gave witcher 1 a trywasnt fun at all
Witcher 3 is now on Sale
is it any better?
It's like Witcher 1 with decent combat, so yeah
>>337953730
It's still story-centric
why don't you tells us what annoyed you in 1.
The combat in 3 is not that great, so you might be turned off by it
>>337953806
>like Witcher 1 with decent combat
If you had nuts, i'd kick them.
>>337953730
Power through TW1 m8. TW2 is a lot better, TW3 is better some ways, a few steps backwards in others (story).
>>337953730
atmosphere, and visuals are great. some of the story stuff is interesting. gameplays kinda shit though
The game is completely different on basically every level, so I can't say whether you'll like it or not. It's got a much more modern combat system, so if the combat in TW1 is turning you off, that may fix it.
>>337953730
>wasnt fun at all
and i don't have nostalgia goggles either, i played it for the first time last year.
but it was.
>>337954002
hahaha, witcher 3's story is leagues ahead of the clusterfuck that was witcher 1/2
Combat wise
3>power gap>1>2
The combat is only decent in 3 and it's nothing to brag about. Still significantly better than the other two.
Story wise
2>3>1
>>337953730
>wasn't fun at all
By "gave a try" you mean "played through the tutorial and quit" right?
>>337953912
how would you improve 3's combat? and i'm not trying to rile you up or anything. i'm curious because i think 3's combat is fine.
>>337954002
>TW2 better than TW1
1 == 3 > 2 my man.
>>337954840
oh don't get me wrong, I think it's fine too, it never gets in the way
It's just that there's games with better combat, maybe not from the same genre but they exist.
I'm perfectly content with my gametime in TW3, which amounts to 300 hours, only extremist retards over here call it "shit" because that's all their vocabulary will allow. That and maybe "muh red shit"
>>337953730
No. W3 is worse than W1, for different reasons.
>>337954785
The entire first chapter in Vizima Outskirts is fucking awful to be fair, it's not difficult to see why people are put off so early.
>>337954840
>mindless buttonmashing
>good
Go to bed polak filth
>>337953730
not OP, but I've tried it playing it as well, and it had one hell of fucking boring beginning
I managed 2 hours of boredom before giving up
3 interests me though
>>337954912
man of taste
Official Witcher Game Tier List:
>"This sword is for monsters" Tier
Witcher 1
>"My balls itch" Tier
Witcher 2
>"Your mother sucks dwarf cock" Tier
Witcher 3
>>337955152
The fuck? First chapter is great. Only tutorial is so-so.
>>337955238
The first chapter is great if you know exactly what to do.
First time around you will INEVITABLY backtrack one too many times, at the very least. It was really fucking annoying
Once you know what the fuck is up, it's a breeze that cannot possibly take you longer than 4 hours, tops
>CDPR pretends that nothing from the first Witcher game matters in the third game
BASED
Yah third game is significantly better: colossal world to explore, lots of fun characters and quests to find(just remember none of it is marked as white question mark, those are useless shit) decent combat, amazing graphics. It's the pinnacle of the series. Though I value 1 over 2, because I think 2 lots the grayness of its morality a lot, those choices felt a lot more like your Bioware RGP good-neutral-bad and it's just kind of linear for an RPG game.
>>337955406
The chapter in the swamp should be called Chapter 2:Backtrack.
witcher 3 is one of those games, I cant motivate myself to start playing, but when I rarely do, I play for hours.
I only have like 30 hours in the game, 6% completed and I bought it 6 months ago
>>337955578
Having played 1 a bunch of times, there IS a way to only go to the swamp TWICE.
Backtracking is almost hard coded into the damn game.
>>337955578BAA BAA BAAAAAAAA
>>337953730
the whole series is mediocre
the first is probably the strongest entry but not really worth the slog if you're not really into the atmosphere. unfortunately the sequels lack the same atmosphere and have their own share of problems.
>>337954912
I can respect that taste. I don't know what it was, but I hated playing 2 with a passion and I can't describe why. I played through the whole game, and the entire time I dont think I actually had fun once. Witcher 1 on the other hand is one of my favorite RPGs of all time. Playing through Witcher 3 now and I'm enjoying it though. I've read the first two books and really liked them, but for the love of god Witcher 2 made me miserable.
>>337954748
>2 for story
>2 for anything
never seen such a wrong opinion
>>337955578
I bet you also stopped and fought all the drowners each time.
The outskirts of Vizima are rough to get through, but it gets waaay better afterwards.
I liked2just as much as all the othersI love them all
It's mildly better than Skyrim and Fallout 4, but you will also get bored running around killing x monsters and visiting all the points on the map.
