Installing this for the first time. Never played any Witcher

>>379994042
Side with the Order
Scoiatel are reddit tier

>>379994042
Uninstalling it after 15 minutes like I did.

>>379994042
The most immersive rpg of (technically) 7th generation. Biodrones hate it, soulsfags hate it and sonybros pretend it doesn't exist. This is because it's a classical crpg that's masquerading as a modern arpg. Some people just can't get over this apparent b8 and switch and go down screeching muh combat.

starts off slow af, expect difficulty spikes, is best witcher game

>>379994042
Its pretty good fun if you've read the books.
>Bone hot peasant chicks
>Kill monsters

big titted whores

A never-ending swamp

>>379994671
>af

>>379994042
Maybe read some guides though.
Apparently its possible to get stuck if you dont pick a certain build but just randomly get a little of everything

>>379994042
God-awful combat. Skip this.

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>>379994042
You better be ready before you help that witch because that fucking dog will fuck you a million times.
Alchemy is great late game too but for things like that dog you need a special brand of Sign bullshit.

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>>379994042
Expect Shani to be best girl.

>>379994042
I dropped it at the swamp.

YOUR MOTHER SUCKS DWARF COCK

the book was better

>>379994042
prepare to spend more than one attempt at getting into TW1. I got really frustrated the first two times I played it, and did really dumb shit to lock myself into a corner. sold quest important
items because I didn't pay attention. once I started investing in the story and paying attention I really fell in love with the game. TW1 made me read the whole series of fan translations. and I've only liked it more since then.

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I pirated it twice before but dropped it really early. Bought it recently when it was on sale and I'm having a blast this time. It's a really good RPG once you get over the mediocre combat. Fucking women to get cards is a great motivation to keep going too.
>queen of the night quest
>fuck the vampire woman to get the card
>massacre intensifies
I have the feeling this won't be the last time my dick gets me in trouble

>>379994042

THE NEVER ENDING SWAMP

>>379997758
ribbon.

>>379994042
Fuck Shani (literally)
Fuck Triss (metaphorically)

>>379994042

drowners.

lots of drowners.

>>379994042
The combat is shit but once you get past it and into the city the game becomes a great RPG.

>>379997758
grew to like the swamp.

expect to be disafuckingppointed

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>>379994042

i picked it up on the cheap during a steam sale and played it for the first time around when witcher 3 came out.

if you don't have nostalgia glasses for it you'll find that it has aged horribly, particularly in the combat department.

i also bought witcher 2, but that game is actually still good so i would recommend it

>>379994515

what he said

pic unrelated

Expect to play it for 5 minutes and then quit.

Gameplay is dated and god awful, graphics are shit, and the story makes no fucking sense from the very get go.

Most overrated shit I've ever been tricked into playing.

>>379998412
>if you don't have nostalgia glasses for it you'll find that it has aged horribly
nah, you're just a huge faggot.

>>379998108

It was killing me by the second chapter you spend in there.


There are cool side stories, sure. The cannibal was cool, as was the cthulhu shit. But running back and forth from the city became a chore.

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>>379998802

truly acerbic wit

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>>379994042

If you are in it for anything other than spending time in The Witcher's world, be prepared to be disappointed.

But if you're in it for the pure Witcher experience, you're going to have a good time.

>>379994042
Delete it and play the 3rd one instead

>>379997879

Those and the fucking brains.

I DON'T NEED 600 DROWNER BRAINS BUT CAN'T STOP PICKING THEM UP.

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>>379994042
don't let others tell you what your opinion for the game will be, just try to play the game for what it is. even if the combat is a little clunky it's still good enough to get you through the story which is great, the ending is amazing.

>>379995129
No. You can max out almost all skills anyways. 2.5 trees out 3 iirc.

>>379994042
combat is god damn horrible because its neverwinter nights tier with negative spells

>>379999373

This. Don't let anyone spoil it for you, its a legitimately good twist.

