/v/ - Video Games

Because shills got paid to, and even more people do it for free.

>>16357078

what did you expect, and what do you want out of your games?

>>16357078

I was thinking of getting it, but it just seems like your average open world - rpg element - stealth - action - waypoint marker - crafting game that every other game is now. But oddly enough all the people here speak of the game favorably, saying that not only is this game good, but the devs are good too. But I haven't seen anyone actually explain what separates it from every other game in the same vein. Is it even worth picking up?

>>16357149

it's good

Watered down garbage made to appeal to the broadest demographic.

>>16357078

it was up against Dragon Age 3. I think at this point we'll laud an okay game over the complete tripe

>>16357078

It just isn't your bag, baby. I thought it was pretty good. I don't really like RPGs though, so It appealed to me since it was a simple action game with a little rpgish spice on top.

>>16357078

it was fun.

Main quest sucks. Some of the side quests are really good along with the expansions.

>>16357235

DLC was damn good. Heart of Stone in particular.

>>16357078

Yeah, it's really a mediocre game. Combat is kinda crap, not much about it stands out, but it's kinda fun to romp through the wilds and hunt monsters, and many quests aren't bad either.

>>16357242

>>16357235

Expansions actually put thought into the world itself – everything tied into everything (most things actually had a minor quest tied to them) such as the murder plants ruining the vineyards, bandits having a main hideout, and there were often refferences to stuff in the places you visited, further tying things to the world itself. It was so much better than the randomly strewn points of interest in the main game that had no relevance to anything and were just there for the sake of being there. Had the main game took as much care in its world design as the Blood and Wine expansion, it'd be a pretty good RPG.

>>16357143

>waypoint marker

There lies the element to kill nearly all open world RPGs. No other element can completely remove the sense of exploration and accomplishment.

>>16357078

Pretty much what >>16357204 said. It also suffers from the worst aspects of open world and RPG gameplay. The combat is brain-dead simple (attack, counter/dodge, attack, use gimmick spell/bomb/oil that enemy is weak against to weaken/kill it, attack, use potion to heal or buff yourself, rinse and repeat), the exploration and quests are only good for finding crafting materials and items that are leveled (which end up being useless by the time you get to said level it requires since you find better gear later on (the various witcher school gear, which is the only worthwhile gear to use)), the crafting system has been gutted to hell from what it was in the first game ( instead of needing to get ingredients from the world to replenish your potion, bomb, and oil stock, you only need the materials once, then all you need afterwards is a strong alcohol when meditating. this makes autistic gathering of materials pointless when the game overloads you with gathering points). That's not including the graphical downgrade the game had during development that the devs vehemently denied until weeks after release. The only thing it has going for it or felt like most effort was put into is the side quests and other story parts. If they were going to put more effort into the story, they may as well have either made a movie or a visual novel with different outcomes rather than make a mediocre action game.

Because it went for the open world meme

It took me three tries to get into it. Then i did the Bloody Barons Family Matters questline and it clicked for me. The main story is dull as dicks but the monster hunting side quests are some good medieval CSI bullshit i can get behind.

>>16357318

This video in particular is what made me give the game a third chance.

Just play Hearts of Stone and maybe Blood and Wine. The main quest was pretty trash, only the side stuff was good

>>16357251

agreed, botw is a shitty ubisoft-tier open world grinder

Witcher 3, hell all three games, are games that I shouldn't like as much as I do. They are all heavily flawed but they are also all fantastic, yet shouldn't be. I can't explain it. Other AAA games do the same things as Witcher 3 and I don't care for them but I can forgive all of Witcher 3's setbacks. Maybe I'm just a fanboy of the games.

>>16357432

>The game was originally a Minish Cap sequel with tiny towns and shrinking mechanics but it was all scrapped "because the west wants skyrim"

I'm still mad.

>>16357078

>I'm bored out of my mind. Why is this game so highly regarded?

I am trying to get thru the first one. Fantasy, in general, is so lame. Perhaps people like flushed out environments and tactical mouse clicks.

I just wanna know why CDPR struggles with making good combat. It's some of the worst combat around. Even Bethshit is better and Bethshit is horrendous.

>>16357449

The first one is objective trash don't let anyone fool you on that one.