Hunting monsters was fun though. Also those witches in the woods were cool. I played the card game more than anything else. Actually, I liked this game. I recommend it.
>>337955792
2 felt too consoley if that makes sense.
You were locked in pseudo corridors all the time
>>337955792
I really don't get the hate for 2. I think 1 and 3 are better, but 2 wasn't bad by any stretch IMO.
>>337955705
yep
>>337955792
Are you talking about The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny? The short stories are the high point of the whole series including the games. They are so comfy.
>>337955821
I really liked the plot. Sure it was basically Thanedd 2.0 and Yen's plot line from the books but I preferred it to the the fan fiction plot that we got in the first game with Geralt/Yen/Ciri getting replaced by Geralt/Triss/Shani/Alvin
>>337956136
that's the thing I can't even explain why I didn't like it. I just didn't. It was really weird cause I've found fun in other games that were far worse in every respect.
>>337956078
I guess that could be a part of it.
>>337955713
>pic related
>>337955578
I had 0 problems with it. These pictures with geralt and a thousand drowners everywhere is so exaggerated, its nothing like that.
>>337956303
yeah Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. Really good I'm actually getting an urge to read them again now.
>>337953730
Daily reminder
TW1>3>dog shit>2
>>337956325
To me it felt a little unfinished, like it really was just a setup for 3(and arguably was). Still enjoyed it. Ioverth path always.
>>337956459
My man. What was your favorite short story? Mine was Something More. Always made me shed a tear seeing Geralt go through all those emotions.
>>337953730
It's much better. Witcher 1 had some bad quests and godawful combat. Skip almost all the witcher contracts and don't do the side stuff on the map on Witcher 3 and there's still 30+ hours of good quests.
>>337954717
>>337954912
Storywise
1>2>3
I honestly I can't respect you if you think 3 is in any way better than 1 or 2 in terms of story, it's a bloodydamn clusterfuck with a general save the girl plot, some of the things not related to Ciri were pretty decent (Bloody baron) but the majority was utter trash. Hearts of Stone redeemed some of that though, it was very good storytelling.
>>337953730
op 4 retarded, op
>>337956303
I wish the books just stayed in those short stories with ambiguous morality and a some lesson/message. All he had to do was keep focusing on Geralt.
Once he introduced Ciri he also started writing from the perspective of other characters you couldn't give a shit about and Geralt barely had time.
Hell I'll take a whole series of Geralt, Regis and Dandelion broing it up going on adventures and getting into crazy situations.
>>337954717
Save the girl plot and the Wild Hunt were terrible and terribly executed. Outside that, the writing was good.
>>337955965
For NWN engine Witcher looked fucking amazing.
>>337955792
I think the whole game is just ever so slightly off.
The combat is just spamming roll and then attacking, at least Witcher 3 has proper parrying and the ability to do a small dodge rather than rolling 2 metres away, and other annoyances like having to go into meditation to drink potions (which would make it impossible to use potions for some boss fights, so if you invested heavily into alchemy your skills would go to waste) and the fact alchemical ingredients had weight which is really silly in a game where you need to hoard them because you're constantly crafting stuff.
The graphics give it the appearance of a really high budget AAA title but when you get into it it's a really rough around the edges indie game.
>>337955705
Yeah, I had the same, you just get too caught up in things: you'll see a question mar nearby and run towards it, it'll be some treasure track, you'll follow it to a beast nest, clearing it will trigger a quest with nearby village, in it you'll get another quest to get something from Oxenfurt, there you'll enter tavern and find some guy you need to beat in Gwent for a quest and so on and so on. I absolutely love it.
>>337956956
I still liked the saga but yeah the short stories were better. Who are your favorite characters? Mine are Yen, Regis, Geralt, Milva, and Dandelion. Poor Dandelion I feel like he didn't get adapted well to the games. Not going to lie it was fucking weird in Lady of the Lake with how little time we got to spend with the main characters.
>>337956961
They just had to give the game a "main" story because it's expected.
The self contained stories you did in each region were great. That's why the dlc's are also superior.
Because they feel like the short stories, while the wild hunt stuff feels like the main saga.
>>337957268
lmao, at least TW2 had boss fights. Not a single boss fight in TW3 was difficult, even on death march.
By far the best. I find that 3's world is organic in a way that you don't see in games, on top of that it has a really compelling and complicated choice system in the game as well.
>>337957617
Yeah, the choice system in Witcher 3 is really lacking. The atmosphere in TW3 is perfect, but the plot itself is fairly linear, which is rather surprising considering how much effect your choices had in TW1 and TW2.
TW3 is GOAT and the easiest to get intto
I'd say play TW2 then 3 then go back to 1 if u leik
>>337957392
Regis, Yen, Dandelion andEssi Daven. Also liked the guy who was cursed to become a beast in that story with the house.
