What am I in for?

What am I in for?

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>A Mary Sue main
>Shitty combat
>Depressing atmosphere outside of cities
>Largely pointless exploration


Those are the main things

The literal best game made. Look forward to never enjoy other games again.

One hell of a ride

>depression

why play other games afterwards?

I'm currently having a dilemma in my third play through.

>overwhelming desire to the play the game again in its entirety
>overwhelming responsilbities outside of a video game

It's just too good.

-Don't play the game like a chore list.
-If a quest is green/gray, just make the story progress, because questing while overleveled is boring.
-Chose a set of equipment and upgrade it. You'll get maximum swagg and maximum stats.
-Triss is a very good waifu and her love quest is nice.

And it's also better than just about any contemporary RPG, except if you're not one of the crap souls nuts who go mental for games with shitty graphics, no story and broken hitboxes.

>RPG
>Only weapons are swords
>Only playstyle is R1 spam
>Illusion of choice in spells
>Pick the best armor and weapons and your set

Its an RPG for normie retards like yourself who don't want an actual RPG, only the illusion of one.

Always pick Yen.

Play the game and find out

a really fucking good game, here's my take on it so far

>some very bad main characters (gary sue and the cleavage witches 3)
>well written stories and secondary characters to compensate
>probably one of the best looking games ever made
>immersive as fuck
>extremely good VA (except for the main cast, seriously what's up with that)
>fun, fluid, satisfying combat
>great difficulty curve that rewards resourcefulness without being cheap
>a substantial amount of bugs
>fairly deep rpg mechanics
>bad movement controls out of combat (especially on horseback, holy shit)
>nvidia goyworks
>massive maps loaded with cool shit
>varied environments
>cool monsters (although drowners/ghouls/etc get old fast)
>slightly frustrating level mechanics that stifles exploration
>lots of talking to yourself

overall I'd give it a 8.5/10 but I've only played up to Velen so it might get really good or bad after that

I can't help but pick Yen because she's lore appropriate. Also she's hotter and I feel bad for Geralt and want him to have his waifu. I want to see what happens or changes if one picks Triss (probably not much?) but I just can't. It's sick and wrong.

>being this big of a pleb

>Only playstyle is R1 spam
>Illusion of choice in spells
confirmed babby shitter

waiting for her to get socked in the face

I was 100% Yen first go with no lore knowledge
Romanced Triss too on my second playthrough, just because she is hot.
Ended up with nothing, worst end ever.

Playing through this whole darned game again just because I can't live the rest of my life and die in peace if I haven't finished the game with Yennefer tucked up in my toussaint cabin.

LAY ME DOWN WITH A BARREL O BEER

It gets significantly prettier in Skellige, that's for sure. I agree about the horse controls, it's like driving a retarded downie tank on roller skates but you make do. On-foot movement can be tweaked with a setting which makes it a little better. The only VA that pissed me off was Geralt himself which is a shame, he did the typical low growl that can be barely be heard half the time.

OP if you haven't played it then it's worth playing regardless of what anyone says. If you're worried about wasting money then wait for a sale (is there still one now?) or acquire it through dubious means if you're on PC.

I think my favourite thing about the game is the side quests. They're side quests done properly, nearly every single one is a little self-contained story, sure some of them only take ten minutes but they give the world so much life. I would argue it's worth experiencing for that alone; every developer should use it as a yardstick by which to measure their side quests. A man can dream.

Roll, roll, poke and read your game's story in wikis, soulsfag.

The funniest thing about you crap souls babbies is that you actually create threads to literally invent storyline speculations since the oh-so-artsy From never gave you a story in the first place.

>A Mary Sue main
>Any positive feature or power is mary suish

>Shitty combat
a meme, its not really that bad

>Depressing atmosphere outside of cities
realistic medieval atmosphere

>Largely pointless exploration
it's not pointless when exploration itself is the point

ROLL/FAST ATTACK/ROLL/FAST ATTACK/ROLL/FAST ATTACK

X20

Few cutscenes thrown in for jokes

in my top 5 games desu its great

Follow the red trail
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On top of poor controls; depthless combat and character customization; poor AI; laughable difficulty no matter what setting due to said poor AI; a pointless huge map that consists of the Westworld-tier npcs doing the exact same shit every single time you approach them like a stiff themepark; the worst loot system any game of its kind has ever seen (just wear whatever witcher gear they throw at your feet effortlessly and don't even bother picking any trash up); choices that make no difference whatsoever on the actual game other than a shitty slideshow at the very end; a story that simply doesn't know how to end; every single sidequest having an EPIC TWIST to the point it becomes extremely predictable because people can't just have a simple motivation no, they gotta have this super sikrit plan 100% of the time; and overall an action adventure game masquerading behind numbers and a medieval setting to pretend it's an RPG.

