Goodbye you old bastard ;_;
>>340314631
fuck em
he can't kill the dragon born
Remember to watch the Blood & Wine credits until the end.
Been playing videogames for 6 years now and this is the first thread I see on 4chan /v/?
Really shows how pathetic this place is.
>>340314919
lmao stop
>>340314919
low quality bait
>>340315013
This is like the second or third thread you've posted this in.
Now I know you're baiting.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Witcherfags btfo
>>340314631
I didn't follow the games, did he die like he did in the book or did they decide to take liberties?
>>340314958
>Thank you for watching
FTFY, CDPR.
>yfw Roach quest
>>340314631
What a nice ending to the series.
>>340315225
The games take place after the book. They're well worth playing.
Good riddance. BRING ON CYBERPUNK.
>>340314958
first game in years I didn't pirate
don't regret it
>>340314958
Cyberpunk 2077 here we fucking come.
What does Goodbye mean?
>but...but muh replay-ability
What replay ability? What kind of autist goes through the same game just to see slightly different side quest outcomes? If there's no mod support, there's no replayability
>>340314958
S-see you Pol cowboy...
>>340315415
but there is mod support
>>340314958
See you pal.inb4 they get bought by EA
>>340315525
Nothing game changing though
>>340315530
>Gets taken over by Vivendi
>>340314958
Just wake me up when Cyberpunk 2077 releases
Is this true?
>>340315845
This is not a thread about those games, this is a TW3 thread anon
>>340314919
>mutant
>white
>>340315845
Wrong thread friendo, but the picture is kind of true.
They're likely remake the first game to cash in on the console market at some point.
Why does nobody call Marcin out on making games that contradict his company's philosophy?
>>340316096
Explain
>>340316096
>capitalism
>philosophy
go to hell, pinko bastard.
If you go to the top of Mt. Gourgon (big ass mountain) in Blood & Wine they left this little surprise.
You can only access it on PC though.
>>340314631
good riddance.
shit wrpg anyway.
>>340316150
>The moment we start becoming conservative [and] stop taking creative risks and business risks, and stop being true to what we're doing, that's when we should worry. And I am not worried. Our values and our care for what we are doing and – hopefully what gamers would agree with – care for gamers is what drives this company forward. It's my personal horror to become a faceless behemoth of game development or publishing or whatnot. As long as I am here I will be fighting for this not to happen.
Does anyone actually get this feeling from CDPR or their projects? I don't.
There will be another game set in witcher universe, after Cyberjunk flops.
>>340315530
>bought by EA
>>340316596
It'll be shit without Geralt.
>>340316596
>Implying Cyberpunk isn't in The Witcher universe
dude interdimensional travel lmao
>>340316713
Create a witcher in times before of current games, with Fable-like introduction (youth, etc)
>>340316571
just about to start this game and hopefully finish it
any tips?
How do you make a game based around a guy who kills monsters for a living and get away with making every single monster forgettable?
Witcher 3 is the best game of all time upvote if you agree
>>340316592
What is the problem? They contradict nothing of that
>>340316842
turn off Point of Interest markers on the map (go to options --> HUD)
>>340316592
I still don't see your point.
>>340316713
This. Better go for a new setting. I wish they bought the WoD IP instead of Paradox.
Did anyone else realize that Skyrim is trash after playing witcher 3?
>>340316842
>Don't do any of the throwaway notice board sidequests
>Don't visit the points of "interest"
>Don't fuck Yen or Triss
>Don't expect a well thought out plot
>If you see some cool geography in the distance, do not ride towards it
>Don't expect the gameplay to get better
>>340315347
They said they wanted to make the world bigger than the Witcher 3's.
>>340317102
I realized Skyrim is trash after playing Skyrim
>>340316030
Shit I was getting major feels when I found that.
>>340316713
>>340316820
Games based on novels? Like prequel trilogy? With other playable characters etc. Would love play that.
>>340317364
I prefer if they stick to something after/before the times of books, that way the canon of books doesn't get raped much.
I want to play as young Vesemir and nothing can change my mind
>>340315525
>but there is mod support
Not really, no Redkit means we will never really see quality content mods, just re-textures n shit.
Fortunately unlike some games, Witcher 3 doesn't need mods to be good.
>>340315530
Not publicly traded so no way to do a hostile takeover without the heads of the studio agreeing to sell
>>340317693
CDProjektRED is part of CDProjekt, which is publicly traded.
>>340316717
No, it's not. Cyberpunk take place in our world. The USSR still exist. USA is divided in independent nations, and something more.
>>340316937
>>340317035
Maybe it's me, but if there was ever a term to describe The Witcher, The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3's overallgameplay, it's "conservative". It does nothing new, and does a whole lot of bad. 3 entries, no improvements.
Taking the open world gimmick is nothing if not the most un-creative thing you could possibly do, and it extends to how barren and pointless the actual world is.
