The Witcher 3 discussion and nitpicking, and praise

[Silence]

Aaaand I've hit a game breaking bug that causes me to CTD every time I fast travel. No issues when I try it on a new game but my save file that has 60+ hours is now completely and utterly bricked. Fuck this game.

That's my nickpick of the day.

Do you know what caused it? Don't want to run into it.

And why, why oh why. Did you only use one save file?


I also have a quest I can't seem to finish now (A Witcher contract in Novigrad, where I had to go into a brothel. Door was locked, I stopped looking for a way in, did other stuff, now the target doesn't even show on the map anymore.) and another was a little buggy (help for Whoresone Juniors Casino, I did it without help, got there after and it had a little buggy dialogue. But counted as failed at the end and is out of my quest log, so that's okay).


Still, I expected far more bugs.

 

[kuolonen]

The bad:
Swimming controls are awful. Wish I could track several quests at the same time.
The good:
Everything else is perfect. This game... I will remember this one to my death. After DA:I I thought I had just grown bored of western RPGs and they had nothing to offer to me anymore. But holy shit. I would have been satisfied if they'd kept with witcher 2 quality. And they topped that, like they topped witcher 1 with witcher 2.
For just one example in the battle at

Spoiler

Kaer Morhen

I kept thinking how in the hell do these fights feel so awesome compared to all the other cinematics I've been subjected to by game industry for the past 10 years? Beautiful, awesome, perfect. After my nostalgia glasses set in for this one, I'll doubt I'll ever think another game better.
In short: For me, this game is better than Skyrim was. Yeah, I've said it. Come at me.

 

[Silence]

In short: For me, this game is better than Skyrim was. Yeah, I've said it. Come at me.

Skyrim? Seriously, you could have thought of an actual good game. 8/

 

[BarryMcCociner]

So the Witcher and Witcher 2 were on sale for 6 bucks together on Steam last week. I am currently trying to figure out Witcher enhanced edition. The only thing that kind of confuses me is the quest system. It's all over the fucking place, and combat is sparse. It feels so much more like a detective RPG except instead of getting better at being a detective I get better at stabbing innocent people.

Yeah, that actually does kind of make sense. I was kind of struggling to find my way through TW1 until I started thinking of Geralt as the Sherlock Holmes of monsters. Then the entire game made sense and I started having fun.

 

[WolfThomas]

All I can say at the moment is that I'm chasing after a girl who I've never known before TW3 (who also has the elder blood even though a little boy know as Alvin has it as well) for a girl I've also never met before TW3. My comrades and past enemies seem to be non-existent and I'm not liking it.

But wasn't Alvin the baddie from the first one time displaced? Hard to find him if he is dead.

 

[danielcofour]

Did anyone else feel the choices from Witcher 2 have almost no real impact on the world at large; just who is pissed at you and who isn't?

it's even worse than that. Some choices, pretty major ones, don't even get a mention in the game. I've finished the game, so I know.

Spoiler

The entire saskia/Iorveth story is pretty much nonexistent in the game. It's as if it didn't even happen. Neither of those two show up in the game, even though you actually meet Phillipa Eilhart(and you haven't lifted the spell from the dragon). She still has a dragon at her command, but it isn't even brought up... Everything happens the same regardless of your choices. Saved Triss? The witch hunt still happens. Lifted the spell from Saskia? Upper Aedirn still gets conquered. I don't know if saving Anais on Roche's path changes anything, but I'm guessing no.

This is my one big problem with the game. The rest of it's quirks can be either patched or modded out, but this is really bugging me. It's still one of my favorite games of all time. It's mindbogglingly good, but gods, did they really had to drop the ball on world-state imports this badly?

 

[eberhart]

All I can say at the moment is that I'm chasing after a girl who I've never known before TW3 (who also has the elder blood even though a little boy know as Alvin has it as well) for a girl I've also never met before TW3. My comrades and past enemies seem to be non-existent and I'm not liking it.

Hmph, where to begin...

I'm chasing after a girl who has been mentioned before TW3 for at least a dozen times (who also has the elder blood while a little boy know as Alvin had nothing like that) for a girl previous games, mostly 2nd, have already told me was the love of my life. My comrades and past enemies will definitely re-appear, given what "Go your way" trailer has already shown.

All right, that's more like it.

Did anyone else feel the choices from Witcher 2 have almost no real impact on the world at large; just who is pissed at you and who isn't?

it's even worse than that. Some choices, pretty major ones, don't even get a mention in the game. I've finished the game, so I know.

Wasn't it always a staple of the series? That whatever you do, political machine will keep rolling and the best you can is to get your select few friends out of its way?

I remember my first playthrough w/ W2 and how nearly all of my choices have ultimately led to a complete failure of what Saskia tried to achieve. Despite my very best intentions, mind you. An ill-applied mercy here, putting a monster out of its misery there (w/o other options due to previous choices) and then Nilfgaardian invasion steamrolling Aedirn has likely annihilated headless, Saskia-less utopia with a likely help from our prick in golden armor. We had no option to prevent the invasion and thankfully so - it only supports what I wrote earlier.

Now, it's disappointing that some of "dragon choices" are seemingly irrelevant, but what about Henselt then? His fate doesn't change the overall picture, invasion still happens, war still ravages Velen, but is it "Redania stands alone" regardless of it? As for Roche, I did see his face in a trailer, but no idea about Anais. Although with Temeria being a shattered country, she could be easily reduced to a few additional lines - zero reasons to make her anything significant *just yet*. DLC perhaps?

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I have a problem with crashing when I try to go to Skellige. It happens 4 our of 5 times. Huge game breaker. But many people seem to have the same issue so I'm sure it will get patched soon.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

I play this game on the Xbone and yes the gameplay and graphics are beautiful. Now that being said I have some issues that made me stop playing for a little bit.

Nitpicks:

1. Enemies. When it comes to humans or wolves or whatever those crab things are many levels higher than me, I can kill them easy, but for some stupid reason when it comes to Drowners (even lower level ones), they fucking slaughter me. Because of those bastards I cannot progress to find Johnny.

2. Side Missions. I love the side missions, but I have failed some points of them and it says they are still active but I have no idea how to continue them, like the blackmarket pass to a town in the middle of the river and i didn't save some people in a burning building so I have no idea how to look for the Barons wife. Oh yeah and it gives you missions at level 7 but meant for people level 40+. wtf.

3. Crafting. Where the fuck do you find shit for that =P. It seems you would have every items imaginable for crafting, but nope. Missing 1 item for this one piece of armor that you CAN wear, but this item is guarded by a monster 10 levels higher then you.

Praises:

Everything else is wonderful, I hate Roach, I would rather walk/run everywhere