Is this game worth playing?

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>*whistles for magic horse*
>autoruns on road to quest marker
>*toucan sam vision activates*
>"Mhmm....giant slash marks all over the victim....a Drowner™, gotta be"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*follows nose*
>guys in Drowner™ costumes appear
>"OY BLOODY 'ELL FUCKING CUNT SHIT FUCK CUNT, IT'S A FUCKIN' WITCHER IT IS! GET "EM"
>"Shit you stink" ALALALALALALALALA *sets guys on fire and they stumble and recover immediately, does a cinematic slash and cuts guys in half"
>"Mhmm....Bandits™ pretending to be Drowners™......better tell the village head about this"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*autoruns on road back to village*
>"OY BLOODY FUCK CUNT WITCHAH, WOT ABOUT DA CONTRACT WESE PAIDS YA FOR YA BLOODY FUCKING CUNT?"
>"Just some bastards posing as Drowners™, here's proof *shows flipper*"
>"OY KURWA, HERE'S YA REWARD DA WHOLE VILLAGE CHIPPED IN"
>"Drowning in Danger" Complete AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>10 crowns received

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Story falls apart about half way through, completely crumbles after Kaer Morhen. Skellige was a mistake.

If you want a good story, just ignore everything in vanilla game and just do Hearts of Stone.

>>389963510
>anna henrietta is not romanceable
Until that isn't change, nope.

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>>389963510
Same shit happened to me in the beggining, give it a try, it's a good game

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definitely,

for the most interesting combat i suggest playing on the hard difficulty or above and not speccing into sword abilites (red)

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>>389963712
Surprisingly accurate. It's still good though. I'm about 12 hours in and I haven't lost the will to live yet.

>>389963510
It's not fun, CDPR doesn't understand fun and all 3 of the witcher games have been Not Fun.

If you aren't enjoying it now, you aren't going to enjoy it later

Velen is great. Novigrad is poopoo save for a few moments. Skellige looks really fucking good though the main plotline of it is weak. Hearts of Stone is the best writing in the game next to Velen. Blood and Wine comes in third.

>>389963712
Do you just have this copy pasta on hand?

>>389963749
So what makes this game worth playing, I thought it was widely loved, even on /v/

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>>389963921
>I suggest setting it to hard difficulty and removing the fun

Thanks /v/. Knew I could count on your "I wish more of my bones were broken" attitude

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Just posting some interesting or beautiful screenshots from my recent travels

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>>389963510
>tfw no desert region

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>>389963921
>hard difficulty
No. The game is best played on normal because that way you can kill enemies in seconds and not waste time on braindead combat and dodge spamming. Harder difficulties don't make the combat fun, just turns enemies into damage sponges and makes the whole game make no sense at all
>B&W
>shirtless bandit in pajama bottoms has more HP and stagger resistance than Nilfgaardian troops in heavy armor

>>389963510
They didn't jew the fuck out of the community with horse armor and season pass bullshit so they get a nod just for that.

>>389963921
>Not speccing into sword abilities

Excuse me? For the highest difficulties the main builds are based around using alchemy.

>>389964208
wow the combat of witcher 3 looks so fun and good

i can't wait to get back in the game and go cast quen some more

fwiw ciri probably has the hottest face of a video game character .If they could combine Ciri, 2b, and a little bit of quake Nyx they'd have something special

Great game.

If you aren't a crippled autist you will have at least a good time.

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Do people honestly ask /v/ if they should play video games or not?

Because that's fucking stupid.

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>>389964030
>So what makes this game worth playing
World is pretty, I guess? I dunno, /v/ likes slav games for some reason and is ready to give a game that follows Ubisoft game design to a tee a pass just because it was made by some nobodies who work for peanuts. I played through the game + both DLCs some months back and while the engine and world are impressive, the game itself is nothing special. If anything, it's a major step back from TW1-2 in terms of roleplay and player agency.

