Witcher thread

Novigrad didn't feel that detailed to be honest, the city in the first game felt more detailed to me, probably because all of the game took place there and you got to know pretty much everyone in the city

The writing is better in Hearts of Stone but the art direction in Blood and Wine is the best of the series.

What do you mean? I'd say blood and wine is better from a gameplay standpoint since every enemy is designed to punish quen shitters but Hearts of Stone was more interesting overall.

come on.

Yeah but how do you top getting jewed by the Devil?

its not good to always go to extremes when describing something.

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I have never played dogma, heard both very good and very bad things about it.

Dark souls can be fun but it is pretty shit as an rpg. The level design is fucking amazing though.

This. Something people often forget is that a gameplay environment is only as detailed as the interactions you have in it. Novigrad's problem is that it is incredibly detailed in terms of the effort they put into building it, but not enough quests are there relative to the rest of the game. I have the same issue with GTA games and people seem to love them, though, so maybe this is just my own personal problem and I should love to learn these barren spaces.

I am no writer and english is my second language. I just say it how I feel.

Really though, who the fuck made that skill tree and thought that was a good idea?

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It takes the classic medieval RPG format and slaps on graphics. It has a very PSP/vita feel to it which is perfect because mobile games don't waste time on dumb shit like story.
It's only a headache on the first playthrough, currently stuck on the spider bitch because "I didn't level up the right things"
Absolutely.

I'd take shilling of an old game I never heard much about and played little of than Mirror's Edge: Mattress Quest. I've been nervous the whole week that Holla Forums would explode with "LOL GUYS LOOK HOW TERRIBLE THIS GAME IS OH MY GOD LETS ALL BUY IT AND LAUGH AHAHAHAHAHAHA IT ACTUALLY LOOKS FUN BUT I KNOW ILL BE DISAPPOINTED"

Honestly, I don't even care about how shit the industry is but fuck if it doesn't turn this place into reddit-tier shitpost central.

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Kill the 3 little pigs,find gold at the end of a rainbow, take a contract from the golden goose and fuck a crazy bitch in the clouds. That would top it.

Witcher is not exactly old, the latest expansion came out on 31st. It looks to be finished though.

Does Dogma run well on pc? I can't run the witcher 3 above 30 and it is really bothering me.

DD runs well but after w3 its a wasted effort to play it, its just not as engaging.
Even the combat is worse than w3's from what I played it.

I regard it as old because there's been so many "flavors of the month" since then that it feels like it's been centuries.
I have a pretty shit rig- GTX 760 with an i5-4590 CPU, but I'm running dogma at max settings and hot ass framerates. As for witcher, I can run it at ~medium settings/60fps. Dogma definitely runs better.

Opinions, I have literally no fucking clue what you're going on about. They're almost completely different games.
W3's combat is goddawful. It's just spam the "shield" spell and attack when the enemy is staggered. It's even more streamlined than DaS.

Yeah, quen makes the game easymode.
They tried to fix it in blood and wine by throwing more human enemies at you and making monsters go around it. The final boss hits you with an aoe bat attack that knocks down your quen and deals damage to you, and will kill you on higher difficulties if you are not careful.

Really though, quen's usefulness should have been just allowing you to drink a potion in a fight, but since potion are instant now it's just a safety net for paranoics.

ah shit, I missed the rainbow gold

did they break SLI with one of the updates?

I haven't played witcher 3 in a long time,
I used to be able to get 90fps but now it goes back and forth between 55 and 50, like constant stuttering. it's nauseating as fuck.

I tried limiting the game to 30fps it would do the same there 25-30 constant back and forth.

using just one card makes it stable but I don't want to set my pc on fire

What about igni abuse? I did a build where I just scaled igni as much as possible and it literally one or maybe two shots (with burning damage) just about anything that isn't fire resistant.

That's why I don't understand all the hate Quen got. If you max out the other signs they are even more broken–infinite energy just letting you spam the shockwave stuns all day, or minimal risk igni killing.

Been the case in every Witcher game, whichever sign is at the top of the tiers just seems to rotate.

How many of you who liked hearts of stone better than blood and wine have read the books? I thought both were pretty good but blood and wine pretty much required you to read the books to really appreciate the setting and characters.
Also, I like that Geralt and Yen finally got their happy ending. Books Yen is best girl by far.
Also would've been a blast to have Dandelion make an appearance in blood and wine. I'm imagining the hilarity that would ensue if Dandelion showed his face in Anarietta's court.

Please teach me to write and then kill me

What's a good build to finish combat as quickly as possible? The tedious combat is what made me quit the first time, and I feel like I should go back and finish the game.

Just lower the difficulty if you find you aren't one-shotting things. Anything beneath the second highest should be "I don't even have to look at the screen" territory.

I read all the books and I like hearts of stone more.

Dandelion does appear in blood and wine if you didn't manage to romance anyone and ciri didn't come. He even gets you out of prison if you are dumb enough to get there.

Yen being content living on a vineyard is really stretching it since she made fun of Geralt for wanting stuff like that in the books but I liked it.

