Is The Witcher 3 good?

Is The Witcher 3 good?

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yes. /thread

Its ok.

I've honestly put 200+ hours into it over multiplayer playthroughs, but never stay interested long enough to actually finish it.

No. I recommend you check out No Man's Sky. Super cool space game...

Yes

How the fuck can you not have finished it

The main story isn't even that long I mean it can be done in 40 hours without rushing

> I played 200 houRS
> It's only okay
Retard.

It's quite possibly the greatest video game ever.

yes

people get hyperbolic about the combat being really shit, but the reality is that the combat is acceptable. and if you've played a lot of RPGs you should be used to far worse combat systems anyway.

Its good. Combat has some questionable choices like having two dedicated dodge buttons overall a very solid game

This and I'm not even memeing

It's very hard to find flaws

To me it's as perfect as OoT was back then

The expansions rock too

no

witcher 1 sucked, witcher 2 sucked, and witcher 3 sucked. I'm not sure how turning it into a single player mmo was supposed to solve any problems.

I absolutely love it. I'm about 60 hours into my first playthrough. Just started clearing Skellige (I wish there was less floating cargo points of interest, but whatever) and I'm still having a blast.

Cannot recommend it enough, and from what I can say, the expansions seem to keep up or even improve with the base game so look into those too.

It doesn't, one is dodge the other is roll. One is for humans one for monsters. That's not questionable at all.

The skill slot limit is questionable.

99% of the time you only need the sidestep, doesn't matter what kind of enemy it is.

Get out now before you're spoiled dingus. Also yeah, the expansions feel like full blown games themselves.

posting best game ever

Hearts of Stone will kick your ass. It has ridiculous difficulty spikes. At least on death march, there are demons souls tier bosses in that expansion.

One fight in particular is cheap as fucking Christ. I'm talking insta kill attack by the boss except there's 6 bosses instead of just one so you fuck up once you start over.

Don't really know what they were thinking because while combat is good enough for an RPG, it sure as hell is no Ninja Gaiden so the difficulty spike feels uncalled for.

Literally false. Even fucking drowners kill you if you only step. Play on DM like you're supposed to.

>Don't really know what they were thinking because while combat is good enough for an RPG, it sure as hell is no Ninja Gaiden so the difficulty spike feels uncalled for.

I feel the same.

The worst thing about playing on PS4 is having to sit through a two minute load screen each time you die. For that reason alone, I'm never doing a death march playthrough.

For the Iris Nightmare fight I enabled god mode after five deaths. Just didn't want to invest the time just to beat that cheap fight. I know it's possible it just takes more time than I'm willing to dedicate. I beat the Frog and Caretaker on DM without cheating, but that was the point where I gave it a fuck you.

It's a CDPR game, they are the only developer left making great games, everyone praises it, reviews are gushing and... You need to ask fourth channel if it's OK first?

Abhorrent display.

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OP here, cute otter. was worth this thread just to see this little man

The fights are actually pretty cool from a non-combat perspective. The design and feel of Iris's Greatest Fear was outstanding, it's just the weak combat system let it down.

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My pleasure, brother. Enjoy the Witcher :)

I couldn't play it before finally got a good PC and I can't put the game down

I'm 80 hours in and I've barely done a third of the content, mostly because I like to walk around in first person and soak in the sights

It's alright. Lots of bad design choices and dysfunctional systems, but you might be able to look past it. The world's well crafted.

It's scenery is so beautiful

This game, man.

I barely thought it would live up to the hype, let alone exceed it. I've been playing for just four hours straight only up to White Orchard, and it has been absolutely and utterly humbling. My breath is being taken away at every turn.

how graphic intensive is the game? haven't upgraded from my 760 in years

Its no Dark Souls but its ok.

don't fall for this meme

The witcher trilogy, including yes, Witcher 3 is one of the best series I've ever played. You will find few other series as immersive as the Witcher Universe. After buying 1-3 on sale and playing them one after the other, it was an amazing ride.

>blood and wine
>no HoS
plebian

>otter
>man
fuck off, peta

Read the manga first.

If you never played a Souls game, then go for it
If you did you will probably be too disappointed to chore through it.

Sure, if you like movies with objectively shit gameplay

>great games

You mean games that aren't even close to on par with Bioware/Bethesda's past offerings?

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it's perfect as Skyrim was back then

it's good for one playthrough

it's got enough of a hook to go through to the end, but a second time is asking too much

>very hard to find flaws
>best game ever

Yeah, impossible not to think of Souls when it does perfectly everything that TW3 attempts and fails at. Of course, you can't expect things to be at the same level, but combat, items, and leveling, which is like the whole part of the game that's not cutscenes, are miserably done in TW3. Soulslike systems and mechanics would've been such a perfect fit for the world too. Shame.

stop liking what i dont like

I wouldn't say it's the best video game ever but it's really fucking good

Tons of well written and unique side quests, believable characters with flaws, a great and expansive world to explore with tons of stuff to find

Missions can get a little repetitive and combat isn't really that great, but it's an improvement over the first 2.

I have a 7850 and the game runs at 45fps avg with high settings and 1080p so you should be fine.

