How many of you here praise TW3 but have never played TW1?

/v/ hasn't even played bitcher 3, they just know gerald of riverwood from reddit

I think TW3 is just alright
I played TW1 and didn't like it
TW2 was meh

TW1 > TW3 > TW2

What if I praise TW1 but never played TW3?

>>387894269
This.

I played W1 when it was first released maybe 10 yrs ago or more, and it was like one of those hidden gem titles though it was very low budget. Never expected it to become so huge, it's amazing, never even expected it to continue its cliffhanger. I actually thought w3 greater than w1 greater tha w2

played 1 and 2 few years back still waiting for a good sale for 3

>>387893613
I bought TW1 day one in 2007, played it to completion and loved it. I replayed it with the Enhanced Edition in 2010 while waiting for TW2 which I didn't like anywhere near as much.

Still I praise TW3 and consider it at least as good as TW1.
But it's different and I get that some people could love one and hate the other.

>>387894269
But thats wrong you idiot

unless you speak polish, because polish version is the only one where muting voice volume isn't mandatory

TW2 is actually almost great with FCR2

i've only played TW1

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>>387894218
14 years old detected

>>387893613
got 150 hours on 1, 3 hours on 2 and 450 hours on 3

and many hours on the books

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>>387893613
The combat is disgusting.

>>387894684
>If you are over the age of 25 you MUST love this game

I really like the atmosphere of 1, it's much more unique than the boring grimdarkness of 2. Haven't played 3 yet.

>>387893613
i cry every playthrough i have to kill the homeless dogs in vizima for money

Sorry, I prefer action games instead of DDR the RPG.

>>387893613
Why is the soundtrack so good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHBwS1frPak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKv0rtgI7mw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9es3gtxHMU&t

I've played all 3

I tried.

TW1's gameplay is absolute trash by today's standards. Might've been good when it came out, but it has aged like milk.

Graphics are sort of ugly too, but I could live with them.

>>387894931
OST:
TW1 > TW3 > TW2

Games:
TW3 > TW2 > TW1

TW3 dlc:
HoS > Vanilla > Shit > B&W

>>387894816
3 is pretty dang grimdark

Played it, and apparently got a glitch for the fake private investigator which left me with a dead game. Never really touched it after that despite getting accustomed to and eventually liking the combat along with the alchemy. Might give this a restart once I motivate myself to play it again.

>>387894797
I found the thread anon.

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>>387893613
I like a lot about TW1 but the combat just makes it an absolute slog to get through.

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>Hating on TW1 combat
>when TW2 combat exists

>>387893613
Actually have it open right now. The story with all the plot twists is great and the atmosphere is nice too. The combat, voice acting and gameplay mechanics aren't that good. Witcher 3 is still clearly the better game.

>>387895690
Combat is easy, its the perfect balance of gameplay and story.

>>387893613
Don't assume people are all faggots
3-1-2 btw

>>387893613
Í couldn't help but drop it, the game was boring as hell to me but going to that fucking swamp was the straw that broke the camel's back

>>387893613
I loved it. And I haven´t even finished 2 or started 3 yet.

>>387895892
Fuck the swamp and fuck the super strong mega plant that kept appearing everywhere.

gameplay:
3 > 2 > 1

story:
2 > 1 > 3

>>387895769
roll spam > QTE fest

>>387893613
I actually tried TW1 before 2 and 3 but couldn't get into so I dropped it couple of hours into it.

Then I played TW2 and after that TW3. Thought I'd give TW1 another chance and ended up completing it and loving it. Much better than TW2, about on par with TW3.

The first was better about immedisimation.

>>387893613
Played 1 and dropped it after Act 3. Was decent, but nothing stellar.

Played 2 and dropped it after Flotsam. Was so painfully average there was no real reason to continue.

Played 3, finished it and then finished Blood and Wine too. Wasn't stellar too, but definitely much more engaging thant TW1. Mostly because it didn't felt like awful fanfiction and instead was a great fanfiction to the books (which are meh by themselves, so go figure)

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TW1 was super comfy

>>387895383
>This shit DLC taste
Let me guess - you enjoyed HoS, because it had Shani, the most useless character mangled into the franchise for no reason other than "we need some Not!Triss if we already made Triss into Not!Yen" in TW1

>>387893613
i have only played tw1 and tw2, preferred tw1. tw2 was a bit too cinematic for my tastes.

played about five hours of tw3, was too overwhelming with so much to do. will return to it some day.

