I can't believe boomers tricked me into thinking this was good. I recently replayed the witcher 1 and witcher 2 and they were kino as fuck, this right here is just pure dogshit straight out the gate.

justify your statement or else be rightly labelled as a shallow contrarian

>>3769314
>hit hit roll sloppa
>builds are meaningless, game is structured around items
>nonsensical first act
It's telling that the only thing people remember about this sloppa is not the kino we got with Roche in TW2 but a card game.

>>3769324
You might be a fan of games like underrail with a big focus on min-maxing
W3 focuses more on story and immersion. Mechanics have been simplified to that end, which would be disappointing for people wanting to "conquer a system". Act 1 is intentionally sprawling, it's a fractured wandering journey.

how does it follow that people praising a newer game in a series over older titles is a "boomer", wouldn't that be a "zoomer"?

>>3769348
I dunno but i've only ever seen boomers praise this shit. Zoomers turn this off right away. Also 2015 was 10 years ago anon

>>3769351
yeah and Witcher 1 was 18 years ago, which age group do you think is praising that? It's boomers all the way down

>I CAN'T HAVE ANY FUN AAAAAARGHH I'M SOULLESS AND EMPTY AND RETARDED
Not my problem tho

>>3769312 (OP)
based. the series combat peaked with 2

>>3769312 (OP)
>tricked me into thinking
Lol what a bitch, can't think for himself

>filtered by Witcher 3

>>3769324
>>hit hit roll sloppa
Sadly true. Rolling basically bypasses the entire combat system.

>>3769324
>>3770010
install W3EE Redux
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/5802

>>3769312 (OP)
>I recently replayed the witcher 1 and witcher 2 and they were kino as fuck
Here lies your problem.

You are diagnosed with severe shit taste.

The cure: Kill yourself

>>3769312 (OP)
Happy now?

>>3769312 (OP)
your mother sucks dwarf cock

>>3769312 (OP)
>I recently replayed witcher 2 and they were kino as fuck
in aspect of story? absolute yes
in aspect of anything but story? it was absolute turd

All witcher games are overrated slop.

>>3769312 (OP)
Agreed
I played Witcher 1 for the first time a bit after Witcher 2 released, and played a 2nd play through of Witcher 1 again within a couple years because of was so incredible. Also beat Witcher 2 a couple times. Never finished TW3 especially because the combat was awful in it.
Ever since then which was probably over a decade ago now, I keep thinking of Witcher 1 every week. It's that kind of one of a kind masterpiece that just doesn't ever leave your mind.

>>3770696
They both have much better combat and other mechanics than Witcher 3 does. You are just another normalfag tourist who only played 3. Just look at the "skill tree" in 3, it's insanely dumbed down and basic. The combat is a blatantly unfinished design as it makes no sense, spamming roll and dash can be done endlessly absent trivializes all combat encounters.

>>3771125
lol you have fucking shit taste

>>3769312 (OP)
>boomers
You mean normalfags?

>>3769312 (OP)
>witcher 2 liker
instantly discredited

>>3771125
nah 2 combat is worst and 1 is best
you can't change my mind

>>3769312 (OP)
Dear Diary,

OP was a faggot today

not an rpg
ubislop and its clones should be discussed on /v/

>*whistles for magic horse*
>autoruns on road to quest marker
>*toucan sam vision activates*
>"Mhmm....giant slash marks all over the victim....a Drowner™, gotta be"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*follows nose*
>guys in Drowner™ costumes appear
>"OY BLOODY 'ELL FUCKING CUNT SHIT FUCK CUNT, IT'S A FUCKIN' WITCHER IT IS! GET "EM"
>"Shit you stink" ALALALALALALALALA *sets guys on fire and they stumble and recover immediately, does a cinematic slash and cuts guys in half"
>"Mhmm....Bandits™ pretending to be Drowners™......better tell the village head about this"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*autoruns on road back to village*
>"OY BLOODY FUCK CUNT WITCHAH, WOT ABOUT DA CONTRACT WESE PAIDS YA FOR YA BLOODY FUCKING CUNT?"
>"Just some bastards posing as Drowners™, here's proof *shows flipper*"
>"OY K---A, HERE'S YA REWARD DA WHOLE VILLAGE CHIPPED IN"
>"Drowning in Danger" Complete AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>10 crowns received

>>3771496
I love this pasta.

>>3771496
I hate this pasta.

>>3771593
>>3771599
I love W3, and I love this pasta.

