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I don't understand the hate, I played 2 and it was awesome, I played this and it was also awesome. I'm starting to think /v/ just hate new things and then when they become more vintage it's suddenly "good".
It got too popular, that was a mistake.
>>335678094
>hate
still a GOTY
what hate?
/v/ fucking loves this game, except for sonyggers who can't stand witcher 3 beating bloodborne
People don't find the combat enjoyable mate
>>335678094
it's a "popular game hate" meme
witcher 3 is undeniably amazing
inb4 that guy who thinks MGSV is more of an RPG than TW3
>>335678094
>2
>awesome
>>335678274
obviously
>>335678094
I played 1,2 and 3. Couldn't really care about the characters but the whole political intrigue and development had me enticed, especially at end of Witcher 2. Trying to understand all the countries took some time but that just bolstered my love for the franchise
>>335678248
yeah I will agree that the combat is a bit lacking BUT I only say this because I played the game on normal difficulty and after I got to like level 20 my silver sword fucked everything up in two swings.
Earlier in the game I was fighting monsters like the lady in the woods and some wyverns and having intense epic battles using all my potions, signs and patience to beat the monster
>>335678248
Witcher 1 combat was god awful, it has come a long way and that why a lot of people praised it
>>335678094
Pretty cool pic bro, thanks for the new wallpaper
>>335678094
there are no real hate. most people just use it to shitpost. Either to stir up Witcherfags or Sonyfags or falseflaggers, or all at once.
But some people genuinely have problems with this game, it's far from perfect. Some witcherfags take it too close to heart and start attacking people. Witch is why so many people troll this fandom.
>>335678319
Total opposite for me. The politics basically just boiled down to "Temeria good, Redania less good, Nilfgaard literally Nazis." The only reason I gave half a fuck about the political intrigue was Roche, dude's patriotism was infectious.
Just a friendly reminder, it literally IS because it's popular now. back before TW2 came out, /v/ mostly loves the franchise and treated CDProjekt Red like gods. It was even a widespread consensus to not torrent 2.
Flash forward to TW3, and you see some of the most vicious shitposting ever on this board. It's literally just contraionism, shitposters and newfags trying to fit in
>>335678479
>Just a friendly reminder, it literally IS because it's popular now.
Most of the criticism comes from how overrated the game is.
So yes indeed.
>>335678476
>Nilfgaard literally Nazis
Emhyr did nothing wrong fagget.
>>335678381
>Witcher 1 combat was god awful
no, it was not.
It's the #1 thing that got a lot worse with sequels. That and the UI.
>>335678530
No, there was rampant shitposting before the game even came out. It's because it got popular, nothing else.
>>335678094
Nice clickbait falseflag thread faggot. /v/ sucks dick of this game. 90% of /v/ is Witchershills.
>>335678476
Witcher 3 really made it simpler by boiling it down to 3 main countries, but Witcher 2 and the decision to make or break Upper Aedirn to me was great. Just a shame Nilfgaard conquered ti anyway
>>335678094
Only Redditors hate this game. Don't worry about it
>>335678558
W3 combat is not perfect but I always prefer it over W1
When the fuck does this come out? I'm ready for another Witcher 3 storyline now that I'm done with Dark Souls 3.
>>335678576
No actually, i've seen a large amount of hate for this game and very limited discussion.
/v/ sucks the dick of dark souls, which is actually a fucking shitty game compared to TW3 if you like a mature story and actual consequences; rather than a simple dodge roll and slash game
>>335678476
>Nilfgaard literally Nazis
Not really though.
>>335678708
Not sure if you are joking or what. /v/ and reddit loves this game.
>>335678706
june
>>335678094
>TW1
>sleeper hit PC only rpg
>not many people know about it
>TW3
>success of witcher franchise has made it more popular and widley known
That's why. Believe me, I've been here long enough to know this place and it's love of contrarianism. If they started making sequels to Vamprie: The Masqerades Bloodline, they were good and in turn made the franchise more popular, /v/ would start to hate it, regardless of quality.
