You know Epictetus once said "If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone." I'd like to thank everyone for giving me all that practice.
Dude don’t try and be clever. You made a brain fart and totally misunderstood everything.... you’ve been burned, accept it and go and stumble through your life
I honestly had such high expectations for this game. I have read the books and, while I do like them, I never really connected much with the characters. I somehow expected I would get more invested in them in the game. I didn't. I managed about 20 hours and the entire time it felt as if I was doing a chore. The gameplay mechanics aren't exactly great, but I could look past that for the sake of the story; the problem for me was I did not feel any connection to and investment in it. It is very well-written, there is no doubt about that, but my lack of interest + my issues with the gameplay, and lack of intriguing things to discover in the world eventually made me give up. I wanted to love this game so much, I expected I would but, in the end of the day, it just wasn't for me, despite the fact that I love story-driven RPGs. Thank you for making this video and showing us a different perspective from the mainstream!
Well i didn't see anyone who actually liked the game in this comment thread. Just want to say this is probably one of my all time favorite games of all time and i think it's incredible in nearly any side it has. The story is interesting and written very well, characters are very compelling, the gameplay feels incredibly good and the open world is full of fun and interesting details and many many very well written side quests (let's not forget the 2 DLCs that were basically the size of a new game) so like i said: i love this game. But if you didn't like it, we can still be friends :)
@@mochigb621 witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time and I still give cyberpunk a 7 not because of bugs but general design . Witcher 3 is just an amazing game on its own.
So nobody is gonna talk about the annoying constant background music in the game? I also didn't like the lighting of the game, everything is yellow tinted for some reason
The map is full of interesting places with some really good backstory. That is if you think for a minute about it and trying to actually play the game instead of thinking about it as a chore. Play games because you wanna enjoy them, not because someone said it's good and compare it to their opinion.
Listen, most of them are just simple copy paste, there is a reason why they removed the question marks on the map with the next gen update (I think, pls correct me if I’m wrong) They’re there just to fill the world, they’re not meaningful, with a few of them having simple notes and environmental storytelling.
@@flowerthencrranger3854 The ? markers can be hidden , and by default are I wish I had never found them. I think trying to mark them "off" put the final nail in the coffin for me playing this game. I went back to AC:odyessy. While it has lot of repetition also, the combat is more fun for me, and due to the bounty system, need to be more strategy when approaching combat. the world is also a bit more detailed/interesting imo, but it's a newer game with and likely had a lot more people working on it. The story isn't as good, but I read books for good stories, I play games for good game play,.
I desperately wanted to love this game so I could be like the cool kids. After two attempts four years apart, I came to similar conclusions. And I didn’t like the minimap. The fantasy setting, visuals, and music are awesome, but movement is janky and the whole thing feels bloated.
I've approached this game multiple times because there are things about it I wanna like. But especially the bit about the world being uninteresting to explore and loot being useless is what pushes me away from it, I think. Also the pointless levelling system that ensures it's nearly impossible to get a weapon that gives you an edge, because every time you find something really powerful, it's too high lvl to equip. There is so much reading on the items and skills, so many stats, and it feels like they hardly matter.
I just tried to play this game for the second time. The combat and the movement both feel so clunky (as you say). And then the world just doesn't draw me in for whatever reason. Went looking on RUclips for negative reviews just to feel less crazy. Thanks for making this video. It helped!
I picked it up again after like 4 years to see if I was just crazy the first time and after getting past the griffin part I just deleted it again. The most over rated game ever made imo… so so bad
@@whatdadogdoin6178 He is a bit bland in my opinion (in the game of course), not knowing him before playing witcher 3 didn't helped though but even now that I know him better by watching lore vids and the netflix series (liked it). I still don't like him much, not my type at all I guess. Jaskier and Ciri are more my kind of shit. For the combat, totally not my kind of shit. I usually don't like dodge simulator and I HATE the sign system, especially that shit ass Quen, it just break the game for real. I'm not a meta type of guy but not abusing of it feels like using a sword in a gun fight. In those type of RPG games, I like when I'm able to throw the stealth card like in Assassin's Creed Odyssey when you have an assassin build. Speaking about it, Witcher 3 just looks like a way better game than AC Odyssey but... Not as fun, and that's my problem. Witcher 3 is supposed to have amazing dialogue and well written character yet I can't think of a single one that hooked me more than Alcibiade or Socrate in AC Odyssey. Also I didn't felt free and that's what I love about openworld RPG, I like to RP while playing and I couldn't do it at all with Geralt. I understand why the game is amazing and I'm even okay to say that its a master piece but it clearly not for everyone as people tend to think, including me. In the same genre, I totally prefered Skyrim, AC Odyssey and Ghost of Tsushima for example, which all of them felt way more free in everyway than Geralt the Witcher 3 Ps; I didn't buy Cyberpunk yet, waiting till it's fully patched and maybe a better PC to play it in full ultra. But I'm pretty sure I'll love it, since it looks like you are really free.
10:55 who hates and fears Aragorn? I remember him being pretty beloved by everyone except the steward who was intimidated by him. And he is not really a monster slayer the way Geralt is because orcs might as well be really mean humans, bad take.
I just wish that one of the opinions wasn't: Dave: 'People in this game are trying their best! I like flawed and tragic characters' Geralt: 'is trying his best and is a flawed and tragic character' David:. *I'm going to pretend I didn't see that*
@@themaninthechair4338 Ohh clever lie. Someone complains about how the chacterzation is flawed, and you shift that to the character is flawed. Clever. You ever think about getting into politics? You'd be really good at it.
@@myself2noone He talks about how characters are interesting when they're tragic and misguided, aka, flawed . Yet he complains earlier in the video how you can be misguided and your actions, inadvertently, cause bad things to happen.
i’ve tried 3 times and just deleted it again. I don’t like the voice acting and the movement is spotty, plus i feel as if they didn’t do a good job “luring” me in. As someone who’s only watched the Witcher on netflix the opening scenes and tutorial did not make me want to play it more. The controls are very tedious making it difficult for someone like me who come from a long line of button mashing games. I found it difficult to use everything in rapid succession. I love the artwork, soundtrack and the inventory/alchemy system, but the pure mechanics of the game were simply not for me. Please don’t give me hate anyone I just wanted to state why the game hasn’t worked for me.
They are not "Luring you in" First of all The Witcher has 3 games if you where not listening to the intro. Second The first Witcher game came out in 2007, and the Witcher 3 came out in 2015, The Netflix series came out in 2019. How did they Lure you in? Even If the series came out first it's your fault that you did not do any research before buying the game. No one "Lured you in".
I think my biggest problem with this game is that it expects me to give enough of a shit about ciri to spend 30 hours going from place to place asking "is ciri here" and getting the answer "she just left". I think it's mainly because she had no part in the first two games and yet it feels like she is meant to be a well known character but to some one who has not read the books she is a stranger. But this does not seem to be that big a deal to most people.
It is a big deal to me, as a person who didnt care for most characters anyway. The plot could have just been a series of quests that you run into as you solve people's problems for money and you could meet different characters at your own will and pace.
@@rpgfanatic9719 Dude I been ignoring the main mission for ciri cause my level is hella low. I just going about doing side missions and enjoying myself. *Sip Tea* Lol I don't reall pay all that attention and just marking these marks off the map. If you play in hard mode is it harder to find health?
@@lolicongang.4974 No, not all, there's quite a lot of ways to heal yourself in the game. Health consumables are everywhere and are farmable, your health naturally regenerates albeit at a slow rate. Your alternative shield spell also converts damage into health at the cost of stamina.
You kind of missed the point about the theme of monsters in this world because you're right, characters who think they're doing the right thing even when others don't, is a very powerful thematic tool and that is the idea which is at the core of the Witcher universe. The importance of perspective within the Witcher universe is embodied within the backdrop of this game's story, the war between the Northerners and the Nilfgaardians. At first, it seems like the Nilfgaardians are the evil aggressors within the war while the Northerners are the underdogs simply defending their lands, and to an extent that is true. However, it quickly becomes apparent that despite the Redanians being the defenders in the war, they are not much better than the Nilfgaardians as both sides continually demonstrate their ability to commit similarly atrocious acts. Both sides believe they are in the right and both sides believe the other is in the wrong and neither’s hands are truly clean. That trailer you brought up is further proof of this moral grayness within The Witcher universe, as Geralt says "killing monsters", but that is not a definitive statement because Geralt's monologue about lesser, greater, and middling evils proves that he never really knows whether or not he is doing the right thing. Geralt’s hesitation before he decides to intervene is one which we the player constantly experience because we are often faced with a similar choice of whether or not to intervene, what side to choose, or to recuse ourselves from the conflict altogether. We are never choosing from pure evil vs pure good but instead between two entities that both have their reasons for doing what they are doing and we the player make our decision based on what we know/believe. You ignored how at the beginning of the trailer, the soldiers said that the woman was guilty of being a cannibal and a murderer, demonstrating to us she may very well be guilty of some horrible crimes. Perhaps he only sees three soldiers beating on one woman so Geralt chooses her or perhaps he believes she is justified but this does not mean she is completely innocent, only that Geralt believes she is. This dynamic of choice is within a lot of the quests in the game as we the player never truly know if we are choosing the lesser evil until after the decision is already made. We choose based on our perceptions of right and wrong just as the other characters within the story do.
yes your point at 8:00 was the biggest reason i couldn’t make a connection with characters. first few hours half of the conversations i was like “huh? what’re you even talking about” Man i wanna like this game so bad, I love the concept so much it’s just the execution makes it a chore for me. ):
Though I don’t personally agree with some of your arguments, having multiple opinions and perspectives online can help us learn more about the game and all its pros and cons. Thank you for putting this out because it’s something that needed to happen so that players who don’t like it don’t feel pressured to love Witcher 3.
I'm shocked by how frequent comments like this actually are. For everyone doing their best to try and not understand me, there seems to be someone like you who accepts a different perspective. You're probably the reason I don't hate the fanbase of this series that much.
I just did 4 side jobs and looted a whole battlefield and a abandoned village, sold everything off and ended up with 100 bucks which got me 2 loafs of bread some cheese and a steak for health which helped me heal a whole 13 percent as I finally faught the Griffin and died. Seriously this game is so counterintuitive it's not even fun to play. I'm going back to skyrim...
As someone who spent 280 hours on my first playthrough to complete every single quest and get everty armor diagram including playing through all the dlcs. You make good points. Ig it depends on whether or not you can get attached to the characters and story. Honestly, I played this game back in 2017 right after the Netflix series was announced and wasn't feeling it that much, 20 hours in barely any enjoyment. So I decided to start by reading all the books to get a feel for the world, the lore, the story the characters. Then I played chronologically witcher 1-3 (bought all 3 games on sale) and It made the overall enjoyment of the games much better Understandable, the gameplay to me is nothing special and I can understand the frustration from people.
this was a game that I'd rather watch someone play than play it myself. I like the story and characters and those two things were enough to help me tolerate the controls and combat enough to finish it.
@@2Gunz_Gaming You cannot truly enjoy a game that forces you to “tolerate” movement and combat aspects. Here’s how you sounded: “I enjoyed the game. It was tolerable.”
@@5445jedi I wasn't implying that I enjoyed it. If anything it felt like work. was invested in the story enough to want to see it through. that's about it. Yeah, it's pretty damn hard to enjoy a game if you're fighting with the controls for 50+ hours
Combat criticism is fair. Movement criticism is fair. All your critisms are fair. I'm pretty sure we completely disagree on how to evaluate things, where we are in life, and what we find compelling. That being said, I can see where you are coming from since you explained what you feel is important. You're not wrong, just different. Good review.
I prefer Cyberpunk after the patches over the Witcher. it’s open world is much much more detailed and diverse which is strange cause The Witcher’s map is basically an entire continent and Cyberpunk’s city still manages to make its city sectors much more diverse than any part of The Witcher’s map. Cyberpunk’s combat is genuinely fun, and it allows for tons of freedom and different builds. Also I think Cyberpunk’s world building is much better portrayed.
I just got bored of of constant dialog hours and hours of of listening or reading, I prefer to actually be playing a game instead of watching one. That’s what movies are for
I'm one of the few percent of people who actually don't care for this game. Yeh the story and writing are good, but quite honestly...the gameplay sux. It gets boring less than halfway thru. Combat is clunky. You basically become a walking god by Lvl.8 and all you have to do is spam Quinn (shield spell),
I've been playing for 10-15 hours and really have not enjoyed any aspect of it. I keep resisting calling it quits, thinking that something will click, mostly because "everyone loves this game so it must be good". Thanks for giving me the strength to stop something I'm not enjoying.
i think that YOU'RE TRYING TOO HARD. i've heared theese taughts before ...and i always have impression that some people play this game the same way that i go to work ( i just do things that i've toled to...and that can never be satisfying ). it's like some people put the game into their PS4 and say " OK GAME...I'M PLAYING YOU...IMPRESS ME ". i think it's about attitude
@@themilosgrozni237 I'm not sure how, based on my comment, you were able to divine the attitude I had while I was playing the game, but you're welcome to think that. I mean...you're wrong, but you're welcome to think that.
@@aszewci dude ...i'm not judging you...i was just trying to give you some new perspective. but when you said "everyone loves this game so it must be good"...that's what made me think that you're trying to get impessed..because everybody else has been impressed maybe this game just works for some people ,while for others it just doesn't.and if that's the case...maybe you should try som other game. for me personally..i'm coming from totaly different mindset.my game of choice ( before playing witcher 3 ) was SKYRIM ...simply because it had EVERYTHYNG that I NEED . i was deeply convincedd that i'd never love witcher as much i loved skyrim BUT...after playing it i can say that this game has everything that a perfect game MUST HAVE. don't get me wrong ...witcher 3 has a TON of things that need improvement( combat, general handling, leveling system -just to name few ) ,but it also has soo many fuckin quallities that i get pissed when somebody speeks shit about it. there are moments when you're emotionaly hooked up on carracters and in combination with music ,atmosphere and story ....THEY ALL COME TOGETHER AND FORM AN AMAZING EXPEAREANCE. but that's me ,and as i said...maybe this game just isn't for you for some reason .
