The Witcher 3 released 10 years ago today

i was there, day one, with my radeon r7 270
the game ran great for me, albeit i was at 900p so maybe that helped :) 2 gb vram was more than enough for this game as it didn't have impressive textures for its time

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from that to 1440p ray tracing experience on my 3070, what a journey it has been <3

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finished it 5 times and i could still play it again. one of my favorite games ever.
 
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It really is the best adventure style game ever made for me. I have played it 4 times, which I hardly ever do. As an elder millennial gamer few games these days leave much of a mark, but this is one of few modern
games that I feel actually had an unreasonably large impact on my life. Velen feels like home in a weird way.

With help from great source material, they really managed to create a believable world that treated the player as an adult. There is both joy and sadness. No moralizing, just let's you navigate a greyzone of choices where a lot of the time there is no perfect outcome. Just like life in general. I feel it's the best written game I have played and even if I enjoy a lot of different games TW3 just hit differently.

Please never change CDPR. I really liked CP2077 as well. They took over the mantle from Bioware and surpassed even their best efforts in my opinion. But as we have learnt the hard way, devs move on, times change so I half expect their decline.
 
Sanepar said:
10 years without a new witcher game :/
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Not a traditional, big budget one, yes, but there were some others like Thronebreaker, Rogue Mage and that mobile game that died already I think.

edit: and Thronebreaker is 100% worth playing. Also Gwent online is there.
 
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I never finished it when it first came out, I found it too scary

But since then, I've completed it multiple times, though I still haven't touched the DLC

Someday, I'll do a full playthrough, including everything.

Overall, it's an excellent game. It truly deserves all the praise it gets.
 
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HRK69 said:
I never finished it when it first came out, I found it too scary

But since then, I've completed it multiple times, though I still haven't touched the DLC

Someday, I'll do a full playthrough, including everything.

Overall, it's an excellent game. It truly deserves all the praise it gets.
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scary?
 
vaibhavpisal said:
How do you make a fun build with such limited nos of skill slots? I didn't use heavy attack throughout the game cause I couldn't upgrade it.

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Towards end of my short 50 hrs playthrough, I was dreading where was I supposed to put skill points. First time I felt leveling up was a chore.
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I hate that system. The combat still sucks.
 
nkill20 said:
scary?
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Yeah. Terrifying. I noped the hell out of that side quest with the abandoned house and the creepy knocking sounds. The atmosphere alone had me on edge, and the moment things started getting unsettling, I was out.

I've actually fainted a few times because a jump scare caught me so off guard that my body just shut down from the shock. It's not just "haha scary," it's a genuine fight-or-flight response that hits me way harder than it should

So there was a period in my life where I became hyper-aware of potential jump scares

I was constantly on edge, expecting one around every corner, even in stuff that wasn't meant to be horror. It really messed with my nerves

This one fucked me up GOOD too

 
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scydrex said:
I hate that system. The combat still sucks.
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Yeah, after seeing that I wondered if they put any thought into it?

Its a 150 hrs game, how is character development going to keep pace with that?

I can believe they did Cyberpunk fiasco right after this, just by looking at that skill tree alone. Lol.
 
PeteBull said:
Not many games can have endorsement of current at that time POTUS

(my opinion of him doesnt matter, w/e i think about Obama, i think 20x worse of that polish PM and thats actually valid since im polish), POTUS is POTUS after all, its head and represents strongest country in the world, that means something :P - personally i think he didnt play it at all tho, he wasnt even briefed properly about the game, since if he knew game doesnt have any DEI nor wokeness he wouldnt endorse it at all ;P

Tears of woke devs complaining about "lack of diversity" and trying to teach polish ppl how to make look citizens of poland(which witcher3 is, middleages poland, where over 99% were white catholic christians- our country was established in 966 when our duke took on christianity +magic/legends) is peak stupidity.
www.pcgamer.com

"Fifty shades of white": Witcher 3 devs talk race and adapting literature

CD Projekt Red devotes an hour to the race and politics of The Witcher 3, and the challenges of bringing the books to life.
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Game was made for men(altho i know of many women who enjoy it wholehearthy, they literally think of Geralt as their "husbando" and who can blame them, guy is alpha af in every regard but thx to non complete mutation he can still have feelings unlike other witchers, basically top of the chain apex predator of a man- soft and hard at the same time ) so it sold gangbusters.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt sales top 50 million; The Witcher series tops 75 million

Total sales for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt have surpassed 50 million units, developer CD Projekt RED announced in its consolidated financial report for Q1 2023.
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2/3rds of the way done. Every few months I try to convince myself to complete it, play a hour or two, then drop it.

Someday I'll see what the fuss is about I guess but Witcher 2 I found 2000% better and that was my GOTY that year.

