The best game ever !

Definately a game of the year or close :)

Couldnt disagree more :(

Both W1&2 were better if different ways, and i can think of several other RPG's that are better in some areas.

Not to say W3 is BAD, because it isn't. It's just over consolised and over casualised for my liking

It definitely suffered from consolization a bit. It is not casualised in my opinion. It is still one hell of a different than your standard western RPG experience :D

You know who is the king of Pontar yet? :P If not, the game will make you like the experience even more :)

Yup, that's sad. Flowers are so useless now.

Wonderful game, despite of that =)

Better to run around hunting for that specific flower like an idiot :) I am ok with that as the story, combat, and tactics you can ddeploy make up for that. Farming is not my thing. I had my share of farming in WoW for a few years :P

You may call it "casual", but I'd call it gameplay optimizations. They pretty much just got rid of repetitive elements. It may be more realistic, if you have to gather ingredients for each refill of a potion, but let's face it -- gathering flowers and mushrooms wasn't exactly the most exciting aspect of Witcher 1 & 2.

At first I was confused by it as well, but imho this change was necessary to make alchemy builds more viable. You're still limited by your low supply of potions and bombs, but at least you no longer have to worry about "farming" the same spots for potion ingredients over and over.

There may be exceptions, but as a general rule, any halfway decent game designer will always prefer good gameplay over realism.

That said, perhaps they should deactivate the auto-refills for higher difficulty levels. I'm on the second difficulty level, so I'm not sure how things work on the 3rd and 4th.

Honestly i don't care either way, i just don't like the half arsed approach they took here. /as for the farming, unlike wow and many other games, nodes are EVERYWHERE. hell you can barely walk 5 feet without falling over some plant.

Either have a crafting system, or dont. This half arsed version just reeks of casualisation

Even with all the bugs and glitches, it has been the best gaming experience I've had in ages. I can't help but think how much better it would have been if I had stuck to my usual routine, which is not touching a game until 6 months or so after release.

I may well just be crazy, but it is getting harder and harder to play. I've not finished the game, but initially I was pretty wrapped up in the story, and not stopping to smell the roses so to speak. Now that I am maybe running of steam a little bit, I do idle more and notice a lot, of the good and the bad.

The longer the game runs is like a slow descent into madness. NPCs stop having any animations, they float along with their faces detached and five feet to their side, and sideways. NPCs appear, but are floating a foot or two off the ground. I had a cutscene where the NPC had a crossbow bolt sticking out of the back of his/her hand the whole time. After the NPC scurried off at the end of the scene, the crossbow bolts were still just floating there.

Many areas along the path, the textures for the ground don't line up at all with the texture for the roadway, being about a foot above it. Some places campfire are a foot off the ground. There's floating trees that never touch the ground. It takes a long time, mind you, to notice these things as there are so few and here and there. The thing is, you just can't unsee them and be pulled, ripped, right out of the immersion.

All in all, it is a masterpiece that will hopefully get plenty of polish over the next two years. I read they intend to support it for that long before moving full force into the next project.

This game world really is a 5+ year project, so they've accomplished amazing things in the time they did. Ultimately, I do wish I'd stuck to my original plan and waited out those 6 months.

Lol it's definetely not especially if you are going to compare it with W2 lol. I personally put this game in my top 5.

Did you check what herbs pop on the map? What if you need that specifi red or yellow one? Fast travel to White Orchard? So much fun! Potions stacks counting 100 units? Anyhow, I am happy, you are not. No one is truly right here. You know who is the King of Pontar yet? :P

I agree at least on the best action-adventure-rpg. I pretty much did not really like any of them entirely, icluding W1&2,Gothic,Skyrim etc.. But this is pretty neat. It is almost like a real RPG, if you forget the twitch combat.

I can't believe some say W1 or W2 were better. I played through them right before part 3 and the had a neat story and atmosphere but the gameplay was TERRIBLE. Part one with its strange click every 2 seconds quicktime combat and part 2 with all the asscreed climbing and QTEs for everything. Not to mention they both had very weak RPG elements. Those were a chore to get through, without the story, I would not have played them 10 minutes.

I Have my Story 100% can a men help me I find Triss Merigold not :/ or Ciri wo finde ich die Leute aus der Story in der Karte wieder ?
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