did you enjoy Witcher 3's combat?

it’s serviceable. the combat isn’t really the selling point for the game though

>>716341952 (OP)
It looks flashy and cool, but it's actually very shallow and repititive
even on highest difficulty it was really boring, just a matter of not getting one shot

no

No, it was garbage. Honestly the most overrated game of all time. Nothing compares to how much this gets glazed by normalfags despite being mediocre/bad in most aspects.

>>716341952 (OP)
It's fine. Never the main appeal of the series and it does it the best. When you get to B&W you can make some fun busted builds.

>>716342102
Everything about it is good bar the combat which isn't offensively bad.

its fine but i feel like you could remove 30-40 hours of filler content

>>716341952 (OP)
its better than skyrim, anyway are there any good combat mods which arent wannabe souls slop?

>>716341952 (OP)
If you play Witcher games for the combat, you already fucked up. Anyways, the combat is okay

>>716341952 (OP)
Yeah, it's really fun on death march especially once you get an armor set going.

>>716341952 (OP)
yes

>>716341952 (OP)
It was okay, better than some of /v/'s favorite games actually

>>716341952 (OP)
after modding?
sure

>>716342102
it might not be a 10/10 or even a 9/10 game, but calling it the most overrated game of all time is a stretch

>>716343120
no, my favorite game of all time is MGS 3

>>716341952 (OP)
No. And I enjoyed The Witcher 2. Yeah you have to roll a little, but it was honest and soulful rolling.
The third game's combat is simply bad.

>>716345000
>soulful rolling.
New term

>>716341952 (OP)
Dropped the game because of it. I wanted to force myself to finish it on hard but it was just so painfully dogshit.
I dont know what made someone make a great game like that, and then phone it in with one of the most important aspects of it.

>>716341952 (OP)
Yes

>>716341952 (OP)
No, sir.

>>716342009
/thread

>>716341952 (OP)
More than any souls slop, having a side step and a dodge is like one of gamings greatest inventions yet other games don't take advantage

Oops I just fucking invalidated any decision you could possibly make by being the most broken ability in the game, I sure hope you weren't planning on designing a specific armor look, build play style, and Geralt appearance to feel unique compared to everyone else!

>>716341952 (OP)
The combat is simple, which is good for me (contrast to GoW where you have to memorise combos) but the combat is not the meat of the game, that will be the stories you find along the way. All in all good game. BaW is peak.

>>716346306
Blood and Wine is one of the few experiences where I can feel the joy of the developers oozing out of every crevice of the game itself

>>716341952 (OP)
I thought it was decent, though to be fair, the last game I played before 3 was The Witcher.

>>716341952 (OP)
for 2/3 of the game? not really
it actually got neat at the DLCs once i had a lot more new skills AND had unlocked most of the perks. The issue is that the game takes way too fucking long to get anywhere & give you the new features

It should have simply progressed like 3-5 times faster instead of half of the game being M1M1M1M1M1. At least the bombs helped a lot

>>716346235
I went all-in on bombs and it was kino. finished the content before i could afford euphoria

It's the best combat of the Witcher games.

>>716346235
just don’t grab euphoria then, you retard. lmaoing at u rn

>>716346783
>>716346880
discovering bombs and maxing that shit out made w3 fun for the first time
wiping out a bandit camp with a middle click was nutty

dont mind me just crafting the kinoest grounded combat RPG

>witcher 3 dash/dodge
>dark souls 2 attacks
>dark souls 3/elden ring weapon arts
>dark souls 2 low adp level of iframes
>nioh stances and dragons dogma skill controls purely to widen your moveset a little
>dragons dogma grabbing, sprinting
>elden ring jumping
>monster hunter mounting
yep its gaming time

>>716346970
>deleting fodder or chunking tanky enemies with bombs
>stacking all the shit like poison and burning bombs vs tanky enemies and watching their bar go down
>freeze bombs into a heavy attack
TW3 really should have given you these skill points earlier. It takes so long to be able to get this alongside the overhead and some better signs

>>716347204
It's genuinely shocking how different an experience base new game Witcher 3 plays compared to B&W new game plus Witcher 3. That's why I have to rank B&W > W2 > W3, because it's night and day.

