Video Games Do any of you like The Witcher series of games?

[Warrior Spirit]

I don't know what to feel about it man. Every corner anywhere in that game it seems like some poor soul is getting mutilated. It just doesn't feel pleasant.

Well-designed monsters though, without a doubt. The combat is fun.

I guess I'm a softie, but I want my RPG worlds to be sunshine and rainbows. lol.

 

[AaronMk]

To be fair the Witcher games do generally take place at basically where the front in a war is. Aside from the first Witcher games, then Geralt's quest does take you generally close to where a sect of criminal mages are trying to do mutagenic research on humans and monsters.

But as for 2 and 3; you're on the front lines of one kind of war or another. The reality of warfare for that equivalent period wouldn't be conducive to law and order or even magical monster defense. When you got troops of one side or the other marching around doing Small War activities they are going to invite the opportunity for ghouls to take advantage of the un- or under protected villages and masses of refugees keeping out of the war of violence and plague

 

[Nu Epiq]

I can't speak for the first two installments but if they are anything like W3: Wild Hunt, you might want to try something else, maybe? At least for a little while? I started on that one first. I had to put it down after the bloody baron quest that was disturbing and depressing. Not sure I will ever get around to finishing it though.

 

[AaronMk]

I can't speak for the first two installments but if they are anything like W3: Wild Hunt, you might want to try something else, maybe? At least for a little while? I started on that one first. I had to put it down after the bloody baron quest that was disturbing and depressing. Not sure I will ever get around to finishing it though.

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[Warrior Spirit]

I can't speak for the first two installments but if they are anything like W3: Wild Hunt, you might want to try something else, maybe? At least for a little while? I started on that one first. I had to put it down after the bloody baron quest that was disturbing and depressing. Not sure I will ever get around to finishing it though.

Damn, you mean it gets worse? I'm at the part where he wants me to find his wife and daughter. No spoilers please but you're telling me there's worse disturbing stuff in this part of the game?

I thought seeing a guy get used as food bait for ghouls was bad enough.

 

[Nu Epiq]

Damn, you mean it gets worse? I'm at the part where he wants me to find his wife and daughter. No spoilers please but you're telling me there's worse disturbing stuff in this part of the game?

I thought seeing a guy get used as food bait for ghouls was bad enough.

You will just have to play it and see.

 

[Nu Epiq]

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Well...alrighty then.

 

[AaronMk]

Well...alrighty then.

If you ever do play Witcher 2, you absolutely must turn off the vanilla bloom effect because it's blinding

 

[Warrior Spirit]

You will just have to play it and see.

Now I'm very curious. lol

I'll play more of it on a day off.

 

[Nu Epiq]

Now I'm very curious. lol

I'll play more of it on a day off.

Give me an update on your progress.

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Give me an update on your progress.

I'm currently well settled in in the Bloody Baron's castle and small community. I'll just freely explore the wilds and fight stuff for experience points. I do that all the time on RPGs.

I just met the hermit who has a pet goat. I refused to help him find the goat for now...

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Give me an update on your progress.

I've been working hard recently on all aspects of my life. I feel like I earned a break. Gonna play Witcher 3 in my PS5 in a few minutes. So far, I'll just be grinding on the wolves and monsters in the surrounding area before moving forward in the story.

To double-check, this game doesn't have enemies scaling to your level, right? They're all static and absolute with their strengths? Which means your character being level 10 will always be strong in level 3 areas and always weak in level 15 areas?

 

[AaronMk]

I've been working hard recently on all aspects of my life. I feel like I earned a break. Gonna play Witcher 3 in my PS5 in a few minutes. So far, I'll just be grinding on the wolves and monsters in the surrounding area before moving forward in the story.

To double-check, this game doesn't have enemies scaling to your level, right? They're all static and absolute with their strengths? Which means your character being level 10 will always be strong in level 3 areas and always weak in level 15 areas?

Yes. Enemy levels are determined by where on the map they are and where you should be according to your progress in the game (as in: if you walk into a place where you're expected to be there in the late game but you are still in the early game; you will be absolutely destroyed). However, if you're good levels are just a literal number. I had hit a point last I played Witcher 3 where I was just charging into difficult situations because I understood the mechanics well enough I could handle most enemies double my level.

