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Jinnigan posted:I finally beat the game and I love it, a lot. But did anyone else get incredibly bored in the first act? Like, to the point where you wandered off to other video games? I played the entirety of Fallout New Vegas (for the first time!!) in between dropping W3 and picking it back up. I think it's because you go entirely too long before meeting up with any persistent and major characters. I mean, the Baron and Keira and so on are cool and all, but it's really not comparable to the hook of finally finding Ciri or getting into messes with Triss and Yenn. This is the difference between "and then..." and "therefore" storytelling, and you are right, "and then..." gets boring fast. I think our Baron storyline was excellent, but it doesn't really work as well with the main story as it should.
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I can't think of anything I'd change with the Baron storyline. Novigrad goes a bit long and far afield, I think, but not that one.
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Sep 25, 2015 13:54
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The Sharmat posted:Oh God, this. I like starting over but it being Northern Realms every time is so boring. By the time the other decks are playable by Northern Realms deck is godlike and there's no reason to play the others. Yes, I know, I could do it anyway, but I dislike having to deliberately cripple myself. Nilfgaard deck owns  Shame their best ability is acquired after you beat the tournament and at that point there isn't anyone that can challenge your gwent dominance.
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Sep 25, 2015 14:00
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Exactly.
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Sep 26, 2015 04:25
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Need an NG+ mode. New Gwent +
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Question for those who've played this: If I loved Witcher 1&2 for their story and relatively tight gameplay but absolutely hated Dragon Age 3 for its open world MMO-like feel, is this worth picking up? I thought the Witcher 2 jobs were fine in moderation but I'm leery of open world games because there tends to be buckets of content, 5% of which is amazing and 95% of which is tedious filler. People who grew up on MMOs seem to do fine with this stuff because they can spot the garbage, but it took me a while in DA 3 to realize I was supposed to be ignoring most of what the game was suggesting I do and that never stopped driving me nuts. How similar to DA 3 is this?
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Sep 26, 2015 15:46
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It's not. Even the side quests are unique and interesting. It's my RPG of forever, finally beating BG2.
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Sep 26, 2015 15:49
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If you liked W1 and W2, you're going to loving love W3.
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Sep 26, 2015 15:50
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I'm just looking into the season pass for this on GoG and they want $30.29 for it, but the Hearts of Stone DLC is only $10.39. Is the second DLC (Blood and Wine) going to be more than $20 or something, or is there more stuff that the season pass will give you? It's just that the description for the pass only lists those 2 items.
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Sep 26, 2015 15:51
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It's expected for Blood and Wine to be between $20 and $30 since it's much longer than the first expansion.
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Ah, cool, though it looks like i get another $2 off my next purchase (some regional pricing fairness thing) if i buy them individually. If it's just going to be a couple of quid i think i can live with just getting them separately. Besides, by the time i actually get around to finishing the main game after i'm done with this over stuff i'm playing first, the first one might even be discounted in some way.
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:Question for those who've played this: If I loved Witcher 1&2 for their story and relatively tight gameplay but absolutely hated Dragon Age 3 for its open world MMO-like feel, is this worth picking up? It's like the complete opposite of Inquisition. DA3 is basically a single player MMO filled with shallow and repetitive collect, fetch, kill quests. Most of us in this thread are still collectively losing our poo poo over how Witcher 3 manages to be both huge and high-quality throughout. There is very little filler and even the simplest quests are fully voice-acted and animated. I like this take on Witcher 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkIKbTiuJ9A I think the thread consensus is that the writing, world-building, and immersiveness of Witcher 3 ranks among the best of all time. Edit: there is a good 100+ hours of content in a Witcher 3 playthrough, even not being completionist. It's enormous. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Sep 26, 2015 |
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Sep 26, 2015 16:28
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Pellisworth posted:It's like the complete opposite of Inquisition. DA3 is basically a single player MMO filled with shallow and repetitive collect, fetch, kill quests. Most of us in this thread are still collectively losing our poo poo over how Witcher 3 manages to be both huge and high-quality throughout. There is very little filler and even the simplest quests are fully voice-acted and animated. Yeah this disclaimer here is to ignore "treasure hunts", since those are really repetitive go find the chest bullshit. All of the actual quests are really great. (Treasure hunts are different from Witcher Gear hunts, right?)
