Finished main quest. As a professional best dad I did the only right thing
For maximum best dad points
That postgame
do you know if you google "witcher 3 postgame" the second result is "depression"?
36 endings much hard do
, things that Fallout 2 did. remove 90% treasure from skellige, make a scene for your daughter coronation instead/waifu house
Overall, my impression from Witcher 3: Great world, Shitty game
Let me just go through these shitty things:
- The combat is shit on hardest difficulty after white orchard, and only picks up on level 30+ in add-on (I just had a fight with 35+ level arachna-things at random location that was more difficult than Wild Hunt boss)
It is one of the easiest action games I ever played in my whole life, it's about modern Bethesda level easy. You will never do what Geralt does in the trailer, like drinking an anti-vampire potion. Because it's shit anyway and you can do with just you sword and quen 99% of the time.
- Especially because developers blatantly recycle monsters all the time in witcher orders, which is infuriating
- The leveling system is 90% shitty passives, with about 2 unique moves you can open. Spellcasters get cooler stuff I guess. It is also genius in respect that I had about 8 unspent skill points for most of the endgame and beyond (I know addon fixes that, but still)
And let's not talk about things like getting instant levels from main quests or ~5 levels from mist island
- Aside from witcher gear, loot is, obviously, total shit.
- The whole level scaling is a no-win thing, since if you level scale everything to Geralt level you get 35 level wolves everywhere, while without enemies become just fodder
- The world is static as all hell, quests hold your hand and impossible to fail, at max you can fail at getting all gwent cards maybe, but I heard they fixed it too
There is no end game state for the world, the level 5 monsters you have to hunt to save some village would patiently wait for you to kill them, redania and nilfgaardians won't fight over anything like factions in New Vegas do for example, it's a single player MMO
The most you get are some people working at day and sleeping at night but who cares
There is no reputation, no systems to change anything in the world
- The UI was done by some sort of sadist, everything from menus to minimap and quick slots and key bindings... don't even want to go there, if game was harder and required to use all the variety of potions and elixirs it would have been a nightmare.
But in the meantime, you get best things AAA game can afford:
- Them grafix. It's not just technology, the game and it's world have style and beauty. It's medieval, up to murals on castle walls and woodworking on houses on Novigrad, and unique and realistic.
- While quests don't give you lot's of options, they often present you with at least primitive (or not) dilemma. To the point where you stop playing and begin to think what the fuck do you do. Quests are often fun. Even doing level 1 quest at level 30 can be fun just because quests are interesting.
- Main characters are nuanced, believable and charismatic. You just like everyone even if they are bastards. And game humor has some of that derpy fantasy thing I can't capture in words. It's like Larian, but lighter and funnier.
- This game probably has one of the best written main stories since a very long time. I think it's presentation is a bit shitty with all the backtracking and awful flashbacks but it is strong when it is important (including C&C).
However, I still believe Witcher 3 lost a lot of that "gray" story design in favor of sexy librul sorceresses and northen queens etc.
- Gwent is alright.
Personally, I think this game should be criticized a lot more. Because there is really nothing left of monster hunting gameplay in it - it's just a hack and slash power fantasy. Because of boringside content and very little good open world quests which you can stumble upon when just riding your horse. Really, lots of things. But I guess this sort of gameplay is just expected from AAA game nowadays. The fact that you get a pull-no-punches tougher fantasy world and story and not-retarded world with extraordinary design probably just outweights everything. And you can still die in 1% of fights compared to over AAA games.
So I'm going to take a break because what am I doing with my money and my life and then start them expansions.
For maximum best dad points
That postgame
do you know if you google "witcher 3 postgame" the second result is "depression"?36 endings much hard do
, things that Fallout 2 did. remove 90% treasure from skellige, make a scene for your daughter coronation instead/waifu houseOverall, my impression from Witcher 3: Great world, Shitty game
Let me just go through these shitty things:
- The combat is shit on hardest difficulty after white orchard, and only picks up on level 30+ in add-on (I just had a fight with 35+ level arachna-things at random location that was more difficult than Wild Hunt boss)
It is one of the easiest action games I ever played in my whole life, it's about modern Bethesda level easy. You will never do what Geralt does in the trailer, like drinking an anti-vampire potion. Because it's shit anyway and you can do with just you sword and quen 99% of the time.
- Especially because developers blatantly recycle monsters all the time in witcher orders, which is infuriating
- The leveling system is 90% shitty passives, with about 2 unique moves you can open. Spellcasters get cooler stuff I guess. It is also genius in respect that I had about 8 unspent skill points for most of the endgame and beyond (I know addon fixes that, but still)
And let's not talk about things like getting instant levels from main quests or ~5 levels from mist island
- Aside from witcher gear, loot is, obviously, total shit.
- The whole level scaling is a no-win thing, since if you level scale everything to Geralt level you get 35 level wolves everywhere, while without enemies become just fodder
- The world is static as all hell, quests hold your hand and impossible to fail, at max you can fail at getting all gwent cards maybe, but I heard they fixed it too
There is no end game state for the world, the level 5 monsters you have to hunt to save some village would patiently wait for you to kill them, redania and nilfgaardians won't fight over anything like factions in New Vegas do for example, it's a single player MMO
The most you get are some people working at day and sleeping at night but who cares
There is no reputation, no systems to change anything in the world
- The UI was done by some sort of sadist, everything from menus to minimap and quick slots and key bindings... don't even want to go there, if game was harder and required to use all the variety of potions and elixirs it would have been a nightmare.
But in the meantime, you get best things AAA game can afford:
- Them grafix. It's not just technology, the game and it's world have style and beauty. It's medieval, up to murals on castle walls and woodworking on houses on Novigrad, and unique and realistic.
- While quests don't give you lot's of options, they often present you with at least primitive (or not) dilemma. To the point where you stop playing and begin to think what the fuck do you do. Quests are often fun. Even doing level 1 quest at level 30 can be fun just because quests are interesting.
- Main characters are nuanced, believable and charismatic. You just like everyone even if they are bastards. And game humor has some of that derpy fantasy thing I can't capture in words. It's like Larian, but lighter and funnier.
- This game probably has one of the best written main stories since a very long time. I think it's presentation is a bit shitty with all the backtracking and awful flashbacks but it is strong when it is important (including C&C).
However, I still believe Witcher 3 lost a lot of that "gray" story design in favor of sexy librul sorceresses and northen queens etc.
- Gwent is alright.
Personally, I think this game should be criticized a lot more. Because there is really nothing left of monster hunting gameplay in it - it's just a hack and slash power fantasy. Because of boringside content and very little good open world quests which you can stumble upon when just riding your horse. Really, lots of things. But I guess this sort of gameplay is just expected from AAA game nowadays. The fact that you get a pull-no-punches tougher fantasy world and story and not-retarded world with extraordinary design probably just outweights everything. And you can still die in 1% of fights compared to over AAA games.
So I'm going to take a break because what am I doing with my money and my life and then start them expansions.
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