Is it worth pirating if I haven't played the previous two?

>>376894471
yes but you don't understand shit. it's like watching fury road without watching mad max trilogy.

Sure. You won't understand shit though. You should read the books, honestly.

nigga dont pirate this masterpiece

>>376894471
it's worth buying, too.

>>376894691
>it's like watching fury road without watching mad max trilogy.

How so? Fury Road is independent and not related to the trilogy

>>376894471
Just buy it you degenerate. Its the best rpg in years

I bought it when it released, never read the books or played the other games, and I still really enjoyed it. Do it, OP, its breddy gud

>>376894691
>>376894691
Loads of bullshit I only played like 15 min of w2 which I didn't liked, before I started playing w3 and I understood everything in the story

It's not even worth pirating even if you played the previous two

>>376894836

>I understood everything in the story

No you didn't. You missed tons of shit that flew right over your head without you even noticing it.

>>376894471
>pirating
how about you kill yourself

>>376894719
This is exactly why you should pirate this overrated to some excent game and only buy if u liked it

>>376894691

good analogy cus you can still tremendously enjoy witcher 3 without playing the other 2

>>376894893
Muh Radovid

Literally who cares about dead fucker or dragon bitch which wasn't even in w3

>>376895115

Nigger the first thing that happens in the Witcher III is Geralt goes looking for Yennefer. I assume that if you haven't read the books or played the earlier games, you have no fucking clue who Yennefer is or why you'd be trying to find her. Sure, you can eventually learn who Yen is through context, but you will never truly understand her character or Geralt's relationship to her.

>>376894719
>>376894738
Should I buy it from GOG then?

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>>376894471
>Witcher game
>worth anything

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It's one of the best game experiences ever made, it's worth it to play one decent but aging game, and one good game, to make it even better.

I want to reade the novels but I've never been in the know about pirating epubs. Can an anon help me out?

Witcher 3 is more reliant on you having read the source material than Witcher 1 or Witcher 2 were. CDred actually did the same thing japanese devs do where it's a multimedia franchise and a lot of the story is outside of the game.

The Wild Hunt are just a bunch of magic elfs wearing skull armor without the novels contextualizing them; Gorrolt meets a lot of guys who are like "who dat?" without knowing who they were from the books.

Still Witcher 3 blew the fuck out of both bioware and bethesda games simultaneously, though, so it's worthwhile.

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>>376895859
whatever works for you man

>>376895115
you are the type of person who binged mad men and think you understand everything

>>376894836
>I understood everything in the story
lol

Fake novel fags pls leave.

>>376896172

You people really love your bandwagon of self delusion.

>>376894471
I guess, but it's better to play the previous ones first, they're better in everything except combat anyway and much shorter. And obviously read the books if you want to really understand wtf is going on.

>>376896353
Yennefer is much more lewd than Triss

W3 is the kind of game that actually deserves the money

you are a faggot for not playing the previous 2

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>>376897013
how lewd is Ciri?

>>376894767
but they don't explain shit and you have a better grasp of concept when you watch trilogy. it makes 10x better.
>>376894836
> I understood everything in the story
so you understanded the book that you get in novigrad town square bookstore.
>>376895034
you can enjoy it but it's much better when you play other games.

>>376897152

But the original witcher games have the most abysmally awful gameplay a game can have.

>>376896258
I don't really pirate novels, but I guess torrent sites should have them. And besides they're worth a buy, really. They're not exactly the newest releases, how much could they cost?

extremely overrated
>shit gameplay
>shit story
>juvenile themes and occurances
>annoying and boring linear loot system
I tried to play it to roam around, slay monsters and enjoy the ride but every moment you're reminded of the intended casual experience of batman vision, trash ui, Skyrim markers and inane dialogue
It's only virtue is it's large budget, 6 or 7/10

>>376897163
NO LEWD

>>376897270
(You)

>>376897324
I'm entirely sincere and you would share my opinion if you were capable of critical thought
Refute or meaningfully question exactly one of my assertations, I doubt you're able

>all these sperglords saying you won't understand what's happening without playing the previous (shit) games or reading the (boring) books

If you didn't understand everything that's going on by the time you get to Novigrad you are denser than a black hole.