Expect the biggest case of blue balls when you discover that you can't fuck the lady of the lake.

>>379995129

No, and you'd have to be retarded to spread yourself so thin anyway. Wolf style is so retardidly good you'd be dumb to not invest primarily in it, followed by cat, then griffon to keep your options open.

Magic is for fags.

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>>379999646

>wanting that fishy pussy

>>379994170
>taking sides
True witchers are neutrals, give them all egalitarian death and watch the bodies hit the flour.

>>379999646
>Expect the biggest case of blue balls when you discover that you can't fuck the lady of the lake.
But... you can, what are you on about?

>>380000878
>>>379999646
>>Expect the biggest case of blue balls when you discover that you can't fuck the lady of the lake.
>But... you can, what are you on about?

Yeah I was just thinking. I'm pretty sure I ingame banged her.

Your mom suck dwarf cock.

>>379999168
>tumblr gif
yeah you can go fuck yourself.

>>379999341
This senpai. So many brains.

>>379999898
Maybe it was witcher2 then? Or i've been misled.

>>380000793
Witcher games always fuck me up.
I'm honorbound to slay the monsters but usually the humans suck way harder.

>>379994042

To hate Garralts voice acting, but think its fucking perfect by the end credits.

>>379994042
Really enjoyed W1, can't get into W2 for some reason. I'm thinking of skipping 2 and going straight into 3. When does W2 get going? I'm up to the Kayran, and it didn't grab me as fast as W1.

>>380001565
>I'm honorbound to slay the monsters
Witchers aren't honorbound to slay sapient monsters, and in fact usually won't because they tend to be a pain in the ass to kill.

>>380001708
At least get to chapter 2 and then decide. My biggest issue with W2 was the lack of doing witcher things.

>>379999646
everyone point and laugh
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>380001708
play at least until it branches off for the second? chapter.

>>380001937
>lack of doing witcher things
I guess yeah, maybe it's the streamlining of some mechanics that made me miss W1. I'll keep playing W2 to see if I get into it. Where the fuck is my Shani?

>>379994042
strange rhythm based combat
lots of fun in the swamp

Expect to get bored once you get into the city and start fucking around in the swamp. The game has terrible pacing.

>>379994042
A shitty game

>>380002221
I fucking hate the swamp.

>>380002190
>lots of fun in the swamp
there aren't enough of us.

REMOVE BLOEDZUIGER

>>379994042
Expect awful pacing. The game slow and can drag on for hours. First and second chapters are particularly guilty of this shit where you spend a lot more time trugging along running back and forth through fairly dull environments for way too long.
Expect terrible combat. Anyone who claims the combat is in any way actually mechanically good is delusional. The combat is utterly brain-dead. There is no depth to it, there is very little involvement to it. Some people might seem as "complex" at first but in reality there is absolutely no actual strategy, options etc... it's an exercise in literal routine with the exception of alchemy. There is no challenge to it either: there is ONE difficult battle in the game, mostly because it suddenly spikes up the difficulty before even properly explaining basic things to the player. It's right in the first chapter. Nothing else ever comes as an actual challenge.
Expect shallow actual character progression. This is not a complex RPG. It looks like it has a lot of options, but in reality there are no multiple build-orders, there are no specializations, no actual multiple ways to solve problems outside of dialogue choices and ONE quest that allows you to unlock optional solutions through reading a couple of extra books. Progression is flat and linear.
Expect really bad voiceacting and generally fairly poor translation of the english version.

On the other hand, you can also expect:
Absolutely AMAZING atmosphere, especially as things start to move forward around 1/3 of the game. The music is amazing, the environments are well designed, a few locations are breathtakingly beautiful.
Expect fantastic characters. Even small side NPCs have often surprising amount of depth to them, feel alive.
Expect great story, mostly driven forward by those characters.
Expect great choices and consequences, some really good questlines, fantastic writing.

In conclusion, expect a beautiful world and characters, but a lot of mechanical jank.