Dandelion came out as a womanizing simpleton in the games when he actually was pretty cunning and knew what he was doing most of the time.
When will all the dlc be out for witcher 3?
>>337954840
Feels way too clunky and slow. Like it's trying to be a souls game but fails. Everything is powerhouse and can murder you easily
>>337953730
Blood Baron dindu nuffin. I felt pity for him. He was a bro.
>>337956956
You capture my tastes perfectly, the short stories were great, the main story surrounding Ciri & Yen was a little generic, many fantasy stories around that time incorporated the same elements.
>>337957901
In 2 weeks.
faggots
>>337957481
>at least
Better combat is far more important than harder boss fights, even though I wouldn't say Witcher 2's were that difficult at all.
W3 had more interesting ones too. Witcher 2 had Letho and that was it, I didn't give a shit about the Kraken or the Dragon.
>>337953730
Depends. Witcher 1 is patrician core, if you're a plebeian you probably wont enjoy witcher 3, even with all the AAA bells and whistles, its story, characters and settings might be too much for your plebeian normie mind to handle. Unless you're one of those retards who plays anything that looks like skyrim to fit in and you play for the combat or something but you're too shitter to play dark souls, then who knows.
>>337958048
I think Witcher 1 is great but I do hope you're not trying to prove that it is using fucking review scores.
>>337954840
just disabling softlocking makes it worlds better
>>337955163
>playing on easier difficulties
you have to manage dodging, parrying, and stamina with signs to be efficient at the game. All witcher games have been Geralt V numerous enemies focused, which is why the boss battles and shit suck but coming upon a group of 6-10 bandits is both challenging and fun as hell
this has been true for all witcher games, 1-3. The combat has not changed a lot in design, only in control. It has never been bad nor ever been great; just different with a learning curve which makes people upset
My personal favorite is Witcher 2 with FCR2
>>337957893
>Also liked the guy who was cursed to become a beast in that story with the house
Yeah, he's a great guy.
>>337958105
TW3 didn't have a single interesting boss fight, I don't remember dying once on a boss. The wolves and nekkers were more challenging than Eredin himself.
On the other hand, remember this guy? I sure do, took me 2 hrs to beat him on highest difficulty. You couldn't afford to make a single mistake. that's the kind of shit I like to see in games.
>>337958434
Fighting witches as Ciri was pretty fun and demanded great deal of mobility.
>>337958306
No not Dani.
The one where he had girls come live with him. Nivellen.
I kinda forgot about the Cintra stories until now.
Have you actually been to where your picture shows? If not, apply yourself.
Also, you really must force yourself through the tutorial. After that it starts to pick up speed.
Bought the enhanced edition some years ago, tried it, found it shit.
Just last year I tried it again. Ended up going through the game in a few weeks. Then bought 2, went through that also pretty fast, then got 3 earlier this year. Have also played HoS and wait eagerly for BoW.
>>337958434
The Witches were interesting characters as were the Wild Hunt guys, so I preferred their boss fights over fighting no name random big creatures/people.
That's why I liked Letho's fight, because I like Letho himself.
>>337957893
Yeah I loved how Dandelion was kind of cunning and offered words of wisdom to Geralt. He and Geralt had this super close believable relationship int he books. In the games it's like why would Geralt even put up with him and they didn't even seem that close. He's literally Geralt's best friend and the only people that Geralt cares more for is Ciri and Yen. One of my favorite exchanges was when he and Yen sat down and talked after Yen saved him from Reince and how she thanked him for being Geralt's only friend that stuck by him for all those years and then he got all sad and confessed that he wasn't a very good friend.
>>337953730
The witcher 1 has a great story and atmosphere.
Chapter 2 is fucking awful though and really tests how much you're enjoying the game.
After that its pretty smooth sailing until the end.
Thanks OP, if you didn't have me notice W3 was on sale I wouldn't have bought it.
Have a cute gato
>>337958584
>>337958721
What? Ciri generates like half her HP every 10 seconds. You can afford to fuck up 50 times during the fight and the witches still end up caving in.
>>337958284
Even on death march the game is still mindless button mashing. Who are you trying to fool?
>>337958306
He's talking about Nivellen from the beauty and the beast short story.
>>337958192
That's a lot of buzzwords.
>>337958936
>mindless
no it's not. Something like bamham or asscreed is mindless button mashing. Witcher is not great but its certainly not button mashing
Come on OP, get your most stylish hat and go hunt monsters. It only gets better.
>>337958936
You're completely right m8. I think people who like the TW3 combat are just delusional with the games' commercial success or they haven't played a single other game in their lives.
