How to get into the game?

[Syranith]

I have tried a couple times but I cannot seem to get into it anyone have suggestions?

Edit: I mean how to play like find enjoyment in it*

[Orion Invictus]

Do you mean launching the game, or finding enjoyment in it?

[𒉭 Kisses4Grandpa 𒉭]

Messaggio originale di Syranith:

I have tried a couple times but I cannot seem to get into it anyone have suggestions?

Edit: I mean how to play like find enjoyment in it*

dont force it, if you dont like it you dont like it.

[Mike Hawthorne]

You have to follow the story and then do the quests in each area, there is a lot of dialogue.
Once you get in the other characters are interesting too. Investigate all the ? on the map. Some you may have to come back to later.

But it's not an all-action hack-and-slash.

I'm playing for the second time, (I played it back when it first came out) you have to kind of take an interest in all the things going on around you, the other characters have a story too.

Then there are a hundred different quests and things to do once you get out of the beginning areas.

Learn to play Gwent, it's part of the story too, and once you get into it it's fun.

[p00se2]

question 1 : what do you think keeps you out of the enjoyment ? dont like the world ? story ? quests ? combat ? too much dialog ?


something that put me off in the beginning is the combat because you lack the skills to do the fun stuff and be less restricted - have more options and things to fight with
if that is the case - you can enable console and cheese yourself some skillpoint to make combat more fun

[asarokk]

How to find enjoyment in the game? Sh*t dude, I can't even fathom how it's feasible to not enjoy the game. It's too darn difficult not to completely immerge into the game but there's no shame if you can't. If you don't like the game, then in all probability it's hardly the game for you. Surely there's lot of other games befitting of your preferences.

Although p00se brings up a good point. If you could be more specific about what it is exactly that makes it difficult for you to enjoy the game, then we could probably provide better directions regarding the game.

[Syranith]

Messaggio originale di asarokk:

How to find enjoyment in the game? Sh*t dude, I can't even fathom how it's feasible to not enjoy the game. It's too darn difficult not to completely immerge into the game but there's no shame if you can't. If you don't like the game, then in all probability it's hardly the game for you. Surely there's lot of other games befitting of your preferences.

Although p00se brings up a good point. If you could be more specific about what it is exactly that makes it difficult for you to enjoy the game, then we could probably provide better directions regarding the game.

I 100% prefer these type of games over fps any day. I got really bored towards the baby and the baron quest because it just got kinda annoying im wondering if it picks up pace faster.

[asarokk]

Messaggio originale di Syranith:

Messaggio originale di asarokk:

How to find enjoyment in the game? Sh*t dude, I can't even fathom how it's feasible to not enjoy the game. It's too darn difficult not to completely immerge into the game but there's no shame if you can't. If you don't like the game, then in all probability it's hardly the game for you. Surely there's lot of other games befitting of your preferences.

Although p00se brings up a good point. If you could be more specific about what it is exactly that makes it difficult for you to enjoy the game, then we could probably provide better directions regarding the game.

I 100% prefer these type of games over fps any day. I got really bored towards the baby and the baron quest because it just got kinda annoying im wondering if it picks up pace faster.

Not much for FPS either. The Baron questline has been regarded though as one of the best major story plots in the game, the Baron himself is an excellent character with depth and complexity. Although I do agree that there are aspects in that particular questline that sour the experience.

There are however many excellent quests and stories in the game, with great diversity but they all have in common is choices. Some choices can expedite the quests or prolong them. There are countless side quests as well. So you can at any point take a break from the main questlines, which I heartily recommend since there's a lot of side quests and unmarked quests that may become unavailable once you complete certain quests in the main questlines.

[Bolovo]

Messaggio originale di asarokk:

How to find enjoyment in the game? Sh*t dude, I can't even fathom how it's feasible to not enjoy the game. It's too darn difficult not to completely immerge into the game but there's no shame if you can't. If you don't like the game, then in all probability it's hardly the game for you. Surely there's lot of other games befitting of your preferences.

