The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

mohawk · 23 Mar 2017 at 16:12

so finished witcher 3 and the 2 dlc's - around 140 hours played. Loved it. will probably start a new game + at some point.

need to try and find a new game to play now!

Maundie · 24 Mar 2017 at 10:13

Vidar said:
I really really want to get into this but for some reason I'm just struggling to, I've gotten as far as killing that first Griffin and that's it... it's just not grabbing me yet.

Yeah it didn't me the 1st time round, it was only after I'd finished White Orchard (make sure you do every ? that shows on the map) and then moved onto Velen that it started to get a bit more interesting, after that I was gripped and it took nearly 140 hours worth of play to finish both DLCs and the main game.

It really is worth spending time in, I loved it so much I started another round but trying to make different decisions seeing what different outcomes there are.

smogsy · 24 Mar 2017 at 10:40

^ agree, ive put 408 hours into Wutcher now, just started my death March play through

Paul_cz · 24 Mar 2017 at 14:10

Eurogamer has a very cool article/interview with Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of the novels

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-sapkowski-the-writer-who-created-the-witcher

I love the guy, he can come off as abrasive but when seeing him in person, he uses sarcasm a lot and is very funny, which translates well into the books.

Matmulder · 24 Mar 2017 at 17:39

Maundie said:
Yeah it didn't me the 1st time round, it was only after I'd finished White Orchard (make sure you do every ? that shows on the map) and then moved onto Velen that it started to get a bit more interesting, after that I was gripped and it took nearly 140 hours worth of play to finish both DLCs and the main game.

It really is worth spending time in, I loved it so much I started another round but trying to make different decisions seeing what different outcomes there are.

Just for the "+1" on this - I gave up the first time I played it too; the combat put me off, and there wasn't enough going on (story wise) in the first few hours to grab me, so I quit.

Came back to it much later (with all the DLC) and muddled through.....and boy am I glad I did. Sits right up in my top 5. Give it at least until you've moved into Velen before you call it a day.

Clarkson · 24 Mar 2017 at 17:48

I sometimes go off it too, like I can't be bothered to load it up and play. There's times when it's speak to person A, who then says speak to person B, who says speak to person C, and so on..But if you push through that you usually get into more interesting times.

I'm near the end of the main game and just under 90 hours, so it can't be that bad

Maundie · 26 Mar 2017 at 09:11

I'm getting really annoyed with my horse, it's like it's tracking has gone or something, always pulling to the left and sometimes even going of the road or missing a bridge, getting really tiresome as you can't always gallop as you have to keep steering and thus it runs out of stamina grrrrr.

smogsy · 26 Mar 2017 at 10:56

Maundie said:
I'm getting really annoyed with my horse, it's like it's tracking has gone or something, always pulling to the left and sometimes even going of the road or missing a bridge, getting really tiresome as you can't always gallop as you have to keep steering and thus it runs out of stamina grrrrr.

if your on a road it sticks to the road until a fork for me no need to steer

Maundie · 26 Mar 2017 at 11:32

smogsy said:
if your on a road it sticks to the road until a fork for me no need to steer

On a relatively straight road it does for me but come a bend or fork then you have to steer, although sometimes it does just veer off, much easier to control a boat (which is good because imagine how frustrating treasure hunting in Skellige would be if you had to keep guiding the boat).

bakes0310 · 26 Mar 2017 at 20:50

On release i got up to skellige on normal but ended up playing other games and didn't go back to it and forget to keep my save when i formatted the pc.
So I've made a rather nice pc, downloaded the HD mod and turbo lighting mod and playing again but on death march. Game looks glorious, and runs smooth as butter with a 1080 and max settings on my 3440x1440. Determined to finish it this time, gonna take me a few months but I'm gonna do my best to 100%.

Maundie · 27 Mar 2017 at 15:01

bakes0310 said:
On release i got up to skellige on normal but ended up playing other games and didn't go back to it and forget to keep my save when i formatted the pc.
So I've made a rather nice pc, downloaded the HD mod and turbo lighting mod and playing again but on death march. Game looks glorious, and runs smooth as butter with a 1080 and max settings on my 3440x1440. Determined to finish it this time, gonna take me a few months but I'm gonna do my best to 100%.

It is so worth it, I'm on my 2nd go round and have just started the Blood & Wine DLC, do you have both DLC packs as well?

bakes0310 · 27 Mar 2017 at 17:20

Maundie said:
It is so worth it, I'm on my 2nd go round and have just started the Blood & Wine DLC, do you have both DLC packs as well?

Yep bought it all on day 1 off hog to support the developers.

opethdisciple · 27 Mar 2017 at 17:35

Maundie said:
On a relatively straight road it does for me but come a bend or fork then you have to steer, although sometimes it does just veer off, much easier to control a boat (which is good because imagine how frustrating treasure hunting in Skellige would be if you had to keep guiding the boat).

Fantastic game better than 10/10 but it still had issues.

Treasure hunting being one of them. The random treasure you found was generally pants. Once you get the Witcher gear nothing you found in the wild was any better.

zom247 · 27 Mar 2017 at 18:10

Just completed B&W and thoroughly enjoyed it, bit sad now it's ended and don't know if I'll carry on exploring or just uninstall it. Must be one of the best story games I've ever played.

Narj · 27 Mar 2017 at 18:47

I can't bring myself to uninstall. I like popping back in and just wandering around now and then to chill out. Isn't there a decoction to stop drowners attacking you? Might be an idea for for less hassle.

Daytrader · 27 Mar 2017 at 19:46

I have like 4TB of hard drives full of games, right back 10/15 years +, i uninstall no games, i like having them all at tap, just in case

mind you with new games taking 100GB alone to install, that may change.

Paul_cz · 27 Mar 2017 at 21:21

Daytrader said:
I have like 4TB of hard drives full of games, right back 10/15 years +, i uninstall no games, i like having them all at tap, just in case mind you with new games taking 100GB alone to install, that may change.

hah I remember making this thread almost decade ago (insane how the time flies)
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...ou-have-installed-and-what-are-they.18076108/

sadly the picture is not visible anymore, but I had about 200 games installed back then...now I only have around 70.

Witcher trilogy is of course included. I also like to take a stroll through Skellige or Toussaint from time to time, the music and atmosphere never get old.

Daytrader · 27 Mar 2017 at 21:33

Shame about the picture, would have liked to seen that, i have about 150 installed, but just one game like Arma 3 can take 100's GB's inc workshop stuff.

zom247 · 27 Mar 2017 at 22:14

Do the random encounters in an area reset or once you've done them that's it? I did about 10 earlier and cleared the top half of my toussaint map of beasties etc.

maj · 15 Apr 2017 at 09:07

Decided I'd done enough side quests and '?' on the map so finally headed to Skellige last night when I was level 20 rather than 16 as recommended. Oh my is it beautiful.