10 hours into witcher 3 and while i think its a good game. I also think its grossly overrated and misleading on pregame advertising in that its supposed to be a huge open world with no loading times. When in reality its not that open worlded, but a series of maps that do require loading times to travel between, much like inquisition. In fact this game is very similar to inquisition in alot of aspects. Which was also a good game.
But. I was expecting something new and amazing with perfect review scores and all the hype. I am severely let down. I will take a last gen skyrim over this for a few reasons.
1. The one map open world of skyrim was amazing.
2. The quests and dialogue of skyrim is unmatched, from killing an orphanage headmaster, uncovering mage school plots, thieves guild quests, demon quests, cisero lol, on top of the main storyline, etc.
3. 1st person is awesome. Even the dull melee combat of skyrim feels fun in 1st person. But ofc using magic was much more fun and varied.
4. Level system in skyrim is also unmatched imo. Even inquisition had a better leveling system imo.
Witcher 3 has good graphics, good story n quests, good combat, good crafting, etc but just doesnt live up to its hype nor surpass skyrim in any way for me. What u guys think?
I could add, that the game isnt sticking to the lore, the original world was way more xenophobic, sexist, if a human was in danger from an scoiatel witcher was generally supposed to kill those like they kill monsters. The story is mediocre it doesnt rly have more than a few interesting turns. You can see that its made to fit currant affairs and to be politcaly acceptable. Playing the first and second game I was at least able to made choices like a true witcher sticking to his code, in 3rd its impossible. It really pisses me that the devs messed the lore so much, also these topics about gays or similar stuff, that dont really fit there, at least its not full of such like Divinity dragon commander was, coas that game was making me wanna puke, Im not homophobic or w/e but why these topics are present everywhere I look, I dont want to be spammed with such crap, Im just not interested??? Itll cost me some pain to finish the game some time from now, but for now I Im taking a break, Im about 50% done with the story, rest Ill do when I dont have anything to play. I guess for someone who doesnt care about the books, which I enjoyed like crazy when I was a teenager, this game can be considered very good, 8/10, for me its max 6/10 and leaves me disapointed. Indeed Skyrim is way way better. Last thing, the devs are trying to be thinking out of the box and the fixes they make, when fk smth up, they give u potion, that lets u find a gear they made unusable for u in previous patch, this is the most obvious example but it shows that these people mustve spend some of the game budget on blow and prostitues, to help them be more creative.
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