>>380002526
I was being sarcastic, fuck the swamp, fuck the drowners and fuck you.

>>380001565

>but usually the humans suck way harder.

This is just thrown in to cloud your judgement. Don't let the shitty 1% of the human population dissuade you into thinking they are just as bad as monsters, who eat/enslave/murder 80% of the time without a second thought.

Witchers were made to defend humanity, anon. Becoming obsolete is the final and truest fulfillment of their duty to humanity.

>>379994042
Expect a fun poker dice minigame that will get fucked in the sequel.

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>>380002859
no, fuck you.

>>380001708

Being shoe-horned into a path is a bitch. I feel like Witchers are at their best when wandering around, poor and ready to take up whatever shitty job that needs doing, not actively following chasing a big bad.

But the second game is a great way to flesh out the world before you get to the 3rd game, so I'd give it a go if you can.

B A S E D S W A M P

GERALD OF TRIGIA

>that comfy feeling in a Witcher thread

It actually makes me sad that we don't have these as often after the 3rd game came out.

>>380002727
>there is ONE difficult battle in the game, mostly because it suddenly spikes up the difficulty before even properly explaining basic things to the player

We're talking about the very first Barghest fight in the fort, right? Because fuck that fight.

>>380003490
if you didn't see any of the witcher threads from at least '09-'12 then you missed out big time.
I still wonder if that thesisbro lurks these threads anymore. honestly haven't seen any threads that make me think otherwise and the one's I have seen make me just want to avoid witcher threads alltogether.

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>It's Alvin goes missing and Adda wants to fuck you and kill you so you have to teleport to bumfucknowhere episode

>>380002727
>>379999184

These.

>>379994042
Expect really wonky and weird controls that will require some time to get used to. And once you get past that, one of the greatest rpg games to date.

>>380003905
Nope.
I meant the Beast. I found that fight unreasonably difficult on my first try. The thing that is really difficult about her is that she might be the only enemy in the entire game that can't be easily defeated without proper use of alchemy even on lower difficulty settings through out the entire game. A player, who is still not very well informed how to use the alchemy can be really raped by the thing.

>>380003970
Actually, TW threads around 2009-2011 were the WORST FUCKING THING EVER. Especially in the leadup to TW2/DA2's release, this board had the biggest fucking hate boner for this game - it was unbelivable. Seriously, it was one of the most hated games on this board. Make the contemporary "TW3 is shit, TW1 is great, I look at how old school classic I am" hipsters around here particularly fucking hillarious.
Post-release TW2 threads were also pretty bad, as it tends to be with big releases.

>>380003978

There's something about a princess being a horn dog that turns me off so hard, compared to a peasant that just wants to bone before they catch malaria and die at 25.

FUCK.EVERYONE.

>>380002727
I like you anon

>>380004601
getting flashbacks of me reloading and having to see the cutscene before since the witch kept dying on me, and me not being able to kill the damn thing.
played it again in anticipation of tw3, and was a piece of cake.

>>380003146
You can meet that guy in velen in witcher 3.

>>380004601
>Especially in the leadup to TW2/DA2's release, this board had the biggest fucking hate boner for this game
nah, there where bad threads but it was people blatantly trying to stir up shit, not only that but at least half the threads were fairly decent. now 9/10 threads are filled with straight shitposting.
at least back then the good threads were fillled with great content.

>>380005198
the witch gets up eventually anon, it happened to me because I kept running around low on health avoiding doggies.

>>379994042
the best Witcher game, before they went full casual.

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>>379994042
There's not as much customization as you'd otherwise think looking at the talent trees and whatnot.
All gameplay related systems are very much lore friendly in the sense that you are encouraged to use all of them in conjunction.
You're not a mage. You're not a soldier. You're not a hunter. You're not a diplomat. You're a mix of all of those.

USE ALCHEMY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
It's a terrific system with all sorts of meaningful and powerful effects.
To take full advantage of it, invest very quickly in all the intelligence perks related to alchemy as soon as possible.
Buy books that teach you about plants and monster parts.
Use bombs aganist gropus of enemies and ointments aganist bosses. In fact, use that shit constantly.

