This game literally has too much content

agreed.

instead of focusing on good combat mechanics, proper exploration, rewarding loot, they tried to compensate with content. bottomline it doesn't work. the game is shit and will always be.

Yeah I stopped fucking with most of the sidequests by the time I got to Skellige. Before then, I would go out of my way to find and complete every quest. I started only doing quests that I stumbled across.
The armor set treasure hunts get incredibly boring incredibly quickly.

no this game has too much content

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this happened to me as well
Game has no business being that fucking big and exploring is not all that rewarding.

Great story, characters, setting etc. I think the main complaint is the combat, but it's not too bad once you get used to it. Think Mass Effect or Dragon Age, but actually good.

too bad its shit

>keep trying to play the first one because I've heard the series is so good
>after getting it to work on my 1070 play for a few minutes
>bored instantly and stop
>repeat every year
I don't understand how you could make gameplay so fucking bad.

>content
It's called shit MMO-tier quests. I dropped the fucking game halfway through because I couldn't take it anymore, got so fucking boring.

It's good in every single department aside from combat being a bit lackluster.
It's a sleeper hit for me considering I often find open world games not that great. The attention to detail is pretty fucking crazy. I'm convinced CDPR has a sweatshop or something.

>The combat is shi-

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That doesnt give me confidence since open world games with shit combat bores me to sleep, literally.
Can you delve more on the dragon age part? I only played 1 and dropped 2 one hour in due to how terrible it was.

The combat takes some getting used to and is pretty love it or hate it. The story and writing in the first game absolutely blows the heck out of the rest of the games. Only the Bloody Baron arc comes close.

Loved the game but couldn't bring myself to do sidequests by the time a reached the third area.

so play one with less content

The problem with W3 webms is that they always make the combat look floaty and cinematic.
The combat is actually pretty tight and intuitive once you use all elements available to you, but even then it can be very lackluster.
It's by no means "bad", though. I'm certain at this point the people who say that either never played it or they got mobbed by a pack of dogs and dropped the game.

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Stop posting this webm in every thread, it doesn't make the combat look better in any way.

No it doesnt

i mean it looked pretty

tw3 engine has terrible lighting, no physics at all, all trees are swaying at the same rate no matter what

It's honestly a great and solid game, but I dropped it due to burn out. What I probably should've done is take a weeklong break playing something short and mindless in comparison like a weeb game before diving back in (in fact, that's probably how I finished RDR2), but alas.

I can't wait to play it on my Switch

I think meant "dragon age"in terms of how choices in conversations matter. There are choices you make it this game that seem relatively minor that might end up contributing so something absolutely gigantic 40 hours later in the game.
The whole game really is one big slow burn with many payoffs, but if that's not for you then you just won't like it. This is a big ass game; I spent 130 hours in it before I even touched the DLC, so if you're not into it you'll dislike it.

It has the most consistent quality out of any open world game except Bethesda games. Only at a higher level

The story and writing of the first game is not on the same level as W3. I can't even imagine how you would even believe this.

This. Nothing can rival Bethesda quality.

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I didn't encounter a single instance where the game tried to be edgy.

no, i bought it on sale with all the dlcs and ive tried several times to get into it but failed, its boring as hell

>except Bethesda games
Now I know your bullshitting.

he was talking about consistency of quality though
Betehsda has consistently shit quality
While Witcher 3 has consistently good to great quality with a few d(r)owners here and there

>*whistles for magic horse*
>autoruns on road to quest marker
>*toucan sam vision activates*
>"Mhmm....giant slash marks all over the victim....a Drowner™, gotta be"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*follows nose*
>guys in Drowner™ costumes appear
>"OY BLOODY 'ELL FUCKING CUNT SHIT FUCK CUNT, IT'S A FUCKIN' WITCHER IT IS! GET "EM"
>"Shit you stink" ALALALALALALALALA *sets guys on fire and they stumble and recover immediately, does a cinematic slash and cuts guys in half"
>"Mhmm....Bandits™ pretending to be Drowners™......better tell the village head about this"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*autoruns on road back to village*
>"OY BLOODY FUCK CUNT WITCHAH, WOT ABOUT DA CONTRACT WESE PAIDS YA FOR YA BLOODY FUCKING CUNT?"
>"Just some bastards posing as Drowners™, here's proof *shows flipper*"
>"OY KURWA, HERE'S YA REWARD DA WHOLE VILLAGE CHIPPED IN"
>"Drowning in Danger" Complete AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>10 crowns received

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Fuck off

The combat isn't as bad as they're making out, they're just saying it to fit in because they know people will cry if they say it's fine

I couldn't help but get bored after I felt like I had spent a week on finding and rescuing the bard. Hopefully I'll get back to it.