The sweet nothings Marcin rambles on about represent everything CDPR has or is becoming.
>Cyberpunk is announced, but not even in pre-production
>Already marketing it's size and how much bigger it is than TW3
If that's not something a "faceless behemoth" would do then I don't know what is.
Also the marketing budget was worryingly high for a company that swears it's your friend.
>>340317838
Interdimensional travel
>>340317838
Our world takes place in the Witcher world
>Inter-dimensional travel
>The Catriona plague is literally the Black Death, Ciri brought it back by accident after visiting 14th century Venice.
>>340317496
Meh, next game shouldn't be only about witchers and witchering. CDPR should play around that prophecy, that Ciri's son or sons will rule the world. It would also allow to bring back some good old characters back.
pls name an action rpg better than The Witcher 3
All I see on /v/ is how bad it is, I want a better game
>>340317954
Yeah, it's just you.
I've read all the books and played all the games and I see improvement in basically every part of the game as they progressed. You don't need to go full original on everything to make a good game. And they made one of the best RPGs in recent years, that has about 200h+ of content overall.
>>340314631
well I just beat blood and wine. Took me 31 hours. I still have a few side/contracts to do also.I got the ending I wanted, and having ciri show up at the end was cherry on top. love this game and ready for cyberpunk in the future
>>340318227
What ending did you get?
>some nignogs steal Witcher's silver sword for shekels and he spends whole book looking for it
Wat a story, Mark.
>>340316018
>skyrim
>whose playerbase these days is just people with their waifu follower mods and slutty armor mods with several ENB's running to make it look like they never saw the sun in their life ever.
>>340318321
these sluts hugging it out and regis waiting for me at the end. with ciri at the house relaxing too. cd red is 2 gud 3 me.
>>340314919
>Poles
>White
Lmao
>>340318531
>Yen appears only for a second and doesn't even meet with Geralt
>no Triss
>no Ciri
>only Geralt and based Jaskier
This book was way better than I hoped for and I really enjoyed it. Read it a few days ago actually. Had a few solid aspects.
>>340314631
>he literally looks at the screen and smiles
Dammit I will miss Geralt.
Usually I enjoy sad endings more but this time I'm glad he survived and got a place to live with whoever is dear to him. Geralt deserves it.
>>340318619
my ending as well, good ending
>>340318193
>Yeah, it's just you
It hurts to feel this way, honestly. I wanted to like TW3 so much, but it just shot me down at every turn.
Oh well.
>>340318619
>>340318807
How do you get that ending, what choices did you have to make?
>>340318651
Yup pretty solid.
However I am one of these guys who love first two books (just set of random Witcher tales) and absolutely hate the Witcher's Saga with Ciri.
Shit was bloated.
>>340318619
>tfw I let Dettlaff go after killing Syn
>Anna mad af
>Dandy bails me out
>Triss comes and just sits there sunbathing all day
Most enjoyable part of that ending for me was drinking with Regis.
>>340318531
That sounds better than whatever TW3's main plot was trying to be about.
There is a level of brilliance in absurdity, look at John Wick.
>>340318935
Free Syanna and go to fable land and understand her motives
>>340318807
yup, was best possible imo.
even got to smash the cutie
>>340318938
Sadly I feel the same. The whole saga is especially hugely overrated in Poland but that's not surprising, really.
All the mage drama felt like a chore for me to read. Short stories were great, just reading about adventures and shit and not about clothing not fitting Geralt well and him being upsetti about it.
>>340319076
>Geralt visits mages and starts shitting on them for creating mutated monsters
>the leader of the mages goes apeshit and suddenly says that he needs to take a dump and he needs help
top kek
>>340318952
lol you goofed m8. thanks for the chuckle. I've been waiting to finish the game to google how the endings work. What all do they have? I already know I got the goat ending.
Not forcing a Geralt's death ending was one of the best decision CDPR made with the game. Now that they had a good trilogy, I hope they don't start to go to way of Bioware.
>>340314919
Yeah i cant wait for the new age protags, fuck all this bollocks about well written characters amiright fellow water gender? i sure cant wait
>>340319083
Would be better if more of your old friends came by instead of one. The house feels so empty.
Can you even get more people than Marlena to stay at your house?
>tfw I liked Roache better than Geralt
>>340319213
Eh, I liked my ending. I really didn't want Regis to be hated by other vampires, meaning he'd basically have no friends and be fucked for all of eternity considering vampires are basically immortal.
Besides, Syanna wanted to murder Anna in the end. If you play cards wrong, she actually goes on to stab her during the hug.
>>340319473
>If you play cards wrong, she actually goes on to stab her during the hug.
no shit? that would have been pretty cool ending imo. didn't happen for me though, I convinced them they were just dumb little turds and to get over it.
