Why was Witcher 3's gameplay so badly designed?
Your mom badly designed you.
>>738777763It's been years but the main issue I remember having is Geralt automatically facing opponents in combat. Minor issue by itself, but let's say you're asked to climb around and do a little platforming in an area that is populated by flying enemies that constantly put Geralt in the combat stance if they get too near, and you can't platform in the combat stance.Why not make it so Geralt only enters combat stance once he hits an enemy, and holding the run button let's Geralt disengage from combat? It's the small things.
>>738777763sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who thought Witcher 3's combat was fineWas it spectacular? no, but it wasn't nearly as bad as most people make it out to be, they act like it's the worst combat to ever exist, and all I can think is they never played any 5th or 6th generation console games growing up, because there was so much janky or stuff combat in those gens and you just accepted itthey can't imagine how much of a step up combat got in the 7th gen, and I'm still not saying it was the best, but it finally had a few decent templates down to copy, and a lot of those games STILL played worse than the wiutcher 3 eventually did
It was a massive improvement over 1 and 2, which were borderline unplayable
>>738777763Which sucks balls because world and character as good as they get But gameplay is never more than serviceable >Press X to solve everything
>>738779878I think the key to making it fun is using everything the game offers. Signs, bombs, potions.I see loads of people just mash light attack and then complain it's boring. Mix it up.
>>738780596I only like the gameplay of witcher 1, 2 and 3 felt too much like console ports
>>738780689You're not wrong, but the problem is the game never expects you to utilize your whole toolkit. You can just spec into light/heavy attacks and spam them until the end of days, even on the highest difficulty.
>quen and spam fast attacksimple as for me the real gameplay was gwent
>>738781024That's an issue in many if not most games. I think they needed to make the secondary tools more powerful (which they kind of did with the nextgen update), to entice people to use them more. I personally don't like it when games force me to use certain abilities in certain situations. If someone wants to beat the whole game just mashing one attack they should be able to, it should just be a lot harder and more time-consuming than using all the available tools.
>>738777763Yen wears pants you can't upskirt her.
>two button combat>one of the buttons is completely useless
>>738781323name a game you like, and I'll tell you why it's shit because I only ever used the basic attack button, and nothing else the game offered me
>>738777763Dont care, its still the best rpg ever made
>play a mission that's above your level>your hits don't deal any damage and you get oneshot by any attack>carefully draw aggro while an npc deals damage to the enemies>finally beat the mission>loot is scaled, get an absolute pittanceit's pretty bad
>>738780689nahkey to making it fun is never using quenand rolling only a little bit (you have a second dodge anyway)using the rest of your toolkit follows organically from that
>>738781536>incest rpgmaker fag has an opinion
>>738781395Depends on what you think makes an rpg good
>>738781636Writing, immersion and a good setting
>>738781635yesand that opinion? correct
>>738781395Is it an rpg?
>>738781671And good roleplaying
>>738781024>the problem is the game never expects you to utilize your whole toolkitI think very few games do. And hell, games that do expect you to use everything like Doom Eternal get screeched about even harder on this board.
>>738781686Yeah I didn't really have a point.
>>738780596playable game doesn't mean it's good. Somehow drakengard 1 feels better to play. And the rpg systems and world being level gated are unimmersive garbage mechanics. It is no surprise a game that barely functions as a game is so popular, but it sure is frustrating
Don't bother trying to convince people Witcher 3 is a shit game.Majority of people's IQ is too low to understand this fact.
>>7387805961 is actually pretty damn fun once you get used to it. 2 was always console jank.
>>738781671Are the asoiaf books good rpg games?
>>738781731I'm glad I'm not a game designer since I have no idea how to tackle this problem. I'm all for giving players the freedom of choice (with builds), but then the players create this problem for themselves like this.
>>7387818602 has legendary sex scenes, so it has that going for it. And some memorable quotes.>lesbomancy
I remember playing some combat overhaul mod that improved it a bunch. weakened quickstrikan, punished dodgerollan, expected to properly use parry and the side-step. also nerfed Igni so it wouldn't instantly melt shit because of how op the Ignited raw damage type was
>>738777763Why would they feel the need to design it well when the player has a literal press button for god mode sign
