i’'m not afriad of u even if u r my elder lol
am I the only one who plays these things in polish
I tried it with witcher 2, and I think I would prefer that aesthetically, but my TV is too tiny to read the subtitles quickly enough. I really wish the GUI for this game wasn’t so obviously designed for a desktop monitor you sit like a foot away from.
I tried watching my brother play part of 3 in english and it seemed like the blackwall guy from dragon age inquisition was voicing every npc
i have a couple of gwent beta keys spare if anyone wants one
oh cool, who all is playing gwent?
I’d be interested! I liked it in the game as a side-activity, but I’m curious how they expand it to be interesting/fair in a mutiplayer setting.
sent you both a pm
oh hey i just got a couple extras too if anyone else wants one
think they’re xbone specific?
You thought this would be over by now but who are you fuckin kidding its your pal Grim Glamfire and guess what: it’s up to Me (geralt of rivia) to save the kingdom (morrowind or cheydinhall or rivia or whatever it’s called) still because i never beat it and there’s never been a time to jump back into a 200+ hour RPG with no waypoint system for plot besides the quest manual than when you can get both DLC’s from playstation network for a whopping 12.00 USD (us dollars) that both promise new characters and old characters and old versions of old characters and maybe some young folk too or something .
I’ve been playing this on and off myself. Decided to take a break from beating up bums in the slums to go to not-Norway; Julie was getting pretty tired of old-Dandelion’s loading-screen narration about what Ciri was up to in Novigrad. Can’t wait to hear what new monologue we’re going to grow to hate next!
The trick is to play the game in fourteen hour blocks like I do. That way when you turn off the console you still might believe you’re Geralt of Rivia
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Danny O’Dwyer and the Noclip folks continue putting out awesome game documentaries by wrapping up the final part in their six part series on CD Project/Witcher. I’ve been watching these as they’ve come out during the past week and they’ve all been really good. The fifth part, dealing with the localization work done for Witcher 3 is really good and a lot more interesting than I thought it would be going into it. Each part is roughly 30 minutes long and all are worth checking out when you get the time.
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In lieu of spending more money on games I will probably never play this Blackest of Fridays, I’ve decided to actually pick this game up again and play with it. I feel like the last time I tried it I was coming down off of Bloodborne and Skyrim, and was irked in small and big ways by Witcher not giving me more of what I already got from those games (I know BB is good and Skyrim is bad, hear me out).
Basically I realized after starting it again that approaching the game either as a Medieval Melee Combat Simulator or a Map Checklist Completer game is off the mark. I have finally embraced the fact that combat and collectibles in Witcher are a distraction from the game’s true purpose: To be the Cutest Witcher in the Land.
I got a haircut, picked up a snazzy new black and white checkered blouse, and strode off on my horribly named steed to show the world the true power of Cold Steel–of my Icy Gaze, that is, not of my blade. I will from here on out make Being Cute and Dashing my only goal in this game. Not just to woo ladies, or to be chivalrous and heroic, but to cultivate an aura of mystique: The kind of Witcher that you’ll want to roll over in bed and look at, brush his hair from his face, and say, “Hey. Whatcha thinkin about?”
I should have known all along that this is the way to approach the game, but I’m glad I’ve finally seen the light.
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also please tell me that I will never be made to play Gwent in order to move the story along. I absolutely refuse to indulge in this game within a game bullshit. Geralt has no time for this.
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Yeah as far as I know Gwent is completely optional but it has some jaunty music that my Geralt loves soooo
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tbh one of my biggest problems with witcher 3 is that gwent is way weaker than I want it to be, they could’ve put a wayyyyy more interesting card game in there and I’m amazed they got a standalone release out of it
but no I think I only ever played like two games of gwent in my witcher 3 journey and both were early on
I think for the stand-alone release they gave cards much more complicated effects, but I don’t think it helps the game at all. I find it very difficult to analyze because it seems like optimal strategy emphasizes tricks or baiting your opponent, and it feels quite random when you don’t know what all the cards are capable of. Also, where most of these digital card games steal too much from Magic, I think this steals too little which also makes it rather impenetrable because I have no reference point for how to even begin thinking about it.
Plus progression felt slow and predatory, but I guess that’s pretty standard for free-to-play digital card games.
It’s pretty funny how mechanically different W3 Gwent, physical Gwent, and official MLB Gwent is.
I think Gwent’s fairly interesting in that it threads the needle of ‘simple enough to pick up as a minigame’ and ‘apes CCGs’ pretty well. It’s explicitly built around progression – the game is essentially a modified version of a child’s game of War with a poker deck, you really are just adding up the numbers in your deck – so you build up higher-level decks as you go, which is appropriate in an RPG (no I don’t understand how that can translate into a standalone game).