Have I been memed with the Witcher 3 ?

Have I been memed with the Witcher 3 ?

> Awful controls
> Bad Voice Acting
> Exploration ?
> Role Play ?
> Quests so far come down to fetch this kill this

I've played the game for 10 hours should I stick with it ?

This is a pretty strong bait thread, but I'll answer your question anyways.

The controls are obtuse on purpose, you need to learn to work with them to actually get good at the combat.

I'm not sure what issue you have with the VA but even at it's worst it's passable.

What do you mean by exploration? There's a ton of shit to find especially when you start doing the witcher school scavenger hunts, which you basically have to do to get the best gear in the game.

on your role playing point, sure, it's not fallout 1, or anything like that. But your choices do impact a decent amount, I guess I'd say it's about as much of an RPG as something like mass effect is. Only without the forced moral system.

Quests, well, you're a monster hunter, that's your job. Of course the quests are going to focus around hunting monsters, the charm of the game comes from how each quest is at least a bit unique, you don't have a quest-line where you kill 5 foglets in a row or some bullshit like that.

I dunno man, for my money, W3 is probably the best open world game I've played and I put at least 400 hours into it so far. But if you don't like the game man then don't play it.

there's no accounting for taste, it's okay not to like something. Doesn't mean it's bad, just means it's not for you.

10 hours doesn't even get you out of the starting area.

13 hours as of recent
Not Bait, I am generally concerned about my purchase of the game

> obtuse on purpose
I'm not buying that, just ruins my enjoyment. Locking on to enemies is pointless, because you will get attacked from behind.

I tried to explore the map in the first area just to get told I'm going too far out

This game might be too challenging for you then.

yeah his voice is retarded

>Locking on is pointless because you get attacked from behind.
This is what I'm talking about, you haven't learned how to play the combat yet.

>I'm not buying that, just ruins my enjoyment.

Then the game might not be for you. The combat is designed for you to have good timing, you are meant to feel heavy, making a choice like going one direction or another, or dodging, has consequences, you have to learn to make your actions count, this is not a hack and slash. It's a skill based combat system.

You can also try to enable the "alternative movement response" in the options, that makes movement work a bit differently and you might enjoy it more.


>I tried to explore the map in the first area just to get told I'm going too far out
The first area is the smallest in the entire game, just do the story until more of the map opens up.

Look man, if you don't like the game, that's fine, but what I'm explaining to you is that your complaints sound like you're frustrated that the game is challenging you in a way you're not used to.I beat the game on death march recently and once you learn how the combat works it's really not that hard. Just use Quen as often as you can for now and learn when to dodge. You can't just hack your way through everything, they hit just as hard as you do. You need to dodge, wait for an opportunity, and then strike when the time is right. You don't just get to swing your sword like a fucking retard and win every fight.

>Controls suck

This is always the complaint I hear from people who are unwilling to learn something new. and/or are unable to admit that they might be bad at something. Stop hiding behind lies dude, just admit you're having a hard time learning a new game.

Looks guys, a fucking retard.

Not really, I've finished harder Hack and Slash games than the Witcher. Most of my deaths are from the shitty controls. I've finished most of the souls games multiple times I'm fine when it comes to Timing

The Witcher is not a hack and slash game.
It's not the controls that suck, it's you.

He sounds like Christopher Lambert in that Mortal Kombat movie.

I dropped it after 4 hours, I couldn't stand the combat.

Aw am I hurting your feelings because I dare criticize your precious game

>dropped after 4 hours
>combat

Now you're either going to shill gothic 2 or bloodbourne i feel it.

>learn something new
Dude it's a story game. There isn't anything to learn. This game takes 0.0001% of the skill it takes to play something like Tekken.

Just admit that Geralt controls like a tank in TW3. Try saying it out aloud. Maybe you might be able to come to terms with idea that it isn't the greatest game of all time.

>Bad voice acting

Even though it has some of the best voice acting in games.

