Getting ready to go to sleep for work in the morning.
Then breaking down all my garbage engrams from the Fallen Treasure chests, then gathering some friends together for a fireteam and going into the Prison of Elders.
The Witcher 3? Meh, looks pretty good, but I don't care about it right now.
Half an hour left and I am a glacial drip. Disconnecting the internet and changing the date does not fool this thing. First time digital pre-order it would seem...
Looks beatiful, even on middle quality graphics. The lighting ... oooooooohh.
The combat system might be much better than before. Need to fight more, took my time talking and getting the first bad consequences for using the Axii Sign too much. As well as doing a quest which had ... not the best consequences, despite best intentions. Just as expected.
One thing I don't know yet: Apparently the choices from the other games come in later ... but I am in the first "open world" area, and it did not come up until now. Just everything Nilfgaard. And obviously no save game implementation. Let's see what happens with that.
Five hours from now, I would be in the middle of watching Cucumber & Banana...
Five hours after that, I would still be asleep after a quick masturbation beforehand...
Five hours after that, I would be getting ready to do... something before my two hours are up...
Five hours after that, I would be walking home, dancing to music...
Five hours after that, I would be getting ready for the season finale of The Flash...
Five hours after that, I would probably be trying to masturbate before going to bed...
Oh shit... Did I miss The Witcher 3 yet? I hope not...
Probably be playing TW2, because I missed the pre-order discount window. I was about to drop the hammer on it for weeks, but then came an announcement for a season pass. Plus wanting to finish TW2 a second time before playing TW3, I'm gonna wait it out, either for a sale or complete edition.
Pre-ordered TW2 and that did not disappoint, but the backlog is getting out of hand...I actually recently got a new vid card just for this game though (GTX 970) so I should probably not wait too long!
Hopefully I'll be fast asleep 5 hours from when this is posted, and another five hours after that probably eating breakfast or something like that, five hours after that is probably around when I'm hoping to go see Mad Max, and another five later I'll probably be at work.
Now about 15 hours or so after that it's totally going to be Witcher 3 time though, just gotta be patient. But first sleep, eat, watch Mad Max, work, sleep s'more, THEN it's Witcher time!
I really want to play this game but there are two things that are holding me back at the moment.
1) My PC has the minimal requirements but I'm afraid that it won't be good enough for me. I'd considered overclocking my GPU but its seems that overclocking is either not working or is not making a difference performance wise on the games I've tried it on. So while I have enough money lying around I don't wanna blow it on a product I my not be able to enjoy.
2) I haven't completed either TW1 or TW2 and I want to do so before playing TW3 in order to get the "full experience". However I just can't get through TW1 because of how bored i get. I have been playing it on and off for about 2 years and I'm still stuck on ACT 2.
So I have a question for those who have played TW1 and TW2. Is there anything significant from TW1 that carries over to TW2? Am I going to miss out on any unique dialogue or characters in TW2 if I skip the first one?
I really want to play this game but there are two things that are holding me back at the moment.
1) My PC has the minimal requirements but I'm afraid that it won't be good enough for me. I'd considered overclocking my GPU but its seems that overclocking is either not working or is not making a difference performance wise on the games I've tried it on. So while I have enough money lying around I don't wanna blow it on a product I my not be able to enjoy.
2) I haven't completed either TW1 or TW2 and I want to do so before playing TW3 in order to get the "full experience". However I just can't get through TW1 because of how bored i get. I have been playing it on and off for about 2 years and I'm still stuck on ACT 2.
So I have a question for those who have played TW1 and TW2. Is there anything significant from TW1 that carries over to TW2? Am I going to miss out on any unique dialogue or characters in TW2 if I skip the first one?
the witcher 2 has a good intro part that "catches up" on what happened in witcher 1, while it took me a while and I FINALLY enjoyed the witcher 1, I can't blame a single person who can't get into it enough to beat it, it's a chore, especially the first third of the game.
I just started playing for about 40 minutes on the witcher 3, and from what little I've played it seems VERY polished and atmospheric, so I'm just giddy with joy to play this in any free time I have.
So I have a question for those who have played TW1 and TW2. Is there anything significant from TW1 that carries over to TW2? Am I going to miss out on any unique dialogue or characters in TW2 if I skip the first one?
Judging by the newest trailer that was just released which had a couple Witcher 1 and Witcher 2 characters in it, seems that the previous games story will probably play a part especially considering some of those characters in the trailer can be killed in the previous games, so Witcher 3 will likely have different outcomes based on the previous games.
With that said from everything I've read the introduction for Witcher 3 is supposed to be very newcomer friendly, and Witcher 2 stands on its own with only a few relatively minor changes based on importing a Witcher 1 save so if you wanted to read a synopsis and skip 1 no one would hold it against you. Personally I quite liked Witcher 1 but even so I have to admit 2 is just a better game all around.