>>16357466

Yeah. None of the Witcher games are good. TW1 is a joke with how long it is. The writing is painfully reddit too. Every scenario is hamfisted as fuck with every moral choice being spelled out to you as plainly as possible, they all go down the same way.

>>16357353

>The main quest was pretty trash

interestingly enough that's true for the books as well

the main line of books is fucking terrible, but the short story spin offs are amazing

It's a fun game it is full of content it's story was great Depending on play style Lots of exploration Trees blew around water was pretty watery If you played the game and read all the in game lore it was really interesting if you took your time most Npcs had their roll to play if you like dark twisted fantasy it was great ….most importantly

It came out at a time where most games Just said fuck the player lets sell them a full priced game with no content and Charge them for Extras this game was great and has 400 hours of play time and did it without shady business practices it was a breath of fresh air and a memorable experience and takes skill and patience to master everything it has to offer the difficulty is all in the settings menu

You don't scratch the surface for 30 hours in

>>16357149

BoTW isn't even a real Zelda game. TES:Hyrule Edition.

>OP is a one and done nigger

well well what a surprise

>>16357511

The beginning of the watered down RPG? At least the spirit of RPGs were present in games like that and not some marketing ploy.

Witcher series as an RPG doesn't fit. It's a simple action/adventure game.

They didn't even figure out a decent combat system. Shit is as basic as an old arcade machine game. Hook up a 4 button controller and you could still beat this drek.

Six words:

SFM porn

>>16357798

that's four words at most though.

>>16357336

You can't make RPG on a video game.

An RPG by it's very nature is too fucking vast to be made by code monkey that HAVE to limit the scope of it. At best they can sort of give you a decent impression it's an RPG (but it's not) by being godly railroading masters (and the reason why most of those are old is because the guys that made them had proper GMing experience beforehand, and text based role playing could allow for a shitload of text).

The Witcher series to me is the proper compromise.

You don't get to choose. You play the pre-made char Geralt, with his extensive backstory, his decent skills from the get go and you do a quick pre-made campaign with him, like the kind you do to test a new game/system.

The only thing that really matter is the choices you make during the questing, those choices impact the world/campaign dynamically.

And that's it.

It's terribly dumbed down but it's the right amount design wise that a vidya should have, because more is gonna be the fucking Russian roulette.

The real problem of the Witcher is that the gameplay part which should be the bread and butter, with the story/choice/impact/exploration being the meaty bits of the game is MEH at best, it's not bad, but it's definitely not good either.

Imagine if the Witcher had some sort of Revengeance/DMC gameplay? Or maybe something more Soul-esque?

The same is true for Mass Effect, now Mass Effect series is a steaming pile of garbage but the best one, ME2, almost succeed at that core of story/choice/impact/exploration by giving side quests for side chars that are well written and interesting enough. Imagine if the gameplay wasn't baby-first TPS but something more along the lines of a decent FPS (or Vanquish if you like TPS).

Either would be fucking game of the millennium.

That's the insane part, they should embrace the Action in the Action-RPG concept more, while only retaining the DM/GM part of properly creating and building the campaign, setting and player interactions with it, rather than what the player does by filling character sheets and rolling dices.

>>16357847

>changes his hair

>the Witcher series to me is the proper compromise

>>16357847

Lets try from another angle.

Was the Witcher series something you could've sat down and watched as a film or tv series?

Yep. Oh hey, look. It started out as a book and netfucks is making a tv show out of it.

The choices you made in game any bit substantial enough to make it a different experience the next playthrough?

Not by any measurement I can think of.

Is it a game you can play over and over and get a different experience?

Sex scenes? Nope. We have the internet for that

-if you didn't save-scum like in an erotic visual novel.

No. It's one laid out story with minimal deviation. I could slap the RPG brand on a certain brand of yogurt from my local store, and it would be more fitting, as it always seems to be a completely new experience.

Character options, roles and classes matter. From those comes near limitless experiences.

>I altered the hair of Geralt and shagged the redhead this game.

>Next game, I will get cornrows and try to get a threesome.

>>16357987

>I could slap the RPG brand on a certain brand of yogurt from my local store, and it would be more fitting, as it always seems to be a completely new experience.