>>3769312 (OP)
>didn't play on hardest difficulty
Didn't experience Witcher 3

>>3771663
Death March only stays hard for the first 10 levels or so, then it generally gets easy once you get enough abilities. Few exceptions, iirc, fist fighting the elf in the gwent tournament in Novigrad, the toad boss in first expansion, and some boss fight in the second

>>3771593
>>3771599
I hate W3 and I hate this pasta

>>3771665
>only stays hard
Not the point
>get enough abilities
Closer to the point

>>3771672
>death march is the “hardest difficulty” but it only being hard in the early levels isn’t the point
Ok buddy

>>3771694
Typically the interesting thing about RPGs is making "hard" things "easy", in various ways from leveling up to tactics and equipment. But the game has to be "hard" in order for them to be needed.

Rarely do I struggle with hard gameplay in RPGs.

>Rarely do I struggle with hard gameplay in RPGs

>>3770981
YWNBAW

>>3771371

>>3771948
YWNBAM

>>3771948
you will never be a witcher

>>3771593
>>3771599
>>3771660
>>3771666
the quadality of man

>>3769312 (OP)
I said it already and will say it again: there are no decent rpg around, so the mid rpg will be praised to death, due to lack of competition.

>>3769324
First game had astronomically terrible combat, voiceacting, writing, quest design, world design, level design, encounter design and more.
You're ignoring all of this to latch on to some minor element you really liked.

>>3769945
>based. the series combat peaked with 2

The combat was even worse there, because it was even more focused on rolling and shielding yourself. You could cheese every single encounter by rolling and shield spamming.
They eventually nerfed the shield, but not the roll spam.

>>3771666
same.
>"hurrrrrr durrrrrr Ima repost 48093459834509th reposted memepasta upvoted by gjcfaggots how'bout that??? had fun? can I fit in? can I fit in daddy???"

>>3771665
with some poorly designed games I think it can be fun sometimes trying gimping yourself, like playing with no armor, or no quen, or no signs at all, or avoiding certain tiles in the skill matrix that you believe are imbalanced or too powerful, or not looting certain items or places that break the game economy, or no fast travel, etc. before you decide whether to refund the game or not

>>3772975
>First game had astronomically terrible voiceacting
Shove off, kid.

>>3772986
>it can be fun sometimes trying gimping yourself, like playing with no armor, or no quen, or no signs at all, or avoiding certain tiles in the skill matrix that you believe are imbalanced or too powerful, or not looting certain items or places that break the game economy, or no fast travel, etc
This is extremely my shit

>>3769312 (OP)
>I recently replayed the witcher 1 and witcher 2 and they were kino as fuck
based as fuck OP, I finished the 1st game atleast 7 times now since it came out. Its pure soul and atmosphere. Witcher 3? Dogshit boring garbage. I finished it once and never bothered getting past skellige on my 2nd playthrough. Its just so fucking boring and empty. Question mark garbage instead of comfy exploring.

>>3773075
It was kino as fuck in my language, for which they didnt even bother making a voiceover in the latter games. They had professional tv actors from my country doing the voices. Pure soul. Had to play the 2nd and 3rd game in disgusting english. Fuck Polacks for that.

>>3772986
>>3773078
my bros from other moms

>>3769312 (OP)
You never listen to any retard that claims Witcher 1 is the best witcher game

>>3769312 (OP)
You probably went decoction spec, which is really really boring.

>>3769312 (OP)
The aesthetics and costumes are top notch, though...

>>3773075
It was so fucking bad it was funny at times. But never ever good.
The dialogue, cutscenes and animations was hilariously stiff and bad too.

Then you have Witcher 3, which is better in pretty much every single way in this regard by a hundred times. Even a random scene is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb3aoah1mt0

>>3769312 (OP)
3 is the only good one, 1 and 2 was just the devs learning how to make a game first

>>3770021
This or Ghost Mode, bros?

>>3773093
which language? i played witcher 1 and 3 (fuck 2) in polish and russian, it was great

>>3769312 (OP)
Witcher 3 is arguably the best RPG of all-time. I don't know how anyone can say Witcher 1 or 2 is better. Classic le contrarian the less popular worse game is actually le better 4chan opinion

>>3776182
Maybe the best one with a non-custom character and a story focus.

>>3771663
The combat is too easy to break. On my first run Death March got too easy after maybe 15 hours. On my second run I found out that the potion build that I went for was just randomly overpowered for some unexplainable reason, but the combat remains too easy no matter what you do. You have to gimp yourself on purpose. I struggle to understand how Quen made it to the game in its current form. Did the devs try casting it? Witcher school gear should not exist, either.

I started enjoying the game Witcher a lot more after understanding that combat/itemization/RPG systems don't matter in the slightest. The focus of the game is on the story and watching the pretty cutscenes, interrupted by the occasional "exploration" quest that asks you to press your spider sense button and watch what happens. It's almost a visual novel.

>>3776190
>I started enjoying the game Witcher a lot more after
Similar thing with me. First I approached it like a sandbox RPG, but quickly figured I should just play the story. Amazing game that way.