>>340314919
it's funny because he's black
>>340318935
Free Syanna, fuck her in the fairy tale world, make sure to get her the ribbon by playing gwent or buying it, kill detlaff, tell her you understand her anger, investigate the final note
she hugs her sister and nothing bad happens
>>340317163
So, dont play the game? Is that what you're saying? Man, you fucking suck.
>>340319604
I really didn't feel sympathy to either of them and after all, Syanna was responsible for deaths of several people and indirectly for deaths of probably hundreds during the vampire attack on the city.
Dettlaff was just a tool. It's like destroying a gun instead of the person holding it who shoots people.
>>340314958
Meanwhile at BioWare...
>>340319604
I got that ending on my first save.Syanna stabs duchess with a hair pin, scar face guard lrod then shoots Syanna in the throat with an arrow. Then you get a quest to lay flowers on the duchess grave and can choose to lay some on Syanna's as well. Shit was sad as fuck
>>340319195
Witcher Story quality tier
GOAT tier
>Short Stories
>Witcher 2
>Hearts of Stone
Pretty good tier
>Beginning of the Saga
>Witcher 1
>Blood and Wine
Shit tier
>End of the Saga
>Witcher 3's main quest
>>340314919
geralt is actually black albino
niggers take another L
>>340319823
Well, I wish I wasn't essentially saying that. Everything listed I did and regreted.
The "main" sidequests were the tits, arguably better than the main plot. The character dialogues were great. It just wasn't a great game as much as it was a great movie with awful pacing.
I don't suck, the game does.
>>340320032
sounds sad indeed. I'm considering loading back into a save and going the unseen elder route. I don't think it would take that long.
>>340320075
Main quest of TW3 was not bad. It was really good during Bloody Baron storyline, I feel like they revealed how Ciri looks too early though.
It all started to get a bit worse after the battle of Kaer Morhen, which was a top tier moment in the story. After that it felt like it's getting a bit dragged on for too long.
And the final boss battle was disappointing, Imlerith was a way better boss too.
>>340320075
Definitive list.
>>340319849
is this fucking real
>>340320075
This nigga knows
>>340319826
Syanide didn't tell Dracula to murder thousands of people in the streets because he threw a tantrum over pussy.
He needed to be put down and I the end even his best friend Regis knew it.
>>340315525
Yes, and I will never not be mad at it.
This ending withlaying down flowers on the graves toofelt a bit like Metal Gear Solid 3's in a good way.
>>340318619
That's a terrible ending, both of those pompous over-indulged cunts deserve to suffer.
>>340320281
You should, it doesn't take too long and there's some cool stuff there
>>340320323
Yeah, when it first came out, this was the very last thing you saw. Without DLC, the last words in the Mass Effect trilogy are "downloadable content".
>>340320387
He gave a warning though. If she actually went on to meet with him, he would not attack the city.
>>340320283
>It all started to get a bit worse after the battle of Kaer Morhen
Agreed, hanging out at Kaer Morhen with the other witchers was great
Also agree about Eredin, he sucked and was easy compared to Imlerith
>>340320323
Are you fucking real or just new?
>>340319849
Ultrakek
>>340320283
>they revealed how Ciri looks too early though
Yeah when you mention it, they could have made her run around with a hood and scarf covering most of her face and waited with the reveal of her face
>>340320553
Oh he gave a warning to Syanna?
Oh okay that makes it alright that he murdered thousands of innocent people with nothing to do with him.
Thanks for clearing things up.
>>340320597
SUMMON THE BITCHES
Drinking with Lambert and Eskel was probably the best part in the whole game. Battle itself had a few good moments too, sadly with death of Vesemir also.
>>340320725
Or... just not make the player play as Ciri. Make it a cutscene without showing her face and a lot of things being shadowy and all, or something like that.
>>340319849
Meanwhile in your copy of a Ubisoft game...
>>340315284
i wished it never ended
>>340320283
It was awful.
>The Witcher 3: Episode I: The Phantom Antagonist
>Exposition entirely in flashbacks, from Geralt to Ciri, Eredin and that other Elven fuckboy
>Climax in Act IV
>Tacked on Act V
>Pandora's Box plot device introduced and resolved in Act V
>Almost, ALMOST draws a parallel between Geralt and Eredin, but fucks off with it one sentence later literally by saying "muh daughter"
>The best and most emotional ending is a 10 second cutscene
>>340321040
If I'm not mistaken in polish version Roach was voiced by Wojciech Mann. Who's a fat old man.
It was completely hilarious and if Roach kept on saying things after that quest it would be 10/10
>>340319819
ng+ here i come
>>340320075
GOAT tier
>Witcher 2
top kek
>>340320075
>>GOAT tier
>Witcher 2
>>Pretty good tier
>Witcher 1
I can't tell if this post is supposed to be satire.
>>340317183
Absolute madmen.
