How essential is to have played the Witcher 1 and 2? I'm

1 is the best game in the series unless you listen to underage memers, so you should play that one regardless of the story stuff.
2 is worth playing too, it's not too long.

Not terribly. The game does a decent job of filling you in. I played the second one like 5 years before i played 3 so i didnt remember anything about what happens either.

>>376330552
I never played the previous games nor read the books.
Witcher 3 does a good job of introducing elements to newcomers if you take the time to read and listen to the in-game lore drops.

>>376330552
not critical but go play them beforehand anyways you fucking pleb. it will make things so much better. playing them after you finish 3 would be a chore for you but vice versa it will be very fun

t. played all 3 in the last 2 months

>>376330552
If don't play 1 and 2 you're a redditor and should leave right now

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>>376331809
this, play them

honestly witcher 2 is pretty much swept under the carpet imo. i liked all the little nods to the witcher 1 throughout the witcher 3. witcher 1 as a game has aged poorly but the story is great and it has a killer atmosphere.

>>376330653
that's not exactly true what you are saying. every game in the witcher series is very different

witcher 1 is a very traditional RPG. it's like a singleplayer MMORPG gameplay wise, it has good story characters and OST and that's what carries the game

witcher 2 takes a deep dive towards DARKNESS and politics. it's the shortest game but had major improvements to combat but many good stuff witcher 1 had were scrapped

witcher 3 is so technologically advanced and huge after you play it you won't be able to go back. and once you realize this you won't see witcher 1 through rose tinted glasses anymore it was a good game but it had it's major share of problems

witcher 3 is the best in the series. just because some people hold this opinion for the wrong reasons doesn't mean the opinion itself is wrong

>>376330552
Dont even bother, Witcher 1 is unplayable garbage today, the combat is atrocious

>>376332506
TW1 is the only one with decent combat instead of clunky asscreed / bamham combat made for casuals.

>>376332664
(you)

>>376332506
honestly i preferred the combat in witcher 1 to the combat in witcher 2.

>>376332506
Witcher 1 combat is only bad if you want to mash all day

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>Ciri will never be real
>Ciri will never be your loving and caring wife

>>376332646
Its just point and click mate. its as playable now as it was on release. shit then shit now. the story is alright though

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>>376332664

>>376330552
This:
>>376332506
The beginning of W3 happens after a little timeskip so even if you play W1 and W2 you feel a bit lost for a moment, but it gives you a solid 'home' feeling when you get tho Vizima

If you decide to play W1 have a look at nexusmods and Return of the white wolf mod (or somehing like that)
It makes the game feel a little bit newer

>>376333043
> ciri will never make cute kicks in the air as you hug and lift her around

vesemir died happy

>>376330552
>is it because I haven't played the others?
Obviously. If you started on 3 and didn't expect to be totally lost, you're an idiot.

>>376330552
Pretty essential.

Witcher 1 introduces you to the world and builds up a few characters that may or may not appear in 3 and also leads into 2. It's the least essential and still has a terrible presentation for character models and voice acting. It has its charms though.

2 is essential to get a grasp on the start of 3 and the main side plot of what will happen to the Northern Kingdoms.

But the book's the first ones with Ciri and the short stories will enrich so many aspects of the series. Despite the games being essentially noncanon according to the author of the books, the devs are extreme fans and there's so many tiny references and background details that someone who never read the books wont pick up on.

>>376333501
True, but CDPRed wanted to make sure you don't need to play other games to enjoy W3

>>376333631
The games are only non-canon because hackowski has his head up his ass

Fucker took a lump sum of cash to license his series to CDPR instead of a proper agreement and lost a potential millions
Wonder what he was thinking when all of Poland was covered in Witcher 3 posters?

>>376333746
You want to read the books tho, these are a lot more important imo

>>376333746
only casuals or worse fucking normals start playing an RPG series from the latest installment

to add crime to sin it's usually consolefags too

Play them. W1 is kind of a slog, but W2 is good, and they're both significantly shorter so it's worth the investment to make W3 that much better.

