The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

N19h7m4r3 said:
Oh little tip, keep any books related to religion. It's not vital, but they're useful in the area where I took on level 40 something griffin.

Also Saddlebags, roach technically carries everything and you can increase the weight with better bags.

Although I'm at the point where I have soooo much crafting reagents I'm constantly at 130 weight.
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Thanks :) I sold all the books I had recently, but I have only just started the game so I am sure they can be collected again in due course :)

I'm not sure I have any Saddlebags - or at least I have not picked any up or purchased any. I can carry something like 60 weight I think. Not even come close to filling it yet, even with 4 horse pelts, fox pelts, wolf pelts, bear pelt, timber, iron/silver ore and tons of miscellanious junk + hundreds of ingredients/reagents and pick ups and weapons and armour. Perhaps it is a bug? Defintiely seems like I am able to carry a ridiculous amount of stuff. :eek:
 
^I thought that too when I first started the game, but weight issues really start to occur later on.

It's just such a shame this game is the last Witcher. It's like they've only just now got it right. I really liked W1, it had great atmosphere, it was more about the Witchers themselves and an introduction into the dark world. While I thought W2 was more polished and better made, it focussed too much on the politics which bored me quite frankly.

Wild Hunt just merges everything together and just raises the bar across the entire genre. I want more of it, the best times I had with the game was when Geralt was simply being a Witcher and travelling the land doing jobs. I loved the story and characters but, yeah as I said, the strength of it all was being a Witcher IMO.

As for future DLC. I'd love it if they made another map full of towns, treasure and Witcher Contracts. They could perhaps add it to the world after the battle of Kaer Morhen. Also I'd like to see some stuff added to the Kaer Morhen map, I was a little disappointed that there wasn't anything to find (aside from one small ruin) while exploring that beautiful area.
 
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eggyoke said:
As for future DLC. I'd love it if they made another map full of towns, treasure and Witcher Contracts. They could perhaps add it to the world after the battle of Kaer Morhen. Also I'd like to see some stuff added to the Kaer Morhen map, I was a little disappointed that there wasn't anything to find (aside from one small ruin) while exploring that beautiful area.
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Oh they're kinda doing that. With the expansion Blood and Wine we travel to the region of Toussaint.
 
But lets face it - no game ever will make you feel the same way TES Morrowind did when you first played it!! I got pangs at the start of W3 but it just didn't deliver.

Just like no game ever will make you go "wow" like Tomb Raider did on Playstation! :p

Whilst so far I think W3 is OK - it is lacking wow factor for me. But admittedly I am only at the start of it so that may change. I do not deny it is a great game, but great and "wow" is a different kettle o' fish! :p
 
BuffetSlayer said:
But lets face it - no game ever will make you feel the same way TES Morrowind did when you first played it!! I got pangs at the start of W3 but it just didn't deliver.

Just like no game ever will make you go "wow" like Tomb Raider did on Playstation! :p

Whilst so far I think W3 is OK - it is lacking wow factor for me. But admittedly I am only at the start of it so that may change. I do not deny it is a great game, but great and "wow" is a different kettle o' fish! :p
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For me it beat both of those, and is the first RPG since the Baldur's Gate series to come close to their epicness. Not quite there, but it's damn good.
 
BuffetSlayer said:
But lets face it - no game ever will make you feel the same way TES Morrowind did when you first played it!! I got pangs at the start of W3 but it just didn't deliver.

Just like no game ever will make you go "wow" like Tomb Raider did on Playstation! :p

Whilst so far I think W3 is OK - it is lacking wow factor for me. But admittedly I am only at the start of it so that may change. I do not deny it is a great game, but great and "wow" is a different kettle o' fish! :p
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I won't be spoiling anything by saying one of the early main quests involves 3 witches and it really have me the wow factor. Fantastic artwork, storyline, atmosphere... Everything.

This game is tremendous and I just hope the devs don't ruin it with constant tweaking.
 
String said:
I won't be spoiling anything by saying one of the early main quests involves 3 witches and it really have me the wow factor. Fantastic artwork, storyline, atmosphere... Everything.

This game is tremendous and I just hope the devs don't ruin it with constant tweaking.
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I have met one of those witches I think. She was having a wash at the time :eek:

Like I said - it's a great game - but it feels to me like it has been done, there is nothing really new about it. Sure the story is shaping up to be epic, but what about the game itself? The locations, the environment, the mechanics, the gameplay? It feels very much like Witcher 2 (I only played that for 4-5hrs). I suppose that is the curse of progress, it gets harder to be original and harder to better what is already great. Expectations are higher too.

