Is it safe to assume that if you hate this game you're a retarded hipster?

Is it safe to assume that if you hate this game you're a retarded hipster?

Yes.

Yes. Combat being bad is something Sup Forums blew out of proportion just so they can have some way of criticizing a masterpiece.

More like standard issue Sup Forums contrarian

I hate all open world games that benefit 0 from being open world, which shows best in the Witcher series where the first games did the world 100x better.

I think most people who "hate" it just knew the series' and developer's potential and were disappointed it wasn't a big step up in gameplay.

>Combat being bad is something Sup Forums blew out of proportion
Not really. It's monotonous and outright bad compared to remaining elements that make W3 such a great game.
It's just gets a free pass from the OMG GOTYAY crowd because anons around here can't stomach the idea of flaws in masterpieces.

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Yeah

Can I be a retarded hipster if I don't hate it, but do think it's a really overrated time sink?

Literally the best game released since Morrowind, if you hate it you're just being a contrarian

The only reason that one would like this game, is when they haven't played an actual good RPG in their lives

The Witcher actually benefits from this type of format.
Save for the main quest, the side quests/ contracts feel very much like something out of the original collective of short stories, involving Geralt wandering from place to place solving mysteries.

No, but it is safe to assume that witchershills who are completely incapable of accepting that their game has flaws are either retarded or just blatantly delusional.

The open world is ubisoft-tier
The main quest is bland and boring as fuck
The Wild Hunt is a retarded villain, with Eredin having less lines than reskinned shopkeepers
The quest design is babby-tier casual garbage because the braindead fanbase can't think for themselves
The combat gets monotonous and boring in the first 2 hours, and even the paid DLCs reskin and reuse enemy movesets

It has good music, character interactions and graphics but every piece of interactivity is downright mediocre or even bad.

i love witcher series as an adventure games. interesting quests, funny dialogue, looks great.

but making witcher 3 open world was a mistake. i replayed 1 and 2 dozen times over but only managed to do one full playthrough of the 3. i want to get back into it as there are many quests i didnt do but i simply cant.

by making it open world and adding fucktonne static locations (bandit camps, power stones etc.) they basically force me to spend hours every playthrough doing the exact same shit in exact same optimal order which bores me to death and makes me give up on playing entirely. the leveling MMO garbage didnt help either.

>zero benefit open world

Stumbling upon a village that has been cursed by an ancient pig deity isn't good enough for you?

Good to know that you never actually played the game

While I normally agree that tastes are subjective and don't get upset when someone dislikes what I like...

You're just fucking wrong if you hate W3 and don't know shit about video games.

You can argue that the scaling system is shit and combat is only passable but it's still the best we got in a long time and you can only truly hate this game if you have your goal in critising a game that is very good in general consensus

While I totally agree with the point this picture is trying to prove, I'll be honest - I'd probably give up or look up the solution if I got myself into the situation like that in Gothic 2.

I guess I just got too old. I remember, when I was a kid playing Morrowind, there was a quest to find some secret cave door with no markers or anything. Man, I spent so much time looking for that shit based on poor quest description only. I don't think I'd ever do that now, when I'm 28. I just value my time too much, and I guess I lost that drive. When I see I'm getting frustrated with something, I either give up or look it up on Youtube. I'm not proud of this, but I think that game devs are right to implement some sort of hand holding in their games.
The best case scenario, you're able to turn it off and the game is not built around it, so everyone's happy.

Oh the fucking irony

The combat is fun on Death March. I tried telling my friend who hasn't even played it this but he keeps saying it's bad and his proof is that retarded video of that mongoloid claiming you can win every fight by button mashing (even though the first half of his vid consisted of him wrongly complaining about gameplay mechanics DSP style, other half he fought 3 bandits on the beginner area, nearly died, rolled around and cheesed like it was a Souls game)

Nah, it's just fucking shit cutscene simulator. There are few well written parts(even if the plot and subplots aren't really innovative the writing is definitely good from craftsman perspective) but that's about it. The design principles they've used are so flawed that nothing could be done, though.

I don't even mind the combat (I've found B&BB as the difficulty sweet spot for me)

desu I'm just overwhelmed. There's so much shit to do in this game that it's making me literally not want to play it.

In Velen still, level 16 and about to rescue dandelion. I've spent 50 hours already and I'm not even in skellige, let alone the DLC areas.

I feel like I need to be a NEET to fully enjoy this expierence

You're ~halfway through the base game.

Its insecure male wish fulfillment: the game. Save the damsels m'lady.

I love the game.

I hate the way the quests are designed. I am really over "follow arrow on mini-map until you reach destination" games. I probably won't play another game that has a mini-map ever again after The Witcher 3. I just find it boring and unrewarding. I want to explore the world and do quests that have been designed to be explored, not designed to be followed. Let me talk to people in the village and ask for directions. Let me explore before giving me everything on a map. Give me information in the quest.

As it stands, it is impossible to complete The Witcher 3 without using the mini-map/GPS quest system. The NPCs give you NO information about the quest or where you would even need to start looking.

I have 170 hours in it user. Keep believing its somehow something special

fpbp

It's a good game, but I hate that you can't criticize it. There is zero discussion.
People criticize it and say things, people praise it and say nothing, thread dies.

>He spent a whole week worth of time on something he doesn't consider special
kek