Best dlc ever?

[twantenho]

Today I started playing the DLC: Blood and Wine. I generally didn't like the story of the orginal witcher 3 and found it pretty boring. But i thought let's give the witcher 3 another try and donwload Blood and Wine Dlc after seeing some gameplay. And I must see, the story of the dlc is so good en the side quests are so interesting. Easily one of the best DLC i ever played! And I have only gone through 2 main missions and 1 side quest. The side quests was truyly intersting and amazing and the main quests really give you that feeling of curosity.

Definitely going to buy the other DLC as well. What do you guys think of the storyline of the base game compared to the Blood of Wine dlc? (No spoilers pls, otherwise it will make the game less intersting :D)

[deidian]

Story wise for me Wild Hunt is the best, but it's very subjetive. I like the emotivity and personal degree that has the main story in Wild Hunt mixed with the fantasy and politics of the universe. Also it packs some of the best cinematics seen in a videogame.

It makes me miss the characters of Wild Hunt after finishing the story line.

Another great point in Wild Hunt is the complexity of many choices and how the game manages to hide many consequences of the choices at the moment you take them. Doesn't matter if it's the main story or side quests, there's many hard choices in WIld Hunt which you simply don't know what to expect until the consequences slap you in the face.

HoS story line is ok and intriguing, but is much more straighforward. No hard choices, not many choices and outcomes are predictable. Combat wise is a DLC that will encourage you to explore all game mechanics, has some tough combats and enemies are a bit harder.

B&W is a watered down Wild Hunt regarding choices, there's many choices again, but you see the consequences comming a mile away saving a couple of them and none of the choices is a hard choice to take in. Story is again ok, but somehow I don't care a lot about the characters to be honest...maybe the issue here is none of the characters is someone important for Geralt, is just another job. Side quests in B&W are same as main quest, there's choices but only a couple of them in which you really doubt what to do, most of them easy choices.
Combat wise B&W is highy tactical, enemies design rely much more in doing the correct thing than even WIld Hunt and HoS enemies, but you don't get that much damage so difficulty is low.

Summing up:

Wild Hunt: best story, characters and choice tree by far. Combat is overall balanced. Best overall IMO.

HoS: good story and characters, almost no choices at all. Combat is cranked up a bit in difficulty.

B&W: ok story but choices are very easy. Combat is highly tactical, but easy.

[whoeverxwins]

Personally, I liked the story of hearts of stone best. It would have been nice if there were more choices, but I suppose that's part of that story. Control is kind of taken away there. But O'Dimm is one of the best characters, definitely, and probably the creepiest villian.

[jss1138]

Blook and Wine is actually an Expansion. There's a difference. And with EA's Battlefront 2 blunder, now more than ever folks need to start recognizing that difference and using the terms properly.

DLC is small stuff added to the base game. A new weapon, set of armour, a skill, etc.

Expansion is a whole new adventure separate from the base game.

DLC should always be free. Only Expansions should cost money.

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

As much as I love the base game, I'm getting already a bit bored with Blood and Wine, which seems to me so far being nothing but one os those "another quest after another" and "no soul" sort of expansion, not to mention that so annoying "bird" main quest.
While I had a true blast playing Hearts of Stone. I only wish being virgin to Hearts of Stone again, to be granted the gift to discover it once more.
One of my favorite add-ons ever in my personal and large games book. If not the ever best.
Not only for the story of Hearts of Stone itself, but the highest quality of the very W3 game engine behind it, a top notch game engine which can make anything almost as real as life.
I also would recommend playing Hearts of Stone before ending the base game, if you're a dedicated roleplayer, without being able to tell you why really, for I don't want to spoil the main story end.
Just for you to be aware they might not fit and make any sense...

[Exarch_Alpha]

Well I liked them both but yeah, the overall feel of B&W and Heart of Stone are very different. Heart of Stone had better bosses and more interesting quests but B&W had more content overall... So it´s a quality versus quantity thing.

[DANIEL RAIN]

Diposting pertama kali oleh twantenho:

Today I started playing the DLC: Blood and Wine. I generally didn't like the story of the orginal witcher 3 and found it pretty boring. But i thought let's give the witcher 3 another try and donwload Blood and Wine Dlc after seeing some gameplay. And I must see, the story of the dlc is so good en the side quests are so interesting. Easily one of the best DLC i ever played! And I have only gone through 2 main missions and 1 side quest. The side quests was truyly intersting and amazing and the main quests really give you that feeling of curosity.

