Poll of the Day > i started the witcher 3 again

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helly posted...

Lorthremar posted...

dialogue is an opinion, characters are an opinion

they're literally not an opinion.

Lorthremar posted...

the enemies on lower difficulties probably are that pattern, but on higher difficulties not so much

i'm playing on death march.

Lorthremar posted...

you also never said how the no mans sky comparison worked so i'm glad to see you gave up on that lmao

because people actually cared about no mans sky to change their reviews. no one cared about witcher 3.

they are objectively an opinion; saying the writing of certain characters are good or bad is literally the definition of an opinion. and if you're playing on death march then you're lying about the attack patterns i guess, which is cool; doesn't really matter to me. monsters absolutely don't play like that on higher difficulties.

here's the average review of blood and wine, the final witcher 3 dlc that came out a year after the base game.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt---blood-and-wine

people cared enough about witcher 3 to go back after a year to play the final dlc and give that high reviews, so idk my mans idk
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Lorthremar posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

imagine calling people out on what 'better things they could be doing with their time' and being a fan of the witcher 3. lmao

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/critic-reviews

it's okay to not like RPGs little guy :)

Good thing Witcher 3 isn't an RPG then.

Where is the character customization? The custom back story? The ability to beat the entire game without killing anything?
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Erik_P posted...

I know I waste my time playing games I hate too.

i thought you wasted time by taking time off of work to watch stuff about president trump

Dikitain posted...

The ability to beat the entire game without killing anything?

are people actually serious when they bring this up

Lorthremar posted...

they are objectively an opinion; saying the writing of certain characters are good or bad is literally the definition of an opinion.

they are demonstrably facts

Lorthremar posted...

monsters absolutely don't play like that on higher difficulties.

they do, i'm literally playing it rn. the AI doesn't change with difficulty tiers. only their HP pool and damage output change.

Lorthremar posted...

people cared enough about witcher 3 to go back after a year to play the final dlc and give that high reviews

if i ever make it there, i'll be sure to point out every little flaw with it

I admit I didn't even give witcher 3 a real shot. I doubt I put an hour into it.

Just didn't grab my attention, didn't like the combat and had too many better games to try.

Wasn't enthralled by fallout 4 either even though I loved all the previous ones (even the ps2 title). I love post apocalyptic RPGs, but yeah, Fallout 4 totally lost me sigh.

For some reason this topic made me remember think of the original KOTOR RPGs, and HK47....and made me want to play them again.

Cept I have too many games on my backlog sigh.
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so i want the viper school of armor, because it pretty much looks like the very first armor you start the game with

but whose bright idea was it to make only two swords be in vanilla, and the actual armor be in hearts of stone dlc

It does slow down at points, but when it's good it's really good. I'm almost at Chapter 3 myself. While it might end up being the best open world game, I agree it's definitely not the best at being an open world game, as Bethesda games still have that title (of what I've played anyway).
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The Witcher 3 is my game of the generation and certainly will go in my top 10 of all time. I loved everything about it. With that said though I understand everyone has a opinion and not everyone will like every game no matter how good the game is rated and all that.

Still as PO already said it does seem that you play the most popular game and hate it a lot TC. Witcher 3 and Persona 5 come to mind from recent memory. I'd wager if you had a PS4 you would do the same with Horizon: Zero Dawn too. What games do you actually like this gen? Just out of curiosity.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Persona 5 come to mind from recent memory.

uh, what?

i love that game.

mishima is a fucking cuck though.

wwinterj25 posted...

I'd wager if you had a PS4 you would do the same with Horizon: Zero Dawn

i've played it, and i enjoyed what i played of it

wwinterj25 posted...

What games do you actually like this gen?

most of them, honestly.

everyone thinks i hate every game, but in reality i enjoy most every game. of all the games i've said i've hated here, it's only been about 8 games in total, and they range from the SNES generation to now.

oh hey, a lil interesting tidbit

if you press and hold L3 and then press Y on the xbox one dashboard, you can hide the mixer, community, and/or store tabs

fuck yeah

helly posted...

i love that game.

