The Witcher 3 is not that good of a game.

[Goose]

I'd say it's mediocre. I have no attachment to the creepy main character, Geralt, or whatever his name is. The fact that all he does is sexualize women who are... what, decades younger than he is? Is creepy.

His voice is creepy, and he is creepy. Gameplay is linear. Combat feels like it's from a mid 2000s action game on PS2.

The world & atmosphere is very generic, and adds nothing new to the fantasy world. Maybe that's just because it's based on old books, I don't know. I played the game for about 6 hours & I was extremely bored from the start.

It's not even an RPG, it's mediocre in action, the story is boring, and the sexualization is just weird, creepy, and off putting.

[76561198822506496]

引用自 Jinn-Gon Qui：

引用自 Kayhan：

So you were able to decide that the story is boring just after 6 hours even though you may have barely left the starting region?

You probably didn't even visit the main towns to even decide that the world & atmosphere is "generic".

Nice bait Ma'am.

And what qualifies for one to determine for themselves whether a game is good or bad based on the number of hours? Six hours is more than enough for any video game.

for Witcher 3, you need 300

200 for admiring Geraldo Geralt's physique

[L1qu1dator]

引用自 AbedsBrother：

引用自 Emperors Champion：

Gameplay is linear.

It's fine if you don't like it, but this is objectively false.

Yeah, this line made it obvious bait.

[Vixus]

Pretty sure this is a bait thread, nice try mate.

[Goose]

引用自 Vixus：

Pretty sure this is a bait thread, nice try mate.

It really isn't. If I wanted to make a bait thread then I would've gone to Witcher 3's forum, for more attention. But I didn't. Just wanted to have a conversation about a terrible game in another forum where there's less fanboys, so I wouldn't hurt everyones fee fees

[Kayhan]

引用自 Jinn-Gon Qui：

引用自 Kayhan：

So you were able to decide that the story is boring just after 6 hours even though you may have barely left the starting region?

You probably didn't even visit the main towns to even decide that the world & atmosphere is "generic".

Nice bait Ma'am.

And what qualifies for one to determine for themselves whether a game is good or bad based on the number of hours? Six hours is more than enough for any video game.

Not really for Open World Games which have tons of features not yet unlocked till you reach a certain point of the story. And you just decided the entire story is bland based on the Prologue, which has no action at all.

[talemore]

It's one of those medieval fantasy tropes where the reader of the book become nastier the further the novel goes and start to act like a medieval peasant chewing on a juicy apple. It was a simple era with sex, alcohol and song. Even the church had brothels.

[Vixus]

引用自 Emperors Champion：

引用自 Vixus：

Pretty sure this is a bait thread, nice try mate.

It really isn't. If I wanted to make a bait thread then I would've gone to Witcher 3's forum, for more attention. But I didn't. Just wanted to have a conversation about a terrible game in another forum where there's less fanboys, so I wouldn't hurt everyones fee fees

Fair enough.

[Damn]

i agree, that game is way too overrated in my opinion

[alicerinz]

lmao

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

引用自 Jinn-Gon Qui：

引用自 Kayhan：

So you were able to decide that the story is boring just after 6 hours even though you may have barely left the starting region?

You probably didn't even visit the main towns to even decide that the world & atmosphere is "generic".

Nice bait Ma'am.

And what qualifies for one to determine for themselves whether a game is good or bad based on the number of hours? Six hours is more than enough for any video game.

That really depends on the game doesn't it?

Some of my very favorite games were slow Burns. I didn't like lollipop chainsaw until about 4 hours in. Red Dead redemption doesn't actually do anything interesting for about 6 hours.

Whereas games like psychonauts come out of the gate swinging. the very first mission in psychonauts have some of the best writing and most amusing crap ever. The last time I played I literally stood in one spot for about 20 minutes listening to the weird kid on the plane. It's a tiny spot in a 20-hour game. And this character has better writing and more dialogue than 90% of games.

The Witcher series is always been kind of weird for me. Mostly because I actually read the books... and technically the games are said after the last one... Where our hero dies... and somehow ends up in apparently a parallel universe...

the only thing I will say for sure about the games is the first game really needs a combat tutorial, and the third one really could have been a little bit longer story-wise.

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

引用自 Kayhan：

引用自 Jinn-Gon Qui：

And what qualifies for one to determine for themselves whether a game is good or bad based on the number of hours? Six hours is more than enough for any video game.

Not really for Open World Games which have tons of features not yet unlocked till you reach a certain point of the story. And you just decided the entire story is bland based on the Prologue, which has no action at all.

It's not your choice to make, it's OP's.

