Is this still a worthwhile experience or should I save up until

>>382350971
TW1 is one of the very short list of good WRPG's. Get it, for a dollar, you can't really go wrong.

It's the best game in the series

>>382350971
If you want to experience the game that made the franchise this is it.
Play on medium since I get the feeling you are too casual for secondary ingredients alchemy stacking and will bitching about gameplay.
Make sure you get the enhanced edition and play the two Adventures that are made by CDPR and not by fans.

>>382350971
It's good

Provided you can get past the absolutely horrible combat

>>382350971
I can only speak for myself, but it's one of my top 5 games of all time. And oh boy that soundtrack:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHBwS1frPak

It's low-budget and in some regards clunky but it has some truly outstanding qualities such as atmosphere and music, and I personally like it better than TW3

>>382350971
the combat is pretty dope

>>382351242
This. DRM free with a ton of extras for less than 2 bucks.

https://www.gog.com/game/the_witcher

Thanks, everyone. I'll get it.

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>>382350971
>tfw I bought it at 72p due to an Amazon glitch, and bought about 8 other copies for my friends

>>382351831
OP here this guy isn't me - I've decided to buy Persona 5 instead

Gotta ask here since it is related: Is Witcher 3 Complete Edition worth the money? Have some extra bucks and plenty of space in the external HDD.

>>382351923
not surprised you sound like a huge casual

>>382351976
Nope. All the user reviews in the high 90s are LIES. And I'm fairly certain people spending 500+ hours on the game are doing it ironically.

>>382352095
They just have bad taste

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It kinda falls into retro category right now, by what I mean that you just could not expect it to look and play like W3. Treat it with respect as a vintage stuff that it is, slap a Return of the White Wolf mod on top of it and you might avtrually enjoy it, who knows. Story, and music is still pure gold and knowing the lore will help you enjoy W3 even more as there's a lot of references to the first game there.
get ranged Igni before heading to the swamps, I mean it

>>382351976
One of the best games of all time, fully patched with all DLC. I don't know mate, this is a tough one..

>>382352095
I spend 400+ hours totally unironically on the single playthrough of W3 + expansions and would rate it overall 8,5/10.

>>382352095
I guess sarcasm doesn't come across well online..

>>382352886
>400+ hours

Is the main game that long or is brimming with side content?

>>382351454
>tfw i unironically liked the combat in witcher 1

>>382351454
isn't it really easy if you use quen?

>save to afford a 20 something currency game
huh

>>382353372
The latter. The main story takes about 40 hours to finish.

>>382350971
>>382350971
OP READ THIS YOU CAN GET THE WITCHER FOR FREE IF YOU INSTALL GWENT AND SUBSCRIBE TO THE GOG NEWSLETTER

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>>382352886
>>382353372
>>382352095
Not the guy that replied but I also spent around that amount of time.

>>382353894
Doing most of the quest and collecting the majority of the armor sets took me roughly 120 hours. While the game is great, some elements are quite grindy, especially in Baw.

>>382353489
Thats The Witcher 2. Quen is god there.

TW1 combat isn't even hard anyway. Its a rhythm game at its heart.

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>>382353372
All of it I guess, There's a lot of side quests and just stuff to do if you want to, exploring is nice and because I enjoyed it as well as the music I rarely if ever used the fast travel. Also I turned off that stupid question marks that spoiled any ambush or surprise and that retard friendly minimap path to your objective. Also, I guess I'm a slowpoke and dont rush through games, I guess you could do the main quest and fair share of the optional plus wandering around just for the fuck of it into like 50 - hours

>Side with Iorveth
>Geralt still calls his horse Roach

???

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>every time Siegfried of Denesle shows up
How could anyone stay neutral or join the squirrels?

The first game was my favorite of all three

>>382354549
He's the only good guy out of the Order. Everyone else sucks.

>>382354207
>some elements are quite grindy, especially in Baw
Right, I loved the comfy atmosphere but I skipped the Wine Wars quest because killing that bloody archespores was a chore. Also, I left the bid bandits camp in the North untouched because same reason.

>>382354549
You know that if you are neutral during the final fight he respects you as a friend and lets you go? Neutral is the way to go.

>>382350971
IMO, it's the best Witcher game. It's old, and kind of clunky and strange at times, but it oozes charm and the atmosphere is S Tier. I'd say try it out, give it a fair shot, and if you don't like it, then just skip it.

