Rate the Witcher games.
I only played the first one 7/10.
TW1 10/10
TW2 7/10
TW3 8/10
>>336109157
Witcher: 8/10
Witcher 2: 9/10
Witcher 3: 10/10
TW1 7/10
TW2 8/10
TW3 9/10
The Witcher: 8/10
The Witcher 2: 9/10
The Witcher 3: 7/10
W1 3/10
W2 2/10
W3 5/10
Theyre all pretty shit games man, in fact all RPGs are shit games and flawed with no direction or proper story
>>336109417
Polaks took your job?
>>336109157
W1 8/10
W2 9/10
W3 10/10
>>336109157
witcher 1 - 7/10
witcher 2 - 4/10
witcher 3 - 9/10
a real mixed bag
TW 8/10
TW2 7.5/10 though very different
TW3 10/10
>>336109417
>in fact all RPGs are shit games and flawed with no direction or proper story
obligatory (you)
I've tried the first game a handful of times but just can't get more than a couple of hours into it. Is TW3 worth playing at all without playing 1 and 2?
tw1 7/10 on release, ED is much better
tw2 8/10
tw3 8/10
If you play them in the row it goes 8-9-10. Played all games on release and played them on sequence.
>entire thread agreeing that 2 is better than 1
d-don't toy with my heart /v/, 2 did absolutely nothing better
>>336109793
You can, but I'd advise maybe trying 2 first, as you otherwise might get a bad case of "who the fuck are all these people and why should I care".
1 7/10 (Sorry, but the quests, combat and voicecting is beyond atrocious)
2 9/10
3 10/10
>>336109970
on release tw1 was very hard to play, those loading times before ssd and patches were around 10 minutes - it was hell
now playing games in the row it just escalates experience from decent to better and better
>>336109970
They're hard to compare. While I like a lot of what 1 does, it was kind of a pain to get through much of the time, and I'd rather replay 2 any day.
Compared to 1, 2 has the best story of the three, better voice acting, better quests (even there are fewer), the combat isn't so dull and it generally doesn't seem like it's going to come apart at the seams all the time.
>>336110168
I remember very well TW1 on launch. But I also remember TW2 on launch.
>>336109417
Well meme'd
>>336110014
Alright, thanks Anon. I got TW1 and 2 on Steam for a couple of dollars forever ago so I'll give 2 a shot and see how i feel about it.
TW1 9.5/10 One of my favorite RPGs of all time.
TW2 5/10 I don't know what it was but I hated the entire experience. I can't explain it.
TW3 8/10 I haven't actually beaten it, but it's pretty damn good so far. Not as engaging for me as TW1 though.
>>336110209
>combat isn't so dull
TW2 combat is literally mashing roll button while waiting for the mana bar to fill up so you can spam that one magic. Literally. While 1 was a rhythm minigame to a degree it at least required you to use different signs for different enemies, plus differnet combat styles which is enough in itself to offer more variety than 2's combat.
Also I think people don't really see clearly some things about TW2, like how 70% of the game is just a streamlined corridor. No exploration like in 1, you are just walking from a scripted cutscene to a scripted cutscene. TW1 had better quest, well, more interesting quests. Entire Chapter 2 where you are doing detective shit left and right.
And obviously, far superior atmosphere in TW1. At the very least you can't refute that.
Something about TW1 has been throwing me off terribly that I can't get past the first chapter. It feels so horribly slow and getting from location to location feels like such a fucking drag, maybe I just paced horribly because I would get to a new area for a side mission just to find out I missed something and had to backtrack. and if its night I get attacked by endless fucking dogs that are easy to kill but annoying as hell. I just felt like I wasting more time than I needed to to do anything
I banged all the females though so I had that going for me.
>>336110362
I'm not going to defend 2's combat as being great or anything, but if all you did was roll and spam quen, it's really your own fault that it became boring.
