>overwhelmingly positive reviews and hailed as an RPG masterpiece
>give it a go
>consolized combat with no substance
>open world filled with pointless filler
>liberate area/free slaves objectives as you see in assassins creed or far cry
>bland manly and gruff mary sue protagonist with a set background so there's barely any roleplaying to do
>mediocre main story
What went wrong? Why has the bar for RPGs fallen so low?
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it's made for slavshit waifufaggots
if you aren't one it seems impossible to overlook its many, many deficiencies
>am I cool yet?
>>overwhelmingly positive reviews and hailed as an RPG masterpiece
>>give it a go
>>consolized combat with no substance
>>open world filled with pointless filler
>>liberate area/free slaves objectives as you see in assassins creed or far cry
>>bland manly and gruff mary sue protagonist with a set background so there's barely any roleplaying to do
>>mediocre main story
>What went wrong? Why has the bar for RPGs fallen so low?
LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU SAID CAN BE REPLACED WITH "ITS POPULAR SO I HATE IT. BUT THATS NOT ENOUGH, I MUST TELL Sup Forums HOW MUCH I HATE IT. PS ALL I DO IS PLAY VIDEO GAMES WHILE BLACK MEN ARE OUT FUCKING MY FUTURE WIFE AS WE SPEAK".
>with a set background so there's barely any roleplaying to do
I agree with everything else, but please kys
That "game" was a 3/10 at best, and the main reason why I won't listen Sup Forums shit taste ever again.
>projecting your cuck fetish onto others
kek
after hearing praise for a long time I tried to play the first one when it was relatively new and I couldn't into the combat so I never played it again
Witcher 1 was pretty superior to Witcher 2, which is pretty (exponentially?) superior to Witcher 3.
Unfortunately, the reverse is true in terms of mainstream appeal.
Oddly, you didn't list the one thing that killed the game for me: Pacing.
Your protagonist's daughter is lost, possibly being murdered, raped, sacrificed by evil space elves, you know. Bad stuff. You go on a mighty quest to find her and hopefully save her. You storm with vengeance to the kingdom.
And then you fuck off for infinite days playing collectible card games and saving every lost chicken in Not-Europe for every peasant. Resolving every conflict, traveling town to town and doing generic hero-shit.
Suddenly, you step into a "MAIN STORY QUEST", and it's back to hyper-urgent rescue-Ciri mode, where Geralt MUST HAVE ANSWERS.
And then it ends, and you're back to lolfuckoffland and Geralt no longer gives a fuck about his probably-being-raped daughter. A few more months mastering Gwent and you'll bother with the next "Main quest".
This kind of gappy, retarded distended bullshit pacing annihilates any sense of plot cohesion.
So fucking tired of open world meme designs
You're 3/10 is the reason why people shouldn't listen to Sup Forums's taste period.
Yeah i agree, I found it very boring too. Map was boring, comabt is boring, too much boring inventory management shit, boring characters, just overall boring game.
I agree OP. Also, Breath of the Wild is the same except it has even less going for it.
Oh god it's the "shit on Witcher 3" thread again.
I'm black btw
You got memed on. The first Witcher is actually the best one. 2 is where they started casualizing the games for the sake of mainstream appeal.
This. So much this.
TW1:EE is the literal pleb filter.
true
I liked it, the combat isn't the best out there, the history is really simple, but all the characters are likable, and the girls are all top waifu material. I'm a simple guy, so i dont expect so much from games.
>Consolized combat.
Comsole 3pv games have the best melee combat by miles tho.
Oh the inventory management is total shit, i got to agree with you sir.
God so much this.
Remember Act I? How atmospheric it was? I wanted to butcher that fucking priest more and more every time he spoke.
Meanwhile W3 has this shitty Whoreson Junior who is just a Ramsay Bolton clone from Game of Thrones. I couldn't care for him at all.
W3 was extremely washed out from it's edge to gain mass appeal. W1 had also best witcher role-playing and proper balance in preparation.
In W2 you have to meditate and go through shitty menus to dink potions. In W3 you spam food and potions in fight and in W1 you can still use potions in fight but they take animation and it's dangerous.
>oh shit people like it, better hate it
ah yes
Just started playing W2 anons - should I go with Iorveth or Roche? On one hand I want to save my waifu Triss as soon as possible but Roche saved me from execution and trusted me. I have a feeling this is gonna be a major decisions.
No spoilers plis
I can tell this is a dev by the way he dresses but WHO?
roche
Every side quest you can pretty much say I don't have time for this, so it's your fault if you think the pacing is bad because it is up to the player.
IVth act is the best one
I just want a new Gothic.
Why isn't anyone working on one.
Indie devs have so much more opportunity nowadays to create something similar, right?
>"WAHHH I didn't like the best game of all time"
>"WAHH I couldn't roleplay"
>"WAHH THIS ISN'T LIKE OVERWATCH AT ALL"
Fuck off OP. I bet you're one of those plebs who think Dark souls is a good game.