>The controls are obtuse on purpose, you need to learn to work with them to actually get good at the combat.
Geralt's movement and handling is unresponsive garbage even after the alternative movement patch.
>What do you mean by exploration? There's a ton of shit to find especially when you start doing the witcher school scavenger hunts, which you basically have to do to get the best gear in the game.
there is barely anything to find that isn't already marked on your map or in your quest log, you can't skip/bypass quests by brute force exploration, like leaving for Velen or Skillege before finishing mandatory quests like you can do Fallout/TES.
>Quests, well, you're a monster hunter, that's your job.
the quests boil down to your following a map marker while being spoonfed precise step-by-step instructions on how to complete it, you're never forced to think for yourself.

He does control like a tank, and once you learn to control him, it's a very rewarding experience.

>This game takes 0.0001% of the skill it takes to play something like Tekken.

then why is OP having such a fucking autistic breakdown at trying to learn to control it?

>Dude it's a story game

Eh, then play it on easy and you don't need to learn the combat. Problem solved. The rest of us who enjoy a challenge will be over here on the side of the line where we learned how to use the controls.

Dude what the fuck you played it for ten hours, didnt like it, and are asking OTHER PEOPLE if you should continue. Are you fucking retarded?

Considering he can't figure out how the combat works I'm gonna go with yes.

hello witerfriend, would you like to discuss Witcher 2 and 3 and how 2 had better combat?

I figured out how the combat works and it's shit. Dark Souls does it better

>Have I been memed with the Witcher 3 ?
Yes. All the strengths of Witcher 3 except graphics can be gotten from the books.
Says a lot about the "game" itself.

Its not Dark Souls, its about being a witcher as the title suggests.

>dark souls, a game in a completely different genre, does it better

This makes no sense. This is like saying that Mario Kart does combat better than Ace Combat.

Why do I bother? It always boils down to the same thing with you normalfags. You don't want to learn something new, so you blame the game instead of blaming yourself.

I actually did enjoy W2's combat better.

>Geralt controls like a tank in TW3

>what is alternative movement in options

>tfw like witcher 1, witcher 2 and witcher 3 combat

theres plenty of games with much, much worse combat like Skyrim but no one complains about that.

combat is literally the only thing people can complain about in witcher since everything else is perfect

> muh normal fags
im talking about the combat, and its similar to Dark Souls.
Always blaming the player and not your clunky shit game

I remember how awesome it felt prepping, and carefully timing those rolls. So satisfying, I love 2.

Yes, do you know why they don't complain about games with awful combat like skyrim? Because that combat is /easy/, it makes you feel strong, it's poorly designed and implemented even worse, but you don't die, and it's simple and easy to understand.

But when you have a system that's well designed, and implemented into the game world well, but it makes you die a lot, suddenly it's "bad combat".

>its similar to Dark Souls.
>"DUURRR IT'S LIKE DARK SOULS!!!"
fucking normalfag moron. It's nothing like dark souls. Go play Skyrim or something.

Elric > Garret

Sure is a lot of assblastedness happening in here.

Sounds like you're having diffuclty sounds from personal skill.

Also, everyone knows it is a shitpost if you say that the side quests are fetch quests. Even detractors of the game begrudgingly admit that it's quest structure is one of the main things it has going for it.

Yeah I liked the potion system in witcher 2 over witcher 3.

do some research on what you might encounter, then rest and drink your potions. W3 you dont really need potions even on max difficulty.

You can skip and bypass and do quests in a completely different structure. You can go to Skellige when you want after you get to Novigrad, you don't even need to advance the main plot.

>Some people actually think that The Witcher 3 is a bad game when things like Skyrim, and all the other open world trash exists.

God, this board is full of normalfags.

One of quests in the first area had me looking around the map for plants

What really made me pissy about 3 compared to 2 is the extreme reliance on health sponges (which I assume is in part to the open world RPG design aspect) but that was never a deal in 2 and it focused more on unique enemies. Geralt vs Letho was a fucking awesome boss fight, fighting the Wild Hunt in 3 wasn't nearly as good. Wish I could pinpoint why, aside from a story perspective.

>dat moment when Skyrim the shallowest most casulized TES game is mechanically deeper and more complex than Use Your Witcher Sense 3.

>Complaining about needing to gather buckthorn
What the fuck is wrong with you?

Could've been so much better if it was hub world based like w2 imo

Plus we could have actually gotten the e3 graphics

Which are used to make the swallow potion you can choose to give or not give to the wounded woman. Then waaaaaay later in the game you'll run into someone related to the quest again.

