Is this the worst "GOTY" game of all time? Even Skyrim with all its flaws was an actual RPG atleast

Is this the worst "GOTY" game of all time? Even Skyrim with all its flaws was an actual RPG atleast.

I hated these wooden animations so fucking much. Realism, my ass.

Dragon Age Inquisition was "GOTY", this is at least better than that

Not that great tho

Dragon Age was so bad people are just trying to forget it happened

Better than Dead Island and Two Worlds 2

Why do Sup Forums hates The Witcher III suddenly ?

It's just mass effect: melee edition. Witcher 1 and 2 are also bad games.

There was nothing in Witcher that compared to fighting dragons in Dragon Age, so there's that

There wasn't a single memorable fight in the entire game

The people who like this game don't understand what makes video games good in the first place. They don't understand why Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim are the way they are. They don't understand why Fallout 3/Fallout: New Vegas are the way they are.

The Witcher 3 is a complete abomination because it fails at everything it tries to do.

Exploration? It comes off as weak and forced: the world isn't interesting beyond Skellige, but the traveling between islands couldn't be worse.

Story telling? The game becomes a complete wash at the end, and all of your choices are based on stupid conversations you had with your hot adopted daughter. Besides that, the beginning is strong, but nothing compared to the first two games. Where they hook you in with strong story elements happening instead of you just chasing your stupid wife who you're given no reason to care about. And yes, there should be a reason to want to save your hot wife besides the fact that she's your hot wife you read about in your fantasy escape novels you pathetic pieces of shit.

Combat? Objectively worse than Witcher 2; however, it is a bit less bland than Bethesda games.

Graphics? Objectively worse than Witcher 2, and bland to boot. Witcher 2 had beautiful lighting and bloom. The graphics are better than other open world games, but the world is so boring comparatively that it doesn't matter. I honestly don't know how you go back in this category. I honestly don't know.

Difficulty/ difficulty curve? The game is hard at the start on the hardest difficulty, but you turn into an unstoppable demon god at the end, so the curve is fucked. The same problem Witcher 2 had, but the Witcher 2 is a much shorter game in which you can't literally become invincible.

Of course there are more problems, but I have places to be instead of ranting about this stupid worthless retard-bait. Play the first two games and stop there. This is a "Mass Effect" scenario.

>suddenly
People hated it since release but were over-voiced by the extremely vocal cult of CDPR drones.

Haven't see this copy pasta for a while

Every word of it is true.

Because the last "big" RPG before it was Dragon Age Inquisition, The Witcher games essentially copy Bioware's formula but they're much, much better quality-wise.

Even the demographics overlap, majority of people who liked at least some of the neo-Bioware games(KotOR and newer) generally liked The Witcher games.

Unlike the rest of you who don't play games, I actually played Skyrim recently. It's absolutely terrible and doesn't even come close to being as good as TW3.

No Bethesda game comes close to TW3 actually, despite the nostalgiaboner people have for Morrowind. They may fit the mold of being an RPG more adequately, but as a total experience TW3 is far better.

W3 is not an RPG tho. It's an action game with RPG elements. Calling it bad because it's not an RPG is silly. Like, what, a racing game is bad, because you don't customize your character nor learn spells?

Not that W3 is GOAT anyway, but I wouldn't call it bad.

And kys if you think Slyrum is better.

CDPR will never make games on par with Mass Effect 1, KOTOR or Dragon Age: Origins. They are amateurs who just abused shitty wages to push graphics to extreme.

>wife lol

see Bethesda has its own "formula", so to speak, that's very rarely copied by any RPG developer for several reasons(mostly because without rabid fanboys who will buy it no matter what it's turns out not to be such great idea).
They also happen to have better cinematography and writing most of the time, which is important given that the core demographics actually plays those games for dialogue-cutscenes(just in case - I don't like it too much).

Now the question is why is Bioware stuffing their games with Ubisoft-style filler content.

CDPR will never write a story on par with Mass Effect 1, Origins or KOTOR. Hell, ONE Origin story in Dragon Age is better than all of Witcher 3.