Storywise they don't add that much to the understanding of the plot, but just the fact that you'll have grown familiar with the characters and the world will improve the experience (for me one of the best ever.)

>>376332506
to add. during these 2 months when i played all 3 very thoroughly it took me

55 hours for witcher 1
37 hours for witcher 2
170 hours for witcher 3 and HoS + BaW
i still have stuff to do in witcher 3 but got the most important parts out

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How did they manage to make Blood and Wine so good? I got it for $10 and it feels more like Witcher 3.5

The entire expansion has a completely different feel to it, like it belongs in The Last Wish as a short story

>>376334534
Are the expansions meant to be end game content? When will a first time player encounter them?

>>376334534
What the hell are those giant mushrooms?
That's not what I remember from blood and wine.

>>376335490
End game, lvl 30-35
Hearts of stone is short.
Blood and wine has a whole new erea and the best character.

>>376335490
After you buy the expansions you'll see notices to start the quests leading into the expansions in villages. At the bare minimum you should be level 20 for HoS and level 30 for BaW

They can be done whenever regardless of where you are in the main story, though BaW canonically fits in after the main story
In HoS if you choose the bad ending you can ask how to get the good engine with Ciri for the main story if you didn't beat it yet
You also get a mark on your face in HoS and if you're still not done it and do BaW,
a character in the latter expansion remarks on it
It's the little things

>>376335670
They should be in the fairy tale world

>>376335490
Not at all, the story has a little nods if you finished the game (ciri can appear or not) but its mostly standalone as a story, gameplaywise you can visit the new areas but they are high level caped ( you can start the game at lvl 30 something expansion-ready)

>>376335670
beyond hill and dale you fucking pleb, best mission ever made on an RPG. you don't get it if you went to the elder vampire

>>376334534
it feels different because it's in toussant and not in a northen kingdom shithole. made me happy i let nilfgaard win the war

>>376335490
you should play them after you finish the main story even though you don't have to. start with hearts of stone and finish with blood and wine, blood and wine ends with a scene that is meant to conclude the entire saga

>>376335901
>fairy tale world.
I'm sorry, what?
I did everything in blood and wine.

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Nigger you have to at least watch 1 & 2 on youtube.

>>376336435
>make sensible choice of trying to talk to grumpy vampire instead of sacrificing the sister.
>get rewarded with missing the best mission.
Cool, thanks guys.

>>376336474
you went to the vampire elder so you didn't get this mission

you missed:
> the best quest ever
> some of the funniest and most magical moments in witcher 3
> the best sex scene in witcher 3
> the best ending for blood and wine

>>376336474

You can't finish the game without going through fairy tale world with Sanya, so you're a retard.

>>376336698
See
>>376336691

>>376336746

or went through the separate storyline. The worse one.

>>376336691
you can save the tree spirit to help the orphange children and realize you fucked up by getting an entire village annihilated

that's witcher 3 for you

>>376336746
Except I did finish the game, so, no u.

>>376336817
do you want me to upload a savegame before the route decision so you could play it out?

it's a really fun mission anon, i'd feel like doing god's service for mankind to help a /v/irgin out

>>376336852
Yes but you get a book a little earlier telling you the tree spirit is evil.
What was the warning here?
Absolutely nothing?

>>376330552
Why does she have a cat medallion?

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>>376336474
Did you see the Elder vampire? Because if you did you don't get this mission if you did

>>376337032
you got told by regis the vampire elder route is very hard and should be avoided. to quote it's like walking a thin line over a volcano if i remember right

>>376337008
That's nice of you but no, no.
I finished it about a month ago and i'm pretty done with it, especially with how pissed/sad I got at the ending.

