>be me >could not muster the will to play any game after

but it was boring as fuck

>>378843228
First post worst post

>>378843140
Because it's the best game to come out since Red Dead Redemption. Very immesrsive. Half decent main story with some gangster ass side missions.

>>378843228
ffucking faggot

>>378843228
ageeed

>>378843228
he's right

>>378843140
Because its like a good skyrim.
Actualy fun quests, cool characters, very nice voice acting etc.

It also really helps that there are a fucklot of witcher books so they have a very deep world to work with.

>>378843140
I'm actually downloading it rn, haven't played it. What exactly am I in for? I already know its a lot of dialogue, besides that.

>>378843140
They created a game easy and saturated enough to cater to the idiotic, ADHD, teen and manchild populace of this board.

>>378843587
get ready to love or hate the characters.
genuinely got angry when Priscilla got attacked

>>378843587

>What exactly am i in for?

The best game you've played in years

tempted to delete my save and play through base game + expansions again in the next few months

>>378843962
>>378844037
Is it better to play with M&K or controller? I usually prefer controller for 3rd person games

>>378843140
slav magic.
they asked babushka to praise their team and their computers and god granted her wish by giving them the genius of stephen hawking and turning their WWII toasters to quantum computers.

>>378844416
controller is better

>>378843140
>How the fuck did they do it /v/?

By having pride and care in their work and aiming for the top, literally the opposite of Bioware.

>>378843140
You seem to have a condition that make you enjoy shitty gameplay.

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>>378843140
i dont know senpai..it was a materpiece
i also did everything except the gwent (no game will make me play card games lol)
last time i had this much fun with a game was with my first year of wow
lets hope we'll get another masterpiece in the next decade

>>378843140
What made this game great for me was that even the mundane quests have something that makes them interesting. Sometimes it's a moral choice, sometimes it's cool back story about the place you're exploring, sometimes it's "consequences" that come to hit you later (like the girl you can save with a swallow potion), sometimes it's a new monster to fight. I did all the quests I could find and the only ones I found boring were the horse races.

The worst thing about The Witcher 3 is how once you finish it, you realize that you just played the very best the videogame industry had, has and will have to offer.
It literally ruins videogames for you.

>>378844090
Why not NG+? Genuinely asking because that's what I plan to do when I feel like playing it again

>>378844636
I didn't enjoy the gameplay much (as in the combat, I thought it was too barebones) but the game still hooked me for its entire length. It's the only game ever I have played where I can say the gameplay wasn't very good but I enjoyed it immensely. I guess I can never call anyone out for liking a walking simulator again.

>>378844872

Nit that poster. I'd say NG+ is more entertaining bcause you then have all of the unlocked abilities that can then make the combat more entertaining while offsetting the imcreased enemy levels. Having stuff like whirl and rend make the swordplay a lot more fun.

>>378844872
This, I mean it has an option for scaling enemy to player level (which every game should have)

>>378844636
It's not good nor bad, it serves its purpose without getting in the way.

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>>378843140
>starts a post with ">be me"
>praises the Witcher to high heaven

>>378844636
Gameplay doesn't make a game good or bad.

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>>378843140
>you will never fug the curse out of bird lady

>>378843531
>actually fun quests
This is the main reason TW3 is enjoyable

Even if half of them you can boil down to "use witcher sense and click the glowing red thing" and combat can be "dodge and spam igni", it doesn't matter since the writing for the quests are actually interesting

Meanwhile Skyrim's quests are literally just "go to this dungeon and kill all the draugr" without any engaging dialogue or characters or even motivation for doing the quest - who the fuck cares if some cavern is full of draugr, it's not like any of the 20 citizens of the capital city ever go outside the walls anyway

Same shit is what ruined Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect Andromeda - I have no motivation to help a bland character whose voice actor sounds like they were doing a warm-up just learning the lines when the recorder said "PERFECT THAT'S A WRAP"

Meanwhile in Witcher 3 even Random Peasant #19's quest is interesting and fun, even though all I did gameplay-wise was hold right-click and follow a red line then kill some drowners

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I do love this game

>>378843140
>Playing HoS for the first time

Im jelly. You are in for a treat.