They are butthurt that is the best RPG and no game that's coming out can even compete.

>no source material
>Star Wars

>muh story

Witcher 1 and 2 were well beyond what Bioware was ever capable of.

Witcher 3 wasn't , it was just tripe.

They've already wrote ancient evil awakes story.

Man you are terrible at picking games to compare. At least use good ones.

I'd argue that W3's story topped Mass Defect and DAO.

>muh story
Literally all CDPR drones can say about Witcher. And even then the story is extremely mediocre compared to other WRPGs.

Why does everybody talk about witcher 3 but never witcher 1 or 2?

Nope. Talking to the Reapers in Mass Effect had a greater emotional impact than anything in Witcher 3.

Dragon Age Origin's story is extremely open-ended where your choices actually matter in many ways unlike Witcher 3.

Witcher 3 had a more simple story, but it was well told. Not that matters much, because the story in hearts stone blows any other RPG out of the water.

Because it got like 150 GOTY awards

because its popular and still one if not the best game that has been released in the past 2 years you should know how contrarian Sup Forums is

nice bread

>KOTOR well written
This has to be bait. There is no one with an IQ above 2 that believes the Force Awakens of Star Wars games is actually well written.

we already talked about 1 and 2

The guy who makes these threads hasn't played Witcher 3 what make you believe he has played the other 2?

mfw an obvious bait got so many replies

Gothic 2 has THOUSAND flaws too you know

> but it was well told

It wasn't well told, it was well told in a sense that all the characters were well animated and everyone had distinguished visual design, like faces and clothes that was top notch.

>Even people who think Witcher 3 is good often shit on its combat

>Main gameplay mechanic is garbage
>"But the story!!!"

Fuck western gaming. Witcher 3 for Novel of the year.

because Witcher 1 was an ugly, and horribly clunky piece of shit and nobody played Witcher 2 because of that

Talking to Sovereign for the first time in ME1 and learning that it's actually a sentient being was dope as fuck, that I admit, but the rest was dull and boring. Nothing in ME2 or 3 came close to that.

It would be a garbage novel though, try to imagine this game on the graphical engine of the first game

The story holds up despite dated graphics because it's actually well written

Witcher 3 is only propped up by 80 million dollar budget

Because the main devs of the witcher never played the witcher

and because it won 100 awards

oh and its populair

>populair


nigga, can't tell if you are french, dutch, or just retarded

I've genuinely tried to like it. I've tried playing through it 4 times but every time I've gotten bored after 5-10 hours. I've given up trying to like it.

I just don't see why people are so blind to the games faults. It's not a bad game by any means of course. It's just pretty boring and it doesn't really do anything especially well.

>Main gameplay mechanic is garbage

Gothic
Morrowind

You have objectively shit taste
>doesn't really do anything especially well.
t.biodrone
t.skyrimdrone
t.jealous other western companies that got btfo by witcher

Also it's easy as fuck to make an emotionally engaging story if everything is huge and pompous, you have entire civilizations uniting to fight the big bad, one blow from a weapon can murder billions etc. And ME failed even at that, with that one little exception of first conversation between Shepherd and Sovereign.

Witcher 3 on the other hand is not that pompous, the stakes are smaller, but much more relatable, you don't have such overdone shit as in ME.

what do you consider to be a better game?

> robots
> sentient

...

You din actually play Mass Effect did you

>Witcher 3 was my GOTY
>Sup Forums hates it

>It wasn't well told, but it was well told

I did, all three
Robots are still machines

kek

AHAHAHAHHAHAAH
being this much of an assblasted biofuckingdrone

Hey Bioware make some good games! Wait wheres ME:A?

But they were a sentient race in ME universe. That's what the whole twist in ME1 was about

I don't know who is baiting who anymore.

I think you might just be genuinely retarded.

I would say it's the most overrated GOTY in recent memory.

Keep telling yourself that buddy.

>skyrim
>rpg
Pick one, unless you thing rpg stand for rob/rape, plunder game.