@@themilosgrozni237 Fair enough. My bad if I misunderstood. In initially playing the game, I was pretty excited about it. A lot of my interest in it was because of public reception, but I also love the fantasy setting. It felt right up my alley. I initially was pretty into it, but, after maybe 5 or so hours, well, I just lost interest. Beyond that point, I kept playing for another 10-15 hours because of the whole “Everyone likes this game so it must be good”. I even spoke to my friend who was loving it and was saying things like “Oh once you get past the first area, it gets a lot better.” So that’s where that attitude came from. For the record, a lot of this came from open world exhaustion. I’d somewhat recently played BotW, Horizon, and MGSV, and, while I enjoyed all of those, I also got really exhausted with them (Also the freedom of BotW kinda ruined other open world games for me.). At a certain point it felt like doing things in them was like checking things of a to-do list. Like responding to emails or something. I also didn’t like (to the extent I experienced it) the story. I spaced out a lot during the dialogue. And I thought the combat was okay, but generally unenjoyable. So, since I wasn’t enjoying story, gameplay, or exploration...I wanted to quit.
You forgot the excessive hand-holding. This game is the quintessential game for the lowest common denominator. None of the quests require you to figure anything out yourself. It's all given to you through HUD elements. Whenever there's "solve a riddle," this "solving" just consists in holding the left trigger and walking from highlighted object to the next.
@@Elintasokas For it to be enjoyable it shouldn't have to force player to use their brain, it's a game where story is told to you, right from the moment it started off, not a detective game where you figure out the story nor does it need to be. Go take your entitlement of what's not catered to your personal taste as a criticism somewhere else, souls games with their half baked story left for interpretation comes out every few years to appeal to anti handholding tryhards with their vague side quests and storytelling
My problem with this game was always the lack of RPG mechanics in this "RPG Game" and how it was combat focused but the combat and movement felt terrible
What because There is no auto attack doing the work for you? OMG you actually have to aim your attacks and be skilled holy shit. Do us all a Favor and stick to World of Warcraft lmao.
@@scottymorgan7868 if difficulty was the problem then this game is simply too damn easy. If you felt like u actually needed skill to play this then you are the one that probably needs to play WOW numnuts😂. You need to play more action games 4 real.
@@wearevenom82 You sir are an idiot. Actually I have played my fair share of action games. So I guess Assassins Creed, God of War, Shadow of Mordor, GTA 1-5, The Last of Us just to name a few are not action games? What do they all have in common? They are all auto attack action reaction time simulators. Yep press a button before the time runs out. Pretty easy and boring to me. Let's take GoW for example omg die in 3 hits so hard, but learn his attack pattern omg this is piss easy not only that you can't even miss your attacks lmao. I mean fuck why do you think THEY ADD RPG SYSTEMS IN ACTION GAMES LIKE ASSASSINS CREED? They even put Stat weights on the armors pfft God your dumb. Just admit you have to play action games because your shit. I mean my 8 year old nephew just beat AC Valhalla 100 percent on the hardest difficulty A FUCKING 8 YEAR OLD LMAO, And you want to talk about difficulty? Do yourself a favor and stick to the Batman Arkham series, because it's the only action game where you can have some level of difficulty and not be completely brain dead. Git Gud Scrub.
It's an easier and clunkier version of Batman Arkham combat. You're just floating from one enemy to the next, while doing random fancy moves with one button. Bored me to death despite the amazing presentation.
I actually liked the combat but for me it's the narrative, it's not bad it's just not enough to really keep my attention. At times it can just feel so fetchy, talk to 5 different people to find a person to only do a tedious task or talk to another person, it can feel soo slow pace at times. While compared to The walking dead telltale games, I really enjoy the story and it's enough to keep me going even with its lacking gameplay
As someone who personally loves the Witcher 3, I'm going to break down your points and see which ones hold water imo: 1. Combat not very good: One of your main points is that there's no difference between heavy attack and light attacks. As someone who has just restarted playing the game, I can tell you that this is incorrect. I've fully specced into the first light attack skill, and whilst my numbers get close to heavy attack damage, they don't meet it. Another thing you mentioned is that '[The Heavy attack] is much less likely to be interrupted.' See, I always use the heavy attack as a first attack after I've dodged an monster, because I've stupid the game long enough to know when there will be a follow up attack or not, and therefore get a bit of extra damage in. Not to mention that you can cancel heavy attacks by dodging halfway through. And yeah, you can just use light attack, quen and a short dodge... Just like how in batman you can not do any counters, or not use any special takedowns. You can use yerdn against fast and invisible enemies, Igni against large groups, Axxi to stun someone with a shield and Aard to get some breathing room I feel like your worst point is 'Difficukt enough to need to pay attention, but too easy to be a real challenge'. Simply because that's also how I'd describe the Arkham Games combat on normal difficulty 85% of the time, even hard sometimes. The majority of the Arkham fights are easy. As for movement, even though I have the game on PC, I have never, ever played it with a mouse and keyboard. Because you should never, ever play a game that is third person with a mouse and keyboard, expect maybe a third person shooter. Movement on controller is great imo. And when you bring in sunset overdrive, this is where I start to lose you. Because you've picked up a game that is sold on a large, expansive story, and now you're admitting (edgily) that you're too cool for it. The point of the Witcher is to literally add a dower and realistic tone to a whimsical genre. In fact, that's what the whole of one of the DLC's is about. I can't speak about sunset overdrives movement, but I do like the movement of the Witcher 3. Yeah, it's a little annoying that when I run and pick something up, Geralt runs a few steps. Personally, I just take it as realism, because irl you don't come to sudden stop when running. As for Roach. Again. Try with a controller. It's much smoother, just like any third person game. Why? Because you can tilt a stick, slightly, rather than press a button. Is it perfect, no, but it's not horrific. I don't understand how you hate the world and say it doesn't have a variety of things to do. Going back to Arkham, does it have a variety of things to do? Or do they just boil down to 'Go place, beat up people?' 'Even if you like the game, can you ever say you're excited to find some more boring gear'. Yes. Not all the time, but most of the time. A new potion recipe, a better sword, some pelts to sell or dismante, bomb ingredients, what have you. Don't really understand your hatred for mini maps, but okay. I also don't understand why you take issue with the first post-cutscene talk that Geralt and Vesimar have. They are monsters, they know their monsters, other people don't know monsters but think they do, therefore Geralt knows more. It's not like Geralt has no reason not to know this knowledge, he's a Witcher. Also, your last point makes no sense. It's okay to have an animal that eats rotting corpses to prevent epidemics even if it also kills people? What kind of broken logic is this? he says it's 'useful' and yeah, sure it is useful, if you don't mind the risk of knowing you're recommending something that has a high chance to KILL people. This is similar to 'Let's recommend smoking, because it is useful to lower people's stress levels'. or in a more literal sense 'Let's inject people with this vaccine that we know kills 1 in 20 people' Your logic is genuinely broken and you're grasping at straws. As for your second story point... You're right, you're not responsible for the actions of other people. You can feel a little bad about it but you didn't know. I don't understand what your point is here, it just shows that there can be consequences to your actions and sometimes you don't know what they could be, but it doesn't mean you should feel bad about them. 'Lack of humanity/some people aren't just monsters' My brother in Christ, have you ever heard of war and how it turns men into dogs. Sorry to break it to you, but Return of the King is an idealistic fantasy of what war is like. Do you know how many women are raped, boys killed, girls enslaved, in TODAY'S wars where we have more humanity than ever before?! And yet you question WHY that's less in a time where there's zelatory, betrayal, monsters and a war? People aren't often trying their best in war, they're trying to survive and are driven by emotion. I will admit that this is a decent point, the idea that Geralt shouldn't really be the one who picks and decides who died, and how hey, maybe that woman who was going to be hanged was actually a monster who did all that stuff. Geralt doesn't know, but again, to use your own words, HE'S TRYING HIS BEST. More so than others. In fact, there are multiple times where he does try to stay out of things (LIKE IN THE CLIP YOU WERE SHOWING!) and is forced to defend himself. In fact I can't think of a single time wher Geralt kills someone, unprovoked, without the choice being yours (Aka Whoreson Jr for example). He mostly kills in self defense And yeah, Geralt cursed a bit, but not overly. He doesn't say 'shit' or fuck every 5 sentences. This is straw grasping at it's finest. As for why humans (or should I say, some humans), I don't know either. And I've got over 200 hours. But I can make an easy assumption, based on what I've seen. They are different, therefore they are bad. That's what some people think. There could actually be a real reason for this hatred, but guess what. Some people are just discriminatory. I don't understand how you can talk positive about sunset overdrive and Arkham Games and say that there's nothing interesting about Witcher 3's world. how is the Arkham world any more interesting than the Witcher 3 one? I'll give you a clue, it's not. That's why you spend the game flying over it rather than running around it. And yeah, I really hope that someone does make the point better than you. Because I was really onboard with this whole essay at the start when talking about combat and even movement, because I can see how these criticisms work. But all your arguments regarding the story and world really fell flat imo. At the end of the day though, that's your opinion, and I appreciate thsy you didn't insult fans of the game, because it's easy to do. Except you basically did nothing to hide your contempt for fans of the game throughout your entire video.
I played Witcher 3 for 85 hours and after that, I could not take the pain anymore. I did have fun some times, yes. But I got so bored of the formula, combat, everything. Ciri story is just "your princess is in another castle" story. Its just an unrewarding story.
But it has such an original character! A moody, tragic white-haired hero who's a hit with the ladies but is shunned by fearful humanity, like the few similarly white-haired of his kind forced to become a mercenary to slay evil magical creatures, beasts and bandits for coin and who is one of the few in the world who can master magic. Yes, that Elric of the classic best-selling 1960's Michael Moorcock saga sure is... wait... what.... which intellectual property are we talking about again?
I felt exactly like this my first two or three attempts to play the game and left feeling underwhelmed. Some time later and I've finished all the games multiple times and am currently reading the books which are amazing. To the person reading this, if you are in the position I was before, please give the game another try and read character entries and try to learn about the lore. It's one of the most rewarding experiences and stories one can live through.
That's exactly how I felt. I tried it like 3 or 4 times before I got it. I probably won't replay it again but that one playthrough where everything clicked was awesome and the DLC was fun although a tad overrated
Boy am I dissappointed in this game. The story is great, but most people don't play for story alone. People play games for a satisfying gameplay experience. The story may enhance that experience, like a good sauce, but if there's not meat, then what's the point of the sauce? If I wanted to read a story I would buy The Witcher book series.
It's a dark fantasy theme. Humans can and mostly will be more monstrous than the actual monsters. And it's not pretending to be morally dubious, it actually is. Humans hate elves mostly because they're largely racist. And also because of past wars and atrocities and because of various elven terrorist groups you encounter in the game and all this isn't accounting the deep lore and history of the game's universe(which you said you didn't care for getting into). The game doesn't exactly spoonfeed these themes for you because it's utilizing a story telling tool called "being subtle". As for the combat, it's nothing it's not meant to be. The whole point is being prepared for fights and using your witcher tools to bypass the challenges. The game has a huge variety of monster encounters that you can tackle in surprisingly different manners. If you just choose to spam buttons and quen and get bored as a result that's on you. The platforming games you usually play actually guide your hand to specifically use different methods to get passed a level. The witcher 3 introduces these methods but never actually forces you to do them. Check out the bestiary you'll know what I'm talking about. And also the combat encounters with humans is actually really well represented. You're a highly trained mutated monster hunter and geralt is even exceptional among witchers. He's a prodigy. And most humans you fight are hotheaded bandits who learned how to swing a club and hold up a shield and the gameplay reflects that pretty well. You can still use the various bombs and oils and potions in these fights should you want to. Or you could spam light attacks and quen. Also I'm a bit confused about your critique of the open world. You mentioned all the loot is boring? You find swords, armor, runes, crafting material for crafting the aforementioned items and junk to sell for money. It's not necessarily flashy but it fits within the atmosphere of the game. Every side quest you encounter in the world is well fleshed out often with different interesting outcomes that rarely plays out the same with another. The "twist" at the end of each one is what makes them unique. There are monster contracts also. There's a good number of them and not all of them play out as you'd expect. The nuance and surprising nature of these quests keep them from getting stale. In any other game these quests would be copy and pasted all over the map and completed with little to no context. Look i know you didn't like the game. Most probably it's just not your cup of tea and that's completely fine no one expects you to like everything. But the whole pluralistic ignorance thing you mentioned feels a bit off. It's implying the game is actually bad and most people are afraid to mention it because of all the praise surrounding it. It makes you sound like you're disliking the game mostly because of it's popularity. The game is objectively good. Not because lots of people like it or are willing to defend it. And when you deny that the game at the very least has great writing makes you sound like a contrarian at best and pretentious at worst.
I had heard so much UNIVERSAL praise for CDPR and their handling of this game. I just completed the game for the first time, and man...this game drags. Yes, their side quests were more interesting than your normal Ubisoft fetch quests. I liked them being more tied into the central narrative. I was super hyped for CyberPunk, and now I'm a little worried. THESE guys are going to make an Action Shooter? They spent 8 years on it, I certainly hope its worth the wait. However, this game does not give me anywhere near the hype that others feel. This game was insanely boring for literally most of it. Useless dialog and side characters I didn't care the least about. Apparently the only way to "fully" experience this game, is to play it through multiple times, and FUCK THAT.
Well the last thing you said is actually what makes RPG's great. And about your concern for Cyberpunk (if you still didn't buy it and trying to make a decision). The game has RPG elements only in the gameplay side but the stories are mostly linear with exception of the last mission. But those RPG elements of the gameplay is the best feature of this game i think. You can be a Samurai, a Ninja, a Hacker, an Action Hero, a Call Of Duty style shooter, a Tank, a Stealth master and so on. And the open world is amazing in both sides: appeal and design. Appeal needs no words, this game has one of the best art directions i have ever seen and in the design part it shocked me actually. After you get the double jump feature in the game you can clearly understand that almost every corner of the city (except for very long Skyscrapers and some exceptions) you can climb anywhere you want if you find a way. And even finding a way doesn't feel unnecessary because anything you do you gain xp for that specific action. BUT i think you should buy Cyberpunk (if you want to) at least a year later when all the game and immersion breaking bugs are fixed and the community has probably done lots of mods and probably the DLCs have came out. Good day!