I played them all before you, the third was the best.

>>387895769
>Hating on TW2 combat when FCR2 exists
Guess what it even replaces rolls with pirouette dodges

>>387896094
you can kill it using just a torch.

>>387896786
>judging the entire story based on 1 character
give me some credit

>>387893613
if anyone says tw1 is better than tw3 they're being an obvious contrarian. tw3 is an obvious masterpiece

>>387896987
>Guess what it even replaces rolls with pirouette dodges
which changes ... nothing
now you twirl like a faggot instead of rolling

>>387897084
>no sex cards
>poor atmosphere in comparison
>story isn't grounded
>weather and lighting is unironically worse
>music is worse
tw1 is better

>>387897175
>reduces backstab bonus
>increases animation speed of gerald by about 15000%
>passive parrying
>active block with quen
>makes the game piss easy on anything but hardest difficulties because combat isn't broken any more
it changes a lot of things anon, go play it

>>387897405
Nothing about TW2 was good, so no.

>>387895690
Bearing in mind it's made in the fucking Aurora engine the combat isn't too bad.

>>387893613
So far I've only played TW2 and it's basically just an inferior Dragon Age: Origins with less replayability.

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>>387897229
>poor atmosphere in comparison
>implying W1 comes close to Skellige, Toussaint or HoS
Story sucked too in W1. Great game though.

>>387893613
What if I've never played any of them because I'm not interested in """RPGs""" that aren't actually RPGs?

>>387893613
TW1 was the ONLY good game in entire series.

I liked the second witcher, I only played at first so I could get a bit of an introduction to the universe before I moved on to the third one, but it grew on me over time.

>>387894269
this
For some reason I get a huge old school vibe playing W1, like the game has a lot of archaic things in terms of inventory, gameplay, etc. yet it gives this vibe of a game being made from the heart abd its pretty fucking cool desu

What the FUCK was the point of the choice at the end of chapter 1? Why would anyone willingly side with murderers, rapists, and human traffickers?

>>387893613
i've only played W1 so far and its one of my all time favorite rpg's

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>>387897957
that's because it was made by a small team, in the eastern Europe, using not only an old engine but also old, PC-centric design philosophies.

And if you ask me, it all works way better than the "We want AssCreed AND DaS audience!" consolitis sequels.

>>387897993

>Why would anyone willingly side with murderers, rapists, and human traffickers?

t. cuck nu-male

I praise all 3 of them

I praise TW3
I've not played TW3

>>387898235
The first game's inventory isn't good. I'd go as far as to say it's shit.

>>387893613
If you talk to console gamers who played TW3, almost zero.

My ranking for each game is

TW1 > TW2 = TW3

>>387897993
Because it's a FUCKING video game

Me

>>387898556
>Representing the pinnacle of storytelling in role-playing games, The Witcher shatters the line between good and evil in a world where moral ambiguity reigns.

If choices like that are supposed to have "moral ambiguity" I'm really tempted to drop the game right now.

>>387897993
Because you're supposed to remain neutral, and there's enough evidence to have a reasonable doubt about the witch being a goody two shoes

>>387898336
It works fine. Definitely waaay easier and faster to use than the shit in TW2. #3's wasn't exactly a huge improvement from it either.

>>387898906
>nonsensical sorting
>stacks limited to either 10 or 50
>no way to carry multiple weapons of the same category

It's shit.

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>>387898336
It's classic crpg inventory basically. Stay consolepleb with your scrolling.

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>>387898235
>>387898336
I've played both games, TW2 one several times, and to this day I have NO IDEA how the alchemy menu works.

>>387899094
>it's classic so that makes it good!

If it's so good why did they fix it in the Enhanced Edition?

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>>387893613
TW3 HOS> TW3 B&W > TW3 > TW1 > TW2

>>387899436
This and nothing else.

>>387899365
I haven't played EE, what exactly did they change? Just separated alchemy ingredients?

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>>387899436
TW3 HOS > TW3 B&W > TW2 > TW3 > TW1

>>387899814
TW1:EE > 3 > > > 2.