Yogurt company presents: The Vanilla Chronicles: A Peach Inquest into The Dairy Realm II: Revelations (Featuring Dante from Devil May Cry series!)

>>16357274

Wind Waker is one of the best games in existence.

>>16357506

Shut up retard.

The 3 episode rule for anime is as dumb as "just keep trying til it clicks" for games. If something isn't immediately engaging and drawing you in and making you want to continue, then fucking stop.

>>16357504

It felt more like an Ubisoft open world game, complete with radio tower climbing

>>16357143

>>16357302

The game has a lot of flaws but UI elements are not one of them. If you complain about shit like waypoints and points of interests (question marks on the map) you didn't bother looking at the options menu. You can turn everything off.

Now if the game works well enough to give you directions on where you should go without the markers is another thing.

Using potions mid combat was also a stupid decision and using mods to fix it isn't the ideal solution but it does make the gameplay much more engaging. Couple that with mods that make dodging actually drain your stamina and you've got a decent action game on your hands.

The devs also made tons of mistakes with the skills, a skill might give a bonus for example but it never does. They never fixed this to my knowledge and I was wondering why most skills felt incredibly boring even though they sounded interesting by the description.

Again, mods fix all of that, it's not an excuse but it does make for a much better game than what we got.

>>16357078

Not too difficult, gives the lowly casual audience everything they want, has a gigantic downgraded world they can explore and do fuck all, and mass marketing got it in the public sphere, has several questlines that make you "Tthink", like the last few games that did that, from Spider-Manlett to Red Dead Redemption 2. Really can't wait for the cancerous Cyberpunk 2077 bullshit takes.

It was fun

Because the first two games attracted sincere fans, who talked about them a lot, and then normalfags wanted in but didn't actually understand anything about why people liked the first two games.

The first two games weren't my thing either but this same pattern happens all the damn time.

you're retarded, the games is like 4-5 years old and it was a big deal because it's all console fags had that was like it.

>>16357078

Get the enhanced edition mod for it (just like the other two witcher games) and it significantly improves it.

>>16358248

Too bad the game is so shit that it wasn't designed to be played without waypoint markers, and as such, it's borderline unplayable without markers due to lazy dialogue design.

>>16357078

I assume people enjoy the massive amounts of content games like The Witcher provide. My problem is their lack of depth and/or anything interesting. The original Gothic might be clunky as fuck by today's standards but it's far more engaging that most open world RPGs now.

>>16358454

>people say HL2 ruined the industry

People who say that about HL2 are contrarian teenagers who were either never alive when the game came out or were too young to remember it.

The only actual HL2 clone I can think of is Sin: Episodes. Most games were ripping off Medal of Honor and Halo around that time, HL2 wasn't even the first story-focused FPS nor was it the first linear one. FEAR was also a linear FPS but you don't see people sperging over that anywhere near as much.

If I had that "these 14-year-olds tick me off" image I would post it

>>16358467

>valvetard ODing on semen again

hl2 was trash and started the low-iq muh cinematic experience bullshit

>>16358480

>>16358507

>HL2 was bad!

you guys are ignoring his entire point lmao he's saying it's not as influential as people lead on

>>16358248

> you didn't bother looking at the options menu. You can turn everything off.

It should have been off by default and the game designed with that in mind, Not the way they did it.

>>16358927

It's not, cod is far more influential.

>>16357078

Bored might be an overstatement, OP. The game isn't a godsent, but being bored with the amount of shit to do in that game sounds disingenuous

>>16357149

At least Witcher 3 had shit in it's world. BotW was empty as fuck.

>>16358252

That's a good point.

>>16359010

I disagree

>>16359010

>BotW was empty as fuck.

No it wasn't, you whiny fuck. An open world game that actually feels empty is Shadow of the Colossus.

>>16358991

>but being bored with the amount of shit to do in that game sounds disingenuous

When none of the content actually feels engaging, fun or worthwhile then no, I don't think I'm being disingenuous.

It's like coloring by numbers, I never felt like I was the one solving these quests. It was like I was being led by the hand through a funfair by the owner.

>>16359022

> An open world game that actually feels empty is Shadow of the Colossus.

Is that a joke?

