it has actual slavic atmosphere. 2 and 3 look like generic fantasy worlds.
>>737483860Yeah
yep witcher 1 was pure SOVL
Are there any modern games that are remotely grounded/realistic and also atmospheric? Seems like an impossible ask these days.
>>737483860Somehow 1 is also the one with the most enjoyable combat
>>737483860Watch the remake completely ue5 sloppify it and remove the soul
>>737483913I never played it but I think that's the whole schtick of KCD
>>737484027too bad they leaned way too much on realism and the game is a complete slog because of it
>>737483913enshroued
>>737483860Witcher 2 and 3 show a clear proof that CD Project got completely americanised. Just like Poland got colonized culturally by them to the point they are blowing them.Also Wiedźmin is a rip off of Elric.
>>737487089Velen alone is more slav than TW1
>>737487239That's why it's the only good part of that shit game.
That looks like the river in Brooklyn where gangsters dump bodies, unc.
>>737487263Disagree, the entire game was great
old /v/ loved TW1
>>737483860By slavic you mean JANK
>>737483860Witcher 1 and 2 are just too janky if you started with 3 like a pleb such as me.
>>737486859Looks like a generic Unreal Engine slop akin to kingdom come
>>737483860That game is so soulful it's insane. Just investigating Javert in the dark streets of Vizima, then you meet Zoltan and have a chat, then before you know it you have party and drinks at Shani's while avoiding her grandma and end up switching from deep philosophical discussions to jokes and shit before getting kicked out drunk. Geez man, it's insane how "real" this game felt, like you were actually discovering things and talking to real people rather than following arrows and experience "content"
>>737483974I also love Witcher 1's combat. Funny how multiple people I've encouraged to play it have told me it's the weakest aspect and biggest hurdle for them. I think a lot of people lack a natural sense of rhythm so their brains turn to mush when it comes to keeping a steady pace.
>>737483860>it has actual slavic atmosphereYou mean generic medieval atmosphere that was all over europe?
>>737488150My main gripes are:1. Geralt's combat sounds sounding nothing like his english VA2. No cleave damage, single target damage only3. Pausing the game constantly to use items, breaking the flow of combat4. Forced mouse+keyboard
>>737483860>non slav talking about "slavic atmosphere", whatever that means
>>737488320tell us about slavic atmosphere then mr. brown man
>>737488361There is none, slavs are not unified
I've played them all in order years ago but I don't find anything "Slavic" about it, it has a really good atmosphere but that's it
The whole series should have had the elevated atmosphere of touissant and played way more into the whimsical story book veneer. best part of the franchise.
>>737488179>she thinks Eastern no-man's lands were the same as the comfy west.one side dealt with steppe niggers while others bickered over towns and turnips once in a while.
>>737488105Yep sometime around the gen 7 switch everyone just stopped being able to make games like these and only became capable of creating the same templates over and over again with different madlibs filled in
>>737488179I've been all over Europe, each region has a distinct atmosphere, for example Oblivion feels a lot like Britain but nothing like the Mediterranean regions, Witcher 1 feels like various slavic countries but not like France or Britain etc Your post could only have come from someone who never left their house or visited Europe
>>737488426Have you been to the slavic countryside in the spring or summer?
>>737483860>ah yes that haute culture that is the slavic culture
>>737487807The first acts of Witcher were pure kino why would you not like them
>>737488283English Geralt is quite bad.Polish and Russian ones are on the other hand are kino.
I'll always look back on Witcher 2 with a profound fondness.After everything I worked for saving Saskia and crafting the perfect Witcher 2 save they fucking robbed me not letting me see Saskia in glorious Witcher 3 hotness (all women in Witcher 3 who should be hot, are hot).
the atmosphere doesn't make up for how shit this game is
>>737483860Full Combat Rebalance, yay or nay?
>>737483860There's almost nothing slavic about TW1's atmosphere. The architecture, walled cities and castles, and knightly orders are all generic western European inspired.
