Just finished Witcher 3
Its very overrated
Maybe standards were different 10 years ago

The Baron quest is the one good bit everyone points to distract you from the rest of the shit

Why is is 500 hours long when 90% of the game is the same shit over and over

6.5/10

It's a movie game for brown kids that missed the peak of consoles in 2007

>>712909926 (OP)
TW3 came out before Ubisoft made 100 open world "point of interest" games, so there's that.
And I think there's at least 20 interesting stories in the game, if not more. Certainly the main plots and some side quests of the DLC are very good.

Heart of Stone and Blood and Wine are pure, unadulterated kino and I'm tired of pretending they're not.

2015 was a good year for games.
We got gems like undertale, dying light, kerbal space program, arkham knight, tomb raider, heroes of the storm and soma.
By today's standard's all of those games are also overrated but it was a decade ago.

>>712910059
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkRJzErnRmY

>>712909926 (OP)
The main story is mid, the DLCs are the true game.

>>712909926 (OP)
It's a solid 8/10, the expansions are 9.5, with Blood and Wine being shameless fanservice and that's how I like it.
But I have also read the books, and the game gains a lot if you did, kind of like The Godfather does as a movie.

>>712909926 (OP)
It's okay. There's a reason it's only real legacy is people beating their meat to blender porn nowadays. HoS is kino though.

>>712909926 (OP)
its been ages since I played witcher 3 but I only ever made it to the viking island section before getting bored and quiting. Combat was too samey and quests never really got me engaged

>>712910246
Witcher 3, released 2015.

In the middle of gamergate, where the industry admitted it shills bad console games
New console gen released, PS4 and Xbone, neither of which have games
Microsoft actively committing suicide hiring women that state their main goal is to destroy male orientated gaming
A year after bioware sunk their second flagship appealing to feminists, a year after the complete failure re-release of DS2
bloodshart released and couldn't run 17 fps on ps4
Entirety of /v/ filled with "PlayStation is the best console ever it sold 200 million consoles to third worlders

>>712910059
>peak
>2007
zoom zoom

What a shit blog. How do I unsubscribe?

>>712910830
yes consoles peaked in 2007 and there's no argument otherwise

>>712910880
By closing the thread

>>712909926 (OP)
It's a masterpiece compared to the previous two games

>>712910101
>TW3 came out before Ubisoft made 100 open world "point of interest" games
yeah by that point they had only made 50

>>712909926 (OP)
>The Baron quest is the one good bit everyone points to distract you from the rest of the shit
Exactly, Baron was the only character that i gave a shit about.
If you cant give a shit about any of the characters, Bitcher 3 just sucks
The gameplay is complete garbage
I could actually suffer through hard difficulty for Nier Replicant, with its god awful gameplay because atleast the music, characters and plot was something i liked it doesnt excuse the horrible gameplay
Witcher 3 did none of that from the get go.
Im sure you could like it if you played the previous games and cared about those main bitches or even Geralt, who is probably one of the most boring protagonists ever
The most emotion i ever heard from that guys mouth was when he called those guys degenerates, thats it, a single line.

>>712910101
Zoomer detected. Collect-a-thons had already existed for over a decade by this point. Adding open world doesn't change the genre just makes the games generally worse.

>>712910893
zooooom

>>712911237
Illiterate retard detected. The horse wasn't beaten to death when TW3 came out. Do you disagree? Consider walking into lava.

>>712909926 (OP)
The writing is good, the gameplay mechanics are bad.

>>712911231
Only people who beat up women like the baron.
Personally I liked Ciri and Vesemir.

>>712909926 (OP)
>Maybe standards were different 10 years ago
It's that, it was new and exciting at release. Now you've probably played 5-10 similar games if not more than that. Witcher 3 more or less became the template for AAA games going forward because it was such a critical and commercial success and treated as the greatest game of all time by players.

Play the DLC If you haven't though, the DLC are great.

>>712910101
>>712911447
The formula was already "perfected" by AssCreed 2 in 2009. It had been done dozens of time before W3. The game had some good qualities but it felt very derivative in all aspects even at release.

>>712911237
>Collect-a-thons
not same as activities and smaller quests and w3 does it much better

>>712910246
>unironically linking the "white people are so fucking lame I wish I was black" slop-punk band

>>712909926 (OP)
Overpromised, underdelivered. The open world meme is a mistake where devs try to bite more than they can chew and it ends up being bland, boring, empty. Sailing in Skellige made me wish Poland got nuked. Then there's the gameplay, which was never CDPR's forte and as expected, it's shit. On top of that you add the story where Geralt is basically a fag and it all boils down to finding your super Mary Sue magical daughter. Then there's the graphics downgrade, which was to be expected but still not a great thing.

i’ve tried to play this game 4 seperate times and every time i get 10 hours in and get bored as fuck, but clair obscure sucks me in for 70 hours straight. what gives?