Enjoy this normie/reddit favorite, OP.

Cutscenes - hours and hours of people standing around talking at each other.
Combat/Gameplay is ordinary and barely existent.
Dreadful music.
Writing isn't too bad for a video game.

name a legit character flaw Geralt has

SIGNS ARE AMAZING

>Follow the red trail
>Cutscene
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>Follow the red trail
>repeat
This is the most accurate description of the witcher 3.

I'm hesitant to play it, because Witcher 1 was so stupendously mediocre. I skipped 2.

It's really not that bad.

One of the few games I can say was a privilege to play

I bought it after I pirated it because it was worth the money honestly

Just don't forcefully shove dijkstra

If you're one of those modern gamers who pretend to like games when in reality all you want is a book made for idiots, you're in for a nice ride. They overly simplified pretty much everything, from geralt drowing the correct sword automatically, to the most handholdy UI I have ever seen in my life, OP shit right off the get go such as Quen and an alchemy system that looks like a pale imitation of witcher 1's.

It's a game you can just shut off your brain and watch 600 hours of cutscenes with above average writing so it's pretty easy. It's aiming for that lowest common denominator crowd so it should be very palatable.

This
>Soulsbabies literally seek out Witcher threads to shitpost because Stillborn was a fizzle.
>The next year DS3 (hailed as the return to glory for DS) loses to the W3's DLC.
Seriously kids don't trust a Soulscuck. They are just sweaty little nerds who have drank the coolaid and cant accept that their favorite game series is flawed.

Yeah, I remember I was stunned when I played it for the first time. I couldn't get through all the talking.

Then I gave it another chance and tried to listen to what NPCs said and guess fucking what, I had a blast and loved the game.

Sup Forums would be a far better place if it wasn't full of people trying so, so hard to NOT have any fun.

sure you can break down any game to this level if you ignore three/fourths of it on purpose.

shit actually goes down like this.

>follow red trail
>witness a ton of aesthetically pleasant shit
>combat various enemies all with different mechanics
>cutscene
>dialogue option with actual consequences
>boss fight
>cut scene
>follow red trail
>quest ends
>stay around town to develop character and manage resources
>repeat

I bet you played on ez story mode because dying makes you rage and give up, then complained about the parts you turned off not being there.

the leddit crybaby shit is just icing on the cake. dumb neo-Sup Forums babby turds.

>geralt drowing the correct sword automatically
They added an option to adress this very thing though.

150+ hours game
boring combat
well written side quests
actual characters with personalities not "muhahaha i am evil and i just fuck up people"
gwent, horse racing, whore fucking, mad rhymes spitting, fist fighting, wedding dancing, drinking, drunk crossdressing, wine tasting, monster slaying, crime solving, whore fucking, daughter saving
you will laugh, chill, enjoy, get emotional, angry
a mighty adventure waiting for you my friend.

That's quite funny since when CDPR got that goty award from the show that just a year ago witcher shills were accusing of being bought out because it was rewarding Inquisition with the same award, the threads at /vg/ from games such as fallout, souls, bloodborne, dragon age, etc, were all flooded for weeks on end with CDPR shills bringing witcher out of the blue and talking about awards.

But don't mind me shitting on your little piece of history revisionism.

also
>Only weapons are swords
confirmed to not having played the game

>On-foot movement can be tweaked with a setting
Which setting is that? I only started playing a few days ago too. Its nice, but the combat doesnt feel well designed for kb+m

to be honest the crossbow has limited use outside of sniping shit in the water or sky and the game doesn't exactly encourage you to use axes and maces and shit

He is kinda right though. The only valid weapons are witcher swords. It's pretty rare to find a weapon with more damage/slots/enchantments and once you do, it's literally made obsolete by the next tier witcher sword you craft.

However, witchers using exclusively swords is part of the game/books' lore.

>putting this much effor to a bait

Why tho?

Why does my crossbow do 800 damage in the water but maybe 24 on land?

>witcher 3
>various enemies with different mechanics

Literally stopped reading there, this game has extremely poor enemy variation and they are all braindead easy. The only ones requiring the use of anything different are wraiths, golems and hearts of stone bosses.

Also,
>dialogue option with actual consequences

Yeah, for all the 5 seconds duration of the dialogue line right after or in a irrelevant slideshow at the end. The only meaningful choice you make is whether to kill radovid or not and it's only a long cutscene that changes literally jack fucking shit in the first place. Whether you kill him or not, it makes no difference whatsoever and his witch hunters are still walking around talking about him and his little inquisition as if nothing happened because this game has the depth of a puddle.