I will continue to be playing The Witcher 3 in five hours. Besides digital editions GameStop was also allowed to sell it early which is how I got my Collector's Edition.
My pc parts are coming via mail. Here I am growing from (almost) exclusive console gaming larvae into a pc gaming butterfly.
I have redeemed Witcher 3 code but I have yet to play Witcher 2 (which I didn't get to play but I just felt like throwing money at GOG for being so nice).
So I'm just going to sleep. My belly is full of dinner and now I'm just stretching my legs. Sleep is imminent.
I must say, it's a pleasant change to see *some* excitement for games in this forum for once.
Now as for the question, I'll be doing THIS FUCKING ESSAY. I was planning on getting The Witcher 3 for PS4 this weekend, but my laptop catastrophically exploded two nights ago and I think I will have to put aside money for a new one, unfortunately.
So, this Thread is about Witcher 3?
Waiting for the big discount sales as always and I hope to not see a heavy spoiler while I am inactive.
Like Mass Effect 3....... But NNOOOooOOooOOoooooo, the whole internet wanted to ruin my whole expectations by spoiling the ending with any way possible! I HAVE A COPY OF MASS EFFECT 2 UNBOX BECAUSE OF THIS! WHY INTERNET? WHYYYYY!!!!??
Anyway...
Torchlight 2 is my jam now, so I will be late for the Witcher series.
But which one I shall play? The Witcher 1 or 2?
Well I was going to be going to buy The Witcher 3 (disc, console peasant, yadayada).
Then I watched some Let's Plays and the most interesting part was the card game.
Thereby I'll probably be working out or somesuch.
It's vaguely impressive that they manage to take an ARPG and turn it into a puzzle game. Then immediately and constantly tell you the puzzle's solutions beforehand. Use Igni on this monster, use Yrden on that.We color coded the monsters for which sword hurts them so you don't need to actually be awake.
And don't even get me started on the "Use Witcher Gaze and click on the glowy bit" investigation puzzles
Probably getting disappointed that the big game release has been delayed.
Witcher 3? No no, I'm talking about the Steam release of Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth 2. It was SUPPOSED to be being released today but its been pushed back to June. >_>
Witcher 3 I'm not hyped over at all. Never got into the series. The first one I tried to play the demo of several times but every time I played it the combat was just so, so awful I couldn't even finish the demo, so I skipped the game. Witcher 2 I kinda like (and got really cheap on Steam) but it never really gripped me and I've only played a few hours.
Well I was going to be going to buy The Witcher 3 (disc, console peasant, yadayada).
Then I watched some Let's Plays and the most interesting part was the card game.
Thereby I'll probably be working out or somesuch.
It's vaguely impressive that they manage to take an ARPG and turn it into a puzzle game. Then immediately and constantly tell you the puzzle's solutions beforehand. Use Igni on this monster, use Yrden on that.We color coded the monsters for which sword hurts them so you don't need to actually be awake.
And don't even get me started on the "Use Witcher Gaze and click on the glowy bit" investigation puzzles
The Witcher vision is kind of bullshit and not very fun, after 5 hours of playing, outside of investigation puzzles where you just search inside a radius for the glowy red object, it basically ends up being a shittier version of the ping from DA:Inquisition, basically just spam it to find lootable objects in the area. It's especially bad in follow the footsteps puzzles that crop up in at least a couple of the first zone side quests, which sucks because it just amounts to following a red glowy trail on the ground while everything turns blurry so you can't even appreciate the nice vistas and gorgeous sky boxes.
The health bar color coding is also pretty much pointless as Geralt will automatically pull out the correct sword right when he enters combat, and monsters and regular enemies don't really hang out with each other so there isn't even a reason to switch swords in mid-combat. The potions have been completely streamlined as well, although this change I like a little better because the pausing to use potions before combat through the menus system in Witcher 2 didn't make me think strategically, it just made me want to not use potions, so I am actually using potions more in combat now. Also, the game does a terrible job explaining this through the million and a half different crafting materials, but once you make a potion, you will use a specific generic ingredient to replenish them every time you meditate, so don't bother too much with trying to farm herbs to stockpile potions, you make the max amount when you first craft one, and it will attempt to auto-restore them every time you meditate, the material to auto-restore seems pretty common, so unless you are spamming potions in every fight, you can pretty reliably always have full potions once you make the first set.
I'm still enjoying the game so far, but man does it seem to have a lot of the same niggling issues and streamlining that DA:inquisition had. You can see some of the decisions were obviously made to fit the game on consoles, and that does kind of suck for the dedicated PC fans. It is definitely a really pretty looking game on ultra though, the weather, lighting and sky are all fabulous, especially storms where you can see trees being bent by the wind.
It's a shame that you can't finetune your history on consoles, though that's just another reason to join the PC master race. You get undeserved ego just for joining!
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