>>382351919
Pay for the fucking game, Darius. This is one of the few awesome, greed-free games you fucking monkey

>>382354730
Actually the entire section of the Order that he leads.
I thought it was fucking hilarious how you could enlist the aid of the Order to barge in and fuck up Salamandra, who the Order was funding.
TWICE

>>382354534
if you go with Iorveth you still don't hate Roach, you're just tsudere

>>382354549
If you are from Poland your 6th sense starts to tingle when you meet all too eager monk knights

I played Witcher 1 and loved it, tried Witcher 2 and had a hard time adjusting

I liked the old brainless combat system, and I loved the old "hold this button to highlight everything you can interact with"

I'm probably just going old and senile

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witcher 1 is the best in the series for me. followed by the witcher 3. i barely consider witcher 2 a witcher game, it's more like warhammer fantasy than anything else.

>>382350971
OP, I'm playing through this for the first time now. I'm nearing what I think is the end of the second chapter, and yes you should absolutely play this fucking game.

I also unironically enjoy the combat, it's not as bad as a lot of filthy casuals will try to claim it is.

>>382350971
I signed up for GOG last week and they gave me it for free

Don't even know why

>>382354969

He's not terribly happy about it though. Actually that whole last part isn't particularly handled well since you have to tell the ostensible good guy to stop killing innocents which doesn't make a great deal of sense.

>>382354969
Too bad that I as a player got actually angry at Order and their self righteous bullshit and killed him. One of very few moments that game made me feel things to the point of actually influencing the choices I made.

>>382350971
most of /v/ is severely underage and will praise the third generic open world asscreed clone BUT, 1 is by far the best game in the series

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>>382354549
>Not respecting Witcher Neutrality

>>382355631
Monks told pagans off in every European country, only Polaks are still butthurt about it

>>382355967

Company that owns gog is the company that makes the Witcher

>>382355905
Good one with W2 being Warhammer. Seriously, it had some hard to pin down greman, imperial feel so absent in the 1 and 3

Don't fall for the meme. W1 is boring and frustrating to play. All the good moments are buried under a pile of shit. /v/ likes to suck this game's dick, because normies didn't get interested in the series until the second one came out. It's their typical "i like this, so i'm better than you" mentality.

W2 had its problems, but at least it was fun to play.

>>382355905
I felt like that palace looked like shit in w3 compared to w1. I wanted my shiny floors.

>>382356452
lel

1 > 2 > 3

by far.
>>382356579
that's because they didn't give a fuck anymore in 3 and just went for the ''we want the open world audience'' mentality

>>382356452
w2 had the worst arpg gameplay i've ever experienced.

>>382355905
I agree.
W2 is a brutal westernization of a series that is anything but american story.

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>>382356452
>W2 was good game
Finished on Dark difficulty and killed the last boss without taking a hit.

>>382356686
2 is pretty playable albeit combat feels like a generic souls ripoff. 3 is worse off because muh witcher senses and clunkiness up the ass in an action environment

>>382350971
I remember having fun with TW1 but now that I look at a video of it it looks really shitty, much more so than I remembered. It's not a great game, but not bad either so completely skippable. TW3 is basically a whole different game than 1/2.

>>382356958
yeah 3 lost all flavour and charm that 1 had with its perfect atmosphere and 2 with its politics

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>>382356172
>Monks told pagans off
They did more than that actually.

>>382350971
I played it a couple years ago and it was fun getting to play them all in order but witcher 1 was a very boring experience

Only play it if you need to play all witcher games to feel complete

>>382356909
>2 is pretty playable albeit combat feels like a generic souls ripoff

are you fucking dumb?

you realise action rpg combat existed before souls right? you realise games like two worlds, risen etc all existed before dark souls right? it's NOTHING like dark souls combat.

>3 is worse off

3 is better than 2 simply because the movement is as shit as 2, you can dodge instead of having to roll all the time and the animations aren't as fucking dogshit as they are in 2 either.

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>tfw can't just delete part of my memory when I played Witcher.
People like OP are lucky fags. I'd love to replay the games without already remembering dialoges.

>>382354281
Wasn't Quen OP as fuck in witcher 3 as well? Or was it nerfed at some point. I swear everyone and their mom was doing death march but using quen everytime it was off cooldown and just rolling around waiting to recast quen if they were got hurt.

>>382357658
Your mother sucks dwarf cock.

>>382357852
Alternative quen was OP.

Althought in W2 and W3 alchemy builds were better than signs.

>>382357852
Regular quen was great, alt quen basically broke the game in half.

>>382357989
>alchemy builds were better than signs
Alchemy builds were also the most boring ones too though.