>>337958924
Are you reading anything that I'm posting? You just keep commenting on the difficulty when I'm not talking about it.
New DLC soon
Actually hyped
>>337959072
it's not mindless though, just simplistic. It still requires a fair amount of skill to be good at. If you dont understand group management you can't be good at the game. It's been the same throughout the series
>>337958434
really? I never had trouble with a boss in W2. I remember everyone hyping up different bosses but I one shot them all on the highest difficulty. I dont think the series is really known for boss fights. Even if W3 boss fights are ass so were W2, but the combat itself is highly improved.
>>337959473
lmao, I sincerely doubt that my friend. Only a select few managed to play through insane and actually reach the end. But sure, you one shot them all on your first try. Not even the people over at the CDPR forums are as delusional as you.
>>337959036
Man, that scene had me in fucking tears laughing. And every step it just gets funnier.
best combat in the series by a long shot
>tfw
They really should put 10 warnings in front of world progress.
>>337959683
It was by far the most accurate "friends getting drunk" scene I've seen in a game.
The part where they're calling after Eskel made my pee a little from laughter.
>>337958192
It's like you're an AI made to emulate tedious /v/ shitposting
I just finished Chapter 2 in Witcher 1, and I think I'm done with it. The combat is less fun than Skyrim and the story hasn't grabbed me.
>>337959683
I couldn't stop laughing since a bit earlier, when Yen threw me out of the tower.
And the part where some guy sees them and actually does conclude that they are sorceresses is great.
>>337959968
Eh, each Witcher game had convincing drunk scenes.
The one in TW1, with the grandma not letting you get back in, actually reminds me of something that happened to me, so I prefer it.
>>337959681
What were the bosses in the game Ibarely remember them? I remember Letho, who I one shot, and then the Draug. Then the dragon. I didn't fight Letho because I didn't want to kill him. That's 3 fights, and I don't remember any of them troubling me in the slightest. The Kayran also which is actually the boss that gave me the most trouble since I was still adjusting to the combat. Letho was the only boss I genuinely one shot, but no boss gave me trouble past 2-3 attempts. I didn't fight the one you posted though.
>>337960092
>threw me out of the tower
Oh shit I didn't know that could happen. What did you do?
>>337959473
>I dont think the series is really known for boss fights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6d1melKJrE
True, the Witcher 1 combat was mediocre at best, but the game was still able to keep me hyped for every boss battle.
>>337960092
Holy shit, I didn't even know Yen can throw you out of the tower. What did you do to get her mad?
>>337953730
sounds like you're the problem
Witcher 3
Graphics: 8.5
Story: 7
Lore: 8.5
Gameplay: 6
You can try to decide based on that I guess OP.
>>337960135
>but no boss gave me trouble past 2-3 attempts
Funny, first you mention you played on highest difficulty, then you mention you beat them all in a single try. But now it suddenly took you more tries.
The problem is, insane deletes your save when you die. So apparently you lied about beating them in a single try and lied about playing on the highest difficulty, yet you still found the bosses too easy.
Perhaps you should've played on a higher difficulty then, mong.
>>337958936
>Even on death march the game is still mindless button mashing
someone hasn't played death march, try to fast strike your way to victory against a pack of drowners in white orchard see how far you get.
when you level up, get better gear
and use your skills, then the difficulty evens out. to lower level where you can spam buttons.
death march you need to use all you different moves and each enemy has their own weaknesses, geralt has to fight each one differently, especially on NG+
>>337959029
>Something like bamham
>is mindless button mashing
arkham is far from button mashing, you will loose your combo and get knocked out by harder enemies spamming buttons in arkham games, you have to use the correct moves for correct enemies, it's not hard but you cant spam the game
Amazed this shitty series has 3 games
But I guess when you're pcuck starved for games you'll buy anything to justify overspending on a meme game playing machine
The only reason this shitty series had any success
>>337960092
>The one in TW1, with the grandma not letting you get back in
That woman pissed me off so much, because it's completely random whether or not she'll let you in or just throw you out, so you have to keep leaving and coming back until she lets you pass.
>>337960254
During one conversation, she says she's in no mood for jokes. If you keep picking the joke options, she teleports you into the lake.
>>337960135
Well there was the Operator. He was hard.
>>337960254
>>337960286
I was nice to her for most of the game, then when we broke the last wish I became a bit colder, and she either started acting worse, or I just started perceiving her bitching as worse, so in Kaer Morhen I was a prick and she got mad and teleported me away from her, in the air so I fell into some lake and had to walk back home.
2>3=1
>>337954785
I finished the first two chapters and still found it to be shit.
If I didn't enjoy it after 20 hours I wasn't going to enjoy it.