>>3776190
Witcher 3 is an action RPG with a focus on choices and exploration. No Witcher game has good combat and W1 and W2 are even worse.
The quality of the quests and quest design alone dumpsters 99% of all other RPG quests.

The retarded notion that if a game doesn't focus on systems and combat it's a visual novel or not an RPG is the most hilariously stupid idea some people on this board has.

>>3771120
the witcher 1 was ass and played like ass. i have no idea why anyone thinks it was good, worst game in the series,

>>3769324
bro, its QUEN spam, not dodge sloppa.

>>3769312 (OP)
>op got filtered on the gryphon boss on normal mode

kek

>>3769312 (OP)
>OP doesnt use his silver sword on the monsters and gets filtered

kek

>>3776190
>The focus of the game is on the story
Exactly, per here:
>>3769334

>>3769312 (OP)
>witcher 1
You mean the qte combat game?
>witcher 2
You mean the game with broken hit detection and roll slop gameplay?

>>3776340
It had its redeeming features. It was dripping with atmosphere, and the sound design was the best of the trilogy.

>>3777358
>sound design was the best of the trilogy.

lol, lmao even
I love it when pseuds talk about game design

>>3769324
well, u're right, combat could/should be better, game built around items is just different but there should be more customization indeed, first act is nonsensical but it's fun. But calling the entire game shit is just innocent, zoomerish and shit-taster

>>3776340
Nice sound and good story, but it is faw away from the 3rd. The 2nd one had a shitty fighting combat, even if it was coming near the perfection found in the third installment. The story instead was very good. Brutal and straight to the point, in some of its parts. You can't see anyone getting raped in TW3, for example. It was some kind of "seriousness" that contributed on making The Witcher serie so good, and unfortunatelly this kind of things are going to disappear, due to the Woke/DEI plague that infest the following generation of devs.

>>3776190
>I struggle to understand how Quen made it to the game in its current form.
I thought this when I first played it, but don't feel that way anymore. When was the last time you played? I replayed it again recently and Quen would pop on every hit. Didn't start lasting more then 1 hit until I stacked some runes. Could have sworn it wasn't that way originally. Maybe balance got updated in the next gen rework?

>>3777407
I love it when retards who can't capitalise feel entitled to comment on anything.

>>3771125
Skill Tree in TW2 was more good. Even the usage of the mutations was cool. I never understood why they removed the traps in TW3. If used wisely, they could help while taking down mobs.

Boring combat, uninteresting storyline that seems to consist of running around doing errands for other people, "RPG elements" that were about as deep as the perk tree in Far Cry. I tried, but I dropped this game soon after getting out of the first area. Would have been better as a TV show.
It's a shame we never got a proper follow-up to Witcher 2. Witcher 3 has better combat and graphics but it has a worse story, the RPG elements have been gelded, and none of the music is as good as "Plough 'Em All."

>>3778136
It's been many years since I played it, so maybe they did update it. Quickly checking the wiki, Quen should let partial damage through if your shield was insufficient, which I'm pretty sure wasn't the case when I played. I remember facetanking some skull-level world mobs who attacked slower than my Quen recharged (e.g., Earth Elemental) and having my sword break from 100% durability over the course of that one fight.

>>3779193
Filtered

>>3779257
Filtered by what? Watching cutscenes? Holding the analog stick forward?

>no you see witcher 1 & 2 are better in every single way and i am totally not a hipster contrarian

lol, this board

I really enjoyed the starting area. It was tight and focused, and all of the starting quests had some extra steps. For example, the monster bounty (I forget what they were called) with the ghost lady in the well was an actual multi step investigation with some back story, and I was pretty impressed, thinking all of the side quests would be like that. I was pretty disappointed when I got to the main game and found out the bounties after that are all just generic "go find monster at quest marker, return."

>>3779502
>"go find monster at quest marker, return."
Most of them are not that at all and the Griffin one was just a longer version of a normal bounty because it was tied into the main quest.

Witcher 3 has quite possibly the best designed and most varied bounty quests in any RPG ever. They're better than most quests in other RPGs which tend to just boil down to fetch quests.

>>3769312 (OP)
I loved TW3. So I bought TW1 and TW2, but before playing them I decided I should read the books since the games are sequels. But honestly the books are so bad they completely turned me off the franchise.
Holy shit nothing happens for like 3 books, and Ciri's side adventures are horrendous, and the for some reason the author seemed to forget the whole monster hunting thing and the cool subversions of classic folk tales and the grey morality.
Also Geralt is surprising progressive liberal (being very vocally pro-feminism and pro-abortion and anti-racist).

>>3779521
I really hope it's bait and people aren't this bad at media comprehension.

>>3779521
> the author seemed to forget the whole cool subversions of classic folk tales and the grey morality.
>Also Geralt is surprising progressive liberal (being very vocally pro-feminism and pro-abortion and anti-racist)

>>3779553
Tell me more
>>3779556
Retard