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Can anyone tell me if the combat mechanics change a lot from The Witcher 2? Will I notice any difference with my keyboard and mouse? The camera movement during combat kinda bothered me but eventually I got used to it

The combat mechanics haven't changed THAT much. You will need to do some rebinding of keys though. I tried to match mine as closely to TW2 as possible.

I use:
M1 = fast atk
M2 = strong atk
M3 = witcher sense
Z = toggle walk
Shift = Run
R = quick use pocket item
F = parry
E = use
Q = signs
Ctrl = quick menu
V = roll
Space = dodge
T/G/Y/H = quick use potions 1-4

Is the dlc worth installing the game again?

So is there any reason to really go for a romance with Yennefer? It seems from the interactions that I've had that she's a stuck up bitch that doesn't much care for Geralt at all. What's the appeal?

>garbage combat
>witcher vision is every bit as bad as skyrim's quest marker
>downgraded for consoles
No OP, it's shit.

It's because she thinks her feelings are a result of the wish Geralt made, after you break the spell and she realises her feelings are real she turns to a relative QT 3.14

Got it. Thanks. I finished TW2 yesterday so I will do just that given the short time between games.

yes

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It's my favourite game of all time

>witcher vision is every bit as bad as skyrim's quest marker

Did people who say this even played the previous games? What kind of quests were you expecting exactly, almost everything was marked on the map in the first game as well

Honestly, this. Though playing the whole trilogy, and more crucially reading some of the key books, was crucial. But I can honestly say it's my favourite game.

I'm always really wary of games with insane hype, because in my experience, they seldom live up to it. They're usually fine games in their own right, just not THAT good. The Witcher 3 is the only game ever, maybe the only piece of entertainment where the impression I'm left with is that it's even better than the hype.

I'm at Hearts of Stone (which is great, and creepy as fuck btw) having probably played like a 100 hours, and I'm just constantly blown away by all the small details and great care the developers put into this game. And the scenery is the single best I've ever experienced in a game.

It is my most favourite game of all time, but the greatest? Are you nuts? Lots of plotholes in the last act of the main story that they did not fix.

This. It also convinced me that TW3 will be a great game when the regiew embargo lifted 7 days before launch. That shows confidence.

It has some issues, but i don't think any game on my top list doesn't have some sort of issue with it,
sure, the combat is repetitive and the open world can be a little too ubisoft-y but I don't really care when it does so many other things right.
If you don't like it then I don't blame you, but It's kinda silly to say it's complete shit.

Nigger
Yen is quite literary perfect for Geralt
She acts like a human being and not qt3.14 slut redhead (who btw in the books basically magically raped Geralt).

She is Geralts true love, to the extent that he wasted a wish from a powerful djinn, that could have given him ANYTHING ... on that she would love him.
They have history, she acted like a surrogate mom to your daughterfu Ciri, they have struggled through death and life together, through seemingly impassable and unconquerable obstacles, always together in the end.
She is a person, and she cares for Geralt in her own way, she is smart as balls, powerful to the extent that she could Zap olf Wolfey at any second, and under all her Lilac&Gooseberry perfume and hard exterior, she is still an humble and insecure woman who truly cares for the people she loves (due to being a outcast hunchback before changing that through magix)

Triss is generic love interest, they even gave Shani more of a personality, just go for the Yen route, she is worth it in the end, and its what Geralt would do in the books

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Eh, it was a decent time sink but like most plebbit tier games it is all hype with not much to show for it in terms of longevity.

Discussion has already more or less died for it due to its lack of substance or thought provoking narrative. It was overall a pretty generic game with generic design philosophies that fans of the series will no doubt love but it's not likely to leave a lasting impression like certain other games (Baldur's Gate 2, Planescape, Deus Ex, Dark Souls 1, Morrowind etc).

The RPG mechanics are far too watered down, replayability is almost non existent and the combat is mediocre at best and a repetitive chore at worst that even hardcore fans admit is pretty "meh".

6/10 game imo, slightly above average.

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It's pretty good, considering I bought the complete version with HoS and BaW Im pretty satisfied with how much the game has to offer. Contracts are cool at first but get repetitive fast, Gwent would be more fun if it was easier to build decks early on. The horse mechanics are the most anti fun part of the game, they're pretty horrific for a game that relies so much on them.

Blood and Wine is pretty good as an expansion for the amount of extra content in it but Hearts of Stone is so much better in almost every other way.

>6 bosses

Fight them one at a time, don't attack them all or you'll get your ass kicked, fight isn't that hard.

It's absolutely fantastic.

Shes pragmatic as fuck, not stuck up

I think it has a fair bit of replayability but it depends on how completionist you were with your first run.

I've had a few months break from the game and I'm now on my 2nd playthrough, taking quite a few alternate choices, doing sidequests I skipped/missed and I'm going to romance Triss just to see what its like. There are quite a number of significant divergent choices in the game, even if they don't have a huge impact, its definitely enough for flavour.

More or less this. I just don't get the hype behind this series. It seems to me like it's catered to the bookfags but Witcher 1 was just awful, Witcher 2 was an improvement but still mediocre and Witcher 3 was alright I guess (Hearts of Stone was pretty cool but B&W missed the mark for me. That vineyard war questline was fucking cancer).

