The Witcher 3 vs. Bloodborne

Vote for your Game Of The Generation!

  • The Witcher 3

    Votes: 458 51.1%

  • Bloodborne

    Votes: 438 48.9%
  • Total voters
    896
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Witcher only has a chance because its multiplat ...
Its a great game, one of the best in fact but against Bloodborne it doesnt stand a chance to be honest.
Do the right thing people and vote Bloodborne, its the only way NeoGAF can redeem itself.
 
hemo memo said:
Play Witcher 3 on the hardest difficulty. Your Soulsborne is for babies in comparison.
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Beyond some of the DLC bosses, Bloodborne isn't super difficult. Witcher 3 at it's hardest difficulty setting out of the gate isn't very challenging either.
 
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Love to see how close it is. Both are fantastic games.
 
Jadsey said:
How the do you know? You've already stated you have never played BB in this thread

your 'opinion' counts for nothing.
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Did I? I played Bloodborne. I bought it day 1 too. I think you a re confusing me with someone else. Bloodborne is good but that's it. Witcher 3 is a masterpiece.
 
Come the fuck on people.

It has a newborn boss that smacks you with its own placenta.

Edit: but then there was boning on a horse 🤔
 
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I should note that Bloodborne won GAF Game of the Year over The Witcher 3 back in 2015.

They're both worthy games, certainly. Some argued that SonyGAF mobilized in force to prevent TW3 from winning, due to the PS4 exclusivity and prestige associated with GotY.

As much of a huge Souls and Miyazaki fan as I am, The Witcher 3 will remain in my heart forever as a truly special experience.
 
Bloodborne has better story/lore, better combat and better atmosphere/world/setting than Witcher 3.

Bloodborne is 2015 GOTY, best GOTG and, in my opinion, best GOAT!
 
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I can't even remember much about Bloodborne, other than it had guns and was inferior to Dark Souls.

I can recall a lot of positive things about the Witcher 3 though. Really loved that game. And the dlc- much of it free- was the best I've ever played.
 
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EviLore said:
I should note that Bloodborne won GAF Game of the Year over The Witcher 3 back in 2015.

They're both worthy games, certainly. Some argued that SonyGAF mobilized in force to prevent TW3 from winning, due to the PS4 exclusivity and prestige associated with GotY.

As much of a huge Souls and Miyazaki fan as I am, The Witcher 3 will remain in my heart forever as a truly special experience.
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hemo memo said:
Play Witcher 3 on the hardest difficulty. Your Soulsborne is for babies in comparison.
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As someone who has played both (and TW3 on Death March) I have to say that the hardest bosses in Bloodborne (especially the Cursed chalice dungeons) are harder than even a pack of stray dogs on lvl 1 in The Witcher (hardest fight in that game, seriously)
 
Bloodborne by lightyears. From are the best studio in the game and CDPR are nowhere near their level despite having infinitely more resources.
 
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DogofWar said:
As someone who has played both (and TW3 on Death March) I have to say that the hardest bosses in Bloodborne (especially the Cursed chalice dungeons) are harder than even a pack of stray dogs on lvl 1 in The Witcher (hardest fight in that game, seriously)
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Remind me please, was Death March available at launch on a new save?
 
hemo memo said:
Play Witcher 3 on the hardest difficulty. Your Soulsborne is for babies in comparison.
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Death March wasn't all that hard. White Orchid was probably the roughest part since healing was sparse, but it got ridiculously easy once you started to level up a bit.

bender said:
Remind me please, was Death March available at launch on a new save?
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Yeah, it was.
 
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I prefer Bloodborne, way more cohesive in it's game-play while Witcher never found it's footing with combat and the interactive bits on sidequest were pretty much run of the mill things like following highlighted tracks.
Bloodborne never attempts that, but marries the mechanics that does have very well. A game about mostly combat that still manages to have a rich narrative to experience without much use of cut-scenes.

Basically, i would like to improve a whole bunch of shit in Witcher 3 but i can't begin to think what changes would actually improve Bloodborne, design wise. Even chalice dungeons are very well designed thematically and mechanically, they were only lacking production values to feel more unique after the grind.

Bloodborne it's honestly my favorite souls game i think, a beautiful descent into madness.

bender said:
Remind me please, was Death March available at launch on a new save?
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It was, i played it on Death March. I still think that the combat it's at best serviceable and at worst trash, not only because of the lag in animation priorities but also in the RPG elements design. The only real cool stuff on the combat design was the quests to get your master witcher sets i think.
 
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As others have said, Witcher 3 is one of the best open-world RPGs ever. But it has flaws even in that genre, although it raised the bar for voice acting, animations, and side quests for all open-world games.

Bloodborne is one of the best games ever. Its atmosphere and art direction are among the best of any game ever, and they are matched with near perfect gameplay (yes, even at 30 FPS and with framepacing issues). The story is also amazing, albeit heavily obscured. Bloodborne's lore is incredible despite being just one game. It shits all over Dark Souls, which had 3 games to expand upon (or perhaps ruin) its own lore.
 
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EviLore said:
I should note that Bloodborne won GAF Game of the Year over The Witcher 3 back in 2015.

They're both worthy games, certainly. Some argued that SonyGAF mobilized in force to prevent TW3 from winning, due to the PS4 exclusivity and prestige associated with GotY.

As much of a huge Souls and Miyazaki fan as I am, The Witcher 3 will remain in my heart forever as a truly special experience.
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The king has spoken.
 
Keihart said:
It was, i played it on Death March. I still think that the combat it's at best serviceable and at worst trash, not only because of the lag in animation priorities but also in the RPG elements design. The only real cool stuff on the combat design was the quests to get your master witcher sets i think.
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Arachnid said:
Yeah, it was.
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DogofWar said:
Don't remember, my first playthrough was "normal" whatever that one was called. My second and third ones were both Death March.
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Thank you times three. I played hardest setting out of the gate on PS4. I don't remember wanting to break any controllers and I'm pretty bad at games.
 
EviLore said:
I should note that Bloodborne won GAF Game of the Year over The Witcher 3 back in 2015.

They're both worthy games, certainly. Some argued that SonyGAF mobilized in force to prevent TW3 from winning, due to the PS4 exclusivity and prestige associated with GotY.

As much of a huge Souls and Miyazaki fan as I am, The Witcher 3 will remain in my heart forever as a truly special experience.
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Not just that, The Witcher 3 has revolutionized the gaming industry that became accustomed that time to tearing AAA games into slices and selling them as DLC's, and The Witcher 3 brought extremely cheap DLC's that are bigger than most full AAA games at that time.

This is why people view CDPR as some kind of heroes, saviors. Combat was shit, difficulty was extremely easy even at deathmatch, outfits and weapons looked bad, full of glitches that some can be progression glitches. Story itself is crap, but storytelling and the scattered little stories around the world are just gorgeous. Main story was pretty mediocre, loved the side missions more tbh.

I still think God of War is the most perfect game ever created, and the generational game to me, but I 100% support The Witcher 3 being a generational game to many. Spent nearly 450 hours in all the maps, discovered every question mark there. Just hope CDPR keep the momentum with CyberPunk 2077. So far I'm skeptical and not gonna buy it until they release next gen patches.
 
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I will say that as long as CDPR and FromSoft don't fuck it up, Cyberpunk and Elden Ring stand to be towering achievements in gaming, provided they continue to refine/polish their previous efforts. I feel like both studios have only gotten better and better with time, so I'm hopeful that both games will be near perfect.
 
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Bloodborne what a game...

BUT

The Witcher 3. The greatest game ever made.

History will look at this moment and judge how we decided. Make the right decision 😉
 
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