The Witcher 3 | Review Thread
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GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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thanks, i finally can stop refreshing the op!
I picked screenshots that weren't really spoilerish.. I saw some scenes where there are some characters from past games, mainly from TW2, but didn't wanted to post them here - I don't want to spoil some great moments, even though those scenes looked great
Check the title.
JetBlackPanda
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I have posted this exact same thing in probably the last 4-5 big game review threads.
I like Giantbomb but I don't think Jeff enjoys video games much anymore, he is so cynical its hard to take anything he says seriously.
ItsTheNew
I believe any game made before 1997 is "essentially cave man art."
Did I talk about the tweet? Check my post.
Well, I'm not too worried about either of those things personally. Not all reviews agree with the fetch quest thing, and everybody seems to agree there's more depth and meaning to the side quests than there is in other RPGs. And I'll be playing on my PC and gsync monitor so the framerate thing is irrelevant for me. But I do recognize the framerate could be an issue for some people and I sincerely hope that version will be fixed with a patch.
Denton
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I picked screenshots that weren't really spoilerish.. I saw some scenes where there are some characters from past games, mainly from TW2, but didn't wanted to post them here - I don't want to spoil some great moments, even though those scenes looked great
If you posted those I would find you, and I would kill you.
(channeling my inner Liam Neeson a bit, not to take seriously)
I really hope I will get to meet Saskia, but I don't want that spoiled.
Netherscourge
Banned
I just saw this review snippet (via Metacritic), which almost completely contradicts all the other reviews.
Opinions seem all over the place on this one. I'm feeling a big Open World vs. Traditional RPG tug-of-war with many reviewers.
It's interesting to see what some people see as perfection vs. what others see as a failure.
Reviews/Reactions are almost as dramatic as the game itself.
Mad Season
Banned
3 hours out of a 200 hour game?
I picked screenshots that weren't really spoilerish.. I saw some scenes where there are some characters from past games, mainly from TW2, but didn't wanted to post them here - I don't want to spoil some great moments, even though those scenes looked great
I don't mind being spoiled in that regard
If you wanna keep it private to stop spoiling folks here that's understandable.
Cheers
Well, I think they wanted a sandbox style experience, but even though TW3 is open-world, it isn't a sandbox style game
The content of the tweet was the same.
To loosely quote a mod from earlier in the thread: "This is the review thread, Jeff Gerstmann (or Giantbomb) hasn't made a review."
200 hour game - please...
I do expect the game to be lengthy.... anyone got a review with mention to story length?
Not that I'm worried about the fetch quest, but which review sites said that there are (bad) fetch quests? I only saw IGN mention it.
Anton Sugar
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He put 100 hours into it and leveled up to 35, out of 60
Said there was stuff still too high level for him when he beat the game.
bigwinnerx
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LookAtMeGo
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If he got to level 35 in 100hrs, then it would be about 200 hrs if you wanted to max out your character at 60... hmmm. Thats a lot of game.
ItsTheNew
I believe any game made before 1997 is "essentially cave man art."
Was there a different version where he talked about movement or combat?
Wait, wait, my post was a sarcastic reference to the way he could end up in W2, I have no clue whether he appears or not.
toddhunter
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Having 170 hours of "fetching" doesn't make for a compelling argument (it doesn't have to be a quest to be pointless busy work).
I'll wait for the backlash on this one. The scores are great... But I just can't bring myself to believe them. Blame Dragon Age
Summer Haze
Banned
Patches, how do they work?
Steve Youngblood
Member
It's still not a review and we still don't need 5 pages of damage control about how Gerstmann doesn't like video games or other attempts to discredit the review he never wrote. So, drop it.
cripterion
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He put 100 hours into it and leveled up to 35, out of 60
Said there was stuff still too high level for him when he beat the game.
That sounds very good, provided the it is quality content leading up to all these hours.
Even being max lvl we can't distribute skill points everywhere?
Gormenghast
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Yes, all the reviews mention about 50-60 hours for a normal completion.
Anton Sugar
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What do you consider to be "pointless"? VanOrd says he doesn't really try to "play" all the things/everything when he reviews. His 100 hours felt natural and not completionist.
Obliterator
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There is always a "backlash". We will probably have threads within a week of launch saying how the game was disapointing and didn't deliver.
Regardless the consensus seems to be its a fantastic RPG.
Mechanized
Member
What's up with the title? Gersmann is a reviewer, his comments aren't any less valid than anyone elses just because it goes against the grain.
Tomeru
Member
Now a days? Fix something, break something else.
Hopefully not with this game.
plasmawave
Banned
From all the videos Witcher 3 combat looks pretty similar to Witcher 2's so it's not surprising.
>-Baron-Spamedi-<
Member
God damn. Get out of here with that calm, rational thinking.
You'll make the wheels fall off the ceaseless-negativity-and-griping bandwagon.
Then the sky really will fall on everyone's heads.
Anton Sugar
Member
So, regarding side/fetch quests (very slight spoilers):
VanOrd said early in the game, there is a quest that you may or may not encounter where
Hours later, as he was sailing around, lo and behold he found a random island with a dead body chained to a post, and Geralt goes into an internal monologue on death, God, etc.
BUT--there was never any mission assigned to "go to island and pay respects" or anything like that. It felt like a natural occurence in the game world, and stuff like that happens all the time.
For the record, he had two crashes in 100 hours of playtime.
VanOrd said early in the game, there is a quest that you may or may not encounter where
a girl may end up chained to a post on an island, sentenced to starve to death.
Hours later, as he was sailing around, lo and behold he found a random island with a dead body chained to a post, and Geralt goes into an internal monologue on death, God, etc.
BUT--there was never any mission assigned to "go to island and pay respects" or anything like that. It felt like a natural occurence in the game world, and stuff like that happens all the time.
For the record, he had two crashes in 100 hours of playtime.
Can you imagine that shit? Hours later you see that by sheer chance based on a decision that could have went the other way.
Primethius
Banned
LookAtMeGo
Member
That sounds so cool.
Steve Youngblood
Member
If you missed it earlier, the title was edited because his innocuous tweet completely derailed the thread. It was a tweet that he wasn't enjoying the game. This is fine in and of itself, but it lead to a lot of damage control/metacommenatary about Gerstmann and Giant Bomb. It dominated several pages of the thread. Seeing as how Giant Bomb hasn't submitted a review, this was all irrelevant and frankly annoying to read. I promise you that I'm neither praising nor criticizing Giant Bomb here, and this isn't meant to serve as commentary about that site's quality. It has nothing to do with Giant Bomb and everything to do with the fact that the conversation surrounding Gerstmann's limited, non-review commentary about the game was drivel.
I'm loving this screenshots, but shame that there are not bigger
Man, a 'downgrade' that just so happens to be the most gorgeous open world ever.
Mad Season
Banned
but reviews said the combat was better....
LookAtMeGo
Member
I take it all the screens being posted are from the PS4 version, correct? Either way they are looking mighty fine.
Nvm. They are.
Nvm. They are.
toddhunter
Member
I've never heard of VanOrd and plenty of people say the same thing about Assassins Creed.
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