>>376897270
>batman vision
Oh its you again. Still mad that people prefer one well made quest with only one approach over ten shitty Gothic 2 fetchquests with different approaches?

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>>376897435
> previous (shit) games

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>>376897270
yea nah

>>376894691
Good analogy. You can perfectly enjoy The Witcher 3 without knowing shit.

>>376897472
>follow the scent trail
>"hrmmm this looks like drowned tracks"
>*hint* DROWNERS LIKE WATER
>*SLAY THE DROWNERS*
>repeat
Wow 10/10 I love these well crafted and entertaining quests

>>376896865
Why would I have to delude myself? Hadn't truly enjoyed or been immersed in a game that much for years, and the feeling after finishing Witcher 3/Blood & Wine I don't think I've had since completing Throne of Bhaal 15 years ago.

>>376897550
The story was quite interesting in 2 but the "gameplay" was abysmal. Point still stands.

>>376897195
Not him but I did understand it. I however researched the lore well.

>>376897435
>W2 is literally W3 without open world, but with better story and actually meaningfull choices
>It's shit because /v/ says so
>Reading easy adventure novels hurtz brejn
Kys

>>376896258
/lit/ has a sticky

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>implying the games are actually related with the main-story of Witcher 3
gotta read the books nigga

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>>376897163
A lot. Her cunny gets all tingly when horsies are around.

This thread reminded me I was kind of always an asshole to Trish in each game for some reason. I think she's alright too, but whenever it comes down to it I always end up picking the "Fuck Trish" option.

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>>376897745
delete this, Witcher 2 was a masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5hn7l0ZTCs

>>376897639
Tell me fag, when was the last time you had an actual engaging quest?

Remember when you went to one island discovering a survivor who's held hostage to build a boat for the giant to sail forth to fight at Ragnarok? Or the cursed werewolf that came back everytime you killed him? Or that time you accepted that request to kill a Leshen only to find everyone slaughtered. As you investigated you discovered that they weren't killed by monsters but by a swordsman who only spared a little girl. Once you tracked him down with your "batman" senses you found out that he's a Witcher that the villagers tried to scam and kill. Luring him into a barn and then driving a pitchfork into his back, after which he lost is temper and killed the villagers. And its up to you to let him go or kill him?
Remember this? No you don't. Because all you're doing is completing a basic "get the sword" fetch quest with no interesting qualities to it whatsoever. I tell you once again, no matter how many ways you have to complete them, it wont make your shitty G2 quests more interesting.

Also, you made a good point
>"hrmmm this looks like drowned tracks"
Even the shittiest basic quests in TW have more attention to detail than the boring shit with playmobil aestethics you sperg out over.

>>376898412
Not him, but while Gothic games never clicked with me, I definitely respect the amount of "openess" they have. This meme sword quest is a good example, but not the only one. Like in G1 you have this city(the first one in the game) in which guards regularly take protection money from people and indeed, soon after you arrive a guard appears and wants protection money from you. You have few ways to get around it, but he will return regularly and you have to either give him money or steer clear of the city, because early game he will totally fuck your shit up if you won't pay up. When I tried G2, I remember accidentally stealing some hammer or something like that from a house, it's owner started screaming and I just ran away. When I returned to the town the guards wouldn't let me in, because I broke the law. In most games it would be just a matter of paying them off or they would give up after I ran away, but not here. Now, I know many people would scream "shit game design", but it's actually pretty nice and realistic, it's dealing with consequences of your actions and it makes the game feel much more natural than mechanical.

>>376899194
Gothic's simulationism has yet to be outdone in this style of game

>>376894893
>No you didn't. You missed tons of shit that flew right over your head without you even noticing it.
i've read every book twice and a couple of references here and there that have no bearing on the plot are not "tons of shit"

>>376899414
umm aren't you forgetting the EPIC unicorn joke?

Witcher 3 > Witcher 1 > Witcher 2
But it's really 10 > 9+ > 8 kind of deal.

>pirating the best game of the decade

Kill yourself to be quite honest familiar.

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>>376894471

>>376894471
kys

Literally nothing happens in the first one. Two might be important

>cdpr drones in this itt thread
*heh*

>>376899591
They have different strong and weak sides really, as for games from one franchise they're kind of hard to objectively compare to be honest.