-Shallow physics/ai -Lack of interesting combat combinations -Repetitive story -Story tries to have characters which are their own people, but at the same time caters the characters speech choices to the players dialogue choices to fit the narrative (characters will always do what the plot needs)... which makes it seem less genuine -Not really an RPG (edit: or a super shallow one if you consider it to be) -Cross bow useless unless under water -Your choices make Little impact the world whilst you play it. -Open world pointless, the areas don’t have complex enough ai and basically give no sandbox content after you do the main story missions there. Their only purpose is holding side quests...
It’s an 8.5/10 it has a lot of main story content and the best side quests for a modern triple a game. Graphics and textures are also super good and skellige is super immersive. Music is also decent... but most games have decent music.
as in horrible? because i agree but not as bad as this game.from memory rdr2 felt weird at first but you got use to it but witcher 3 was just a pain for the most part but got use to it too.
@@SENATORPAIN1 no as in they feel intelligent, they stop at cliffs, dodge trees (sometimes they don't lol) and get nervous near predators (it's present in the witcher 3 too but the horse doesn't really react, it just bucks you off when the meter is full, in rdr2 it will start panicking before bucking you off and running away).
Right?! And so you try to get food and its nearly impossible and costs all the 60 bucks you made after doing 4 side jobs that don't even gain you anything meaningful As far as xp, weapons armor ect. It just dosent equate.
@@pimtool9351 lol u dont have to buy food from vendors brother it will cost u 4x the price. U just loot it from surroundings, the best way to get consumables in early game is to loot stuff from the peasant huts in white orchard, you'll have ample consumables
Completed Elden Ring, did 2 playthroughs of BG3 , I tried to play and love Witcher 3 at least 3 times , but I always get bored around after Red Barron quest and the main story up until this point is , " sorry Geralt your Ciri is in another castle " 😂 , maybe it does get good at certain point but I can see why people drop it all the time - finding new gear ain't fun, it's a chore , the main storyline in the begining is as good as Super Mario, so the game kind of locks you out of 2 things from the begining - engaging story and varied gear that would make gameplay worth it, so people who either dont know much of a lore or dont know what to expect story wise give up on it early, despite game being praised by ton of reviewers
My biggest gripe about the Witcher 3 is the core mechanics of the game itself. Movement and combat is absolutely clunky and button mashy. Mash buttons and roll around until the thing is dead, boss fights have a bit of variation but same thing more or less. Great story line and interesting places but it lacks the core necessary to back it all up. It's like this beautiful castle built on a shaky foundation.
The only valid point you have is the combat. Rest of the video makes no sense, you're not giving facts...you're just talking...I understand the need for you to be in that 8% of people that didn't like this game, this video will get you lots of views just by puting 'I hate it' in the title. The fact that you don't know when to use light vs strong attacks kinda gives me a clue of how you've played the game. Some games are not for everyone, and i'm glad this is one of those games. You should stick to the more easy ones, with a little more liniar story.
'Hearts of Stone' has one of the best stories I have ever encountered in a video game, but dlc aside Witcher 3 is one of the most overrated games of all time.
Yeah it was pretty good, but the RPG element kinda ruins these kind of stories. Feels like the characters choices are catered to your reactions... it just makes it feel silly at times. RPG games are not meant for personal/movie like stories in my opinion, it’s just not possible.
There’s something wrong with the company cdpr. Notice how both games Cyberpunk and Witcher 3 seem to have the same air of hype around them? Except with Cyberpunk their marketing plan didn’t last long after release because they did not learn from the mistakes of W3. Cyberpunk had more competition than the Witcher 3 which they did not prepare for so they were floating on a cloud where they believed they did everything right. I just refuse to believe that the ratings are so high from genuine reviews.
exactly what I was thinking. This game doesn't seem to deliver what all the great reviews say it does. With other games that are highly praised I usually agree or at least understand the praise, not so here. They probably have an army of bots, or even staff spamming this stuff online, maybe even here. Just from that many sheeple will follow.
A lot of the hype comes from Eastern Europeans. It's the only large Polish gaming company out there, so a lot of Poles sort of see the Witcher as their 'national treasure'.
After it sat in my steam library for years I finally put like 10 hours into it a few months ago. I have 0 faith in the tastes of other people. This game was literal dog shit. I can appreciate there is a coherent story and audio/visual experience but as a game it is a solid 4/10.
Game is fun asf for the first 15 hours but then it just gets tedious asf, u can’t do a main quest or any quest for that matter if u aren’t strong enough . After that u have to do side missions in order to level up and the side missions are basically all the same , “go lift this curse “ “ find somebody for me “ “there’s a monster in the woods go kill him for money “ …. The MAIN story it’s self I enjoyed 100% but the other stuff is um lackluster
I just tried this game.. for like the 4th time, and i immediately realize why i uninstalled it before. Its just bad. The controls are bad and it sucks the joy out of it
I've also tried it multiple times and just tried it with the next-gen patch on Seties X and still can't get into it, gave up after 10 hours again. It has good graphics and good writing, the problem is it's way too much content and everything feels cluttered. Don't even get me started on the worthless alchemy and all the cluttered ingredients. A good RPG should have good writing but it should also have a good combat system that develops and evolves overtime. In The Witcher 3 everything you get from the beginning of the game is pretty much the combat that you will have for the entire duration of the game, it never adds more intricate layers and becomes fun, it's extremely mediocre. If you look at Lies of P and Lords of the Fallen that just came out, that is what you would call an actual fun combat system. Even is Cyberpunk 2077 combat is always evolving. Sadly we live in a day in age where most people would rather just play a book.
In fact when I started the game it was boring and I hated to play the side quest buh the game forces me to do sometimes. Later I had time on it and played everything and to be truthful is one of my best game now I only hate the movement aspect of it buh… I really really love it🥰
I’ve logged 10,500 into EA’s shitty Star Wars Battlefront 2 and even I still can’t compel myself to play a single day’s afternoon of Witcher 3 despite having played the hell out of Skyrim, all Dragon Ages, Elden Ring, both God Of Wars, Horizon series, Shadow series of Lord Of The Rings, Halo 2 and 3, Zelda: BotW, Final Fantasies, BloodBorne, Dark Souls, and as well as 9 years dedicated to the Classic 2005 Battlefront 2 of which I still have access to the PC version with mods to play anytime I want. So I’m aware of what good games are and of my convenience to play the Classic version in any form of Star Wars, as I’m aware that the Classic is superior. It is superior. Just using that as emphasis that despite my experience with highly regarded video games across all platforms, Witcher 3 still can’t compel me but 10.5k hours later and I’m still playing EA’s shitty game. I also tried Galactic Contention via Squad and that was boring. I confuse a lot of people.
I feel you. I started the game 2 years back. I stopped after getting into the bar. Uninstalled. After a year Installed again started from scratch coz I forgot all the controls and stuff. Reached the bar and killed a witch who was in a well. Got bored. Uninstalled. Now waiting for next year to start over. 🤷
So you played a deep rpg with hundreds of hours worth of content for ~40 minutes (since you quit after the devil by the well contract which is the first side mission most players do really) and you really are trying to give an opinion on it? My question is who asked?
@@darkporco443 If you get bored after constantly forcing yourself to play and uninstall a game, it usually means you dont enjoy the game if this guy doesn’t like it then he doesn’t have to. The gameplay is crap, mechanics feel like there out of a 2007 game and the quests are boring I’m sick of the overhype for this game, just because others like it others don’t have to
@@darkporco443 what’s the point of playing if the first hour wasn’t good . It’s not like the controls or gameplay is gonna change enough to like it . Maybe the story but if the game sucks then idc about the story
@@deepinsights707 bro the amount of stupid people in this comment section is ridiculous, if you dont have the IQ to comprehend whats going on thats a personal problem, theres a reason this game has almost 1000 awards and is considered GAME OF THE DECADE
I just didnt like the fact i always had to do a task to get info, and when you do that, its an anti climax, they just say, go the next npc, again do a task, and go to the next npc. Boring quests all the time. Could also be because i didnt do 1 and 2, did have any nostalgia on the story.
Trust me, the fact that you didn't play The Witcher 1 and 2 has nothing to do with it. I loved the first two games and I hate The Witcher 3. The first two did a far better job in terms of quest design and story telling. And the gameplay is better and more immersive too.
TO BE HONEST I HATE THIS GAME SO MUCH , THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS BETTER THAN HORIZON ,BATMAN , SPIDERMAN , GOD OF WAR .... IDONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE BEAUTIUL MOUNTAINS OR THE LOOOONG CONVERSATION SPECIALLY WHEN MY ENGLISH IS NOT THAT GOOD IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A STORY Detroit: Become Human IS 100 TIMES BETTER STORY
If you hate controls in this game Try “ys” series They have very tight and precise controls that makes playing them alot more enjoyable than games like witcher I spent hours and hours of grinding (not that it’s required or anything) in that game and every second of it felt great
I can't remember which one but I remember playing a ys game on a PSP emulator and the first thing that impressed me was the controls. I got the one for the ps4 and the controls are still top-notch. Its a very fun game.
(Engrish) When i tried the game i remember about: -Beautiful graphics and good artistic direction and musics. -Okay battle system. An awkward in between action and rpg. Not my cup of tea but it's not weak either. -An overload of "look at how humanity sucks, no matter what you'll do the world will sucks" kind of edgy vibes. Coupled with Geralt's weird tendency to cut people in half all the time (without potions) like it's the best thing about his work, i really felt like he was a weird serial killer pretending to help random people for money. His personal life and problems, well... i kinda didn't cared at all after that. Then i forgot i was playing it (ps4). It's 9.99 on Steam right now, maybe i will try it again or just read the books (more nuances probably) instead.
He is a weird serial killer helping people for money tho lmao they (witchers) mostly prey on poor fucking peasants who can't defend themselves to give them all they've got to get rid of some monstrosities killing them
One thing that continuously gets to me w/ TW3 is the quests that trigger without asking. Like I was on Skellige, went to Kaer Trolde to see the blacksmith b/c I wanted to sell some of the (copious amount of) gear I'd picked up, and get some upgrades for my equipped armor. Instead of that, the gate to the keep opens, and I'm dragged into the banquet hall to help choose a new king of Skellige. I can't even go back to the blacksmith because he's despawned until I finish the quest. All I wanted was to see the blacksmith. What should be a good side-quest feels like an interloper robbing me of my gaming freedom. Like the game is playing me instead of the other way around.
Wasn't that one of the main selling points that this world doesnt give a sh** about witcher(that means you) and big things are happening in the background(war between kingdoms, fight between clans, conflict between humans and non humans, religion wars...) witcher is not a hero in this universe, world is not spinning around you as a player, you just a small piece which no one gives a f*** about.
The blacksmith in kaer trolde didn't disappear bcoz of the quest lol, that blacksmith is glitched. He disappears randomly at any point in the game, all u had to do was just meditate a couple times and he would reappear
started it 3 times. at some point i just stop playing,cant really say why. i own all 3 games. same happened with the first and i didn't even tried the second. i don't mind people enjoying it. i just don't get it.
You have barely scratched the surface layer of this game, you said you have 35 hours in total, on a first playthrough it will take nearly 100 hours to complete the game (Not counting DLC). The beginning of the game is the most boring because you don't fully understand what is going on and the rules of the universe. Once you submerge yourself a bit deeper into the world of the witcher you get a new perspective and realize what a great game this really is. My point is that you can't really say you don't like something without having really tried it, you have barely played a third of the game and you have not given yourself the opportunity to get to know (or even meet) most of the characters that make this game so enjoyable. Give it another try, play through it all (DLC included) and try to tell me it's still a boring and shallow game.
Your comment is completely stupid and every single Witcher Fanboy keeps beating on the same drum. It's not fair for him to judge it because he's only played 35 hours lol. That should be a clear indication if it's not even remotely good by then it's shit. The game has sold many copies, but even if you look at the trophy list, only about 50% of people finish the main campaign and less than 20% finish all of the side crap. Here's a reality check for you, some people don't want to play a 100 hour book, on top of having a trash combat system that simply isn't fun. You like it, fine, then go walk around those empty baron fields and enjoy your strong and weak attack, and don't forget to roll out of the way and spam the same few signs over and over. Wait I'm sorry, you also get a crossbow and a redundant alchemy system, and I forgot the fact that you can parrry, so it's got way more depth than I ever imagined lol.
The problem with this game is wrong advertisement, it is not the best rpg but the best open world narrative telling game. It's more like an open world novel, and i realized it after 25 hours in. Now i am 70+ hours in game and really enjoying it. Trying to find all school upgrades while doing HoS dlc.
The kind of quests with the bandits show your actions aren't always positive isn't here to guilt trip you; Just to show you that some things are out of your control and you can always to the right thing. I think it's the opposite of what your critic tried to point out. It's here to make you accepte that you can't know the outcome of every situations, you act based on the information you have at the time and what you think is right, nothing more nothing less. I liked your rant about how movement are "delayed" doesn't stop instantly and you're a platform player. because I was an absolute fan of Prince of persia I and II when I was young and they were platformer with this kind of delayed movement, while I couldn't care less about platformer like Mario : it's just a difference of expectation, but that argument made me smile. THe rest of your critic are mostly valid or up to personnal taste. And While Witcher 3 is not a perfect game, for me it's still nothing less than the best RPG ever made.
Err the Wticher 3 is NOT an RPG Game. It misses first, the most important feature of an RPG by definition: that the player has an option to pick a character role to be. There is no way you cannot be anything else than Geralt here, the entire game is built on him only. There is no different past/origin/character option...but him only. This kills the RPG definition. On top of this the game misses the options that RPG genre was built on, to provide different ways to solve situations, for example one of the most critical limitations is that the game has no stealth. There are other limitations but anyway, the game is NOT an RPG, even if it borrows other RPG mechanics.
