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On 12/07/2021 at 16:59, JoeK said:

I don’t think they will, but it would be lovely if they added a bit more nuance to the controls. It’s one of the areas where the game shows its age...the jump between walking/riding slow to running/galloping is literally just ‘on’ or ‘off’ and just popping it on again now, it’s a bit jarring compared to more recent games!

 

Well, I suddenly remembered about this, and wandered over to Nexusmods in search of a control mod - and they have one!

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1933/

 

Only 130k to download, and it works absolutely brilliantly! I don't go from walking to sprinting and look stupid, so therefore I award it a gold star and possibly a lovely lollypop (of the variety you used to get at Little Chefs).

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On 05/09/2021 at 23:55, ravnaz said:

Just completed the main story. 

 

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Ciri becomes a witcher

Started player in 2019. 56 hour completion time. 

 

Now onto hearts of stone and blood and wine. 

 

Perhaps a break first?

 

What a great game!

 

Blood and Wine is beautiful and witty, but I'd suggest doing it last, as it's a bit of a wrap up for the Geralt story.

 

Hearts of Stone is just absolutely amazing in terms of atmosphere. And it introduces(?) the best character in the Witcher game universe. GREAT, great music too. Seriously man, get onto Hearts of Stone, take it slow because it's fantastic.

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3 hours ago, Kevvy Metal said:

Witcher 3 absolutely plays it's best when you take it slower and drink it all in. 

...focusing on being a Witcher, and doing lots of monster hunting for coin. 

Basically be medieval Batman. 

 

I've never played a Witcher game but thoroughly enjoyed the Netflix series. My wife recently started watching it, so I'm rewatching to lap up all the stuff I've missed. It occurred that I bought the GOTY edition, just because everyone loved it and it was something daft like $10, so finally got around to installing it. I just need an epic story to get into and I don't have an Assassin's Creed on the go at the moment.

 

Holy shit, out of the gate this is such a lovely crafted game. The two of them setting off toward the village at during the tutorial/initial story with the rising dawn sun low ahead of them was stunning. Even on ye olde XB1. I can't put my finger on it, but the environments are so much nicer than AC. Not necessarily because they're more detailed - Ubisoft put an incredible amount of work into environments. It just somehow feels alive. Muddy roads actually feel like mud instead of a mud texture. The grass sways. There's weather! I was out in the sticks and the wind picked up and I just sat watching and listening to the trees sway. 

 

The voice acting is a bit... yeah. But it doesn't matter, I'm totally getting sucked into this. I found all the controls pretty baffling, they explain absolutely every aspect of the game and it was difficult to mentally take it all in, but I'm sure I'll pick it up as I go. Plus I went easy difficulty, so I could spend less time over analyzing and agonizing (...I've already searched and you can't max abilities, so I need to pick... argh) over my build and more time fast attacking my way through the story. 

 

I will say that the controls are a little twitchy. I keep turning my character and the camera too much, but I think that's muscle memory from too many Ubisoft sandboxes and I'm sure there's a setting to dial it back a bit.

 

Anyway, expect a series of blog posts as I discover what everyone already knew years ago :)

 

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Sorry, and the reason I quoted you is that yeah, doing exactly that. No rush to get out of the starter area to see the equivalent of the AC big city, I find myself talking to everyone, picking flowers, and going on complete tangents and... that's fine. I like the slow pace.

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9 minutes ago, TehStu said:

Sorry, and the reason I quoted you is that yeah, doing exactly that. No rush to get out of the starter area to see the equivalent of the AC big city, I find myself talking to everyone, picking flowers, and going on complete tangents and... that's fine. I like the slow pace.

 

It's so flippin' huge that I ended up doing White Orchard stuff after I finished the main game.

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9 minutes ago, TehStu said:

Sorry, and the reason I quoted you is that yeah, doing exactly that. No rush to get out of the starter area to see the equivalent of the AC big city, I find myself talking to everyone, picking flowers, and going on complete tangents and... that's fine. I like the slow pace.

 

Yes! Absolutely!

That starter area is like a nice gentle "tutorial" type area that's nice and self contained. A few games have done that kind of thing, like Breath of the Wild and Horizon: Zero Dawn. 

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Weirdly I started this game in 2017, then put it down around Skellige, then only got back into it earlier this year because a friend started playing it. I was totally absorbed and finished almost everything bar some '?' on the maps. I even replayed the end of the Blood & Wine DLC to see the different outcomes. One thing that still seems impressive is the number of characters on screen at once in the more populated areas, and I never once noticed them doing an identical animation like often happens in other games. It's so impressive for a 2015 game. It probably helps that I had installed a couple visual upgrade mods, but yeah.

 

The way it ends in the DLC with

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Regis and Geralt enjoying mandrake tea at twilight by the lake was just perfect. It's the only game since FF7 that gave me that bittersweet feeling that it had ended.

 

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1 hour ago, Number 28 said:

Weirdly I started this game in 2017, then put it down around Skellige, then only got back into it earlier this year because a friend started playing it. I was totally absorbed and finished almost everything bar some '?' on the maps. I even replayed the end of the Blood & Wine DLC to see the different outcomes. One thing that still seems impressive is the number of characters on screen at once in the more populated areas, and I never once noticed them doing an identical animation like often happens in other games. It's so impressive for a 2015 game. It probably helps that I had installed a couple visual upgrade mods, but yeah.

