This game is pure fucking magic. How the hell did CDPR do it?

>>381775012
Diverted all resources from the combat engine

>>381775012
Slave labour, and like the pyramids it was worth it.

>>381775012
>thread badmouthing witcher gets made
>if it gets more than 50 posts a thread saying the witcher is the single greatest game ever made gets made
Why do witcher drones do this? Its pretty fucking ridiculous at this point and should be considered viral marketing.

this game is fucking shit suck my dick you faggots

>>381775012
Seemed like the developers were really devoted to it that or it's just luck

>>381775342
What's wrong with the combat? Besides the fact that even on DM it's still too easy.

My only real complaint is the shitty scaling system

>>381775012
What made it great for me was that they cared enough to have some interesting detail, backstory or twist in every quest and every place you visit.

>>381775460
MI SMO BILI KRALJEVI I SRANJE

>>381775012
2017 tech + non-sjw development team. That's how they did it.

Is it worth the $35 on the sale, do I need to play the first two to get what's going on?

>>381775012
Yeah, the way to handholds you through the entire fucking thing sure was magical.
Felt almost as if I wasn't playing it.

>>381776179
Exactly this. I wasn't really a fan of the combat but the stories surrounding everything made it worth it.

>>381776417
It's absolutely worth the money, and no you don't. You'll get more out of it if you've played the previous titles but it's definitely not required.

>>381776170
>My only real complaint is the shitty scaling system

I'm pretty sure you can disable scaling now. Or use upscaling, I forget.

>>381776437
What did you like about the game?

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>>381775012
The open world design is literally ubisoft-tier in its filler and POI spam, and is further destroyed by...

...the loot system, which destroys any incentive for exploration. The weapons you find are worse than witcher gear you obtained 10 levels ago, and you get witcher gear from quests anyway so its not like you have to go hunting for them.
Money holds practically no value whatsoever, and the only loot you find thats useful is alchemy ingredients. Which would be fine if...

...the combat system wasn't so barebones and bland. Throughout your 150+ hour adventure, you use one moveset, 5 bland spells, a crossbow, some bombs and optional potions. The enemy and boss design is so generic and boring though, that using all that hify shit like potions and decoction is pretty much pointless. The biggest strategy is just to mash light attack twice, backhop, and repeat. A large majority of the enemies follow this mentality, and it never truly evolves into anything more meaningful. Why does Djikstra have the same moveset as a wild hunt warrior you fight with Keira?
The game even reskins and recycles enemies in paid DLC, and then dares to call them new ones with new beastiry entries.

The quest design is made for literal braindead children who can't think for themselves. Its obnoxiously yawn inducing because the "investigations" you do are practically you just walking around in circles and spamming X so geralt can shove some more exposition down your throat. It lacks depth, challenge, player activity and more than anything else, longevity. It never evolves into anything more unique or interesting, and it persists through the ENTIRE 150+ hours.

The main quest is basically super mario in poland, where Geralt goes around picking flowers, herding goats and helping every bum under the sun just so he can get the usual message that "nah bro, I don't know shit senpai"

cont

>>381776630
k

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>>381776630
Skellige is wasted potential at best, and the game rushes to its conclusion way too fast after Kaer Morhen. Novigrad and Velen use up a massive portion of time, and the entire point of those areas boils down to "your ciri is in another area that requires you to go through like 20 boring side missions before anything substantial happens"

The story sets up its stakes way too high, and thus makes side content break immersion to a major degree. Theres no reason why Geralt would go around killing nekkers for pennies when the literal end of the world was around the corner.

Speaking of which, the white frost, ciris powers and all of culminating at the same time is some of the most cringe inducing shit I've ever seen. Ciri can hop between time and space because "its in her blood lmao" and the white frost is just a prophecy of "dude lmao if it happens we all die lmaooooo"

Then at the end when you defeat Eredin (who is the most bland fucking villain I've ever seen, he has less lines than reskinned shopkeepers in Velen), the white frost just suddenly comes at the same exact time and Ciri defeats it somehow and everythings awesome and then yay the game ends.
Its rushed as fuck and I lost all my interest in caring about the characters during that arc.