Well the end of the saga Yen pretty much just wanted to fuck off with Geralt and forget about everything else.

At the end of the saga Yen was really busy trying to not let Ciri get fucked over by the Lodge and trying to heal up herself.

by the end I mean.
What did you like about hearts of stone?
I thought it was alright, but I wasn't really captivated by the setting. I like Gaunter O'Dimm, but that's about it.
Also tell me about what you liked/didn't like about blood and wine.
So if you've been fucking up all game pretty much
That, too.

Hearts of stone had really interesting character dynamic. I saved Olgierd, but I was not sure that I did the right thing since even if I thought Olgierd deserved a second chance fucking around with O'Dimm is just plain stupid.
Also that quest with Shani is downright great, running around having fun at a slavic wedding with your ghost bro.

O'Dimm is also a great villain, he doesn't exactly do much in the beginning but you understand that you probably shouldn't fuck with him.

What I didn't like about hearts of stone is including the retarded fucking spiders that run away and spit at you. One of their jumps is the size of two yours. You can beat them if you are lucky but they are not fun to fight. And the lack of Shani card annoys me, she was there since the first game.

What I liked about blood and wine was the addition of great enemies that punished quen spam and actually made you think about the way you approach them. The sword leveling mechanic with Arondite also encourages you to not take damage and hit efficiently.
Detlaff is an amazing final boss, when he opened his second form Iyelled holy shit. He is a great fight and interesting as a character, even though he is a bit of a retard.
I also really liked the theme of honorable knights and the fact that you can be one.
I liked almost every bandit camp having some kind of backstory to it.

What I didn't like? Well, for one when lady of the Lake gives you Arondite she says "Hope you don't lose it this time" which made me feel like a fucking idiot since I kept the sword for the whole second hame hoping to port it to 3.
I didn't like the way they implemented it in the overall story. It happens after the plot, but you can finish it before, which I did without knowing. As a result Geralt makes offhand comments about defeating the hunt with ciri and vesemir dying even though it didn't happen yet. Also if you do that you don't get a proper dlc ending.
Fairytale land was a mixed bag. Since witcher itself is based on fairy tales it was weird to see, but they made all the tales edgy which was kinda weird.

I'm assuming you mean the spiders in the painted world, fuck those. I'm not sure if it's intended or a graphical error, but I couldn't see shit in the painted world. In addition to the warped filter it had, it also had a weird as fuck contrast and brightness. I had a hard time differentiating the almost fully black spiders from the hedges in the yard.
I let Olgierd die. My reasoning was that for the entire time the game had shown me bits of O'Dimm's power, and I didn't really sympathize with Olgierd at all. Got a bottomless booze carafe for my troubles. I really appreciated the option to just be a buddy with O'Dimm in the end.
I played on death march and had to redo the fight a couple of times until I figured out how to dodge the instagib bat swarm. Other than that, a pretty nice fight. As soon as I figured out the bat swarm, it was pretty easy though. Partially due to a little quen whoring, but mostly because of fleet of foot and its 100% dmg reduction.
Are you referring to the lady asking about Vesemir with the latter? You've got all the dialogue options regardless of whether you've proceeded past the point in the main campaign. You do get a dialogue option with Vesemir to talk about it if you bring it up with him.

I saved Olgeird because he's the lesser evil.

What person in their right mind wouldn't choose to banish Satan for a while so he can't prey on humans for another couple decades at least?

No, when you search for the grandmaster wolf armours Geralt remembers vesemir and says "It's a shame it ended like this for that wolf"

It's basically like half a dozen towers, only "big as fuck" because they did the oblivion walled city thing with it and split it up into a bunch of separate cells that take forever to traverse
Besides, the best city is Necrom

Where the fuck do I upgrade my Witcher armor? I have the Superior schematic, but none of the goddamn armorsmiths have it in the crafting menu, and every fucking site I find while looking for the answer is just telling people to find schematics or slot runes.

shill thread for the shill god, huh?
dubs

How do you feel to be wrong? Dragon's Dogma is far more better open world RPG than Witcher 3 especially in the combat department.

novigrad was the worst part of the game retard, nothing but linear escort quests and no crazy polish folk myth, fuck off

i'll give you combat maybe, but witcher 3 has more better looking and feeling solo combat, dragon's dogma's monster fights are gr8 though, but everything else about the combat was lacking

Really? you wanna go there, son? I replayed DD countless of times but I cant even stomach to finish W3 mainly because how awful the combat is.

Novigrad seems big, even huge at first, but after plenty of travelling to-and-from through the streets, it's actually not too big.

I really want my game world cities to try to look a little more like their real-life sizes' counterparts.

For Witcher 3 it's a great size though. Absolutely stomps competitor Skyrim's, for example.

It's cheating, of course, but there's one Vivec mod that truly transforms it into quite a sight, I think it's Vivec Expansion. Lots of wooden construction all around, boats, storage areas, and so on.

the combat in DD isnt that great either, its pretty casual and brainless, it isnt called japanese Skyrim for nothing

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