The Witcher -- violence, sex, and alchemy as part of your daily balanced breakfast

i put like everything into igni and sword. and i use a lot of bombs which combined with igni is good.

i use strong attack a lot though, like when an enemy is stunned or you have a clear strike, strong attack is really good. also the heightened strong attack where he lifts the sword over his head, backwards, is ludicrously powerful. kinda hard to get a hit in with it but if you do it causes huge damage.

i'm the same - i know i'd give up dark souls after two minutes, i'm mostly okay with witcher 3 being easy but i think they could fix it a bit. like the exp level of bosses doesn't actually tally with difficulty sometimes, there's this one golem or fire elemental in one of the caves that took me longer than any other boss, and it was just level 28 or something when i was about 30. but most of the time i just tear into enemies without even blocking or dodging and they're dead in about two minutes.

humanoids are even easier, i mainly enjoy fighting them cos it's fun to dodge and taunt them. i think if the fighting wasn't so much fun and didn't have such good animations it'd be more frustrating, but it is a problem. like the game doesn't quite know how to balance itself towards the wide variety of skills you amass as it goes on.

xpost i keep finding i have the scrolls for the three highest things but not the most basic one, and hence can't craft it or brew it.

started blood and wine over the weekend, can't stop laughing. the accents and the music and the script. this game is all-time.

i can't complete the final detlaff fight in blood and wine at all. it's about 200 times harder than anything else in this game. i searched for how to do it etc, nothing helps.

maybe kick the difficulty level down a notch? i was looking for a chill vacation vibe by the time i got to b&w so i set it to easy mode. i think detlaff still kicked my ass a few times but i don't remember it being a grind (and i am not a particularly skilled fighter in this game)

lol i'm already on easy. like when he changes form he just fires bats and me and i die every time. i've considered going back to an old save then heading off for a while to level up and maybe get a few more effective potions, though i am a really high level already.

ha oh welp. maybe i was way over-leveled since i'd done everything i could do in the game by then or maybe i got lucky with my "hit random buttons in a sweaty panic" strat

he telegraphs his fire bat attack, it should just be a question of dodging out the way when he telegraphs it then closing in for some sword-thwacking IIIRC

seems to be really hard to dodge, probably a timing thing. glad this game is easy cos the load times when you die are so bad it's hard to have even three goes at a boss.

remember the quen shield that gives back health being pretty critical in surviving that part

http://gematsu.com/2017/03/gwent-witcher-card-game-ps4-technical-beta-begins-march-31

how long does the dlc take, roughly

i'm not enjoying blood and wine as much as the main game or as much as hearts of stone and i can't tell if it's because it's not as good or i'm just finally burning out on this game. the main story feels pretty grim and the side missions are all pretty dull. i do like toussaint though, it's very pretty.

i stopped partway thru b&w. i think for me it was part burn out but also it lost the sense of progression to keep pushing me along. i might try it again in a few months.

weird - i felt most addicted during blood and wine.

so far it feels less creative/weird than the rest of the game. nothing like going into the painting or the final battle against the mirror man in hearts of stone. a lot of straight-ahead fighting and running errands for people. but i'm probably not that far into blood and wine yet.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/05/17/netflix-to-produce-the-witcher-tv-series

cautiously optimistic

i hope it's just a lot of wandering around in the foothills gathering flowers and whistling for Roach

terrence malick's The Witcher

http://i.imgur.com/LuGknMf.png

LOL

otm

the first tv show ever to be shot entirely within a broom cupboard in an embassy building

hahaha

now you don't need to unlock the sex scenes

this was $25 for the game + both expansions on GOG yesterday and i just built a new gaming pc so i guess i'm finally going to play it. i avoided it before because skyrim burnt me out on this type of game but it's been long enough now i think, and being able to play it on high gfx settings should be a treat, i imagine.

fwiw witcher 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> skyrim

yeah i loved skyrim but this is just so so much better

That's a big promise

idk i don't feel any compunction about that claim. witcher 3 eats skyrim's lunch. they're not even close to being on the same level.

i know!

xp

100% agree

One day I'll own something I can play this on and I definitely want to

skyrim ~feels~ a little more open in that you can design your character, choose to be a certain class w/accompanying storyline, etc, but witcher is so much more polished in every other respect (writing, acting, visuals, controls, etc) that yeah it's really not much of a comparison

stealth archer on Skyrim was cool, don't recall anything similar on Witcher 3

really curious what the next generation of games in this genre will look like, seems like witcher3 and zelda have sent everyone else back to the drawing board

i also agree that witcher is better than skyrim, and i loved skyrim. witcher has more personality and better writing and more variety.

stealth archer on Skyrim was cool, don't recall anything similar on Witcher 3

― badg, Thursday, May 25, 2017 11:56 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i did miss this, as this is typically my favorite class

Only gave Witcher a cursory try but it seemed a bit more of a drag to get into than Skyrim, with all the alchemy and potion stuff. Ready to believe that there's an awesome game in there once you get past that but skyrim otoh hooked me from te get go

tbh my least favorite parts of both skyrim and witcher were the alchemy and potion and crafting stuff.

i love picking spells and weapons and upgrading equipment, but for some reason when it extends into keeping track of 60 different sets of recipes to make marginal upgrades to stats i just get overwhelmed and stare distantly and wistfully.

kinda like this, but with just a hint of hope

http://i.imgur.com/LuGknMf.png

Free public beta for online Gwent is live
https://www.gog.com/game/gwent_the_witcher_card_game

this was a good choice for breaking in the new pc, the environments look incredible

stealthing and sniping is how I always like my characters to live, have only played the first Witcher which I like just fine but it isn't a patch on any Elder Scrolls game and you totally have to tank along and the alchemy is a huuuuuuuge buzzkill

this is still fun 15 hours in though the combat kinda sucks relative to the rest of the package. i also haven't had much desire to dig into the crafting or alchemy systems, i've just been leveling up quick attack and the magic signs and playing it as a hack & slash

Also replaying this on PC rn

Still as beautiful as the day I married it

Is the Complete Edition worth getting over the vanilla (and $20!) version?

what's the price difference? the extra content is very good but the base game is already pretty huge

Looks like it's pretty easy to find CE (new) between $35 and $40.

i'd say if you have the hours to pour into it you can't go too wrong with the CE but i think the 2 expansions were priced at $10 and $20, so you're not going to be enormously punished if you hedge with just the base game