>>737489457This game plays better than OOT, everyone who parrots the "muh jank muh shit game" criticism is just mad it's not a big studio game with recognition that they can get social cred for playing
>>737489585t. has never been to Europe
>>737488426The Witcher 1 is very eastern european. The story, the characters, the music, the places themselves feel very slavic. t. slav
>>737483913The Blood of Dawnwalker comes out this year, might be cool.Big Walk is a social game but might be cool if there's environmental storytelling (probably not)Hawthorn is probably my most anticipated though, will scratch my Ghost of a Tale itch:>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3078150/Hawthorn/Speaking of which you should check out Ghost of Tale.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/417290/Ghost_of_a_Tale/It's super cheap right now and quite literally one of the best games I've played on Steam.But yea, no real RPGs, just walking sims.There have been some walking sims that focus on atmosphere like Killer Frequency etc.And those horror games that double as shift working games like Massacre at the Mirage or the Fears to Fathom games.Escape Simulator and Escape Simulator 2 have some nice atmospheric custom maps, like the Museum Collab:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y6PPd2aSOs
>>737489362>English Geralt is quite bad.Awful take, his awkward delivery fits perfectly with him being a mutant outcast. In 2 and 3 his voice acting is overproduced and lacks any real conviction
>>737489381I hope the next W3 Dlc we'll get to see her again...
>>737489785Did you not read the books?
>>737489824... oh fuck I forgot entirelyLike I knew in my mind we're getting another DLC, and I just made that post about Saskia, but I never even considered that possibility...But my heavily modded, "perfectly modded" install is still patch 1.32. I'd have to abandon it.
>>737489316NTA and you are correct, but they are a major filter that catches a lot of people
I've been nursing this same Witcher 3 backlog save since like 2019. I've played the first act of Witcher 3 like 2 times now. I've literally never even tried the GOTY update and I don't know ANY mods for it.
>>737489948Not him but I've read snippets. His kind of an awkward dork loser more than anything.
>>737490462Yes and not a stoic superhero like the english version
>>737490735
>>737491332
>>737483860Witcher3 mogs every fantasy game ever made
Do you actually research monsters and use their weaknesses? I was severely disappointed that Witcher 3 didn't care about that after the beginning.
>>737491401A shame even ocarina of time has a more interesting combat.
>>737491442It's more prevalent as gameplay before 2/3 were it got stripped out more.
>>737491474>CombatGo play juggleslop
>>737491442Potions in 2 and 3 are also not necessary while in 1 they were a musthave.
>>737491531>also not necessaryHave you tried Death March with level scaling? You'll have to use potions.
>>737483860>le slavicNobody in poland wanted this, it's a thing only retarded burgers say
>>737491601Level scaling is shit in every rpg. By endgame I should be destroying the "hardest" bosses like a hot knife through butter because I built my character to do so.
>>737491601>Death march Artificial difficulty
>>737483860Witcher 1 made me fall in love with the setting, after finishing it I went and sought out the books which were all poorly machine translated at the time but they were at least entertaining. Witcher 2 and especially 3 made me stop caring about the setting entirely and I've never looked back since then.
>>737491601Bro I even if you play on the normal difficulty you need potions in 1. Hell, even night is actually damn fucking dark in 1 so you'll get raped if you don't use a torch or the night vision potion.
>>737491657Gothic 1 has good scaling
>>737491706It depends on your build I suppose. In 1 igni is so utterly unbalanced and brokenly op just by putting skill points into it, by the time you finish chapter 2 you'll be one shotting everything with it
>>737487807I can't believe there are people who get emotional over the twist. It was so obvious that it actually annoyed me because my intelligence was being insulted.
I got the HUD improvement mods, the meditation mod, configurable autoloot, "Sword of Destiny" trailer crossbow and sign camera changes, witcher eyes and complexion mod to make him more accurately pale/sickly, better trophies, gwent plus plus, better icons and all quest objectives, the "E3 dodge system" that adds a different shorter roll and swaps the short dodge, Witcher 2 Gear mod that changes the appearance of all the hideous fucking non-witcher armors into Witcher 2 armors (for Geralt only).and MOST IMPORTANTLY: I have a "Complete Animations" mod which lets me configure it so in combat using a potion or oil or food is animated, so I have to actually do so intelligently if I must when there's an opening in the combat. Oh and I have bounty board shit I believe for repeatable hunts and whatnot.
