Current Events > Are The Witcher games actually any good? What are they? Action RPGs?

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Are they much fun?

Only played 3 and it was great. Yes it's an action rpg.

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They're Video Games
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I played Witcher 1 for 1 hour. It was a little rough.

Supposedly the sequels are better. I know in 3 its more like skyrim i think.

Witcher 2 and 3 are the ones that aren't too bad. I actually prefer witcher 2 because it the right length for me and easily beatable. Witcher 3 has too much content that even after 198 hours of it (two diff playthroughs years apart; i get bored around 80 to 100 hour mark) I never got to beat the game .

Gameplay in 1 is straight up bad though I hear the story and writing is good

2 is very good and 3 is great

Lost_All_Senses posted...

They're Video Games

Why are you like this?

Gameplay gets progressively better with each entry. Story is great in all three games.

I thought I'd like em but for me at least they were hard to get into. Didn't like any of them very much

Zikten posted...

I played Witcher 1 for 1 hour. It was a little rough.

Supposedly the sequels are better. I know in 3 its more like skyrim i think.

I think witcher 1 is getting a remake to be like its sequels a bit more. Saw it somewhere here i think

Only the 3rd one is worth playing imo

Every time these come up I see someone say 3's combat sucks.

HBOSS posted...

I think witcher 1 is getting a remake to be like its sequels a bit more. Saw it somewhere here i think

It is.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Every time these come up I see someone say 3's combat sucks.

Oh its awful

Witcher 1 is a CRPG doing its absolute damndest to be an action RPG

Witcher 3 is like if Westworld had a fantasy medieval park and you're a guest. Just roll around a wonderful world exploring different stories.

All of them have good writing but 3 is the only one particularly worth playing. 1 was dated when it came out and 2 was a valiant effort that had far too much jank to be considered good. 3, on the other hand, goes hard with just how much freedom you get and there are Youtube channels devoted to the weird nonsense that can happen by you doing things out of order/failing previous steps in ways that let you proceed.

Loved the first one. Played a few hours of the second and never touched it again.

Only played 3, but I thought it was extremely overrated. The only thing it does really well is side content and dialogue. Everything else is meh. The combat is flat out terrible.

They're overrated is what they are, still good though

1 is being remade so might as well wait for that. they are considered action rpg's, though 1 tries to be a weird mix of turn based-top down combat mixed with real time systems. it works for what it is, but its definitely not everyones cup of tea. im sure the remake will go how the series ended up- more traditional action that youre probably thinking of.

2 got a massive bump in pretty much all areas, but it is still a little janky with its world being more openly structured without going ful open world. because of that they did some pretty cool things with the choice/consequences mechanics to where youll only see about 50% of the overall game based on the choices you made. the thought that one or two significant choices essentially locks out or opens up 20+ extra hours of 100% unique content is a crazy thing in this day and age (and when it came out).

3 is more of a traditional open world (so you can expect a degree of ubisoft-ness going on) with its main drive being its side content and how they interact with the open world setting. the story telling in general is arguably better than any other open world. however the main story ourside a few notable quests is fairly dry. its dlc content is some of the best in the series.

both 2 and 3's combat id say is "serviceable". its not bad, far from it, but nothing really changes over the hours with most stuff already being unlocked to you from the beginning with the unlock/upgrade systems being more complimentary to the mechanics. what you do in the first dozen or so hours is what youll be doing over the next 100. because of that it can get a bit boring given how long 3 especially is.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Every time these come up I see someone say 3's combat sucks.

It's not the best. But I think half the time it's because it takes adjustments from the timing people are use to. And there's a collection of people who think all games in certain genres should all be the same. I prefer it switched up to having a learning curve that challenges what Im use to. However, that might make me bias in the other direction. Where I prefer gameplay that's less polished because other games with tighter combat are too easy to already be good at

3 is excellent.

I play witcher 3 for the story so I just use cheats to cut most trash mobs in half in one stroke and use aard (the force) so strong their limbs come off.