>>376898154
How can this guy have almost 200000 subscribers but only hundreds of views per video?

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>>376899591
superb fucking taste

DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE ELSE IN THIS THREAD, YOU HAVE TO PLAY THEM IN ORDER.

TW1, comfiest fucking shit ever. Go around collecting cards of nekkid women, solving mysteries as medieval batman with medieval sherlock holmes, sneak into young girl's houses at night and steal granny's pickles and lard.

TW2 even comfier than TW1, once you get past the first 50 hours of getting acclimatized to the game. Flotsam so fucking comfy. Vergen so fucking comfy. Best plot out of the three games.

TW3 not comfy like the other two but better in virtually every other aspect.

>>376894471
>pirating a game that goes for 25 yuros during sales, offering over a hundred hours of gameplay easily

cancer incarnate

>>376900204
>the first 50 hours of getting acclimatized to the game
What the fuck anon, the whole game isn't that long.
Other than that I mostly agree, although W1 is THE comfiest one, other ones don't stand close. In general:
W1:Amazing atmosphere, very good story and writing, weird and unsatisfying combat system
W2:Great story, some very good quests and very meaningful choices, half of the game is completely different depending on them. Combat is meh
W3:Good combat, great atmosphere, good story and writing, although not as good as in previous ones and obviously it's MUCH bigger in every aspect

>>376899591
I cannot agree with this. I had to take a 2 day break from witcher 1 because i got so fucking mad about the disgustingly bad combat system. Granted i played it with hardest difficulty but still after returning from lakeside the games enjoyment takes a gigantic nosedive through the bottom of the barrel. Multitarget battles (especially if friendly NPC's are involved) are so incredibly frustrating and full of targeting bugs and combobreaking gliches and model collision problems that it absolutely ruins the gameplay.

And mind you that i have very low standards when it comes to combat in story-driven games. As long as it works on some level its usually good enough for me, but i do want to be challenged if possible.

Otherwise 8.5/10 game that gets brought down to 7 due to extremely bad combat system.

>>376897645
>Hadn't truly enjoyed or been immersed in a game that much for years

I still feel bad about the Lambert quest in which I fucked over a friend and let a slave trader go. And the Internet's filled with people who feel similarly about falling for the red herring and letting the Concerned Citizen off the hook. These are fictional characters in fictional situations but the Witcher 3 regularly makes people feel guilty about the moral choices they make within its world. That's some impressive immersion.

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>>376896353
Triss is a hoe
Yen is a hoe
Geralt is a hoe
Dandy is the only pure character in the series

>>376901990
That's an... unconventional look on purity anon

>>376901990
Ciri is pure

>>376903287
Ciri fucks elves and horses

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>>376903287
Ciri was built for cock, Geralt specifically.

>>376894471
You could just read up on previous games

GOG always has the game of the year version that includes both expansions on sale for cheap, just grab it when its on sale dont pirate it CDproject need to keep making great games.

>>376894471

It will actually spoil the other two for you.
Not in terms of story, I can't go back to 1 or 2 after playing 3, it's too good.

>>376896172
Witcher 3 + DLCs is one of my favourite games of all time and i couldnt force myself to play W1 and W2

>>376894471
No game is worth pirating, anon.

>Pirating PC games in 2017

You fucking scum.

Why does this game get asked this more than any other game? Why would you play this game without playing the previous two?

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>>376894471
Do it.

>>376906848
Because 3 is the only one that got such a massive acclaim and is much bigger than other 2, even though they're also good and even better in some aspects. Basically fags don't want to try out older games because they're ooooooold and only want to play the new massive hit.

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>>376894471
yup

>>376907039

DELET

W2 and W1 are completely terrible games, even as of when they were released.

W3 is the first game worth playing in the series.

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>>376908413
I never understand why do people think that. Witcher 1 was quite different than other ones and the combat system indeed was shitty, so while it is my favourite game of the franchise I can understand why some people may not like it. But Witcher 2? The gameplay is literally almost identical to W3 but without open world(which, although nice, was largely filled with repetitive content anyway), and instead you have a far superior story. How come some people love W3 but shit on W2?