CP2077 is a much better game top to bottom.
 
And still the imo best game in the last 10 years. It's a great example of a game which isn't fantastic in all it's parts but combined these parts make a fantastic game.
Though when it comes to the the overall story Witcher 2 >>>>>>> Witcher 3

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Loved the hell out of Witcher 3, particularly the art, sidequest writing, characters and music. I'm convinced after it and especially Cyberpunk 2077 CDPR can't make satisfying combat for the life of them. Thankfully their games' other strengths are still really damn good. I really need to go back and actually finish Witcher 2 since I never fully completed it.
 
Know I'm missing out, just like Witcher 2, but the combat bores me to tears. Keep meaning to try some mods to hopefully improve it someday but knowing how long it is, just can't imagine doing it for that long.
 
Great game and a monumental achievement so show that generation what is possible if you have good writers. Planescape Torment did it 15 years before, Bloodlines a bit later.
As a Witcher game it's probably the weakest of them all, 1 reigns supreme.
 
This is one of the few games that you don't get bored when replaying it. It was a wild journey from PS4 to Xbox One X to PC to Series X. So many playthroughs on different platforms.

My Geralt was so OP that the Spin to Win move in a fort against numerous enemies used to crash my Xbox One X. Finally imported the save on my Series X and the console actually brute forced the Spin to Win slaughter without crashing.

Amazing game. High level writing and dialogue. The only sore point were the controls and input lag while playing it for the very first time. That kinda ruined the experience a bit.

The DLCs were amazing as well.
 
Let's relive the launch as it was 10 years ago, daily reminder CDPR is still one of the best in making trailers for their games:






And once we got playing let's replay the best music:







ard skellig was alredy posted :D
 
rofif said:
like... I am running and how is it that you always end up catching on some fence, pole or door frame.
Bad combat too. Overal the gameplay is kinda bad.
But the story, world and graphics etc it's all great.

Good game to put on easy and play as adventure game.
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You have the worst opinions on this forum confirmed.
EviLore EviLore change is tag to reflect that pls. Hahahah
 
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OverHeat said:
You have the worst opinions on this forum confirmed.
EviLore EviLore change is tag to reflect that pls. Hahahah
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How is that a bad opinion? It's true.
It's a game with good story, world and characters... that has terrible combat and terrible character controls/movement.
Everyone knows that
 
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Pasta la Vista said:
I bought a 980ti in anticipation of this game, 10 years later, no matter how many times I went back, I still have never finished it lol
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This is me too.

I preordered after watching the trailers and promises. Finally TW1 done in full 3D

Sadly the gameplay loop, the controls, combat and traversal mechanics and the towns and the overworld are boring AF

The quest structures are good in true TW sense. But the drag in moving from point A to B to advance the quests...i just cant.
 
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Von Hugh said:
How exactly is the combat shit? Please explain.
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Junk movement + forced lock-on. Gladly there are mods to remove the forced brain dead lock-on.

vaibhavpisal said:
How do you make a fun build with such limited nos of skill slots? I didn't use heavy attack throughout the game cause I couldn't upgrade it.

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Towards end of my short 50 hrs playthrough, I was dreading where was I supposed to put skill points. First time I felt leveling up was a chore.
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You use the mod "slots slots slots".
 
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IAmRei said:
Yeah, the thing is, making wrpg without full graphic, at the time, will make market underestimate it. I forgot when, i felt more rpg in tyranny than any other common western (action) rpg at the times.
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I liked Tyranny more than Pillars of Eternity 2 in the end... But that may also be because I really don't care for pirate stuff. Even fantasy pirate stuff.
 
One of my favorite games ever. I don't go on crazy long game sessions these days anymore, TW3 was the first in years I played a game that much. I played that game over 200 hours and finished it in under a month and that's including both expansions. I think I ended up playing like 9 hours per day. Fastest I ever beat a game that long since my younger years. Probably since Morrowind.

Great soundtrack too, loved just hanging out at Kaer Morhen and listening to the track. I loved how the towns actually felt full of stuff too. So many RPGs you have big towns that feels like nothing is in them. These towns felt like they had so much to do and explore. No quest or area ever felt just thrown in to make the game larger or longer. Everything had a purpose.
 
Played it 4 times, got all the achievements on Steam. Feel like I'm done with it but you bet I'll buy it again if there's a Switch 2 version in the works.
 
HRK69 said:
I never finished it when it first came out, I found it too scary

But since then, I've completed it multiple times, though I still haven't touched the DLC

Someday, I'll do a full playthrough, including everything.

Overall, it's an excellent game. It truly deserves all the praise it gets.
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Some might argue that the DLC is better than the main game.

Both are definitely top grade.
 
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