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>>378845228
This isn't really accurate. It depends on the type of game.

RPGs can often get away with lackluster gameplay if the writing is good compared to other genres, since in an RPG the writing is much more important than, for example, an FPS or RTS

Meanwhile an FPS can have a fantastic story, but nobody will give a shit if the shooting mechanics are terrible.

That said, even an RPG can't get away with shit-tier combat; Skyrim took a beating and rightfully so (especially since it didn't even have good writing to compensate) and pretty much everyone hates the combat in Witcher 1.

The gameplay in Witcher 3 is nothing special, but it's by no means bad. It's responsive, it's fluid, and Geralt generally won't do something you weren't telling him to do. That's really all that's required, and they delivered on it.

>he doesn't use a mod to change all armor sets to look like Manticore armor

I played to Skellige but then somehow stopped and haven't had the desire to come back. I really enjoyed the game while I played it but somehow its flaws are the only thing on my mind. I think that the game could be improved a lot by simply mixing up the enemy encounters a bit, having the player meet different kinds of combinations of enemies and so on. The treasure hunt quests were really good and fit perfectly to the open world but made other exploring kinda unnecessary and there weren't too many of them. Maybe one day I'll come back to the game and finish it, it's a good story heavy game but not really the witcher simulator I was secretly hoping it to be. The premise is perfect for an open world but the execution of the world could be better. I hope that CDPR gets that aspect right in their next game.

Can I play this game without having played 1 and 2? I started them both but I can't stand the M+KB controls and I don't like playing RPGs with a controller.

>>378844930
That one game with very mediocre game that I still liked a lot is Bioshock for me. Sometimes the world is just engrossing enough that the game paradoxically doesn't need great gameplay to be great. It just needs to be passable.

>>378845808
Playing tW2 and 3 with KB+M is an inferior experience, it's like playing a shooter with a controller.

>>378845808
You can, but I'd highly recommend at least reading wiki plot summaries

You won't really be that lost without it, everything gets explained pretty well and there's always the in-game glossary (definitely worth reading, even if you DO know what's going on) - but you'll probably enjoy it a bit more if you read up a bit beforehand

>can't romance Ciri
What the fuck? why?
Witcher 3 is basicallly a love story of Geralt and Ciri.

>>378846039

You forgot to add the Gamepedia wiki is the one he should check, not the shitty Wikia one.

>>378846161
In the vast majority of cases, fathers do not want to become romantic with their adopted daughters

>>378846264
You need some kind of evidence to back up your claim. Besides, they aren't even related.

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>dealing with the post-ending empty feeling

>>378846520
It's easy, anon!

New Game+

I'm playing the witcher 1 and does anyone know if the quest a mysterious tower is bugged? I've googled it and nothing has helped me so far. Basically I just released Vivaldi from prison and I've read the book he gave me but my quest journal is telling me to go to visit him and ask him about the book. When I go visit him there's no option to ask anything, I've been to Kalkstein aswell and he has no options either. What the fuck am I supposed to do now? I can't progress the main story?

>>378843228
fpbp

>>378843140
When did you realise that you were in for something special with this game?

For me it was in the main menu.

>>378846603
ayyy lmao i figured it out, apparantly I didnt read both books.

>>378844416
controller is better

install the enhanced targeting mod though. It just makes the game a 1000x better

>>378843140
A couple of problems I had with it..
The combat is fucking abysmal. You can quen through absolutely anything. I had the difficulty on 'death Mary's or whatever and could still cheese mobs 20+ levels higher than me at all the ?s on the map.
Which brings me to my next issue, I'd kill something at my level or higher expecting something at least around that level range to drop but it doesn't seem to work like that. I'd constantly find useless weapons. That isn't saying much tho because the second you obtain witcher gear anything else can get fucked. The combat is just boring.
As well, the witcher senses shit is tedious & serves to chip away at the fun.
Geralt either moves fast as shit or too slow.
I don't get how his aesthetic is cool either.
There is more to say but I've gotta do.
The game has a lot of charm tho. It's still definitely worth having. A better skyrim. Gwent is awesome too.

