The Witcher 3

[Skywalkre]

Now THIS is a game trailer!

 

[Skywalkre]

How have we not had more talk about this game!? I've heard nothing but amazing things about it. It also has the most kick ass trailers I've seen for a game in a LONG time.

 

[Mr King]

This is definitely on my growing list of games to get. My friends are raving about it.

[Skywalkre]

A buddy of mine took some vacation time off to play it. When I first asked him about it he said, "fuck Skyrim." I was caught off guard quite a bit as he had always enjoyed Skyrim and I had no idea why he'd mention it. He went on to describe how everything about this game from the open world to the quests is light years beyond Skyrim. W3 has several zones which are each about as large as Skyrim and extremely detailed. What appear to be simple quests in W3 turn out to be rather intricate with meaningful choices (I've actually heard the weakest questline in the game is the main one as it's rather straightforward). He also highly commended the writing as being quite a step up above Skyrim.

 

I'm going to have to upgrade my PC before I can get this but I can't wait. Nothing but positive commentary from everyone I've talked to.

[Colin]

some rumours on Nexus they will release a modding engine for this game like Skyrim has the creation kit

[Rickard N]

How are the previous witcher games btw?

 

/R

[Skywalkre]

The first one had excellent writing and is definitely on the gritty side compared to basically every other RPG I've played. The downsides are a rather simplistic and repetitive combat system and huge jumps in difficulty during boss fights.

 

I'm not sure whether or not this can be called a downside but it's one of the few games where I almost think it's too long. Not that it's drawn out, but that there's so much to do you can effectively get lost in it all (the first one isn't an open world so you're also constantly trudging over the same limited areas but this is nowhere near as bad as what happened in DA2). I actually haven't finished it! I'm at 92h played on it and have only completed 5 of 7 chapters. It's a game, with the stories the way they play out (and the first one is also more story driven than combat driven), that I prefer to only play when I can sit down over several days to knock a chapter(s) out at once.

[Lieste]

I had stability improvements by editing the garbage collection settings higher, also allowing it to use more of my installed memory.

Still have an occasional drop, but usually only after many hour long sessions. Both are probably a good idea if you have 16Gb RAM and a 3-4GB GPU. Not sure what your card has though as you state a series, not a card model.

[urbanoid]

Wow!

 

http://www.witcherschool.com/

[Fritz]

Witcher 3 now 50% off on Steam.

[Skywalkre]

I'm tempted. My machine can't handle it now (which is why I've never grabbed it) but with those revolutionary (the performance given the price) new nVidia cards coming out soon I'll finally be building a new machine.

 

Still, I haven't finished number one yet!

[Fritz]

Yeah I also only got about halfway through 1 and never even played 2. But 3 got so much accolade that I just have to get it and $25 is a good deal I think.

[Skywalkre]

Yeah, at this point it's been so long I don't know if I could keep playing 1 and have any idea what's going on but... starting over, given the length of it, doesn't sound like fun.

 

I've been told W3 has an option at the beginning where if you haven't played any of the games (and thus don't have a character to import because apparently the choices you made influence what happens in W3 which is really cool) there's a mini-story that it runs you through and you get to pick the big choices from the first two games so your character has some flavor/background.

 

Still, I'm a terrible completionist and would probably be kicking myself for not finishing the first two first.

Edited May 18, 2016 by Skywalkre

[Fritz]

I cared about these things for Mass Effect (where sadly your epic choices ended up being completely immaterial) but the Witcher world never really got me so involved so I don't care about continuity.

[Fritz]

LMAO it requires ~40GB disk space...

[Skywalkre]

I cared about these things for Mass Effect

The wound, it's still... raw...

[Rickard N]

I'm on my second playthrough of witcher 3 now. It's a nice game and I like it a lot, althought it is sort of frustrating that you have to do some quests in a certain order since other quests will remove persons needed from the game...

 

/R

[Fritz]

I've only put about half an hour into it but the first thing that practically slapped me in the face was how every character felt like a real person and not a bland generic fantasy cookie-cutter stereotype*.

 

* looking at you, Skyrim

[urbanoid]

LMAO it requires ~40GB disk space...

 

There's also this little 10GB patch

[Fritz]

To be fair my 2015 model year Skyrim is probably the same size.

[sunday]

I've only put about half an hour into it but the first thing that practically slapped me in the face was how every character felt like a real person and not a bland generic fantasy cookie-cutter stereotype*.

 

* looking at you, Skyrim

 

No arrows in knees?

[Lieste]

Oh yes, you do get arrows and knees... and horse armour.

[Fritz]

Great, Steam summer sale starts june 23.... W3 will probably at some point be even lower than half off... oh well. I might pick up the DLC if it's super cheap.

[Mr King]

I bought a buddy Darksouls 3, and he gifted me the Witcher 3 yesterday. Plan to download all 30 or so gigs of it tonight while I sleep. Then hope my aging video card does not burst into flame when I try to run the game.

[GARGEAN]

I bought a buddy Darksouls 3, and he gifted me the Witcher 3 yesterday. Plan to download all 30 or so gigs of it tonight while I sleep. Then hope my aging video card does not burst into flame when I try to run the game.

 

If you have only baseen game, then I would recommend you to get Hearts of Stone. It really, REALLY worth it.