I don't understand how this is supposed to be shit, it looks like a carbon clone of dark souls combat without the excessive difficulty (which you can get anyway on death march ng+)

Sometimes I feel like I am one of the five people who enjoyed combat in W3

Trust me, there are way, way more AAA games out there with below-average combat.
If you guys didn't like witcher's combat, then you will probably hate bethesda's games

>want to clear the map of ?
>there's like 300 of them
>drop game
My autism prevented me from enjoying this game

I wouldnt say its like dark souls but its not as bad as people say it is, I had fun with it

>I think the main complaint is the combat, but it's not too bad once you get used to it
the opposite, once you're used to it it's just a formality

>it looks like a carbon clone of dark souls combat
It's more like a carbon copy of the Arkham serie's combat

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I ended up doing it. It took me way, way too long to figure out you could fast travel on a boat to a harbor from anywhere.

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what the fuck

>Dark Souls
Press button, character swings, enemy gets hit. Same animation every time.

>W3
Press button. Character twirls and twirls and twirls. Is Geralt going to twirl once this time? Twice? Maybe not at all? Who knows? Gotta be.

They do mention it during loading times, but I forget myself.

So, Dark Souls?

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>play dork souls
>press the ttack button and dodge button in combat, sometimes you use the block button, combat involves dodging attacks and going back in and attacking
>play the witcher 3
>exact same shit but some of the animations might be slower
sorry but there is literally no difference. it's the same core. The only difference is geralt's animations.

>character swings, enemy gets hit
Clearly haven't played DS if you think the hitboxes are consistent

Exactly. The combat being bad is a meme criticism parroted by boomers that literally can't criticize anything else.

So, I'm on vacation and I have time to play 1 game. Should I play witcher 3, pathfinder kingmaker or divinity 2? I don't like or dislike crpgs more than I like rpgs.

Combat would be 10x better in TW3 if you could lock on properly like in Dark Souls. Prove me wrong.

the witcher 3 and don't look back.
make sure to get the DLC's to make the experience crazy good.

I have the goty edition or whatever. Bought last year but didn't have time to play it.

>combat involves dodging attacks and launching your own attacks
literally dark souls. also literally devil may cry, monster hunter, god of war, etc.
all i can say is that dark souls combat didn't get boring after a few hours

the game has a slow start, just force yourself through it unitl you reach novigrad, and after that if you find yourself bored just force yourself through the story and go do the two DLC's. thank me later.

I just bought the complete edition to finally play it, any tips?

That's because Dark Souls has infinitely better and more varied encounter design.

>Start with Witcher 2
>The princess is a huge fucking deal and I ensure that the Redoran king protects her
>She's literally nowhere to be heard from
>Roach says nothing
>Never mentions it
What in the everyloving fuck is this retarded shit
Why can't I ask anyone what happen to her
Why can't I ask the blue fuck where she is
What the fuck is this shit

The Witcher games are self contained, the most you'll get is some text referencing her.

>There are choices you make it this game that seem relatively minor that might end up contributing so something absolutely gigantic 40 hours later in the game.

Complete fucking bullshit. Nothing matters at all whatsoever. Freeing or killing She Who Knows doesn't change anything. Conspiring against Radovid or not doesn't change anything. Killing Keira or not doesn't change anything. Siding with the guy or the girl during Skellige doesn't change anything. Fucking nothing changes aside from some retarded slideshow in the end at all. This game is the epitome of illusory choices because it's railroaded as fuck and the open world is only there so they can pretend it has tons of exploration when there is fucking nothing to be found if you stray from the highlighted path.

Considering how bad cobat is in most RPG's like this, it's not that bad imo. I think it stick out more because of how long the game is. Personally my main problem with the game is the overuse of Witcher Senses and how they don't really even seem to bother with changing up the investigation mechanics much.

They give you that ghost lamp thing and they use it like 3-4 times at most. Having a couple more magical gadgets to recreate a crime scene would have done wonders.

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This. Isn't there only like 3 possible endings?

And they're all determined by complete fucking retarded shit like playing snowball with Ciri or not. It's a fucking joke.