Not gonna happen but would be cool if witcher 4 expanded on the alchemy and potions stuff. W3 and cyberpunk would both benefit from deeper rpg elements
>>737492372Should have just gotten the enhanced edition mod since it includes a lot of that already and fixes the bad gameplay by making it skill based.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUCZsRVzV3I
>>737483860There's no such thing as slavic atmosphere. You're a gay faggot
>>737492701matka twoja kurwa byÅa
>>737492612Doesn't the gog version come with that pre installed anyways now?
>>7374928931 does. But he was talking about 3, The EE mod for it includes a lot of the animation and hud improvement mods that you'd otherwise have to install piecemeal
>>737492612>>737493119That overhaul mod did not exist when I created this mod list entirely by myself like 6 years ago. The last time I considered modding fresh "Ghost Mode" was the most prominently discussed overhaul I think.Should I just say fuck it and try out the GOTY 4.3 patch or whatever with the Enhanced Edition Redux?
>>737495021I'd recommend it personally. I hate that difficulty in rpgs boils down to a literal number as a substitute for skill and w3ee fixes that in many ways. Aside from that the next gen version does have better performance as long as you run it in dx12 mode. The only problem is HairWorks + raytracing has some broken window reflections that CDPR didn't care to fix. I have a lot of additional mods on mine at the moment but w3ee is really all you need, there's a huge learning curve to playing it though. It's something you'll either love or hate
https://youtu.be/fXqKvyQe50w
>>7374955511. my cpu is an OC'd 4790k from 2015 with 16gb DDR3 ram and my graphics card is a 3060ti, do you think my current flawless 100FPS performance with everything on modded ultra+ settings (except hairworks) become a garbage 50 frames on high with GOTY edition?2. do you know if there are more "great" mods for GOTY than the old patch on account of the mod tools?
>>737487089>russians seethe about poland even in /v/lmao you creatures are too predictable
>>737483860I hate slavs so much its unreal. Thanks for gamergate and QAnon you snow Nigerians.
>>737483913
>>737487089>CD project red makes a successful highly profitable game>Slavmonkey upsetWhy are you like this?
>>737496714I love slavic women so much it's unreal
>>737495917It should perform about the same for you minus raytracing of course, next gen itself has a lot of the community graphics mods integrated already, so running it at ultra+ would be a similar performance hit as using those mods. There's other cool mods like extended Kaer Morhen and brothers in arms is only getting updates for next gen now. But, most of the other stuff comes down to personal preference, beautiful meadows is a nice grass mod since it ironically improves performance and makes grass look nicer overall
>>737489948The English voice is far more matching, if you go by the books. The first chapter of the first book literally describes his voice as a very unpleasant.
>>737497004man, maybe I should
>>737483860Should I play witcher 1 or just play 3 since everyone says it's the best? I do prefer atmosphere above all else so maybe I'll just go with part 1.
that's a retarded take, all 3 are slavic
>>737487089Your America Derangement Syndrome is so old.No matter how loud you scream it, the Golem of Prague did not originate here. Kill yourself.
>>7374972533 is like skyrim, normalfags love it and it does have some things going for it but it's incredibly shallow.
>>737497247Here's a list of all the mods that are included in next gen. Might be more helpful in deciding if it's worth a fresh install or not.https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7460
>>737497253Play 1 first.They're remaking 1 but given how politically incorrect a lot of it is it's guaranteed to be changed a lot.Get to the outskirts inn in chapter 1 and do some quests there before you make your judgement.The tutorial quests in Kaer Morhen and the first Barghest fight are filters, but the atmosphere really kicks in once you get to the outskirts proper.
