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The Witcher 3 Discussion Thread
Topic Started: May 19 2015, 01:58 PM (9,313 Views)
Moo
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A quibbling point, but does it get on anyone's nerves a bit that Geralt's foes constantly underestimate him? He's mowed down hoards of bandits and monsters thousands of times and yet intelligent characters who are certainly aware of this think their dumb henchmen can finish him off.

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It's the gameplay contradicting the narrative, which a heap of games are guilty of, but it's because this game's quite cleverly written that it sticks out more. I loved in The Last of Us how you find out later in the story that Joel is infamous among survivors as a dangerous murderer rampaging through the countryside. I just wish that enemies with a lot of power at their disposal would recognize Geralt as the one-man military mack daddy he is.
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Finished the runner-up to GOTY 2015. My ending:

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It was a fantastic ride, but I think it might join the likes of Elder Scrolls and Fallout as games I was engrossed in when I played them but which I'm not likely to play again. However, TW3's storytelling is certainly many notches above those games and I might want to play at least the first few hours again because of that. My biggest issue, aside from how easy it got once I levelled up too high, is that the baron's questline is the story's dramatic peak and it occurs not even a quarter of the way through the game. I kept waiting for something better or its equivalent down the line but it never came, and there was never another scene quite as stunning as the first appearance of the witches.

Bloody good game though!! I'm only focusing on the negatives because I've already complimented it a bunch throughout the thread.
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Oh wait there's gonna be DLC. Of course I'll play it again.
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Yeah, I did get tired of how often a legendary witcher like Geralt is underestimated. I agree that it was annoying when smart, main characters did it but you could at least make the half assed argument that it's their own arrogance or perceived power (the second one you mentioned actually fights you himself). I became more annoyed with how many times it happened with witch hunters / peasants / bandits.

Nice ending, what happened in Skellige for you?

And yeah, despite me being very disillusioned about DLC as it has a very bad track record with me, I'm so down for the DLC, because it's basically the exact same as oblivion's two expansions, a format I love. A ten hour quest in the existing game world (knights of the nine) and a 30 hour addition in an entirely new zone (shivering isles).
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Skellige:

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Jul 19 2015, 01:56 AM
Finished the runner-up to GOTY 2015. My ending:

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It was a fantastic ride, but I think it might join the likes of Elder Scrolls and Fallout as games I was engrossed in when I played them but which I'm not likely to play again. However, TW3's storytelling is certainly many notches above those games and I might want to play at least the first few hours again because of that. My biggest issue, aside from how easy it got once I levelled up too high, is that the baron's questline is the story's dramatic peak and it occurs not even a quarter of the way through the game. I kept waiting for something better or its equivalent down the line but it never came, and there was never another scene quite as stunning as the first appearance of the witches.

Bloody good game though!! I'm only focusing on the negatives because I've already complimented it a bunch throughout the thread.
A bit late to the party but I only just finished it so:

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I feel the Baron's questline is a self-contained drama that's better than the main drama. It reminds me of the mini stories in Lost Odyssey, where the protagonist is only involved as a largely objective observer in someone else's tale. It's a tragedy with pathos, woven craftily into a detective story so that important info is withheld for later for emotional impact. It still sticks out when I think about the game, but I'm quickly forgetting about the main stuff. The part you referred to has a lot of plot and action but isn't character-driven, so I can remember a bunch of (cool) events, but not much that happened between the characters. It definitely had great forward momentum after the sluggish Novigrad and Skellige portions.
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Sep 19 2015, 08:33 PM
I feel the Baron's questline is a self-contained drama that's better than the main drama. It reminds me of the mini stories in Lost Odyssey, where the protagonist is only involved as a largely objective observer in someone else's tale. It's a tragedy with pathos, woven craftily into a detective story so that important info is withheld for later for emotional impact. It still sticks out when I think about the game, but I'm quickly forgetting about the main stuff. The part you referred to has a lot of plot and action but isn't character-driven, so I can remember a bunch of (cool) events, but not much that happened between the characters. It definitely had great forward momentum after the sluggish Novigrad and Skellige portions.
A lot definitely happened with Lambert and Ciri in those sections.
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Finished my second partial playthrough, got the ending I wanted so I'm much more satisfied now.
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I still want to try to complete Collect Them All, as well as go to every question mark and I'll have to google for any neat hidden quests I may have missed. I also need to wait for a late game secondary quest to get patched so I can complete it (apparently 1.10 broke it). Otherwise it's a pretty complete playthrough, have a full mastercrafted wolven armour and weapon set this time around which is pretty.
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Oct 18 2015, 10:03 PM
Finished my second partial playthrough, got the ending I wanted so I'm much more satisfied now.
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I completed it recently, and...

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The Hearts of Stone DLC downloaded a few days ago too, so I'm looking forward to returning to it soon.
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Yeah I don't know when I'm going to get around to buying and playing that DLC, late this year at the absolute earliest, maybe not even til next year. Looking forward to it, though. I'm definitely down for more of this game!
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Yeah I think I'm probably gonna wait until both of the DLC's are released to play through them both at the same time. There's just so much to play right now, MGS will probably take me right up to Fallout 4, and God knows how long I'll be playing that for.
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I loved the Witcher 3 but felt I'd got enough from the game. Dragged on a little by the end so I'm not in a big rush to go back to it.
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Oct 19 2015, 04:33 PM
I loved the Witcher 3 but felt I'd got enough from the game. Dragged on a little by the end so I'm not in a big rush to go back to it.
This is what I think is responsible for me having such a high strike rate with DLC. Most of the time I've had my fill with the main game and I'd just rather move on to something new.

Having played the end parts of the game twice now I do agree that the very end does drag a bit, however it's (within the context of the total game length) on the short side of things as far as drags go. I think it's mainly where you
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But yeah, I'm down as fuck for the expansions as this is quite possibly my favourite game to date but I'm in no hurry at all to play them.
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So I think that this game's biggest flaw is that a reasonably high portion of things "off the beaten track" aren't worth your time. I'm referring to all of the question marks over the map, I was actually intending on going around to them all like I did in White Orchid, but they seem to be 90% guarded treasures and smuggler's caches, which is 100% useless at level 36 with a full set of mastercrafted armour and 39'000 gold that I don't know how to spend. I'll even try to just pick my targets so to speak by looking on the map for geographical locations that look to be something of interest, like this one peculiar looking circular island, but nope, just vendor trash. Pretty disappointing. I'm also pretty fucking sure that Velen was cut short unfinished, there's quite a lot of little villages and roads etc on the north east sides of the map that aren't there and that invisible walls prevent you from going to. Not that I'm complaining too much, the game was still massive.

So I think I'll just google to see if there's anything noteworthy that's hidden, but otherwise I'm not going to bother with any more exhaustive map exploration. The game simply doesn't reward you for it outside of really pretty views, which is a shame.

I think I'll probably pick up the first DLC before the end of the year, though. People seem to really like it, and I'm starting to feel like having some more fresh W3 content to play.
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