I seem to remember you making a topic on how you can't play it because you hated the borders. Still things must have changed since then. I'm actually surprised you love the game.

helly posted...

i've played it, and i enjoyed what i played of it

Yet another surprise. You're on a roll man! I'm currently playing this now and it has shades of The Witcher 3 and Far Cry Primal in it for sure. I wish they had also borrowed the choices meaning something aspect from the Witcher 3 too but so far they don't seem to mean anything. Although I've yet to complete it so we shall see.

helly posted...

everyone thinks i hate every game, but in reality i enjoy most every game. of all the games i've said i've hated here, it's only been about 8 games in total, and they range from the SNES generation to now.

Can't really blame us when you make a topic with terrible opinions about the latest popular game often. That gives the impression you hate them. The ones you do say good things about in most cases are bad games.
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wwinterj25 posted...

I seem to remember you making a topic on how you can't play it because you hated the borders. Still things must have changed since then. I'm actually surprised you love the game.

no, those borders can suck a huge shitty ass

wwinterj25 posted...

Can't really blame us when you make a topic with terrible opinions about the latest popular game often. That gives the impression you hate them. The ones you do say good things about in most cases are bad games.

the last couple games i've made topics about with praise have been persona 5, halo wars 2, and stardew valley

all three have been pretty well received

helly posted...

the last couple games i've made topics about with praise have been persona 5, halo wars 2, and stardew valley

all three have been pretty well received

I must have missed those topics. Since when does couple mean three though?
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helly posted...

heh

i keep giving this game chances and it keeps fucking up by being bad

You're just not playing it right, man. You're supposed to do EVERY SINGLE SIDEQUEST because that's where the actual story and worldbuilding are, because that makes loads of sense.
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Kana posted...

helly posted...

heh

i keep giving this game chances and it keeps fucking up by being bad

You're just not playing it right, man. You're supposed to do EVERY SINGLE SIDEQUEST because that's where the actual story and worldbuilding are, because that makes loads of sense.

fo' sho' girlfriend. i totally gotta go kill this ghost by a well, because...the water is bad? and in return the dudes gonna give me the money he was gonna give to his..daughter? wife? as a wedding dowry.

heck yeah

i totally just let him keep the gold because i'm not a heartless fuck, and his niece? friend? needs that money for her? his? wedding

nah just kidding i smashed the X button and took the money

I hate the Witcher 3 for having good side quests! I much prefer fetch quests with little story!
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but it wasn't good

wwinterj25 posted...

I hate the Witcher 3 for having good side quests! I much prefer fetch quests with little story!

my mans there's no use trying to help him understand that the Witcher 3 is a good game, he's too far gone.
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wwinterj25 posted...

I hate the Witcher 3 for having good side quests! I much prefer fetch quests with little story!

Wow I don't think you could miss my point harder if you tried my dude
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Kana posted...

Wow I don't think you could miss my point harder if you tried my dude

I think your point is the main story should be more fleshed out. Although I'm failing to see what the difference would be if the side quests were titled as main quests or not. Then again I actually wanted to do the side quests in this game so eh.
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hey, man, if she doesn't want to break into this dudes house to retrieve some old womans fucking frying pan, she don't have to

helly posted...

hey, man, if she doesn't want to break into this dudes house to retrieve some old womans fucking frying pan, she don't have to

You're right. You don't have to.
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sidequests aren't a problem

burying essential plot and worldbuilding elements in sidequests and leaving most of them out of the main quest, to the point that some sidequests are literally NEEDED to proceed with a select few main quest portions? yeah that's a problem

it might be slightly less of a problem if all of the sidequests were engaging, but that's not the case either. like i seriously don't mind having to search around a bit for context, i'm a big dark souls fan and that game doesn't spoon-feed you anything, but if you wanna do that then you gotta give me something to look forward to. i didn't read any of the books to be fair, but you supposedly have all this lore to draw from so why aren't you fucking using it?
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kana shh, you gotta find this dudes goat and bring it back to him by ringing a bell
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Well witchers canonically do a bunch of menial bullshit all the time so I guess it's not that far off
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helly posted...

kana shh, you gotta find this dudes goat and bring it back to him by ringing a bell

That's like, not even a sidequest. I think that's part of the main questline innit?