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>>376330552
You did make sure Ciri was to be the rightful ruler of the glorious Nilfgaards right anons? Don't tell me you'd sleep soundly at night knowing Ciri is spat on, cursed at, constantly wading through muck and filth for horrible rewards and will probably get herself killed once against a real, dangerous monster. Raised by savages who had to call for a sorceress because those savage nordling Witchers and their lack of civilized education didn't know how to even handle her menstruation cycle.

>>376336691
You freed the evil horse from the tree, didn't you?

>>376337183
But everyone knows hard routes have the best rewards!
Besides, I figured he just wanted to help his little vampire buddy.

>>376337206
you have no idea what you are missing anon

really

>>376337212
go fuck yourself shit father. nilfgaard will do fine without ciri she deserves to pursue the path in life she wants, no one is forcing her to be a witcher she can cooze around with geralt at his vineyard anytime she wants

>>376337215
No, I read a book telling me not to.

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>>376337212

>He thinks Ciri would be happy living a royalty life with restrictions and political bullshit.

You don't Ciri understand at all, terrible father.

>>376337212
Nope, because I'm not a shitter and by reading the books I know very well that she hated court life to her guts, and dreamed about traveling the world as a witcher since when she was a little child.

>>376337362
>wants to help others out.
>got the best ending.
You're alright, anon.

>>376337212
That's literally what she wants though, she hates political bullshit

The entire point of the good ending/bad ending was to give her the freedom she wants, making her the queen of Nilfgaard undermines that entirely

>>376337362
>she can choose
Right, because Geralt keeps completely silent on the other option of her father wanting to see her again and gift the Empire to her. The even worse shit father Witcher would rather curse a stolen daughter to a life of resentment, destain and general hatred, because that's all the barbarian nordling knows.

Witcher 1 has so many annoyances and badly designed encounters.

>Geralt sheathes his weapon immediately upon entering any doorway and has to undergo the whole drawing animation again while taking free hits
>he also randomly sheathes his weapon while walking, even if you just want to peek into a darker area for a bit with a torch without using up Cat
>you can't draw your sword at any given time when out of combat
>game makes a huge deal about drinking potions before combat, then right in the first boss battle it skips time and drops you in front of the boss even though Geralt would have had plenty of time to prepare himself and drink some potions before

>>376337507
i got the bad ending the first time in the vanilla game because i was over protective of ciri, i though the right thing is to be nice and protective to her so i told her she doesn't need to be good at everything and went to the lodge with her. and worse gave her the lara dorren amulet because i tried to play peacefuly and not trash the lab, those decision point weren't made well

no regrets though, the bad end is the most cinematic by far. i felt devestated and had my bearded broken geralt kill the werewolf and the last crone with the fury of a of a thousand suns

>>376337632
ciri wants to be a witcher, true she was raised to be one but that s what she wants. no one can force her to go that path

you got the nilfgaard ending did you not see how sad she was to give up her sword?

>>376337637
>you can't draw your sword at any given time when out of combat

Yes you can, that's how I overcame the godawful snail tier slow jogging

Just draw your sword and go to group mode for fastest running speed

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>20 year old genius sword fighter bi sexual half breed chosen one who also has immense magical powers and teleportation
>everyone wants her
>also a princess

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>there are people ITT who didn't romance bestgirl

>>376337212
No, because i'm not a retard.

>glorious Nilfgaard

Nilfgaard is a shithole. There's nothing "glorious" about it.

>>376337954
would you let her squeeze your balls with magic

>>376337881
has the best soundtrack too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkkt5X_ydmI

based ciri

>>376330552
I've played TW3 alone and I understood it fine.

>>376330552
I find the main plot of TW3 to be pretty cheesy, and the story synopsis from the 2nd game made that one sound pretty cheesy too. The real strength in TW3 isn't the whole "child of destiny looming apocalypse"-thing but rather the political intrigue and the various side stories. The Baron arc was way more interesting than anything to do with Ciri or the Wild hunt.

>>376338016
Why do people Yen is a dominatrix?