>>340321897
>t. ADD
>>340322328
>t. didnt read the books
>>340322632
I did read them. What point are you trying to make?
>arrive in Toussaint
>think that it'll probably be a quite small area with just a main quest and some contracts here and there
>mfw opening the map for the first time
>>340320597
3 had a lot of great scenes and dialogues spliced throughout, but as a cohesive and interesting narrative if falls flat on its face.
>>340322813
>tfw there is still nothing to do
>>340322813
>tfw playing Witcher 3 for the first time and look at the map when you arrive in Velen
>>340322912
>>340322912
>nothing to do
Fuckton of side quests, basically every location has a backstory or anything leading up to this exact moment, new Gwent Deck (although shitty), etc
It was a true GOOD expansion.
Post your favorite song from the ost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gokhBJWSjeM
Why isn't anything happening in the world? Why aren't people being hung in real time? Why aren't people being raped in real time? Why are there so few people on the roads?
Why does the world feel so fucking dead except when you're in a cutscene?
>>340323146
>expansion
Damn it's rare that games gets expansions instead of shitty DLC missions
>>340323146
The side quests would be fun if the gameplay was tolerable. Ride yer horse to a marker, use the yellow brick road to find the clue, pull out your sword to kill the uninteresting monster.
Every sidequest in the entire game, 3 gameplay elements that are worse than Bamham.
>>340323207
>the world feel so fucking dead
Kek
>>340316565
>sprinkling of women through the staff photo
>only 2 people with gross dyed hair
>lots of smiles on everyone
>not Bioware
Example of a perfectly based and normal business.
>>340323443
Next thing you'll do is post the same few cherrypicked webms of witchers "shitty" combat
You just don't want to enjoy the game, face it.
>>340322912
>>340323207
>>340323443
>image.jpg
Hmm
>>340323706
shut it down the goyim know
Which of the other worlds was the most interesting?
>>340323443
Here anon let me just save you the time.
>>340323207
If you want the perfect example of a dead open world, play MGSV.
I know it's not supposed to be an open world game in the classical sense but holy shit, fucking nothing happens.
>>340323552
It's changed now. They started hiring foreign developers.
By the time Cyberpunk releases, and I am willing to bet this, when you watch the credits, 1/3rd of the staff will have a polish name.
>>340322789
Most of Witcher 1's plot is a straight up r̶i̶p̶-̶o̶f̶f̶ homage to events of the books. It also has some serious pacing problems and an uninteresting antagonist that is absent until the last chapteronly thing he has going for him is the Alvin twist. Look its fine for what it is and by no means bad, but no way is it as good or better then the Witcher 2, whose plot reached a level of intricacy and sophistication that is rarely seen in a video game.
>>340323560
I'm on mobile so no weebums, and the combat looks good. Key word, looks. Plays like shit.
Dude trust me, I wanted to like this game. I had no pre-release hype, didn't care about the downgrade meme, just bought it on a whim and pumped 80 hours into it doing everything possible.
80 hours of pure, unfiltered regret.
>>340322632
Only saving grace about Witcher 2's "political plots" was Letho, and you know it, anon.
The rest was pure bullcrap, both paths lead to nowhere, but they were well-written and well voice-acted at least.
How old is Geralt anyways? Isn't he like 80 something?
>>340324165
His exact age is unknown, but he is around 100 years old.
>>340324165
Around 100, yeah. Witchers don't age the same way normal people do because of mutations.
>>340324048
Maybe it's just not your type of game? Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's shit. I can't get into RTS games for shit but I won't call them crap just because I can't get into them that much.
>>340324165
Bookfags will tell you he is in his 60's, CDPR says he is nearly 100, so either would be true when it comes to the videogames' lore.
>>340324165
90~99
>>340324272
I'm a bookfag but I'm fairly certain that Geralt is not in his 60s, he's older than that.
Then again I read it years ago so could be wrong
>>340324165
93
Yen is 98
>>340323803
The one with the weird plants was interesting but the desert world was fucking gorgeous.
>>340324367
It is about Nenneke not possibly being over 140 years old, as she personally taught Geralt when he was young, but she may know some herbs or simple magic to slow down aging.
Either way, it does not matter that much.
>>340324048
>no pre-release hype
Well I was hyped as fuck and the game exceeded my expectations.
I guess you should try some more juvenile games.
This expansion really was a great send off. Gorgeous location with fun characters and side quests. I only wish the main quest had been slightly better, but it still had plenty of good moments so it's all good.
>>340320182
nah, you suck pretty hard
probably more than your mom does
>>340320159
Why must you idiots always assume that anyone who says something against whites is black? Does no one else exist except black and whites?
