The Witcher 3 Pre-Expansion Thread

[Ivan]

Question about dodging:

Is it like Dark Souls where you dodge just before the attack lands (inv frames), or before the enemy swings?

I tried it with the Golem but wasn't sure which was working.

 

[SoupNazi]

Does it get better? I mean, I'm at the Inn and the game is incredibly boring. Takes fucking ages for Geralt to talk whenever I choose a dialogue option, too. Found myself skipping through everything and just turning on the quest markers so I don't have to listen.

I guess this is still the "tutorial" area, but if it doesn't get better, I might as well not punish myself with more.

 

[cvv]

Does it get better? I mean, I'm at the Inn and the game is incredibly boring. Takes fucking ages for Geralt to talk whenever I choose a dialogue option, too. Found myself skipping through everything and just turning on the quest markers so I don't have to listen.

Bro, this game is NOT for you.

 

[1451]

You dodge before the attack lands, you can even cancel your own attack animation to perform a dodge or a roll( I prefer rolls, they are not as efficient but they are a lot more spectacular).

 

[SoupNazi]

Does it get better? I mean, I'm at the Inn and the game is incredibly boring. Takes fucking ages for Geralt to talk whenever I choose a dialogue option, too. Found myself skipping through everything and just turning on the quest markers so I don't have to listen.

Bro, this game is NOT for you.

Thanks. I honestly hoped I would like it but I guess not.

 

[WhiteGuts]

I love the Ladies of the Forest's theme, it's grate.

 

[Perkel]

Does it get better? I mean, I'm at the Inn and the game is incredibly boring. Takes fucking ages for Geralt to talk whenever I choose a dialogue option, too. Found myself skipping through everything and just turning on the quest markers so I don't have to listen.

Bro, this game is NOT for you.

Thanks. I honestly hoped I would like it but I guess not.

What you are looking is probably Lineage, Words of Warcraft or other crap like that.

 

[made]

I love the Ladies of the Forest's theme, it's grate.

It's a remake of one of Percival's old songs. The collaboration really paid off imo. The soundtrack is stellar and contributes a lot to the game's atmosphere.

 

[WhiteGuts]

Poor baron, he couldn't catch a break.

 

[Gerrard]

It's karma.

 

[Makabb]

Poor baron, he couldn't catch a break.

Fuck Baron, he got what he deserved

 

[Monkeysattva]

Finished the game and...

Spoiler

all this elder blood shit is getting on my nerves. Too much cosmic potentiality, too much power. I like Ciri, I like Geralt, but once it's revealed that the wild hunt are just a bunch of elves, who live in normal cities... I don't know, sort of defeats their point and their aesthetic. Also...

...I actually think CD Project Red IMPROVED the story by not having the crazy bullshit that's in the novels.

 

[Gerrard]

Finished the game and...

Spoiler

all this elder blood shit is getting on my nerves. Too much cosmic potentiality, too much power. I like Ciri, I like Geralt, but once it's revealed that the wild hunt are just a bunch of elves, who live in normal cities... I don't know, sort of defeats their point and their aesthetic. Also...

...I actually think CD Project Red IMPROVED the story by not having the crazy bullshit that's in the novels.

 

[Monkeysattva]

Finished the game and...

Spoiler

all this elder blood shit is getting on my nerves. Too much cosmic potentiality, too much power. I like Ciri, I like Geralt, but once it's revealed that the wild hunt are just a bunch of elves, who live in normal cities... I don't know, sort of defeats their point and their aesthetic. Also...

...I actually think CD Project Red IMPROVED the story by not having the crazy bullshit that's in the novels.

I actually don't know what your answer is supposed to mean

 

[Gerrard]

Tell me what crazy bullshit from the books you're talking about, because as far as I've seen it's all here.

 

[Morkar Left]

Finished the game and...

Spoiler

all this elder blood shit is getting on my nerves. Too much cosmic potentiality, too much power. I like Ciri, I like Geralt, but once it's revealed that the wild hunt are just a bunch of elves, who live in normal cities... I don't know, sort of defeats their point and their aesthetic. Also...

...I actually think CD Project Red IMPROVED the story by not having the crazy bullshit that's in the novels.

Does that mean that the game replaces some parts of the books? And if yes, which books should I skip?

 

[Monkeysattva]

Tell me what crazy bullshit from the books you're talking about, because as far as I've seen it's all here.

Spoiler

Ciri joining Camelot. I mean, I haven't read the books, I just read a lot of the lore after I beat the game, and it seems to me the books are whacky. But more importantly, the story is partly about Ciri from the get go, while the witcher games are mostly about Geralt. I think this shift of perspective is key to what makes the games story work, since when Ciri's backstory is explained in them, it becomes, at least for me, a diminished tale.

 

[Monkeysattva]

Spoiler

Also, THROUGHOUT the game I thought the Wild Hunt were just Wraith dudes. A common trope, but done in a nice manner. When they were revealed to be elves, I thoguth: "OK, that's strange, but it's also a twist. Maybe they're evil wraith elves from a world of ice and snow?" And then when you see their normal medieval city, i just went, "wow, that's a bit dumb." Then I read all book synopsis... And that's where you get my comment.

 

[zeroprometheus]

Even CDPR knows the character system is just a pointless afterthought to this adventure game. :metro:

The scary thing is you might actually be right. First I hear that you'll likely miss quests that get cancelled if you advance the main quest to far then I hear that to prevent overleveling from side quests gray quests aren't supposed to give you xp? One of the reasons POE was mediocre after I finished it was that the last 10 or so hours of the game made xp and money pointless. They might as well have just put an autoplay button and turned the game into an interactive movie.

I"m starting to suspect that this really is an adventure game that should have replaced combat with QTE. The combat in TW2 was barely serviceable and now this open world approach has left level progression, skills, and combat to the wayside.

For Christ's sake they responded to the XP bug like it was a minor inconvenience. They literally expect the only reward for doing quests should be the story. To hell with Cyberpunk 20whatever CDPR should sink their proceeds into the moviegasm of a Witcher trilogy and fulfill their dreams already. This game has an identity crisis because the developers don't actually appreciate RPG gaming whatsoever. They like adventure games; and I really should have been suspicious since the first installment because combat has always been the most poorly developed piece.

The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt Open Adventure Game

 

[Dookins]

Yup, as much as I might like the game, it's cut from the same cloth as the recent Batman games. Hell, the only real differences are that there's swappable gear and dialogue options.

 

[Ivan]

At the Red Baron but think Ima have to put this shit on hold. My 670 is crapping out on me and having foliage distance on LOW sucks.

 

[Gerrard]

See that mountain?

You can't climb it, because we've put fucking invisible walls and slopes that force sliding everywhere. Fuck you.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Thats bald mountain. You need to get there from the sea. It has high level Foglets on the path up the mountain.

 

[cvv]

See that mountain?

You can't climb it, because we've put fucking invisible walls and slopes that force sliding everywhere. Fuck you.

If you explore more you find out that there's another way to it. It's just the last leg goes through a tunnel behind a locked door. I suppose it's a main story location and we'll get there somewhere at the end.

 

[cvv]

I love the Ladies of the Forest's theme, it's grate.

It's a remake of one of Percival's old songs.

What? Where? How? Link?

EDIT: nvm found it






Why the fuck have they even remade the Percival songs? All of them are fucking genius level perfect. Imagine them as the actual soundtrack to the game. Such atmosphere wow.