 

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Regis and Geralt enjoying mandrake tea at twilight by the lake was just perfect. It's the only game since FF7 that gave me that bittersweet feeling that it had ended.

 

 

Hang on...didn't you carry on with the game a little bit further?

 

Maybe...pop over to the vineyard home of yours?

 

I hope so.

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Yeah yeah, course, it just felt like that was the 'official' end because the credits appeared. :)

 

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I got Triss, btw. I'm tempted to do a Yennefer playthrough. I managed to completely miss the Skellige quest where you end up on a ship at the top of an icy mountain...

 

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On 10/09/2021 at 11:24, Kevvy Metal said:

Witcher 3 absolutely plays it's best when you take it slower and drink it all in. 

...focusing on being a Witcher, and doing lots of monster hunting for coin. 

Basically be medieval Batman. 

 

I've only just left White Orchard. I completed it a few nights ago, but wasn't happy with how I did it. So I went through it again and 100%'d the place.

 

It's a great game, no doubt, I'm just having a hard time enjoying 'all' of it. I've listened to all of the NPCs multiple times up to Act I and I've also read all of the notes and books, but I'm still clueless when it comes to the various locations and armies and who's fighting who and what exactly for(?). I'm finding the lore to be impenetrable. The only reason I'm not space barring though the dialogue is purely because I'm trying my hardest to 'get into it', but then it's mostly just going over my head. It's a shame because I'm doing my best to talk to everyone.

 

I feel like I should have read the books, or at the very least played the earlier games. Will I get by alright just by understanding the morals behind the main quest? The side-quests are also much more easily digestible.

 

Anyway, I've just reached the first 'real' zone. So let's see how it goes.

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Yeah, I've only just left White Orchard, and discovered this game is enormous. I made sure I completed everything I could find there before leaving. I have to say, I'm trying to get into the mindset of a Witcher but it's too easy to be nice and decline payment. I gotta snap out of that nonsense, there's no Light Side/Paragon counter that I know of in this game. I fear I'm playing me, not a Witcher.

 

Anyway, there's lots to kill you once you get out into the first proper area, I note. Also, the main quest line gets dark, really quickly. I'm with the Bloody Baron and played with the volume off and headphones in, first time I've ever done that in a game. Subject matter is sensitive for us. That said, without zero knowledge of Witcher (not played previous games), I hope I answered the questions to meet the Nilfgard ruler correctly. Or perhaps it doesn't matter, consequence is difficult to determine in this game. But they almost felt like "have you played before? No? Well, define some character traits by answering a certain way" questions, except I literally had no opinion and selected fairly randomly. 

 

But, enjoying it! Just a bonkers good looking game, might be the best outdoorsy environment I've ever walked through.

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2 minutes ago, TehStu said:

I have to say, I'm trying to get into the mindset of a Witcher but it's too easy to be nice and decline payment. I gotta snap out of that nonsense, there's no Light Side/Paragon counter that I know of in this game. I fear I'm playing me, not a Witcher.

I was in the Blood and Wine DLC before I even bothered to try the haggling option for my payment. I must've missed out on a potential fortune. Oops. :ph34r: Still, I had more cash than I knew what to do with by the end, just from selling the weapons and armour from everyone I brutally killed.

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Can’t you wangle much more coin out of them if you use the Jedi mind tricks first?

 

I’m using the Ghostmode overhaul which balances out the economy somewhat (as well as loads of other stuff), so hopefully I don’t end up too rich with nothing left to buy. So far the income has been quite tough. Even after rinsing absolutely everything I could find I had to carry back loads of rusty swords from that battlefield in White Orchard to pay for the final piece of my Temerian armour set.

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1 hour ago, Fallows said:

Can’t you wangle much more coin out of them if you use the Jedi mind tricks first?

Knowing how KOTOR worked, I did put all 3 points in the magic sign that influences conversations as soon as I could, I'm hoping that unlocks some interesting options.

 

Yeah, not really wanting for money yet, just trying to get into character as it were. I enjoy these games more if I can do that.

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3 hours ago, Fallows said:

So far the income has been quite tough. Even after rinsing absolutely everything I could find I had to carry back loads of rusty swords from that battlefield in White Orchard to pay for the final piece of my Temerian armour set.

On what planet is that even remotely fun? :lol:

 

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I thought it worked out alright. Everything done and everything worthwhile purchased with a few coins left to spare. I was there to blow up a monster nest anyway. I could have sold off a big chunky amethyst and a couple of my other semi-valuable finds, but I'm noticing I'm getting stiffed by vendors and only ending up with a small percentage of the item value for some reason. I want to keep them until I can sell them for more.

 

I dislike ending up being power rich in games to the point where the currency ends up being trivial. Limited cash means purchasing decisions have to be made much more carefully.

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I’ll tell you what else I like about these balancing changes. She’s removed any chance of finding nice stuff in generic loot spots, so no more finding a lush new sword in some random sack beside a peasant’s house - and thus no more hours wasted frantically checking absolutely every looting spot for fear of missing anything. I’m only looting specifically in and around places of interest, such as boss or quest locations.

 

I’m just done with my introduction to the Brummie Baron. Got some interesting new quests on my radar now.

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