I don't get the hype, the game didn't really excel anywhere expect for maybe the visuals. The open world was standard AAA affair, the RPG mechanics were as barebones as it gets and while I disagree with how much shit the combat gets, I still see why people complain about it. Overall a 6-7/10 for me as well.

god HoS people are gigantic faggots.

>I think it has a fair bit of replayability

Outside of some minor changes in the narrative and added bits of dialogue I Just don't see it. The build variety doesn't really warrant multiple playthroughs similar to a Dragons Dogma or Morrowind for example. I get why fans of the series like it but to "best game ever" praise is grossly misleading to somebody who is picking it up for the first time. It simply doesn't even try to innovate in any of its aspects and felt pretty by the books as modern AAA open world games go.

Terrible opinions. Have you tried having taste?

I definitely think its overrated, but so is pretty much every decent open world game.

When Oblivion came out, most people thought it was God's gift to the world.

the combat is shitty and the story is literally nothing is happening, i miss my gf

Sorry, did I interrupt this attempted circlejerk? What do you disagree with?

>Open world had no noteworthy dungeons and most of it was filled with filler checklist "Points of Interest"
>Loot is completely laughable in this game, Witcher Gear renders everything obsolete
>Dialogue mechanics are as basic as it gets (2~ choices on average ranging from "Yes" and "Maybe later")
>Story was nothing special in terms of writing, twists or originality
>Build variety reduces the incentive to replaying the game

There's a few other things that I disagree with due to me actually being a bookfag (the fact that they changed the White Frost and the terribly underwritten Emyhr were my biggest gripes). The ending and overall final acts also felt completely rushed.

Throw in the formulaic quest structure (follow red stuff etc etc) and while the side quests had fantastic writing, it was hampered by the formulaic, limited and repetitive gameplay.

No need to meme because you disagree with my opinion senpai

>I've played a game I don't really like for 200+ hours


You're an imbecile.

>crucially crucial
fuck man i shouldnt post at 4 am

Get over yourself. You are highly overrated.

Combat's shitty, Story's crappy, palms are sweaty

I enjoyed it a lot, one of the first games in awhile that I had the feeling of didn't want it to end and couldn't put down. Put in around 120+ hours over the main game and expansions. Not perfect obviously, but I loved the world, quests, dialogue, story, etc. I enjoyed the combat, but it didn't really evolve much as the game went on, that would be my main complaint. Skellige had way too many water caches, needed more mainland random stuff. The DLC was amazing, probably the best example of DLC/expansions seen in years and for a reasonable price, more devs need to take a note of Witcher 3's season pass, looking at you Bethesda.

>>Build variety reduces the incentive to replaying the game
Nah senpai

beaten the game 3 times

You're out of your mind if you think there's no variety. Granted, sword guy with quen will ALWAYS be better than anything else, but it's just TOO much fun to go around throwing 6 bombs at a time, setting everything on fire, or doing an Alt Aard and knock down 12 dudes.

I got it on gamefly and it seems to be one repetitive fetch quest after another, peppered with the occasional set of tits and moral gray area to keep it interesting.

>Go here, kill x, bring my its head!
>Go here, find ingredient y before you use it to make an item to kill x and bring me its head!
>Go here, find y before you kill x, but o wait the original reason you were going to kill x is being challenged by new information that will let you kill z or let x go instead to finish the quest. Regardless, you need to bring a head back with you.

Combat is ok, voice acting and graphics are bretty gud, story is ok (I wasn't really interested in chasing down a Mary Sue desu). I would also get stuck on the environment while riding on the horse.

Overall, I'd say it 7/10. It's got more good points than bad points,but I am also glad I got it through gamefly.

Yen is the best, no question. Projeckt were pretty harsh on her considering they left her out for two games and you only really get to know her properly in the second half of the final game. She's a bitch for good reason at least, she still never quite forgave him for fucking Triss even though she knows it was Triss' fault.

its honestly one of the most RACIST games I've ever played.

i got 40 hours in before i realized that EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER was white. I stopped playing

because Geralt has great chemistry with her and their banter is great. All the conversations with Triss are dull and boring and the voice actor is awful.

Who got the best ending?

Or just pull a Gaunter O'Dimm

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literally the worst ending. Ciri being a witcheress is canon in the books and let's not forget that Emphyr was going to impregnate because of a prophecy. Geralt is Ciri's real father.

The game is good, but not good enough to keep me interested for the entire game.

Turning down Triss is pretty sad. Turning down Yen is fucking heartbreaking.

Also shes a magnificent cunt.

Somebody post the redhead sitting on the chair already. her hands are flat on the chair

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>tfw my build was based around cluster bombs so I had to use my sword and do piss poor damage so the fight took ages.

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Nah man.

Ciri dying and Geralt hunting down the last sorceress to get back her medallion only to succumb to grief in her shitty hut being swarmed by monsters is the worst ending. I am mad as hell. And I'm entirely convinced I only got it because I said yes to the money Emhyr offered me