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Topic: Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Read 128578 times)
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Sky
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Yeah, just roving around the barony has been one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I'm not one to nitpick too much when the overall package works so well together. They wove in some of the main and subplots pretty nicely, too. And like the Gothic series, it's not level-scaled so there are still moments of 'oh crap maybe later' *run for the hills*
And the meandering underground areas, oh crap big bad guy at the end of this long area, mark it for later exploration. Explore another cave somewhere else...that eventually leads to the same boss...noooo!
I like the voice acting and the graphics are just awesome. Tie in good music and ambients and it really pushes the immersion nicely. Really my only complaint thus far into the game is the sound of Quen breaking is abnormally loud compared to the rest of it, really hammers my subwoofer...which is not good for fiancee approval factor. Otherwise she loves the game, so I just try to skip Quen when she's around (or worse, napping).
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ynotgolf
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That's great to hear Khaldun, I can definitely say I see myself giving this game another playthrough myself, just to see those differences you mentioned.
Last night I just about completed all I want to see in Velen for now, Baron's story is very well done indeed, even my wife watched me play for a bit, which she never does.
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Khaldun
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In the later game, by the way, there's less variation. In general the character work in Skellige strikes me as more upbeat, less Gothic. There's some choices you make that make interesting differences but not mind-bogglingly different ones, and some of the most morally charged "decisions" are inevitable though they may make you decide as the player to take a particular approach to the romance with Yennifer.
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Sky
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To be expected, really. So many start the journey, so few finish.
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Lucas
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Well, don't despair; after all, thanks to modders, now there's.... (NSFW)
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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MediumHigh
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Beat the game in death march (toggled over to the harder difficulty after I got full build). Kinda interesred in what an alchemy only build would look like or a signs + alchemy. But teching that way from the start. Definitely game of the year.
The only complaint is that geralt none romance ending could have been better.
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Sky
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The card game is growing on me. Had a tough monster deck opponent (for my crappy deck anyway), the smithy chick in the baron's place. She has a ton of summoning duplicates.
Round 1 I put a spy on her side to stack my deck, figured I'd throw the first round. She oddly passes, so I ice my spy down to 1 and play my lowest card to steal the round. 4-1
Round 2 we just duke it out. I blew out a ton of her troops with a special unit, but she doubled the melee line and just kept throwing stuff. So I put in everything I had to draw her out, then decoy back my best card when she runs out of cards. 19-116 (!)
Round 3 as monster, she keeps a card but I nuked her best melee cards and my lowly best card of 7 is able to beat the 5 card left on the board. 7-5
I was pretty happy since she has whipped me every time I've tried to play her.
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Paelos
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Monster Gwent decks are pretty much the IWIN button unless you get really lucky, at least that's what I've found.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Khaldun
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Northern Realms deck is easiest for me to win with. Monster deck actually has a big disadvantage if you know how to play with it--it can pull in a lot more cards than the deck owner wants to have to play. You pretty much have to count on losing the second round to a Monster deck owner--your goal is to make them pull in a lot and have nothing left later. They're incredibly vulnerable to a Scorch card if you time it right.
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Sky
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Yep, having her dump all her cards on the table in round 2 is how I won.
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Rasix
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Do you win cards from random people? Or is card acquisition mostly through shops/gwent quests?
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Phildo
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Certain characters have specific cards, the rest are randomly earned from playing inkeepers or purchased from shops.
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Lucas
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Patch 1.21 (featuring improvements across the entire game, most notably with the various character sheets) is already out. Change logBlood & Wine DLC proper will come out in about 3 hours. Time for the ultimate playthrough
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« Last Edit: May 30, 2016, 01:20:35 PM by Lucas »
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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schild
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Apparently people care about this, so:
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Signe
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Is my beard growing??
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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lamaros
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Any way to make movement in this game not horrible? I'm not a fan of the combat system generally, but I think the controls just make it even worse.
I'm trying to like this, and have even put the difficulty down to story mode to try and get around the stuff I don't enjoy (consumables/inventory mess, third person real time combat) but still can't get in to it.
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Hawkbit
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There's "alternative movement" I think it's called - tinker with that on/off setting and see if it helps.
I'm actually really enjoying this on Death March. Prepping for battles and gathering I like a lot.
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Gimfain
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There's "alternative movement" I think it's called - tinker with that on/off setting and see if it helps.
I'm actually really enjoying this on Death March. Prepping for battles and gathering I like a lot.
That and toggling fisheyes witcher senses off made it far more enjoyable to do things in the dlc. Working my way through blood & wine now.
