)Even character customisation?
Other than the questing and narrative(some of it) mentioned, tons of the actual gameplay was average at best. Of course we all like different things in games.
50% less time spent coming up with endless pointless quests and 50% more time spent on gameplay and mechanics, could have been the best game in the history of the world.
Feels quite a long game but then its 80% dialogue.
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Indeed, Geralt is 100% more charismatic and fun to play than any blank slate custom character in any game ever
Could you articulate, in immaculate detail and well reasoned and factual based arguments, what you find so "average" about "gameplay" in the Witcher 3, and also what exactly is "gameplay" to you ?
Because I just don't see it. From my perspective, what is gameplay ? Combat ? Traversal and movement ? Interactive dialogue ? Exploration ? I found all these exceptional for the genre. Combat was a lot of fun. Challenging but fair. Movement was great, particularly with alternative movement system. Exploration..amazing.
However, there were some "wrong" design decisions in the game. For example, for exploration to be more rewarding, it is necessary to disable POI markers (which are enabled by default). And the original movement system had a lot of inertia that some people dislike, which I understand.
Oh come on.
Combat, fairly limited and didn't find it particularly engaging after a few hours(main area of interest in an RPG for me).
Magic system is a bit pants(another huge area of interest)
Majority of quests are just filler/unrewarding/terrible rewards/repetitive.
Endless pointless ? locations/really unrewarding exploration.
There are next to no dungeons, no epic places to explore/crawl through.
Loot is terrible once you get witcher items, everything is just junk, no excitement getting loot/opening that chest.
Crafting system pretty bad, though they did address some issues.
Far far far too much dialogue.
Movement really clunky.
Good game but too flawed for me, really enjoyed it while it lasted but it didnt last that long for me. We clearly like different things in an RPG.
Everything's fine when people like thegame but the other way round? No way. Don't you find it a bit hypocritical? I was so overelevelled at this point, that there was hardly any challenge anyways. I like the game but to say it's perfect is a bit over the top, especially its RPG elements. It's funny you should say that since more people in this thread actually find it hard to accept that someone doesn't like the Witcher 3
Paul_cz called his arguments shallow etc. whereas most of them are actually pretty valid. The combat and movement are both clunky, made me feel like I was playing an indie game. Once you get some witcher gear everything else becomes pointless and it makes exploration somewhat unrewarding.
No matter how creative, the quests do get repetitve after some time and the main storyline after I got to Skellige bored me to the point that I found playing Gwent more rewarding than actually progressing in the game. You get accustomed to the "meet someone, go there, look for clues, kill a monster, await plot twist" scenario pretty soon. I don't think that how a proper RPG game should work
I loved The Witcher 2 but the third one is a bit too much to swallow. I tries to do many things but IMO it falls flat where it shouldn't. This will vary frome person to person and I don't see the need to disregard peoples' opinions because they didn't like the game.
If we have to strip everything down to the story, then I might as well read the books again. They're better in that regard anyways.
I, for one, think that the overall polish, interlocking gameplay mechanisms that reward you long into the game, enemies responding to your tactics and recruiting soldiers along with the entire mother base management in MGSV are more enganging than everything I've ever done in the Witcher. But I don't run around and argue with people who say they didn't like it. To each his own.