Because SotC was empty on purpose. It was there solely to set the tone.

The same reason people loved Ocarina of Time. Because muh open world exploration.

>>16357078

>I don't get it.

>I'm bored out of my mind

same, my guess it's the casual open world bait again

>>16359050

I just hate it when anons misapply the word Empty when open world examples like SotC exist. And yet, some anons keep acting like BotW is as "empty" as SotC is. Despite there being plenty of side quests and other things to do in BotW to keep players occupied.

>>16359055

As well as Contra 3 The Alien Wars and Tetris Attack. Open world bullshit.

>>16359079

I haven't played BotW but when I describe an open world as "empty", like AC Oddyssey, then I mean "Yeah it's full of shit but it's all so pointless, uninteresting and poorly designed busywork that it might as well not be there". It might as well be called empty because of how there's no value to the content.

>>16359097

> full of content = "empty"

Ok. Gotcha. Makes perfect sense there, bud.

Oh wait. No, it doesn't, because that's fucking retarded. Even if it's full of (in your opinion) "uninteresting" content, the word Empty still doesn't apply here, you stupid imbecile.

>>16359112

modern RPGs are more or less adventure games with stats

>>16359118

I think if the majority of well informed people who play games agree it's worthless content, then it's worthless content. The opinions of plebs don't matter to me.

>>16359125

cuckchannel*

>>16359125

If you can get your point across in one sentence, what's the point of typing out a paragraph?

Stop being autistic.

>>16359125

>template threads

I don't think you know what template thread is.

>>16359126

It's not even a Fucking opinion, you redefining kike. It's an objective fact that Full =/= Empty

>>16359141

>OH MY GOD YOU CAN'T USE THE FIRST IMAGE OF A GAME ON GOOGLE

Literally what in the everloving fuck are you on?

It's a picture of the game's box art. So what if it's the first google result retard? Who the fuck cares?

>>16359146

Words can have various meanings depending on context retard.

>>16359149

There's no debate on what the "context" is over what these basic antonyms are, moron.

>>16359174

You're right, there is no debate.

You're wrong, end of debate.

>>16359022

>Here's a game with a shitload of mountains, grassland and no side quests or enemies, and your weapons are constantly breaking

ur a faget

>>16359185

>I suck nigger cocks daily

wow

>>16359197

But anon, I am a nigger.

>>16359197

Why are you crying so hard?

Can't you accept that busywork is artificial content?

>>16359207

No you're not, I know because I'm you but on a dynamic IP.

>>16359208

why are you such a gaylord, gaylord

>>16359271

ain't nothing wrong with sucking a little bit of penis bruh

>>16357078

because people with actual attention spans can get into the story

>>16360195

I enjoyed Fallout New Vegas over 5 playthroughs, attention span isn't the issue.

From the admittedly little I played of Witcher 3, it was so dull. Yeah, yeah "the good stuff happens 70 hours in!". I know, I know. I'd rather play games that are compelling from minute 1, not 70 hours in. Story alone can't carry a game either, and Witcher's combat was Asscreed tier mash attack, occasionally dodge and use spells now and again for slightly more damage. On top of which, everything is designed around following the UI bombarding you with every little step of what to do on your journey.

It's just a boring game, it demands nothing of the player and although I can tell there's something worthwhile underneath it all it's just so mindnumbingly dull to get to it that any fun is outweighed by hours of chores and a feeling of the game being a fucking job you don't get paid to do.

It's like they had this good idea for a game, they hashed it all out, got all their ideas down on paper and said "RIGHT. How do we make it so even an actual honest to god down syndrome child can beat the game". And they just fucked it all up because MONEY, we need ALL THE MONEY. Some isn't good enough, we need it all.

>>16360321

>I enjoyed Fallout New Vegas

Why do you enjoy complete trash?

>>16360321

>the good stuff happens 70 hours in

No one's ever used that argument for a Witcher game. As with most all Witcher media, the main storyline is the weakest of the lot, as Hearts of Stone handily proved. Combat in these games has generally been shit (W1 was using a heavily modified Aurora, and W2 tried to emulate Souls). Rest of your post is just subjective crap that, along with the OP, boils down to 'it didn't click for me'. Games are eminently interactive - if playing the THIRD game in a series made you dislike it, there's no way a wall of text will make you like it again.

