Wyatt_Derp
Arcane
Gwent. Gwent will get you through the hard times.
Getting hundreds of hours of optional content in a video game you paid for... What a travesty.
You aren't involved. You do nothing. Combat is crap, "role-playing" is none-existant and the whole main game just boils down to running between cut-scenes you rarely actually influence. It's fucking incredible the lack of player interaction needed to progress. And Christ the combat is an absolute nothing affair. It feels like playing a QTE.
What’s great though is that Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine are 10-20 hours each, have arguably better storylines and quests than the main game, and can be played standalone. I probably wouldn’t hold Witcher 3 in such high regard myself if it weren’t for those two expansions.I vote for quality over quantity too. I am fine with open world and thousands of side quests, but if they are all about go here and kill this / bring this back, then they are not worth much to me. I would much prefer a 15 hour game that is really slick than a 50 hour game that has a lot of filler.
Getting hundreds of hours of grindy, low-quality content, that you're forced to do in order to be sufficiently levelled to continue the main quest, in a video game you paid for... What a travesty.
No, not all the side content is 'well-made'. They may not be radiant quests, but they are not good quests at all.Maybe that argument would be more compelling if TW3 side content was like the Skyrim radiant quests or something, but it's all hand crafted content, and well made at that.
But... it IS truly optional? You can do the entire main quest by itself ignoring everything else, it gives you enough EXP to do so. Even if you end up under-leveled a bit, it's still doable even on the hardest difficulty. Many people (including myself) actually had a problem where we became OVER leveled by the main quests and all the side quests ended up being grayed out. I'm not calling you a liar though, because it's possible we were playing with different patches, difficulty levels, or character builds.Getting hundreds of hours of grindy, low-quality content, that you're forced to do in order to be sufficiently levelled to continue the main quest, in a video game you paid for... What a travesty.
Banter aside, I do agree that at least some of the content is optional, even if it's definitely the case that you end up doing a lot of it in order to level up.
The problem is I don't think it's good game design to fill a game with low-quality filler content, even if that content is optional. Saying 'you don't have to play it!' is not a good defense, even if it were the case that it was truly optional (which it isn't).
A good example of a design philosophy similar to TW3's is Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Shitloads of side content that is necessary to grind through in order to reach the appropriate level to continue the main quests. Of course, in ACO's case this exists to push profitable MTX to the player, which isn't the case in TW3, but the approach is similar.
Eh. Well, that's not how I remember it. Skellige in particular has some high level requirements.But... it IS truly optional? You can do the entire main quest by itself ignoring everything else, it gives you enough EXP to do so. Even if you end up under-leveled a bit, it's still doable even on the hardest difficulty. Many people (including myself) actually had a problem where we became OVER leveled by the main quests and all the side quests ended up being grayed out. I'm not calling you a liar though, because it's possible we were playing with different patches, difficulty levels, or character builds.Getting hundreds of hours of grindy, low-quality content, that you're forced to do in order to be sufficiently levelled to continue the main quest, in a video game you paid for... What a travesty.
Banter aside, I do agree that at least some of the content is optional, even if it's definitely the case that you end up doing a lot of it in order to level up.
The problem is I don't think it's good game design to fill a game with low-quality filler content, even if that content is optional. Saying 'you don't have to play it!' is not a good defense, even if it were the case that it was truly optional (which it isn't).
A good example of a design philosophy similar to TW3's is Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Shitloads of side content that is necessary to grind through in order to reach the appropriate level to continue the main quests. Of course, in ACO's case this exists to push profitable MTX to the player, which isn't the case in TW3, but the approach is similar.
What’s great though is that Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine are 10-20 hours each, have arguably better storylines and quests than the main game, and can be played standalone. I probably wouldn’t hold Witcher 3 in such high regard myself if it weren’t for those two expansions.I vote for quality over quantity too. I am fine with open world and thousands of side quests, but if they are all about go here and kill this / bring this back, then they are not worth much to me. I would much prefer a 15 hour game that is really slick than a 50 hour game that has a lot of filler.
No you can launch them from the main menu when you press new game. It generates a Geralt for you at the appropriate level placed right next to the start of the DLC, with all the main game quests disabled. You just allocate skill points and head straight on in, no main game save/playthrough required.you have to actually make it to the DLCs in the first place.
No, not all the side content is 'well-made'. They may not be radiant quests, but they are not good quests at all.Maybe that argument would be more compelling if TW3 side content was like the Skyrim radiant quests or something, but it's all hand crafted content, and well made at that.
Aids is better than cancer.No, not all the side content is 'well-made'. They may not be radiant quests, but they are not good quests at all.Maybe that argument would be more compelling if TW3 side content was like the Skyrim radiant quests or something, but it's all hand crafted content, and well made at that.
Eh? What game did you play? TW3 had some very memorable sidequests, at least compared to most big-budget RPGs.
No you can launch them from the main menu when you press new game. It generates a Geralt for you at the appropriate level placed right next to the start of the DLC, with all the main game quests disabled. You just allocate skill points and head straight on in, no main game save/playthrough required.you have to actually make it to the DLCs in the first place.
Those are only too big if you have some kind of autism and need to go to every single pixel, doing every single mini-quest and beat every single enemy.Witcher 3 was already too big. Cyberpunk will be also. More is not always better. If a RPG is longer than 35 hours and remains engaging it is truly exceptional.
If you don't, if you just do the major quests and a few others, depending on what you feel like doing, they are just fine.
There is like 1/3 of the map on Witcher 3 that isn't even fucking used except for random trash mobs. Like what is the purpose of the southeastern (iirc) part of the map?
No you can launch them from the main menu when you press new game. It generates a Geralt for you at the appropriate level placed right next to the start of the DLC, with all the main game quests disabled. You just allocate skill points and head straight on in, no main game save/playthrough required.you have to actually make it to the DLCs in the first place.
I might try that in a couple of months or years if the itch returns, but for now, I'm all Witchered-out.
I tried to get back into it awhile back to play the expansions and made it about to the Bloody Baron. I’d forgotten the Diablo-style frantic clicking.
Show me on the doll where The Witcher 3 touched you.
You seem to completely misunderstand your place in the world of gaming, and on the internet. But there is no icon for that so I just gave you a retardred.Show me on the doll where The Witcher 3 touched you.
Gaming is clearly not their thing.
You seem to completely misunderstand your place in the world of gaming, and on the internet. But there is no icon for that so I just gave you a retardred.Show me on the doll where The Witcher 3 touched you.
Gaming is clearly not their thing.