>>389964240
Both 'Heart of stone' and 'Blood and wine' are goodies too

>>389964241
where is this taken?

>>389963510
OP here again

I've also been using a controller, haven't even bothered to check if theres a way to change the key settings. If there is, do you guys use different settings? The default ones seem really counter-intuitive and annoying.

>>389964191

That quest with Avallach was a huge tease.

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>>389963510
It's kind of love or hate. I rate it 8.5/10 despite the just good enough combat. Extremely immersive and great story telling and world building.
Pic related makes discussing it reasonably impossible on /v/, though.

>>389964030
>So what makes this game worth playing, I thought it was widely loved

It's a movie. People "play" witcher 3 to experience the storyline sequences. Same reason why the last of us is so apparently beloved while having nothing to offer as a game

many people on /v/ will tell you the realities of this game though, mainly that it simply has zero fun factor. combat isn't fun, the quests aren't fun due to batman shit, magic isn't fun, alchemy isn't fun.

it's just NOT FUN. They managed to take finding new weapons and armor, the most exciting thing in every RPG, and TAKE ALL THE FUN OUT OF IT. Just lol

>>389964430
I just wanted an opinion on what they find fun about the game other than the story.

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>>389964252
Signs are incredibly broken on DM. Igni scales with enemy level so starting at level 10 you can kill monsters 20 levels higher than you no problem by stunlocking them with fire.

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>>389964572
Southwest Velen, just follow the coastline south from the Coast of Wrecks

>>389964240
Instead they gave the modding community a big "FUCK YOU" by releasing those shitty modding tools despite promising proper mod support.

>>389964701
I have igni my most trained skill and play on DM and can say definitively that you are so full of shit your eyes are brown

>>389964673

I actually found the combat fun but because the dank meme is to hate it I will forever be shunned from this board.

>>389963712

what's funny, this describes the first book more correctly than the game

>>389964827
1. git gud
2. put igni runes in all slots you have + find/craft yourself boots of elder folk that have mad bonus by defaut + 2 slots

>>389964662
To add, bloodborne is a 8/10 game and the combat is barely better, and very similar, just slower and slightly less cheeasable.
>Let me walk slowly in a circle until an extremely obvious telegraph and time my invincible spam button properly

>>389964758

Huh? Why the fuck I never find this place?
Checking this shit right now.
and if am I being baited, then fuck you op and congratulations for the same time - well played

>>389964758
whoa
everytime i think i have explored every place I enter the game to discover new quest and places
260 hours in

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>>389965080
should be somewhere along the red line here

>>389963510
story/writing/world building are the strongest points of the game. combat and questing is mediocrity itself and the game has some serious pacing/scaling issues in that you will end up completely overwhelmingly overleveled if you decide to do even 70% of the actual content nevermind all of it. exploration is skyrim tier

Anyone has that pic where cd project made geralt a feminist?

>>389965537
>exploration is skyrim tier

Not. Even. Close. The world density of skyrim, with things to find and due, is literally over 10x that of Witcher 3, I would say approaching 20x. Witcher 3's "open world" is fake, 99% of the world has nothing to find, do, or interact with.

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>>389965306

>mfw it's real

There's actuall a dead soldier resting on the whale corpse and a loot chest next to him.

Thanks OP, had a good laugh

last one for now

>>389965712
I'm only willing to agree because anything you find in witcher 3 is completely irrelevant 99.9999% percent of the time since you just craft better shite

otherwise they're fairly on par even with skyrim higher density

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>>389965824
whoops

>>389965758
OP here, I sincerely have no idea what happened in that string of posts.

>>389963510
If you're not enjoying it right now it's unlikely you will like the rest.

Personally I enjoyed it until I finished the Velen area. I think the game took a first nosedive in quality as soon as you reach Novigrad, and a second even steeper dive when reaching Skellige.