Or if you're talking about buckthorne, it is one item very relevant to the plot to teach you how Witcher alchemy stuff and baits and lures can work.

Did you play Hearts of Stone or Blood and Wine? Those boss fights were awesome.

Come the fuck on guys, no one actually holds opinions this stupid unless they're children. Stop responding.

No because im poor, and the fact that they own GOG makes me feel bad to pirate it....

> WAHHHWAHHH

They franchise periodically goes on sale. Recently the GOTY Edition with the expansions was 85% off.
you can always pirate and play later. I did that with Witcher 2 and Prey and Dishonored.

>he thinks what he wrote constitutes as criticism
What's it like being retarded?

no it gets a lot worse

Keep sucking CD Project Reds cock

This is now a Witcher discussion thread.
Favorite quest?

Mine is probably Fencing Lessons, the twins are premium wife material.

>Stop complaining about combat
>Go to the inn
>Play Gwent
>???
>Profit
Also, get gud

Okay fag

The first 20 hours are bad, the next 80 are good, then the final 100 are bad. Stick with it

Nah, overrated garbage.

The Bloody Baron's optional stuff is all fantastic.
Though it did make me kinda sad he wasn't around when I came back to get UMA

The Last Wish, but only if you're going to stay with Yen over Triss. (which honestly I don't know how anyone can like Yen more than Triss, but okay) anyways the quest is good.

The cock-man quest in the Witcher 2

A Greedy God is short but interesting, I wish there were more of those monsters in the game.

Such a fucking tease of a quest line.

My favorite was the Redanian troll who used the boats to build a defensive fence and asks for paint to draw the coat of arms. If you let him paint it, it turns out 10000000x better than if Geralt does it.

I also really liked the wedding reception quest lines in HoS with Shani and being possessed. It was awesome.

And pic related

And that really sad one that unlike OP claims, has no marker and you come across. There is a dog crackling over the fire and another barking at the door. You find a bunch of starving orphans and give them food.

I actually never let him paint it, I'll have to do that on this play-through I just started. After doing my first death march play-through all I can say is that the start of NG+is frigging tough. It probably doesn't help that I bet it at like level 30 though. (I was so interested in the story my first time I couldn't help but rush through it)

Can anyone give me a hint on how to do Carnal Sins correctly? My last run through I got the wrong guy and I can't figure out what went wrong. Anything to help me do it correct this playthrough without spoilers?

It's the quest with the doctors sorry forgot pic. I ended up going after the eternal fire guy but later I found a note saying that the real killer got away.

Anything with Triss and her sexy voice! I love Triss!

>Have I been memed with the Witcher 3 ?
Yes.

Yeah, much more interesting dialogue than those stupid rock trolls

The only mandatory part is White Orchard, after that you can go to Skellige straight away if you want.

>Hei gaize chek out this glitch i found witcher 3 sucks XD witchercucks eternally btfo!!!1111

Loving Every Laugh™

theres like 500 more where that came from
the combat is trash

it's not a good game. CDPR isn't a good developer of games, in 3 witcher games they failed to make good combat one time. they just dont get something at a basic level.

the forced witcher shit of using weird magic and potions and oils and shit has never been fun and has never been done well in the games

the animations suck. the spacing sucks. the feel and fun factor suck. the game isnt fun and is basically a conversation simulator for normies.

Yeah thanks guys, anyways.

You didn't do the investigation phase correctly. Also, you might have not questioned the guy you ended up running down.

You let the eternal fire guy talk to you instead of killing him when he is at the whorehouse. He'll point you in the right direction.
Explore around Velen some more and just soak in the atmosphere. You gain XP with ease that way. Also, I think they color coded the quests as far as those related to your level. The higher the level, the more XP.

One of my actual complaints about the game is that I feel like I outlevel quests really easily. I don't mind so much, as doing the quests is fun even if there's little to no reward, but is there a way to avoid this?

>is there a way to avoid this?

Make sure you do quests in level order i.e. clear up all the quests that are your level or a few below before moving onto higher level quests

You couldn't call it a witcher game without magic and potions. Those come straight from the books and the foundation of the character.