>>337953730
Not really. Witcher 1 is still the high point I think.
>>337960508
Nah, I just brewed myself one of those toxicity removing potions and got back in.
>>337960528
Well, those were rude jokes. You were basically bringing up the fact that you fucked Triss in that bed and calling her mad to her face when she is indeed mad.
>>337958434
I do remember that motherfucker and the only reason his fight was so hard was because he attacked you right out of a long bullshit cutscene/conversation so you couldn't get any oils/potions up because of W2's retarded potion system.
How is it that Witcher 2 has somehow managed to age ten times worse than Witcher 1?
Sure, Witcher 1 might drag a bit but, 2 is a corridor driven QTE fest.
>>337959683
>"i like women with horns"
>found sleeping with a goat minutes later
Also, I wonder if he did fisstech with that succubus the way Geralt told it in TW1.She puts some in her mouth and gives you a blowjob.
>>337959294
simplistic is just a cuckfanboi way of saying mindless.
>it requires skill to be good at it
TIP TOP KEK
apparantly mashing one out of 2 buttons is hard.
>>337960705
If Triss doesn't want Geralt to be rude then she shouldn't have fucking sold out Ciri to the Lodge and then spent two games abusing Geralt's amnesia just to get him to fuck her again.
She's a cunt and deserves no respect.
>>337953730
witcher 1 is my favorite because it actually feels like a witcher simulator
>>337960493
>pcuck starved
I want you to list every console exclusive game that you think is better than the Witcher series on both a story and gameplay front (both in one game) released in the current decade (2010-now)
Full disclosure: I know that whatever you respond with will be laughable, so if you dont want to be an anonymous laughing stock for the rest of the thread then dont reply
>>337958434
i had no problem with the bosses in TW3, the 3rd wild hunt guy you fight with the sword and mace, his 2nd stage was tough, he was teleporting everywhere, until I realized just to literally hit him once and roll.
It's the witcher contracts that ar
e the hardest.
if anything, people want to say it's easy, well soon as you get to velen do the witcher contract you get from the inn at the crossroads.
lvl 33 and you would be level 3-4 maybe less...you will get rekt by the first arachis
>>337960508
You can make it so she'll always let you in, I think. Or justgive her a heart attack.
>>337960997
Literally every one that's possible to list. You fucking cuck
>>337960490
>b-b-b-but its hard
No it aint. People have disproven your cuck lies with webms.
>each enemy has their weakness
And apparantly that weakness is buttonmashing.
They shouldve just made a movie because the gameplay is ass.
>>337960935
>triss
But that was Yen, not Triss. You are mixing them in your post.
>>337960957
TW3 has a lot of monster hunting too, but also has tracking, haggling for price, trophies, the very different potions, bombs and oils required for the different beasts, etc.
Its pretty good as a witcher sim, just needed a few more DLCs that were just that, monster hunts.
I'm replaying 3 now. Tried 1 and 2 but never got into them. I really enjoy 3, just wandering around taking contracts. Combat is annoying at times and the main story is trash, but the world and immersion is top notch. Even the side content like gwent and boxing are fun
>>337960902
It seems like you haven't played the game
You have to use two combat buttons, dodging, rolling, and signs (5 of them) accordingly to different enemies, all with different movesets and weaknesses. You literally cannot get through the entire game with sidestepping and spamming combat. You just cant unless you're playing on easy
>people talk about some Operator bossfight I can't remember
>turns out it was just a single optional guy, I somehow killed on my first try
I have struggled with every fucking boss on multiple playthroughs and this guy was somehow never a problem
>>337961026
You're right on the first count, the contracts weren't that difficult either tho.
I have to admit, HoS 6 olgierd fights was quite difficult and made me appreciate the expansion a lot more. I don't mind dealing with flawed combat, but the game has to be at least somewhat challenging, and HoS really satisfied me on that front.
>>337960429
I played on Dark. I didn't choose insane because I didn't want to have my save deleted, but I read that the difficulty between the two was comparable is that not true?
>>337961117
Please. List even one. I'll even give you a head start
>The Last of Us
HAHAHAHAHAHA
>>337961212
Dark was added later in the enhanced edition. Yes, the difficulties are comparable other than the fact that you have to start over completely when you die.
>>337961181
Question, since I'm bad at 3. Is Heavy attack just useless against humans? If you spamming light attacks it eventually breaks their guard but heavy doesn't seem to do that
IF YOU HATE THE COMBAT IN WITCHER 3 AND HAVE NOT USED THIS MOD
>http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1170/?
THEN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN
>>337960545
Yeah to get Yen to throw you in the river you have to break up with her then act kind of like a dick in that one conversation after she says to stop joking. You can still act like joke though if you didn't break up with her and she won't throw you in. At least she didn't with me.
