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[Makoto-Yuki]

Did you do a run through on deathmarch after ng+? Wondering what the experience is like.

nah i've never played NG+. i have always just started a clean save. for whatever it's worth i played on Blood and Broken Bones! for majority of the game. the final boss in Blood & Wine fucked me up real good so i had to drop the difficulty for that lol

 

[Strife In a Teacup]

I have 138 hours on The Witcher 3 + DLC and don't even remember anyone getting hanged.

Yeah really, I beat it early this year after putting it off forever and this never happened in my story. Nor some of the other things people mentioned that happened in case you don't lol. Guess there's lots of options.

 

[Kadayi]

 

[SleepDoctor]

I think its definitely still worth playing. The dlc itself was great too imo.

I played through the game when it launched and I been thinking of doing another playthrough. Its my personal gotg.

 

[Smaller than Atom]

No one on this site seem man enough to make a fucking choice! Talk me into buying this..... talk me into buying that.... should I return to.... blah blah blah. What's up with that? We're too busy enjoying our new tvs, games and partners to care.

If you want to walk with the big dogs you gotta learn to piss in the tall grass too.

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

Yes, you should definitely finish the game. It's great and the thing you mentioned is not a major plot point, imo.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

How could you have played any Mario games when you already know that Bowser is going to capture the Princess, and Mario is going to rescue her?

 

[Kadayi]

How could you have played any Mario games when you already know that Bowser is going to capture the Princess, and Mario is going to rescue her?

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

No one on this site seem man enough to make a fucking choice! Talk me into buying this..... talk me into buying that.... should I return to.... blah blah blah. What's up with that? We're too busy enjoying our new tvs, games and partners to care.

If you want to walk with the big dogs you gotta learn to piss in the tall grass too.

so true. just go play the game...or don't. no need for a discussion unless you really need people to convince you (in which case you probably won't even like it) or tell you what to do.

 

[darkangel-212559]

Jesus the salt is real for some of you. Gaf, the place where you can get buried alive for asking a simple question. Christ.

GG to all those that replied without trying to sound sarcastic and needlessly nasty.

Yes I do realise that the Switch version is not the best version to play it obviously, but take a moment to consider that many of us have busy lives and can't really sit down by the TV to play through a game hundreds of hours long?!

Sometimes it's worth sacrificing graphical fidelity for the sake of portable accessibility.

Anyway, I agree with you guys, I don't think I should miss out on this game for the sake of that spoiler. I didn't realise it was a smaller part of the overall story.

Next time someone asks a question, try behaving like a decent human being instead of a smart ass, yeah?

For the rest of you who actually helped me, I appreciate it. Thank you.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

To be fair

That village act like a pignia farm for the Crones, so I OK with that. I mean, people make kids just for give to the Crones? No sir.

OP, I suggest you not get the game if you're worry about that you spoiler tag. Don't get me wrong, is an amazing game besides the shit combat, but things like you mention will happen depends of the choise you make foward the story, actually some even worst.

True on the village, but on the other hand.
The Ghost in the Tree is actually the Crones crazy mom.

 

[Fake]

True on the village, but on the other hand.
The Ghost in the Tree is actually the Crones crazy mom.

Indeed, but still
She make no warm to Geralt, unless those stupid villagers who as the Crones commands, ask for them to cut the tree she was cursed. I probably would agree with you IF after you release her from the curse she not help to protect the kids.
And if you make the 'good ending', one of the Crones still survive. She must hide because probably her mother will go after her, unless you make your way to her at the bad ending.

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

Yeah,you should definitely play through the gane. There's so many great moments and that minor spoiler isnt that huge of a deal.

Switch version isn't bad, I've played about 5-6 hours and playing it handheld actually looks pretty good. The framerate is pretty stable, and the overall look is still the same, just blurry lol.

Do it dude

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Indeed, but still
She make no warm to Geralt, unless those stupid villagers who as the Crones commands, ask for them to cut the tree she was cursed. I probably would agree with you IF after you release her from the curse she not help to protect the kids.
And if you make the 'good ending', one of the Crones still survive. She must hide because probably her mother will go after her, unless you make your way to her at the bad ending.