>>"WAHH THIS ISN'T LIKE OVERWATCH AT ALL"
what ?
I've tried to get into this game a dozen times but the shitty environment and shitty attitudes from everyone is a huge turn off.
>shitty attitudes from everyone
That shouldn't be a turnoff at all.
You're basically dealing with superstitious bumpkins most of the time after all.
>He gets offended by video game characters
t.Hanso main
>Why isn't anyone working on one
Did you not see how bad Gothic did commercially?
>oh shit people dislike this, better remind them that other people don't
Todd, I'm not going to buy your fucking game.
I was going to buy this today in the st e am sale you faggots let my hopes down
Welcome to every open world game ever.
>The Reapers are fucking the Earth as we speak and millions die every day
>But this lady lost her dog and I have to go the the Whatever system to get it!
What's better? You only have 30 in-game days to sort this Wild Hunt shit or lose automatically? Every NPC going "By the Eternal Flame, Geralt! You don't have time to hunt some goddamn forktail, you have to find Ciri!"
If you want to to the main quest, just do it. No one's stopping you.
Wrong, Breath of the Wild did it flawlessly.
Because Skyrim and Dragon Age/Mass Effect set it there.
How so? Serious question, this "picking flowers when you're supposed to stop the Apocalypse" thing is in every game with sidequests I can think of. I'm curious how someone dealt with that.
You can tackle Ganon whenever you want, and everything you do beforehand is in preparation for that fight.
Nothing went wrong, you just have shit taste and below average intelligence.
You just described every RPG ever made. Go back to playing COD or any other cinematic bullshit.
The new Gothic is called ELEX and it's going to be the best RPG ever made.
Breath of the Wild is literally one huge training montage for you to be able to take on Ganon, you can try it from the get go. In the Witcher you go fuck around play card games while your "daughter" is being raped by elf edgelords. The Witcher 3 would have been 10 times better if structured like 1 or 2.
The worst part is people like
actually think it's one of the best games ever made with the shit combat and magical GPS and Batman senses and godawful pacing.
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Think again!
>consolized combat with no substance
Yeah, unlike all those mustard exclusive games with fantastic combat, amirite.
lmao@you
>tfw tons of plebs hate the first (couple) acts for whatever reasons
sure the game gets even better towards the end, but tons of casuals act like the start of Witcher 1 would be like some sort of unfair slog.
May be op, you just have a shit taste or your a boring shitposter.
Automata managed it fine. Most sidequests are carried over to next playthroughs when you hit important points.
Zelda in general as actually really good with this. Even in OoT, the game is only in "you have to stop Ganondorf now" mode at a couple of points, and the rest of the game he's in the background, either preparing in unknown ways or having had taken over everything for years. And in MM the whole game is deliberately about doing NPC quests on a time limit just as the world is about to be annihilated.
I always lose my motivation during act 3.
The best game who did that was Morrowind. There were literally moments where characters told you to take a break and explore instead of progression. Sadly it was abandoned in Skyrim where every main quest is like "FAST ALDUIN IS GONNA DESTROY THE WORLD ANY MINUTE GO GO GO".
It's worth it to post these threads and draw out people who liked the game because the NSA is logging their IPs. Don't worry oneday they'll all be hunted down and dealt with.
>>liberate area/free slaves objectives as you see in assassins creed or far cry
The point where the bait becomes far too obvious
>have an interesting(though rough around the edges) combat system
>throw it all away in the sequels and make a generic third person combat instead
Damn shame. 2 and 3's combat weren't as engaging as 1's.
>Damn shame. 2 and 3's combat weren't as engaging as 1's.
Look at this fucking contrarian asshole.
>liberate area/free slaves objectives as you see in assassins creed or far cry
the only moment this happens is in a rare encounter with bandits in the open world and even then you're not rescuing slaves but merchants with goodies for you, also rescuing them is optional too
This guy is legitimately retarded. Putting aside that every game works like this Ciri has been going off wandering through different planets and universes for years story-wise, her "saving" is not as urgent as it could be for other characters. And Geralt knows that.
>Remember Act I? How atmospheric it was? I wanted to butcher that fucking priest more and more every time he spoke.
I am just now finishing TW1 and I don't want to do anything to anyone because I don't care about the characters, and the "atmosphere" is killed by repetitive sounds and models, terrible animations and models, and obnoxious combat music (which plays every two steps in the swamp). There is not a single interesting area in the game besides. I don't know what anyone sees in this game.
DUDE LMAO
Combat is like playing with one of those newtonian motion toys.
>In the Witcher you go fuck around play card games while your "daughter" is being raped by elf edgelords.
In the books maybe, and the sense of urgency was well done there.
It's different in W3.
When it comes to mechanics, W1 did so fucking many things right. It was just perfect balance in preparation/meditation/alchemy for it to not be a chore but actual role-play as a witcher. It just needed some polishing and improvements.