>>337961283
>expecting a reasonable discussion with someone who actually uses cuck
>>337960893
>start playing Witcher 3
>man, I really want to play Witcher 2 instead, that was nicer
>download and start playing Witcher 2
>man I wish I was playing Witcher 1 instead, that was nicer
>download and play Witcher 1
>marathon in in a few days and love every second of it
Granted while Witcher 3 has a few strong points among it's genericness, Witcher 2 is just not that fun anymore.
Playing through Witcher 1 made me realize just how fucking good the menus and controls are in that game compared to 2 and 3. Fucking consoles man.
>>337960997
Dragon Age 2 and 3 are on consoles, are from this century, and are on par with the Witcher games.
Dragon's Dogma or the Dark Souls games also work, even if they are less obvious with their stories.
>>337961196
Must've been pretty good at the game then, well done.
>>337961283
Well, yeah there's one. It doesn't feel like torture playing that, so there's that
>mfw the whole fucking world fell for shitty slavic fantasy meme
just can't make this shit up
do I need to play the witcher 1 before 2 or 3 for story reasons? If no then i'll skip it because I can't stand the way it plays
>be Yen
>boyfriend gets amnesia
>get pissed that he doesn't remember you
10/10 realistic portrayal of women though
>>337961403
Neat. If only I could install mods without the game completely breaking.
>>337961559
>be yen
>go visit boyfriend's house
>start ordering his dad and brothers to do chores
>complain to boyfriend that they arent polite to you
Triss always did handle the witchers better.
>>337961556
Honestly speaking? Coming from a non fanboy but silly tryhard, no, you don't need to finish TW1.
What I recommend you do is this, pirate if you must; start TW1 and progress through the first chapter. If you ABSOLUTELY cannot stand it even in chapter 2, drop it and start on TW2 instead. If you ABSOLUTELY cannot stand TW2 drop the series because TW3 is essentially an improved TW2 (gameplay wise).
>>337961556
Not really. You might miss out on a few goodies, especially if you don't know the story of the books, but you should be fine. Most references are to the books and not the previous games and will leave you confused either way.You are a faggot though since Witcher 1 is the best in the series.
>>337961703
Literally what Triss did in Blood Of Elves though as she started to get all pissy with the witchers.
>>337961402
depends on how you're leveling, but generally light attacks are most effective at DPS. Just like most games with light/heavy attacks its usually useful to rely on the light attacks until you have an open window for heavy attacks
>>337961447
>Dragon Age 2 and 3 are on consoles, are from this century, and are on par with the Witcher games.
jesus fucking christ
>Dragon's Dogma or the Dark Souls
absolutely arguable about gameplay and I'd even agree, but the point of the Witcher games is that they tie decent combat to an awesome RPG; better than almost every other non-cRPG
You also fundamentally misunderstood my post: It wasn't saying that consoles dont have good games, just that the idea that those not on consoles are starved of good games is fucking insane
>>337961728
If only CDPR had done some short introduction Youtube series about the background of certain characters, people could've jumped straight into TW3 with no need to read books or play other games.
make them in the style of the loading screens, just stills with narration. Or maybe like the manga looking cutscenes from TW2.
Shame they didn't bother. I am sure many people missed out on the writing being clever at times.
I just can't get through the swamps. I want too... but fuck. It's just literal cancer.
All I hear is the game gets much better after too.
>>337961595
if you weren't retarded then you could do it
>>337961898
>You also fundamentally misunderstood my post: It wasn't saying that consoles dont have good games, just that the idea that those not on consoles are starved of good games is fucking insane
Well any good RPG of the last 5-8 years is also on PC, so thats clearly not the case.
I am not the original poster by the way, I make no claim in favor of consoles.
Ever since their exclusives started getting ported to PC there is no reason to buy one. It seems irrational to do so.
>>337962008
Then teach me. I've tried every single "fix" I've come across but nothing has fixed that damn scripting error shit.
>>337961984
If you're just playing this for TW2 and 3, you're not missing much story wise by skipping the rest. I personally think TW1 is a great game in of itself, but I understand not everyone thinks that way.
>>337954840
It has a similar problem to 2 where it scales REALLY badly and shit is really difficult at first and becomes brainless later
>>337953730
It's a lot better but if you didn't like Witcher 1 you don't have good taste anyway
>>337961906
I don't know, I really don't understand why people think TW1 and TW2 are not worth playing through. What compels them to even start with TW3?
Is it just me or are the Witcher 3 controls kinda shit?
Like, I pretty much never ever use the hard attack or pirouette because it's so uncomfortable to use.
