I just bought the Witcher 3 Goty edition, did I fall for a meme?

I just bought the Witcher 3 Goty edition, did I fall for a meme?

Only played it once at my friends house.

It's not perfect but it's fucking great.

Have you played the others first? You should.

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Yes
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It's a 2/10 game with buyed reviews, refund it

Why the fuck are you asking AFTER purchase?
Did you try plying the game instead of asking random strangers on teh interwebs whether you will like it?

You fell for the meme of it being a meme.

What is it with all these kids that are unable to think and form their own opinions on a fucking video game without resorting to "le meme".

>open world choice making game
>did I fall for a meme
Yes.

Of course it's a meme but it's still good

No, u did not. Blood and Wine dlc is the best game of this year at the moment

It's good for what it is, but it's still an open world game where you spend vast quantities of times traversing empty spaces of land, which makes it vastly inferior to even TW2 or any other well-made, linear RPG.

Lmao tw2 is shit mate

Ignore the Sup Forumstards mate

It IS a good game. Just learn to use the combat system properly (don't roll) and you'll get a lot of playtime out of it

A lot of people got assblasted because it has real-time action combat and isn't exploitable like DS

>spend vast quantities of times traversing empty spaces of land

First of all every part of the world is handcrafted and has just as much detail as W2 and traveling adds so much to immersion and sense of scale

Go play corridor simulators or something you retard

>did I fall for a meme?
If you are thinking in cateogories like "meme's", you are an idiot.

The Witcher 3 is a beautiful game with fantastic world, writing, characters, settings, music and art direction. It really feels like a grand adventure and you can get immersed in it for hundreds of hours if you care about the narrative aspect of it (and I mean all narrative aspects, not just the story itself). There is also a huge amount of content on display - with more (good) quests, story and stuff to explore than you'll probably ever manage to explore.

But it is also rather mechanically shallow. The combat is not terrible, but it really offers very little variety, the character progression is simplistic and mostly revolves around different flavors of combat, the difficulty curve is somewhat unbalanced with the core game growing progressively easier as you play, and the quests - while wonderfully written and involving a lot of great choice-and-consequence options, are mechanically mostly trivial "follow the crumbreads" excercises in holding the right button. The emphasis on narrative also means slow start - it takes quite a while before the game even starts to open up.

Whenever you enjoy the game depends mostly on how much you focus and care about the fantasy and story aspect of it, and how much you put emphasis on mechanical depth. If you are in the latter category, you won't like it very much.

You would have known all of it if you ever bothered to read a review or a thread about the game here on Sup Forums prior to buying it.

If you are going to play it, I strongly recommend bumping up the difficulty to highest once you get the feel for the gameplay, changing the control scheme to "alternate" if you play on mouse and keyboard, and filtering off all the "places of interest" off from your map: it makes the gameplay and exploration more organic and less a collect-a-thon of question-marks.

No I loved the 1 hr I played of it so decided to buy it. It was only $20 for the Complete Edition.

Only good reply in here. Thanks

Sounds like my type of game.

No I've only played this. But I love medieval themed stuff

>I just bought the Witcher 3 Goty edition, did I fall for a meme?

Play it and formulate your own goddamn opinion, you fucking idiot.

What the fuck are you asking people on the internet for anyway?

Why do you people never play the first games in the series first? You're fucking autistic.

>The Witcher 1 is shit
>It's not on consoles which is where a bunch of people are playing Witcher 2/3

Very addictive in a positive way. After you will pass your first few hours you will be sucked in instantly. When it came up I forgot about any other mmorpg/game. Just Witcher 24/7. Don't fall to other anons. Every person has a different taste. It's verry appealing to me as someone who played games since the 90s

You should play 1&2 first

>played it at a friends house
underageb&

>did I fall for a meme?
if you bought it for a console.

It's the only game where I've played the NG+ in my life, and it's a long ass RPG no less. I barely even bother to finish games even if I like them, that's how shit my attention span is.

>Whenever you enjoy the game depends mostly on how much you focus and care about the fantasy and story aspect of it, and how much you put emphasis on mechanical depth

>You'll hate the game if you want an actual video game with deep mechanics but you'll love it if you want to play a movie and don't like games

Sounds about right.

I want this story-game trend to end so we can loop back around to games with no story at all again.

If you liked the first hour, there is a good chance you might like the rest of it. Because it's basically just that except A LOT MORE OF IT.

The one thing one can level at the game as a serious criticism is exactly that the game does not really change or add much mechanical depth to it beyond what you see in the first 15 hours or so. The combat will get just a few more minor tricks, you'll encounter just a handful of more enemies with different movesets, the quests will be mostly the same "follow the senses, talk to someone, make a decision, fight" that you basically do at the first scene on Kaer Morhen.

If you don't mind that and let yourself be carried away by the characters, the world, the environments, you'll have a blast. I know I had.

>>You'll hate the game if you want an actual video game with deep mechanics but you'll love it if you want to play a movie and don't like games
It's an absolutely amazing fallacy to assume that games are supposed to have DEEP mechanics. Checkers don't have deep mechanics. Minesweeper does not have deep mechanics. Pong does not have deep mechanics. No point-and-click adventure, including masterpieces like Grim Fandago or Day of the Tentacle don't have deep mechanics. Yet are all celebrated.

It's equally as fallacious to assume that just because the mechanics are not deep, that it's a "movie". Interaction is key in The Witcher. You make decisions, you explore the world. Immersion and player agency is key. This is doubly as true here as most of the plot elements are character driven: it's literally about what stances you form towards them and how you act in relationship to their future.

Yeah, Witcher isn't a deep game. Neither is pong or space invaders. Nobody calls those movies.

You are just another bitter, braindead cretin parroting popular buzzphrases and empty, meaningless pseudo-truisms used to justify your actually groundless malcontent. Like most of this board - you are a tool.

I don't really agree that the game doesn't change,you can unlock five new signs which change how the fight plays out, you can craft the potions and bombs which also change the combat up a bit, some new moves like Rend and Whirl. Didn't find the crossbow useful expect for exploding bolts which sets stuff on fire

There's not enough variety and advancement for a 150 hours open world game where you explore every single question mark, but there's good ammount of variety if you do just the quests, and maybe craft witcher armors

>Have you played the others first? You should.
Don't fall for this shit OP

fuck off

Sexual imagery like wow.

Was that really necessary?