Man shitposters never accept that they failed

>Months before Witcher 3 is released
>HAHAH LOOK AT THE DOWNGRADE
>Weeks before release
>HAHAH LOOK AT THE DOWNGRADE
>Days before the release
>THE GAME IS GOING TO BOMB SO HARDHOLY SHIT TORTANIC 2.0
>Game is released best rated game this year, won most Goty awards set standarts for open world games
>HAHA B...BUT LOOK AT THE BUGS AND GLITCHES I FOUND

I see the same combat webm that were fixed a year ago still in these threads

That's correct, because CDPR currently doesn't make shit-tier games like Bioware

What faults?
The combat?
The storytelling is matched by no other, the voiceacting is great aswell.
Animations are usually top tier.
The trees blowing in the wind is retarded though.
And overall the world is interesting and engaging, there's alot of fun sidequests.
If you didn't like it maybe witcher games just aren't for you.

why the fuck did I read it

>you're given no reason to care about
Why should you care about her? It's Geralt who cares about her.
Or are you telling me that you're actually self inserting in a set story RPG?

It's alright bro, I loved the witcher 3.
I think it's the same guy making the same anti-witcher 3 threads anyway.

You contrarian faggots aren't even trying.

>more problems
no other "problems" at all beside his fucking memeing

>ME 2 GOOD
>ANYTHING IN WITCHER 3

Witcher 1-2 for one thing.

Obviously all of them are flawed but I prefer a flawed game with some damn good stuff in them than a less flawed by very boring games.

Combat is one of them, though not my biggest gripe. I don't really mind bad/mediocre combat in RPG's all that much.
Story telling is pretty okay, voice acting is great, but the voice direction is pretty terrible, animations are great that is true.

I found the world to be fairly bland and too focused on Ubisoft sandbox type stuff. Felt more like I was doing a checklist, going from question mark to question mark. The story of the sidequests are pretty damn good I agree, but the actual gameplay in them are one of the biggest reason I get bored with the game. They just aren't really all that fun to do.

>If you didn't like it maybe witcher games just aren't for you.
I adore Witcher 1 and enjoyed Witcher 2. I think CDPR falling for the "open world meme" is that ultimately ended up killing the game for me. That and the terrible controls.

>checklist
I agree to some extent.
I just didn't bother with them unless I ran across them.
Until I wanted my cat armor and had to get the recipes. And that, as you said. Felt forced.
>voice direction
I really didn't notice, except for some lines.
Generally i thought it was pretty good.

>The story of the sidequests are pretty damn good I agree, but the actual gameplay in them are one of the biggest reason I get bored
Do you mean the detective bullshit?
I agree to some extent, but it wouldn't had been that much better with the medallion bullshit we had in Witcher 2. I thought the hightened senses fit the witcher fantasy.
That geralt was like some sort of bloodhound on steroids.

>but the actual gameplay in them are one of the biggest reason I get bored with the game. They just aren't really all that fun to do.
Well shit you are a monster killer
what the fuck do you think he should do idiot
Sign up as a bartender?

I don't understand how anyone can lile W2. It didn't have that atmosphere the Witcher game should have had, and it didn't allow to stay neutral. And the beginning was an utter garbage, with Geralt fighting in Foltest's army. Geralt wouldn't do that, ever. With all it's flaws, W3 at least grasped the atmosphere bretty well and allowed to stay neutral.

But I guess I just get assblasted because I'm a huge bookfag and I hate when the game doesn't even allow you to do shit the way book Geralt would do.

>The storytelling is matched by no other

Do fanboys actually believe this. Even Witcher 1 and 2 were well beyond this game, 80% of it was pure tripe only thing good came in the first 30% of the game

How is Witcher 2 better?
Throw an example at me.

Not that guy, but the Witcher 2 at least tells an internally consistent story.

>I'm in town for a few days anyway on important business, might as well help out the locals for some extra cash
>MY DAUGHTER IS BEING CHASED BY INTERDIMENSIONAL NAZI ELVES, time for some hide and fucking seek with the local children!