Aurora engine was the best for old school RPG experience
>>737497623Its dumb, and I dont know why, but just like GoT the Netflix Witcher season 3 was so bad I have zero desire to revisit the kino. Just knowing it ends in a woke girlboss dumpster fire.
>>737497326I don't get any slavic feels from 2 or 3
>>737483860Can't wait for the inevitable with graphics upgraded by AI.
>>737497902The show is so different from the games my brain doesn't even recognize them as part of the same IP.
>>737498001well I'm slavic and I thought they were all slavic
>>737497253If you're an open minded individual who enjoys a variety of gameplay types and can get down with "eurojank/slavjank" (think like Stalker 1, ultimately EXCELLENT game if you can handle its flaws/constraints and the time when it came out)and if you're maybe even willing to do a little research beforehand and install some very basic quality of life mods...if you're capable of enjoying Witcher 1 (and as a consequence Witcher 2) untainted by Witcher 3 you will have 3 whole great games of different quality to enjoy and carry your journey through. If you start with Witcher 3 you might spoil yourself with a game that's flashier and more accessible and more "GRANDIOSE" but shallower in the fine details.Witcher 3 is peak accessibility for literally every normie, still good, even great. Witcher 1 has no accessibility for normies for a multitude of reasons but has serious gold if you're willing to "mine" it. Witcher 2 is like Witcher 1 consolized for the 360 generation with bloom out the ass and like a pure stepping stone between generations and design philosophies, evolution from PURE EUROJANK to something inbetween to MOST LAUDED AND PLAYED AND ACCESSIBLE MODERN TRIPLE AAA EUROPEAN RPG OF ALL TIME MAYBE???Witcher 2 is still one of the only games of its scope and generation+ that has a "truly branching" storyline. Like the entire second act which is subsantial is WILDLY INSANELY COMPLETELY different based off a decision in the first act. No other WRPG talking about fucking "choices" (like Mass Effect and shit) lived up to it and actually branched so divergently based on choices.
>>737498624Must be a city slicker
>>737498624Slavic or "slavic"?
>>737498568Triss wasn't mullato and Jen was not arab in your head when you read the books? What is it like to be racist?
>>737483860i got slavic atmosphere fatigue
>>737483913I think the switch away from photo textures and towards Substance Slop is to blame. It means that developers no longer go out into the real world to gather references for their assets.>>737487089Truth Nuke. All of Poland is just an American-Israeli colony by this point.
>>737483860Witcher 3 is one the best looking games ever madeVelen is beautiful
>>737500898yea plus the weather&lighting was exactly as in reality... made me think if American AAA games were made by people who never exited the buildings they worked in or smth...I was sad that a big part takes part in that generic novigrad and that generic viking island
>>737500898This seems pretty slavic to me? Doesn't 3% of Russia have aids after mandatory dedovshchina?
Witcher 2 sucks because it traded a fully fleshed out story for 2 act 2s
>>737496658>everyone I don't like is a russiankys red army rape baby
>>737501387I think it's an amazing bit of ambition, but it's also an example as to why devs shouldn't bother actually making Choices Matter and instead should just focus on one good plotit's so much effort and players will always see two halves of a game instead of two full onesit doesn't help that the Vergen path had way more content
>>737502603Doesnt this involve fighting folklore monsters
>>737487674>>737487674Is there a barbershop or at least a hair change mod in the old games?Long hair Geralt is so ugly.
>>737483860>it has actual slavic atmosphere.why do you say this like its a good thing lol. slavs are a lower form of life than even indians.
>>737503131t.
>>737503131it's comfy
>>737496714>post a guy with problems this = all Slavic people Ok jeet
>>737503032Fuck off, retard. Long-haired Geralt looks great.
>>737488397they are also not really, any "slavicness" is just garbage that insecure slavic-minstrels do to satiate the hunger of retarded crackers and niggers who think they are sooooo cool for playing a bethesda game but even buggier and less original
>>737496714The guy is from Far fucking East for fuck sake. Give him a break.
>>737483860Best music
Choose
>>737509220for me it's
>keeps resuscitating his dogshit thread every time it reaches page10Pathetic. Let it go.