>>716347418
>that supremely based skill selection
hell yeah
Imagine how much more liked Witcher 3 would be if the combat reached that point in 5-10 hours and not 100

>>716347418
its so symmetrical... holy shit...

>>716347113
>Dark Souls 2/3
>Elden Ring
Kys

>>716347584
To be fair, it's sort of like how it was in W2. Combat is the easiest to pick up but has the lowest ceiling. That's why most people put points into the vitality regenerating general abilities before going into Fast Attacks. Next are signs which don't git gud until you have enough stamina and sign intensity to make it work consistently. Finally there's alchemy which is the hardest to figure out but has the highest reward for using them.

It doesn't help that L1L1L1L1L1 is dogshit gameplay and most players don't know axii sign provides finishers against enemies with full health so players end up crutching on quen. It's not a good look.

I have never finished the game and I'm a 29y Pollack who had enjoyed Witcher books. Witcher 1 and 2 were pretty fun in my growing up years too.

>>716348984
80% of people have never finished W3 and instead watched someone's LP of it.

>>716348984
I've finished the game twice but it burns me out after a while.
First playthourgh stopped after base game, second one rushed it a bit to get to HoS.
Still haven't done B&W.

>>716347584
Yeah the game is too long for the amount of new gameplay mechanics that get introduced, you as a Master Witcher already got everything with you and just need the gimmicky levels to unlock them, but all the tools are right there for you from the start, all the signs, all the tools, all the weapons, all the moves, everything.

Witcher 3 needed a skill tree like God of War, Horizon, Wukong and all those kind of games, by creating a skill tree like this it will allow the player to unlock more movesets and skills which can keep the combat more interesting over the time, because enemy variety in Witcher 3 was pretty good, the bosses are unique and varied even if they were easy.

Witcher 3 combat has two main issue basically, one is the controls which are weird and janky, the second is the lack of combat input variety, you are always going to do light and heavy attack with parry and using the same 5 signs, if they spread that and added a little bit more it would work better. OR alternatively they can shorten the game length.

You can say the gameplay ammunition were gone before you reach the end which is a common problem for a lot of games, but here its even more obvious.

I still think it has better combat than a many of /v/'s favorite games though.

>>716347913
im not a big fan of dark souls 3 and elden ring, but credit where its due, they have their cool aspects
dark souls 2 though? awesome game. I wanna do a new playthrough for the smelter swords explosion

>>716349724
>because enemy variety in Witcher 3 was pretty good, the bosses are unique and varied even if they were easy.
the problem with TW3 enemy variety is that, despite having too many enemies, they fight very similary
on the DLCs it really gets better, the burrowing worms, the spiders that kite you, stuff like that

> /v/'s favorite games though.
/v/ has a hate boner against 90% of games with actually good combat in the last decade

>>716350653
>the spiders that kite you
i had a genuine retard moment because i never needed to use freeze bombs at any point in the game prior and i was raging at not being able to catch up to the spiders, getting webbed, and then dying as they mob me

>is fucking horrendous to the eyes in your path

>>716341952 (OP)
it was ok
im not a gamer though
i couldnt beat a couple of the bosses on hard

Does anyone actually use this armor?

>>716351060
Yeah, but never outside the bdsm dungeon.

>>716350795
meanwhile i got fucked over because i tried to fight them right as i got the overhead attack, and i was trying really hard to pull it off
was so satisfying to land it though

>>716351060
FUCK no what the hell is its set bonus even??
>Bonus for 3 pieces: Increases the duration of potions. The bonus increases by 7% for each piece of the set.
Gee wilikers Batman, it's fucking nothing since players would have the Prolongation runes, the good potion abilities, or decoctions up!
>Bonus for 6 pieces: Aard deals additional damage to enemies affected by Yrden.
IT'S THE GRIFFON SET BUT WORSE

>>716351489
Rend was so ass to use because the only way to reliably stun was either through counterattacks, which are limited to humans, or bombs, which are a limited resource. It being tied to stamina meant that using axii is out of the question. But I do agree, once it hits, it fuckin' HITS.