She quite obviously enjoys being dominated

reference the Unicorn scene

>>376337881
>every guy that tried to fuck her died one way or another
Would not recommend

>>376338102
if you like the politics stuff you definitely got witcher 2 wrong. it's game of thrones of steroids

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>>376337954
Don't worry, fortunately those with taste outnumber shitters.

>>376335490
Hearts of Stone is kinda separate, you can play it whenever you want, but Blood and Wine is meant to be the ending.

>>376338186
They would never see that because they autistically stuck with Triss

>>376337869
I got the best ending for her because i didn't care too much and just let her do whatever.
Funny how things work out.

>>376337881
fuck your ciri is not a mary sue

>>376338186
only trissfags and people who can't even listen (not to mention read) think that

yen even mentions to geralt when going to the sacred park in skelliege she wants him to take the lead

>>376338290
it took me many many good hours to unfuck the shit i've done but no regrets it turned out better that way. i'll never forget the shock of getting the bad ending it was an amazing vidya moment

also i had the good ending spoiled to me before playing so whatever

>>376338195
Geralt clearly cursed her vagina to keep boys away.

>>376338434
>i'll never forget the shock of getting the bad ending

For what everyone calls the bad ending, it was pretty good, I must say

Rage mode Geralt > Autistic Uncle Geralt

>>376338434
>>376338186
>>376338253
>>376337954
Triss fags skipped this
https://youtu.be/gcFYm0S-zo0

>>376338548
I FEEL YOUR PAIN, I SENSE YOUR FEAR

took an unholy amount of potions and absolutely wrecked her shit. holy fuck

the werewolf was brutal too people who talked with him peacefully are the worst fags, you got the bad end at least act broken as you should be

>>376338538
Forgot about girls apparently.

>>376338751
yuri is the purest form of love!

>>376338685
dandelion doesn't deserve this gentle tulip

>>376338867
Priscilla is literally just Dandelion with tits. They're perfect for each other

>>376338950
it's true she's dandelion with tits but she's worth more than him. that's the thing with top tier girls

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>dandelion fucked this

FLOWER'D

>>376339045
Dandelion's a top tier stud as well, we just see him as the buffoon he really is because he's Geralt's best friend
He was fucking the Duchess

>>376338751
Yeah. "Forgot".

>>376339116
he's a true magician of fucking girls, i suspect his only purpose of existence in the witcherverse is to have someone outclass geralt so he won't seem like the biggest manwhore in the world

>>376339147
> top stud

yeah we all saw what a genius alpha he is in that fake robbery mission. he has helium for brains maybe that's his secret for getting grills

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>>376338751
Geralt didn't expect that kind of degeneracy from this cute thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOuLR1wSuM

>>376337032
But that's the point of the game,book, whole philosophy...
Road to hell is paved by good Intention's.
As much as you try you are just one flawed guy(this shit is soo watered down from tw1 to tw3, especially in tw3 where they had to fondle the balls of console kiddies...
Imagine the world where The Witcher stayed PC exclusive (without money dilemma), what Godly game would we get, maybe smaller and shorter but god damn would that one be for the books.

>>376339297
>yeah we all saw what a genius alpha he is in that fake robbery mission. he has helium for brains
You're just figuring this out?

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>>376330552
I highly recommend playing the first two games, the first game has the best atmosphere and the second one has the best story. But I can understand how a modern audience might have trouble getting into the first game. Watch this if you decide to skip it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB_bHqHzhIA

>>376339426
they also use the term cuckold several times

>>376339473
they made dandelion a worse person with every game that passes, he was pretty based in witcher 1

>>376339590
He's still a dumbass like in The Last Wish though

>>376339590
>they made dandelion a worse person with every game that passes.
Nope, they just showed more of his true personality.

>>376339529
Holy fuck that image was exactly me when I played TW1 for the first time

>>376333838
This. Witcher 1 had literally(not the meme literally but literally literally) nothing to do with Witcher 3. W3 pretty much picks up where the books left off.

