I shouldn't be enjoying this game as much as I am
>try to replay it>velen, bloody baron, the crones, all kino>get to novigrad>immediately lose interest as my grimdark RPG becomes a disney fantasy
>>732213992But the Gwent tourney though
>did most of the side quests except skellige>still beat the game in 50 hourswhy does everyone pretend this game is longer than it actually is?
>>732213471because /v/ told you so?
>>732213471Only way to enjoy this game is to drop the difficulty down to easyThat way you don't have to suffer the godawful combat
>>732214390En Skellige ligueEn Skellige ligue ligue ligue
>>732213471BANANA TIGER BANANA TIGER
>>732214390i've only played it once and with the DLCs it took me 119 hours to beat it i did probably 85% of side quests
>>732213471i can't stand how out-of-place this fucker's voice is
>>732214390It took me 205 hours to beat the game, and I still think I missed a lot of shit.
>>732213992it becomes grimdark again in hearts of stone
>>732214674>*whistles for magic horse*>*autoruns on road to quest marker* >*toucan sam vision activates* >"Mhmm....giant slash marks all over the victim....a Drowner™, gotta be" >"Come on, Roach" >*follows nose* >*guys in Drowner™ costumes appear* >"OY BLOODY 'ELL FUCKING CUNT SHIT FUCK CUNT, IT'S A FUCKIN' WITCHER IT IS! GET 'EM" >"Shit you stink" ALALALALALALALALA *sets guys on fire and they stumble and recover immediately, does a cinematic slash and cuts guys in half* >"Mhmm....Bandits™ pretending to be Drowners™......better tell the village head about this" >"Come on, Roach" >*autoruns on road back to village* >"OY BLOODY FUCK CUNT WITCHAH, WOT ABOUT DA CONTRACT WESE PAIDS YA FOR YA BLOODY FUCKING CUNT?" >"Just some bastards posing as Drowners™, here's proof" *shows flipper* >"OY KURWA, HERE'S YA REWARD DA WHOLE VILLAGE CHIPPED IN" >"Drowning in Danger" Complete AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH >10 crowns received
>>732214563I'm playing on hard, it's not that complicated
This board is getting very cringe, like more normalfaggotty than Twitter and reddit at this point. It's getting to the point where it's just boring now. Who is this place even for now?
>>732214805Again a Witcher fag (purposefully) misses the pointIt's not about the fucking difficulty, it's about the clunky janky unsatisfying ass combat mechanics
>>732214858wow you are so smart and so above everyone elseyou are a genius
>>732214887>WitcherfagI'm the OP, I just started playing 4 days ago...>clunky janky combatI don't get that feeling
it was always lowkey goodit's a storyfag game though
>>732214796no, he sounds like he's 80 when everyone sounds like they're 30
>>732214563This but unironically
>>732213992disney fantasy? it's lighter in tone but disney? you're way too dramatic
>>732215186Emhyr sounds 30? Craite an Cracht? Gaunter o' Dimm? Legos the Madman? Regis?
>press attack button>roll d20 to determine what attack animation comes out with a variation of up to an entire second between fastest and slowestYeah if you're enjoying this shit at all you're enjoying it too much.
>>732214796there's autorun...?
>>732215493>dodge an attack>ok it's my turn now>geralt of course chooses the longest animation possible to quick attack>this gives the enemy plenty of time to attack again before your attack even hitsand this is why quen is such a crutch and why there's no reason not to invest in itthis game really has the most dogshit combat in the whole AAA scapeeven Skyrim's wet noodles combat works better
>>732215493>>732216174https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsCWy5wUs04
>>732213471Still BTFOs Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Starfield.
>>732213471The combat system is a total failure. The dodge timing and rhythm is the same for every enemy, with an occasional long roll here and there and they decided to go with a botched free flow system, in which you never know which move you will be pulling off. You can dodge every attack the same way, no matter the direction it comes from and against monsters you are discouraged to use the parry, so the dodge>attack dull loop is even more boring.The Witcher 3 is a step back compared to the Witcher 2 as well, because in TW2 you had enemy formations attacking you and you had to break them and isolate each enemy (archers first) and kill him separately. That mechanic is gone in The Witcher 3, which only focuses on a giant open world.It's a very long game and all you do is fighting, but the combat system isn't even remotely sufficient and solid to support the experience alone for all the duration of the adventure.The story of the main quest is poorly paced and uninteresting, the Wild Hunt, in spite of being mentioned in the title, appears just a couple of times and Eredin is a totally forgettable villain, who doesn't have anything to say. The Witcher saga peaked with The Witcher 2 and all the momentum built by TW1 and TW2 has been completely thrown out of the window, with a stark drop in writing quality. Overall a very pretentious and mediocre game.
>>732215186Geralt is literally a century old
>mfw when I got to skellige>mfw when I did all the smuggler caches>inb4 "just don't do them"I have ocd. i can't help it
>>732213471Witcher 3 combat blows
>>732214796You forgot him saying "WHAT NOW, YOU PIECE OF FILTH" to a pack of level 5 wolves
Yeah I chose Triss
>>732217335whoa... is that a dash attack?! GOTY
>>732214796>bought the game for like $5 on sale and only got about an hour or two in>thinking about playing it for real this time>see this post>remember the castle with the ghost fetus thing>nevermindthanks anon
>>732217335I'm not chinese enough to enjoy this visual vomit.
>>732213471I hope you're not only feeling that because people on /v/ shit on it a lot.
