It has tits and fucking--that's all gamers want these days, right?

It has tits and fucking--that's all gamers want these days, right?

No put in political messaging and unnecessary minority characters

tbh if you haven't played it already without good reason then you've already made up your mind

I never played the first Witcher, and the second one just felt off-putting to me.  I finished the tutorial/siege level and put it away.

I bought Witcher 3 because my friend would not stop hyping it up to me, and the game did look pretty good.  At first, the combat was irritating to work with, so I turned the game off for a day.  I went back in after clearing my head, and I didn't put the game down since then, even playing it alongside newer releases like Arkham Knight.  I was truly blown away by how much depth there was in the game, to the point where the smallest side quest was fleshed out, and you could actually feel for minor characters that may only be involved for that one quest.  The character building is done really well, even for someone like me who is pretty much a newbie when it comes to the Witcher universe.

The environment is absolutely stunning, both in the untouched countryside and in the gritty, bloody and muddy war-stricken areas.  The soundtrack is great.  The boss fights and monster hunts are pretty good, requiring you to chug the proper potions and add oils to make your blade stronger against certain enemies if you want to even have a chance at surviving.

And the DLC is terrific.  Hearts of Stone had a good, rather emotional story while Blood and Wine felt like a great send-off.

The gameplay's solid, but you're only going to enjoy it if you're getting into it for the story.

I don't think I've played another game where such evident care by the writers was given to the world of the game.

With all the circlejerking around it, I've been avoiding picking it up. The obnoxious fanbase has put me off wanting to play it.

I guess I understand now why verb hated and refused to play Halo for the longest time.

Witcher 3 is one of my all time favorite rpgs, and I fucking hated the second one.

Interesting perspective from (surprisingly) a YouTube comment for a review of the indie game Inside:

The perfect 10s come from a deep insecurity a lot of games journalists have about the medium. Instead of embracing games as a unique medium that offers its own kind of experiences, they feel bad that they are reporting on such an unestablished medium, and want to justify it by promoting games that they think are "grown up".
This is why there's so much love in games journalism for walking simulators, even though they aren't well liked by their audiences- they oftentimes try to feel grown up by emulating what successful works in other mediums do, which ironically makes them actually very juvenile.
Look at the full slogs of "Dear Esther" or "Gone Home", both of which are barely games, desperately clinging to narrative gimmicks to try to impress those who see games as childish. It's a deep disrespect of video games as a medium, which while I doubt most gamers have thought about it like that, they almost certainly feel it when playing these "games". There's a reason most people find these kinds of try-hard art "games" distasteful, and it's because those kinds of games seem almost embarrassed to have gameplay, preferring to replace meaningful player interaction with "adult" elements from more established mediums.

OT: I did get the game and I just killed the griffon. Combat still feels clunky, movement has a weird delay, and there's still a fair amount of menu surfing, but it's good so far. I know I'm still in the tutorial section, though.

Quote from: BiggestCockInTheUnsullied on December 11, 2016, 05:49:29 AM

Quote from: Luciana on December 09, 2016, 05:53:42 PM

Game of Thrones is also shit because of that.

Agreed, the producers should have focused more on the troy and characters who were actually from the books, rather than focusing on pointless nude and sex scenes.

You completely took what I said out of context as if I actually meant that.

If you want them to focus on characters from the books, have fun learning a bunch of convoluted stuff that spans for freaking ever.

Not every character from the book has to be in the show, but it would be nice to see the scenes how they actually happened. For example in the book Renly was telling Ned that he would be a better choice for a king to due the people loving him a hell of a lot more than his brother. In the show it just made him out to be a selfish asshole. Hell even Cersei in the book was trying to suddce Ned into ruling until Joff came of age. In the show that scene for some odd reason was butchered.

Then for characters Young Griff's story line would be a hell of a lot more interesting to watch than every nude scene and those scenes with that pointless whore known as Ros.

But hey, why have a story worth watching when we can have great moments like "You want a good girl, but you need the bad pussy" and seeing Renly getting head from Ser Loras.