The Witcher 3 Had Its Biggest Day Ever On Steam

@Jarrkha:

What does that tell me ? Nothing really , gameplay is the core element of a game being fun , hence why we grew up with Mario and to this day we still play it , if the mechanics are not fun then you are left with a game like Death Stranding which was the biggest flop ( not in sales unfortunately ) of the decade.

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That's a shame, because the implication I made there is that I am the skeptic (and sometimes naysayer) advocating in favour of a much overplayed genre. I mean, I was tired soon after Skyrim came out... years ago. lol. I managed to stretch my playtime for OW RPG games to 2015 and didn't try Witcher 3 until Xmas 2017 and the winter of 2018, two years ago, and by then I was juggling things and dropping them left right and centre. Zelda BOTW made me drop Witcher 3 for a while, too.

TW3 has great voice acting , music , scenery an amazing story but the gameplay is missing to say the least so without this component how can people call it the game of a generation ? I mean YOU can but that kinda leaves you with little to no experience in gaming for such a statement.

I don't call it the game of the generation. I don't call any game that, especially when they still have distinct "genres" even in age of hybridization. I won't even have a game of the decade (and to me the decade doesn't end until NYE 2020 anyway). "Generations" and decades are far too long in this day and age to reasonably compare iterative or revolutionary games to each other.

Witcher 3 isn't perfect: I am NOT fond of the L-trigger parry system for one thing nor the fact that you cannot haggle prices if you decide to pick up a contract without talking to quest-givers first; also not fond of how they visualized or characterized some of the mages; wanted more enemy types; wanted more economical ways to salvage and repair equipment, etc.; wanted a Witcher-1 level of immersion for alchemy. You can mod the game on PC to make it as close to your level of "perfection" as possible, BUT... I don't have time and such to go through mod lists and test 'em and whatnot anymore.

I have 28 years of video games under my belt ( not a brag ) so for me I will always look at the gameplay/mechanics then graphics , story etc. Witcher 1 was the best in the series and most of the true witcher fans will agree , a game doesn't need 10-15 minutes of cutscenes or 100 markers on the minimap , less is more sometimes , the fighting animations are an endless recycled jump/slash move outside of the SIGN use it's rediculous that you end up repeating the same 2 animations over and over , the character feels floaty and no ammount of mods will fix that.

Yes I have about 28-29 years as well, counting from when I was ~4 (as far back as I can remember playing on NES and PC) to now. I'll be 33 in a month. Ugh. Why, God?

I don't think the game is inundated with information. I've seen worse, and I've seen games that needed more. However in a post-BOTW age, I agree. Less is more. BOTW is not the best "minimalist" design I've seen, but it doesn't need to be. It's quite effective and its whole design allowed me to define my own challenge.

Witcher 3 doesn't do that, but to me it is sufficiently fine and that "fineness", despite its flaws, is in the same spirit of BOTW. I think people really fixate on Witcher 3 because it came in an age where consumers were getting gobsmacked with bad industry practises (especially monetization), and this game was a breath of fresh air.

Also, its underwater stuff ain't bad. There's an old saying that goes like this: "if a game has underwater levels, they're bad."

If you like it props to you , but im kinda tired of the praise it still gets for being such a flawed game so let's just agree to disagree on this one.

Yes, ofc. I don't blame you for your view either. I'm just allowing you to pick my brain since we seem to be similar. I get tired of undue praise and sycophanty as well -- for example, I don't consider all of Kojima's work to be godlike, and I didn't think Dad Of War was the best (action) game of 2018, and I like multiplayer and even always-online stuff... I face uphill battles all the time. The Outer Worlds doesn't hold my interest for more than an hour at a time, and everybody was blowing loads over it before it came out.

I get it.