Pathetic game repetitive missions , average map at best , dogwater crafting system , death from falling 2 foot , monsters on every road you go down hardly any natural wildlife
I got through the tutorial for Witcher 3 and had to call it quits. I just don't get how "realistic, weighty" movement games like this have is seen as a positive. I didn't really sink my teeth into the combat itself too much, but for someone that was practically raised on Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden, I doubt the Witcher would have kept me on board in that department.
For me, I could never get immersed in the world because it just wasn't a fun place to be immersed IN. Skyrim is beautiful but deadly, and full of interesting people. Witcher 3 is bland, without a lot to discover outside of cities, and most of their inhabitants aren't the sort you want to spend time with. Everything and everyone is dirty and unpleasant -- which may be realistic, but hardly fun. At least for me. Outside of that, I hate -- HATE -- combat that's based on a bunch of inane rolling around.
I also didn't care about The Witcher 3 for years. I had heard a lot of good things about it, but didn't care because the medieval setup was not appealing to me at all and I wasn't a fan of RPGS etc. Until I played it 6 months ago, and wow, I've never seen a game that does so well in so many key areas. Combat's no Dark Souls, it's quite simple, yes, but it's not bad by any means, just ok, which is fine by me. Literally the only thing I didn't like was the clunky movements, that's it. EVERYTHING else appart from the combat was perfection to me. Those 2 things just can't make a game bad imo, ESPECIALLY considering everything this game does so well ( story, characters, soundtrack, side quests, choices, graphics..) I didn't come into this game looking for the best gameplay ever, I was looking for a good game that I thought was going to be severely overrated, boy was I wrong, and pleasantly surprised
I've played to many games with good combat that the combat is just straight up dog shit. I couldn't make it past the 5 hour mark. I play games for gameplay. I love story games, but if the gameplay holds it back I cannot enjoy. I love RDR2, but I can understand why the gameplay can hold people back. I honestly don't get what people have problem with RDR2's gameplay. It feels like a normal Rockstar game.
@@GreenWolf2k I mean it's the exact same with RDR2 yea, I love this game but the gameplay is repetitive af. Shoot - Hide - Repeat, literally for 80 hours. Which I'm okay with, but that's definitely not for everybody. It does feel like a "normal" Rockstar gameplay, but I really do hope it'll get better with their next game tbh. TW3's combat isn't that good either but at least it's got some complexity to it, you have spells and alchemy to make it a lot more interesting. Both games are pretty linear and narrative- driven anyway so I don't mind at all.
@@GreenWolf2k everything else apart from the combat was perfection. Maybe you should play your games on story mode then. What’s the point of playing a video game if the movements and combat are clunky to the point that they make gameplay pointless?
@@5445jedi Why would I play a game if I'm not gonna you know play the game. The gameplay of Witcher killed it for me. Hell even looking back on it Geralt wasn't an interesting character for how far I made it into the game. Maybe if I went back and played the 1st and 2nd game I could appreciate the story more but it was ehhh.
The clunky movement breaks the entire game for me. It's like if you broke my legs then told me to enjoy a relaxing stroll through a park on a nice day. I could enjoy the walk if not for the constant discomfort that arises every time I try to move or do anything. Why did you take me to this beautiful park and then break my legs?
This is a masterpiece of a game. Or atleast that’s what everyone says. I’m glad I’m not alone! Thank you for this video. I couldn’t get into it. I did have fun playing the in-game card game. I might jump back into it for that.
I thought I was just playing the game wrong or just doing something wrong period when I played this game. Most people say this is the game of the decade and the greatest game of all time and nothing in this game made me think that. the movement is mediocre, the pacing isn't that good. I like most of the characters and the scope of the game is really impressive but not an interesting world. combat against beast felt like work and I hated it. the boss battles were uninteresting and lackluster. I got tired of being an errand boy because people don't want to tell me if they'd seen Ciri or not and when they do tell me, they tell me that "this person should know where she is" and then when I go ask that person the errand boy stuff repeats. When I finally finished the main game my initial reaction was "man what a ride, glad that's over". I can understand someone loving this game if they're really into fantasy worlds and good narratives and lots of side quests that are indistinguishable from the main quests. I just can't understand a game being universally praised this high when the controls and combat system arent any good.
@@2Gunz_Gaming No You are Listening to the points of an idiot who has no idea what a RPG, World Building, Combat, Story Telling, or skill means what so ever. The game has it's flaws, but over 90 percent of the internet think it's a great game sooooooo.
yeah the only part of the game i have enjoyed so far is gwent. im gonna get rich off 10 crown bets on gwent then see if i have the will to keep playing this game.
i really tried to like it but i think this game is not for me, i just cant like the gameplay and the combat, the story was so confusing i didnt enjoy it at all.
This summarises my feelings about the game pretty well. The combat just felt of to me. The basics of it are quite similiar to Shadow of war, which I really liked, but it's just not as good. Even in shadow of war, the combat wasn't the best imo. I just don't like it when your attacks have you stepping forward as if you were doing longjumps. In the witcher 3, I never got past the quest for the baron to find his wife and daughter because god damn was it boring. It was meant to be a twist that the baron was actually the bad guy, but I saw it coming before the first cutscene even ended. And I find it hard to believe that there would be people who didn't see the twist comming. I predicted pretty much everything that quest had in it. Then the quest witch the witches is also not very intriguing. And I totally agree with the loot thing. I don't feel vey inclined to explore and do quests unless I actually get something cool and useful out of it. But in reality, the only useful thing I got from side quests was xp and I only did side quests for xp so I wouldn't be underleveled. It's a fine enough game, but not the masterpiece it's made out to be.
It is a fact that the majority of the world population is stupid, has no culture and have bad taste, especially if we reduce this to the scale of gamers. That said, I find it hard that liking this silly game being considered "good taste".
This game is so overcomplicated. They make it so hard and confusing to buy and sell, craft weapons, follow quests, craft anything, it just dosent make sense and just feels like your going backwards. I did a bunch of side stuff and collected everything I saw and looted as much as I could and still ended up with like 50 bucks and not enough food for health to even beat that retarded Griffin. Also dosent matter how much I do, I cant even level up to level 3 to where I could beat that thing. Also my horse only comes when it's called 50 percent of the time, and my dude just wanders off in one direction after I stop controlling him. I could go on and on but this game is just waaaaay overly complicated.
Because its not skyrim. In skyrim you were supposed to loot tons of items and sell it. In this game your main income are quests, more precisely hunting monsters and negotiating highest reward possible. And when it comes to selling swords you must take the games story to consideration. The action of the game happens during war and obviously that makes swords maces and etc so common that they are almost wortless. In the other hand food is hard to get so its supoosed to be expensive.
It sounds like you're trying to fit a square in a circle. The Witcher 3 may be many things but complicated it really is not. Quite the opposite imo as quests are really straight-forward and tell you exactly what to do and where to go almost every time. And calling a huge game like this overly complicated after just the first few hours is unfair.
@@Ibrahim-wr5fs after this comment was made I replayed and finished both expansion as well ..this game was worth 10/10 ..only if cdpk hadn't messed up with cyberpunk I could have hoped for a new witcher game and that's gone now
Got this game for cheap on sale and went into it with high expectations because for years this game has had 10/10 reviews. Put about 50 hours into this game and I can’t do it anymore. I think the main problem for me is the gameplay, the combat, something about it feels so cheap - horse riding is a pain I’d rather fast travel than ride around, don’t feel the need to explore anything. Looting feels like a chore, the music is actually okay apart from when it loops about 20 times during a conversation with an npc. And the story? I mean there were a handful of times where i was interested but for the most time…Nah. Maybe it’s because my expectations were set so high, I’ve completed great games such as God of war, The last of us 1, that my expectations have been set so high when it comes to gameplay and story. Hope that CD Projekt red can come out with some other titles because I love the fantasy, sci fi genres.
A lot of your complaints with the dialogue and decision structure is a staple of the franchise, I know that doesn’t change anything from your point. Like the concept of greater and lesser evils are used every other quest and its about how action and inaction are choices themselves. Geralt throughout the franchise has this desire to stay neutral because he feels as if he makes the wrong decisions no matter what he chooses. The game never condemns you as evil however, and if you feel bad about a choice you made then thats more of you projecting your morality onto the game rather than it passing judgement at you. As I said though its a staple of the franchise and people will either love it or hate it, I love it because it changes how I view decisions . More, how could this effect the world later, and less of, what does it mean now?
The main reason about the hate is that CD Projekt Red was new to games, the witcher was their first ever video game, they had not much money to fix or make the game better, but hopefully now they'll do great as they are famous and have money now, lets see how witcher 4 will do
What can I say about click bait? Oh, yes... I hate it. But is really effective and I'm waiting for see what are your arguments. See ya after the video.
movement and combat feels good to me honestly. Maybe its just the controller feels better to play with then the mouse, maybe the vibrations make the combat feel weighted for me? Good review though, I love this game to death but its interesting to see your view. Also you have probably heard this already but were you playing on death march cause I only enjoyed combat after changing difficulty to deathmarch, it brings out your strategic brain and causes you to use all the tools given to you: bombs, oils, decoctions as well as get good at dodging cause every hit hits like a truck.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about anything. I don't put down anyone who disagrees with me, doesn't like what I like. I love the Witcher 3, but it's good to hear other people thoughts about the game.
Mostly because he´s giving an opinion as a fact, which is something a child would do. The combat is the only objective thing he talked about in here lol
I'm enjoying the game. I just started playing it after putting down cp2077. I think the game is good. I'm still enjoying it. I dont like the controls however at all. Hate it in fact. But other than that, im enjoying the game.
You know Epictetus once said "If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone." I'd like to thank everyone for giving me all that practice.
To each there own
I agree with you I thought the game was horrible in almost every way
Dude don’t try and be clever. You made a brain fart and totally misunderstood everything.... you’ve been burned, accept it and go and stumble through your life
@@simoncaddy9327 Ha ha. That's a good one.
@@simoncaddy9327 No, he didn’t. Many people agree with him.
I honestly had such high expectations for this game. I have read the books and, while I do like them, I never really connected much with the characters. I somehow expected I would get more invested in them in the game. I didn't. I managed about 20 hours and the entire time it felt as if I was doing a chore. The gameplay mechanics aren't exactly great, but I could look past that for the sake of the story; the problem for me was I did not feel any connection to and investment in it. It is very well-written, there is no doubt about that, but my lack of interest + my issues with the gameplay, and lack of intriguing things to discover in the world eventually made me give up. I wanted to love this game so much, I expected I would but, in the end of the day, it just wasn't for me, despite the fact that I love story-driven RPGs. Thank you for making this video and showing us a different perspective from the mainstream!
Well i didn't see anyone who actually liked the game in this comment thread. Just want to say this is probably one of my all time favorite games of all time and i think it's incredible in nearly any side it has. The story is interesting and written very well, characters are very compelling, the gameplay feels incredibly good and the open world is full of fun and interesting details and many many very well written side quests (let's not forget the 2 DLCs that were basically the size of a new game) so like i said: i love this game. But if you didn't like it, we can still be friends :)
I am half way of the game,enjoying every moment 😄
@@vineet7745 As i did (twice ,P)
Yeah it’s just a contrarian circle jerk in the comment section.
@@thanekrios9328 Let me guess, you thought everyone shitting on CP 2077 were just following a hate trend too.
@@mochigb621 witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time and I still give cyberpunk a 7 not because of bugs but general design . Witcher 3 is just an amazing game on its own.
So nobody is gonna talk about the annoying constant background music in the game? I also didn't like the lighting of the game, everything is yellow tinted for some reason
Refreshing to see people who think that Witcher 3 is overrated.
Yeah for me it was really just the Game part of this game sucks. At least Bethesda RPG's can be mindlessly fun. (even if they're not difficult)
It’s refreshing to see contrarians?
@@thanekrios9328 Well that is what the word "contrarian" means in this context yes.
Hahaha how is it refreshing? Lots of these on youtube
The map is full of interesting places with some really good backstory. That is if you think for a minute about it and trying to actually play the game instead of thinking about it as a chore. Play games because you wanna enjoy them, not because someone said it's good and compare it to their opinion.
Listen, most of them are just simple copy paste, there is a reason why they removed the question marks on the map with the next gen update (I think, pls correct me if I’m wrong)
They’re there just to fill the world, they’re not meaningful, with a few of them having simple notes and environmental storytelling.
@Chandler Burse
Wish they would’ve removed them.
@Chandler Burse
Ok then, I see your point.
I thought it would be better for newer players to just stumble upon them, but yeah, you’re right.
@@flowerthencrranger3854 The ? markers can be hidden , and by default are
I wish I had never found them. I think trying to mark them "off" put the final nail in the coffin for me playing this game. I went back to AC:odyessy. While it has lot of repetition also, the combat is more fun for me, and due to the bounty system, need to be more strategy when approaching combat. the world is also a bit more detailed/interesting imo, but it's a newer game with and likely had a lot more people working on it. The story isn't as good, but I read books for good stories, I play games for good game play,.
I desperately wanted to love this game so I could be like the cool kids. After two attempts four years apart, I came to similar conclusions. And I didn’t like the minimap. The fantasy setting, visuals, and music are awesome, but movement is janky and the whole thing feels bloated.
That's how I feel with Skyrim, but I love the Witcher
I've approached this game multiple times because there are things about it I wanna like. But especially the bit about the world being uninteresting to explore and loot being useless is what pushes me away from it, I think. Also the pointless levelling system that ensures it's nearly impossible to get a weapon that gives you an edge, because every time you find something really powerful, it's too high lvl to equip. There is so much reading on the items and skills, so many stats, and it feels like they hardly matter.
I just tried to play this game for the second time. The combat and the movement both feel so clunky (as you say). And then the world just doesn't draw me in for whatever reason. Went looking on RUclips for negative reviews just to feel less crazy. Thanks for making this video. It helped!