Definitely going to buy the other DLC as well. What do you guys think of the storyline of the base game compared to the Blood of Wine dlc? (No spoilers pls, otherwise it will make the game less intersting :D)

Simple Answer......... NO

[Exarch_Alpha]

No to... what? Buying Heart of Stone?

[DANIEL RAIN]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Exarch_Alpha:

No to... what? Buying Heart of Stone?

No to "BEST DLC EVER"

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Wait 'til it gets cheaper than 0...
'kidding, B&W is not that bad, but not that good either.

[FoxScribbles]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ForevaNoob Wonemorturn:

Wait 'til it gets cheaper than 0...
'kidding, B&W is not that bad, but not that good either.

I actually find it has a lot more heart and intrigue than the base game. There's too much soulless grinding in the base game for my preference, and the landscapes, while gorgeous, were very monotonous.

I prefer the contrast of Blood and Wine because not every quest is depressing. The base game is a bit too outlandish in the way everything was drab and depressing. It's no more realistic than everything being sunshine and roses.


The sunshine contrasts with a lot of the darker themes and creates a more interesting set-up.

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

I questioned myself intensively around almost every quest in the main game, while I just don't care about anything in B & W.
To me, choices were true choices in Wild Hunt, having to chose between a bad choice and another bad choice. But I haven't play half of BW at the moment, so, I shall see.
I hope you're right, yet it doesn't bode very well so far...

[Spliff]

Diposting pertama kali oleh HibblyJibbly:

Diposting pertama kali oleh ForevaNoob Wonemorturn:

Wait 'til it gets cheaper than 0...
'kidding, B&W is not that bad, but not that good either.

I actually find it has a lot more heart and intrigue than the base game. There's too much soulless grinding in the base game for my preference, and the landscapes, while gorgeous, were very monotonous.

I prefer the contrast of Blood and Wine because not every quest is depressing. The base game is a bit too outlandish in the way everything was drab and depressing. It's no more realistic than everything being sunshine and roses.

The sunshine contrasts with a lot of the darker themes and creates a more interesting set-up.

Grinding in witcher? Don't think i ever done that... i just go around doing whatever comes on the way, sometimes play gwent or go face some enemies, or just ride around completing quests i seem to randomly find in pretty much everywhere i went so far.

Also witcher's life is supposed to be depressing.

If you didn't skip 100% of the cutscenes, you maybe would have catched that witcher's are ripped of all emotion and they can't produce children.

Also medieval times in general (even in fantasy) are depressing, if you cut yourself, you most likely die from infection.

When you play witcher in "completionist" way you really lose all the magic what this game has.

When you turn it into a grind.

[FoxScribbles]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spliff:

Diposting pertama kali oleh HibblyJibbly:

I actually find it has a lot more heart and intrigue than the base game. There's too much soulless grinding in the base game for my preference, and the landscapes, while gorgeous, were very monotonous.

I prefer the contrast of Blood and Wine because not every quest is depressing. The base game is a bit too outlandish in the way everything was drab and depressing. It's no more realistic than everything being sunshine and roses.

The sunshine contrasts with a lot of the darker themes and creates a more interesting set-up.

Grinding in witcher? Don't think i ever done that... i just go around doing whatever comes on the way, sometimes play gwent or go face some enemies, or just ride around completing quests i seem to randomly find in pretty much everywhere i went so far.

Also witcher's life is supposed to be depressing.

If you didn't skip 100% of the cutscenes, you maybe would have catched that witcher's are ripped of all emotion and they can't produce children.

Also medieval times in general (even in fantasy) are depressing, if you cut yourself, you most likely die from infection.

When you play witcher in "completionist" way you really lose all the magic what this game has.

When you turn it into a grind.

Played it twice and read the books. I haven't skipped a single cut scene, boyo. I know the lore pretty doggone well.

Maybe take your hilariously 100% wrong assumptions elsewhere instead of inventing stories about how I come to my opinions.

Or, you know, read what I actually wrote about why I find Blood and Wine's story more intriguing, then practice a bit of comprehension and realize that it actually has nothing to do with a witcher's life. It would have saved you from all that time fantasizing about me skipping cut scenes and being a clueless lamb about the lore of the series.

[Goy Fieri]

I enjoyed Blood and Wine a lot. Great screenshots, beautiful landscape. The story is pretty simple but still fun nonetheless. The grandmaster armor sets only make it even better, plus there is entertaining events in Toussaint.

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Maybe it's because B&W reminds me too much of my own country...