm just bored. Sure, I'll die every once in a while, but I just don't feel anything. What am I doing wrong? I'm playing it like a Ubisoft open-world game simulator.

Turn off the fucking question marks on the map for starters.

It's a pretty dull game unless you're really invested in the series. The combat is pretty shit and the characters aren't too likable.

It is essentially an open world simulator with one of the biggest gary stus in existence. Imagine the worst self insert character possible and you have 120h of Witcher 3.

Why did you buy a game you have no interest in?

It's over lads. Don't know what to do now, what to play. Every game after W3 feels like shit.

SHUT THE FUCK UP, LOOK AT HOW MANY GOTY AWARDS IT GOT

I'M SURE YOU'RE JUST A BLUNDERBORNE FAG OR KOJIMADRONE WHO CAN'T GET OVER PRECIOUS GOTY AWARDS

Same here, stopped after Keira's quest

Because he has heard that it's awesome and he wanted to try it instead of watching some gay let's plays on YouTube?

I guess that would be pretty helpful. I am sort of just running directly to each one and resolving whatever the fuck is happening and moving on, but is the world rich enough to justify trudging through, or is it just empty on the way to each point?

I like the idea of the combat. I like that I kind of have to prepare for encounters; my friends were definitely right to play it carefully on a difficulty that pushes me. Almost gives me a STALKER vibe. But holy fuck, is it floaty...

Well, I did have some interest in it. Everyone was talking about it and I got it on the discount. Figured I'd enrich myself...despite not really playing the other ones. I've never really done that before with a game series.

childish question.

>I like the idea of the combat. I like that I kind of have to prepare for encounters; my friends were definitely right to play it carefully on a difficulty that pushes me.
Play MMOs, Diablo or any other buff/potion heavy game.

>but is the world rich enough to justify trudging through, or is it just empty on the way to each point?
Yeah, it is quite rich. There's alot of attention to detail in environmental design that not everything feels copy pasted. The question marks themselves just turn the experience more into a checklist rather than allowing you stumble onto points of interest by chance.

Because their shit story is held to a lower standard as a game than it would be as a movie.

I found out the game isn't really fun unless you are invested into the franchise, even the books.

Couldn't even finish the first game back in the day in 2008. Would get to the part where you reach the trade district in Chapter 3. Then I found out the books were getting translated, so I started reading them and the more I fun I had playing it. The fun is finding the characters in the book appearing in the game like "Oh shit, it's motherfucking Dandelion".

Witcher games were made for the diehard fans, not the shitty pleb casualfags simply picking it up cause they heard tiddies were involved.

Hate MMOs. I don't want encounter preparation to be a part time job...A happy medium of doing it on the fly and in the field feels a lot better for me.

That's fucking rough. I tend to dislike a lot of fantasy settings, too. I was just kind of hoping the third one had the spark or something that would get me into it.

Well fuck. I guess I'll keep it up, but fuck.