Editer
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It wouldn’t be a Eurogamer article if they weren’t bitching about something inconsequential. I read them religiously because they’re thorough and generally balanced, but I usually mentally add some points to their scores because I enjoy playing games more than I do complaining about them.
Papageno
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@DennyA
That said, Eurogamer was one of the very few sites that didn’t take a giant (and IMHO undeserved) dump all over the Mad Max game.
Nice article about one very good quest in the sea of very good quests that is Witcher 3 (spoilerzz):
http://www.pcgamer.com/how-the-witcher-3s-best-quest-was-made/
This is exactly what I want in a Witcher 3 expansion - just more “stuff” that isn’t necessarily only found on a remote and separate map.
It’s not relevant to most of us here, but for the benefit of future Witcher 3 players, the article is one gigantic SPOILER.
AVOID READING UNTIL YOU ARE AT LEAST PAST VELEN
Only problem with that quest is it was so good it kind of front-loaded the drama. There were some great moments later with Yen, Ciri, etc. but no quest like that.
Yesterday I finally wrapped up a quest called “Follow the thread”, which I started back in May in Velen. And then it continued in Novagrad at the beginning of August, and by the time I finished it in Skellige (and then back to Novigrad) I had completely forgotten what had happened in the earlier parts of the quest. It was such a strange feeling, having this character’s life hang in the balance while he tells his side of the story. And yet, I can’t remember the other side of the story so how can I justify killing the guy? That’s what happens when your quests span multiple chapters of the main story.
JeffL
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I’m not able to play very often (work, family stuff) so I’m only level 15 - I have finished the Baron’s story, which was very cool. But I’m in an unusual situation, for me - usually with open world games like this, I spend most of my time on the side quests/stuff and only do the main quests to advance and get certain things I want (shouts, powers, money, equipment, etc.) I started that way with W3, but I was looking at my side quests, and a lot of them I’ve ignored to the point there are a lot of side quests that are level 6 or so. I want to go back and do them, but I’m really caught up in the main story line.
What a dilemma! Too much interesting stuff to explore! While Skyrim had far more interesting places to explore (far more as in numerically more) W3 has far more interesting stories to explore. Love it.
This is what really brings the game down a notch for me, there are quests you fail if you don’t do them by a certain point in the story. There was really no narrative reason they couldn’t have had a clear “point of no return” for certain quests near the end. It goes against the open world principle, and most of the decisions are clear cut, it’s not like you’d be putting off hard choices.
They also don’t let you carry Gwent cards into new game plus, even though the order you play people in is irrelevant.
Razgon
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Is anyone playing this on the Ps4? How is the performance issues these days?
I never got farther than out of White Orchard and got crippled by having no idea where to go, and everything being higher level than me, so was thinking of booting this up again, but the performance issues I keep reading about , are not encouraging.
From what I read the performance only takes a dive in very specific location (swamps) during thunderstorm. But obviously you would be much better served by 60fps PC version.
Razgon
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Aye, but I love playing games on my PS4 and already bought it there, so thats a no-go by now - Thanks for the clarification though! :-)
One more thing, in less than two weeks new expansion comes out and patch 1.09 should hit before it, said to improve console perf even further.
JeffL
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I’ve been playing it on PS4 and I haven’t noticed any issues at all.
So, I’ve recently started playing this and, while it took me a while to get into it for some reason, it’s now digging its claws in.
However, I screwed up at the beginning of the game when it asked whether to simulate a Witcher 2 save. I thought this meant “simulate a save game from W2 because you never played it”, but now I’ve reached Vizima it obviously meant “allow me to answer a bunch of questions that make zero sense unless I’ve played W2 and which likely influence the rest of the Witcher 3 story”.
They could have just asked “Have you played The Witcher 2?” at the beginning.
Do I have to start the damn thing again?
Or are there some recommended / default / optimal answers to these questions if you’d never played W2, and simply want the best gameplay outcome? If so, I would be grateful to the person who tells me in a spoiler tag? :)
That stuff is just colour IMO. You can safely live with whatever random answers you gave… as I did and I actually made decisions in W1 and W2 which were probably garbled completely by my random answers :)
You made the right choice. Answer the questions as if everybody survived.
I guess I must have answered no somehow to that question. I actually wanted them to ask me questions at that time, but no one ever did. In retrospect I accidentally made the right choice. Or maybe it was Triggercut or Telefrog who made me inadvertently make the right choice? I seem to recall one of them screwed up what the answer should be and I followed their advice back then.
Ok thanks for the advice! Onwards…
I spent over an hour on a long satisfying mission called “In Wolf’s clothing”. Not one of the game’s best, but I liked that it was pretty involved and required Geralt’s abilities as a detective and as a monster hunter, and as a person who doesn’t give a shit about unrelated events in the past.