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Signe
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There's "alternative movement" I think it's called - tinker with that on/off setting and see if it helps.
I'm actually really enjoying this on Death March. Prepping for battles and gathering I like a lot.
That and toggling fisheyes witcher senses off made it far more enjoyable to do things in the dlc. Working my way through blood & wine now. I had to do these things, too. It was making me srsly seasick. It's still not perfect, but it's much, much better. I also dl'd some of the overall gfx quality mods, too, and it's even more beautiful than before. You have to be wary of some of the mods, though, because there seems to be a lot of compilation errors. I'm sure they can be fixed but since I'm just starting this game, I won't be using mods that change the gameplay anyway. Yet. I love this game very much. So far.
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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apocrypha
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I don't find the movement too bad except for the horse, which is so annoying that I just run everywhere. Plus you can't pick herbs while you're on horseback, which is fair enough I suppose.
I'm getting used to the combat, Blood & Broken Bones is what I've settled on, which makes the fights feel 'fair' to me, i.e. I can take opponents who are a higher level than me as long as I prepare properly, use signs and consumables sensibly and they're not ?? level.
I have modded away the level restrictions on gear because that felt stupid, especially for crafted gear, and I've modded my carry weight limit to 9000 so that I can mostly ignore the inventory management crap. I'm playing this to kill monsters, have sexy sex and enjoy the stories with bonuses of enjoying the scenery and playing the occasional game of cards, all of which it's doing admirably!
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Sky
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I have modded away the level restrictions on gear because that felt stupid, especially for crafted gear, and I've modded my carry weight limit to 9000 so that I can mostly ignore the inventory management crap.
Please elaborate for the lazy
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Lucas
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I'm playing on Blood & Broken Bones (in italian they decided to name it "Blood & Tears" :D) too and I agree it's the perfect "medium".
As I progress with my playthrough, this game is dangerously becoming what I think will be my favourite CRPG ever, mostly because of the intensity combined with the "density" of the whole experience and how every detail of the game, even some of the most meaningless sidequests, are wonderfully crafted.
Ultima Underworld 2, Deus Ex, BG 2, Ultima 7 pt 1 and 2, Planescape: Torment (these are the ones I appreciated the most)...Yes, I think it's up there with those (including all the downsides Witcher 3 and the games I listed have, yes).
P.S. to be fair, my excitement might also be due to the fact that I recently finished reading the books, so I'm even more immersed in the whole narrative.
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« Last Edit: July 05, 2016, 10:22:00 AM by Lucas »
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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« Last Edit: July 05, 2016, 11:54:05 AM by apocrypha »
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Sky
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Lucas, I'm pretty sure it's my favorite CRPG. At the very least it's tied for my favorite with U7/7.5.
Apoc, yeah yeah NMM. Blah, been avoiding it this long! Thanks, I'll load up that mod when I return to the land of unicorns.
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Lucas
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« Last Edit: July 05, 2016, 12:52:37 PM by Lucas »
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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I think the HD reworked mod might be the culprit there because I use that too and get 15-20 sec loading times off of an SSD.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Signe
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I've killed the tree and the witches ate the children. I don't care. I would do it again exactly the same way. Kill em all.
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Lucas
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« Last Edit: November 12, 2016, 02:57:54 PM by Lucas »
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Mithas
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I have 163 hours played. Haven't finished Blood & Wine yet. I think I am holding off only because I don't want it to be over. This is the greatest game I have ever played. The soundtrack is amazing.
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Khaldun
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I finally did Blood and Wine (I did Hearts of Stone on an earlier playthrough).
I am just so in love with this game all over again. Blood and Wine is fantastic. If it doesn't end with Geralt writing to his lover (I went Triss this time) and telling her to drop Kovir and move to Touissant, stat, I will be disappointed, unless it turns out that Touissant is actually a horribly corrupt illusion cast by an evil spirit, which I wouldn't put it past the game to do.
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Falconeer
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To all of you who played it, regardless of the platform, would you play this with a joypad of mouse+keyboard? And why?
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Merusk
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I'm finding KB&M suck and controller is better but not much so. It feels more fluid with the controller, even though it still has other issues I dislike. You don't run into unintuitive control dynamics that dislike KB&M either, such as tab then mouse around a wheel for your quick-select, and mid-mouse button for crossbow/ sigils or q for only sigils.
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Sky
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Controller
...because it controls better?
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lamaros
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I tried again with this. Combat is just so boring and crappy that it ruins what seems to otherwise be an interesting world.
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