Normally I'd decry this a shit thread and ask you to fuck off back to wherever you came from, but this board is already down the shitter, so I'd say newfags making threads like this are just a symptom of the infestation.

>>16360345

>Why do you enjoy complete trash?

It's a great game, whats your problem with it?

>>16360350

>Normally I'd decry this a shit thread and ask you to fuck off back to wherever you came from, but this board is already down the shitter, so I'd say newfags making threads like this are just a symptom of the infestation.

People who cry about newfags and "the good old days" are boring, thin skinned, whiny faggots.

It's pathetic and annoying to read your whining. If you think the board is shit or you think it's been flooded with new people, just keep it to yourself. You just come off as a little gaylord.

>>16360393

Never even played New Vegas but this is an awful post and you seriously need to work on your argumentation, you said literally nothing in all 3 paragraphs. What the fuck?

>>16360377

>just lemme take over goyim, dont fight back

>>16360395

>Weapons are shit

>Combat is shit

>Dialogue is shit

>World design is shit

>Engine is shit

>Assests are shit

<Soundtrack is neat

<DLC is neat

There, happy?

>>16360401

>>16360393

>>16360345

>>16360341

>witcher is great

>nv is shit

I love both games and this smells of false-flag.

I think that a large part of why Witcher III was as popular as it was, was because it was a pretty seamless experience. It added to the ímmersion and immersion is one of the main things you want to get right in a video game like this because you can ignore so much if you're invested.

>>16360393

>Conversations just for a start is terrible when you zoom into the face of an ugly model with no animations spouting dialogue at you.

It has basic animations for talking, but nobody will disagree that the game looks like hot shit. Which sometimes helps the atmosphere but most of the time just looks like hot shit.

>The combat was absolutely shit, as in all gamebryo games.

It's serviceable once you get some perks/levels under your belt. Not good, but it works well enough to do what you wanna do generally.

>The map you get to explore is pretty empty and there's very rarely anything interesting to find.

True but the story path the game lays out for you leads you to some cool areas and interesting NPC's. And you're free to do quests whenever you feel like so it's not 100% linear. There's some interesting stuff you don't have to do to beat the game, there's plenty of useless areas too that're a waste of time but it's usually pretty easy to tell what's worthwhile and what isn't.

>New Vegas is basically a push W to go foward simulator where you encounter gays and zany oh so random people on your way to your quest marker. You can join either the obviously evil legionaries,

If you actually talk to their leader you'll find they have a plan, beliefs, a system, traditions, history. They're not just brutal slavers, there's more beneath the surface.

the good goyim,

NCR aren't one dimensional either, plenty of fucked up shit goes on in the NCR.

>Talk about a shitheap and a snoozefest. Fallout should never have switched from the isometric perspective to first person. It's an ugly, slow and clunky game with little to no payoff, depending on where you stumble.

It's not fair to compare Fallout 1 and 2 to the later Fallout games. They're completely different genre's from completely different developers. New Vegas wasn't made for the Fallout 1 and 2 fans, and you're free to bitch about that fact. But a lot of people liked New Vegas and it's an incredibly impressive game especially considering they made it in under 2 years with a shitty budget.

>>16360397

>Everyone's out to get me, I'm so important, RESIST RESIST RESIST

Reassess your own importance in the world

READ THE BOOKS, PLAY GAMES IN ORDER

>>16360434

AND IMPORT YOUR SAVES

>>16360434

>read the books

>that whine about male on female rape being bad and the literal next scene having girl on girl rape be depicted positively

>>16360321

>From the admittedly little I played of Witcher 3, it was so dull. Yeah, yeah "the good stuff happens 70 hours in!". I know, I know. I'd rather play games that are compelling from minute 1, not 70 hours in.

Again, I want to know what you expected. From the beginning, the Witcher III puts the player into a smaller area that one will quickly depart from and into the larger region of Redanian countryside, where many more quests can be completed. This happens anywhere between 5 and 10 hours, maybe less, and all the while the player is given new quests to complete. Meanwhile, in Fallout New Vegas, one is expected to go on a fucking detour just to get to New Vegas proper, and by the time you get there you're already around 15 hours in. In both games, the sidequests make up for downtime between major plot points, so what are you bitching about?

