cd projekt red make the best 'story driven' games ever though... imo sue darwin for trying to claim the term 'natural selection'.
Nah none of their games have actually been good yet but they keep trying to get better so I still have hope. Some of the most bro tier devs in the business though.
cd projekt red make the best 'story driven' games ever though... imo sue darwin for trying to claim the term 'natural selection'.
Nah none of their games have actually been good yet but they keep trying to get better so I still have hope. Some of the most bro tier devs in the business though.
i can't think of any game that swallowed me deeper than the witcher (1 & 2) except for baldurs gate 2.
bioshock and dishonored are great and imaginitive, but i feel they were dumbed down purely to appeal to braindeads. mass effect and dragon age are fun as well, but dumbed down so much you start to dribble after 10 min of playing them.
dumbing down is a good marketing strategy, but cd projekt red just say screw that and put boobs instead.
cd projekt red make the best 'story driven' games ever though... imo sue darwin for trying to claim the term 'natural selection'.
Nah none of their games have actually been good yet but they keep trying to get better so I still have hope. Some of the most bro tier devs in the business though.
i can't think of any game that swallowed me deeper than the witcher (1 & 2) except for baldurs gate 2.
bioshock and dishonored are great and imaginitive, but i feel they were dumbed down purely to appeal to braindeads. mass effect and dragon age are fun as well, but dumbed down so much you start to dribble after 10 min of playing them.
dumbing down is a good marketing strategy, but cd projekt red just say screw that and put boobs instead.
You might want to try Gothic 1 and 2, if you haven't already. The graphics might be a little outdated, but it is very atmospheric.
Agree, The Witcher 1 had some massive plot twists that I never saw coming, despite having played games for over a decade already. And it was pretty much the first game that required me to sit down and reflect my decisions, since there is no simple "good" and "evil" in The Witcher. There is often only the choice of the lesser evil. And even the choice to not make a decision may be a valid one in some cases.
Anyway, the witcher 1 had poor gameplay with repetitive grindy combat and bad overall pacing. The story meandered a ton and wasn't really very coherent at all. The second witcher improved combat (but screwed the alchemy) but it still wasn't exactly "fixed" especially with the unpredictable animations (somersaulting for 2 seconds on a "fast" attack and getting locked out and hit). The story, while much more coherant, still dropped pacing in the second act and left far too many loose ends, the game actually felt like it was being set up for 2 more chapters and then just suddenly cut off with letho showing up out of the blue (and not running again).
I have hope for the witcher 3 to be the one that finally hits it though. Looks like they've got the combat down, hopefully the alchemy is less tedious (and more fun) than 2 and after that it's just down to the story, and I give a LOT of leeway to pacing in an open world game which seems to be where they are going, so they almost get a free pass for that.
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Bit more to it than that, drinking potions mid fights and the 3 stances. That's pretty much it though. I remember the bombs being useless and the signs ending up really overpowered.
The animations were so good the first game though and you knew Geralt was a badass monster slayer, in the second you're pretty much just sword fighting humans and roly poly'ing behind their backs.
Bit more to it than that, drinking potions mid fights and the 3 stances. That's pretty much it though. I remember the bombs being useless and the signs ending up really overpowered.
The animations were so good the first game though and you knew Geralt was a badass monster slayer, in the second you're pretty much just sword fighting humans and roly poly'ing behind their backs.
All of your potential decisions in Witcher 1 are 'bad'.
Like the decision to engage in combat of any kind.
x
click click click
oh no big enemy
z
click click ... click
x1000.
well, combat is more engaging than skyrims left mouse button x infinity.
the only weakness in BOTH witcher games is it definitely tailed off at the end.. insanely good then last chapter is a blatant rush. however, 99.9% of games are rushed from start to finish, so witcher is still better than those.
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Are you by any chance an employee of the CDPR damage control team? Everyone can retouche solid evidence! It doesn't make it less valid!
No, seriously mate, don't take it for real, I'm just pulling your leg.
Nah none of their games have actually been good yet but they keep trying to get better so I still have hope. Some of the most bro tier devs in the business though.
i can't think of any game that swallowed me deeper than the witcher (1 & 2) except for baldurs gate 2.
bioshock and dishonored are great and imaginitive, but i feel they were dumbed down purely to appeal to braindeads. mass effect and dragon age are fun as well, but dumbed down so much you start to dribble after 10 min of playing them.
dumbing down is a good marketing strategy, but cd projekt red just say screw that and put boobs instead.
You might want to try Gothic 1 and 2, if you haven't already. The graphics might be a little outdated, but it is very atmospheric.
Also: Risen 1
Anyway, the witcher 1 had poor gameplay with repetitive grindy combat and bad overall pacing. The story meandered a ton and wasn't really very coherent at all. The second witcher improved combat (but screwed the alchemy) but it still wasn't exactly "fixed" especially with the unpredictable animations (somersaulting for 2 seconds on a "fast" attack and getting locked out and hit). The story, while much more coherant, still dropped pacing in the second act and left far too many loose ends, the game actually felt like it was being set up for 2 more chapters and then just suddenly cut off with letho showing up out of the blue (and not running again).
I have hope for the witcher 3 to be the one that finally hits it though. Looks like they've got the combat down, hopefully the alchemy is less tedious (and more fun) than 2 and after that it's just down to the story, and I give a LOT of leeway to pacing in an open world game which seems to be where they are going, so they almost get a free pass for that.
Was more like "what kind of douchebag do you want to be?"
Like the decision to engage in combat of any kind.
x
click click click
oh no big enemy
z
click click ... click
x1000.
The animations were so good the first game though and you knew Geralt was a badass monster slayer, in the second you're pretty much just sword fighting humans and roly poly'ing behind their backs.
well, combat is more engaging than skyrims left mouse button x infinity.
the only weakness in BOTH witcher games is it definitely tailed off at the end.. insanely good then last chapter is a blatant rush. however, 99.9% of games are rushed from start to finish, so witcher is still better than those.
But the world itself they've made is pretty awesome, I wonder if we'll ever truly see an open world game that feels kind of perfect
witcher 3
uwe make it happen so cdpr can copy it?