Why don't zoomers know how to criticize anything?
>it's overrated
>it's shit
>it didn't age well
ok what does that actually mean?

>>712911313
Except it was. TES and Fallout already killed open world slop as a genre. Clearly you weren't old enough to be there for the "open world boom" TW3 came out late in the idea cycle by then it quite literally was beaten to death and everyone with a brain had realized open world doesn't mean good and is usually synonymous with the opposite. A huge empty map with fuck all to do.

>>712911521
I guess you liked skyrim.

>>712911681
early game was gay as fuck but once you finish the main quest it become ludo kino

>>712911447
>it was new and exciting at release.
it wasnt though, i hit me when playing witcher 3 and asscreed origins that these games are just arcania gothic 4 and two worlds 2 with a bigger budget, ie medieval inspired action adventures disguised as RPGs
unironically, the third person RPG genre died with Risen

>>712909926 (OP)
It's a very good game and has aged like wine.
Sure the combat feels a bit sloppy with a super simplistic skill system (I hope you're playing in hard mode to at least have to engage with the potions and game buffs) and the action combat isn't the game's forte.
Baron questline wasn't my favourite one. There are others as good if not better later on. In general, could enjoy most of the secondary quests. The biggest mistake would be trying to rush it. Just take your time, read the books you find around, enjoy the environment and all the characters.
The gear drops are adjusted to your current level most of the time, so it allows you to be very flexible about when you do the sites scattered around the map.

>>712909926 (OP)
The main game of TW3 is 7/10. It's best played by powering through the main quest while ignoring nearly everything else other than the best sidequests, and then relishing the DLCs that are both much better than the main game.

>>712911498
The Witcher 3 had a heavier narrative focus and the addition of the Witcher senses(taken from Batman) have shown up in a lot of games since then. I just played through Ys9 and it has Witcher senses and the BotW glider, it was honestly depressing because you can see Falcom trend chasing with it.

But yeah, Witcher 3 is being THE video game until Elden Ring came out is why everyone started copying what it did. The reality is that we're probably going to see some high profile CRPG releases in the next 5 years from companies chasing after BG3.

>>712911854
A lot of people didn't play Gothic 4 or Two Worlds 2 though and a game like Witcher 3 had insane production values which brought in a lot of normalfags and it was their first exposure. It's like how BG3 didn't really do much to set itself apart from other CRPGs other than having stupidly good production values but that was enough to make it be babby's first CRPG. BG3 was novel to a lot of players, to CRPGfags it was just DoS2.5 with worse combat.

>>712911941
>the combat feels a bit sloppy
you mean, the combat is absolute grabage

the ONLY thing it has going for it is the aesthetic. it's barely even a game, it's a walking simulator where you can rollslop your ass around awkwardly, with, incidentally, movement more awkward than in the average walking simulator

Witcher 3 is basically a western visual novel with shitty combat and the most boring world ever designed tacked onto the VN. If the entire game was just Blood and Wine, it would’ve been a literal 10/10. But no, here’s like five different melodramas you have to stay awake through and a lot of horse riding. Not to mention how the Ciri segments are the pacing equivalent of driving an F1 car into a brick wall

You guys are so fucking special. Let me guess: you didn't like Red Dead 2 either. You should make another thread about how you think a 10 year old game everyone liked is actually overrated.

>>712912002
The main quest is mostly plain bad and gets worse and worse until becoming undiluted horseshit as soon as Ciri wakes up, the few interesting titbits are in the secondary intrigues and the DLC.

>>712912059
Assassins Creed was using Eagle Vision years before Witcher 3 “invented it”

>>712911521
Expedition33 is an interesting world with good combat. Linear with side exploration and well written characters.

Witcher 3 is open world garbage with some of the worst RPG combat known to man. Boring story and characters and no immersion at all. The only good thing in it is gwent.

>>712912227
You're exaggerating. The only moment when you curse the combat system is when dealing with the self-healing Caretaker, or the other monster that blinds you and breaks the auto-targetting system.
The rest was fine.

About the story, aside from being cucked by Tess and Yes, no complaints at all.

>>712911854
>witcher 3 and asscreed origins that these games are just arcania gothic 4 and two worlds 2
what a retarded fucking take lmao

>>712911523
All of these are millennial buzzwords
For zoomers you are looking for:
>it's mid
>it's cringe
>it's forced
>it's hard pass for me
>it's lowkey [x]

>>712912485
>Expedition33 is an interesting world with good combat. Linear with side exploration and well written characters.
no it isn’t

>>712912393
At least RDR2 has better dialogue

>>712910183
DLCs are 10 times better than base game.
Whole Skellige could get removed from the game and it would be a net positive.