And this may also be a Blood and Wine DLC thing but while enemies may be high level in some areas, individually they'll be weakened if they are in large enough groups. In Blood And Wine there are some areas that are occupied by essentially armies of bandits and it is a quest to clear an area of those bandits. They're generally pretty high level, but since there's so many of them their HP is pretty low and you can cut up a bunch of them pretty easily

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Yes. Enemy levels are determined by where on the map they are and where you should be according to your progress in the game (as in: if you walk into a place where you're expected to be there in the late game but you are still in the early game; you will be absolutely destroyed). However, if you're good levels are just a literal number. I had hit a point last I played Witcher 3 where I was just charging into difficult situations because I understood the mechanics well enough I could handle most enemies double my level.

And this may also be a Blood and Wine DLC thing but while enemies may be high level in some areas, individually they'll be weakened if they are in large enough groups. In Blood And Wine there are some areas that are occupied by essentially armies of bandits and it is a quest to clear an area of those bandits. They're generally pretty high level, but since there's so many of them their HP is pretty low and you can cut up a bunch of them pretty easily

Thanks!

 

[Warrior Spirit]

Give me an update on your progress.

Hello friend.

I got done playing an hour ago. I’m fighting whatever enemy I can find in the Bloody Baron’s surrounding wilderness. I fought and killed a few things, including some bandits in some camp, and then I rescued some caged guy after defeating them. Those bandits were particularly high in number this time compared to the ones before.

Just fighting stuff and gaining loot and experience points before continuing with side quests.

 

[Jon-LockeEdwards]

Is this a trick question? We're talking about a near-masterpiece of game design and interactive storytelling here!

(Note I said near masterpiece, Roach bugging out all the time in the last game was.... I'm gonna say hilarious.)

 

[Nu Epiq]

Hello friend.

I got done playing an hour ago. I’m fighting whatever enemy I can find in the Bloody Baron’s surrounding wilderness. I fought and killed a few things, including some bandits in some camp, and then I rescued some caged guy after defeating them. Those bandits were particularly high in number this time compared to the ones before.

Just fighting stuff and gaining loot and experience points before continuing with side quests.

I saw in your other topic about your dislike of it, are you putting it down permanently?

 

[AaronMk]

Is this a trick question? We're talking about a near-masterpiece of game design and interactive storytelling here!

(Note I said near masterpiece, Roach bugging out all the time in the last game was.... I'm gonna say hilarious.)

Horses are basically impossible to code anyways

 

[AaronMk]

Also, OP will never go to the wedding because they can't get over Velen and White Orchard

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I saw in your other topic about your dislike of it, are you putting it down permanently?

Honestly, man, I just don't have time for video games at all. Worrying about whether to play or not play The Witcher 3 is the least of my concerns. All I can say is that I don't like horror games and The Witcher 3 has a lot of themes that are basically horror. The monsters are specifically designed to be terrifying.

I want my game worlds to be pretty.

My own Geralt is 9/10 away from reaching level 5 for what that's worth and I met that sexy blonde witch recently. I killed a bunch of monsters in Velen.

 

[AaronMk]

The mistake you're making is you're not leaning into it enough

 

[Warrior Spirit]

The mistake you're making is you're not leaning into it enough

What do you mean?

I enjoy Mass Effect games way more. I enjoy Larian RPGs way more.

 

[AaronMk]

What do you mean?

I enjoy Mass Effect games way more. I enjoy Larian RPGs way more.

I get the impression you're probably playing the game passively because you are too used to playing RPGs where there is an acceptable route of passive engagement. Like doing smithing or something to gain levels if at a certain moment it's not convenient to use the combat skills at that time.

So you should learn into the game. Engage far more actively with the systems it's given you. I have watched people play a game in a bad way and say they don't like it because X, Y, or Z and the actual reason from my own direct experience is because they're literally it engaging with the game as designed. Like a friend of mine playing Deep Rock Galactic with the mindset of it being Diablo 4 or Grim Dawn: it doesn't matter where he stands so long as he attacks an enemy he will eventually win by sheer determination.

As a result he gets repeatedly downed because he has forgotten that maneuver and positioning are very important in the genre of game that Deep Rock is.

For a game like The Witcher you have to approach it like a FromSoft game. You can certainly play it passively but you're not going to be advancing beyond Velen anytime soon and meeting Geralt's Bisexual Ass Thespian Friend. You have to decide to commit to a straight up fight because Geralt can not sneak and will not sneak. Between the crossbow, bombs, Witcher signs, poisons, and swords he is a hurricane and you have to play him as a hurricane. It's a matter of what sort of hurricane you want him to be. The most basic start is to decide what sort of magic you want to do and then commit towards that Witcher sign. Then knowing whether you are most comfortable at dodging around the arena or can learn to parry, commit to the armor that complements that (light armor is reserved for any Geralt build focused on dodging most attacks, heavy armor if you are good at blocking any and all attacks, medium as a mix of the two).