>>732217335what game is this?also the enemies here are just punchbangs, they didn't do anything
>>732214674It fit when his face looked like a bloated fish
Don’t use hard lock on. It’s a trap.
>>732217481>romanced Shani in 1>let Letho save Triss in 2>still totally loving me in 3 as if I chose to romance her at every opportunity in the previous entriesIt really pulls me out of the game and my "choices" when they have such marginal consequences.Same goes for Zoltan. He's apparently still my best friend despite making every choice he disagrees with in the previous ones.
>>732213471Why shouldn’t you be enjoying one of the most well liked games ever made? It’s more likely you’d enjoy it than not.
>>732214335(I'm too low IQ to understand how to play Gwent. I tried several times but just keep losing.)
>>732217868Too many devs forget the camera framing to help gauge distance when they copy Zelda Z-targeting, instead only centering the enemy in your view. That already makes it more a hindrance than help.
>>732217335saar you will doing the needful and redeem the smoothest combat
>>732217939>spend all of 1 and 2 killing every elf I could, especially scoiatael>suddenly they're a neutral faction you literally can't attack except as part of a couple questsKinda let down when I realised.
>>732213471was fun the first 10 or 20 so hours because I'd still larp being a witcher and do witcher stuff for combat, after that it's just boring ass combat you want to be over with so you just either dance spam or charge heavy attack everything. So yes, the optimal setting is to switch it to easy mode, the game is easy even in higher difficulties, you are just saving time to get the game over already because everything else not mainstory related are just checkboxes you have to do on par being an open world slop in case you didn't quit before then
>>732218143I hated it too at first. That's because the deck you start with is absolute shit tier.The way to make it easy is this>buy every card from inkeepers>play against shopkeepers in Velen to acquire more cards>make it so that the baron kills himself, so you can get his hero card without needing to play>play against the early quest gwent players until you've acquired a good number of hero cards, and also some spy cards>steadily remove your weaker cards and try and have none with less atk than 4 (except spies like Thaler)if you have at least 3 spy cards and 3 hero cards on your northern realms deck you can pretty much win any game unless you have the worst luck possible. And the strategy for every match is about the same>stall the first round as much as possible, baiting the enemy into putting as many units on the battlefield, while you use weather cards, spies, leader ability.>2nd round opponent usually passes early, giving you a free win, or will try to beat you, wasting all his remaining cards>3rd round use up all your saved hero cards. nothing can debuff or remove them so unless the enemy has more hero cards than you (never the case) you are golden
>>732213992I tried to finish it last month, fuck this game. Stop playing fucking cutscenes at me. Rather just restart it and play the first half again.
Damn you're ugly.
>>732214563I'm only playing in DM for the trophy, but yeah, it's just an artificial increase in difficulty. It's better to just on normal
>>732217335>mash x to awesomeWe used to make fun of those.
>>732219324tried death march once, geralt needed like 20 hits to kill a wolf, felt comical so I just turned it down
>finally get grandmaster bear armor>looks dumb as fuck using it in toussaintGuess I'll use it for NG+...
>>732219504bear armor is top comfy for skellige but doesn't work outside it much, the bear school is from skellige so it makes sense I guess
>>732217335>constant fov and zoom changesthis shit blows
>>732219424you become an unstoppable killing machine after only a few hours worth of upgrades even on DM
>>732218872Playing Nilfgaard and Northem Realm gets boring fast because of that, spies are too op. Skellige and Monster deck are fun though
I also started playing it after buying the PS5 version when it first came out. I am having fun. I think I get why people had frankly unrealistic expectations for CP2077. The horse is clunky and having fast travel spots feels dates, but aside from that it holds up well. Very pretty game with good writing. I am not tired of the combat just yet, and I also just got to Novigrad after doing most everything there is to do in Velen
>>732219804im playing the pvp gwent and I hate playing against nilfgard, they are just no fun allowed faggots that are more interested in fucking up your own play than they doing anything of note
i love ciri
Halk Hogan gonna release an updated version of his texture mod this year.
>>732220296shame she's ugly in 4
finally, maybe ill have somebody convince me to play what seems like another generic open world with dialogue boxes and no actual gameplay thought
>>732216454>because in TW2 you had enemy formations attacking you and you had to break them and isolate each enemy (archers first) and kill him separately.hm, sounds interesting actually.is witcher 2 the way to appreciate this shitty franchise?
uh oh the contrarian attention whores have arrived itt
>>732222065stfu nigger
>>732221397that's okay, the witcher 4 is non-canon and they can never take the real ciri from me
>>732215325>find out ALL the children are DEAD>5 minutes later>having fun singing in the tavern haha :pnaaaaah
>>732213992Slavic, old dark pagan atmoshpere was the best part for me too but wouldn't say novigrad have disney atmosphere. Toussaint was more close to it. Anyway game pick ups again in Skellige. Wish it would be as big as Velen.
>>732217335>rgb lighting the gamei need more effects, i'm not blind enough
>>732217335>flashy senseless anime-style chinkslopWorse slop than skyrim combat. Only appeals to autists with adhd
/v/ will say every fantasy game has terrible combat then when you ask which one they think has good combat they'll say Skyrim or some shit like that
>>732225769Mushihimesama Futari has the best combat in a fantasy game
>>732225898Alright you got me there
>>732213992>play it on release>slog through the opening and genuinely hate the game until I reach Novigrad and fall in love>play it now>Novigrad bores me and instead I spend my time investigating every marked location in VelenIt's good.