>>389965537
>exploration is skyrim tier
If only. Skyrim's exploration is somewhat rewarding because you get to see some cool landmarks or find words of memeshouts. Witcher 3 world is pretty and more or less realistic in the way it's designed, but exploration is not rewarding at all.

>>389965865
>otherwise they're fairly on par even with skyrim higher density

They're not. Witcher 3 has like 30 big quests skyrim has like 300 small quests

i'd much rather have the small quests as they feel less manufactured and more individual and make the world seem less fake like some "AAA production"

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>>389965668
HEY FUCKO. IT'S 13TH CENTURY, OKAY? WOMEN CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT AND BE AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THAN MEN AT IT, OKAY?

>>389965951
I'm somewhat liking it, but if the combat for the rest of the game is just "Spam light attack and pretend you're timing a dodge" I'm not gonna have fun

>>389966038
all 30 big quests and 300 small quests are just a variation of [walk here do 3 activities] with some minor changes between just following da marker and holding down the button for batman vision

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>>389963510
I definitely enjoy the game but it is definitely time consuming.
I skip some of "!" on the map because there are too many.

>>389963510
The story is half the reason to play.

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>in Witcher's lore higher vampires are indistinguishable from humans, what allows them to live among them
>they're so good at it that even Witchers can't always figure out their true nature
>B&W
>DUDE, LETS GIVE REGIS AND HIS EDGY FRIEND SHARPENED TEETH AND HUGE ASS CLAW-NAILS EVEN IN HUMAN FORM, SO KAWAII XD

>>389966174
well no the small 300 skyrim quests are more like go do a dungeon

the 30 big witcher quests are batman vision, which skyrim doesn't have

>>389964208
That's glitched somehow. I'm not going to argue that Witcher 3 has great combat but that's not how that bsos battle was.

>>389966409
Nobody cares about the books, which were so bad they couldn't get published in america before the games. Fantasy basically has a zero barrier for entry, yet those books couldn't find distribution in the US. That should be extremely telling.

PS CDPR owns the witcher now so games = canon

>>389966323
you have a powerful pc to run it 4k

>>389966480
The things he wrote are actually mentionef ingame you plebian.

Hell there is even a quest with a higher vampire in the base game.

>>389966480
>americans don't read
Shocking.

>>389966591
err no, you're missing the point quite broadly

the fantasy market is huge and saturated with pure drivel. The Witcher books were SO BAD that they couldn't get published here even with a hugely saturated industry that publishes tons of pure shlock

the actual Witcher novels are below the level of random D&D novels written by nobodies

>>389963712
And this is why I love this game.

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We've officially become so contrarian we are now praising Skyrim.

>>389966103
>t. redditor

As janky as it was, The Witcher 1 was pretty fun. Brushing up on your monster research to know what tools to use on them and knowing what kind of attacks they bring to the table feels good. Having to decide what potions to use to help get the job done without killing yourself with the toxicity adds a tactical feel to it. You can handle nearly any situation with the right approach and resources.

>>389967086
skyrim is a great game, the contrarian thing is hating bethesda games because they're popular. always has been.

if you cared about gaming in any way you'd also give bethesda more credit than any other modern large company, for their games having a deep modding framework each time, which infinitely extends their life and possibilities

No, witcher is unironically a trash game. Why? It's gameplay is trash. combat is trash, and there are just too much side missions that mean jack shit and just used for the "le open world" meme. Similar to tlou, It's overrated as fuck.

https://youtu.be/H6QoEUqadW4

/ourguy/ liked it.

>>389967794
Cholesterol Joe will like everything as long as he's getting paid

>>389963510
The first map is literally a glorified tutorial. It's boring and long, no guarantee that you'll enjoy it after though.

>>389964191
Good, desert levels are the worst levels in vidya.

I like Geralt.

Imagine a well educated, liberal, cosmopolitan and eloquent man at a Trump convention of deplorables.

That's Geralt. No wonder the poor bastard is cynical and jaded.

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>>389967235

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>>389963712

perfect