Just because you dislike magic in gameplay and prep before fights doesn't mean it is a bad mechanic. In fact, those aspects of combat are better presented than the actual sword combat.

Alchemy in Witcher 1 was god-tier. Dunno why they repeatedly kept changing it when it was fine the way it was.

>get quest to do something
>go 20 feet outside town
>giant highlighted area on map
>gravely voice
>HMMM, ____ PRINTS
>LOOKS LIKE THEY WENT OFF OVER THERE.
>gravelly voice BLOOD. HUMAN.
>follow highlighted area to another highlighted area
>gravelly voice BETTER HAVE A LOOK AROUND
>some elf or something attacks me
>kill him by spinning around a bunch and doing capoeira

teh watcher 3

My experience was completely different, White Orchard and Velen are the best parts, then the game takes a nosedive, it stops being challenging, the combat gets tiresome, the story holds to a crawl as you do dumb random bullshit in Novigrad which lasts forever..

Novigrad is boring and unsatisfying to play. TW3 is at its best when you're in the wilderness/small villages

>You couldn't call it a witcher game without magic and potions. Those come straight from the books and the foundation of the character.

yes see i've heard this argument 300 times and here's the thing: this is a video game and it doesn't matter. nobody cares becuase nobody in the world has read the books. fantasy books are really, really badly written and the witcher books are actually so bad that they couldn't find american distribution before the games came out. in a genre of bad writing, they're bad writing.

the potions and oils and magic stuff never worked in any of the games. the idea of "preppign before a fight" ISN'T FUN BECAUSE IT MAKES THE PLAYER FEEL WEAK UNLESS THEY DO TEDIOUS SHIT WITH CONSUMABLE ITEMS, CONSTANTLY.

>The controls are shit on purpose

The game, is fun.

If the game isn't fun, what's the point?

So it's a good thing that the game, is in fact, fun.

Define fun.

I agree dude. I genuinely thought this game to be boring as shit, the combat is naff and the world is just flat and featureless. PS4 graphics really aren't great either

>isn't fun.
For you. I find it very fun. I like the prep.
Some people have different opinions than you, you know. Most people learn this when they grow up. However, it appears you still posses the mindset of a child, where when someone disagrees with you, they are factually incorrect, instead of simply holding a different opinion.

If you don't like something, it must be bad right? After all, you're the smartest guy on the planet, aren't you?

> Awful controls
> Bad Voice Acting
> Exploration ?
> Role Play ?
> Quests so far come down to fetch this kill this
The Witcher 3 is a JRPG for people who don't want to admit to liking JRPGs.

Man, you are trying hard

>Doesn't know how to play and abuses and exploit to brute force his way through the game

Why am I not surprised some brainlet would embarrass himself like this and try to show it off like he's embarrassing the game.

Yes the fanboyism is rabid. It's a hand-holdey telltale game with arkham asylum combat.

>There's a ton of shit to find
It's mostly pointed out for you, a bit like Far Cry 4 or any other casual fodder. There is little sense of exploration.

>The controls are obtuse on purpose
Jesus christ.

>smug anime face
>bad opinion and trying to force the whole sanctity of opinions shtick

it's a bad and not fun game and you like it because you're a young neo gamer who likes watching a movie

your opinion doenst matter in the least btw when its not developed by experience to back it

>he's embarrassing the game.
The game does a fine job of embarrassing itself, I'm just a medium for it to do so.

b-but muh polish potato cinematic experience

>If you like a classic style RPG you are a young neo gamer.
>Your opinion sucks because you're young.

First off, W3 is styled much more like older classic RPGs than new ones, same can be said of W1 and W2. The reason the controls are the way they are is because they're emulating the RPG games that the developers played when they were young.

Great job deflecting my argument by not addressing it, and I guarantee you I'm old enough to be your father. Go play skyrim or something man, you're embarrassing yourself with this autistic outburst.

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>yet another webm of someone having no idea how to play and cheating to get through the game

Wow I'm so impressed...you figured out you can break the game in one specific way if you're being an asshole, worst game of all time for sure...

>the witcher 3 is a "classic style RPG"
you wrote it not me gg no re