The reason behind gwent card game

[Lunduke is the Trump of tech]

I think the reason they added the gwent card game is because people get a bit tired of playing witcher. It's just so easy game and not interesting story. All you do is dodge, attack loop to defeat everyone. So just when people are thinking "im gonna exit and play a different game" then you meet an NPC who you can challenge to a game of gwent.

Gwent is also really boring of course, that's why you only play like 1 round of gwent rarely. I mean seriously, have you ever played a worse card game then this? I was hoping that at least there will be some kind deeper strategy behind having a melee, ranged, siege rows, like you need melee in front to defend the ones behind or something. But nope, it's just for the weather cards and double attack horn, thats all. So its very simple card game where you basically just want more total power cards than your opponent.

But it does the trick, the uncommon gwent round does keep me from switching to play a different game like red dead redemption 2, that game is much better.

[Draconifors]

Sure... and that's why many say they never bother with gwent because the actual game is far more interesting.

A strange theory, one based on nothing but your personal opinions. you've got there.

[dantès]

Originally posted by RFK FTW:

I think the reason they added the gwent card game is because people get a bit tired of playing witcher. It's just so easy game and not interesting story. All you do is dodge, attack loop to defeat everyone. So just when people are thinking "im gonna exit and play a different game" then you meet an NPC who you can challenge to a game of gwent.

Gwent is also really boring of course, that's why you only play like 1 round of gwent rarely.

so... you're suggesting the developers felt their Witcher game gets boring, so they implemented another boring game(gwent) to keep their bored player from getting too bored?

[Qwickkill]

Go read a book if you don't like the game. It would be far more productive than crying on this forum.

[Lunduke is the Trump of tech]

Originally posted by Qwickkill:

Go read a book if you don't like the game. It would be far more productive than crying on this forum.

thats very rude to call this topic about the theory behind gwent a cry post, im offended. why do you think reading a book is better anyway? that is almost like telling people who are food lovers to go and build a boat if they tried out a new restaurant they had some issues with.

[Qwickkill]

Because it is a cry post. You said the game is boring than move on.

[OniCyborgNicole]

Well... that's just your opinion, you know?
I think the reason is because since the first game there was already a simple minigame, dice poker, and they just wanted to replace it with something new (and simple).

But I don't understand why instead of quitting the game and starting another one you come here to say how boring it is. You can say that in a review and it will be fine but saying it in this forum and in that way you are not going to get anything good.
You say "All you do is dodge, attack loop to defeat everyone" but you really have many ways to attack. You have fast attack, powerful attack, crossbows, bombs, five different signals which have alternate modes, you have two ways to dodge, counterattack, some enemies have specific ways to kill them with oils, potions or also the signals, and that's just what comes to mind right now.

If the game is not for you, go play something else, no one is stopping you and you don't have to ask permission.

[Lunduke is the Trump of tech]

I think its funny how everyone gets stuck on the part where I said game is boring and that makes you forget about everything else that was said. The point of the topic is not to say the game is boring, it was to say why the gwent game exists.

[kireta]

Personally I liked Dice Poker more, exactly for lore reasons: it's a quick, simple game with hard to predict results. Shame both games somehow managed to spoil fun: in Witcher 1 rolls are affected by "levels" of players, meaning later game oponents would have godly re-rolls at quite absurd rate, killing joy from playing. In Witcher 2 rolls appear fair, but board is so angled, you can barely see anything, making it easy to miss with dices if you actually try to roll them.