I picked it up again after like 4 years to see if I was just crazy the first time and after getting past the griffin part I just deleted it again. The most over rated game ever made imo… so so bad
@@lukemurphy2936you basically haven’t even started the game then
3 attempts to play this game... I just can't seem to do it. Combat feels, all over the place. And frankly I don't like the Character... I just don't.
You don't like geraldt of rivia
The butcher of blavikins
Wow dude wow
@@whatdadogdoin6178 That is correct.
@@kolbhk2 mmmm mmm
DISCUSTING
@@whatdadogdoin6178 He is a bit bland in my opinion (in the game of course), not knowing him before playing witcher 3 didn't helped though but even now that I know him better by watching lore vids and the netflix series (liked it). I still don't like him much, not my type at all I guess. Jaskier and Ciri are more my kind of shit.
For the combat, totally not my kind of shit. I usually don't like dodge simulator and I HATE the sign system, especially that shit ass Quen, it just break the game for real. I'm not a meta type of guy but not abusing of it feels like using a sword in a gun fight. In those type of RPG games, I like when I'm able to throw the stealth card like in Assassin's Creed Odyssey when you have an assassin build. Speaking about it, Witcher 3 just looks like a way better game than AC Odyssey but... Not as fun, and that's my problem. Witcher 3 is supposed to have amazing dialogue and well written character yet I can't think of a single one that hooked me more than Alcibiade or Socrate in AC Odyssey. Also I didn't felt free and that's what I love about openworld RPG, I like to RP while playing and I couldn't do it at all with Geralt.
I understand why the game is amazing and I'm even okay to say that its a master piece but it clearly not for everyone as people tend to think, including me.
In the same genre, I totally prefered Skyrim, AC Odyssey and Ghost of Tsushima for example, which all of them felt way more free in everyway than Geralt the Witcher 3
Ps; I didn't buy Cyberpunk yet, waiting till it's fully patched and maybe a better PC to play it in full ultra. But I'm pretty sure I'll love it, since it looks like you are really free.
@@PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman true
Remember tho
He is a witcher so he doesn't have many emotions
10:55 who hates and fears Aragorn? I remember him being pretty beloved by everyone except the steward who was intimidated by him. And he is not really a monster slayer the way Geralt is because orcs might as well be really mean humans, bad take.
Like seriously they are so different that line gave me whiplash
I absolutely love this game, but it's interesting to hear opposite opinions as well.
I just wish that one of the opinions wasn't:
Dave: 'People in this game are trying their best! I like flawed and tragic characters'
Geralt: 'is trying his best and is a flawed and tragic character'
David:. *I'm going to pretend I didn't see that*
@@themaninthechair4338 Ohh clever lie. Someone complains about how the chacterzation is flawed, and you shift that to the character is flawed. Clever. You ever think about getting into politics? You'd be really good at it.
@@myself2noone He talks about how characters are interesting when they're tragic and misguided, aka, flawed . Yet he complains earlier in the video how you can be misguided and your actions, inadvertently, cause bad things to happen.
i’ve tried 3 times and just deleted it again. I don’t like the voice acting and the movement is spotty, plus i feel as if they didn’t do a good job “luring” me in. As someone who’s only watched the Witcher on netflix the opening scenes and tutorial did not make me want to play it more. The controls are very tedious making it difficult for someone like me who come from a long line of button mashing games. I found it difficult to use everything in rapid succession. I love the artwork, soundtrack and the inventory/alchemy system, but the pure mechanics of the game were simply not for me. Please don’t give me hate anyone I just wanted to state why the game hasn’t worked for me.
They are not "Luring you in" First of all The Witcher has 3 games if you where not listening to the intro. Second The first Witcher game came out in 2007, and the Witcher 3 came out in 2015, The Netflix series came out in 2019. How did they Lure you in? Even If the series came out first it's your fault that you did not do any research before buying the game. No one "Lured you in".
Did you switch the movement settings on the menu??? Switching movement settings is a game changer. It will not feel clunky.
@@shul5684 the game is ass brooo
I think my biggest problem with this game is that it expects me to give enough of a shit about ciri to spend 30 hours going from place to place asking "is ciri here" and getting the answer "she just left". I think it's mainly because she had no part in the first two games and yet it feels like she is meant to be a well known character but to some one who has not read the books she is a stranger. But this does not seem to be that big a deal to most people.
It is a big deal to me, as a person who didnt care for most characters anyway. The plot could have just been a series of quests that you run into as you solve people's problems for money and you could meet different characters at your own will and pace.
@@rpgfanatic9719
Kinda the point lol.
Your looking for the girl... but like irl you may do.
Ya don't have to go straight down a line.
@@lolicongang.4974 I don't want to look for the girl at all. I don't want a main mission that draws me to different areas, that's the point.
@@rpgfanatic9719
Dude I been ignoring the main mission for ciri cause my level is hella low.
I just going about doing side missions and enjoying myself.
*Sip Tea*
Lol I don't reall pay all that attention and just marking these marks off the map.
If you play in hard mode is it harder to find health?
@@lolicongang.4974 No, not all, there's quite a lot of ways to heal yourself in the game. Health consumables are everywhere and are farmable, your health naturally regenerates albeit at a slow rate. Your alternative shield spell also converts damage into health at the cost of stamina.
You kind of missed the point about the theme of monsters in this world because you're right, characters who think they're doing the right thing even when others don't, is a very powerful thematic tool and that is the idea which is at the core of the Witcher universe. The importance of perspective within the Witcher universe is embodied within the backdrop of this game's story, the war between the Northerners and the Nilfgaardians. At first, it seems like the Nilfgaardians are the evil aggressors within the war while the Northerners are the underdogs simply defending their lands, and to an extent that is true. However, it quickly becomes apparent that despite the Redanians being the defenders in the war, they are not much better than the Nilfgaardians as both sides continually demonstrate their ability to commit similarly atrocious acts. Both sides believe they are in the right and both sides believe the other is in the wrong and neither’s hands are truly clean.
That trailer you brought up is further proof of this moral grayness within The Witcher universe, as Geralt says "killing monsters", but that is not a definitive statement because Geralt's monologue about lesser, greater, and middling evils proves that he never really knows whether or not he is doing the right thing. Geralt’s hesitation before he decides to intervene is one which we the player constantly experience because we are often faced with a similar choice of whether or not to intervene, what side to choose, or to recuse ourselves from the conflict altogether. We are never choosing from pure evil vs pure good but instead between two entities that both have their reasons for doing what they are doing and we the player make our decision based on what we know/believe. You ignored how at the beginning of the trailer, the soldiers said that the woman was guilty of being a cannibal and a murderer, demonstrating to us she may very well be guilty of some horrible crimes. Perhaps he only sees three soldiers beating on one woman so Geralt chooses her or perhaps he believes she is justified but this does not mean she is completely innocent, only that Geralt believes she is. This dynamic of choice is within a lot of the quests in the game as we the player never truly know if we are choosing the lesser evil until after the decision is already made. We choose based on our perceptions of right and wrong just as the other characters within the story do.
yes your point at 8:00 was the biggest reason i couldn’t make a connection with characters. first few hours half of the conversations i was like “huh? what’re you even talking about” Man i wanna like this game so bad, I love the concept so much it’s just the execution makes it a chore for me. ):
Bruh that’s EXACTLY how I was as I was playing it. Had no idea wtf was going on lol
Though I don’t personally agree with some of your arguments, having multiple opinions and perspectives online can help us learn more about the game and all its pros and cons. Thank you for putting this out because it’s something that needed to happen so that players who don’t like it don’t feel pressured to love Witcher 3.
I'm shocked by how frequent comments like this actually are. For everyone doing their best to try and not understand me, there seems to be someone like you who accepts a different perspective. You're probably the reason I don't hate the fanbase of this series that much.
I just did 4 side jobs and looted a whole battlefield and a abandoned village, sold everything off and ended up with 100 bucks which got me 2 loafs of bread some cheese and a steak for health which helped me heal a whole 13 percent as I finally faught the Griffin and died. Seriously this game is so counterintuitive it's not even fun to play. I'm going back to skyrim...
Imagine dying to the tutorial boss lol
Holy Shit....I feel this so deep!!!!! 😆😂
@@lg8048 I mean he sounds bad at the game, no one else has that problem and who would buy food lol.
Please... Put the beanie back on
As someone who spent 280 hours on my first playthrough to complete every single quest and get everty armor diagram including playing through all the dlcs.
You make good points.
Ig it depends on whether or not you can get attached to the characters and story. Honestly, I played this game back in 2017 right after the Netflix series was announced and wasn't feeling it that much, 20 hours in barely any enjoyment. So I decided to start by reading all the books to get a feel for the world, the lore, the story the characters. Then I played chronologically witcher 1-3 (bought all 3 games on sale) and It made the overall enjoyment of the games much better
Understandable, the gameplay to me is nothing special and I can understand the frustration from people.
That's fair. I couldn't get into the world or the characters, but if you could that's a great thing for you!
this was a game that I'd rather watch someone play than play it myself. I like the story and characters and those two things were enough to help me tolerate the controls and combat enough to finish it.
@Hyper jones Decent story in a medium not known for storytelling is my guess. It's just better off as a T.V show if you ask me.
@@2Gunz_Gaming You cannot truly enjoy a game that forces you to “tolerate” movement and combat aspects. Here’s how you sounded: “I enjoyed the game. It was tolerable.”
@@5445jedi I wasn't implying that I enjoyed it. If anything it felt like work. was invested in the story enough to want to see it through. that's about it. Yeah, it's pretty damn hard to enjoy a game if you're fighting with the controls for 50+ hours
Combat criticism is fair.
Movement criticism is fair.
All your critisms are fair.
I'm pretty sure we completely disagree on how to evaluate things, where we are in life, and what we find compelling. That being said, I can see where you are coming from since you explained what you feel is important. You're not wrong, just different. Good review.
No It's not People who say the combat does not flow well Are ether playing on Easy mode, or They just plain suck at video games period!
@@scottymorgan7868 A main problem too is that some people here are comparing the combat to "Dark Souls".
Lol. This man tried to say something positive, and look at you scalawags. Couldn’t help yourselves
My experience with this game:
- Started it up
- Graphics were shit
- Installed a bunch of graphics mods
- Game crashed every 2 minutes
- Uninstalled
I prefer Cyberpunk after the patches over the Witcher. it’s open world is much much more detailed and diverse which is strange cause The Witcher’s map is basically an entire continent and Cyberpunk’s city still manages to make its city sectors much more diverse than any part of The Witcher’s map. Cyberpunk’s combat is genuinely fun, and it allows for tons of freedom and different builds. Also I think Cyberpunk’s world building is much better portrayed.
I just got bored of of constant dialog hours and hours of of listening or reading, I prefer to actually be playing a game instead of watching one. That’s what movies are for
I'm one of the few percent of people who actually don't care for this game.
Yeh the story and writing are good, but quite honestly...the gameplay sux. It gets boring less than halfway thru.
Combat is clunky. You basically become a walking god by Lvl.8 and all you have to do is spam Quinn (shield spell),
Play harder difficulties
@@joshuadebosh4615 I played it on Death March from the start. (The hardest difficulty in the game)
Exploration is amazing because of how easy it is
I've been playing for 10-15 hours and really have not enjoyed any aspect of it. I keep resisting calling it quits, thinking that something will click, mostly because "everyone loves this game so it must be good". Thanks for giving me the strength to stop something I'm not enjoying.
Honestly that's the exact reason I made this.
i think that YOU'RE TRYING TOO HARD.
i've heared theese taughts before ...and i always have impression that some people play this game the same way that i go to work ( i just do things that i've toled to...and that can never be satisfying ).
it's like some people put the game into their PS4 and say " OK GAME...I'M PLAYING YOU...IMPRESS ME ".
i think it's about attitude
@@themilosgrozni237 I'm not sure how, based on my comment, you were able to divine the attitude I had while I was playing the game, but you're welcome to think that. I mean...you're wrong, but you're welcome to think that.
@@aszewci
dude ...i'm not judging you...i was just trying to give you some new perspective.
but when you said "everyone loves this game so it must be good"...that's what made me think that you're trying to get impessed..because everybody else has been impressed
maybe this game just works for some people ,while for others it just doesn't.and if that's the case...maybe you should try som other game.
for me personally..i'm coming from totaly different mindset.my game of choice ( before playing witcher 3 ) was SKYRIM ...simply because it had EVERYTHYNG that I NEED .
i was deeply convincedd that i'd never love witcher as much i loved skyrim
BUT...after playing it i can say that this game has everything that a perfect game MUST HAVE.
don't get me wrong ...witcher 3 has a TON of things that need improvement( combat, general handling, leveling system -just to name few ) ,but it also has soo many fuckin quallities that i get pissed when somebody speeks shit about it.
there are moments when you're emotionaly hooked up on carracters and in combination with music ,atmosphere and story ....THEY ALL COME TOGETHER AND FORM AN AMAZING EXPEAREANCE.
but that's me ,and as i said...maybe this game just isn't for you for some reason .
@@themilosgrozni237 Fair enough. My bad if I misunderstood. In initially playing the game, I was pretty excited about it. A lot of my interest in it was because of public reception, but I also love the fantasy setting. It felt right up my alley. I initially was pretty into it, but, after maybe 5 or so hours, well, I just lost interest. Beyond that point, I kept playing for another 10-15 hours because of the whole “Everyone likes this game so it must be good”. I even spoke to my friend who was loving it and was saying things like “Oh once you get past the first area, it gets a lot better.” So that’s where that attitude came from.
For the record, a lot of this came from open world exhaustion. I’d somewhat recently played BotW, Horizon, and MGSV, and, while I enjoyed all of those, I also got really exhausted with them (Also the freedom of BotW kinda ruined other open world games for me.). At a certain point it felt like doing things in them was like checking things of a to-do list. Like responding to emails or something. I also didn’t like (to the extent I experienced it) the story. I spaced out a lot during the dialogue. And I thought the combat was okay, but generally unenjoyable. So, since I wasn’t enjoying story, gameplay, or exploration...I wanted to quit.