>Story alone can't carry a game either, and Witcher's combat was Asscreed tier mash attack

Oh, yeah, as opposed to FNV's stellar fps gameplay, right? Give me a fucking break. If you want to be charitable, you can argue that both games have flawed but functional combat mechanics that serve their purpose.

>It's just a boring game, it demands nothing of the player and although I can tell there's something worthwhile underneath it all it's just so mindnumbingly dull to get to it that any fun is outweighed by hours of chores and a feeling of the game being a fucking job you don't get paid to do.

Same could be said for bethesda's Fallout. FNV is just Obsidian's creative direction pasted on top of Betheshit gameplay, with some minor tweaks here and there.

>>16360420

>True but the story path the game lays out for you leads you to some cool areas and interesting NPC's. And you're free to do quests whenever you feel like so it's not 100% linear. There's some interesting stuff you don't have to do to beat the game, there's plenty of useless areas too that're a waste of time but it's usually pretty easy to tell what's worthwhile and what isn't.

Same applies to Witcher III

>>16360459

New Vegas had engaging writing, characters, world history and plot from second one. Witcher 3 didn't. New Vegas had a slow start too, sure. But it was still enjoyable to play through.

>>16358283

Radovid did nothing wronghe a gud boi

>>16361764

Why even bother typing this long just to mask the fact that you dont like his opinnion because he likes a game you dont?

Too pretentious to just post "you're gay"?

>>16357542

This, if the Shrines were done better and weren't shit copy pastes it would of been Fine

I bet all of the faggots saying the game is empty are City Faggots who have never been out bush

Honestly the "emptiness" was fine since the game handled movement pretty well, but they should of given more incentive to explore since once you have enough shrines for the master sword chasing them seems empty

>>16360445

>>that whine about male on female rape being bad and the literal next scene having girl on girl rape be depicted positively

Guess I'll be reading them books now.

imagine actually enjoying soulless waste of time that is modern bethesda games (skyrim, Fallout 4) and getting bored at Witcher 3

you got to have mental problems to prefer empty environments to hand crafted worlds with interesting characters

>>16361866

Yeah consider leaving and never coming back

>>16362638

It was still kind of pseudo-open world, even so, as can be seen by their sales going big means more customers. I agree though, the first game was the best imho, but the second wasn't bad at all either. They could have kept the scope and I'd still have been happy as a pig in mud.

>>16362886

t. Obshitian shill

>>16362886

>Play fallout NV if you want a good RPG instead

*play geneforge if you want a good rpg

>>16362912

Now that's more like it. Geneforge was great.

>>16358467

Take it from someone who was there; after you got done throwing physics shit everywhere the game's linearity and first person cutscenes dragged it down. Too bad it only got worse with follow up episodes.

>>16358991

>godsent

Why are constant spelling mistakes like these a diamond dozen now? Godsent isn't even a word you stupid nigger

>>16363156

>>16362912

Geneforge 1 and 2 were excellent, because they dealt with the moral implications of genetic engineering and what can happen when SHTF. 3-5 just felt like meandering storylines where oh no evil dragons and it missed that subtle oomph that made it really good. All the mechanics are basically the same (like Jeff uses the same suit of spells in basically every game he makes it seems) between them

The absolute worst thing about Geneforge is that the Exile/Avernum games lost their identity when they were ported to the engine

>>16357078

It was a story game with easy Batham combat. The perfect combination for the Skyrim generation.

Don't forget that Skyrim players genuinely think Skyrim is hard.

>>16363213

RPGs have never been hard, famalam.

>>16363223

Now this is shitposting

>>16363234

It's just the truth, RPGs by virtue of their genre are always just based on higher numbers and not player skill, that's what makes them RPGs. If a boss beats your ass you can always just grind enough to defeat it.

>>16363223

Thatsthejoke.txt

>>16363245

Being a shitty game doesn't mean it's not in the genre it's in. It's an ARPG, true, but it's still an RPG.

>>16363252

Scaling enemies disqualifies it as an RPG in my book, even if it technically still is.

