Comment on Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4

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• teichflamme@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The world is interesting, Geralt is a cool character to play, combat is nice enough, and first and foremost every quest is worth looking into.

  The game has a ton of side quests that had more thought put into than the main quests of other games

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• brenticus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keep in mind that the main comparison point for it was Skyrim, which was pretty much the previous RPG people got sucked into.

  The story was pretty good and it had a good number of meaningful side quests. Gwent was also a lot of fun, and the Blood and Wine DLC was another step above to keep the hype alive for longer. The combat can get fairly involved without feeling overly complex. Rather than the blank slate of many games of the era, you play as Geralt, who actually has relationships in the world to draw you in.

  Basically, rather than the unfocused sandbox of random stuff in Skyrim, it was a more involved story-rich experience that a lot of people appreciated.

  That said, the hype was ridiculous. It’s a very good RPG, not the second coming of Christ. It didn’t really do anything new, it was just a solid experience.

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  • ToxicWaste@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a very good RPG, not the second coming of Christ.

    That just shows what people want. Just a solid game, playable from start to finish. Due to time constraints i never finished Witcher 3 and barely made it past the prologue of BG3. But both those games are highly celebrated.

    They don’t reinvent the wheel. They are just very solid games and come without predatory pricing.

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• Aurix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skellige Island and the two expansions were actually great. Blood & Wine had an amazing flow. Otherwise I agree. It was a rehash of The Witcher 1, but not as charming.

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• SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Movement and combat in every Witcher game is so unpleasant for me that I find them unplayable. I’ve literally gone through YouTube “Choose Your Own Adventure” style videos of the games because the stories are great but I hate how one moves.

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• Epicmulch@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The story telling is what really did it for me. I consider witcher 3 to be the greatest game I’ve ever played. The quality of that game is still extremely high even to today’s standards.

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• daemoz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I played the full game and the dlcs. Only the 2nd dlc and the baron stories are good. Id suggest people just play the blood and wine dlc, its really great. The game isn’t very fun, but I do love the atmosphere and city design. I was totally sick of looking at wet horse ass. Gwen’s more fun than monster hunting though sadly

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  • Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really liked monster hunting as a potions guy. I felt like a real Witcher. I’d have to track them down, read up on them, then drink potions and apply oils that would be strong against them, then finally take them out. That preparation and build up made me as immersed as a Witcher as I felt as Batman in the Arkham games.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10/10 Makes you feel like Geralt

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• And009@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I liked the alchemy in Witcher 2 more but the game mechanics with 3 and the RPG elements were amazing for me. And on par with Skyrim imo. In some aspects I liked Witcher more like how it affected the world building based on your actions.

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• telllos@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember going into the first sandbox, and then going forward with no xp very fast. Then it was just me being weak as hell and rolling around to dodge and using a cast to make a shield around me to avoid dying. Then I stopped. Load time were horrible. But I want to try the remaster on ps5.

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve played it like 6 times. Just love the whole world.

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• ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me it was too long. I finished it with all the DLC for the first time a few days ago. I generally enjoyed it but was also quite happy to be done with it when I finally finished it at around the 110 hour mark. I actually took a break after Hearts of Stone and played a couple of shorter games before I came back to finish off Blood and Wine.

  I haven’t yet played a single player game that I thought needed to be more than 60 hours no matter how engaging or well made it was.

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