You can mess with the magic too if you want or you can skip it entirely. Your call.
People complain it's not viable or flashed out, but I think most signs are pretty neat and circunstancialy useful.
Just don't expect to be a mage character. Magic it supposed to be complimentary.

You can't just pick a sword stryle and go with it. You HAVE to use all three according to the enemies.
Maybe you could skip the group style, but there's not much reason to.
Only swords are viable. The only useful side-weapons is the torch, but you should be using cat potions to see in the dark to begin with.

PLAY IT ON HARD.
It will encourage you to use those systems and it's only really frustrating if you're one of the idiots who ignore alchemy entirely and proceeds to complain about the "rhythmic" and "simplistic" nature of the combat.

And finally: choose Shani.

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Not to get off topic, but are there any comfy games that come close to The Witcher? I'm hurting for an experience I can take a few days off work and just live in, an nothing else I know of comes close.

>>380005423
oh shit you might be right. kept getting fucked by it, fun times. the priest will be forever in my nightmares due to how many times i had to rewatch the unskippable scene before the fight.

How many times have you anons completed W1? I'm a filthy casual and I've only done it four times. First one was a few weeks after release and last one was like four years ago. I should really play it again, have forgotten enough about it already.

You won't like the game. But go ahead and play it.

Witcher 2 is amazing and I'm currently playing through Witcher 3 and it's pretty good too.

>>380005448
I like all the witcher games, but it's true. TW1 was an unrefined gem. 2 and 3 had different focuses, and both were fun, but they didn't capture what made 1 so great.
>>380005701
4-6 times.

>>380001862
That's just Geralt's made up code

>>380003146
His voice was so much funnier in the original game, before the enhanced edition.
Same with the vodyanoi priest. That fucker was hilarious but they had to ruin it, the bastards!

>>380005198
>getting flashbacks of me reloading and having to see the cutscene before since the witch kept dying on me, and me not being able to kill the damn thing.
So... how did you feel when you learned that the Witch CAN'T actually die and is only knocked unconscious, and will be fine as long as you win the fight?

>>380005259
I'm really sorry to tell you this: but you really misremeber this. Trust me, the conversations of about TW games are currently THE most civilized they ever were, and 2009-2011 it was the absolute, absolute worst aside from the few mega-shitposting-spikes like the downgrade controversy before release of TW3.

There were no positive threads about TW1 in the two years leading up to release of TW2. Occassionally, when a thread survived through first 100+ posts of pure, undilluted HATE for the game, you would have an hour or two of decent discussion among the few poles and czechs who stayed even past everyone getting bored, talking about the books and translations and often recommending literature to each other, which was nice.
But that only happened occasionally, and was participated on by a mere handful of people - usually the same people or at least people of similar background.

TW1 really was one of the most hated games of that time around here. People who liked it were an insanely small minority.

>>380005804
I honestly don't even remember the vodyaoni voice.

endless backtracking

>>380005448
TW1 is exactly as casual as every other TW game. It has virtually no depth.
I love it: I personally like TW1 the most of the series, but pretending like it was mechanically more complex than the followup is delusional.

>>380005701
3. But these threads always tempt me to do it again.
Fucking hell, that game is long even if you know what you're doing, but I still keep coming back to it.

>>379998412
>I played it on easy

>>380005916
"Speak, blrrrrhg blurrrh brrrrrgh!"
He was probably my favorite character. At least they didn't change the smug loli that walks around in that area.

>>380005837
well i kept dying too, so not too mad about it trying to juggle the big one and the little ones without the necessary items.

>>380005537

This bro gets it.

I'd like to see you try, pleb.

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>>379994663
This guy gets it.

>>380005837
>aside from the few mega-shitposting-spikes like the downgrade controversy before release of TW3.
TW threads have been disgustingly bad since the TW3 previews. I have lurked in a bunch of threads and for nearly 3 years I have never seen content that hase been nearly as decent as past years.