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Snak posted:Yeah this disclaimer here is to ignore "treasure hunts", since those are really repetitive go find the chest bullshit. All of the actual quests are really great. There are a bunch of quests where you fined a note somewhere (usually a corpse) that mentions a treasure nearby. Then you spend a couple minutes finding the chest. There's not really much to them. There's also the Smuggler's Caches on the map (especially in Skellige) that are just generic loot. Those are a pretty small amount of content overall and aren't really obnoxious unless you're sailing around Skellige trying to 100% all the ?s on the map.
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Pellisworth posted:There are a bunch of quests where you fined a note somewhere (usually a corpse) that mentions a treasure nearby. Then you spend a couple minutes finding the chest. There's not really much to them. Yeah but I'm trying to be specific since the question about if there's a lot of content that is boring mmo stuff, and he they weren't good at filtering that out. These quests you are referring to are called Treasure Hunts and are listed in a different section of the quest log (under "Treasure Hunts") so it's super easy to avoid them since they don't show up in your main Quests list.
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:Question for those who've played this: If I loved Witcher 1&2 for their story and relatively tight gameplay but absolutely hated Dragon Age 3 for its open world MMO-like feel, is this worth picking up?
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Pellisworth posted:It's like the complete opposite of Inquisition. DA3 is basically a single player MMO filled with shallow and repetitive collect, fetch, kill quests. Most of us in this thread are still collectively losing our poo poo over how Witcher 3 manages to be both huge and high-quality throughout. There is very little filler and even the simplest quests are fully voice-acted and animated. One of the things alluded to but not specifically mentioned in this video is that one of the real rewards of having good scenes is that you can have a really long game that's rewarding even if you don't finish it. Some long games, like MGSV, and classics like BG2, benefit from this; I will probably never finish either of those games, but they are both amazing. I think this is one of those things that DA:I doesn't get quite right; it's got cool scenes, but they are all in the service of much much longer stories that all build to a cresendo, if you give up before you get there there's never any payoff. If you only play Witcher 3 for 20 hours, that 20 hours will be satisfying and your time won't feel wasted. That's the goal anyway. PS don't tell any other studios about our secret ok
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I'm really really looking forward to what their new scifi game is going to be like.
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There were a few choices in this game that seem to jump really harshly, the one I can remember when you have to fight that cat school Witcher and when you are talking at first he said he killed the villagers because they sneak attacked him I said something about how he didn't have to kill all of them and he just jumped straight to "WELL I GUESS YOU WANT TO KILL ME THEN HUH LETS FIGHT" like dang dude calm down.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:There were a few choices in this game that seem to jump really harshly, the one I can remember when you have to fight that cat school Witcher and when you are talking at first he said he killed the villagers because they sneak attacked him I said something about how he didn't have to kill all of them and he just jumped straight to "WELL I GUESS YOU WANT TO KILL ME THEN HUH LETS FIGHT" like dang dude calm down. That one you can at least justify as him being batshit crazy .
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I'm having an interesting day with Wyverns. First this happens:  Followed immediately by me getting stuck in some kind of infinite jumping glitch and dying over and over again until I closed the game and reopened it. And now this motherfucker  has chased me way across the map after I walked past his nest one time. Wyverns  This game is extremely cool. (I've been avoiding this thread because the game has been out for ages and I figured there'd be lots of open plot discussion and I wanted to avoid getting spoiled. Am I right to assume this or are people still generally using tags?) E: Dude chased me all the way to Oxenfurt before he got bored. Regy Rusty fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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I just became Champion of Champions. I nearly died when the Bear walked out, because I was so busy laughing at Geralts 'poo poo.' that it nearly took my head off. Does anyone know what the Errant Troll's name is about?