HOS is the best content in the game, but it doesn't fix the gameplay gripes. The story is great however and has the only good antagonist in the entire game.

B&W is fine, but again has the same problems with its open world, quest design, enemy design, and even the main quest.

Overall the game doesn't have a single piece of good gameplay, and the only thing that comes close is the boss fight with Dettlaff.
Its worth experiencing because of things completely unrelated to it being a video game. You would get the same exact experience from just watching it on youtube for fucks sake, and even then it would save you money, time and most of all effort since you wouldn't have to wade through boring filler.

>>381776579
Despite what people say, I did like the combat, although there's almost no way of making "builds", you just combine regular attacks with magic, but that's okay.
I liked the swords in general, how they looked and such, but I didn't like the fact that until you get Witcher Gear, which is tedious as fuck, you'll be basically running around wearing pijamas.
I also liked the lack of tower climbing, and how the "designated creepy places" went back to normal after you solved their curses or whatever they had.

A conjunction of spheres really happened and some witches from other dimensions who were trapped here, helped making this masterpiece to tell us the tale of their world.

>tfw not even CDPR know what the conjuction of the spheres was
Seriously, what the hell happened in the end?
A conjuction of spheres happened exactly the same time the White Frost began?

>>381775012
Target the retards with no standard that like games with awful gameplay?

>>381776575
Yeah there's a switch to activate scaling.

>>381776630
Whoever made this must be pretty mad.
And Skyrim is a good game, stop pretending everything not played out like old WRPG is bad.

>>381776928
Weirdly enough Skyrim players dislike the witcher games.

>>381776170
>shitty scaling system
This is the cancer of RPG.

>>381776575
Let me guess, you like this game because it's fun.

>>381777028
Because they share nothing beyond being an open world game with swords and magic. You don't play Skyrim or Witcher for the same experience

>>381776967
>Give correct and in-depth arguments
SO MAD LOL BUT I MYSELF DON'T HAVE ANY ARGUMENTS

typical dumb witcherkek

Also
>Skyrim is a good game
I thought this was bait at this point but I realized that witcherkeks are retarded and have no taste so this might actually be a genuine post

>>381776219
Polish is very different from South Slavic languages, do your research.

>>381775762
I can't see it. Oh well.

>>381777113
Scaling is off by default

>>381776267
>non-sjw

Explain all the faggot, crossdressing, anti-Christian and feminist propaganda in the game though

>>381776870
>>381776870
the white frost was coming THROUGH the conjuction of the spheres. basically it was entropy calling everything to freeze across worlds. when the sphere of the witcher world aligned with the other spheres and the conjunction of spheres occurred the white frost began pouring in.

>>381775342
>Diverted all resources from the combat engine

Speaking of which, have any mods been able to fix (or just improve) the combat?

>>381776630
Can nu /v/ stop being so contrarian? Stop pretending critically acclaimed, literal best game of their released year (according to hundred of professional critics and millions of people) are bad. Why do you think you are more qualified than them? And can you stop writing long ass lies?

I hated the second game. I like RPG games, but could not get into it. Tried again recently, but still. Im hoping this one is better in every way?

>>381777689
it is, I adore Witcher 1 and 3 and despise 2

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>>381777652
>Stop pretending critically acclaimed, literal best game of their released year (according to hundred of professional critics and millions of people) are bad.

You sure you want to pursue that logic, anon?

>>381775012
Maybe Polish are pure genius held back by war-craze barbarians that was Germany and Soviet Russia.

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>>381777747
>professional critics

>>381775460
Fun fact, latest theories believe that during off seasons farmers would help build pyramids.

Slave theories are getting ruled out.

>>381777197
No shit, you fucking retard.