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>There will never be a game like The Witcher 3 again

>>378848074
rdr2
Cyberpunk 2077

>>378843140
Hearts of stone is probably the best storyline in the game. Blood and Wine is huge and gorgeous with a ton of content.
They did it by not cheapening out and cutting corners. ACG said it best back in the day. W3 Sidequests are better than most other AAA game's main quests.
Most AAA open world games employ checkboxes for 90% of their "content" while only hand crafting the final 10% of the "main" story.

Other AAA games are essentially turning out cheaply made and processed walmart crap and W3 was an artisan crafted specialty item found only in a fine dining establishment.

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>>378848906
>He still thinks Cyberpunk 2077 will ever come out

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>>378849406

>>378843140
it's the greatest RPG of the decade which is why /v/ must hate it

the expansion are great. finish them and move along to the gwent beta

>>378849354
both DLCs are the best part of the game, easily

honestly and truly; the 40 hours of content I got from them blew the 80 of the vanilla game out of the water. I almost recommend that people buy the GOTY edition and jump straight into the DLC

WHY DOESN'T CDPR GIVE WITCHER 3 HDR

IT WOULD MAKE IT LOOK SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER

>>378843140
I took like a whole year break and thought it was shit around chasing dandelion's women part. But after I slogged through it, the game becomes really good.

i'm glad there are other people here who are trying to cope with the post witcher 3 feeling. i almost got the impression i'm alone here. vidya fucking sucks now

>>378850841
nier is breddy good my man :)

>>378850841
I actually am almost completely burned out on vidya. Despite my best efforts, I'm almost all the way through my fucking backlog. I only have three classic games to play through
>Thief 2
>Deus Ex
>Gothic II
and that's it. I actually have nothing else old to play, and have to start paying attention to new games. It's fucking frustrating.

I guess I'll play through all the witcher games... again...

>>378843682
> .t gentlemanus supremus fedoras weebshitus the 3rd, jrpg conossieur and enthusiast

Is there an easier way to kill enemies that can't be set on fire with a sign build?

>>378843228
fpbp

>>378850931
i doubt i'd like it i don't dig japanese games too much. but i'm so desperate for a new video game that might be fun i'd chew on anything now. W3 was the first videogame i enjoyed in years. i'm just playing the gwent beta now it's pretty fun

>>378850980
i can't bring myself to play any of them again. 90% of the feels come from doing the journey for the first time not knowing what to expect discovering new things. i just wish i could enjoy that magical atmosphere again what a fucking adventure W3 was

I played 65 hours and stopped. I've been meaning to go back but playing it compared to dark souls made the combat seem really shit, even on death March. I never liked the boring batman games though and this combat feels just like that. Also I really find myself not caring about the wild hunt or ciri, I heard xpacs were much better story wise but the gameplay is so dull it's impossible to motivate myself to continue.

>>378851291
>the combat seem really shit
install
>enhanced targeting mod
>e3 dodge system

>>378843140
try playing a real game like bloodborne

>>378851042
with a sword

>>378846264
Woody Allen would disagree with you

i had to go through a long dungeon fighting shadow skeletons or something with an attractive, young witch. it was absolute tedium and i quit the game after an hour or so after leaving the dungeon because i worried the game would make me endure shit like that again

>>378851396
I didn't use lock on outside of when I had to and changing animations doesn't make the game more fun to play.

The combats problem is being quite easy and basically a 3 button masher, not even a fun one. I wasn't even using an alchemy build that would have been more broken.

The game honestly feels like it would have been better as a choose your own adventure instead of having tedious bad combat, and at that point I'm better off just watching a good tv show.

