Timex
3503
This honestly cannot be overstated. The quality of the quests in this game are absolutely unparalleled. Trivial side quests are better written then the primary story arcs of virtually every other game.
As Bleeds said, the reward for doing quests really is not about XP or loot… Honestly, while finding new loot is cool and all, I’m pretty happy with my Feline set. But I’m doing every single quest obsessively because the quests themselves are so immensely fun and interesting. At no point am I even remotely tempted to just skip through the dialog and get to the quest, as is the case in so many other games. The dialog is the most compelling aspect of the quest.
When we think about it, that’s kind of how it should be. That’s the part of the game which actually has real meaning, beyond simply triggering the low level reward center of our reptilian brain.
This game is going to force the entire industry to step their game up in a major way, I think. I feel sorry for another development house who is in the process of making a fantasy RPG right now, because chances are that playing the witcher would just make them cry at how bad their own game is by comparison.
I still don’t really grasp how a relatively small polish developer managed to pull off something of such a truly epic scale.
While I’m sure there are some devs working on AAA RPG franchises that would look at The Witcher 3 with envious eyes, I assume that a publisher like Ubisoft/EA/Activision will take the umpteen million dollars for open world XP grind #238 over whatever CDPR earns for this game.
Probably true.
It’s depressing that two weeks ago I was super amped for a Fallout 4 reveal, and now I’m kinda concerned Fallout 4 will feel very … thin now, compared to TW3. I really, really, really can’t state how much I hope it’s just the pessimist in me that’s giving me such vibes.
It’s still early for me, but I suspect this will become the first (?) grounded epic in videogames. It’s almost like a classic literary work, which presents grand themes and big events via the lives of individuals.
This game is going to force the entire industry to step their game up in a major way, I think. I feel sorry for another development house who is in the process of making a fantasy RPG right now, because chances are that playing the witcher would just make them cry at how bad their own game is by comparison.
Eh, I don’t know. The same was true about The Witcher 2, and people still churned out cookie cutter fetch quests afterward. The only difference is that this time round CDPR pulled off a giant open world as well, and that it’s selling even better than the last one. When they stop buying Dragon Ages, then we can talk.
Kind of mind blowing honestly. This game took my many unreasonable hopes and pretty much exceeded them. I’m very pleased that I got a pc copy for myself and a PS4 copy for my daughter. I feel it’s a bargain for all the entertainment we’ll have and I’ll be getting any dlc they put out for both.
Good show Cdprojekt. Thank you for raising the bar.
I think this will remain two separate experiences for me. (Like CDPR, I mostly hope they clean up combat mechanics.)
It’s Bioware games that worry me. I’m not sure I can play young adult after playing adult.
I did really like ME3 after TW2 but I think the gulf is widening as my time and patience decrease.
Synth
3510
I hate this thread!
I’m still playing through Dragon Age: Inquisition. :(
I hope so. And as for BioWare, the infantile attempts at romances in those games (just the over all delivery of cut-scenes/dialog, really) has fallen flat for me since the golden age of DA:Origins and the first Mass Effect. The first time I felt it was Mass Effect 2 (I think a lot of stuff that bothered me in recent BioWare games existed even in Origins, but it was new enough to not bother me at the time) and they haven’t really changed much since. The way they animate characters, direct scenes, and the way the characters are written and the romance stuff in general just really turns me off, and although I did enjoy Inquisition, that stuff was still there and still making me roll my eyes.
CDPR really does know how to tell a story to an adult, that’s for sure. It would be nice if other’s took notice and implemented some of these concepts, for sure.
Well, I played Jade Empire right after playing Witcher 1, so CDPR has already ruined at least one Bioware game for me. ;)
But yeah… I hope Bioware is taking notes, because CDPR raised the bar A LOT now.
I am still looking forward to Fallout 4 for its atmosphere and world, but yeah I do not expect it to be better than Witcher 3, in…any way. But especially writing and consistency.
Bethesda should just license Fallout to Obsidian permanently, and make some new IP themselves instead.
Considering how much more I enjoyed Fallout New Vegas vs. Fallout 3 (and even Skyrim) I would be down for this in a heartbeat.
There are still things I look for in a Fallout or Skyrim that even The Witcher 3 won’t give me. I’m loving The Witcher 3 so far, but I know that the mod scene (if Bethesda and Valve don’t fuck that up with paid mod DLC) on the Beth games will always be more vibrant.
Assuming Fallout 4 mods are free…
Yup. That’s my main concern on that front.
Bethesda games are different beasts than The Witcher 3. What’s in The Witcher 3 is excellent, but you can’t say, “I’m just gonna go do side dungeons for a month or three” like you can in Skyrim. And no, the little question mark encounters in Witcher 3 don’t, for the most part, count as dungeon crawling, unless the rest of the game is very different than Velen.
As for Bioware, not everyone is into their formula, but those who like it like it a lot. There are people who buy their games just for the romances, after all. (Though I personally just roll my eyes … as I do at Geralt’s macking on the sorceresses.)
JMR
3519
Killed some bandits and as I was looting their camp I see this object rolling away with the wind. I run up to investigate and it was a bandit head.
JMR
3521
Oh I forgot to ask but is anyone else here running the game with an AMD vidya card and geting nasty shadow texture flickering? I’ve tried all shadow settings but none resolve the problem. I’ve learned to live with it but I’d much rather have a fix.
You might say that it is head and shoulders above all other loot…