>>340324073
What exactly was bullcrap about them? One of the great things about Witcher 2 is how much of the story is left up to the player, it never spoon feeds you plot points or character motivations, not even Geralts. It treats its subject matter and the player with maturity.biggest problem with it is there are points where it does come off a bit pretentious
>>340323803
>>340324513
>ywn visit the vampire home world
Going for the unseen elder gave some cool information about the conjuction of spheres and how the vamps are waiting to come home
>>340323803
I fucking loved them all. Wish there was more/
>>340324749
>not even Geralts
u fukken wot m8?
your motivation is set during the very first hour of gameplay: prove you're innocent and find Foltest's killer
other character's motivations are also pretty obvious
>Roche
Avenge Foltest
>Iorveth
Fuck humans and take opportunity to take back the land
>>340324575
>tfw didn't watch any trailers, didn't read any news about Witcher 3 despite being a fan of the books and games
>tfw didn't want to ruin any fun of spoiling anything
>didn't even go in witcher hype threads
And then I loved the absolute shit out of the game.
>>340323917
I ageee with you, but I guess the excuse is that it's Afghanistan in a war zone. A COLD war zone.
It was an awful setting to go the open world route. Chapter 1 of MGS4 has more action than all of MGSV, and the former is what I was expecting all of MGSV to be. I don't remember enemies even patrolling the land in MGSV, outside of unscripted missions.
Doesn't excuse TW3. You can't do anything lest you be desynchronized, every NPC with no soul is just walking around to nowhere in particular, doing nothing.
I expected a world threatened by monsters to have random monster attacks, I expected a world that depicts a harsh reality to be harsh outside of cutscenes.
Where are the mages being hunted in the streets? In a cutscene, during one sidequest.
Where are the elves and dwarves being hunted in the strees? In a cutscene, during one sidequest.
Where is the threat of monsters? The civil strife, and the fucking war that the game is built around? Cutscenes, sidequests.
The entire game is just a poorly written script. It's open world, but there is nothing in the open.
>>340323196
https://youtu.be/TRT3FOOk9ZI?t=29m28s
too many to name honestly
composer did an awesome job
which surprised me really because W2's OST was shit and I honestly can't remember a single song from it
>>340324861
Although it does bring up the question why Geralt wouldn't bring up Ciri since she should technically be able to bring the vamps home.
>>340325168
>lest you be desynchronized
I think you are spouting about Asscreed you retard. So what you want is to walk around during cutscenes?
>>340324950
>your motivation is set during the very first hour of gameplay: prove you're innocent and find Foltest's killer
Everyone who matters knows Geralt is innocent. There is a conversation near the beginning of Act 2 where both Dandelion and Zoltan ask Geralt why he is even on this journey, and you get to tell them why you think his. Clearing his name is one of the reasons, but its pretty much the weakest one and both Dandelion and Zoltan point that out.
>is a mutant designed to stand up to things that 10 times his size and is supposed to have cat-like reflexes and shit
>still takes massive damage from a fall of about 7 feet
>>340324749
While it is true the story does not spoon feed you that much, the main story is just about building a bridge between the first witcher game and wild hunt, that is about it.
Sure, it handled politics far better than Djikstra going full retard Witcher 3, and the "antagonists" besides Loredo and Dethmold had their own understandable agendas, but, what was the point of the whole plot in Witcher 2? Did it really add anything besides Geralt recovering his memories?
If the game was never made, it would not have affected Witcher 3 in any way, except that we would not have characters like Letho or Roche in it, that is about it.
Don't get me wrong, I like Witcher 2, but it is definitely not GOAT tier, not in the slightest.
>>340325412
I was mocking Assassin's Creed, and in turn The Witcher 3. I legitimately laughed when I first experienced the desynchronization in AC.
No I don't want to walk in a cutscene, I want the world in real time to have the same action as any cutscene does, in scripted sequences.
Otherwise it feel deads. Which it is. Because open world is a gimmick that CDPR did nothing to build upon.
>>340325168
>every NPC with no soul is just walking around to nowhere in particular, doing nothing.
NPCs actually have routines in towns.
The patrols are patrolling. That's what they do.
>to have random monster attacks
it's not monster hunter, a bruxa isn't just gonna spawn in the middle of a forest to fuck you in the ass.
>I expected a world that depicts a harsh reality to be harsh outside of cutscenes.
it kinda does
NPCs have unique dialogue for a lot of events. For example I noticed the other day in a quest in Crow's Perch that after you save some peasant from 2 guards abusing him, all the peasants ran home and locked their doors, and if you knocked they'd be scared and say shit like "Shh! Be quiet!" or just beg you to spare them. There was even a mother telling her crying kid to stay calm and that she wouldn't let Geralt hurt her, the door was locked etc etc. There's a surprising amout of dialogue for minor side events.
>Where are the mages being hunted in the streets?
You see them burning at the stake. You see Keira Metz burnt at the stake too. Otherwise the mages are all living in the hidden underworld protected by criminal lords. What do you expect?
>Where are the elves and dwarves being hunted in the strees?