Just look at the famous baron quest, which everyone likes to overhype as if it were the second coming of christ. Whether you release She Who Knows or not absolutely nothing changes. The land gets pillaged and raped no matter what and whether the Baron, an npc that literally disappears right after this quest, kills himself or not, it's entirely irrelevant to anything in the game. It's really funny seeing you 7th gen babies who never actually played an RPG in your lives losing your collective shit over this normie pandering adventure farse of an "RPG".

>I bet you played on ez story mode because dying makes you rage and give up, then complained about the parts you turned off not being there.

You have to be a special kind of idiot to die in this assassin's creed tier game. Let me guess, the xbox 360 was your first console and you only picked up this hobby because it was the "cool" thing to do, amirite? If you are so bad that witcher 3, the most braindead and handholdy game I've played in years, is considered hard for you then I sincerely don't know how you can even play anything else. Not enough arrows and glowing neon marks for you?

>Why do you want to be able to heal in the middle of being hit?
fucking lmao, thats rich
>dialogue option with actual consequences
I bet you think the Bloody Baron questline choices actually held some wright too?

Yeah man, gonna ditch this sword with a bunch of sockets and 10 lines worth of bonuses for this sweet ass hatchet with -50 attack and no bonuses whatsoever! Such depth and variation!

>accuses the people defending Fallout/Souls of being CDPR shills
>Shilling for CDPR by supporting other games
>actually not understanding what you just posted was a bunch of extra chromosomes flying across the screen at mach 1

He will never be a normal person and have a normal life and hes considered a monster by everyone.

Great graphics
Boring, bland main story
Good sidequests
Good character interactions and dialogue
Good music
Every piece of interactivity is mediocre

You'll be using witcher senses in 99% of all quests, and the combat feels like a shallow, bland hack&slash with almost no redeeming qualitites except overly flashy animations.
Some DLC boss fights are cool I guess.

Its a bad game but a good experience.

>accuses the people defending Fallout/Souls of being CDPR shills

I think it's pretty fucking hilarious that this is what you understood right after you ironically said ">actually not understanding what you just posted was a bunch of extra chromosomes flying across the screen at mach 1"

It's like the joke simply wrote it self. How does it feel like having the reading comprehension of a literal child? Reread my former post thoroughly and then read your post so you can feel just how stupid you are.

started playing the witcher enhanced edition a few days ago. reading the books as i go along

>and hes considered a monster by everyone

That's a funny way of saying "being a close acquaintance of literally every single important person in the witcher universe, from opposing kings to the most powerful sorceressess and faciton leaders, having worked with all of them and also he just so happens to be to 'father' of the one special snowflake child in the planet". But yeah, such a rejected monster because one punny drunk sailor said something about his white hair once!

how is that a character flaw? it's literally everybody around him that's flawed. textbook Mary Sue.

>A close acquaintance
Lmao you've never played the games have you

That's not a character flaw, asshat.

I respect everybody's opinion and I think you're all wonderful people! :)

A solid 7/10 interactive adventure game. Its like a medieval mass effect with slightly better writing.

>Sweaty nerd thinks his post says anything other than a bunch of unsubstantiated conjecture
>actually just making shit up because hey its Sup Forums
>is still posting a compilation of chromosomal defects escaping from their cells

It makes autists mad on this board

get the fuck away from here

>drunk crossdressing
Woah, really? Who does it?

No yeah, you're right, it's not like you deal with the private and specially shady affairs of pretty much every single important person while even getting personal summons from VIP every 5 steps, while going even as far as having private meetings with two opposing kings whenever he feels like it or something, nah, you're right. Geralt is such an anonymous character with no connections whatsoever!

I'd like some fries to go with salt, please.

no salt here m9 just good ole fashion homecooked memery

Make sure to talk to any and all women in the game to get all the sex cards.

here we go

idk what that is. i was offered sex by a girl that i escorted home at night, but i'm not sure if i should show up the next night or not and take her up on her offer. i turned down triss in the beginning and these arent scenarios ive been offered in any other game before, so i'm quite wary of them. is sex an actually game mechanic? beneficial or not.
do i NEED to get my fuck on?

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This song played again and again. And again.

Its a flaw to me

and that's a problem because..... ?

No you don't need to fuck them but sometimes there will be one out of a couple dozen girl npcs all with the same name that you can find on the streets and they'll let you fuck them for like a gift or something.
Gotta collect them all.

Yes, it is.

is it part of geralt's character to fuck everyone and everyone? if so i'll end up doing that, but wouldn't know myself as i'm only a few chapters into the first book.

Yeah, he's a womanizer.