>>335678476
>>335678720
>>335678535
Nilfgaard is literally Holy Roman Empire
My only complaint with the game was that there was too much to do and became overwhelming. I have very little time to play games these days so I guess that was on me
>>335678094
Literally got popular, that's it
>>335678767
>February
>April
>June 100% now trust us
>it's a placeholder date
>>335678765
You must be new because all I would ever see in the past year is Witcher shitposting. It was so bad I literally left this place, couldn't talk about it or any game for that matter. Just people spamming Witcher shitposting threads left and right. it was like GG. Yeah it toned down after the game was released, but it still existed a lot when I came back.
>>335678594
Good point, I actually forgot about that chapter of 2.
Speaking of TW2, what happens if you choose to kill Phillipa? I let her live but if I hadn't would she have just, like, not shown up in 3?
>>335678708
it's like the same 3 people that shitpost about the witcher 3 everyday....
The series went to shit with 2, and 3 was even worse because of the open-world filler
If you were here in 2010, you would understand that people in /v/ can tend to be contraians. Pretty much everybody loved this game back before TW2 came out/ when TW2 came out.
>>335678881
Yes that shitposting during early 2015 was incredible.
>>335678094
>he didn't read the books
>he didn't play TW1
>he played TW2 and TW3
>''i enjoyed it''
no, you didn't actually enjoy it, you're just an easily entertained subhuman who is ''entertained'' by anything you see and do. the reason you didn't actuall enjoy it, is because you can't enjoy something you don't understand. and in order to understand a directly chronological series like the witcher series, you would've had to start from the beginning.
>>335678558
W1 combat is MMO tier garbage anon, like the game but the combat is shit.
>>335678790
whatever it literally is, it's a fucking order and civilization that northern kingdoms could really use
>constant wars with each other
>chaos, lawless
>monsters fucking EVERYWHERE
one they will thank Emhyr for sorting it all out
>>335678164
Basically this.
Before tw3 if you told anons that you pirated tw2 they would go into an autistic rage. The witcher series was loved by /v/ but now that its popular the shitposting never ends.
>>335678865
when it's ready, not a day sooner. that's why cdpr games are actually good.
>>335679023
Eh, I've found that it's either love it or hate it. I was fine with it and so was one of my friends. We like it better then TW2's, but another friend of mine can';t even play TW1 because of how much he dislikes the combat.
>>335679006
You're such a faggot, I'm actually pretty impressed.
No wonder betas like you get pushed around like hispanics.
>>335678943
open world design allowed them to write plenty of quests that wouldnt have been possible otherwise, youd get a hundred quest in 1 hub and be overwhelmed
>>335678887
I let her live too, seeing her eyes gouged out as pretty satisfying, so I guess she doesn't show up then
>>335679074
they take their time and then cut corners.
Long dev cycles are not the reason why their games are good. If anything poor management might be the reason why they aren't as good as they can be.
>>335678237
I'm sonygger and this is my favoyrite game since 2001
>>335679029
>Not Ciri EMPRESS and temeria ending.
Best ending for everyone.
>>335679140
What a nice post, are you by any chance an african, or of mixed race? You're displaying signature non-white behaviour there with your post.
>>335678094
Wait, since when /v/ hates witcher? It's bloody amazing all parts of it
>>335679183
>>335678943
You guys seem to forget that the game is so much better than it could have ended up. W3 had a significantly smaller budget than games like GTA V, and a smaller dev team. The large story and world they managed to craft was astounding and easy to get lost in. You take this game for granted.
>>335678094
>arpg
>not crap souls
There is your answer. Currently /v/ has a giant throbbing boner for the clunky broken shitfest that is dark souls 3 and everything else is shit.
>>335679006
>he didn't read the books
I wish I didn't. Anjey is a fucking hack, these books are the most cringeworthy shit I've ever read. Games have better writing. Games have better everything.
Short stories are more or less fine. Ciri ark is pure shit, somewhere towards the end of Baptism it becomes so much worse, it transcends shittines and occupies its own alcoholism fuelled diarrhoea dimension.
>>335679298
theres few persistant shitposters, presumably ps4 owners who prefer nip style games.