I don't see your point about exploration. Sure, 1 had bigger areas but this also just often mean sprinting past drowners or a big city without anything really important in it. Flotsam and the Vergen surrounding areas had plenty of stuff to explore. And as I said, I appreciate a lot of the smaller stuff with some quests in 1, but many were still boring when it was just "go kill things and bring me monster blood" or whatever, where 2's felt more handcrafted for the most part.
But yeah, I totally agree about the atmosphere, that's a given.
>>336109157
Put about 8 hours into TW2 and found the gameplay to be totally lackluster.
I bought TW3 and got bored of it around 10 hours in when I realized I could be playing Souls for superior combat, or Elder Scrolls for a superior sandbox experience.Literally every Witcher fan I've ever met has been the r/pcmasterrace stereotype.
>>336110660
>I'm not going to defend 2's combat as being great or anything, but if all you did was roll and spam quen, it's really your own fault that it became boring.
This is a pretty shit argument desu. My idea of fun is a well designed game that requires for me, the player, to adapt and use different strategies and different weapons/whatever because that's what the game requires. Not because I want to play according to some self-gimping, self-imposed challenges. Point being - rolling and spamming Igni is all it took to beat everything in the game without a sweat.
It's the same analogy as with most modern stealth games that pander to everyone, "you can play it as a stealth game and as a shooter game". What's the point of stealth when I can just shoot everyone with ease. I want to sneak because that's the only way to do so. I hope you get what I mean.
1: 7/10
2: 8/10
3: 10/10
>>336110860
I do.
I know that it's perfectly viable to play tw2 that way, I just tried using all the tools at my disposal like daggers, bombs, the lesser used signs, ripostes etc. to make it more interesting for myself, not so much for the challenge.
Totally agree about stealth games too, but you're going to be hard pressed to find games where you actually get fucked by being detected.
>>336109157
>TW1
8/10. Interesting characters, huge variety in environments and some classic quests (beating a ghost in dice, the murder mystery, the cursed bride etc)
>TW2
6/10
Environments were samey, small and boring. Most of the characters just irritated me. A few shit quests that killed my enthusiasm to replay it
>TW3
9/10
LAMBERT YOU'RE A GENIUS
How do tw1 fags defend the combat? Everything else is fine but holy hell the combat is shit
>>336111385
It's a comfy game, and above all its an RPG, not an action game.
>>336111385
its fun rhythm game mechanics
Witcher 1 = 9/10
Witcher 2 = 6/10
Witcher 3 = 10/10
>>336110306
How many times have you played 2? I loved W1 and the first time I played W2 it really rubbed me the wrong way. Left a bad taste in my mouth. I think because the combat system was just such a step backwards.
I played it again recently just before W3 came out and ended up going through twice, and reloaded the third chapter on each playthrough to be as completionist as I could with the main story and it made me enjoy it a lot more when you see what they did with the splintering choice stuff.
I feel like when you play the second time and you know it isn't going to be the same as W1 you can appreciate what the devs were actually trying to achieve a lot more. It's amazing how many different 'states' the world can be in when the game ends. It ended up being better than W3 for me by far in terms of choices since in W3 literally no choice outside of the Ciri shit is worth a damn. W2 being so much shorter than 1 and 3 also makes more sense when you understand the story stuff a lot more.
Anyway my scores:
W1: 8/10
+atmosphere and world building stuff
+trying to doing something interesting with combat
+low budget and amateur as fuck so quite charming in terms of how big it is
W2 7/10
+Better writing, promises of grander things to come based Stannis, Hensalt, the Temerian heir and so on. Shame it meant nothing.
+/- Different atmosphere. Flotsam is delicious, but the chapter 3 area was bland as shit. Way too much politics for people who don't know anything about the Witcher lore.
-Combat system is just awful. So imprecise. Genuinely made me doubt the devs actually played the game properly without god mode on at any time before release.
W3 5/10
+ Hearts of Stone
+Roaming around doing side quests is very immersive and that sorta shit.