I'm doing my first playthrough of witcher 3 right now, geralt reminds me of snake/big boss and sounds like him

Played all three
(Tw1 = Tw3 ) > Tw2
Tw1 is great in its own classic way. Tw3 is great in a casual way. Tw2 is good but not as good

>>387899923
How can one man be so wrong?
W1, even if it was comfy, was a borefest for half of the game. W2 had great writing, pace and characters.

>>387900242
I absolutely hated 2's tone and dialogue, so fucking dark and joyless. I get that it's set in a war between scoia'tel and humans but jesus

aside from that it's just a mediocre action rpg

I don't know, OP, do you play games on a current system but have never owned an atari 2600? If so, then your enjoyment seems illegitimate to me.

>>387893613
The're completely different games.
TW3>TW2>TW1

Each game feels like a natural evolution of the previous games.

why are all the witcher games so terrible?

>>387900382
>a trilogy of direct sequels compared to technological advancement

>>387897482
Oh believe me, with what they had to work with they done a fantastic job. Even at that though, it can be quite a pain to get into. I can understand why people are turned off by it.

>>387900417
I felt like 2 was whatever the opposite of evolution would be, a step back in all aspects

>>387893613

I've beaten both tw1 and tw2 to completion, including getting the best weapons and armors and imported saves, because the adventure must continue.

Yet to put many hours into tw3 yet, I am beating games left and right and saving it for last. Excited since I only have two or three games left to go.

>>387894684
Gove me a breaker, TW1 is fucking awful

>>387893613
I've never played TW3 because I've never played TW1 or TW2.

>>387893613
Jeez, didn't realize W2 was so disliked, i enjoyed it overall.

I've only played 2 and 3, but 3's combat never really hooked me. Not sure which i liked better overall.

>>387896657
>dropped it after Act 3
Really? Even the people who love the game agree it doesn't really peak until Act 4.

W1 gives me the same vibe I got playing the first Blood Omen back in the day. A collection of no-shit video game fans trying to do justice to an IP they're passionate about. The limitations of budget and technology are all over the final product, but so is the love.

>>387893613
played all witcher games, loved them all for different reasons
W1 for setting, new experience, story and characters
W2 for grafix, choices, story, and loved the preparation before combat
W3 for atmosphere, scope, roleplaying, graphics, some amazing quests, and the work they put into it, after realease. The original story was meh-mary-sue bullshit, but the DLC's were hands down the best stories i've ever experienced in RPG's, with amazing characters with amazing voice acting like O'Dimm, Olgierd, Regis and the Duchess

>>387901158
you have awful taste if you can enjoy that embarrassingly bad combat.

>>387894269
>3 better than anything

Ayy. Witcher is a story driven game and Witcher 2 had by far the best story and took the most risks, and it was almost all original characters.

Witcher 3 story was pretty generic and really badly written on top of that, and just relied on reusing (and ruining) characters from the books or last games

>>387893613
people here praise TW1 and then complain about other games having QTEs

>>387901526
Witcher didn't have qtes

>LE COMBAT IS LE QTE XDD

KYS

>>387901409
What i disliked about the combat was that basic "moves" that should be a given were locked behind upgrades, it felt weird.

>>387893613
TW1 is not worth playing anymore and the gameplay is very outdated... there is a video that everyone should watch it telling about the first game's story in about ~6 minutes, so you can jump in the second game with something in mind. btw:

TW3 > TW2 >> TW1

>>387901636
prove me why i am wrong without memeing

>>387902305
Having to time the attack right to continue the chain of attack Is not QTE..it's very old concept

Gothic used this style of attacking

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>>387895690
I think the combat and combat related mechanics (like alchemy and oils) are best in 1.

>>387902765
They are

The alchemy system is best and the game's progression seems suited for the game of it's length. You're still unlocking new moves and animations even at the endgame

In Witcher 3 you've seen everything there is to see in the first several fights. The enemies never change and neither do your moves.

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People who shittalk Witcher 2 are the reason the studio turned to shit

>Witcher 2
>High octane political thriller with truly morally ambiguous characters

>Witcher 3
>save Ciri sue from skeletor and fight evil mad king and evil church which is totally not Christianity,

>>387894269
Witcher 2 is GOAT you fag

>>387893613
I praise TW1 but havent played TW3 because playing TW2 put me off

>>387903594
You forgot to mention
>Witcher 2
>Console-afied as shit UI and gameplay with loading screens every 10 meters that you had to play through twice to get what the fuck was going on.