>>335679358
it's also developed in Poland and not England. And you really overestimate how much of GTAV budget went into the game
Why not go to Reddit and talk about this game with like-minded cinephiles?
>>335678094
>I'm starting to think /v/ just hate new things
How new are you? Never EVER listen to /v/ you dipshit.
>>335679516
You sound like a dudebro.
>make ARPG
>Action sucks
>RPG aspect is non-existant
10/10 GOTY based Polacks who care for hardcore gamer!
>>335679516
I assume a lot of it reads better in the original language. As it is it's a mediocre fantasy series with nice influences from post WWII Europe and general Polish cynicism.
>>335679617
salary costs are much higher in usa than in poland
Also cdpr employees speak polish which doesnt make it easy to migrate to another country and make more money.
>>335679516
>implying you've read anything
>>335679702
you sound a little bit hurt. But we can talk about it. If you want.
>>335679721
What cynicism? And what's so Polish about it. it's more of a Soviet thing. There are a ton of better Soviet writers IMO.
>>335679683
Or listen to it and do exact opposite. You don't even know how many good games I found because of that.Or listen to it sometimes. Again, amazing music and game threads. After few months you can actually tell what you should do. [\spoiler]
>>335678094
WIII is generally well regarded on /v/.
>>335679708
you over-analyse it
>>335679801
Name five. I mean, I would like to read something. And protip - Poles were part of Soviets.
>>335679837
witcher 3 thread when morning in EU and most americans are sleeping = people love w3 and you get productive disucssion.
Witcher 3 thread when primetime in usa= shitposting everywhere
>>335679801
It's a Polish work by a Polish author, the games developed by a Polish team.
But yes, I wonder why we aren't seeing high quality story driven games emerging from former Soviet nations, Russia especially. Ukrainians yes, but Russians less so. It should be the other way around.
>>335678094
Most of /v/ is just hipster so they love shitty indie games and hate franchises when they get big, happened with souls and i think alot of people hate on 3 because of 2.
>>335679934
I'm a nightshift working American, perhaps you're right.
I've spent enough time on /v/ to be able to see the truth emerge from the sea of shitposting.
The Witcher 3 is an impressive game.
>>335679708
underrated post
>>335679708
you're probably one of those people that think Souls games count as RPG.
>>335679898
If you want fantasy, you more or less out of luck, you might try Hard to be a God by Strugatsky bros(Their most known work is Roadside picnic, served as a basis for Stalker. I'd recommend most of their works), it's more of a sci-fi spin on medieval novel genre
If you're fine with sci-fi or similar genres you might want to try classics like Efremov or Belyaev, Nabokov can be categorized as a sci-fi writer(Heart of a Dog).
And I know poles were part of "Soviets". idk if I can categorize Sapkosky as a soviet writer, he started really late.
>>335678248
uh duh, if you play on anything but death march
>>335678865
They said it would come out Q1 of 2016 before HoS launched and shortly after lauch of HoS changed it to first half of 2016, you humongous faggot.
>>335680563
>Hard to be a God
Didn't they make a game based on that book ?
>>335681174
They made a movie.
>>335681174
it's not good
>>335680563
He started late, but he is actually old guy. Damn, he once get drunk to take a reward with another famous writer, his friend. It was like this.
Sapkowsky enters the scene, drunks as fuck. They offer him a reward, by widow of guy that funded it. He looks around and ask someone.
"Can my friend enter with me?"
They agreed, so he turned to door and yelled. "ALL RIGHT, PEOPLE. TAKE HIM IN!" and bunch of other guys pulled in fucking dead drunk friend of Sapkowski. It was kek as fuck.
>>335679963
Russia is MMO world, devs focus on max revenue instead of making games. There were several Russian games in early 2000, but most of them were Strategies of some kind, mostly because Russians loved dem TBS and RTS.
Right now most Russian games are games like Warface, Warthunder, Allods Online, that new MMO from Nival. No one makes HoMM, Space Rangers, King's Bounty or Silent Storm. No one cares. Dem money are in MMO market. And Russian MMOs players grew up on games like Lineage 2.