+Skellige
+Ambition I guess?
-Combat still sucks. Also made me doubt the devs had ever actually played the game from start to end without god mode because of how badly it scales.
-Wild Hunt are pathetic.
-Ciri
TW1: 7/10
TW2: 9/10
TW3: 8/10
>>336111385
How tw3 fags defended the console trash combat before it was patched? It was literally unplayable. TW1 isn't even a AAA game, but at least the combat felt somewhat unique.
>>336111467
Shitsouls has a rhytm game mechanics. TW1 had more to it - battle stances, pirouettes, strike combos and shit, not just roll away and click, roll away and click bullshit. And it actually showed that witchers combat style was completely different from human's because they are fucking mutants not typical fantasy rpg swordsmen unlike every other casualized game from the series.
>>336109157
W1: 8/10
W2: 7/10
W3: 6/10
W3HoS: 9/10
>>336111385
Personaly i liked it more than in 2. Fun rhytmic addition
>>336111929
>>336111906
>that final attack stage of the "multiple enemy" stance where Geralt just spins in a circle and collects everybody's head
>>336109157
TW 8/10
TW2 9/10
TW3 7/10
TW1 8/10
+ Best music and the art screens between chapters.
- Fuck drowners.
TW2 8/10
+ Broche. The latter half of the game is Completely different depending on who you side with.
-Ended way too soon. EE here even added some extra chapter stuff. The magic puzzles in the last city were complete ass.
TW3 9/10
Did not disappoint despite going open world. That's a feat in itself. Best mini games. Best drunken episode. Yet to play the expacs too.
- The Bloody Baron questline was just too good, the game never really reached those heights again after that. Maybe it's good to show the best you've got earlier to make more people want finish the game.
ITT everyone only uses the 6/10 to 10/10 scale
>>336112590
That's because all three games are genuinely decent fampai
>>336109157
plot of TW 1: Geralt fights infinite drowners in the swamp while no one fucking tells him where the last sephira stone is and the worlds ends GG NO RE
TW1 - 3/10
TW2 - 5/10
Did not play TW3
Nothing impressive here. Shallow as fuck rpg schlock like Mass Effect
>>336112849
go away pleb
>>336112961
(You)
>>336113123
TW3 is a shit game, admit it, it will forgotten in 5 years time
TW1 8/10
TW2 7/10
TW3 9/10
>>336109157
1 - 8/10 Pretty decent game with a lot of cool ideas. The entirety of chapter 2 always sticks out in my mind.
2 - 7/10 I liked some things, but chunks of the game felt like a slog. I didn't really like the first area, and the second for both was pretty shit sans the ending. The last area (city, Lock Mooween can't remember spelling) was my favorite.
3 - 8/10 So far. I haven't beaten it yet. Just did the bloody baron's questline and now I'm finishing up a few side quests before going to Novigrad.
>>336113265
>3 - 8/10 So far. I haven't beaten it yet. Just did the bloody baron's questline and now I'm finishing up a few side quests before going to Novigrad.
it just goes downhill after the baron quest
believe me, once you finish it, vit will be a 7/10
TW1 7/10
TW2 8/10
TW3 10/10
TW1: 9/10 (Keep in mind I played it back in the day and it was that good)
TW2: 10/10 (Started with EE, the best game of the series with that, dunno about how it was before)
TW3: 8/10 (Still a great game, but the open worldness fucked me up by being heavily over-leveled for an important story side quest because I dared do side missions... The story was also too heroic with Geralt/Ciri getting to be the saviour of world and everything unlike in the previous games where he'd just been a simple witcher going about his life).
>>336113372
That's what I've been told.Lucky for me, I'm a boring fuck who likes just running around worlds because fuck me I don't know why, so even if the story is shit I'll still be entertained by running around shit.