Ciri should have looked like this >>712909926 (OP) in W4

TW3 is saved by its atmosphere and music most of the time. Devs don't really like to do windy environments and that was one of the things I liked from it. It has great DLCs too
A shame about the combat, but people would talk shit regardless. If they made it soulslike, you'd hear crying anyway

>>712912527
My favorite zoomerism is
>doesnt respect my time
Like they have any time worth respecting lol.
If they say that they're 100% coping that they're shitters

>>712912393
I like W3 but I don't like RDR2. The start was too slow, I couldn't get into it.

>>712912531
You didn't play the game I don't care about your opinion.

Even the general gameplay and gear system sucks major balls. No way of upgrading your stuff forces you to use hideous as fuck doublets.

>>712910893
fr fr no cap skibidi toilet :skull:

it was a beautiful cinematic bioware game after they had gone off the deep end and started making absolute crap. in 2015 it was like a breath of fresh air.

>>712911521
Are you literally me?

>>712911521
>what gives?
It's a mystery.

>>712909926 (OP)
Velen was pretty good, probably the best part of the game. Novigrad felt stretched out and Skellige has a great soundtrack but I can't remember much about it beyond it feeling comfy for some reason.
>Why is is 500 hours long
Exploring becomes a chore at some point and you're better served just doing the contracts and important quests. It's easy to burn out otherwise.

Worst part of the base game is after you find Ciri. All sense of tension is lost and you just travel all over the continent without using teleportation despite being told the Wild Hunt attack is imminent, the Ciri decisions leading to the good/bad ending are retarded, the entire Radovid storyline is some dumb "he crazy lmao" bullshit disconnected from his character in Witcher 2, Dijkstra betraying Roche in such an idiotic and suicidal way makes no sense whatsoever... It really ended on a sour note, but the dlcs are great and worth it.

>>712909926 (OP)
You contrarians will never be unique

>>712913429
cope tranny

>>712910760
What flagship did Bioware sink? DAI is their most successful game.

>>712911231
I think I did myself a disservice by playing Replicant on hard. The combat quickly devolved to throwing enemies to the ground and executing them because actually fighting them took an extremely long time after they start having armor.

>>712917038
Ok so you didn't play the game then? We agree you're a retard spouting rhetoric because your nintenigger system flopped out 1 game. I accept your concession.

>>712918501
Its true but i dont think the game on normal is that much more enjoyable either. Its pretty damn mindless

>>712912685
>>doesnt respect my time
That's a millenial thing though. You have retards picking up a 70+h game and going
>"Hey I can't instantly clear the game with my brain shut off and while looking like I do cool shit when I hold 2 buttons. I'll have you know that between working 16h shifts, taking care of my 7 dogs, 3 children and lazy wife, I can only play 20mins a day and your game NEEDS to provide me the dopamine hit I crave"

>>712919074
"doesn't respect my time" is a perfectly valid criticism for open world trash where 90% of the gameplay is holding down W as your character moves across "omg so pretty" scenery which contains absolutely fucking 0 engaging gameplay content. Open world games are the very definition of garbage that does not respect your time.

>>712919386
The argument isn't about the quality of the average open world game but about retards going into games that they know are long and then complaining when the game is in fact, long. The purpose of a hobby is to have fun so if you care more about binging the most yahoos in the smallest timeframe possible instead of enjoying the game, then you're missing the point.

>>712920084
>going into games that they know are long and then complaining when the game is in fact, long.
No, you illiterate retard. They're complaining about the length being there mostly as a result of shit, shallow gameplay. That's why people meme on games that boast hundreds of hours of "content" and all of it is just dumb cutscenes and walking.

>>712915449
>no trust me the nintendo 64/ps1/2 was the greatest console ever
oh yeah? name 5 games that hold up for each

>>712920216
I'd argue that 85% of an open world's projected length is in shitty optional content. If you beeline for the main quests I reckon the time spent wouldn't be too far from the average length of a random singleplayer ps3 game from 2010.

Witcher 3 is amazing but open world was a mistake, they should've gone a more linear way like in 1 and 2. Or at least just stayed in Velen, Skellige fucking sucked

>>712909926 (OP)
>Maybe standards were different 10 years ago
Name one game released this year that's better than it

>>712910183
I thought it was common sense that both of the DLCs were better than the main game itself, and better than full games. Iirc, didn't Blood and Wine win RPG of the gear against Dark Souls 3? Not saying that it's actually better because Jeff's awards are a meme by themselves, but to even compare them together says a lot.

>>712923360
Dark Souls 3 was the worst Fromsoft game of all time and a blunder. I wouldn't call it an accomplishment. It's like an average athlete/joe competing in the special olympics and winning lmao.