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Shockeh posted:I just became Champion of Champions. I nearly died when the Bear walked out, because I was so busy laughing at Geralts 'poo poo.' that it nearly took my head off. I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe you should go see for yourself?
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:Question for those who've played this: If I loved Witcher 1&2 for their story and relatively tight gameplay but absolutely hated Dragon Age 3 for its open world MMO-like feel, is this worth picking up? There's not a single filler or "fetch bear butt" quest. None of the extra-quest stuff is tedious or filler. All of it has well-designed dialogue and setting. You will always feel like the quest you stumbled on is a plausible part of the world. Hell, you can walk around every town and ask "But what do they eat?" and there's enough setting and worldbuilding to actually answer that question on your own.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:PS don't tell any other studios about our secret ok Jinnigan posted:Hell, you can walk around every town and ask "But what do they eat?" and there's enough setting and worldbuilding to actually answer that question on your own.
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Snak posted:I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe you should go see for yourself? He tells you after you beat him, it just doesn't make any sense. Like a reference I'm supposed to get, but I don't.
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Jinnigan posted:Hell, you can walk around every town and ask "But what do they eat?" and there's enough setting and worldbuilding to actually answer that question on your own.
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Palpek posted:At one point I wanted to create a big Novigrad analysis post because the city is a recreation of a fully functioning medieval city to the point that it's the most realistic city in gaming. Every city district has a realistic function, they interwine like they would in a real city. Many of its parts aren't even visitted during quests but they're fully depicted, it's crazy. I want you to do this. I've picked up on some of it but I'd like to see a full analysis.
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Beeez posted:I want you to do this. I've picked up on some of it but I'd like to see a full analysis. Seconded.
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The temple is really interesting, though there are no quests that I've seen yet that show more about it? If you head to the backside, some guy left his slippers up there, before he threw himself off the cliff. Btw, there's also some interesting stuff in the back of the var Attre residency.
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Isn't the depth of detail partly due to Novigrad being modeled after an existing actual city? Thought it was a Romanian town or something? Is anyone else peeved out by the sheer number of doors that can't be unlocked and boxes / baskets you probably can't get to? An example is Keira's hut with all the stuff near the roof. There's no place to jump up to keep your view within reach and you can't jump and loot at the same time with the UI pop-up delay I saw. This is a bad game if you're a completionist because you will go crazy.
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necrobobsledder posted:Isn't the depth of detail partly due to Novigrad being modeled after an existing actual city? Thought it was a Romanian town or something? It was quite a while back but one poster said it was really similar to the Polish city of Gdansk and specifically the crane at the docks is a replica of the real world one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk I have no idea why you would try to loot every container, it's all just random loot except for quest stuff and witcher gear schematics.
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As a person who actually lived in Gdansk I can tell you that a few of the buildings are based on it but that's it, the entire city structure is different except for the crane standing by the river I guess. 99% of the other buildings are based on other source material.
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Pellisworth posted:I have no idea why you would try to loot every container, it's all just random loot except for quest stuff and witcher gear schematics.
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The Deadly Hume posted:That last extra crown you get from a vendor from picking up that broken rake might be just what you need to get that one nugget of dimeritium you need to make your sweet mastercrafted witcher armour. This guy gets it.
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Novigrad is way too sparsely populated for what the population is supposed to be though. Especially on the consoles, it feels like the engine wasn't up to it.
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Spite posted:Novigrad is way too sparsely populated for what the population is supposed to be though. Especially on the consoles, it feels like the engine wasn't up to it. I just assumed most people were hiding indoors. What with a literal witchhunt going on.
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Snak posted:I just assumed most people were hiding indoors. What with a literal witchhunt going on. Also the city is likely to be besieged or stormed soon, and everyone knows it.
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I felt there were a lot of people in the city on PC. Is the console version different in that regard or something?
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I just wanted to say that this game has the best drunk quests in the history of bideo jaming. Share embarrasing stories and dress up in your girlfriend's clothes all day erry day. That is all.
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