Ukrainian market is doing a bit better, but it's mostly GSC and what left of them. Stalker came out, 4A was formed from people who left GSC. Action forms made Vivisector and Cryostasis, but I don't know what happened to them.
Also Ice Pick Lodge.
>>335678094
>2
>awesome
AYYYYYY
It was literally the one in the trilogy with the shakiest ideas and poorly implemented mechanics. It's aimed for Game of Thrones fans and instead of comfy villages and lakefronts we got dull army camps, linear mountain paths and muh political intrigue. It's pretty clear they weren't sure what to do in a sequel after Witcher 1.
>>335679963
economy gone to shit, early 00s it started well
now it's f2p mmo world
>>335681252
two movies, it's a very good booksecond movie is art house madhouse
>>335681174
now you mention it, I think they did. As far as I know it's pure shit.
There were several attempts to turn Strugatsky books into something else. I think there are several movies and games based on Inhabited Island, all of them are bad, which is funny, because it might be the easiest book to adapt into a game or a film. Hard to be a god got a game adaptation and a film adaptation, both are pretty bad. There's also a game based on Hotel, also pretty shit as far as I remember.
>>335681272
>Russians loved dem TBS and RTS.
RPG are strong as well, they take a lot of resources to make, so they didn't have time to form real development team besides mmo garbage for quick buck.
russian way - waste potential until there is no potential left
>>335681274
2 improved literally everything from the first game
>>335681606
oh and that reminds me - boiling point,precursors, space rangers, space wolves(?), parkan
those were pretty good for first try, we could've got RPG golden age if they kept making games
>>335678094
Shit fighting system.
Shit release.
Interface is worse than W2 or W1
Other than that - it is a good game.
>>335678237
I haven't touched a console in a decade, Witcher 3 is shit
Godawful combat
Every quest involves following tracks and clues
You do this by fucking highlighting them with godmode vision and click on the sparkly thing
There
>>335681420
oh fuck. Gherman died making it. I'm not even sure the final cut is something he wanted to publish or his spouse dived into his garbadge bin to get it. It wasn't even edited, they had nothing to go by, it's another Process by Kafca thing. They assembled something and pushed it out.
First shot is someone deificating on someone else's face. It's just people shitting on streets for 2 hours, rather literal approach to the topic. I don't even know if it has a story.
14 years in the making.
>>335679006
You'd be right if it was something like this.
>>335679268
This. That particular ending felt the most satisfying, and Winter Termeria was cosy.
>>335682000
if it has story i didn't notice it, i barely guessed what was going on because i read a book and watched soviet version
his son finished it, he swears he almost didn't do a thing
soviet film is decent-ish enough
>>335678094
>Listening to /v/
>Ever
>>335678094
You just have low expectations for games. The combat is still awful and the world is big and empty.
>>335679006
>>335681748
Almost none of them made their money back.
Space rangers team fell apart, whole team walked and created Katauri, they made King's Bounty The Legend, now they're making some MMO or DOTA clone. The one guy who held trademark to Elemental Games started his own DOTA clone or MMO or something.
Boiling Point is basically Far Cry 3 before Far Cry 3. Failed miserably. Precursor was Far Cry is space. It failed and the dev Deep Shadow closed.
Same with Parkan. Nikita closed down.
Space Wolf dev Xbow closed as well.
There is also Nival, they made Evil Islands and Allods, they're making DOTA clones and MMOs right now.
>>335678094
It's great, but there's always a few shitposter contrarians these days that like to shit on things /v/ likes in general
>>335678706
On the witcher facebook page they said that they will give more information about it in may. So probably june, as this anon said >>335678767
>>335682250
this film is so bizarre, without the book it makes no sense, but at the same time it misses the point of the book and makes it disservice by altering some plotpoints and characters.
Kira, a major character in the book, makes no sense in this film, she's a dirty whore like any other character, Rumata moral dilemma becomes rather mute and the titles makes no sense.
>>335682426
>Nival, they made Evil Islands and Allods
My pain is great.
My torment is everlasting.