>>381777689
3 is basically what 2 should have been. i feel like 3 aligns itself more with tw1 than tw2.

>>381775460
Pretty sure Polish labors are not even that cheap.

>>381777836
Personally I don't buy that.

>>381777747
Yes

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Haven't played the DLC yet. Does it change the early game in any way or just the DLC areas?

>>381777747
Yeah just give one reason why 1 anonymous is more qualified than 100000 of them.

>>381776967
>And Skyrim is a good game
it's objectively not a good game you faggot fucking redditor. take your shit taste and wrong opinions out ofh ere

>>381777926
>Personally I don't buy that.
Why?

>>381776713
>Theres no reason why Geralt would go around killing nekkers for pennies when the literal end of the world was around the corner
Was W3 your first video game or what

>>381777196
>Give correct and in-depth arguments
That's wrong though. You used a copy pasta because you're butthurt.

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>>381778079
Bigger change for vanilla game was update 2.0 when they overhauled some of the UI and shit. Both expansions are excellent, though.

>>381778079
>Does it change the early game in any way
No.

>>381778156
Morrowind is objectively not a good game since it has shit gameplay, but /v/ still sucks it off over the superior Daggerfall.

>>381778158
We are talking about a building built 5000 years ago when human rights were nonexistent. That plus moving thousands of big ass rocks. And instead of slave labor we got labor rights and even volunteers?

Seriously I don't buy it. Need better reason to, like a Pharaoh holding gun to my head saying I'm wrong.

>>381778482
>thinking game play is the most important aspect of an rpg
yeah, you're a redditor and also probably a neogaffer

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>>381776967
>skyrim is a good game

>>381777275
>anti-Christian
implying anyone who is capable of rational thought believes in Christ of any religion.

>>381775762
this

t. pole

>>381779221
good goy, throw away all religion. your life is pointless and meaningless

Just finished Witcher 1 last night. should I use KB&M or a gamepad for Witcher 2

>>381775012
xD

>>381779221
Cuck

>>381776630
Holy shit someone actually took the time to make this image and this copypasta

The assmad is palpable

>>381779806
>>>reddit

>>381775012
I enjoyed the shit out of the witcher series, 3 being the crowning jewel. /v/ can suck my dick, you salty fucks would find anything bad just to be contrarian.

>>381776967

>skyrim is a good game

anon, please stop

I still remember the pre witcher 3 and release /v/ threads
/v/ loved this fucking game and series
they were maximum comfy threads
fuck all these contrarian edgelords.

>>381781530
This. Good thing I don't give a fuck about what /v/ thinks anymore.
>Also let's not go into your game recommendations

What's so great about it?
And please refrain from using "muh open world" as an argument since this is universally a flaw.

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>>381781797
>wants someone to drop him a wall of text
>doesnt even supply his own wall

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>>381781797
Why don't you actually try playing it.
>people complaining about shit they don't even care about
>2017 Greatest year of all years

>>381781935
>>381782145
I haven't played it yet. Like the previous games and got really discouraged when I heard the third games was jumping on the open world bandwagon and avoided it until I bought it on this sale.
Haven't played it yet though.

Fuck open world.

>>381782145
>someone whats so great about Witcher 3
>lmao just play it urself
why are witcherfags such cancer?

>>381775762
>suck my dick
>you faggots
Oh anon, it's okay to be confused.

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>>381782314
Why don't you play it then? I don't deliver shit opinions on games I haven't played yet, but hey whatever makes you feel more important I guess.

>>381782204
I enjoyed the open world, felt much better than getting forced to stay in a very small area(s) like witcher 2. Also the cities felt surprisingly populated.

>>381775342
What the hell is a combat engine?

>>381777275
You'll need to give examples from the game

>>381775762
Dear anon, go back to ur beloved cod.

>>381784001
>using the CoD sendoff in 2017
you totally pwned that noob

>>381778482
You're contradicting yourself. Morrowind has far superior gameplay to Daggerfall.