Engaging with game guides and videos in the 21st century is a respectable way of engaging with video games, the same way as claiming you found a secret - true or not - on the playground in the 1990s was.

And like a FromSoft game: don't forget to engage. There is a not at all difficult point to reach where the levels of enemies become numbers. Many quests are also written with ways to complete them without fighting the enemy at an end. Which leads to the final FromSoft game piece of wisdom: you don't have to always fight something.

The Baron's quest can end very well without ever fighting the monster at the end. But you can also chose to fight the unbaptized Polish baby if you want.

(And also as a bug you can decieve the swamp witches in Velen as part of the Baron quest but this assumes you know what the game will ask if you. I just mention it as an option even if it's one someone would discover only after several playthroughs)

 

[Warrior Spirit]

I get the impression you're probably playing the game passively because you are too used to playing RPGs where there is an acceptable route of passive engagement. Like doing smithing or something to gain levels if at a certain moment it's not convenient to use the combat skills at that time.

So you should learn into the game. Engage far more actively with the systems it's given you. I have watched people play a game in a bad way and say they don't like it because X, Y, or Z and the actual reason from my own direct experience is because they're literally it engaging with the game as designed. Like a friend of mine playing Deep Rock Galactic with the mindset of it being Diablo 4 or Grim Dawn: it doesn't matter where he stands so long as he attacks an enemy he will eventually win by sheer determination.

As a result he gets repeatedly downed because he has forgotten that maneuver and positioning are very important in the genre of game that Deep Rock is.

For a game like The Witcher you have to approach it like a FromSoft game. You can certainly play it passively but you're not going to be advancing beyond Velen anytime soon and meeting Geralt's Bisexual Ass Thespian Friend. You have to decide to commit to a straight up fight because Geralt can not sneak and will not sneak. Between the crossbow, bombs, Witcher signs, poisons, and swords he is a hurricane and you have to play him as a hurricane. It's a matter of what sort of hurricane you want him to be. The most basic start is to decide what sort of magic you want to do and then commit towards that Witcher sign. Then knowing whether you are most comfortable at dodging around the arena or can learn to parry, commit to the armor that complements that (light armor is reserved for any Geralt build focused on dodging most attacks, heavy armor if you are good at blocking any and all attacks, medium as a mix of the two).

Engaging with game guides and videos in the 21st century is a respectable way of engaging with video games, the same way as claiming you found a secret - true or not - on the playground in the 1990s was.

And like a FromSoft game: don't forget to engage. There is a not at all difficult point to reach where the levels of enemies become numbers. Many quests are also written with ways to complete them without fighting the enemy at an end. Which leads to the final FromSoft game piece of wisdom: you don't have to always fight something.

The Baron's quest can end very well without ever fighting the monster at the end. But you can also chose to fight the unbaptized Polish baby if you want.

(And also as a bug you can decieve the swamp witches in Velen as part of the Baron quest but this assumes you know what the game will ask if you. I just mention it as an option even if it's one someone would discover only after several playthroughs)

Hmm, fair enough.

I rely on Quen to make Geralt tankier. I've built it up to where attacking me (Geralt) gives a solid knockback effect on the attacker. It helps me stand my ground and stay on offense mode.

I also slotted the passive tanky-er-ness ability and am maxing out both light attack and strong attack buffs.

I just want my own Geralt to be tanky so I can keep attacking without blocking or dodging too much. I choose the mutagens that boost his vitality as well.

Seriously though, the Quen sign boosted with the exploding knockback effect really helps me in fights.

I have too little time right now, honestly. Very little time for any video game.

You have to understand where I'm coming from though. Aside from Elder Scrolls games and Larian games, Mass Effect Andromeda keeps me occupied. lol. Why would I spend time getting attacked by creepy zombies if I can save a beautiful planet instead? lol. Think about that. lol

 

[AaronMk]

Quen is good but I would also advise figuring out blocking and parrying. Especially because it gives you the opportunity to essentially one hit all/most human[oid] enemies in the game. Monsters less so but it's a powerful skill to have as a player.

As for beauty, well you're not getting that if you are in Velen. Gotta play through it.