>>387902980
Because they did in W1? Just because you switch between stances to hit buttons doesn't mean it's varied.

>>387904710
He's talking about the writing, not the gameplay, which is bad in all three of them.

>>387903594
>High octane

Are you kidding me? TW3 is not "high octane", it's a slow, lumbering piece of shit that takes itself far too seriously. I couldn't even beat it, I got sick of it's crap and dropped it in the third act.

>>387904819
Nobody shittalks W2 on the basis of the story or character (even if it's far from perfect) but everything surrounding said story and characters is not only the worst in the series but pretty fucking abysmal on its own.

The main story itself of W3 is pretty much garbage (which is to be expected since it's based thematically on the later books of the quintilogy) but the sidestories (DLC included) have some of the best writing, characters and moments in the series.

/v/ introduced me to TW1 since there were a ton of threads when it first came out on Steam so I bought it and loved it. TW2 was alright but I never finished. TW3 was pretty good too but the first game is easily the best in my opinion.

Except for the marsh and fucking drowners.

>>387905104
>but the sidestories (DLC included) have some of the best writing, characters and moments in the series.

No they don't. Shut the fuck up

>>387904710
You're the type of autist who cares about UI you should kys

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>>387901294
>W1 for setting, new experience, story and characters
You forgot "stacking alcohol and food for bribery is more important than alchemy/potions".

TW1 has a pretty good npc interaction.

>>387905267
TW2 is ~15 hours long

>>387900474
Same underlying "logic", friend.

>You have to have used the former to really be able to appreciate the latter.

>>387905267
Where are these wonderous best written quests because I couldn't run into any of them.

The only thing that really stood out was the quest in the Skelige village with the king of the forest. That felt like a short story that really captured the mood of the books. And that's it.

There was also that cat school witcher, but that was basically a bare bones rip off from Berengar in Witcher 1

>>387905076
Get your eyes checked faggot

I only ever played TW1 and quit near the end when i was fighting some dude on a mountain.

Probably was the last boss too.

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>>387893613
I've beat all 3 and desu witcher 1 might be the most comfy. I need to replay it.

It took me like 20 minutes to kill that one negro.
All in one go, too.

I played 2 hours of Witcher 1 with a rebalance mod. It was the most boring shit on the planet.

>>387906453
It's worth going in. It only gets unironically good after the third chapter. It's not as good as some here would have you though.

>>387893613
I'm here. Played The Witcher 2 though.
I'm a console peasant, so the chances of me ever playing the first game are slim-none.

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>>387894269
my dude

>>387893613
TW1 was a comfy masterpiece. I honestly didn't expect the sequel to get this far and grab everyone's attention like it does. It could've end at 1 as its tiny own series and i wouldn't have mind.

>>387894568
>still waiting for a good sale for 3
huh? the goty edition was 20 bucks on sale.

you could just torrent it. It's ok anon

>>387893958
Woah, nice one bro! I can tell you'll fit in around here!

By far the best Witcher is the books.
When you read them Witcher 1 becomes an irrelevant contradictory mess and this is from someone who was introduced to the series by witcher 1. Don't fall for the witcher 1 meme, play 2 & 3 + the books if you desire to know more.

>>387894269
Unironically this, although maybe tweak it to 1=3>2

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>>387905274
>point
>nuh uh, fuck you

>>387902075
>t. 20 year old underage newfag

3>1>2
anyone that says otherwise is a contrarian edgy faggot
I'd put 2 above 1 but it has fucking awful gameplay, interface, and alchemy

>>387907763
The combat was shitty even for its time

>>387894568
Could have got it at christmas. Paid 30 bucks for 100 plus hour adventure

Im a massive fan of the entire series, have read the books, and have played all the games. Finished most of the choices through 1, played through two paths on 2, and am doing my second playthrough of 3 but havent finished BAW since I play only every once in a while since I am busy these days.

>>387893958
FPBP

>>387907409
>le book is superior
KYS, you spineless piece of shit, incapable of forming its own opinion, who opts for cliche statements in hopes of gaining approval from people he doesn't even know.

Fuck your gatekeeping, TW1 is a shit game and playing it is not necessary at all.