They aren't hunted in the streets in Novigrad, retard. They're scorned by the Church of the Eternal Fire, but that's it, they aren't burnt at the stake yet.
>>340325168
>I guess the excuse is that it's Afghanistan in a war zone. A COLD war zone.
That's not even a good excuse, though. The game makes a big point out of the fact that the Soviets are fighting Mujahideens, yet we never see them anywhere outside of a few captives.
>>340325598
>the main story is just about building a bridge between the first witcher game and wild hun
Thats fair, and Wild Hunts falls flat on its face when it comes to pays-off for everything Witcher 2 build up. 2 will always be lessened by that fact that it was followed up by an underwhelming sequel.
Still I don't really think you need to argue that a story need any reason to exist other then to be interesting and entertaining.
>>340325168
>Where is the threat of monsters? The civil strife, and the fucking war that the game is built around? Cutscenes, sidequests.
The game isn't built around war at all. Did you even play it? It's entirely built on the search for Ciri. The war, just like in the books, is an unfortunate circumstance of the world.
>>340325780
So like the Far Cry games where animals attack random people and stuff? The world feels dead regardless in those
>>340325168
>random monster attacks
Almost all of the monsters you encounter in Witcher just sit in their lair, eating and only killing people who get close to their place, that's simply it.
>>340325837
>fuck you in the ass
Not me, or Geralt rather. Have it attack a city. Everybody bitches and moans "OH GODS, IF OUR VILLAGE GETS ATTACKED AGAIN WHAT'LL WE DO" but you literally never see them attacked ever.
How about cities? Starving ghouls just straight up rambo the guards and start eating them, then go further into the city.
Literally anything. I'm supposed to be immersed in the world, but I'm the only one playing it. Everybody else from NPCs, to monsters, whatever. I'm (Geralt) the only one acting in real time, and that's why it's dead.
>>340325920
I would argue the writer team that worked on Witcher 2 got changed, hence why the politics are simplified as fuck in Witcher 3.
Sure, a story only needs to be interesting to exist, does not mean that Witcher 2 added to the franchise except fleshing out the politics of the world and certain characters.
>>340319849
buy more content guys, we're progressive
>>340326316
>I would argue the writer team that worked on Witcher 2 got changed
They did get changed actually. Witcher 2 was primarily written by 2 guys, one of them left, and the other just did an outline for 3 and moved on to cyberpunk.
>>340325927
So where is Ciri and The Wild Hunt? In the back seat until Act III, and only heavily featured in the final, tacked on act.
>>340325985
Yeah, but at least it's something. Far Cry, just like MGSV, has the excuse of a) being set in the real world, I.E. not fantasy and b) being set in a desolate nowhere
Not good excuses, but their wrongs don't right TW3's. The game preaches strife in evey facet, but you never get to play it, only watch it.
>>340326284
>Everybody bitches and moans "OH GODS, IF OUR VILLAGE GETS ATTACKED AGAIN WHAT'LL WE DO" but you literally never see them attacked ever.
no lol
Monsters live in the outskirts. They stay away from civilization, unless they're extremely intelligent like Vampires or other shit. Monsters aren't organized to attack a village.
Besides, people don't go "oh god monsters are going to attack the village", they go "that fucking piece of shit monster won't let us get water from the well" or "fucking nigger's in the wheat fields we cant get food"
>How about cities? Starving ghouls just straight up rambo the guards and start eating them, then go further into the city.
Why would ghouls be starving? Quite a few battles have been fought, there's plenty of dead bodies lying around as you've seen. There's a war going on. Ghouls only eat dead people.
It's your fault for going in expecting grandiose attacks on villages and saving peasants from the brink of death.
>>340323975
>Witcher 2, whose plot reached a level of intricacy and sophistication that is rarely seen in a video game.
This makes me so sad, I genuinely think Witcher 2's story is the deepest I've every experienced in a game. I was REALLY curious to what letho's motivations were, and that massacre in the finale just bumped everything up to 11. I thought most of the game was interesting except for the side quests which were shitty filler in my opinion.
I don't think we'll ever get something as complex, Witcher 3 disappointed me immensely with its antagonists (generic skeletors). And I can't state enough how much I loathe that annoying cunt Ciri.
In fact, Witcher 2 was a direct inspiration behind me creating my Skyrim mod (one of the larger new land mods, leave it for you to figure out which one).
>>340314958
Such a bro company, I love these Poles.
>>340326495
Yeah, a shame that happened, as some of the new writers really can't write for shit, or just pretend they know the books when they really don't.
>>340326697
>So where is Ciri
You spend 50 hours getting that answer.
>and the Wild Hunt
you're told at the very start (first 5 minutes) that they're after Ciri.
>>340316018
>kind of true
But the games share the same player base.
I fucking love this game
>>340319849
Please post the email you get by the edgy antagonist, you know the guy who in the canon books breaks into someone's apartment and eats said persons cereal because he's just that "badass".