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>>376339529
the prologue in witcher 1 sucked so much ass it's amazing how much it improved latter

also chapter 4 kind of gets too much praise, it's basically a chapter where the main quest is a side quest. but it had the best OST in the game by far

this little devil here made it all worth it though i'll never forget seeing her again in that house before the ending

Jesus Christ, consoletards finally figured out The Witcher 3 is not rails on corridor RPG(lets be gentle and say RPG,fuck ,for modern standards its uberRPG.) questwise.
Yes, your actions have consequences.

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>>376339867
Witcher 1 is such a weird game. From Chapter 3 and onward it feels like an entirely different game compared to the previous chapters. It's like the team practiced with the first two chapters and poured all their experience and love in the later half of the game.

>>376340195
they were a small inexperienced studio. i loved playing witcher 1 but some nostalgiafags here praise it so much i can tell they forgot the bad parts of it, thing that are more noticeable if you played all 3 recently like me

i was shellshocked for the first 10 hours of witcher 2 it felt like a completely different game

>>376337097
book lore

>>376332506
Nope, w3 open worlds was a mistake to me still.

I love the scope of w1 levels, big enough to feel real but not pointlessly large for the sake of it like 3.

The story and quests were pretty good too but thats par for the course with witcher games.
I also prefer the combat of w1 over 2 and 3.
I used a gamepad

>>376338212
Maybe I'm getting it mixed together with 1. It was something about a child of destiny who turned out to not be a child of destiny or something liket that.

>>376340195
>>376340384

I only played the Witcher series very recently, TW1 was a hard game to play because it wasn't new and innovative anymore, the mechanics were shit to say the least and I very nearly didn't bother playing past Act 2

But boy am I glad I fucking did, It was definitely worth slogging through it, the story more than made up for it's shortcomings in gameplay

>>376340490
yeah that's witcher 1

you'll love witcher 2 if you like political stuff, it's also the darkest game in the series by far. and has the best bosses

>>376340452
i used to think i'd feel this way before playing witcher 3 and i'm glad i was wrong

>>376340692
>i used to think i'd feel this way before playing witcher 3 and i'm glad i was wrong
I wish I was you.

I tried w3 for like 5 hours and it just bored me. I love the story and characters bu the open world was boring to me and the intro was worse than the other 2 somehow.

>>376340452
>Nope, w3 open worlds was a mistake to me still.

I held this opinion until a couple of weeks ago when I started replaying W3 since I never finished it. I've completely changed my mind now, open world was a good decision.

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>>376340671
we share the same boat friend

i managed to slog my way to chapter 2 because i wasn't used to anything better yet as the last RPG i've played and enjoyed was DA:O and that was many years ago (always loved RPGs, there just weren't any good ones in a long time besides the witcher series). i could suck up anything for a role playing game and i'm so glad i did. for the atmosphere at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-sSZzwdeIA&index=3&list=PL4B8A7A92F24AC1CF

>>376340778
> i tried for 5 hours

that's where you went wrong. witcher games always bore you to tears in the first hours. i bet you are still in white orchard

you are missing out the game of the generation experience

>>376341118
I am, and guess what.

1 and 2 were great after 2 hours. 3 has the worst intro I have seen an an RPG and turned me off so hard it took me 3 tries to just get that far.

I'll go back when I can max it out probably but until then I just have to wonder how the made such a boring game compared to the first 2/

I dont want to ride a horse or use witcher vision. I want to play w2 with levels as big as 1. I dont care about muh graffix either.

>>376341357
again i tell you, i used to think the same

you will feel differently,much differently latter on

witcher 3 isn't a bell curve game, it's a steady uphill game. it only gets better until it ends

>>376330552
Ya'll are gonna shit the bed when she's the protag in the next game even though they've built her up constantly as the successor and done everything except scream at you for hours on end that it's going to happen

>>376341530
Thats good news but doesnt excuse 3's intro.