>>387910067
BAW is pretty good, but the main quest sucks apart from Regis.
>>387910391
t. guy who praise W1

>>387907097
Just finished W1, how do you get this card???

>>387893613
I.

>>387893613
I tried but it ran like ass and kept crashing

>>387895471
only Velen really but thatd because its a wartorn shithole

>>387894269
I bought and played all 3 within the last year and I agree with this ranking
However I would like to express that 3 is very good and not far behind 1, 2 was almost saved by Iorveth but otherwise it's junk.

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>when you finish TW1 and go straight into TW2
all those fucking consolefag design decisions. what were they thinking.

>>387907409
I also read the books and I can say with complete honesty that the writing in the games is much, much better. 1 and 2 are much better stories because they do not rely on the books to tell them, which is also something that ruined 3.

>>387911156
Going straight from 2 to 3 is even worse. All those decisions you made that thought were going to make a difference in 3 only to find out it was fucking pointless.

i miss the first game alchemy. that was my favorite thing about the first game

the second game is so fucking bad, that QTE boss battle almost made me drop the game

>>387911438
witcher 2 was shit because so many cutscenes led straight into combat. how are you supposed to do prep when cutscenes cancel your quen and you have no idea what's coming?

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>>387911156
>the witcher 2 was my last console game before I gradguated to PC

It was okay.

>>387893613
Finished 1, tried 2 and 3. Witcher is an overrated OK at best game. Doesn't deserve praise it gets.

Also I'm polish and books are overrated too.

>>387911076
>Iorveth cucs on my /v/
what the fuck

>>387911425
they did the smart thing and mostly ignored 2 whilst putting in tons of references to 1 for the people with taste

>>387912193
Can attest. Going back to Kaer Morhen felt like visiting my home town.

>>387910670
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_of_the_Night

OP here. I'm pleased with the answers in the thread. Looks like there aren't as many TW2/3 babies here as I thought there were.

>>387913827
>implying 2 and 3 aren't good too
get off your high horse, dude

>>387893613
The witcher 1 is kinda a chore to play through these days. Too many fucking quest and dialog glitches.

I've played them in order and imo

W3 > W1 > W2

I played Witcher 1 for about 3 hours and it was a janky piece of shit. Tried reading the books and the prose was awful (though this may be due to poor translation) and Geralt was an edgelord power fantasy instead of the dashing rogue he is in the games.

Witcher 3 is the only good thing to come out of the entire franchise.

>>387894269
this is just a pleb choice trying to look patrician.

everyone that played all three games knows the list goes; TW2>TW1>TW3

>>387893613
I want to give TW3 another try because I didn't like it at first, do I really have to play TW1 and TW2 to understand anything?

>>387902980
>You're still unlocking new moves even at the endgame

Bullshit. I've played for 15 hours and literally every encounter has been nothing but mashing M1 with the occasional M2 thrown in.

>>387893613
i tried to play witcher 1 but it felt a little too out dated for me, ive never been a big fan of old school rpgs. the world seemed interesting and there are some cool designs but gameplay wise its too clunky for me
also i quit playing at the swamp because fuck that shit

>>387894664
French versiob is actually good. I played both in French and in English and goddamn, the english dubs are horrendous.

>>387895690
is that maddox

i hate the combat in tw1 desu

>>387896181
If you have full control of your character, i there's no command prompt and in addition if you doesn't really lose shit when failing it's not a QTE. It's a timing based shit, that's about it. Hand to hand pub fight in TWZ, however, THAT was pretty much a QTE

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>>387916847
It makes things more enjoyable, if you want the maximum TW3 experience. But the first game clocks in at like 40-50 hours of nonexistant combat and old graphics, and the second game at 15-20 hours of door animations and bugs.

Though choice, but how much time you have at your hands should decide what choice you make.

Do also note that if you enjoy TW3 without having played the previous two, then it will be hard to play those because of the general big difference in gameplay quality and the amount of spoilers you get to see.

The witcher 3 is overrated as fuck

How to complete the witcher 3
>follow minimap to find every mission
>follow minimap to complete every mission
>kill generic enemy #224 by spamming igni and mashing light strike then rolling once in a while
>watch cutscene and make choice with no real consequences
>rinse and repeat until the game is finished

Literally the same thing that you do in the mass effect games except the witcher 3 is somehow protected from criticism on /v/. I ended up turning the minimap off because it just felt like i was following a breadcrumb trail rather than taking the world in but the game is designed around it's use so interesting missions/landmarks have a tiny chance of you actually being able to stumble across them if you arent going to the map menu every 5 seconds (in which case you may as well use the mini map)

Dont get me wrong, the story is at least somewhat interesting but the game is overrated on here to high heaven.