W3 is dragged down heavily by the shitty tacked-on open world.

I mean the games aren't canon. But doesn't Geralt get forced to work for Foltest lat east he gets a bed and food for helping Foltest and isn't scrutinised too much. Plus Triss is there.

>I really didn't notice, except for some lines.
To be fair it's been a problem through out the entire series. Especially when it comes to Geralt.
Like he's standing far away and "yelling" towards a character but he just talks in his normal quiet monotone voice.
>Do you mean the detective bullshit?
I do indeed.
> but it wouldn't had been that much better with the medallion bullshit we had in Witcher 2
True. And I don't think using the batman vision every once in a while would have been detrimental, but so many missions use it. So damn many of them.

I would like more open ended missions that make you think a bit more.

Like take the swamp tower quest with the ghost lady, a pretty neat think to have her be an evil spirit pretending to be a good one but instead of letting the player figure it out by themselves they just straight off make Geralt go "well gee, this feels a bit fishy, I wonder if she's telling me the truth hint hint".

I would say Witcher 2 is the weakest but it being more structured and focused made me actually want to complete it unlike Witcher 3. That and it still has better graphics I think, at least in terms of art style. Witcher 3 might be technically impressive but by god it just looks so dry.

Yeah but she could of been there in Crookback Bog, I agree though, RPG's that force doom and gloom story in an open world game are a little contrived. But at least for witcher, you're looking for Ciri, she could be anywhere.

>meet yen
>start investigating daughters trail
>find out she landed in some fucking swamp with witches
>try to get the kids to help me find Jonny boy.
Are you retarded user? That's not what inconsistent is.

i wouldn't be so fast to say skyrim was a rpg, hell i'm not even sure if i would classify it as an elder scrolls game.

Because BOTW has soundly BTFO TW3, rendering the latter as obsolete as shit.

You get the point. W3 is filled to the brim with pointless filler. Any second spent clearing out random nekker nests or opening chests someone conveniently left out in the woods is a second not spent looking for Ciri.

>but so many missions use it. So damn many of them.
I agree, and I think it should've been used less.
One thing that I loved was that almost every single side quest however small had their own characters and story.
Like the werewolf quest in the small village. That one is probably my favorite.

Jealousy. Only autism can explain this much spite after 2 years. I'd love to see OPs bedroom.

But in your example you are ACTIVELY looking for Ciri.
You're acting like W1 and W2 didn't have bullshit sidequests that served no other purpose but to give you exp and items.

>Biowares only game on par with TW3 is Baldurs Gate 2

Nice

That I very much agree with. The sheer scope of the sidequests are damn impressive.

Like even the smallest quest usually has something to make it stand out story wise.

Because 90% of the fucking game is fucking WORDSWORDSWORDSWORDSWORDS

I gave the game a fair shot. 30+ hours and the combat was shit, quests were boring (talk, fetch the following object, talk, fight, talk), and the dialogue options never impressed me like it did so many others. The voice acting and overall look of the game was top notch though.

And ME2.

Kinda goes to show how pointless metacritic is when ME2 is the Bioware best rated game on that list. And Witcher 1 the worst on the Witcher side.

>people have different opinions
Who woulda thunk it?

This. These threads should cause OP embarrassment but autistic people are incapable of shame.

>Like take the swamp tower quest with the ghost lady, a pretty neat think to have her be an evil spirit pretending to be a good one but instead of letting the player figure it out by themselves they just straight off make Geralt go "well gee, this feels a bit fishy, I wonder if she's telling me the truth hint hint".
And I still fell for it
And you know what? I loved it because I fell for it.
Because I thought it was just too stupid to think that they put it there to spoil that she is a baddie.

In a year where the other hyped AAA games were disappointments like Fallout 4 and MGSV, no wonder it got like 500 GOTY awards

Bad combat is a meme. Notice how nobody here criticizes Nier for its combat despite the fact TW3 is flat out better. Bias and unequal expectations.

I let her free as well just to see what would happen.