Just played this for the first time today.

>>379086945
It's decent.
I love the game but movement is clunky at times, combat is damn repetitive until you develop your build or get grandmaster sets.
Basically hack and slash batman with romance options. I still fucking love it though.

>>379086945

It's trash.

I just marathoned the game for 2 hours straight and it's trash. The story goes no where and it starts to pick up towards the end only to drop the ball.

>>379087570
>played for 2 hours
>not even out of white orchard

THIS GAME IS SHIT, THE STORY SUCKS

One of the best games I've played this gen.

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>>379086945
It's very meaty, just playing it casually through the DLC and avoiding Gwent it was easily 110 hours to complete.
>>379087368
I actually found combat to be a good bit of fun, I was playing a sign build on Medium difficulty, took a bit to get used to, but never did I ever actively avoid combat unless it was with low level enemies or high leveled ones. It's not like Dragon Age Inquisition where the combat is utterly soul crushingly boring.

The game is generally linear, and I would not call it an RPG (because it's not) but this is paired with some of the best writing for quests. Bloody Barons is definitely the high point in Velen with the Witches of the Wood, and Heart of Stone DLC is 10 bucks, but also an easy 9/10 on how clever the writing is.

If you have any interest in writing that leans towards Lit analysis levels of enjoyment, you'll definitly get a kick out of the quests I mentioned.

On the downside, the moments with Ciri are hit and miss, but thankfully do not last long, and it's very easy to end up out leveling content.

Also, some of the combat music is certified godtier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx8dWVuNNqA

Skellige in general is my favorite version of 'Proud Viking Folk with friendly tradition'

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>>379087570
Gee, it's a long running game that comes across as episodic in nature, turns out it takes a while and has a lot of shit to distract you with and a lot of dialogue

>>379086945
greatest RPG of the decade

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>>379089550
>rpg

It's the best written game of the decade, but calling it an RPG is a stretch

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>>379086945
pres X to win baby

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>>379089884
>not playing on a higher difficulty
>mfw Olgierd and Detlaff fights

>>379087570
You could have atleast lied about how long you played if you're gonna make this stupid fucking statement.

>>379087570
>t.never played 1 or 2
this is the biggest mistake. if you don't know shit about the lore you aren't going to be very interested in the story where it picks off.

>>379086945
Its a fantastic game made by people who clearly care about details and creating a rich, full story.

The sidequests got a bit too reliant on the "follow the red smoke" but compared to every other open world RPG its miles beyond them.

It will be years until we get anything of equal value again.

>>379087570
behead any person who start the witcher with the third game and calls the game trash because he gave up at white orchard

>>379089753
By your definition there's been no RPGs in the last 15 years.

A good game that could have been great if it didn't fall for the open world meme. Loot and gear is fucking retarded, as it level scaling. Quests are nice but repetitive. Combat is great...for the first third of the game and then Geralt becomes fucking invincible if you aren't retarded. Great world and environments that were always a pleasure to explore, and the music is divine. There are enough surprises that make exploring worthwhile.

Overall I give it a solid B. Worth playing once.

>>379090975
I went into the game blind at 3. I got hooked by the opening Cinematic, and the character entries in the Journal helped a great deal to introduce me. I read up on the books a little bit part way through to get more familiar with things, but, well, even going cold call into it, the Witcher 3 specific quests like Bloody Baron and the Crones were still very, very good.

I can't really understand people who jumped in and somehow didn't get hooked. Or didn't even do research ahead of time to determine if this was something they like. I'm personally a sucker for Dark/Gothic fantasy

>>379091509
>all potential discoveries are already marked on your map
>theyre all the same thing from other games
>loot is fucking useless

>>379091509
>Level scaling

but there is no scaling

You're right on the music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NknjE2SBPxw

>>379091509
Overall experience is at least a B+, but on the writing side, some quests made me go 'shit that's good' so i'm sorely tempted to put it higher.

People like slobbering Heart of Stones dick, but it's for good reason

>>379092107
level scaling for loot exists

>>379092049
there is plenty of useful loot. also witcher gear is only good when it's grandmaster level and that's practically at the end of blood and wine

>>379087570
I'm beginning to think that all you witcher haters are absolutely retarded.

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>>379092107
you enable level scaling for the enemies through the options menu

>>379092203
the game is piss easy, theres no real reason behind tediously going to every question mark to get special loot

and im talking about the like 90% of question marks which are all bandit camps and shit. theres fucking no point to any of it

Satisfactory story
Meh combat

>>379092107

I agree with wanting to rate it higher, but IMHO A-range games have to do multiple things right, not just excelling in one particular aspect.

>>379086945
You like it, but you're too afraid to say so on /v/ because you're afraid that you loose your "hardcore gaymur" cred on a taiwanese basket weaving forum so you will make plenty of threads and posts about it calling it total shit, maybe post a couple of webms of old glitches too.

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>>379086945
Lets find out!