>>340314958
Fucking Poles, man. Fucking Poles.
>>340326697
There's literally small quests all over the map with different things happening. I can still find new quests in Velen right now after 200 hours
>>340326719
To be honest it would feel weird like fuck if every time you approached a village some shit would be going down, random monsters attacking or whatever. It's like OH WHAT GOOD TIMING THAT I'M JUST PASSING THROUGH AND I CAN SAVE YOU ALL JUST RIGHT ON TIME!
>>340323932
>It's changed now. They started hiring foreign developers.
They've been doing that for years.
>>340315415
It's a good thing that CDPR hosts modding competitions then
>>340326837
>some of the new writers really can't write for shit
>Hearts of Stone
>or just pretend they know the books when they really don't.
>Blood & Wine
>There will never be a more based developer
>>340316596
You forgot the inevitable Gwent only spinoff
>>340316596
They're already working on something planned for this year. It could be a Witcher game considering they simply said this is the end of GERALT'S adventures.
>>340326719
>It's your fault expecting fun times
You're not wrong there. Still, would've been nice to actually see the fight between Temeria and Niilfgaard, instead of following a red gas body to body for a noname character I don't care about for exp I don't need and money that can't buy me anything useful.
Bar fights? No bar fights. Ever. Outside of scripted sequences. Did CDPR find a way to explain why people don't have bar fights?
>>340327036
Yeah main quest is shit, but the new writing team found themselves in Hearts of Stone. I think they are better suited for a shorter compact story then a 100 hour questline.
>>340323932
They already had some, and I doubt Cyberpunk will draw from the same Polish ancestry that a Polish fantasy universe would. All that matters is direction and mindset.
>Can't bang the Duchess
Shitty expansion tbqh
What is the in-universe explanation for Geralt reverting to level 1 in witcher 2 and 3?
Yen or Triss?
>>340327257
If there would be bar fights you'd complain that it happens too often and go "oh every time I enter a bar a fight starts that's shit I hate this game"
You just keep finding excuses to dislike the game.
>>340327036
>Hearts of Stone
You can't go wrong with making a modern version of an already damn good polish treasure.
>Blood and Wine
Now there is where I will heavily disagree, the main plot itself was awful, Syanna was such a wasted potential and Dettlaff was so hilariously dumb it made Eredin for the lack of his presence in the main game seem so much better.
>>340327391
yen ofc
>>340327387
Because then you'd be even more overleveled when doing the main quests
>>340327257
>Outside of scripted sequences.
You know, you talk as if Witcher 3 does it extremely lazily, as if other games did all of this dynamically. I don't get it. What do you expect?
How the fuck do you even have dynamic bar fights? How would that even work? It'd be annoying as fuck. Not to mention it'd get old really fucking quick.
>>340327305
Nah, the problem is that Witcher 3 was re-designed halfway through. It was originally gonna have Iorveth and Manticores in, as well as that jewish cocksucker Kalkstein.
>>340327336
What matters isstaying true to your origins
>>340327387
Fell off Roach and hit his head or potions gave him severe hangovers
>>340326824
Problem with Witcher 2's story is that absolutely not Witcher like. Writers binged Game of Thrones and it shows. Witcher 3 main story depends heavily on whether you've read the books, though. Or you'll miss a lot of it.
>>340327391
triss ofc
>>340327305
They actually planned a lot of stuff in the final act of the game, but they had to cut them because they were "too much for one game" according to their dumbass head of studio.
>>340323932
>They started hiring foreign developers.
that depends from how tho, lot of hungarians also worked on it, but we are historical bros and (used to be) neighbors so its given
>>340327669
>witcher 3 requires the books
that's wrong though. just read the summary in your characters notes and youll be fine.
>>340327669
I actually liked how it was unWitchery. I liked Geralt being forced into a situation he hates and the whole Fish outta water feel to the whole thing.
>>340327818
It doesn't require the books but TW3 has a fuckton of references to books, polish culture and memes it's fucking insane
>>340327747
>but they had to cut them because they were "too much for one game" according to their dumbass head of studio.
I'm pretty sure that's a nice way to say "we crunched for months and people were about to hang me if we kept doing it."
>>340326824
It wasn't really all that complex, it was just hard to figure out anybody's motivation until 300 hours later.
fucking hell the main story drags
when the fuck do i find ciri
>>340327257
All your shitty ideas wouldn't work.
>speaking to someone during a quest
>hordes of monsters running around in the background
Should the NPC's respawn? Should every NPC be dead when you've played for 100 hours? Sure sounds like fun
>>340327515
>the main plot itself was awful
Don't know why.
Yes that laugh is a massive retard impulsive manchild, but so what? Does that necessarily mean he's a bad character?