>le consolised
Got a single fact to back that up?

>>387897070
I dropped HoS after about 30 minutes in, since I'm Pole and this is really, really, REALLY shitty retelling of Pan Twardowski, a Polish folk tale about a guy making a deal with the devil
The fact the marketing also made it all about "Look! Shani is here!" didn't help things at all.

>>387918610
If you play with the minimap/objective markers you are a casual.

>>387901179
I just couldn't muster any will to continue, since the game managed to bore me before that.
I've tried to replay through it in '14, and then I've barely went through Act I before I've dropped it.

Don't get me wrong, it IS a good game. But I couldn't get myself into it. It's something like with Planescape - everyone wanks about how great it is, but I never managed to force myself to finish it, always dropping somewhere between 1/3 and half of the game, all while being able to marvel how good and unique it is.

Compare that with TW2, which was just meh and boring. Granted, Roche (at least all that was of him until leaving Flotsam) is fucking great, but that's all that kept me interested.

Then TW3 came in and finally made justice to the shit-tier ending of the book series. Which Sapkowski quite openly created out of spite and to mess with his own fandom, due to being a massive asshole with ego like from here to Moon.

>>387903594
>I never read the books: The Post
Thanks for informing

>>387918757
The whole fucking user interface you mongoloid

>>387919367
>Don't get me wrong, it IS a good game.

It really isn't bro. Don't listen to these retards who swear it's amazing. Any real fan of the franchise is more than willing to admit that TW1 is a very flawed game.

>>387916847
Maximum TW3 experience can be achieved only two ways:
- slogging through the books (short stories are good, the saga proper starts average and goes to shit by book 4, then in book 5 provides the worst ending imaginable, because the writer was angry about having dedicated fandom)
- playing through TW1 and first half of TW2 to know who is who and what are the stakes.

I've read through books as a teen, played TW1 demo and first half of TW2, so for me TW3 was fucking orgasmic, especially with Blood and Wine DLC.

>>387919563
I might not be a native English speaker, but I still know the difference between "good" and "amazing".
Do you?

>>387919946
The first game isn't even good, idiot. Fuck, it wasn't even good when it first game out.

>>387919563
>>387919946
>>387920235
And to wit: I found the gameplay so-so (and horribly dated upon the '14 return), the characters are literally carricatures of the people from the books and the plot itself feels like reading a bad fanfic from Sapkowski's official page, but then again I see all the good points about design and quests, I fully understand budgetary restrains (since I'm a die-hard fan of the TV series, which is aclaimed as fucking horrible due to shit-tier effects caused by miniscule budget; but you still can see what they were aiming for while making it, so go figure), the music is good and certain bits of the setting itself felt just right.

My biggest grief? The retarded combat system, which was a big let-down for me ever since they've announced it back in development stage. It was just plain stupid and I have no clue what the fuck guys in CDP were thinking back then.

>>387894269
witcher 2 is so good tho

but gaunter

>>387900449
>>387900449

because you're underaged

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>>387899436
1-1 The Price of Neutrality-HoS-B&W-3-2

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OG witcherdrone here. I love the series, though I see why someone wouldn't like the combat or find the writing hammy.

It's weird how journalists and the mainstream gaming audience started fellating CDPR 24/7 after TW3.

It's probably because of being fucked in the ass with no lube by Actiblizzard/EA/Ubisoft for so long.

>>387918778

>a shitty retelling

It's not shitty at all.

>>387922871

Yeah it is pretty weird, I think Game of Thrones helped TW3 immensely since it got the general public primed for fantasy.

>>387893613
W3 DLCs > W2 > W1 > W3

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>>387894931
Fucking hell, I've forgot how great was the soundtrack in this game. Top fucking notch.

>>387893613
Played through TW1 like 3 times, TW2 twice, and TW3 only once, but I'm waiting until I forget everything about it to re-play it with all of its DLC.
TW1 is a very bad game that kind of slams the gears into hyperdrive and falls apart towards the end. I couldn't in good conscience recommend it to another person without giving them forewarning about how the game operates.