2 had a great intro, grabs your attention of a war.
1 was also great, with the cult attacking your base and having to make choices on who to save or fight.
3 was just ride a horse until something about yeniffer who I still do not give a single fuck about after 2 games.

The fact it is mainly about a character I still dont care about after 2 games and that w1 and 2 had me interested in the characters rather quickly is pretty fucking bad.

Looks cool though, still prefer combat in 1 as well

>>376341863
witcher 1's intro was horrid but w/e

if you don't play witcher 3 you'll miss out the RPG experience of a lifetime, it's a different RPG than the more traditional ones like witcher 1 was but it's amazing

>>376337881
Geralt even thought that was silly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEzO5AQn_tI

>>376342041
1 intro wasnt horrid, sure the dialogue wasnt spectacular but it at least gets you into the game with some combat and action.

It was just their earliest work and you can tell how they got better at designing everything as they went. I suspect 3 is just like that as its their first game in that style.

>>376330653
>If it resembles bamham I gotta hate it meme

>>376341597
Ciri would be a horrible protag. She's a boring mary sue.

>>376342269
witcher 3 definitely improves over time and that also carries for the DLCs

it goes basically like this (without spoiling anything noteworthy)

kaer moren intro - you are supposed to be in awe of the GRAPHICS and maybe yennefer if you were hyped to see her, but that's it

white orchad - boring AF tutorial village

then you start the bloody baron arc, starts with some meet X person quests but from this point on it's the event horizion and things get much better very fast

going to oxenfurt for the first time is amazing, most gorgous city ever made in vidya

novigrad is a giant city that you'll definitely like if you liked vizima in witcher 1

skelliege is an awesome viking like place

dlcs are top tier, especially blood and wine

>>376342491
>>376342194

is witcher 3 better than morrowind?

>>376342631
Man that sounds really good.

I will definitely try it again and probably rush myself to get past white orchard next time rather than try and do everything like last time I tried.

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/v/, I'm having an issue.

I started up Witcher 3, but for some reason, everything in the game is in slo-mo outside of cutscenes.

I sorta like it, because it makes combat much easier now that basically every enemy takes a second of windup before every attack, but the weird horse animations make traveling long distances very painful.

Is this some obscure bug, or is it just a side effect of the fact that I'm playing the game on a graphics card that has no business running any game made after 2010?

>>376342194
So how the fuck would an innkeep know all that?

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How can i play Witcher 1 on windows 10?

>>376342870
you have no reason to rush white orchad though, it's a good tutorial village you'll learn all the shit you need there. pick up the lore understand the witcher 3 vibe

also gwent is really fun, although you can't play it seriously before you leave WO and it will take you a long time to build up good decks that are not your starting deck

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>>376342913
It's a bug within your save file, it has nothing to do with graphic settings.
Either start up a whole new save or load earlier one.

Respond to me if this is the case.

>>376342913
delete system 32 that will speed your game up

>>376343054
No, as in it's been in slo mo since I first started the game.

I meant "now" in the sense of compared to Witcher 2, where I could never into riposte.

>>376342913
you just have very low fps

>>376342194
This has me more interested in w3 story than anything in the intro of w3.
What. The. Fuck.

>>376343037
I dont like qwent or card games much.

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>>376330552
Witcher 3 was specifically made to appeal to the new PS4 audience.

Witcher 1 and 2 were completely overwritten anyway.

>>376343310
i didn't like card games before either. gwent is very fun

anyways just remember it's the kind of game that only gets better the more you progress into it, keep blood and wine for the absolute end the way it should be

i'll return in a few minutes, if you want to ask some stuff take your time to write it down

>>376343310
>I dont like qwent or card games much.

That's because you haven't really played gwent
I used to be like you
It's a very fun mini-game, much better than the shitty dices from 1 and 2

>>376343227
The game runs pretty smooth if I put it on the lowest settings, it's just in slow motion.

I only get stuttering in the places that are pretty FPS hungry in most games like the cities.