>>335682426
if they tried to make same games now with same resources but with cheaper tech without the need to invent bicycle or appeal to publishers(thanks steam) -they would make mad bank, just like dying light devs
>>335682921
don't forget to save before that backstab
>>335682036
wow what a retard
>>335683381
Only techland had a huge promotional campaign behind DL. There are ton of small, but ambitious projects on Steam that go unnoticed.
Deeps shadow would fit right in with Early Access, bu that's it. These companies were ambitious and focused on PC market with little to no PR campaigns. Many of these games were buggy or niche, doubly so because they were on PC in mid 00s, triply so because finding a good international publisher with real PR support was almost impossible back them for an average Russian dev.
>>335683436
You're the only one who can't understand a background story from recap and can't enjoy it, retardinho.
>>335683804
Witcher 3 right at the beginning spoils one of the biggest twists of the saga
>>335678094
Same thing happened with fallout 3 desu. Fallout 3 has its flaws and is a different experience to 1 and 2, but it's still a FUN game.
>>335683698
My point PR is cheaper to get now behind project, and quality issues partly would be solved by tech available today for pennies.
They had to make everything themselves back then engine,tools etc.
Now you can make games of that quality with a team of 3 people just by using one of big three engines which are cheap. Proper team will have a field day with ready to sue tools available now.
Look at Outlast(game itself aside) - it was cheap to make because of tech already in the engine.
>>335679963
>high quality story driven games emerging from former Soviet nations
I'd take Croteam making some of the only decently good modern FPS games over that tbqh
>>335684040
witcher 1 does that as well
>>335678164
t. contrarian board
>>335684287
Yes and that's why its best to read the books before touching any of the games.
>>335678094
>awesome
stop using buzzwords
>>335678790
>literally literally literally literally
Literally not
>>335684626
Figuratively yes.
>>335684454
i'd actually recommend to read books after tw1, then go into tw2-3
>>335678248
>combat
VTMB combat is complete shambles and the game has cult status here on /v/. It literally is just TW3's popularity.
>>335679898
>>335680563
>part of Soviets
Poland was never part of the USSR, this is objectively and provably wrong. It was a satellite country.
And I agree that the books are extremely mediocre, original language or not literally the only entertainment I got from them was character interactions. The rest is a hackneyed mess that the games only seem to improve on.
>>335684216
well, now you have struggling Russian economy, a bunch of disillusioned people, bunch of investors from outside who either don't want or can't invest money due to political or economical reasons, investors from inside the Russia who don't want to risk it, people who make less than 400$ a month and can't afford to risk it themselves, and people who can risk it and have enough expertise, but focus on fleeing from this god forsaken place.
If you want to make games, why not focus on mobile or online? Zeptolabs(cut the rope) is a Russian company.
And why invest in Russia? Why give these people big budget and push their game with huge PR campaign?
>>335685046
>Poland was never part of the USSR, this is objectively and provably wrong. It was a satellite country.
this is why i used quotation marks. Poland was a member of Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance. Most people refer to countries in WarPac as "Soviets", even though if it's factually incorrect.
>>335685451
>Most people refer to countries in WarPac as "Soviets"
I assume by 'most people' you mean Westerners, because for obvious reasons Eastern Europeans aren't really prone to mistakes like this.
I guess it's just a regional difference in perception, so meh.
>>335679268
>Ciri EMPRESS
Ah fuck that.
boring, the game
>>335687526
If you're a 12 year old with ADD yeah
>>335678094
Vintage has appeal because they don't have to follow convention.
Novelty is a wonderful thing, even if it's not the be-all end-all.
>>335685451
it is technically incorrect - factually poland was part of soviet
and poland also was part of russian empire
pretty much why they are so butthurt about russians besides the fact they behave identically, and nobody likes to look in the mirror
I've played the 3 games and i dunno why but tw3 was the 1st one to get me bored. The main plot was so much generic compared to the 2 others.
>>335678094
I actually played through 1, but dropped 2 halfway and didn't get into 3 at all. I think emphasizing combat so much when they're not very good at it was a bad idea. It's just a slog to get through.