>>387893613

i got through the first "chapter" or 2 of TW1 before the game crashed and i lost like 2 hrs of progress. given the story-driven nature of the game i dropped it with no regrets, no way i was gonna go through all those longass conversations a second time in a row

TW3 was okay but it was a damn shame the combat was so weak, why would they bother putting in all these goodies (armor, potions, bombs, bows, axes, etc) if virtually all of it is inferior to witcher gear that is marked clearly on your map

>>387895383
correct opinion:
>OST
TW3>TW1>TW2
>Games
TW3>TW1>TW2
>TW3 DLC
B&W>HoS

I got stuck at that detective quest in the big town, at some point i didn't even know what i needed to do, fuck that quest. I like the area before that though, it felt like witcher 3 but with a lot more running, shitty combat and ugly graphics.

>>387893613
Read the books, played 1-3 but haven't finished 3. Sort of dropped it I guess right near the end.

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>>387924172
>B&W>hOs
ultimate pleb opinion

>b-but my oversaturated new land

>>387924654
Redania and Temeria can go fuck themselves.

>>387924654
>best bro Regis
>best waifu Anna Henrietta
>prettiest land
>talking to your horse
what's there not to love?

>>387922915
Not him, but every Pole old enough to know Twardowski in just about any itteration (aside maybe the one by Więckiewicz) will tell you HoS fucking sucks as Twardowski story, since it's in the same time "edgy", badly made and throws utterly unfitting Cossacks references here and there for no reason at all.

Seriously, as much as I love TH3 and consider B&W an even better "sequel" to it, HoS could not exist at all as far as I care. It adds absolutely nothing to the game aside series of boring quests and god-awful crafting.

>>387924654
>Muh reality is brown
Go fuck yourself. It's clear you never read the books, so you won't get the appeal of B&W anyway.

>>387924979
i liked b&w aswell but the main story wasnt as good as HoS and storytelling is the major selling point of the game. What saved b&w was

>new monsters
>mutations
>land of a thousand fables
>final boss
>corvo bianco

>>387917625
Well I wouldn't say french version is "good", but Geralt's monotonous voice had its charm I must admit.

>>387925926
>b&w
>main story wasnt as good as HoS
You didn't read the saga, did you?

>>387925926
>final boss
all the boss fights in witcher 3 are shit and blood & wine is no exception
bosses repeat the same 3 moves in sequence ad nauseum

>>387893613
I think both are bad.

>>387894931
witcher 1 has the best soundtrack for sure

>>387926320
Not him, but what does that have to do with anything?

I started playing TW1 but couldn't finish it because it was godawful.

TW3 much better.

>>387929024
Because B&W is a great nostalgia trip to one of the funniest and comfiest bits of the book saga. Pretty much all characters in B&W are a collection of really fun, engaging and interesting characters from the saga.
It could only be better if there was Milva and Cahir there, but that's just not possible.

>>387893613
> I like this game
> You like this game?
> Yes
> Do you like this other game?
> Don't know
> Understandable have a nice day

This is how is should be.

>>387893613

Played 1, never finished it.
Played 2, never finished it.
Played 3, haven't finished it yet.

Don't hate them though.

>>387893613
>How many of you here praise TW3 but have never played TW1?
I've played all 3 Witcher games and with each iteration they've been getting better and better.

3 is a masterpiece.
2 is marvelous.
1 is pretty good.

>>387930053
shit taste
witcher 3 vanilla was very good for the first half, but the 2nd half with the wild hunt is complete shit.

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>>387893613
TW3>TW2>Steaming pile of shit>DA: Inquisition> TW1

>>387896786
>t. assravaged trissfag
and no, hos was the best because it had great characters, great story, great quests, great bosses

>>387930215
Not him, but I agree with both of you. The storytelling dips past Kaer Morhen, but it remains a really strong overall game. 1 is better than DSbabbies on /v/ give it credit for but it takes awhile to really get going.

>>387898742
she's not a goody two shoes, but she's the lesser of two evils. besides she helps you out in chapter 4 if you save her. plus fucks you, i don't remember the reverend offering to shag me, so he's instantly worse

>>387930758

Woah now anon, let's not say things we can't take back.

>>387919452
>muh ciri
fuck off