W2 and W3 fell for the console casul meme and ruined all of that for generic gameplay. Potions literally autofill every time and you just spam them in combat without worrying or any risk, there is no consuming animation. The same with oils and decoctions.
haha bazinga xD fuck i love this game and memes too xdd i got that reference haha xDD TBBT is the best show eva!!!!
>npc winks at the camera
>"this is for you, reddit!"
Omg that's me :)))) GOTY 2015, DAE WITCHER 3 IS BEST GAME EVA!!!!
>mashing buttons is engaging
>mashing dodge every time a mosquito flies by is engaging
>activating god mode with quen is engaging
At least try instead of resorting to buzzwords, user.
You're obviously a high-maintenance gamer who needs the latest games with the best visual presentation to feel anything.
>mashing buttons is engaging
Out of context, I can't tell which Witcher you are insulting here.
Because the first act is an awesome grey morality question everyone's motives episode.
The second is okay.
The third is a super-awesome investigation that only if done True Route style can net you the best result.
The fourth is one of the comfiest acts ever in vidya and River of Life will forever be a super relaxing music. Also dat ass.
Act5 is fine.
Looks like you couldn't get invested into the game or didn't pay attention enough.
Obviously not 1 since you need timing in that game to get anywhere without dying.
At least I can tell whether you played the games or not.
Metroid Prime has good atmosphere. Dark Souls has good atmosphere. The Witcher does not have good atmosphere. Fucking Spyro the Dragon has better atmosphere than The Witcher.
Rhythmic clicking was not challenging or engaging.
That wasn't the point though
I saw the same 3 men walk into an area i liberated in the same cutscene about 30 times throughout my playthrough.
The only outstanding quality of this game is the attention to detail poured into the outdoor open world's visual design (every indoor area looks the same).
The Witcher 3 is a "cozy" game. Its target audience is the average person who doesn't want to be challenged on any level from the media they intake.
Okay you can fuck off with that shit, everybody is over exaggerating now.
1/10
getting lower
>The fourth is one of the comfiest acts ever in vidya
I see this a bunch but I don't get this at all, it's just as insipid as the rest of the game. Do you like beaches a lot or something? Or raspberries?
I'd take rhythmic clicking over mashing attack and then mashing dodge once the enemy starts blocking any day. I'm not saying that W1's combat is perfect or absolutely superior to the sequels, its just that the devs could have improved that combat instead of going the easier route.
You have to be literally autistic to think TW1's combat was anything but shit.
THIS OH GOD THIS SO MUCH THIS HNNNGGGGG
Kys fags, all 3 are fine and they get progressively better with each installment. TW3 is the best by far
>le autism reply
>le missing the point reply
Ah Sup Forums, never change.
What a shit trailer
>when people say witcher 2 is better than 3
K E K
>when people say witcher 1 was better than 3
M A X K E K A C H I E V E D
The music, the locations, the chill-out village, the "investigative" quests where you're learning about the setting and religion around there. It's all presented very comfily, without real urgency just as if you stumbled in a random far-away interesting village and got invested in the place enough to dig around at your own pace.
It won't hit 100% of the playerbase of course. Nothing ever does.
what?
>all presented very comfily
Stopped reading right there. I don't get the whole le comfy meme but if you think a game is good simply cos it makes you feel "comfy" then your a mouth breathing retard who should stick to watching a rainy window gif all day.
What? You don't like a trailer with breathing music and over the top bass coupled with andromeda wannabe gameplay?
>consolized combat with no substance
Not really, combat is tough on hardest difficulty. I bet you played on medium.
>open world filled with pointless filler
I'll give you that the world is full of filler, but what it's also full of is a LOT of side quests that are mostly all great. It's not an empty world.
>liberate area/free slaves objectives as you see in assassins creed or far cry
big fucking whoop you just kill a bunch of monsters who cares
>bland manly and gruff mary sue protagonist with a set background so there's barely any roleplaying to do
ur a lil faget, you get to make a lot of big decisions as geralt
>mediocre main story
I agree
game shines with its side quests
It's okay user, I understand the threatening feeling of being "left out" and thus choosing to pretend it's everyone else's problem rather than yours.
mfw I heard that "music"
>> this thread
Fuck me Witcher fans are crazy.
>>Left a review on steam on how i thought the Witcher 3 was a just meh (really really pretty meh).
>>I had this fucking sperg lord leave comments on my review just sperging out over the fact that didnt love he's waifu simulator.
>>Spergman was telling me to read the books and then play the games and that i didn't even play it when i put over 70 hours in it.
>> Spergman's steam profile is in german.
>> Fucking cucks
>raped raped raped raped raped raped raped raped
She's a Witcher with super powers who can teleport all over the place, why would she be getting raped?
Bet you don't have the balls to link your review.
the slavs duh?
Your bait.
>not reading the books first
OP is right. The Witcher 3 is a less fun Gothic with waifus.