>>376342913
>>376343138
Are you getting double digit frame rates?

>>376343138
I dont understand what you're trying to convey here...
Do you mean that the gameplay is more sluggish compared to Witcher 2 or is the game genuinely going in slow motion?
What are your specs? I can run the game on 50-60 fps with gtx 960 + i7-3770

>>376343607
>>376343471
>gwent is good trust me

Its not that it wont be fun, its that I cant stand card games and trying to get better cards. I also usually avoid minigames in general unless its pretty quick like fist fights which are about playing the game.

Even the dice minigame was unwanted to me yet more appealing than any card game has ever been.

Its okay for me to not like gwent guys. Its not gwent either, its just cards.

>>376340452
w1 just had a lot of artificial lengthening. lots of back tracking

>>376343712
>Are you getting double digit frame rates?
Generally hovering around 15-16 fps.

>>376343723
>Do you mean that the gameplay is more sluggish compared to Witcher 2 or is the game genuinely going in slow motion?
Genuinely slow motion. It looks like Geralt is in a matrix game or something.

>>376343723
>What are your specs?

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 128MB
374.9 GB free space
12 GB RAM
DirectX 11
64 Windows 10

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>>376330552
giv ciri gf

>>376344172
>Generally hovering around 15-16 fps.
ayyyyyyyy

>>376343894
alright, you really don't have to play gwent if you don't want to

i'd still tell you it's good. and most importantly that witcher 3 is really really good

>>376330552
The more familiar you are with the series (including the books) the better W3 is.

>>376344172
>15-16 fps
What the fuck anon that's unplayable

>Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 128MB
Well no fucking shit, you need a seriously beefy dedicated graphics card
>Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
You're playing on a laptop, one that doesn't have a separate graphics card. Did some guy at Best Buy convince you that a laptop with an i7 can game? I'm not trying to be an ass to you but genuinely curious

Seriously just build a dedicated gaming PC
http://www.logicalincrements.com/

>>376330552
not really essential. Witcher 1 and 2 are both fanfiction but I recommend 1 more than 2.

>>376343471
>ask some stuff
Does geralt ever not have amnesia? Thats was kind of a dick punch after the first two games didnt do jack shit in that regard.

Anyways, how is the leveling and sign usage. I dont care abut difficulty or using all the features like traps, I'm here for the stories mostly. The potions are can be pretty neat though

>>376330552
You' ll be more confused picking up 2 than 3.

>>376344445
I bought it a few years ago for coursework, then my desktop died and I've been too unemployed to get a new one so I started doing everything on my laptop

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>>376344172
>Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 128MB

>>376344561
>>376344172
Sorry man, you're not going to be playing Witcher 3 on that at all

>>376344678
It plays, it's just in slo-mo.

I was just trying to figure out if I could fix it or if I just needed to sit through longer travel times.

>>376344828
You could always go beyond lowest settings.

It wont be pretty but its playable on very low end hardware like intel graffix.

>>376344501
geralt's amnesia was cured at the end of witcher 2

leveling is pretty balanced IMO. if you do main quests plus some side quests you are playing the game optimally. if you really grind hard sidequests before doing the slightest progression in main story you will be somewhat overpowered

signs have changes pretty significantly in W3. i played 1 and 2 almost entirely on aard and quen but in W3 igni proves to be usually a better option than aard to dealing with hordes, yrden also becomes much more useful than before because some monsters are very vulnerable to it. axii is still the kind of sign you only use on enemies with shields or to get more dialogue options

also signs have alternative mode to them which is cool

>>376330552
It follows both the books
And two previous games.

>>376344828
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrJ330NGjCU

here's a vid how to run the game on very low end pc's

your laptop might end up playing the game on solid 30 or 45 fps if you do some of these .ini tweaks

good luck

>>376330552
Witcher 3 doesn't require any backstory really because the main story is ass anyway. I actually marathon'd witcher 1 + 2 a few weeks before witcher 3 and after beating witcher 3, I can honestly say that the side quests were the best part of the game.

tl;dr Start with witcher 3 and focus on the side quests.