[Hidden]

Completely overrated. My honest two cents? People end up inserting a lot of their own ego into games like these, and there's a pseudo-artistic and elitist attitude that gets bred over very mediocre games.

Looking at you Senua's Sacrifice. But to a lesser extent the Witcher as well.

People hail the story. Despite quests like

"Look for Ciri in:
Novigrad
Velen
Skellige"

Which I found insulting, because if you played video games for any amount of time, you'd know she won't actually be in any of those places. So then you're stuck with just hours of tedious fluffed playtime that you know isn't really going to be relevant to actually progressing with the main plot.

All the while having to do tedious errands and be treated like a ♥♥♥♥ heel, only for an ex machina or groan inducing plot development to push the story forward. Often times there are plot holes and you wonder why geralt is bothering to do what he's doing when you could come up with a much simpler and effective solution.

Jesus even the portals were aggravating as hell. Geralt ABSOLUTELY cannot use portals in the story whenever it would be an obvious choice to save you from YET AGAIN needing to clear a dungeon with a sorceress(seriously, how often was this rinsed and repeated?)

But the SECOND it's convenient for the plot that's been backed into the corner - BOOM geralt is using portals. It happens several times and it just makes me groan.

The secondary quests were cool - until you played more than a couple hours of them and realize they are all actually quite generic. Skellige literally just had you running around in a boat for flotsam that wasnt worth investigating.

"HOURS of content bro! so much CONTENT"

The combat system was cool - except for the actual combat. Sluggish and spam infested, got boring quick. Not to mention the talent tree was set up to be exclusive to all talents but a certain lineage so, it was incredibly underwhelming and railed - not what you want in a talen tree.

I'll just stop now but yeah witcher was overhyped AF, and the people raging about it tend to be pretty high on themselves.

[Hidden]

引用自 Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍：

引用自 Jinn-Gon Qui：

And what qualifies for one to determine for themselves whether a game is good or bad based on the number of hours? Six hours is more than enough for any video game.

That really depends on the game doesn't it?

Some of my very favorite games were slow Burns. I didn't like lollipop chainsaw until about 4 hours in. Red Dead redemption doesn't actually do anything interesting for about 6 hours.

Whereas games like psychonauts come out of the gate swinging. the very first mission in psychonauts have some of the best writing and most amusing crap ever. The last time I played I literally stood in one spot for about 20 minutes listening to the weird kid on the plane. It's a tiny spot in a 20-hour game. And this character has better writing and more dialogue than 90% of games.

The Witcher series is always been kind of weird for me. Mostly because I actually read the books... and technically the games are said after the last one... Where our hero dies... and somehow ends up in apparently a parallel universe...

the only thing I will say for sure about the games is the first game really needs a combat tutorial, and the third one really could have been a little bit longer story-wise.

No.

♥♥♥♥ the "time" argument. It's intellectually dishonest shilling. It does everything but adress the actual concerns.

6 hours isnt enough for these players? right. He plays anything more than 10 hours and "he got his money worth".

Ignore anyone bringing the "time" in as their argument - it's more than likely because they already lost. Not saying it CAN'T be a valid argument, but the vast majority of the time it isn't.

[Washell]

引用自 Kayhan：

So you were able to decide that the story is boring just after 6 hours even though you may have barely left the starting region?

You probably didn't even visit the main towns to even decide that the world & atmosphere is "generic".

Nice bait Ma'am.

This was/is my review after 133 hours:

Loved Witcher 1. Loved Witcher 2. Really, really, really tried to love Witcher 3. But felt no freedom of choice. "The great story" is wrapped in countless of episodes of poor filler content. The combat feels like they were going for Dark Souls/Batman Arkham series, but the camera fails to keep focused on the action, and you're fighting the controls, rather than a well designed encounter. In preparation for this playthrough I played through 1 and 2 as a signbased witcher, which subsequently rendered what (little) combat there was utterly meaningless to the overpowered nature of the signs. There's a loot system, where no loot will ever match what you can make as witcher gear and basically just means you're hauling crap to merchants. A mod that instantly turns everything gold is what would've shaved 30 hours of the 133 I played. There's an open world, in which you can do nothing, not even sit in a chair or arrange some crap on a table. What finally broke me is Blood & Wine's habit of letting you fail a quest and than forcing you to click through a dozen cutscenes before you can load, after which you need to click through another dozen cutscenes before you're at the point you can try again.

If you like riding a virtual horse and watching cutscenes, this is the game for you! If you want actual engrossing gameplay and tactically challenging combat encounters. Steer clear.

I wish I had quit after 6 hours, instead of trying to find "the greatest game ever" content.

[Exiled Alchemist]

I could say the same about games you may enjoy, but I'm not going to create a spam topic about it.