If you free her before doing the Crones quest she'll still take the kids anyway if you inform the Crones you had already freed her, implying she was always going to do it regardless just to screw over her kids, which also keeps the Crones from turning Anna into a monster thus saving Baron too as Geralt had did it before learning about it. I do wish freeing it had more impact on the world, like how not learning the actual Novigrad murderer was a vampire that was framing another guy will result in him still killing random NPC's for the rest of the game, so represent it being the most evil of the Crones before death.

 

[Fake]

If you free her before doing the Crones quest she'll still take the kids anyway if you inform the Crones you had already freed her, implying she was always going to do it regardless just to screw over her kids, which also keeps the Crones from turning Anna into a monster thus saving Baron too as Geralt had did it before learning about it. I do wish freeing it had more impact on the world, like how not learning the actual Novigrad murderer was a vampire that was framing another guy will result in him still killing random NPC's for the rest of the game, so represent it being the most evil of the Crones before death.

But this has nothing to do with the baron arc inself, was actually a problem via the game director behavior.
Is just like killing Hadovich. Don't have such a impact I wanted to happen, in fact nothing actually happens in the town. I mean, a king die there.
Besides, I got her point over the kids. She know about the kids, but how could she convince you without the children? I mean, everyone in Velen freak out when hear a talking tree. She need to make a deal with you, after all you're Geralt, a monster killer. I remember searching over the reddit, was actually some bug they fixed about the children vs crones (with make possible saving the kids and still save the Baron's wife. They already fixed).

 

[Kadayi]

Jesus the salt is real for some of you. Gaf, the place where you can get buried alive for asking a simple question. Christ.

Play the game dude, it's well worth it whatever platform you choose. Sorry if it seems people are ragging on you. We're all gamers here. No harm meant.

 

[Virex]

OP you need to grow up

I stopped playing Final Fantasy when I saw there was more than Final Fantasy game. Completely spoiled it for me that there wasn't just 1 "final" fantasy and instead tons of games. Completely spoiled everything for me.

 

[Yumi]

The point of the question is rather if its worth playing through having a big part of the game already given away in advance.

People need to tone down their sarcastic comments. If you don't have anything proper worth saying, then just shut the fuck up. No one is asking you to contribute and behave like a dick.

I think people are being sarcastic because, and this is not your fault, your issue is a ridiculous notion if you've played the game. Like I said, you wouldn't know that.

I had to look up the part you are referring to cause I didn't remember it and it is one of 3 different outcomes for an early game quest. And the outcome for that quest has little consequence to the overall narrative which brings me to...

Yes, play the game. That's honestly a mild spoiler and it might not work out that way for you. The Witcher 3, if you get invested in it, has a lot of impactful scenes, even from side quests that aren't required or relevant to the plot.

 

[darkangel-212559]

Thanks everyone. Plus whoever gifted me Gold was mighty nice of you!

 

[Silent Duck]

I understand, OP.
I stopped playing Death Stranding because after walking from points A to B, someone posted online that there was a point C to walk to. What next? Point D? Madness!

 

[EightBit Man]

I agree with Spukc that the game feels "too vast" and overwhelming after a while, but at least the world is full of interesting locations, side quests, and characters. Can't say the same thing about a certain recent award-winning Nintendo title unfortunately. In fact I am pretty much done with open world games beyond a certain scope.

 

[Coflash]

Yes I do realise that the Switch version is not the best version to play it obviously, but take a moment to consider that many of us have busy lives and can't really sit down by the TV to play through a game hundreds of hours long?!

Because you have to play it all in just a few sittings, right?!? It's not like some of us took months or even years to get through the game + DLC during what spare time we had.

Next time someone asks a question, try behaving like a decent human being instead of a smart ass, yeah?

I promise, but only if you stop coming across as a petulant child.

 

[Vawn]

Yes it's part of the plot of a massive game with a huge story, how would you feel having a major part of a story ruined for you with your favourite movie, game or book?

Nope. Don't bother. The entire point of the game was to see and be shocked at that one minor scene.

Now the game has nothing to offer.

Also, to ruin another game for you - Mario saves the princess.

 

[PhilipDoesMatter]

Ah come on. I bet you wouldn't bear the Game of Thrones.