Couldn't disagree more with this guy if I tried. But alas, I'm also interested in hearing out different opinions. Echo chambers are no fun.
You forgot the excessive hand-holding. This game is the quintessential game for the lowest common denominator. None of the quests require you to figure anything out yourself. It's all given to you through HUD elements. Whenever there's "solve a riddle," this "solving" just consists in holding the left trigger and walking from highlighted object to the next.
And the problem with that is?
@@hydrocy.9165 That you're just a mindless puppet who walks to the pixel the game requires? I don't find that very engaging. It's braindead gameplay.
@@Elintasokas For it to be enjoyable it shouldn't have to force player to use their brain, it's a game where story is told to you, right from the moment it started off, not a detective game where you figure out the story nor does it need to be. Go take your entitlement of what's not catered to your personal taste as a criticism somewhere else, souls games with their half baked story left for interpretation comes out every few years to appeal to anti handholding tryhards with their vague side quests and storytelling
Combat sucks in Witcher 3. Ruined the game for me.
Combat, anination, ragdoll physics is shit like cp2077, horse ai so trash and non physics. This game will good if make by R* engine or Ubisoft engine.
@@gun8586 tge stpry is trash, so even if made by rage, its still trash
My problem with this game was always the lack of RPG mechanics in this "RPG Game" and how it was combat focused but the combat and movement felt terrible
Facts most overrated “rpg” ever
What because There is no auto attack doing the work for you? OMG you actually have to aim your attacks and be skilled holy shit. Do us all a Favor and stick to World of Warcraft lmao.
@@scottymorgan7868 if difficulty was the problem then this game is simply too damn easy. If you felt like u actually needed skill to play this then you are the one that probably needs to play WOW numnuts😂. You need to play more action games 4 real.
@@wearevenom82 You sir are an idiot. Actually I have played my fair share of action games. So I guess Assassins Creed, God of War, Shadow of Mordor, GTA 1-5, The Last of Us just to name a few are not action games? What do they all have in common? They are all auto attack action reaction time simulators. Yep press a button before the time runs out. Pretty easy and boring to me. Let's take GoW for example omg die in 3 hits so hard, but learn his attack pattern omg this is piss easy not only that you can't even miss your attacks lmao. I mean fuck why do you think THEY ADD RPG SYSTEMS IN ACTION GAMES LIKE ASSASSINS CREED? They even put Stat weights on the armors pfft God your dumb. Just admit you have to play action games because your shit. I mean my 8 year old nephew just beat AC Valhalla 100 percent on the hardest difficulty A FUCKING 8 YEAR OLD LMAO, And you want to talk about difficulty? Do yourself a favor and stick to the Batman Arkham series, because it's the only action game where you can have some level of difficulty and not be completely brain dead. Git Gud Scrub.
It's an easier and clunkier version of Batman Arkham combat. You're just floating from one enemy to the next, while doing random fancy moves with one button. Bored me to death despite the amazing presentation.
I actually liked the combat but for me it's the narrative, it's not bad it's just not enough to really keep my attention.
At times it can just feel so fetchy, talk to 5 different people to find a person to only do a tedious task or talk to another person, it can feel soo slow pace at times.
While compared to The walking dead telltale games, I really enjoy the story and it's enough to keep me going even with its lacking gameplay
Yeah I can see that.
As someone who personally loves the Witcher 3, I'm going to break down your points and see which ones hold water imo:
1. Combat not very good: One of your main points is that there's no difference between heavy attack and light attacks. As someone who has just restarted playing the game, I can tell you that this is incorrect. I've fully specced into the first light attack skill, and whilst my numbers get close to heavy attack damage, they don't meet it.
Another thing you mentioned is that '[The Heavy attack] is much less likely to be interrupted.' See, I always use the heavy attack as a first attack after I've dodged an monster, because I've stupid the game long enough to know when there will be a follow up attack or not, and therefore get a bit of extra damage in. Not to mention that you can cancel heavy attacks by dodging halfway through.
And yeah, you can just use light attack, quen and a short dodge... Just like how in batman you can not do any counters, or not use any special takedowns. You can use yerdn against fast and invisible enemies, Igni against large groups, Axxi to stun someone with a shield and Aard to get some breathing room
I feel like your worst point is 'Difficukt enough to need to pay attention, but too easy to be a real challenge'. Simply because that's also how I'd describe the Arkham Games combat on normal difficulty 85% of the time, even hard sometimes. The majority of the Arkham fights are easy.
As for movement, even though I have the game on PC, I have never, ever played it with a mouse and keyboard. Because you should never, ever play a game that is third person with a mouse and keyboard, expect maybe a third person shooter. Movement on controller is great imo.
And when you bring in sunset overdrive, this is where I start to lose you. Because you've picked up a game that is sold on a large, expansive story, and now you're admitting (edgily) that you're too cool for it. The point of the Witcher is to literally add a dower and realistic tone to a whimsical genre. In fact, that's what the whole of one of the DLC's is about.
I can't speak about sunset overdrives movement, but I do like the movement of the Witcher 3. Yeah, it's a little annoying that when I run and pick something up, Geralt runs a few steps. Personally, I just take it as realism, because irl you don't come to sudden stop when running.
As for Roach. Again. Try with a controller. It's much smoother, just like any third person game. Why? Because you can tilt a stick, slightly, rather than press a button. Is it perfect, no, but it's not horrific.
I don't understand how you hate the world and say it doesn't have a variety of things to do. Going back to Arkham, does it have a variety of things to do? Or do they just boil down to 'Go place, beat up people?'
'Even if you like the game, can you ever say you're excited to find some more boring gear'. Yes. Not all the time, but most of the time. A new potion recipe, a better sword, some pelts to sell or dismante, bomb ingredients, what have you.
Don't really understand your hatred for mini maps, but okay.
I also don't understand why you take issue with the first post-cutscene talk that Geralt and Vesimar have. They are monsters, they know their monsters, other people don't know monsters but think they do, therefore Geralt knows more. It's not like Geralt has no reason not to know this knowledge, he's a Witcher.
Also, your last point makes no sense. It's okay to have an animal that eats rotting corpses to prevent epidemics even if it also kills people? What kind of broken logic is this? he says it's 'useful' and yeah, sure it is useful, if you don't mind the risk of knowing you're recommending something that has a high chance to KILL people. This is similar to 'Let's recommend smoking, because it is useful to lower people's stress levels'. or in a more literal sense 'Let's inject people with this vaccine that we know kills 1 in 20 people' Your logic is genuinely broken and you're grasping at straws.
As for your second story point... You're right, you're not responsible for the actions of other people. You can feel a little bad about it but you didn't know. I don't understand what your point is here, it just shows that there can be consequences to your actions and sometimes you don't know what they could be, but it doesn't mean you should feel bad about them.
'Lack of humanity/some people aren't just monsters' My brother in Christ, have you ever heard of war and how it turns men into dogs. Sorry to break it to you, but Return of the King is an idealistic fantasy of what war is like. Do you know how many women are raped, boys killed, girls enslaved, in TODAY'S wars where we have more humanity than ever before?! And yet you question WHY that's less in a time where there's zelatory, betrayal, monsters and a war? People aren't often trying their best in war, they're trying to survive and are driven by emotion. I will admit that this is a decent point, the idea that Geralt shouldn't really be the one who picks and decides who died, and how hey, maybe that woman who was going to be hanged was actually a monster who did all that stuff. Geralt doesn't know, but again, to use your own words, HE'S TRYING HIS BEST. More so than others. In fact, there are multiple times where he does try to stay out of things (LIKE IN THE CLIP YOU WERE SHOWING!) and is forced to defend himself. In fact I can't think of a single time wher Geralt kills someone, unprovoked, without the choice being yours (Aka Whoreson Jr for example). He mostly kills in self defense
And yeah, Geralt cursed a bit, but not overly. He doesn't say 'shit' or fuck every 5 sentences. This is straw grasping at it's finest.
As for why humans (or should I say, some humans), I don't know either. And I've got over 200 hours. But I can make an easy assumption, based on what I've seen. They are different, therefore they are bad. That's what some people think. There could actually be a real reason for this hatred, but guess what. Some people are just discriminatory.
I don't understand how you can talk positive about sunset overdrive and Arkham Games and say that there's nothing interesting about Witcher 3's world. how is the Arkham world any more interesting than the Witcher 3 one? I'll give you a clue, it's not. That's why you spend the game flying over it rather than running around it.
And yeah, I really hope that someone does make the point better than you. Because I was really onboard with this whole essay at the start when talking about combat and even movement, because I can see how these criticisms work. But all your arguments regarding the story and world really fell flat imo.
At the end of the day though, that's your opinion, and I appreciate thsy you didn't insult fans of the game, because it's easy to do. Except you basically did nothing to hide your contempt for fans of the game throughout your entire video.
I played Witcher 3 for 85 hours and after that, I could not take the pain anymore. I did have fun some times, yes. But I got so bored of the formula, combat, everything. Ciri story is just "your princess is in another castle" story. Its just an unrewarding story.
I could refund it just on time
But it has such an original character! A moody, tragic white-haired hero who's a hit with the ladies but is shunned by fearful humanity, like the few similarly white-haired of his kind forced to become a mercenary to slay evil magical creatures, beasts and bandits for coin and who is one of the few in the world who can master magic. Yes, that Elric of the classic best-selling 1960's Michael Moorcock saga sure is... wait... what.... which intellectual property are we talking about again?
I got so bored...I guess my expectations were misguided.
I love the lore tho
I felt exactly like this my first two or three attempts to play the game and left feeling underwhelmed.
Some time later and I've finished all the games multiple times and am currently reading the books which are amazing. To the person reading this, if you are in the position I was before, please give the game another try and read character entries and try to learn about the lore. It's one of the most rewarding experiences and stories one can live through.
That's exactly how I felt. I tried it like 3 or 4 times before I got it. I probably won't replay it again but that one playthrough where everything clicked was awesome and the DLC was fun although a tad overrated
i dont care about lore if the gameplay is dogshit, If I wanted lore I'd just read a book or something. Maybe try that instead idk.
@@sabus1265 Agreed. Good thing the Witchers gameplay isn't dogshit
Boy am I dissappointed in this game.
The story is great, but most people don't play for story alone. People play games for a satisfying gameplay experience. The story may enhance that experience, like a good sauce, but if there's not meat, then what's the point of the sauce? If I wanted to read a story I would buy The Witcher book series.
That's basically my attitude. Listen to an audiobook well playing a good game. BAM! Better experience.
It's a dark fantasy theme. Humans can and mostly will be more monstrous than the actual monsters. And it's not pretending to be morally dubious, it actually is. Humans hate elves mostly because they're largely racist. And also because of past wars and atrocities and because of various elven terrorist groups you encounter in the game and all this isn't accounting the deep lore and history of the game's universe(which you said you didn't care for getting into).
The game doesn't exactly spoonfeed these themes for you because it's utilizing a story telling tool called "being subtle".
As for the combat, it's nothing it's not meant to be. The whole point is being prepared for fights and using your witcher tools to bypass the challenges. The game has a huge variety of monster encounters that you can tackle in surprisingly different manners. If you just choose to spam buttons and quen and get bored as a result that's on you. The platforming games you usually play actually guide your hand to specifically use different methods to get passed a level. The witcher 3 introduces these methods but never actually forces you to do them. Check out the bestiary you'll know what I'm talking about. And also the combat encounters with humans is actually really well represented. You're a highly trained mutated monster hunter and geralt is even exceptional among witchers. He's a prodigy. And most humans you fight are hotheaded bandits who learned how to swing a club and hold up a shield and the gameplay reflects that pretty well. You can still use the various bombs and oils and potions in these fights should you want to. Or you could spam light attacks and quen.
Also I'm a bit confused about your critique of the open world. You mentioned all the loot is boring? You find swords, armor, runes, crafting material for crafting the aforementioned items and junk to sell for money. It's not necessarily flashy but it fits within the atmosphere of the game. Every side quest you encounter in the world is well fleshed out often with different interesting outcomes that rarely plays out the same with another. The "twist" at the end of each one is what makes them unique. There are monster contracts also. There's a good number of them and not all of them play out as you'd expect. The nuance and surprising nature of these quests keep them from getting stale. In any other game these quests would be copy and pasted all over the map and completed with little to no context.
Look i know you didn't like the game. Most probably it's just not your cup of tea and that's completely fine no one expects you to like everything. But the whole pluralistic ignorance thing you mentioned feels a bit off. It's implying the game is actually bad and most people are afraid to mention it because of all the praise surrounding it. It makes you sound like you're disliking the game mostly because of it's popularity. The game is objectively good. Not because lots of people like it or are willing to defend it. And when you deny that the game at the very least has great writing makes you sound like a contrarian at best and pretentious at worst.
I had heard so much UNIVERSAL praise for CDPR and their handling of this game. I just completed the game for the first time, and man...this game drags. Yes, their side quests were more interesting than your normal Ubisoft fetch quests. I liked them being more tied into the central narrative. I was super hyped for CyberPunk, and now I'm a little worried. THESE guys are going to make an Action Shooter? They spent 8 years on it, I certainly hope its worth the wait. However, this game does not give me anywhere near the hype that others feel. This game was insanely boring for literally most of it. Useless dialog and side characters I didn't care the least about. Apparently the only way to "fully" experience this game, is to play it through multiple times, and FUCK THAT.
You may want to get it when the next gen update comes out
Well the last thing you said is actually what makes RPG's great. And about your concern for Cyberpunk (if you still didn't buy it and trying to make a decision). The game has RPG elements only in the gameplay side but the stories are mostly linear with exception of the last mission. But those RPG elements of the gameplay is the best feature of this game i think. You can be a Samurai, a Ninja, a Hacker, an Action Hero, a Call Of Duty style shooter, a Tank, a Stealth master and so on. And the open world is amazing in both sides: appeal and design. Appeal needs no words, this game has one of the best art directions i have ever seen and in the design part it shocked me actually. After you get the double jump feature in the game you can clearly understand that almost every corner of the city (except for very long Skyscrapers and some exceptions) you can climb anywhere you want if you find a way. And even finding a way doesn't feel unnecessary because anything you do you gain xp for that specific action. BUT i think you should buy Cyberpunk (if you want to) at least a year later when all the game and immersion breaking bugs are fixed and the community has probably done lots of mods and probably the DLCs have came out. Good day!