Much the same way as most games these days just feel like a slightly better, slightly improved version of something else.

But so far - for all of the frustration, and Geralt's cheesy voice acting, I am enjoying this game. Perhaps I am enjoying it more because I didn't play W1 and only a few hours on W2? So it is still very new to me. I think if I had of played through W2 then W3 would perhaps not hold as much of an interest for me.

As a poster said further back - I am not sure 10/10 is warranted for this game. Not for me anyways. It is just a more refined version of W2 from what I can gather so far. More like W2.5 than anything. However, I have to say I think a large part of it for me is that it is unfamiliar so I lack empathy and crucially knowledge of the lore.

I have been playing TES games + expansions since Morrowind, and I just feel more at home there - I enjoy the gameplay more, perhaps because it is familiar. But I have made the choice to stick with W3 so we shall see if my feelings change once I have played through it :)
 
I played through the Witcher 2 before this and I find them both very different. The Witcher 3 definitely has a wow factor, so many points where I've been speechless.

Can't remember the last time I played a game where something happened and I all I can say is this game is ****ing amazing.
 
I have thought about it on the way home from work and I think there are 3 main reasons why I am not feeling this game as much.

  1. It is not 1st person (I am a big FPS fan). Not the games fault, obviously, but for me it breaks immersion and adds a barrier between me and the character and it removes that up close and personal touch during combat/NPC interactions and exploring.
  2. Geralt - I feel like I am having a character imposed on me, very much like I felt in the Mass Effect games. However at least in those games I could create a character that looked like me and then make him behave like me. To be honest, looks wise I don't think Geralt is too bad as far as game characters go, but I just struggle to take him seriously with that 1980's action man monotone! :p As far as the voice acting so far goes, he is just dire compared to the rest.
  3. So far - the roaming/exploring music seems limited and feels 1 dimensional to me in W3.

I found the musical score of all recent TES games more enjoyable. I also found the ability to switch between 1st/3rd person helpful, although I spent most of my 300hrs on Skyrim in 1st person mode.
 
Impressive how the game runs amazingly well and looks so good. Just got to the Skellige islands and they look really nice. 2560x1440 on SLI GTX 970s using the Nvidia optimal settings. 60 FPS all the time, everywhere. Hardly goes over 2GB VRAM. Could probably increase some settings and keep the 60 FPS. Hope the next TES game looks and runs as well as this :).

No crashes since removing the in-game FPS cap and setting the movies to 60 FPS.

GOTY I'm guessing :).
 
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BuffetSlayer said:
I have thought about it on the way home from work and I think there are 3 main reasons why I am not feeling this game as much.

  1. It is not 1st person (I am a big FPS fan). Not the games fault, obviously, but for me it breaks immersion and adds a barrier between me and the character and it removes that up close and personal touch during combat/NPC interactions and exploring.
  2. Geralt - I feel like I am having a character imposed on me, very much like I felt in the Mass Effect games. However at least in those games I could create a character that looked like me and then make him behave like me. To be honest, looks wise I don't think Geralt is too bad as far as game characters go, but I just struggle to take him seriously with that 1980's action man monotone! :p As far as the voice acting so far goes, he is just dire compared to the rest.
  3. So far - the roaming/exploring music seems limited and feels 1 dimensional to me in W3.

I found the musical score of all recent TES games more enjoyable. I also found the ability to switch between 1st/3rd person helpful, although I spent most of my 300hrs on Skyrim in 1st person mode.
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All perfectly valid points, but for me, I personally rate W3 much higher than the TES games. Bethesda may create marvellous open world environments, but they are severely lacking, in my opinion, when it comes to filling those worlds with diverse and engaging content. I found Morrowind to be the only TES game that bucked that trend ... perhaps because the game world felt so alien and otherworldly. The ambience that created carried the game, but ultimately the game fell flat on account of poor combat mechanics, a weak main story line, awkward character animations ( you'd think with all the money Bethesda has earned they could hire someone decent ) and unbalanced character progression.

I would agree that the musical scores in TES games have always been impressive, but as with most of these things it comes down to a matter of taste, and I very much appreciate the score in W3, too.

As for Geralt's voice acting - I love it ! His sardonic comments and gruff tones suit the character, and the world he lives in, so very well. Each to their own I guess ....:)
 
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