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Giant Bomb #17 | Baby Dan Wyckert

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Sleeping Lesson

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I will not be surprised if Witcher 3 isn't even in Giant Bomb's top 5. But it's a far better game in every way than Shadow of Mordor, which really says something about last year.
 
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tryagainlater

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Witcher 3 will probably be my GOTY unless something else in the coming months is totally amazing but I never really thought it stood much of a chance for Giant Bomb's GOTY. I hope Mario Maker wins though over something boring like MGSV.
 
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War Peaceman

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BUNTING1243 said:
I'd probably like a game like Witcher if it wasn't fantasy. For some reason I just can never get into any form of media with a fantasy setting. Shadows of Modor totally bounced off me too.
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typically I am with you there. I roll my eyes hard and fantasy and most sci fi. But the Witcher is such a great and richly written world that I can't help but love it. It isn't about dragons and orcs and shit, it is about the muck and the dirt and the grime. It is rough and brilliant.
 
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kAmui-

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I'm thinking of buying a gtx 970 later this year and then I'll play TW3. Hopefully I can finish that beast before the GOTY discussions start so I don't have to avoid spoilers.

And once again I find myself watching the Fortune Street TNT. This might be the single greatest thing on the internet.
 
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Jimmyfenix

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daydream said:
has 'england' replaced 'europe' as umbrella term for a wildly diverse and culturally rich continent in dan's vocabulary now
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Noaloha

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Witcher 3 doesn't focus enough on its simpler interactive elements; basic movement, UI, etc. It has several very high highs as a video game, but - as a video game on the simplest level - it fucks up on / glazes over the scaffolding. I accept that maybe I'm hypersensitive where laggy responsiveness stuff is concerned, so there's your pinch of salt. But yes: CDPR, don't fill your 150hr epic with bi-polar movement and laggy goddamn menus please. As much as I am enjoying your world and narrative, just *doing* a thing in your game is a chore. Write a Fighting Fantasy book and fill it with pretty CG pictures if this is all you have in you. I'd totes buy it.
 
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kAmui- said:
I'm thinking of buying a gtx 970
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You might as well wait for Pascal which is dropping in march. 970 was a great deal at launch but it's the last of a 3 year architecture cycle.

The next lot of cards will have massive improvements for the next gen (VR etc), to a laymen, the new cards will be about 10x better than Maxwell.
 
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Huh, I didn't start TW3 until August but I loved the combat, I just wish was a little more depth. Since I basically only really used Quen and Swords. Overall though I enjoyed the combat and switched the difficulty to the broken bones one pretty quickly.

Maybe I'm just a guy who's ok with just adequate combat so I enjoyed the 123 hours so far. Hoping for quite a bit more with the DLC's, And maybe even a NG+ in a few years.
 
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War Peaceman

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Noaloha said:
Witcher 3 doesn't focus enough on its simpler interactive elements; basic movement, UI, etc. It has several very high highs as a video game, but - as a video game on the simplest level - it fucks up on / glazes over the scaffolding. I accept that maybe I'm hypersensitive where laggy responsiveness stuff is concerned, so there's your pinch of salt. But yes: CDPR, don't fill your 150hr epic with bi-polar movement and laggy goddamn menus please. As much as I am enjoying your world and narrative, just *doing* a thing in your game is a chore. Write a Fighting Fantasy book and fill it with pretty CG pictures if this is all you have in you. I'd totes buy it.
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Agreed. MGSV and it are ying and yang.

I actually prefer Witcher 1s combat for the simple reason that it was incredibly easy. I play the game for the atmosphere and the narrative. Geralt's a badass he doesn't need a challenge.
 
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tryagainlater

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Teddified said:
Huh, I didn't start TW3 until August but I loved the combat, I just wish was a little more depth. Since I basically only really used Quen and Swords. Overall though I enjoyed the combat and switched the difficulty to the broken bones one pretty quickly.

Maybe I'm just a guy who's ok with just adequate combat so I enjoyed the 123 hours so far. Hoping for quite a bit more with the DLC's, And maybe even a NG+ in a few years.
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Yea, I enjoyed the combat too as simple as it is. I forced myself to never use Quen though so I enjoyed experimenting a but more. Quen is probably why I found Witcher 2 boring because that's all I did.
 
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Megasoum

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I REALLY need to get back into The Witcher... I played all the way to the first interaction with the Baron and then stopped playing... Haven't touched it in like 2 months... I want to play but I'm kinda scared of how lost I'll be.
 
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Mister Negative

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@ people who killed toriel

1) it's fine that you did that

2) just kidding you're monsters

3) yes there is a way to not kill her, it's probably the simplest way you can think of

4) i did the same thing on my first playthrough, she was the only one i killed, don't worry too much about it, just play the game however the first time through

Megasoum said:
I REALLY need to get back into The Witcher... I played all the way to the first interaction with the Baron and then stopped playing... Haven't touched it in like 2 months... I want to play but I'm kinda scared of how lost I'll be.
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you still have like...50 hours of witcher ahead of you. you're not gonna be lost, don't worry.
 
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Ketch

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It actually upsets me that Dan, or at least dans character uses the US flag as imagery. It must be my military experience, but it's a real feeling of anger.
 
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justjim89

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Ketch said:
It actually upsets me that Dan, or at least dans character uses the US flag as imagery. It must be my military experience, but it's a real feeling of anger.
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I mean, it's probably a level of self awareness that Dan's not capable of possessing, but is there anything more obnoxious than people who just like super duper love America beyond reason?
 
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