>>737502640It involves fighting 1000 spiders.
>>737483974I dont prefer it to 3 (though I despise 3's bullshit approach to oils/meditation), but its easily better than 2 which was a bizarre mix of action and RTWP.>>737483860Nah, 2 looks like generic grimdark but 3 is actually colourful and "storybook"-like, maybe thats "generic" in a general sense but its certainly not "generic" in that you can find other games (or even other media) that do it anymore. It doesnt show a unique atmosphere much in the main story or first dlc, but the second dlc is oozing it.
Witcher 1 is the only game in the series i genuinely liked. Didn't even finish 3, got burnt outIt's hilarious Nioh later took W1's stance gimmick and turned it into one of the best combat systems
>>737489476Yay on a replay, nay otherwise .
"slavic" is a meme identity invented by poles who think they're as good as czechs
>>7374972531 is pure soul, but combat is cancer jank at begining, after a while you adjust to it and the game is really kino, graphics looks scuffed as hell, but thats the product of the time2 is also good, combat is ok, you can abuse the trap and bomb system here even more than in witcher 3, its still somewhat janky, but is decent, story is allright, but the choices are thinned compared to the first game, for example, you pick roche, and you play one side of the map and visit the second part later, and if you side with yorweth, you get the second part first, and first as a second, still ok story with good graphics3 story is ok, go find your daughter and dont enstrange her, thats it, melee combat is cool, parrying and stuff, but after couple hours you dont use it and just spam click to kill, the game overall is also greatso, if you want athosphere, go for 1 and then 2, if you just want to play for the sake of playing, play 3
Have any leaks come out of the cancelled xbox 360 port of witcher 1?
>>737492418Cyberpunk proves that cd project red even when genuinely trying can't make anything beyond shallow skyrim like "rpgs" now
>>737509220Which one is Shani again?
>>737496714>gamergatewas right and justified
>>737509220>chooseI choose the artist because these are dope as fuck and I want infinite of them.
>>737483860The soundtrack is amazing tooI even like the combat but I seem to be alone with thatMy favorite Witcher without trying to be contrarian. Going from 1 to 2 is especially rough. 1 is a true PC game and 2 feels completely catered to the console crowd and everything is simplified to hell and the combat is complete shit.
>>737505690I miss when he looked like this instead of generic chad
>>737483860>>>/vr/I bet you also play that shit on a CRT
>>737488564this picture is animal abuse btw. pls stop posting it.
>>737489785>>737497192>The English voice is far more matching, Kill yourself. The English VA was dogshit.
>>737483913Obligatory, but VTMB, Deus Ex and OG Half-Life
Kinda surprising that after the success of witcher 3 cd project red didn't pay some studio to port/remaster witcher 1 and 2 to 8th gen consoles
>>737495551>Aside from that the next gen version does have better performanceWhy would you lie like this? Are you retarded?
>>737513731The W1 remake won't be out until after W4 as it was some Russian studio working on it.lmaoPersonally I doubt it ever will see the light of day.
>>737512873It was definitely right, but the 25 IQ drop of this website was not justified.
>>737488397Thanks to you, moshe.
>>737489476The combat in this game actually fits the narrative, you are weak as shit until the very end of the game it creates tension and the fighting, especially against the ifrits very challenging. I always hated how people said le rhythm sim make w1 bad.
>>737492701Go play Metro, Stalker or even HoMM3 then come back to me.
>>737483860>slavic atmosphere>everything is the color of the inside of a sewer>there's no gameplay whatsoever, it's just a boring and depressing story about a hideous mutant killing wildlife and fucking prostitutesSounds about right
>>737500441>It means that developers no longer go out into the real world to gather referencesThey never did that. They just bought stock assets.
>>737512873Has she Gone Home?
I'm glad I was never interested in this franchise cause I know I'd be the obnoxious retard who can't shut up about how soulless witcher 3 is compared to the first one just like I do with dark souls
>>737509220They all have the exact same tits