TW1 9/10
TW2 8/10
TW3 have yet to play, only played White Orchard, my pc couldn't handle it much/10
On the scaruffi scale i give tw1 a 7, tw2 a 5, and tw3 a 6
>>336113226
its the only one that will be remembered
>>336109417
here's your reply
>>336109157
9/10
8/10
10/10
TW1 5/10
TW2 7/10
TW3 9.5/10
This is objectively true
TW1: 9/10
TW2: 6/10
TW3: 4/10
TW1 shit/10 uninstalled early
TW2 haven't played because TW1
TW3 same reason
this my brutally honestopinion
>>336113663
none of them will be remembered, dipshit
>>336109157
3/10 boring linear rpg with shit story and mediocre graphics
4/10 boring linear rpg with shit story and decent graphics
didnt play 3rd
>>336113469
One thing I will mention I guess that I noticed during the BB questline, though, was a bit of ordered fuckery? It's just bugs, but shit like:- The witches commend that the children were delicious, but then comment that all the children ran away because the horse took them away.
- I had the fetus monster in my bestiary with a picture prior to the questline, but once it started, the picture went away.
- The game told me the daughter was a witchhunter without me ever meeting her in my quest notes which was kind of odd.
I hope shit like this doesn't become more frequent as certain choices pile up just because it feels odd.
>>336113708
Yep this
Witcher 1 - 8.5/10
Witcher 2 - 8/10
Witcher 3 - 9.5/10
>>336109157
The witcher games are just budget rpgs
Nothing special but impressive for the price
I dont understand why they get so much praise
Dragon age gets slagged off
But the curve in scope is almost identical and its better series in every way
The anemic atmosphere in Witcher 1 did have a certain charm to it, but the poor combat, voice acting, storytelling, and questing brought the game down. There are some aspects of W1 I would have liked they keep in its sequels, more elaborate potion making for example, but overall its sequels are just better in almost every respect. Combat wasn't exciting and by the end of it you could spam the fire spell to instant kill any trash mob, which made the drowner armies sufferable.
Witcher 2 had a very compact and well developed storyline with engaging quests and dialogues with terrific setting and music. Combat was decent though cheesy. Probably one of the few games where your choice at halfway point changes the game entirely.
Witcher 3 is the best game in the series without a doubt. It expanded on everything the previous games did well, improved on combat and removed the dice game. The music, atmosphere, and quests form a thoroughly memorable experience. The combat is too easy, but the combat system as such I found very enjoyable, not tiring of it even after 100+ hours. Potion making was arguably too easy, then again it also encouraged people to use it instead of just hoarding potions.
>>336113928
>Dragon age gets slagged off
>But the curve in scope is almost identical and its better series in every way
I agree except with this bit
the first dragon age was rock solid, but even it wasn't that good.
I know I'm in the minority here, but DAII was the best one for me. It felt personal, the scale was right, the combat was tight.
DA-I was horrible, stet in the wrong direction. from the beginning of the game you're a fucking general or whatever just cause you have glowing green jizz on your hand. It was the last nail in the coffin for bioware
>>336113928
dragon age is literal generic wank
like there is nothing interesting about it at all
DAO is edgy low fantasy, DAI is WoW high fantasy, DA2 is just trash
>>336114352
2 was wank
but 1 will always be the core fave
and 3 will always be the casual fave
literally the same curve as the witcher
>>336113928
>Dragon age gets slagged off
okay, first off, DA:O is GOAT tier.
second off, everything besides DA:O is horrible.
>DA:2
reused assets all over the ass. you'd literally run through the exact same fucking dungeon 8 times throughout the game. Not to mention how rushed everything was.
Honestly, it was a 3/10 game. really fucking sad.
>DA:I
personally disliked the facebook zynga timers. Felt completely stupid, albeit manageable.
Not too shabby storywise, but the consolization of the IP hurt it a LOT. Where's the character customization of the original DA:O ? Oh right, it all went out the window to cater to consoles.
Not even trying to start a consolewar. But DA:I sucks because they catered to the wrong market. Not to mention how jarring a SP MMO experience felt.
