Now that I've had my share of the game...

[weeaboo]

Some things I would change:

- Horse races are boring as boring goes. Not that it needed more features or be more challeging, it's just something that there's no way to make them fun;

- Skellige needed less smugglers cache's. It feels like they were there only to fill in;

- Death March is way too easy, I had to install Ghost Mode to make the game punish me more and I don't enjoy Dark Souls. Now I can't even start a new game without it anymore. Ereding was so damn hard, but when I beat him I was overjoyed with pride. The mod is professional level, the amount of work the mod author put into it is astounishing. Really solid, give it a try.

- Late game gwent is a piece of cake;

Gameplaywise I don't think there's much I can say because I can't say for sure if it isn't caused by Ghost Mode. Bear in mind these are all my opinion.

[Porkhammer]

I personally have only found one thing I dislike with the game after 536 hours played - the horse randomly stopping when galloping. :P Other than that I can't get enough of this game.

Haven't touched Gwent though, but I despise card games in reality as well, so eh.

[weeaboo]

Originally posted by Porkhammer:

I personally have only found one thing I dislike with the game after 536 hours played - the horse randomly stopping when galloping. :P Other than that I can't get enough of this game.

Haven't touched Gwent though, but I despise card games in reality as well, so eh.

There's a mod for that my friend ! http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/2288/?
Now did I just turned your near-perfect game into a perfect game? :p
I love them, been a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh since ever, can't enjoy Hearthstone though.

[tonypa]

- Horse races - I did not like racing, but since they were completely optional and game basically allowed to ignore all completely, I did not even care. Same with fist fights, I only did these minigames for the achievements once and never again. Both felt to me as something console games and console game players would expect.

- I did not mind the endless caches in Skellige. You just need to remember they are optional and none are required to advance in the game. If the low prize value bothers you, just ignore them all.

- I think the game is best at normal difficulty. The longer fights at higher difficulty setting make you repeat same thing more times, it does not make the fights more fun. Because so much of the game remains optional and so much equipment or skill points or xp can be easily missed, all the content is still enjoyable even when you do not bother build up best possible character.

- I feel Gwent would be tough to balance up since so much depends on which cards you get or if you bother gathering up the cards at all. If you go around gathering every card then it becomes very easy very quickly. If you just do random match here and there it remains challenging.

[Alex Helders]

I don't like how the game locks you out of quests or has hidden quests. It means that the majority of the people that played this game never knew about some quests due to being locked out or how hidden the quests were.

If I wasn't following a checklist, I would have never knew these quests exist. And unfortunately I still can't paly them all as i've been locked out of some.

Example of hidden quests (usually not recorded in your log book): Bitter Harvest, Harassing a Troll, Lynch Mob, A Dog's Life, Highwayman's Cache, Hazardous Goods, Death By Fire, Hidden Messages of the Nilfgaardian Kind, A Tomb Entomed and many more:

Quests that get locked (don't trigger): Lynch Mob, An Unpaid Debt, The Mysterious Passenger, Flesh for Sale, Berangar's Blade and many more.

[Alex Helders]

Well I learned yesterday that 'Flesh for Sale' will be locked for me because I have started Following The Trail. Two quests in different regions 10s of hours apart. I think it's no good so many people would never know Flesh for Sale existed. If I wasn't following a checklist, I wouldn't even know.

P.S: Just learned a new random encounter: Strumptet in Distress. Can't get it to trigger.

[Alex Helders]

Wow lol...the strumpter in distress didn't show up for me. Will try again. As for this new quest I just discovered from my checklist, 'Hidden Messages of the Nilfgaardian Kind', how many people did this quest? 1%? Why so hidden. Oh and I just started 'A Tome Emtombed'. Another hidden one.

[weeaboo]

Originally posted by tonypa:

- Horse races - I did not like racing, but since they were completely optional and game basically allowed to ignore all completely, I did not even care. Same with fist fights, I only did these minigames for the achievements once and never again. Both felt to me as something console games and console game players would expect.

- I did not mind the endless caches in Skellige. You just need to remember they are optional and none are required to advance in the game. If the low prize value bothers you, just ignore them all.