Did they have to make the controls for consoles first and pc second?
>>337962126
>only install mods for the currently updated version of the game
>contrary to every other game, actually use the nexus mod manager
>use this
>http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/484/?
>...
>now your game isn't shit
I personally run a fairly lightly modded game but the mods I do use are super important
>disable softlock
>Ultimate Lighting Mod with CSLM preset
>Friendly hud
and a few model replacements out of preference, but I literally couldn't play the game without those three mods
>>337962314
>Witcher 3
>a lot better than 1
No anon, you don't have good taste.
>>337962484
Casuals and has that easy and familiar Ubisoft formula. Its soulless but they dont have to put im any effort to learn anything
>>337962567
So, gonna say something I haven't already tried?
>>337962507
well, you can change the controls
I think alt-dodging and space rolling is actually great, and I changed heavy combat to m2 and witcher senses to m4
>>337955437
>CDPR pretends that nothing from the first Witcher game matters in the third game
Wait is this true?
>>337961181
Heres where you're wrong, lutfisk munching piece of shit, you dont need to use signs. ever.
You dont even need to dodge often because you can bruteforce everything with buttonmashing.
>>337961703
Except that Triss was extremely pissed at all the witchers for making Ciri train when she had her periods and was bossing them around.
>>337961984
Just listen to the radio while you're doing it and keep running, none of the randomly spawning enemies can keep up with you. It only takes a couple hours.
Gameplay wise the first game is janky as fuck. But in my opinion it has an atmosphere that's almost completely unmatched.
>exploring and questing to that soundtrack
>conversations with Dandelion and Zoltan
>working your way up the skill leagues in dice poker
2 ruined dice. You could make some serious money in 1 playing dice but in 2 you could bet barely anything. Plus you had to manually role the dice and they'd always end up falling off the board. And then 3 removed it completely.
>>337962702
no, because that's all it takes to run mods smoothly
>>337962969
Dice was hellafun, Gwent is very enjoyable at first, until you realize it's literally P2W and if you have a great deck you steamroll everyone.
I heard they were planning on adding more activies (including dice) but it was dropped during TW3 development process.
>>337962810
man, like a good 15% of all monsters require yrden to even hit, and try taking on a gang of wolves that outlevel you without igni
I mean shit man, you're outright lying right now or else you didn't play on a hard difficulty or only played in White Orchard, the tutorial area
>>337962703
My hands are huge so pressing alt in the middle of battle is pretty annoying and wears out my thumb really fast. Granted changing Witcher senses to something else I should do, not sure why I didn't do that before.
That said, am I doing something wrong or is heavy attack in general sort of shit in terms of damage? Like it barely does any more damage than light and takes so much more time to wind up, you could be halfway through a light attack combo before you land your first attack.
>>337962969
I will say Gwent is pretty fun. Not as comfy comfy and certainly fucking retarded from a story perspective, but pretty fun, dice can get pretty boring in how luck based and overly simplified it is.
>>337963057
Clearly it doesn't for me.
2 is the only good one.
>>337963297
Forget about heavy attacks, Geralt is all about being mobile, get in a couple of fast jabs and roll/dodge away afterwards until the opportunity presents itself to do more damage. Once you get the hang of it even Nekkers are not very challenging anymore, but you do need a little patience.
>>337962567
>yfw merger is going to break so fucking hard when BaW will come out.
>>337961447
> Dragon Age 2 and 3 are on consoles, are from this century, and are on par with the Witcher games.
You aren't fooling anyone but yourself here, Anon.
>>337963434
But 2 is the worst one. It does nothing that the other games doesn't do betterapart from having the the best graphics.
>>337963528
Wait, BaW isn't out? I thought it was released like a week or two ago.
>>337954002
>TW2
>Better than 1
Epic, simply epic
Go back to plebbit or whatever
>>337963715
BaW comes out in 2 weeks. At least in the UK.
>>337963203
>15%
Try 2%
>require
they dont even require yrden.
>b-b-but muh wolves
hold X to spin2win
Death march doesnt make the game harder, is jsut makes it more boring by turning everything in a damage sponge
>>337963715
13ish days, supposed to release the 30th of may monday afternoon senpai.
>>337961403
I'd like to use this one, if it wasn't for the fact that it's almost certainly going to be broken in the next patch when the expansion arrives. Mods for giving enemies less stamina would be nice too.
Anyway, I think part of the combat's problem is also that most enemies don't really have any special attacks that require you to stay on your toes.
>>337962567
I dunno if I'm doing something wrong, but half the time I've tried merging mods it just gives me an error and says it's not possible or something.
>>337953730
its like the witcher 1 infused with red dead redemption
with a story thats actually interesting...