I think they tried going into the root of the Witcher world, which is the whole "lesser evil" shit, and for that they had to make the player dislike both that laugh and Syanna, while still presenting "he dindu nuffin he wuz a gud boy" arguments.
I enjoyed it, although I can see why people would say Dettlaff and Syanna are retards.
>>340327906
Read the thread.
>>340327391
Objectively: Yen
>>340327880
Not when the cut content was already nearly complete, like the infiltration of the wild hunt questline, that alone would have fleshed out of the Wild Hunt enough.
>>340327906
hehe
After Skellige.then after Kaer Morhen
>>340327927
Dettlaff is not really a retard as much as he is just impulsive as fuck and was played like a damn fiddle by Syanna.
I fully understood him when he killed her in my ending. She manipulated him for her own purpose, made him kill even someone he befriended.
She was a huge fucking cunt. I'd rather drink vodka with Dettlaff than fuck Syanna in the ass in zero gravity.
>tfw you've put more hours into this game than any other
Really makes me curious what they have in store for Cyberpunk 2077. I hope they've learned they shouldn't have so many "investigation" quests, which unfortunately aren't always all that exciting. The quests with more unique premises or choices where it's not clear what's best, or you have to pay attention are a lot more interesting.
>>340328015
Whatever their reasons I don't think shit was left out due to laziness or anything.
>>340328015
> that alone would have fleshed out of the Wild Hunt enough.
I dont know about that, they are still absent for 3/4rds of the story. Geralt need to interact with them in some other way during the hunt for Ciri.
I suggested a while a ago Witcher 1 type interactions with wrath form Eredin where he taunts you about Ciri and talks about the negative consequences of your actions.
>>340327927
I get what they were going for, Dettlaff being the "innocent" that becomes a "demon" because of how rotten Toussaint really is, but he literally cut his own hand out of rage because he had to kill a man he did not want to kill, then suddenly he declares war on every single person in the damn city, it's like Geralt suddenly saying fuck it and starts slaying people in the streets.
But the music was awesome at least.
>>340328172
This game actually sucked me in for over 200 hours with just pure exploration, storylines and gameplay while also having god tier graphics.
I honestly see nothing on the horizon that could give me as much fun as this game did. Companies should fucking look at CDPR and learn.
As someone who hasn't played any of the games yet, are the stories of I and II required to start this, or is reading the books enough?
>>340328336
Yeah he got angry and Regis mentioned that vampires are more emotional than humans.
>>340328413
You should at least attempt to play TW2 beforehand.
>>340328336
>it's like Geralt suddenly saying fuck it and starts slaying people in the streets.
Not really. It can be explained by Dettlaff going blooddrunk (addicted to it) because of being forced to kill, so sacrificing a city would be a huge banquet at the end of the day with his vampire friends.
>>340328401
this
>>340327669
If it was very unwitchery, then I guess I just don't like Witcher at all then because I haven't touched W1. I just loved how you were a small fish in someone's ocean with W2 when it came to kingdoms and empires moving behind the scenes, that snippet at the end of W2 revealing the nilfguardian army had me hyped to fuck. But then in the W3 they do NOTHING.
I was really holding out hope that W3 would be revolutionary and have some dynamic landscape with nilfguard encroaching onto novigrad and then a big siege near the end.
It's been a wild ride. Do you think he'll make it to 2070?
>>340328401
>Companies should fucking look at CDPR and learn.
Too bad that wont happen when it's all about the money
>>340328221
Of course, it was left out because of dumbass management decisions, not because they were lazy, they planned to have a battle with the Wild Hunt in Novigrad ffs.
>>340328249
That would have been so awesome, unfortunately, they did not that, so that one questline was supposed to flesh out Eredin and the Wild Hunt, talking about their world slowly getting destroyed, oh well.
>>340328336
His character was dumb, but I really liked his voice.
>>340328413
Not really, but you won't know some of the characters that appear.
>>340328587
>nilfguard encroaching onto novigrad
this is funny because Novigrad was actually supposed to be invaded halfway into the game, just not by nilfgaard.by the wild hunt
>>340328413
You don't necessarily need to, but you'll miss out on cool stuff by not reading the books and playing W1+2
Also, the books range from pretty good to average so it's not like you'll die from a little bit of reading
And TW1 is amazing, TW2 too, do yourself a fucking favour and play them
>>340328587
It's six months later and game clearly established all the big war time shit happened, anon.
>>340328618
just
>>340328831
That was actually going to be the climaxe.
Final battle of the game was going to be Wild Hunt attacking Novigrad for Ciri, while a battle for it between Redania and Nilfgaard was waged at the same time.
>>340328618
so this is what pc gamers do to people
>>340328986
I imagine it got sacked because of consoles. Don't even want to start a war here, but Novigrad already runs like shit on consoles, having 50 NPCs on screen fighting with particle effects and shit. Can't imagine it running at any more than 15 fps.
