Is it worth buying?

[Napo]

If I only like the gwent in TW3? I mean, to me TW3 as been the most impactful experience I had with videogames since a long time, I loved the story/gameplay/gwent/ everything basically (except the horses lol).

Throne breaker seems like a good game but I don't know if I would be able to enjoy it, given I did not like what they have done of the original gwent in the standalone multiplayer version.

Thanks in advance for your answers, and sorry if a similar topic already exists, I find it hard to find what I'm looking for in steam's forums.

[CursedPanther]

If you only enjoy the specific version of Gwent in W3 and you already know that CDPR has already done a lot of new and 'debatable' changes to the card game, then this may not be for you. However if it's the story side of things(the adventures of Queen Meve) you're looking forward to, the other half of the game could just be enough entertainment for you.

Alternative would be simply watch the whole thing on Youtube.

[f.ultron]

The game is much different from the Gwent in W3. You could say it's an entirely different card game.

[Napo]

okay, thanks for your answers guys!

[Včelí medvídek]

It is very different to Gwent in W3.

Heck I dare to say it is hardly "true" card game at all - most encounters are more like very specific standalone math puzzle minigame with few predefined cards and strategy you need develop and execute for beat that one puzzle. It is very distant to standard building deck or developing general strategies I found enjoyable in other "normal" card games - Magic the Gathering, Hearthstone, KARDS, Gwent (in W3:-)


For me it is big dissapointment and I bought it with (very wrong) impression it will be W3 Gwent with story. Honestly having the choice I would refund it if allowed. Can watch story on some youtube stream rather.

[gee]

I really like the story and art so far (I'm act 4), but the battles really bore me now.
As said above the puzzles are not too interesting, most of them are super easy, I'm on the hardest difficulty and pass most on my first try... As for the hard ones you'll find the proper order anyway with a bit time of time.

Once you understand a bit how the game/cards work, and you have a decent enough collection of cards, it's pretty hard to lose a battle, which makes the whole thing just a tedious waste of time.
But frankly I felt the same about Gwent in TW3, once my deck was strong enough, apart from the tournaments, there was never a shred of competition and so it was boring.

I don't know how much of the game I have left, but I'm already looking forward to replaying it, on easy, so I can skip the card part. And without the battles, I can skip grabbing loot, and pretty much making it a cool VN.

[Napo]

Thank you all for your answers, I must say I'm a bit disapointed. I'll not buy the game, and watch the story on youtube. I really don't understand why they changed gwent so much..
Cheers lads!

[gee]

So I finished the game yesterday and got one ending, and looked up what the supposedly 22 endings are. Well there are not really 22 endings, it's more like each important character can have different fate but the global ending does not change no matter the decision you took, which makes it not that interesting to replay after all. The game offers A LOT of choices, which you won't be able to affect on YouTube... but all in all very few have a meaningful impact.

I'm definitely glad I did not pay $30 for this game, but the 50 hours I got out of it, it's probably ok for the price I paid. I feel like it is a beautiful polished prototype of something that could have been a great game if they had spent more time on it.

[emersy]

gwent here is more like tw3 gwent then standalone online version. yes it's only got 2 lines and almost all cards got some action featurs... but it's pve like in tw3. so it's balanced for pve- you only got better and better cards. this is what I don't like in online competetive gwent balance, so thronebreaker is much more better for me.
anyway it's worth bying for great story, art and music. little masterpiece and musthave for fans of witcher world and lore

[Mosh]

Nah. This is more of a puzzle game. You actually have to use your brain not play the strongest cards you have.

[gee]

Originally posted by Mosh:

Nah. This is more of a puzzle game. You actually have to use your brain not play the strongest cards you have.

I don't know, I won about every game once I could play Black Rayla ;)

[tzirrit]

Not worth for the Gwent part. Sadly they have totally ruined what was so great in Witcher 3. Most of the time you will face shortened "puzzle" fights with predefined decks, and even if you can use your customized deck, the fights get very anoying very fast.

The story, setting and overall production value however is extremely well done. So I'd still recommend it for the story. Especially, if you enjoy the Witcher universe.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by gee:

So I finished the game yesterday and got one ending, and looked up what the supposedly 22 endings are. Well there are not really 22 endings, it's more like each important character can have different fate but the global ending does not change no matter the decision you took, which makes it not that interesting to replay after all. The game offers A LOT of choices, which you won't be able to affect on YouTube... but all in all very few have a meaningful impact.

I'm definitely glad I did not pay $30 for this game, but the 50 hours I got out of it, it's probably ok for the price I paid. I feel like it is a beautiful polished prototype of something that could have been a great game if they had spent more time on it.

Just want to ask to this - I have finally forced myself to continue the game and it really catched me... as my original statement and others stated the Gwent part is kinda meh, I enjyoed story part a lot.

And as you say there is lot of choices I am curious about... I am just not too eager to play all again but still tempting - it is really worthy to replay?

[gee]

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

Just want to ask to this - I have finally forced myself to continue the game and it really catched me... as my original statement and others stated the Gwent part is kinda meh, I enjyoed story part a lot.

And as you say there is lot of choices I am curious about... I am just not too eager to play all again but still tempting - it is really worthy to replay?

Originally I thought it would be, but after finishing it, I don't think so.
Like whether villagers are happy or unhappy, whether you got an item from them or not, etc is not really meaningful enough to warrant another playthrough. As for the ending, well the global ending won't differ at all, it's just whether a few characters get a happy ending or not. I got almost the best ending, everything is what I'd like but people fearing Meve instead of loving her, do I care enough? Nope.

I wish it would be more like The Witcher 2 where (some) choices really had an impact on the overall story.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by gee:

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

Just want to ask to this - I have finally forced myself to continue the game and it really catched me... as my original statement and others stated the Gwent part is kinda meh, I enjyoed story part a lot.

And as you say there is lot of choices I am curious about... I am just not too eager to play all again but still tempting - it is really worthy to replay?

Originally I thought it would be, but after finishing it, I don't think so.
Like whether villagers are happy or unhappy, whether you got an item from them or not, etc is not really meaningful enough to warrant another playthrough. As for the ending, well the global ending won't differ at all, it's just whether a few characters get a happy ending or not. I got almost the best ending, everything is what I'd like but people fearing Meve instead of loving her, do I care enough? Nope.

I wish it would be more like The Witcher 2 where (some) choices really had an impact on the overall story.

Thank you for this. Maybe I will replay in the future but gootd to know likely not worthy spend time on it now.

[gee]

If I were to replay it, I'd play on easy instead of hard and skip all battles/resources collecting, just play it like a VN. In that way I don't think it would take long, there are not that many maps.