>>16357078

It's a great movie inside a godawful RPG, masqueraded behind great graphics. Watch it on jewtube, don't waste your time attempting to find any engaging gameplay.

>>16363256

That's like saying regenerating health disqualifies a shooter from being an FPS. It's casusal, yes, but it doesn't make any difference what so ever when it comes to genre.

>>16357078

you mean you don't like b-tier fantasy novels in your vidya?

>>16363328

RPGs and shooters are two very different beasts, as evidenced by how badly they combine with one another. For one thing, RPGs are so much more complex that they are divided into a fuckton of different categories, while shooters are only really divided based on camera perspective and map design. To say every single RPG isn't difficult is retarded and you know it.

>>16357078

Anything remotely tolkien esque is absolutely loved by normalfags. Even garbage like The Witcher. In terms of gameplay, it's mediocre as fuck.

It's best to just avoid western orc/dragon rpgs like this.

I just bought it for 14 bucks on steam.

Its okay, not bad, its actually nothing special really.

I only played it for a few hours so far and exploring the second area is seeming pretty damn tedious also due to the fact that Roach is fucking retarded.

Combat is stupid simple, but the presentation of everything and the graphics are amazing.

The character writing is passable. Geralt and the old witcher is cool but I cant really be bothered to give a shit about Yennifer, she just seems like a massive bitch and a waste of time for any same man, no levels of muh dik is worth a woman that much of a pain in the ass.

I give the game a 6.5/10

Its "okay" but not really "enjoyable" and no where close to "stupid fun".

If you guys want a game with a white aryan dude with a sword going fucking bananas on monsters get any DMC game, NIOH instead or make a white haired dude in Monster Hunter.

>>16357326

That's literally the only questline in the entire game which stood out to me, and that I remember clearly months after playing.

>>16363947

>Little Red is an absolute cutie pie. Too bad shes also a furfag.

Tell me more.

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Fuck mods and jannies

>>16357439

what the hell? why not make both then?

>>16363252

Empirically wrong and gay.

>>16363252

It's not an RPG. There are only two quests with multiple endings (Civil War and Dark Brotherhood), no branching dialogue or story paths and no limitations placed on the player.

Skyrim is an adventure sandbox. The only RPG elements which exist in it, such as stats and character customisation, do so only because it is a sequel, and are utterly hollow—they're like the shadow of their real counterparts (compare faction apparel in Skyrim with New Vegas, for instance).

t. someone for whom Skyrim was their first "big game" and subsequently sunk >3000 hours into it

>>16365427

>people are still talking about new vegas

that archaic shit has been around for years. How old are you niggas?

>>16357143

It's a game where you press a button and the path to thegoal lights up

>>16357143

In a tightly condensed nutshell, it's like Skyrim with better dialogue, more interesting NPCs and better environment design, but still has all the other same problems flavored slightly differently. I was able to beat the game and enjoy it for the dialogue (most of the stuff involving Ciri was shit though).

You have to be high AF to enjoy big boring open world games with tons of dialog from uninteresting characters about uninteresting things. Back when I smoked a ton of weed, games like this were fun

>>16358239

That's the product they were copying, Ubisoft Open World or Nu-Open World. With no thought to how previous iterations were already very open. They even brought back the Water Temple frustrations for BotW. Proving they knew or learned next to nothing from the previous works.

Why was there no Hookshot for BotW, the largest Zelda world yet? Absurd, but that's our modern entertainment for you.

>>16364525

Imagine a whole game that was just being a middle ages monster hunter csi dude, going from town to town doing quests like these.

>>16365419

akshully, for clarity

Yes, a hollow shadow, but TES games were technically a RPG, where Witcher is not. You can still experience different roles and experiences, though all as one Gary Stue being. It's most definitely fucking absurd garbage, but very loosely still a RPG.

80s-90s Tabletop: +40% alcohol Scotch whiskey

TES: Morrowind: 5% alcohol beer

TES: Skyrim: -5% low-alcohol beer

The Witcher 3: bottled water

something like that

>>16357078

it's a great game. you just need to allow yourself to be immersed in the games world.

>>16365410

>The virgin sterile witcher who respects women and probably has a small dick,

>The chad Wędrowycz who has a humongous cock he tucks in his shoes, kills succubi by bench pressing