>>380005701
>filthy casual

Shit dude, Ive started it 3 times but only completed it once. Pure human sympathizer of gtfo

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>>380005537
This nigga knows.
I choose Triss btw

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>>379999646

>He didn't compliment her amazing ass

>>379994042
Install some speed walking mods. The game is solid but there are some areas that eat up so much time cause geralt jogs like a granny. Aside from that just enjoy the game.

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>>379999646
She is still waiting for you homo faggot, go and fuck her.

I liked it, but I still consider it the worst in the series. It takes hours to actually get going, and you never start to enjoy the combat, you just get used to it. Also plagued with performance issues from what I experienced, especially in Vizima's Trade Quarter on a PC that can play 2 and 3 with no issues.

2nd half of the game is a hell of a lot better than the 1st half.

>>379998451

Why do people always complain about the gameplay? Not saying that the combat was anything great, but it didn't suck as much as people say. It's just basic rythmic combat, nothing to love, nothing to hate.

I actually quit the game the first time I tried to play it, now I think it's better than 2

>>380006728

Its too late, she's moved on.

>>380007209
did she?
you never know anon

Best alchemy system by a mile.
Doing detective work in Vyzima is peak Witcher.

>>379994042
Terrible combat, complicated ramificated story and tiddies, lots of tiddies.

>>380006284
>TW threads have been disgustingly bad since the TW3 previews.
There are always these spikes. There was another brief period of hate for TW2 ("TW2 is terribly written, Geralt would never work for Foltest this way, TW1 had much better writing") and exactly the same thing happened to TW3 ("TW3 is terribly written, Radovid would never act like this, TW2 had much better writing"). There was the downgrade controversy thing, but then you have to also remember that much of that was actually an ORGANIZED FLOOD thing, to a point where mods had to get involved and clean up the board...
TW games always attracted a lot of terrible shit. But I still remember the lead up to TW2 release as the worst period. Everything that followed was just these explosions of shitposting, memes, you know the usual, semi-organized shit-flinging contests you see here SIMPLY because the subject matter draws attention.

The pre-TW2-release threads were much more frustrating, because that was not really about shitposting. It was not the kind of people that fling shit purely because "that is what they do".¨
It was much more genuine. TW1 was just really unpopular. In fact, it was deemed a completely obscure game, eastern generic shovel ware that people started being only interested in because TW2 was getting quite some marketing, and most of them just found it bad. It's also probably worth realizing that it was a time when Bioware was still the most popular company on this board (yeah, that is hard to believe, but it was like that at that point) and there was a lot of Bioware fans who saw the game as some kind of threat to their beloved cult franchises.
It was just bad because... it could not be brushed pass as "the usual shitposting asshatery" that we are accustomed to.

It was just an army of people genuinely finding the game offensively bad. For me, being stupid and young and relatively new here, it was pretty hard to swallow.

>>380007209
Get off /v/ and check your bathtub.

>>380005716
does 3 have any catchy in-game drinking songs like "plow all" from 2

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was he right?

>>379994042
Chapter 2 is a monumental slog and in general it takes a long time to get going, but in the end it's worth it.

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>>380008443
Yes.

>>380008587
>tfw a grill got me into wow
glad i got over my affliction. don't think i would have gotten out alive.

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>>379995989
this desu

>>379999646
you can't escape it even in games anon

>>379999646
ha, loser

>>380008443

Y'know, if you replace "corporal lust" with "everchanging hormones," he isn't even that far off base..

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>>379994170
>not Neutral

>>380008976

You would have. Don't attribute your accomplishments with her input. At the end of the day, it was all you.

>>380010723
meant the actual game addiction. she was just some grill who ended up getting messed up by family and met someone on wow. kinda a crazy story, not sure i believe it, but didn't hear how it turned out since I lost contact.
hope things worked out for her.