Although p00se brings up a good point. If you could be more specific about what it is exactly that makes it difficult for you to enjoy the game, then we could probably provide better directions regarding the game.

i played the game back in 2015, spent almost 200 hours. The thing is that once you know the story and know what's gonna happen, there's little reason to go back to the game, at least for me. Combat is utterly boring and repetitive.

[Kolia Rampaga]

Tbf it seemed kinda boring in first 20hrs(took me weeks to play this much), but after that I fell in love with this game, I got the worst ending but I liked the characters so much that did a speedrun right after finishing the game, I even played 1st and 2nd witchers after Wild Hunt. Now I'm planning to play it for the second time because I realise how much interesting stuff I missed because I wasn't too interested at first and kinda rushed the game.

I would recommend you to just give it a go, but Wild Hunt is more like a movie rather than a game, so if you don't enjoy it, fair enough.

[p00se2]

i got bored first time playing because i didnt understand combat much - also needed more skill points to unlock what makes it more fun / dynamic

exploring and just running around the map made it alot more fun as well
not jumping from quest dialog to quest dialog - 10 15 minutes of nothing happening and people talking between fighting 1 2 3 enemies for maybe a minute

[Cootswig]

It's my first time playing aswell and it certainly took me a while to not feel overwhelmed, maybe up to the bloody baron quest.

If possible give it a couple hours, up to 10. That's a lot for sure but I think that's the only way to give it a real chance.

I'm doing a lot of side quests and just enjoy the scenery haha

[Rollo Tomasi]

I came to the forum to see if anyone else felt the same way. I'm struggling to even want to finish the first quest. Ride your horse to a town, talk to people in a tavern, then I have to ride to some fort. Go slightly into the woods, a pack wolves instantly start running right at you. Don't want to get destroyed by 8 wolves so I see one monster standing in a swamp, okay I can try to kill just one of these drowner things. Start combat, instantly takes huge chunks of health off, oh btw, you stepped one inch too far into the swamp and your're now poisoned. Kill the thing with a tiny bit of health left, instantly die from poison. The main character feels like a tank, and so does the horse. There is so much exposition for characters I don't know or care about yet, its ridiculous.

I'm not trying to be completely negative on the game, it just seems very frustrating and forces you to do exactly what the game wants you to do.

[Wygos]

Its a story based game. If side quest are not for you try to follow main story on easier difficulty.
If non linear games are not for you - dont play.
Witcher can be overwhelming with all mechanics that hardly give edge.

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

if you can't get into it then it just isnt your type of game. its based in slavic lore so maybe thats not your jam. The gameplay is identicle to many other popular successful games like spiderman shadow of mordor assassins creed, if you liked those games you should likely like this one as the game play is pretty much the exact same.

The only thing that makes the witcher different is the setting being slavic and it being a sword and magic style game.

it comes down to what you like personally. we can't help you get into something, you have to find something you like and grow attached to it.

Something that helps players sometimes though is the idea of "playing as efficiently as possible" ends up ruining the fun often times. So maybe you should turn the difficulty up or down, and play differently than you normally would.

All in all, its a roleplaying game, so you'll have the most fun if you immerse yourself into Geralt and roleplay as Geralt and just enjoy yourself in Geralts world. If thats not your jam it probably missed the mark with you, and thats fine too.


If none of that works.
Look into mods. Theres a companion mod that lets you spawn companions to fight at your side. Great if you want to pretend Geralt is a necromancer or a mind controller and just start spawning in companions like after you defeat an alghoul, spawn it in as your companion and roleplay that it was mind controlled or raised from the dead to serve you. Or spawn in Yen and Tris, clothing optional, to adventure with you.

Mods can really bring new life to games like this.

[Cootswig]

Messaggio originale di Jiren, The Strongest:

Or spawn in Yen and Tris, clothing optional

Lmao really?