turkishronin
Arcane
On Codex RPGs are rated on storyfaggotry so Witcher3 could even be top 10.
Don't they (as in mainstream journos) say this about some new game every year?W-what??
But I thought Witcher 3 was the GREATEST RPG ever made! That's what Kotaku said! GERALDO DEL RIVERO, MOTHERFUCKERS!
I played TW3 to completion and I can't exactly say I hated it. In fact I more or less enjoyed my time with it.To me the Witcher's 3 weakest point is its gameplay: I couldn't stand that the meat of the game was a much weaker Dark Souls copy (even at high difficulty) combined with dumb MMO-style enemies and detective work was pressing a single button. The card game was nice and the quests were interesting and that's how I managed to get ~35 hours in, but at some point it wasn't enough for me to continue any further.
The DLCs improved on narrative or focus, but hardly addressed any of the structural problems of the system.quality gap between the base game & DLCs is so massive they might as well be judged as separate games
It's like this because people complained about TW2 being too hardTo me the Witcher's 3 weakest point is its gameplay: I couldn't stand that the meat of the game was a much weaker Dark Souls copy (even at high difficulty) combined with dumb MMO-style enemies and detective work was pressing a single button. The card game was nice and the quests were interesting and that's how I managed to get ~35 hours in, but at some point it wasn't enough for me to continue any further.
Edit: JDR13 Why the surprise?
Just get to the fucking point, people (including Geralt). Nobody talks like this in reality.
It's not even remotely similar to Dark Souls other than that they're both third-person.To me the Witcher's 3 weakest point is its gameplay: I couldn't stand that the meat of the game was a much weaker Dark Souls copy (even at high difficulty) combined with dumb MMO-style enemies and detective work was pressing a single button. The card game was nice and the quests were interesting and that's how I managed to get ~35 hours in, but at some point it wasn't enough for me to continue any further.
Edit: JDR13 Why the surprise?
I do not disagree. I am using this as a very rough approximation of the style is all (dodge-parry-attack).It's not even remotely similar to Dark Souls other than that they're both third-person.
that's accurate to the books, though. Book Geralt was gutted by a pack of pitchfork-wielding peasants.In a best case scenario, though, a leaner system that did not create stupid incongruences like "Wild Hunt general level 9 followed by farmers with pitchforks level 45 thirty hours later".
The classic Codexian sentiment: "I spent 300 hours playing a game and it was terrible!"Codexers: "The Witcher is just mainstream garbage!"
Also Codexers: "I know what I'm talking about because I've played 175 hours!"
Also Codexers: "I know what I'm talking about because I've played 175 hours!"
I first heard about this game within a month of release. I had just bought a brand-spanking-new gtx980 and I was ready to use it to play the next RPG epic on my big boy PC. I think I made it about 10 hours. That's when I realized the entire PC Master Race was a fraud. These idiots didn't know what a good game was, they just wanted to play an edgy story at the highest graphical fidelity possible. You Codexers think you're cool because you discovered this game was overrated 5-7 years later as if there's a single big game that doesn't gain that moniker (deservedly or otherwise) after the initial hype dies down. I didn't hop on the hate bandwagon. I've been driving the bandwagon since 2015.The classic Codexian sentiment: "I spent 300 hours playing a game and it was terrible!"
What. The. Fuck. Why does it eat it if it doesn't like it?The classic Codexian sentiment: "I spent 300 hours playing a game and it was terrible!"Codexers: "The Witcher is just mainstream garbage!"
Also Codexers: "I know what I'm talking about because I've played 175 hours!"
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Hearts of Stone* is really good. Blood and Wine was yet another slog just like the main game with a retarded story.the dlcs are very goodBut I thought Witcher 3 was the GREATEST RPG ever made!
Thanks for the post, you always show interesting takes.Sure bud. I don't actually like potato.
Just get to the fucking point, people (including Geralt). Nobody talks like this in reality.
I didn't read most of the post (yes this is meant to hurt your feelings, however I also really did not read it), but this line smacks you right in the gut, right? How do people actually talk in reality? Do I care? Do I want to hear them talk? You need your shit to be functionnal, I understand. In this spirit I believe we should limit ourselves to grunts, obscure insults, and kick to the ribs (especially when the other is down on the ground crying). This is how we socialise around here. Get to the fucking point boyo. I am not fucking around with litterature you fuck. Point A to point B, right up your fucking ass
Konjad, I would pay you a beautiful, nice, well-spoken, well-mannered French whore. She'd make you fall in love, you'd see the world in an all new sight. As the new born bird that clumsily opens its eyes towards the light of the sun, you would grow in majesty, to open your full set of wings and fly as she would make you discover what life can offer you. You would become a man of action and conviction, a man of optimism and virtue. You would peel so many potatoes as to have her stop working in the brothel, and both of you would live a poor but happy life. And then as you come back from work she will be there waiting for you, her guts on the floor as I piss in her mouth
"what's up brah? What's wrong? You didn't start caring did you? Why did you have to start to care, Konjad? This is your problem, Konjad, not mine. This is your problem."
It amazes me that even many critics of this game praise a good story (or say it's good for story fags). I honestly can't place my finger on what the fuck people see in it. I quite enjoyed Bloody Baron (especially towards the end with his cursed, dead baby), and a little bit about the crones just because of how fucked up they are, but that's it. Rest is as bland as a white suburban american mom's cooking.Witcher 3 is one decently written questline (two if you count Hearts of Stone dlc) trapped in a game with otherwise bad writing.Witcher 3 is a game with good writing
Probably for the same reason that certain Codexers will sink hundreds of hours into a terrible game.What. The. Fuck. Why does it eat it if it doesn't like it?
I feel like they have always wanted to center the plot around that, they just suck at it. Witcher 1 basically has Alvin as Ciri prototype and a good part of Witcher 2 is the build-up for Wild Hunt.I already wrote this in the witcher thread but it bears repeating. Witcher 3 feels like a game that tried to do a 180 in the last few months of development and the only reason why they got away with it was because its competition was literary so shit that it seemed like gold in comparison.
I say this because the whole plot is wrapped around Ciri and the Wild Hunt which were both plot lines from the books that ended in said books, pretty definitively might I add. Yet, the game somehow centers around these two points that not only were almost entirely(and deliberately) excluded from the prior two games but also factually do not fit in with the rest of the game(W3) itself. You can literary delete Ciri as a motivation or character from 90% of quest that feature her by simply pressing delete. The quest nor the plot would suffer from her removal one bit. The same goes for her gameplay sections which handle like total ass because its just Gerald minus proper dodging and everything besides his one sword.
This gets even more obvious when you get into the DLCs where the quality of the whole experience jumps up by several points simply by virtue of not having tie everything back to a last minute addition. The team most likely got bogged down with hastily adding her into the game and was therefore unable to properly focus on other gameplay systems which ultimately lead to most of them feeling like placeholders.