- I think the game is best at normal difficulty. The longer fights at higher difficulty setting make you repeat same thing more times, it does not make the fights more fun. Because so much of the game remains optional and so much equipment or skill points or xp can be easily missed, all the content is still enjoyable even when you do not bother build up best possible character.

- I feel Gwent would be tough to balance up since so much depends on which cards you get or if you bother gathering up the cards at all. If you go around gathering every card then it becomes very easy very quickly. If you just do random match here and there it remains challenging.

Ahh damn I knew I was forgetting something! Fist fights were the same to me.
The caches is only my nitpicking, since I didn't enjoy seeing so many question marks.
Well everyone has their one preferred difficulty, some people might even find Just the Story! too hard (i.e. filthy casuals ). To me I find that a higher one encouraged me to use everything to my disposal to win, it is so rewarding.
Regarding Gwent I agree with you. In my NG+ I rushed through the quests and then played the expansions but didn't have almost any cards, I used a mod to buy some random cards here and there, some strong, some weak, now the matches are really close! I like it.

[weeaboo]

Originally posted by PARALYSIS:

I don't like how the game locks you out of quests or has hidden quests. It means that the majority of the people that played this game never knew about some quests due to being locked out or how hidden the quests were.

If I wasn't following a checklist, I would have never knew these quests exist. And unfortunately I still can't paly them all as i've been locked out of some.

Example of hidden quests (usually not recorded in your log book): Bitter Harvest, Harassing a Troll, Lynch Mob, A Dog's Life, Highwayman's Cache, Hazardous Goods, Death By Fire, Hidden Messages of the Nilfgaardian Kind, A Tomb Entomed and many more:

Quests that get locked (don't trigger): Lynch Mob, An Unpaid Debt, The Mysterious Passenger, Flesh for Sale, Berangar's Blade and many more.

To me, one who wants to do every quest in the game, that was a blow to my stomach. I remember going to pass some bridge in Velen when all of a sudden I see an exclamation mark. I was already level 28 and the quest level was 9 ahah. But I sort of understand that. It makes the world more alive, since you don't know when you can encounter a quest. That's why I rarely used Fast Travel ( the exceptions where when the location I wanted/needed to go was more than 1000 distances.

[weeaboo]

BuzzardBee

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

is a notorious one.

1400 hours, wow!

[Xarathox]

If I could change one feature in this game it would be...flying creatures. Specifically Harpies/Sirens. Especially Sirens. They make the skellige isles the most tedious land of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen.

When I first got to the isles and saw all the sailing I could do I was all "♥♥♥♥ yeah!". After the third sunken boat I said "♥♥♥♥ it, I'm fast travelling".

[Malakai]

Originally posted by Xarathox:

If I could change one feature in this game it would be...flying creatures. Specifically Harpies/Sirens. Especially Sirens. They make the skellige isles the most tedious land of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen.

When I first got to the isles and saw all the sailing I could do I was all "♥♥♥♥ yeah!". After the third sunken boat I said "♥♥♥♥ it, I'm fast travelling".

Here you go:
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/818/?

[weeaboo]

Whoops, one more thing that I would change: runewright. I was pretty skeptical to change my runes since the new ones didn't seem all that powerful but I was putting the time to create a nice build. Them I started and bam, one enchantment cuts away all sockes, really? The enchantments are so weak even if you put more than one, but only one? Thank god I didn't pay for the last upgrade.

[󠀡󠀡]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Berenger's Blade, however, is a notorious one. It involves finding some notes in Kaer Morhen regarding a diagram for a blade made by a witcher. You're meant to find the notes, discuss it with Vesemir and then go off, following the clues, to discover the diagram. Unfortunately, it's a very common elven sword and one that the devs, for some unfathomable reason, chose to put in nearly every other damn chest you loot wherever there are bandits. Or some random crate somewhere. Or even some godforsaken sack underwater. You'll stumble over the damn diagram nearly everywhere and all you have to do is pick it up just once by accident and that quest will become impossible to complete.

They must have fixed this bug as I had no such issue. I looted everything I could get my hands on by the time I arrived at Kaer Morher and did the Berenger quest.