Truly the height of gameplay
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I'll tell you why I love the witcher 3 sidequests. They subtly intermingle to tell stories.

Like for example many of the quests in White Harbor slowly tell you why a small village is abandoned and haunted.

First you can get a random sidequest to stop a ghost and you discover it is a Noonwraith, the ghost of a woman who was killed violently before being wed. Documents in the homes tell you that there was conflict with their previous lord that they had been freed from due to grievances to start out on their own. You find the woman's corpse hanging from the well.

Later in the main quest, you speak to an alchemist and have the option to ask her if she a knew a woman by that name. She claims to have known her well and tells you that the rumors were that the murdered woman had yelled a an insult regarding the lord's son who had previously taken his own life.

Another branch of the same quest lets you meet a hunter and if you want you can ask him about some of his troubles after you get to know him. He reveals that he and a previous local lord's son had secretly been in love, and that when it was revealed his lover had committed suicide by hanging himself. The woman in the village must have said something cruel about the lord's dead son being gay, and in his rage he killed her he same way that his son had died, by the noose of a rope.

You can literally get through White Harbor without learning any of that, so maybe those kind of elements aren't for everyone, but I think they are really cool and build for a rich game.
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it's white orchid, bri.

do you even play the game
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It is a harbor of orchards

That is clearly what I meant
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Orchards and orchids are not the same thing so one of you is clearly wrong here
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Mead posted...

You can literally get through White Harbor without learning any of that, so maybe those kind of elements aren't for everyone, but I think they are really cool and build for a rich game.

White Harbor is from Game of Thrones. Fucking Witcher 3 casual confirmed.
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Kana posted...

burying essential plot and worldbuilding elements in sidequests and leaving most of them out of the main quest, to the point that some sidequests are literally NEEDED to proceed with a select few main quest portions? yeah that's a problem

Well that's a valid opinion at least. I can see how that may bother some folk. Personally I did all the side quests though so I didn't really have a problem with the main quest being bare bones. Plus I like exploring these game words so giving me reason to do so outside of the main quest is a plus.

The Witcher 3 has good side quests because of the rich lore in them and the way they effect the main story. It's refreshing to have side quests that are actually meaningful and impact the story as apposed to side quests that really make no difference if you do them or not such as in most games.

Again though being as the side quests are that important why not just pretend they are main quests? It makes no difference what they name them. The only issue is you could miss some rather than been handheld towards it.
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I didn't do all of the sidequests but I did a fair number of them. That was probably where the game shined the most and it's why I don't think the game is totally awful, just okay. Like I said, there's clearly a lot of lore they're able to draw from so it's strange that the stuff it spoon-feeds you is basically just generic high-fantasy popcorn fare.

I will say that I enjoyed the Hearts of Stone main content a lot more than the base game. Have not yet tried Blood and Wine.
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Kana posted...

I will say that I enjoyed the Hearts of Stone main content a lot more than the base game. Have not yet tried Blood and Wine.

Apparently Blood and Wine is really good. I've not played any of the DLC yet though so can't really comment.
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Smarkil posted...

Mead posted...

You can literally get through White Harbor without learning any of that, so maybe those kind of elements aren't for everyone, but I think they are really cool and build for a rich game.

White Harbor is from Game of Thrones. Fucking Witcher 3 casual confirmed.

Mixed them up.

Deal with it.
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