>>376344828
for cpu the recomended is 3.6 ghz although i have 3.4 and it works splendid. most of the load is thrown on the gpu and that's where you are severly behind. i upgraded from radeon 7650 to gtx 1060 for witcher 3. replacing gpu is easy but you will need a new mobo for the cpu so you're fucked

>>376345271
worst opinion ever voiced on 4chan - the post

>>376330552

It basically cements your emotional investment with the characters. You don't get a lot of character development for the main characters, so you need to know what happened in order to understand or care about some stuff.

>>376343310
Gwent if fucking trash, you get better cards the more you play and you end up destroying the retarded npcs without even trying.
There's no strategy either, just go full spies/legendaries north and you won.

>>376345474
if you play as nilfgaard you can pretty much almost win with spy shit, but gwent is really fun as northen kingdoms and even more as based skelliege

>>376344828
>>376344928
Did someone say ps2 graphics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrJ330NGjCU

>>376345474
>why is the game not fun when I cheese it?!

>>376345257
>>376344928
Thanks, I'll try that out.

It's weird, because I can run Dragon's Dogma and Skyrim with texture mods just fine, and minimum settings aren't much more graphically impressive than either.

I'll try to find a middle ground between slo-mo fps and graphics too poor to appreciate that thicc Ciri mod.

>>376337212

I didn't make sure, since I didn't use guides. The ending was completely a result of my actions.
She became a witcher
Felt pretty good. I honestly would've felt pretty devastated if I would've gotten the bad ending.

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>>376342992
>windows 10
Found your problem

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>>376333043
Ciri will be real soon enough for me

>>376342992
Install it and play? I don't think many people have compatibility issues.

>>376345950
> lady of time and space
> she isn't in my time and my place

JDIMSA

>>376338685

In the Skellige overworld theme, there is a part that resembles intro notes of the lute in this song. Always gets me.

>>376345702
I played 200 hours yet still have no decent monster deck, I have pretty much all cards though, decks for all factions, tried out a lot. It's easy, piss easy, I have never lost a single time. And it's not exploiting, it's just playing with what the game gives you. Geen to is shit, face it.

>>376346083
i'm almost certain people in toussant play it

>>376346190
> no decent monster deck

how the fuck do you still not have all decks at post 200 hours. i have 170 hours and i finished my decks (minus trash cards i refused to buy) long ago

just go to a bar and buy some cards for like 10 crowns a piece. also you probably didn't play much if you still lack stuff

>>376346190
*gwent is shit.
I'm not drunk, fuck you.

>>376330552
Not really but you're missing a lot. Same with not reading the books.

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>>376346356
>gwent is shit

>>376345950
>>376333043
Ciri is literally just Emma Watson with hair dye and poorly applied make-up.

>>376348909
But she has a scars, which is 90% of her appeal

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>>376348909
delet this

Emma Watson is average as fuck, Ciri is a slav goddess.

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>>376348909
>ciri is emma watson
>ciri = raped from her childhood to adulthood being creampied multiple times a day by numerous people (sometimes at the same time)
>emma watson = pure virgin goddess who unfortunately cut her beautiful hair

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>>376348909
She looks nothing like Emma Watson

>>376330552

Witcher 1 and 2 are like side stories at best to get new people into the series, honestly your missing more of the story if you don't read the books, but considering almost no one does, you should be fine.

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>>376349324
>Emma watson
>pure virgin

yeah na mate you're chatting bare shit

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>>376349732
When I grow up, I am going to marry long haired Ciri!!

>>376349732
> modding ciri

you will burn in hell along with the gwent haters

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>>376349732
>that hair
disgusting

>>376350816
> implying yen is a tsun

you go even lower in hell,scum

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Can't wait to play Witcher 4: The Rise of Cirilla of Vengerberg

>>376330552
Any way that isn't books>games is shit

kys