>>378851659
he's an intellectual though so that's ok

>>378843140
Never finished it senpai. Got bored.

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replaying it again with NG+ and the game is still beautiful even on medium - high

>>378851932
>good tv show
lol

>>378851932
>I didn't use lock on
yes you did, all combat uses a soft lock on system that is functionally completely broken. Install enhanced targeting

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>>378843140
Slavic magic.

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>>378852353
>DoF

tfw still haven't forced myself to play the first two before i start this

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is this the greatest bromance in all of vidyakino?

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>>378853512
Yep

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>>378843140
>be me
Who else would you be?

>>378853512
Garrus and Shepard.

I can't muster the will to play W3 for more than 5 minutes.

I wish they had made a fading hud, can't admire with it on, can't play combat without it though.

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>>378843587
>What exactly am I in for?

bioware tier shitty combat system

Personally it didn't really hold my interest. Mostly because the main quest really sucks other than the Bloody Baron.

I pushed myself through all the way to the Kaer Morhen battle and after that incredibly shitty ending I've had enough and dropped the game. Didn't come back to it since.

>>378853992
i can't tell if people are using be me anymore to be ironic or if they're so retarded that they cannot comprehend that other people will know they're describing themselves without the need to clarify that

>>378854647
>anime reaction pic
Disregard this post.

>>378845304
>Skyrim is just killing draugr
>W3 is following a red line, holding right click, and just killing drowners BUT MUH STORY
Read a book nigger.

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wow

>>378851197
Not the guy you responded to, but I usually hate weeb shit as well, but Automata actually is pretty fantastic. It has some stuff that's very weeb-y (one of the main character is kind of an annoying faggot most of the time) but usually it's not too bad.
It really takes a few hours to get going though.

>>378843140
>How did they keep the game interesting from start to finish?
I remember 10 hours of fun and that's being generous, the other 130 were agonizing torture

"Story-driven" RPGs are truly the worst

>>378852857
distant LOD in TW3 is such garbage it actually looks better with DOF

>>378854516
>too stupid to install a single mod

Anyone tried Horizon Zero Dawn? Heard it is quite similar to W3 in terms of interesting quests, engaging story etc. Tempted to pick up a copy

378856346
really horrible attempt at b8. just wanted to say fuck off and give warning so nobody else responds to you

>>378855101
The combat is absolutely dog shit, and the bosses are even worse.
I played on Deathmarch thinking that maybe if I went with a potion/bomb build I'd feel more like a witcher and it would be more fun, but how wrong was I.
Now the combat turns into pausing the game every 20sec to switch out bombs and potions. Eventually I just abused aard and quen all the way to the end.
The golems who get summoned during the final boss fights would kill themselves on my shield with one attack because they do so much fucking damage.
The difficulty setting balance in this game is absolutely atrocious.

>>378844416
>M&K is better for controlling the camera during combat, and for selecting consumables more precisely during combat.
>Controller for quick switch between heavy and light attacks, and better movement speed control.

Both are good, you can in fact have both of them plugged, and the game will detect and switch the UI on the fly.

>>378857105
>you can in fact have both of them plugged, and the game will detect and switch the UI on the fly
Literally every game does this.

>>378857203
>Literally every game does this.
wrong

in TW2 if your controller is plugged in then the mouse and keyboard stops working

>>378843228
Kys

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>tfw literally too dumb/lazy to play this game
>tfw cant find ingredients to make potions
>see someone sick for a quest
>can't make potion to heal them because idk where the ingredients are
>eventually reach griffon boss fight
>end up having to use cheat engine to win
>combat feels super boring even before CE
>level system
>blacksmith and shops are confusing to browse

>>378843140
If I dropped 2, why would I like this?

>>378857330
Literally every game in the past 5 years.
Happy now? Also Witcher 2 sucked.

>>378857546
Skyrim original and the SE doesn't detect it either.