You get a lewd collectable card out of it, and sometimes a special cutscene. Other than that it doesn't get you anything

Yes, he's immune to all STDs and steril so you can believe any male including Geralt would fuck anything even that one dryad or a goddess with a nice ass or maybe just a prostitute on the corner.

>White Orchard
>gotta get all the POI question marks, they're fun and useful!
>Velen
>Swamp is annoying but no biggie, gotta get all the question marks, they're fun and useful!
>Skellige
>Fuck the question marks!

did you even read my spoiler?

This person did not play game.

Don't listen to him/her.

>buy, download and install game
>buy, download and install DLC
>play for 5 hours
>last play time 6 months ago

I wasted so much money on this game and it wasn't even because it was bad or that I didn't like it. The game play just felt boring and sluggish. The only thing that kept my interest was some of the amazing characters, the cut scenes and the beautiful scenery.

Exploration was good, but after a while it too became boring with every where feeling like "Was I just here a while ago?"

Combat was disappointing, probably due to me having played and completed Dragon's Dogma: DA immediately before playing W3. Many argue DD's combat is trash compared to W3, but I prefer its flexibility and varied styles to that of the Witcher 3.

I want to pick this up again some day, but every time I'm reminded of it with a thread here on Sup Forums I just lose all interest.

Actually a pretty great game.

>>extremely good VA (except for the main cast, seriously what's up with that)

That happens with lots of series. The first games are made on a pauper's budget and they get the director's girlfriend to do voice acting. Then the subsequent games get hype and budgets and you're stuck with the dilemma - get new VA's who aren't shit or stick with the original VA's for the few recurring characters who will be awful compared to the new VA's you're hiring.

No it isn't. That's not a flaw with him, it's the world that's flawed. Holy shit, you have to still be in gradeschool.

Fun game but drags on too long without changing stuff up. You can only kill drowners so many times differently before it get stale. Early game is much more fun than late game due being actually hard.

Lerelelerelerelere lere lere x100

Go outside, behave your usual self and watch as the world cringes, laughs and insults you for being who you are.

That is your flaw, not the worlds. Way to try and project your socially inadequate life style to that of a video game character and the world he lives in. The world hates you because you have flaws, try blaming yourself for your own faults for once.

the game does get really easy at the end and it takes away some of the fun.
I could probably solo the entire wild hunt with my geralt by the end of the game if they could give me the option.

A good game, don't listen to the memes

Yeah, having to roll and parry actually matters, and taking down a lvl 10 guy as a 5 could be intense. But taking down a 30 cyclops as 25 isn't any issue due equipment, potions and skillpoints.

>Geralt is a gary stu
Isn't that 99% of all RPG main characters though? They're usually a standin for the player to experience the world and do heroic shit, and especially with a lengthy game/series the amount of heroic shit that gets done piles on to ridiculous proportions. I guess Geralt is more of a character than the vast majority of MCs in these types of games which makes this pop out in a negative way. Then there's the fact that there are dialogue choices, which makes consistent character development somewhat tricky.

Don't get me wrong, I think he could've been written better in a lot of ways, but as far as RPG heroes go he's easily one of the more developed and interesting ones.

And when you max out quen you get lazy at roll and parry too after a while because you can fuck up and dont die.

Is it called alternate movement, something like that? Check all the options I can't remember where it is. I would say it's better with a controller, for sure.

He's an asshole, and an indecisive faggot.

>And when you max out quen you get lazy at roll and parry too after a while
Guilty. Only thing I do when hit is roll away and cast it again. My quen's not even halfway maxed but it's too good. But to be fair, player skill is usually so improved by then only a serious fuck up means risk of death even without

i took out a level 25 cockatrice at like level 8 on deathmarch. Took forever but just refresh your quen and abuse the awful ai while circling around and you can literally kill anything in the game. Until the DLC kicks in that is. Toad prince was a nice increase in difficulty and actually made me drink a potion.

>listening to NPCs talk is gameplay

LOL

Big monsters are easy as fuck. Had more trouble with a bunch of bandits and archers at same level than bigger high level fucks. Just learn their few attack patterns and it's practically over

>Best Sword clips through the scabbard.

Triggers me like nobody's business

You understand that you can't make and RPG with this amount of content and around 80-100 hour of gameplay while keeping a consistent interesting story. Or even if they could, a game developer obviously won't spend more money and time on things that are accepted as todays norm.

I think the witcher kept this in pretty tight hands while not being TOO over the top and the medival setting helps to relate more.

Reminder that this game is nearly 2 years old

Same, groups quickly get out of hand, whether it's wolves / dogs, humans, drowners, whatever. I hit my stride with groups of most monsters pretty quickly but groups of bandits occasionally wrecked my shit even in my third playthrough.

Tangentially related: we all play with enemy level scaling turned on, right?

Shitty combat.