>>336114536
yeah but even so the series itself is just so boring
>muh orcs
>muh jewish dwarves
>muh downtrodden elves
at least witcher subverts these in interesting ways, or at least fleshes them out. Even the height of the series, origins, is no more than 6/10
>>336114542
>reused assets all over the ass
> Not to mention how rushed everything was.
fuck off pleb, no wonder you didn't like it, you cant ever writ coherently
>>336114352
>DA2 is just trash
DAII was the best part of the series, get it right faggot
>>336114738
>DAII was the best part of the series, get it right faggot
post contrarianism
W1: 10/10. Absolutely surprised me when I first played it, blew me away.
W2: 10/10. For all the hate it gets, I marathoned the hell out of it, beat it on both routes and loved every second of it. Great game, Letho is one of the best "villains" in vidya history.
W3: 10/10. Takes everything I loved about W1 and 2 and makes them even better. Only complaint is the lack of sex, especially with women that it seems like Geralt would be sleeping with. But I suppose he's like 80 now, so maybe he's calming down a bit.
>>336114816
nice argument
I: 5/10 (Got bored after Swamp level and quit)
II: 7/10 (too much politics for my taste)
III: 8/10 (10/10 with Hearts of Stone expansion)
>>336114738
>you can't
>'ever'
>'writ'
Did you seriously just try dismissing my opinion based on such a vain argument only to fall flat on your face?
The second-hand embarrassment from your post is off the charts.
W1: 6/10
W2: 7/10
W3: 10/10
I'm serious. W3 was a defining game for the genre where it can only be improved by adding on it.
>>336115119
typos are one thing, being unable to express yourself is something else completely
W1: Oscillates between 6-8. Chapter 2 wasn't as dreadful as I'd thought since I did most of the quests on one major trip, I had bigger problems with the first chapter. 3 to 5 were great.
W2: Consistent 7 throughout. Kaedweni camp was shit visually but the Blue Stripes quests were great.
W3: Oscillates between 6-9. Velen can feel like a slog sometimes and the game didn't really grip me until I reached the gates of Novigrad, thanks to the Bloody Baron for making me stick with the game.
>TW2
Uninstalled after 80 minutes of gameplay/10
W1: 5/10
W2: 4/10
W3: 6/10
>>336115390
learn to fluently speak in 4 different languages and then talk back to me.
Not only that, if what I typed is difficult for you to understand, mayhaps you need seek medical help. It's abnormal (in my main tongue, abnormal is often correlated with retarded / handicapped people) for you to face such difficulty reading opinions that differ from yours.
>>336109157
W1 8/10
W2 0/10
didn't bother after that
>>336115863
>>336115775
Why the hell did you bother with the games then? Fan of the books?
>>336109157
1: 6/10
2: 8/10
3: 8/10
>>336116063
I'd put 2 at a 7/10. The combat has some fairly major issues that make the start of the game very frustrating. Other than that everything here is fine.
>>336115395
Everything between entering the city in 1 feels like a giant drag. It was pretty much right when I got into the city that I actually started liking the game.
>>336115958
XD
>>336109157
W1: 9.5/10
W2: 8/10
W3: 9/10
>>336114738
>da2 was best part of the series
>>336113265
After Baron mision the story turns in a fucking boring shit with a lot of doubtful story directions and development.
The gameplay starts to get so bad too, you start to see how bad and repetitive the combat and how repetitive the mechanics are.
The Witcher 3 is the best definition of cuantity>cuality, the game is a bunch of nothing, forgettable as fuck, and the worst part is that all the fucking morons are praising games like this and the industry will make more of this shit.
>>336116465
Bruh, the combat only opens up when you start to unlock secondary spell uses. I just wish the melee tree had as much stuff for it.
Also holding off the Hunt at Kaer Morhen was pure fan service and a great callback to the opening of the first game. Shit was dank~