What does Sign Intensity even fucking do? Quen intensity seems to do absolutely nothing.
>>337966346
It makes your signs more intense
>>337966346
Aard-knockdown chance
Igni-burn chance
Axii-no clue lol, time of stun?
Yrden-duration of trap
-Quen-amount of damage can be absorbed, is neglible unless completely specced into
>>337966346
Pretty sure it increases the amount of damage it absorbs.
>>337966346
quen is useless in witcher 1 regardless
and sign intensity makes your sings better, like it makes igni deal more damage or gives aard a better knockdown chance
>>337966665
It increases both damage and burning chance of igni and amount slowed and time slowed of yrden.
>>337955792
For me it was the fact that Gerald was super toned down. He wasn't a witcher anymore, he was a regular Joe who knew what meditation was and could roll and that's it. He died easy like anyone else, he was barely better at killing other people and his abilities were in general weak and unsatisfying, unlike igni in 1 good god. It was also obviously made for the 360 from the very start,long before they announced the port. You could see it in the level design, the horrible UI that didn't take advantage of PC controls (like 1 did) and the simplified as hell combat where potions only lasts 6 real life minutes or so and you could barely drink more than 1 or 2, unlike 1 where you could chug dozens for hours on end
>>337963434
I don't agree, but I understand this opinion
>>337963715
>It does nothing that the other games doesn't do better
I don't agree, and don't really understand this opinion. It has the best combat, most impressive graphics (note impressive, not best), and has the best structure to the narrative with the most effective inclusion of choice in a story than almost any other game
>>337963528
my butthole is ready
>>337966346
>Quen intensity seems to do absolutely nothing.
That's because Quen can always block atleast one hit, and since the enemies on Death March hit so hard they'll break through the shield anyway. Even if your shield is twice as potent, at best it'd block one wolf hit.
>>337966665
And it does increase duration of axii.
>>337966948
Good opinion, please post more often.
>>337966983
Ya, in death march I use axii and yrden way more than quen.
>>337953730
Your shit taste is nonredeemable so don't even bother playing games in the future
>>337961728
One of the greatest appeal of W3 is that it give you so many references if you've read the books and played previous games of the series. I can see why people think plot not that interesting. It's because all these details and characters mean nothing to them. I'm glad they finished Geralt's saga by squeezing everything they could out of the wither existing universe, that is giving Geralt his memory back and introducing characters from the books.
I've played through 2 previous games before W3 and you can really feel how CD RED were first unsure what to do with the universe (TW1 surrogate characters and borrowing from books) then they became ambitious and started their own plot with actually new characters but fell short of resourses to make all they wanted up the scale they wanted. I still have a feeling as if W2 is missing something very important, some consistency. That is probably why I don't like it. That and their sudden change of course from the first game which seemed as if series is going to die (since it was short and clanky). And at the end they finally pulled the artillery and put all their cards at the desk. So no more surrogates, self-created central characters without background, actual ending of the story.
>>337968905
>I still have a feeling as if W2 is missing something very important, some consistency.
Yeah, I think that best summizes my feelings on the second game, it just feels like something is missing.
>>337968905
>>337969175
Well, if the rumors are true, they more or less ran out of money near the end, partly because of the failed tw1 port, which is why act 3 was so short, we didn't get Dol Blathanna like they apparently planned and it was generally rough around the edges.
>get anywhere near a noble
>he instantly gets assassination attempt'd
>save him
>forces me to be his bodyguard
>finally he dies
>looking for his killer
>oh another noble
>forces me to work for him
>these sorceresses keep brewing shit up everywhere
>everytime I meet another witcher he's an asshole
>can't find any middle ground organizations in this side of the kingdoms, either they're scoia'tael terrorists or racist killers
J U S T
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S
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>>337953730
Hated the witcher 1 it felt archaic as fuck, tried 2 though and was able to enjoy that and 3 was a solid step up in many ways so if its just the feel of 1 you don't enjoy there's a chance the rest of the series might be fun for you.
>>337964005
Spin to win does not work when packs of wolves are over 5 or drowners. The AI isn't brilliant, but you can't just whirl and get them all before adrenaline/stamina drains.
>2% Nightwraiths, noonwraiths, wraiths, and very useful for gargoyles and other monsters if you went into Yrden.
In slews of games you can pour your points into one skill and just press 2 buttons. If you have fun doing that, fine.
Also, why does every game have to have a "boss"? If I want epic boss fights I'd play ICO games or Platinum or DaS games. If I want atmosphere and quests and story I'm gonna play Witcher 3. If I want loot progression Skinner Box, I'll play D2.
If games try to put everything in, I feel the quality would suffer.