@@omarsheriff51 Yeah friendship ended with CDPR, From Soft is my new friend now lol
I must agree. I tried so hard to like this game and I only got to the tree (Demon?) Thing.
I've been getting a lot of comments like this lately. I guess the honeymoon phase is over.
Did you kill it?
-Shallow physics/ai
-Lack of interesting combat combinations
-Repetitive story
-Story tries to have characters which are their own people, but at the same time caters the characters speech choices to the players dialogue choices to fit the narrative (characters will always do what the plot needs)... which makes it seem less genuine
-Not really an RPG (edit: or a super shallow one if you consider it to be)
-Cross bow useless unless under water
-Your choices make Little impact the world whilst you play it.
-Open world pointless, the areas don’t have complex enough ai and basically give no sandbox content after you do the main story missions there. Their only purpose is holding side quests...
It’s an 8.5/10 it has a lot of main story content and the best side quests for a modern triple a game. Graphics and textures are also super good and skellige is super immersive. Music is also decent... but most games have decent music.
@@cipher8400 More like a 5.8/10..
When you talked about horses being intelligent, it reminded me a lot of how riding in red dead redemption 2 was.
as in horrible? because i agree but not as bad as this game.from memory rdr2 felt weird at first but you got use to it but witcher 3 was just a pain for the most part but got use to it too.
@@SENATORPAIN1 no as in they feel intelligent, they stop at cliffs, dodge trees (sometimes they don't lol) and get nervous near predators (it's present in the witcher 3 too but the horse doesn't really react, it just bucks you off when the meter is full, in rdr2 it will start panicking before bucking you off and running away).
@@astronaut-n1c i dont remember rdr2 too well but ill agree it was better lol i only played witcher 3 recently so have more memory of it.
I downloaded and deleted the game 3 times , each after 1 hour.
This is like a twilight zone comment section
It pisses me off that your health bar doesn’t regenerate without having to eat food
Right?! And so you try to get food and its nearly impossible and costs all the 60 bucks you made after doing 4 side jobs that don't even gain you anything meaningful As far as xp, weapons armor ect. It just dosent equate.
Just meditate after a fight and it refills your life.
@@pimtool9351 lol u dont have to buy food from vendors brother it will cost u 4x the price. U just loot it from surroundings, the best way to get consumables in early game is to loot stuff from the peasant huts in white orchard, you'll have ample consumables
There is a skill that makes 1 piece of food regen your hp for 20 mins straight and you can get the skill at level 2
Completed Elden Ring, did 2 playthroughs of BG3 , I tried to play and love Witcher 3 at least 3 times , but I always get bored around after Red Barron quest and the main story up until this point is , " sorry Geralt your Ciri is in another castle " 😂 , maybe it does get good at certain point but I can see why people drop it all the time - finding new gear ain't fun, it's a chore , the main storyline in the begining is as good as Super Mario, so the game kind of locks you out of 2 things from the begining - engaging story and varied gear that would make gameplay worth it, so people who either dont know much of a lore or dont know what to expect story wise give up on it early, despite game being praised by ton of reviewers
I was really proud of that line.
Just got my refund and bought Resident Evil 2 Remake with the money, best thing I've did in a while
I could never bring myself to finish this game
Your loss
Can’t blame you. It’s boring af.
@@LUckybones25 go back to playing COD💀
My biggest gripe about the Witcher 3 is the core mechanics of the game itself. Movement and combat is absolutely clunky and button mashy. Mash buttons and roll around until the thing is dead, boss fights have a bit of variation but same thing more or less. Great story line and interesting places but it lacks the core necessary to back it all up. It's like this beautiful castle built on a shaky foundation.
I want to like this game, but i keep dying, the combat is so crap.
The only valid point you have is the combat. Rest of the video makes no sense, you're not giving facts...you're just talking...I understand the need for you to be in that 8% of people that didn't like this game, this video will get you lots of views just by puting 'I hate it' in the title. The fact that you don't know when to use light vs strong attacks kinda gives me a clue of how you've played the game. Some games are not for everyone, and i'm glad this is one of those games. You should stick to the more easy ones, with a little more liniar story.
Witcher3: overrated and boring.
Very very very overrated i forced myself into this game and I couldn’t handle the game leveling system
'Hearts of Stone' has one of the best stories I have ever encountered in a video game, but dlc aside Witcher 3 is one of the most overrated games of all time.
Yeah it was pretty good, but the RPG element kinda ruins these kind of stories. Feels like the characters choices are catered to your reactions... it just makes it feel silly at times. RPG games are not meant for personal/movie like stories in my opinion, it’s just not possible.
There’s something wrong with the company cdpr. Notice how both games Cyberpunk and Witcher 3 seem to have the same air of hype around them? Except with Cyberpunk their marketing plan didn’t last long after release because they did not learn from the mistakes of W3. Cyberpunk had more competition than the Witcher 3 which they did not prepare for so they were floating on a cloud where they believed they did everything right. I just refuse to believe that the ratings are so high from genuine reviews.
exactly what I was thinking. This game doesn't seem to deliver what all the great reviews say it does. With other games that are highly praised I usually agree or at least understand the praise, not so here. They probably have an army of bots, or even staff spamming this stuff online, maybe even here. Just from that many sheeple will follow.
@@Maarten8867 I think your on to something here ! good point! I don't see any of the praise during my gameplay experience, whereas other games I do.
A lot of the hype comes from Eastern Europeans. It's the only large Polish gaming company out there, so a lot of Poles sort of see the Witcher as their 'national treasure'.
Beep boop i am a robot, Witcher is the best
After it sat in my steam library for years I finally put like 10 hours into it a few months ago. I have 0 faith in the tastes of other people. This game was literal dog shit. I can appreciate there is a coherent story and audio/visual experience but as a game it is a solid 4/10.
Game is fun asf for the first 15 hours but then it just gets tedious asf, u can’t do a main quest or any quest for that matter if u aren’t strong enough . After that u have to do side missions in order to level up and the side missions are basically all the same , “go lift this curse “ “ find somebody for me “ “there’s a monster in the woods go kill him for money “ …. The MAIN story it’s self I enjoyed 100% but the other stuff is um lackluster
I just tried this game.. for like the 4th time, and i immediately realize why i uninstalled it before. Its just bad. The controls are bad and it sucks the joy out of it
I've also tried it multiple times and just tried it with the next-gen patch on Seties X and still can't get into it, gave up after 10 hours again. It has good graphics and good writing, the problem is it's way too much content and everything feels cluttered. Don't even get me started on the worthless alchemy and all the cluttered ingredients. A good RPG should have good writing but it should also have a good combat system that develops and evolves overtime.
In The Witcher 3 everything you get from the beginning of the game is pretty much the combat that you will have for the entire duration of the game, it never adds more intricate layers and becomes fun, it's extremely mediocre. If you look at Lies of P and Lords of the Fallen that just came out, that is what you would call an actual fun combat system. Even is Cyberpunk 2077 combat is always evolving. Sadly we live in a day in age where most people would rather just play a book.
In fact when I started the game it was boring and I hated to play the side quest buh the game forces me to do sometimes.
Later I had time on it and played everything and to be truthful is one of my best game now
I only hate the movement aspect of it buh…
I really really love it🥰
I’ve logged 10,500 into EA’s shitty Star Wars Battlefront 2 and even I still can’t compel myself to play a single day’s afternoon of Witcher 3 despite having played the hell out of Skyrim, all Dragon Ages, Elden Ring, both God Of Wars, Horizon series, Shadow series of Lord Of The Rings, Halo 2 and 3, Zelda: BotW, Final Fantasies, BloodBorne, Dark Souls, and as well as 9 years dedicated to the Classic 2005 Battlefront 2 of which I still have access to the PC version with mods to play anytime I want. So I’m aware of what good games are and of my convenience to play the Classic version in any form of Star Wars, as I’m aware that the Classic is superior. It is superior.
Just using that as emphasis that despite my experience with highly regarded video games across all platforms, Witcher 3 still can’t compel me but 10.5k hours later and I’m still playing EA’s shitty game. I also tried Galactic Contention via Squad and that was boring.
I confuse a lot of people.
Not sure if you noticed but I hate to break it to you, Witcher 3 isn’t a platformer. I know, I know, unbelievable but that’s the truth.
Oh shit really? I guess I got confused the way the main character was always hopping, and spinning about...
I feel you. I started the game 2 years back. I stopped after getting into the bar. Uninstalled. After a year Installed again started from scratch coz I forgot all the controls and stuff. Reached the bar and killed a witch who was in a well. Got bored. Uninstalled. Now waiting for next year to start over. 🤷
So you played a deep rpg with hundreds of hours worth of content for ~40 minutes (since you quit after the devil by the well contract which is the first side mission most players do really) and you really are trying to give an opinion on it? My question is who asked?
@@darkporco443 If you get bored after constantly forcing yourself to play and uninstall a game, it usually means you dont enjoy the game if this guy doesn’t like it then he doesn’t have to. The gameplay is crap, mechanics feel like there out of a 2007 game and the quests are boring I’m sick of the overhype for this game, just because others like it others don’t have to
@@darkporco443 what’s the point of playing if the first hour wasn’t good . It’s not like the controls or gameplay is gonna change enough to like it . Maybe the story but if the game sucks then idc about the story
I know it's late to comment on this, but it seems like the issue is with you personally and not the game.😂
@@deepinsights707 bro the amount of stupid people in this comment section is ridiculous, if you dont have the IQ to comprehend whats going on thats a personal problem, theres a reason this game has almost 1000 awards and is considered GAME OF THE DECADE
I, too, tried 2 times and ultimately uninstalled it both times after 1 hr. i don't know why i don't like it.
I love the series on Netflix, though 😍
I just didnt like the fact i always had to do a task to get info, and when you do that, its an anti climax, they just say, go the next npc, again do a task, and go to the next npc. Boring quests all the time. Could also be because i didnt do 1 and 2, did have any nostalgia on the story.
Trust me, the fact that you didn't play The Witcher 1 and 2 has nothing to do with it. I loved the first two games and I hate The Witcher 3. The first two did a far better job in terms of quest design and story telling. And the gameplay is better and more immersive too.
TO BE HONEST I HATE THIS GAME SO MUCH , THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS BETTER THAN HORIZON ,BATMAN , SPIDERMAN , GOD OF WAR .... IDONT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE BEAUTIUL MOUNTAINS OR THE LOOOONG CONVERSATION SPECIALLY WHEN MY ENGLISH IS NOT THAT GOOD IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A STORY Detroit: Become Human IS 100 TIMES BETTER STORY
I agree with you. Days gone is better. I wish I can get a refund but I can't. Smh
If you hate controls in this game
Try “ys” series
They have very tight and precise controls that makes playing them alot more enjoyable than games like witcher
I spent hours and hours of grinding (not that it’s required or anything) in that game and every second of it felt great
I can't remember which one but I remember playing a ys game on a PSP emulator and the first thing that impressed me was the controls. I got the one for the ps4 and the controls are still top-notch. Its a very fun game.
Yep another Scrub Saying an auto attack simulator is tight and precise controls lmao. Git gud kid!
(Engrish) When i tried the game i remember about:
-Beautiful graphics and good artistic direction and musics.
-Okay battle system. An awkward in between action and rpg. Not my cup of tea but it's not weak either.
-An overload of "look at how humanity sucks, no matter what you'll do the world will sucks" kind of edgy vibes. Coupled with Geralt's weird tendency to cut people in half all the time (without potions) like it's the best thing about his work, i really felt like he was a weird serial killer pretending to help random people for money. His personal life and problems, well... i kinda didn't cared at all after that.
Then i forgot i was playing it (ps4). It's 9.99 on Steam right now, maybe i will try it again or just read the books (more nuances probably) instead.
when your Witcher cuts people in half then you have the 10% dismemberment trophy in your horse 😁
He is a weird serial killer helping people for money tho lmao they (witchers) mostly prey on poor fucking peasants who can't defend themselves to give them all they've got to get rid of some monstrosities killing them
One thing that continuously gets to me w/ TW3 is the quests that trigger without asking. Like I was on Skellige, went to Kaer Trolde to see the blacksmith b/c I wanted to sell some of the (copious amount of) gear I'd picked up, and get some upgrades for my equipped armor. Instead of that, the gate to the keep opens, and I'm dragged into the banquet hall to help choose a new king of Skellige. I can't even go back to the blacksmith because he's despawned until I finish the quest. All I wanted was to see the blacksmith. What should be a good side-quest feels like an interloper robbing me of my gaming freedom. Like the game is playing me instead of the other way around.
Hmm. That's a good way of putting it. "The game is playing me, instead of the other way around."
Wasn't that one of the main selling points that this world doesnt give a sh** about witcher(that means you) and big things are happening in the background(war between kingdoms, fight between clans, conflict between humans and non humans, religion wars...) witcher is not a hero in this universe, world is not spinning around you as a player, you just a small piece which no one gives a f*** about.
The blacksmith in kaer trolde didn't disappear bcoz of the quest lol, that blacksmith is glitched. He disappears randomly at any point in the game, all u had to do was just meditate a couple times and he would reappear
@@kidnamedfinger2840 lol that’s kinda funny
started it 3 times. at some point i just stop playing,cant really say why. i own all 3 games. same happened with the first and i didn't even tried the second. i don't mind people enjoying it. i just don't get it.
I don't like the third but I do like the second so take that for what it's worth.
the combat themes are awesome
probably the only thing I liked sadly , I really wanted to like it
damn u have a problem with what u like then...
@@sfantugraal6717 well what can I do
You have barely scratched the surface layer of this game, you said you have 35 hours in total, on a first playthrough it will take nearly 100 hours to complete the game (Not counting DLC). The beginning of the game is the most boring because you don't fully understand what is going on and the rules of the universe. Once you submerge yourself a bit deeper into the world of the witcher you get a new perspective and realize what a great game this really is.
