How did they make such an awesome game when the original books are so boring and badly written?

How did they make such an awesome game when the original books are so boring and badly written?

[Forcefully shove Dijkstra]

That's your opinion my dude.

Books are boring in general.

BotW has rendered all other open world games unplayable. When I tried to play this I desperately wanted to climb on surfaces and manipulate things with physics, but you can't.

Both are boring and badly written.
Witcher 3 is the most casual, easy, boring, dumbed down, commercialised piles of shit ever made, and the single most casualised "RPG" in the history of videogames

this

you have a weak imagination

Why do BotWfags jump into every thread relating to every other open world game? Are they that insecure?

Only the first couple of short stories are good, the rest is pure shit. No wonder they were only known by swamp dwelling inbred slavs before the game.

But now normies are eating those books up because of the last game of the series.

Botw has nothing to do but look for hundreds of seeds and go in shrines, witcher 3 has a living breathing fully voice acted world with hundreds of real sidequests and your weapons don't break in 3 hits

The best game I've played in years, almost everything went right, except
>casualized potions
>mediocre ending
>needless "I found a letter pointing to a treasure" type of quests

Why is this regarded as the best open world game when most of its praise is exclusively about the storytelling?

This is the same as asking why was Doom(movie) so bad when the original game was so good. It's because reworking something, especially cross-platform, completely redefines the original material.
What I think you're really doing is shitposting on the wrong board. If you want critique on The Witcher books goto
>>/lit/

Strong in both areas

Be honest, did you actually enjoy hoarding crafting ingredients in order to make a new stack of healing potions every two hours? Is that really more "hardcore" than having them replenish automatically once you make the recipe for the first time?

m8 I like W3 but don't act like it's open world is anything beyond another cookie-cutter ubisoft mess with bamham vision quests.

There's all these cool subtle details in the world that they didn't even have to add. That woman in skellige who gets sentenced to be chained to a rock and picked apart by monsters can be found out on some island all chained up.

I agree, but it could have been something less simplistic, like "spend 3 hours meditating to get one potion of your choosing" instead of "press a button to get your stuff back"

the books are much better than the shitty games

>m8 i like BotW but don't act like it's open world, it's another mess around with physics for few hours game without story or literally anything else that is not mediocre like Just Cause

I wasn't even the guy you origially replied to and I've never played BotW. W3's open world wasn't anything special and the game would have benefitted from a smaller, more focused world. Less is better sometimes.

Oh i agree. W3 definitely should be more linear with it's world structure.
But the same could be said about Zelda.
Open World made everything else mediocre or straight up bad.
Story, music, content (instead of long, fun dungeons we get repeated shrines and pieces of tree poo) suffered because Nintendo used the most recent AAA memes.
To think they claimed they were not inspired by either Skyrim or W3 at all.

The books are way better than the game you retarded faggot

muh pointless gimmicks

Ha ha no. CDPR employs better writers than sapkowski.

So the game would have been more fun if you had to meditate over and over again to replenish all of your potions?

Haha no.
Not a fucking chance.
W3 villains:
>Eredin: MUAHAHAHA I'M EVIL AND I WILL INVADE THIS WORLD FOR NO REASON. (even though in books i want to do the opposite, take elves away from your shitty world because you gonna die from White Frost).
>Whoreson Junior: LOOOK HOW EEEVIL HE IS HE MURDERS WOMEN FOR FUN HOW EVIL!
Also W3 is clearly good guys vs bad guys.
Church is Evil in W3, even though in W1 they had one mad priests, the leaders of the cult, like Siegfried and Jaques were people you could easily follow and believe in under different circumstances. Game did not make fun of religion and made believers ignorant, quite the opposite. When Yaevinn makes fun of people crying and praying over dead during riots in Vizima, Geralt shuts him up saying that it makes it easier for them to cope.
W1 and W2 treats women realistically, saying that they are worse soldiers but at the same time Geralt respects people like Ves and Toruviel that despite that can handle themselves.
W3 is full "It's 13TH CENTURY WOMEN ARE COOL TOO"
And i could go on forever.

this. the fact this trash is considered the holy standard of video games, makes me worry for the future of the medium.

Writing includes all the dialogue in the game.

there's nothing half as retarded as reasons of state in the books