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I finally played Witcher 3 and its expansions this year. I feel there's a good chance I'll never play a better game.

speedgoose 4y ago
The story is fine and the game has good graphics, but the fights made me stop playing because they were so bad compared to games like Zelda Breath of the Wild.
- lossolo 4y ago
  Story is wonderful, immersive, not many games make me feel for characters but Witcher III does, same as Mass Effect series. On the other hand I'm different than you, for me fights mechanics (while I liked it too) are not as important as story, world, characters and music.
- outworlder 4y ago
  What's bad about the fights? Between dodge, parry, counters and the abilities I find that they can be pretty engaging. Unless you go on button smashing mode, that's indeed boring.
  - speedgoose 4y ago
    They are too clumsy to me.
robertlagrant 4y ago
I did this too. Very glad I did so!
BaseballPhysics 4y ago
Out of curiosity, were you previously introduced to the Witcher in some previous form (games, books, etc)? I personally found the opening of Witcher 3 so utterly boring I gave up playing, and in general folks seem to agree that a) it's pretty damn slow to start, and b) coming into the story having already experienced the franchise makes it a lot easier to get through those first 5-10 hours.
- TigeriusKirk 4y ago
  I played the games in order. The first two have aged quite a bit, and in particular I felt 2 had some issues that I would have given up on if I wasn't aiming at playing the whole corpus. But I did know all the main characters when I came into 3, and so I did understand the stakes from the beginning of the game.
- theshrike79 4y ago
  I've had 4 DNFs on Witcher 3 so far. I own it on pretty much every platform :D On the other hand you MUST follow the main plot to get anything significant out of it. On the other hand the main plot is level-gated so that you MUST do the crappy side quests or you'll get steamrolled by enemies in the main plot.

The story is fine and the game has good graphics, but the fights made me stop playing because they were so bad compared to games like Zelda Breath of the Wild.

lossolo 4y ago
Story is wonderful, immersive, not many games make me feel for characters but Witcher III does, same as Mass Effect series. On the other hand I'm different than you, for me fights mechanics (while I liked it too) are not as important as story, world, characters and music.
outworlder 4y ago
What's bad about the fights? Between dodge, parry, counters and the abilities I find that they can be pretty engaging. Unless you go on button smashing mode, that's indeed boring.
- speedgoose 4y ago
  They are too clumsy to me.

robertlagrant 4y ago

I did this too. Very glad I did so!

BaseballPhysics 4y ago

Out of curiosity, were you previously introduced to the Witcher in some previous form (games, books, etc)? I personally found the opening of Witcher 3 so utterly boring I gave up playing, and in general folks seem to agree that a) it's pretty damn slow to start, and b) coming into the story having already experienced the franchise makes it a lot easier to get through those first 5-10 hours.

TigeriusKirk 4y ago
I played the games in order. The first two have aged quite a bit, and in particular I felt 2 had some issues that I would have given up on if I wasn't aiming at playing the whole corpus. But I did know all the main characters when I came into 3, and so I did understand the stakes from the beginning of the game.
theshrike79 4y ago
I've had 4 DNFs on Witcher 3 so far. I own it on pretty much every platform :D On the other hand you MUST follow the main plot to get anything significant out of it. On the other hand the main plot is level-gated so that you MUST do the crappy side quests or you'll get steamrolled by enemies in the main plot.