My point is that you can't really say you don't like something without having really tried it, you have barely played a third of the game and you have not given yourself the opportunity to get to know (or even meet) most of the characters that make this game so enjoyable.
Give it another try, play through it all (DLC included) and try to tell me it's still a boring and shallow game.
Your comment is completely stupid and every single Witcher Fanboy keeps beating on the same drum. It's not fair for him to judge it because he's only played 35 hours lol. That should be a clear indication if it's not even remotely good by then it's shit. The game has sold many copies, but even if you look at the trophy list, only about 50% of people finish the main campaign and less than 20% finish all of the side crap.
Here's a reality check for you, some people don't want to play a 100 hour book, on top of having a trash combat system that simply isn't fun. You like it, fine, then go walk around those empty baron fields and enjoy your strong and weak attack, and don't forget to roll out of the way and spam the same few signs over and over. Wait I'm sorry, you also get a crossbow and a redundant alchemy system, and I forgot the fact that you can parrry, so it's got way more depth than I ever imagined lol.
honestly I only see an skill issue
The problem with this game is wrong advertisement, it is not the best rpg but the best open world narrative telling game. It's more like an open world novel, and i realized it after 25 hours in. Now i am 70+ hours in game and really enjoying it. Trying to find all school upgrades while doing HoS dlc.
The kind of quests with the bandits show your actions aren't always positive isn't here to guilt trip you;
Just to show you that some things are out of your control and you can always to the right thing.
I think it's the opposite of what your critic tried to point out.
It's here to make you accepte that you can't know the outcome of every situations, you act based on the information you have at the time and what you think is right,
nothing more nothing less.
I liked your rant about how movement are "delayed" doesn't stop instantly and you're a platform player.
because I was an absolute fan of Prince of persia I and II when I was young and they were platformer with this kind of delayed movement, while I couldn't care less about platformer like Mario : it's just a difference of expectation, but that argument made me smile.
THe rest of your critic are mostly valid or up to personnal taste. And While Witcher 3 is not a perfect game, for me it's still nothing less than the best RPG ever made.
Err the Wticher 3 is NOT an RPG Game.
It misses first, the most important feature of an RPG by definition: that the player has an option to pick a character role to be.
There is no way you cannot be anything else than Geralt here, the entire game is built on him only. There is no different past/origin/character option...but him only. This kills the RPG definition.
On top of this the game misses the options that RPG genre was built on, to provide different ways to solve situations, for example one of the most critical limitations is that the game has no stealth. There are other limitations but anyway, the game is NOT an RPG, even if it borrows other RPG mechanics.
Pathetic game repetitive missions , average map at best , dogwater crafting system , death from falling 2 foot , monsters on every road you go down hardly any natural wildlife
11:45 This is a problem when you have a series of books before your third game. That’s a lot of information for new players.
I got through the tutorial for Witcher 3 and had to call it quits. I just don't get how "realistic, weighty" movement games like this have is seen as a positive. I didn't really sink my teeth into the combat itself too much, but for someone that was practically raised on Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden, I doubt the Witcher would have kept me on board in that department.
i felt lucky when i got this for 25$ but after playing for 2 months i sold it of i feel the same as you mentioned.
Haha same i got it for the same price im going to sell it. Its not worth playing again. Its so boring.
@@JMega007 yup
For me, I could never get immersed in the world because it just wasn't a fun place to be immersed IN. Skyrim is beautiful but deadly, and full of interesting people. Witcher 3 is bland, without a lot to discover outside of cities, and most of their inhabitants aren't the sort you want to spend time with. Everything and everyone is dirty and unpleasant -- which may be realistic, but hardly fun. At least for me. Outside of that, I hate -- HATE -- combat that's based on a bunch of inane rolling around.
Whoever likes this game doesn't know what a good game is.
Did you not pay attention to the bloody Barron story line ?
Skyrim is king. Soooooo disappointed in this game.
I also didn't care about The Witcher 3 for years. I had heard a lot of good things about it, but didn't care because the medieval setup was not appealing to me at all and I wasn't a fan of RPGS etc.
Until I played it 6 months ago, and wow, I've never seen a game that does so well in so many key areas.
Combat's no Dark Souls, it's quite simple, yes, but it's not bad by any means, just ok, which is fine by me.
Literally the only thing I didn't like was the clunky movements, that's it. EVERYTHING else appart from the combat was perfection to me. Those 2 things just can't make a game bad imo, ESPECIALLY considering everything this game does so well ( story, characters, soundtrack, side quests, choices, graphics..)
I didn't come into this game looking for the best gameplay ever, I was looking for a good game that I thought was going to be severely overrated, boy was I wrong, and pleasantly surprised
I've played to many games with good combat that the combat is just straight up dog shit. I couldn't make it past the 5 hour mark. I play games for gameplay. I love story games, but if the gameplay holds it back I cannot enjoy. I love RDR2, but I can understand why the gameplay can hold people back. I honestly don't get what people have problem with RDR2's gameplay. It feels like a normal Rockstar game.
@@GreenWolf2k I mean it's the exact same with RDR2 yea, I love this game but the gameplay is repetitive af.
Shoot - Hide - Repeat, literally for 80 hours.
Which I'm okay with, but that's definitely not for everybody. It does feel like a "normal" Rockstar gameplay, but I really do hope it'll get better with their next game tbh.
TW3's combat isn't that good either but at least it's got some complexity to it, you have spells and alchemy to make it a lot more interesting.
Both games are pretty linear and narrative- driven anyway so I don't mind at all.
@@GreenWolf2k everything else apart from the combat was perfection. Maybe you should play your games on story mode then. What’s the point of playing a video game if the movements and combat are clunky to the point that they make gameplay pointless?
@@5445jedi Why would I play a game if I'm not gonna you know play the game. The gameplay of Witcher killed it for me. Hell even looking back on it Geralt wasn't an interesting character for how far I made it into the game. Maybe if I went back and played the 1st and 2nd game I could appreciate the story more but it was ehhh.
The clunky movement breaks the entire game for me.
It's like if you broke my legs then told me to enjoy a relaxing stroll through a park on a nice day.
I could enjoy the walk if not for the constant discomfort that arises every time I try to move or do anything.
Why did you take me to this beautiful park and then break my legs?
This is a masterpiece of a game. Or atleast that’s what everyone says. I’m glad I’m not alone! Thank you for this video. I couldn’t get into it. I did have fun playing the in-game card game. I might jump back into it for that.
The game is boring, combat is horrible, movement is clunky, only a couple useful signs, and once you get half through the game the combat is piss easy
I thought I was just playing the game wrong or just doing something wrong period when I played this game. Most people say this is the game of the decade and the greatest game of all time and nothing in this game made me think that. the movement is mediocre, the pacing isn't that good. I like most of the characters and the scope of the game is really impressive but not an interesting world. combat against beast felt like work and I hated it. the boss battles were uninteresting and lackluster. I got tired of being an errand boy because people don't want to tell me if they'd seen Ciri or not and when they do tell me, they tell me that "this person should know where she is" and then when I go ask that person the errand boy stuff repeats. When I finally finished the main game my initial reaction was "man what a ride, glad that's over". I can understand someone loving this game if they're really into fantasy worlds and good narratives and lots of side quests that are indistinguishable from the main quests. I just can't understand a game being universally praised this high when the controls and combat system arent any good.
@@2Gunz_Gaming No You are Listening to the points of an idiot who has no idea what a RPG, World Building, Combat, Story Telling, or skill means what so ever. The game has it's flaws, but over 90 percent of the internet think it's a great game sooooooo.
yeah the only part of the game i have enjoyed so far is gwent. im gonna get rich off 10 crown bets on gwent then see if i have the will to keep playing this game.
@@drunkhusband6257 The story of the Witcher is boring?
i really tried to like it
but i think this game is not for me, i just cant like the gameplay and the combat, the story was so confusing i didnt enjoy it at all.
the game is not worth playing without some essential mods like no levels, autoloot and no inventory weight limit
This summarises my feelings about the game pretty well. The combat just felt of to me. The basics of it are quite similiar to Shadow of war, which I really liked, but it's just not as good. Even in shadow of war, the combat wasn't the best imo. I just don't like it when your attacks have you stepping forward as if you were doing longjumps. In the witcher 3, I never got past the quest for the baron to find his wife and daughter because god damn was it boring. It was meant to be a twist that the baron was actually the bad guy, but I saw it coming before the first cutscene even ended. And I find it hard to believe that there would be people who didn't see the twist comming. I predicted pretty much everything that quest had in it. Then the quest witch the witches is also not very intriguing. And I totally agree with the loot thing. I don't feel vey inclined to explore and do quests unless I actually get something cool and useful out of it. But in reality, the only useful thing I got from side quests was xp and I only did side quests for xp so I wouldn't be underleveled.
It's a fine enough game, but not the masterpiece it's made out to be.
Oh well, not everyone can have good taste. Otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as good taste.
Yeah, my best friend tells me the same thing because I won't eat seafood.
Most people love Mc Donalds, doesn't mean it's gourmet shit
It is a fact that the majority of the world population is stupid, has no culture and have bad taste, especially if we reduce this to the scale of gamers. That said, I find it hard that liking this silly game being considered "good taste".
@@victoremanuel3151 Name any game, and it can easily be reduced to "silly little game"
This game is so overcomplicated. They make it so hard and confusing to buy and sell, craft weapons, follow quests, craft anything, it just dosent make sense and just feels like your going backwards. I did a bunch of side stuff and collected everything I saw and looted as much as I could and still ended up with like 50 bucks and not enough food for health to even beat that retarded Griffin. Also dosent matter how much I do, I cant even level up to level 3 to where I could beat that thing. Also my horse only comes when it's called 50 percent of the time, and my dude just wanders off in one direction after I stop controlling him. I could go on and on but this game is just waaaaay overly complicated.
Because its not skyrim. In skyrim you were supposed to loot tons of items and sell it. In this game your main income are quests, more precisely hunting monsters and negotiating highest reward possible. And when it comes to selling swords you must take the games story to consideration. The action of the game happens during war and obviously that makes swords maces and etc so common that they are almost wortless. In the other hand food is hard to get so its supoosed to be expensive.
It sounds like you're trying to fit a square in a circle. The Witcher 3 may be many things but complicated it really is not. Quite the opposite imo as quests are really straight-forward and tell you exactly what to do and where to go almost every time. And calling a huge game like this overly complicated after just the first few hours is unfair.
ive got it for 4 dollars on steam and now i'm regretting it
Same... it feels like a bait, after 5 hours you want a refound but you can't have it :C
Both of you are ignorant to think that this game isn't worth 4 dollars.
@@outa9796 the prefefer fortnite.. beacuse no one likes to use their brain nowdays
You lot are idiots, the games worth full price yet your bitching over 4 dollars
@@Ibrahim-wr5fs after this comment was made I replayed and finished both expansion as well ..this game was worth 10/10 ..only if cdpk hadn't messed up with cyberpunk I could have hoped for a new witcher game and that's gone now
Got this game for cheap on sale and went into it with high expectations because for years this game has had 10/10 reviews. Put about 50 hours into this game and I can’t do it anymore. I think the main problem for me is the gameplay, the combat, something about it feels so cheap - horse riding is a pain I’d rather fast travel than ride around, don’t feel the need to explore anything. Looting feels like a chore, the music is actually okay apart from when it loops about 20 times during a conversation with an npc. And the story? I mean there were a handful of times where i was interested but for the most time…Nah. Maybe it’s because my expectations were set so high, I’ve completed great games such as God of war, The last of us 1, that my expectations have been set so high when it comes to gameplay and story. Hope that CD Projekt red can come out with some other titles because I love the fantasy, sci fi genres.
witcher 3 is the the best game i have ever played
A lot of your complaints with the dialogue and decision structure is a staple of the franchise, I know that doesn’t change anything from your point. Like the concept of greater and lesser evils are used every other quest and its about how action and inaction are choices themselves. Geralt throughout the franchise has this desire to stay neutral because he feels as if he makes the wrong decisions no matter what he chooses. The game never condemns you as evil however, and if you feel bad about a choice you made then thats more of you projecting your morality onto the game rather than it passing judgement at you. As I said though its a staple of the franchise and people will either love it or hate it, I love it because it changes how I view decisions . More, how could this effect the world later, and less of, what does it mean now?
witcher 3 is the best game I have ever played so much so that almost nothing compares to it
The main reason about the hate is that CD Projekt Red was new to games, the witcher was their first ever video game, they had not much money to fix or make the game better, but hopefully now they'll do great as they are famous and have money now, lets see how witcher 4 will do
What can I say about click bait? Oh, yes... I hate it. But is really effective and I'm waiting for see what are your arguments. See ya after the video.
movement and combat feels good to me honestly. Maybe its just the controller feels better to play with then the mouse, maybe the vibrations make the combat feel weighted for me? Good review though, I love this game to death but its interesting to see your view. Also you have probably heard this already but were you playing on death march cause I only enjoyed combat after changing difficulty to deathmarch, it brings out your strategic brain and causes you to use all the tools given to you: bombs, oils, decoctions as well as get good at dodging cause every hit hits like a truck.
Played on both controller and mouse. Controller feels WAY more smooth than mouse and keyboard.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about anything. I don't put down anyone who disagrees with me, doesn't like what I like. I love the Witcher 3, but it's good to hear other people thoughts about the game.
I agree with you regarding the controls/combat but the rest of the review lacks substance.
Mostly because he´s giving an opinion as a fact, which is something a child would do. The combat is the only objective thing he talked about in here lol
I will say this is one of the few games that made me like sidequests
I love the game to death but I kind of also really love your review.
Well I guess that's as good a complement as you can get.
Its a legit review. And i love this game to death too haha. But i only play for the story.
@Hyper jones It's fun
I'm enjoying the game. I just started playing it after putting down cp2077.
I think the game is good. I'm still enjoying it. I dont like the controls however at all. Hate it in fact. But other than that, im enjoying the game.
I cannot express enough my condolences for your purchase of cyberpunk 😔