 

[Eiknarf]

just picked this game up

I hope that I like it.

I tend to love games like Days Gone, Senua's Sacrifice, Control, The Last of Us...etc

I know The Witcher 3 has rave reviews, but, I believe it's my first RPG.

 

[EDMIX]

So!

Some time ago when I first played the Witcher 3 ten or so hours in I had a MASSIVE part of the game utterly ruined for me.

Spoiler

Geralt's friend getting hanged

Now, having this plot point ruined for me turned me off from playing the rest of the game as I feel how can I enjoy the rest of the story when such a massive part was ruined for me and spoiled in advance?

Should I return to the game and try and ignore this? I'm still upset about it, years later. Does the narrative have other good twists and turns that it's worth me sticking with despite the major spoiler having been ruined for me the first time around?

Thanks everyone!

Keep playing.

The main story is so bad imho, the real meat of enjoymeny of Witcher 3 and really all the Witcher games are those small side quest where he is just in a small town, wants to fight some monsters and they be like "Oh so we getting fucked over by some monster bruh its furry, we will like....pay you in gold to kill it bro. Here is a list of weird things that happened so you can do Witcher things to find out what has been attacking us during the full moon"

Then Geralt like "......bring me some silver bruh"

That legit is the best part of the witcher imho. I always actually hated the main quest in all the games. They bore me to death. The game is good enough that you can enjoy it, even with that spoiler tbh as the story isn't SOOOOOO good that such a thing told to you shouldn't really effect your enjoyment out of the meat of the game that much.

 

[LOLCats]

I wouldnt call him his friend

 

[Eiknarf]

So!

Some time ago when I first played the Witcher 3 ten or so hours in I had a MASSIVE part of the game utterly ruined for me.

Spoiler

Geralt's friend getting hanged

Now, having this plot point ruined for me turned me off from playing the rest of the game as I feel how can I enjoy the rest of the story when such a massive part was ruined for me and spoiled in advance?

Should I return to the game and try and ignore this? I'm still upset about it, years later. Does the narrative have other good twists and turns that it's worth me sticking with despite the major spoiler having been ruined for me the first time around?

Thanks everyone!

Spoilers are not a bad thing

You watch a movie OR play a game for the experience and story telling, not about having some personal revelation about the ending or the plot the first time you see the movie.

If spoiling a movie or a game mattered then why do we own movies and games and watch and play them more than once?

I know how The Shining ends. I've watched it 43 times! It doesn't get worse because of the myth that spoilers ruin things. It gets BETTER

We all know how every superhero movie ends, yet billions of people still watch and enjoy them.

 

[Humdinger]

I honestly don't even remember that happening. I guess The Witcher 3's story wasn't all that impressive, to me. I hardly remember any of it.

 

[SatansReverence]

When I played through, the only player that got hanged was

Spoiler

the bloody baron and it was a suicide

This was entirely due to player choices and not an inescapable major plot point.

The way the story plays out can vary massively depending on what you do as a player.

 

[M1chl]

Now almost all of the story driven games are ruined, you are welcome.

just picked this game up

I hope that I like it.

I tend to love games like Days Gone, Senua's Sacrifice, Control, The Last of Us...etc

I know The Witcher 3 has rave reviews, but, I believe it's my first RPG.

I am so fucking conflicted over your selection of the games.

 

[Eiknarf]

Now almost all of the story driven games are ruined, you are welcome.


I am so fucking conflicted over your selection of the games.

Hahaha
Well I have 42 PS4 games
No genuine RPGs

Until today when I picked up The Witcher 3

Im Just saying that there's a chance it won't be my thing

that's all I'm saying

 

[Urprobablyright]

That's not a particularly huge plot point, actually i think it's engineered so that someone needs to get buggered up somehow.. if it's not the witch, well for me it was the blonde actress

The game's not ruined by that

 

[Urprobablyright]

Hahaha
Well I have 42 PS4 games
No genuine RPGs

Until today when I picked up The Witcher 3

Im Just saying that there's a chance it won't be my thing

that's all I'm saying

Come to think of it i strongly discourage you from talking about the game, just play it. The way you experience vellen etc should be entirely up to you