Posted on: February 16, 2024

CarmillaTLV

Games: 302 Reviews: 13

Am I playing the same game as everyone?

Hold up... THIS is the game I kept hearing about? THIS is the 'best game ever made?' This thing? The game with the twitchy controls that make navigating a set of stairs difficult? The forced grind even on story mode? You know, the setting to play the STORY? This game with the barrage of cut scene interspersed with walking or riding? I don't know what 10/10 game other people have been playing but it couldn't possible have been this...

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Posted on: December 25, 2021

BoogieManatee

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 2

A Pretty Good Movie

It works fine as a movie, but the combat is crazy slow, exploration feels unsatisfying, and the decisions while technically far reaching aren't real choices. I'll break those down, but overall it's worth playing with around 40 gameplay mods and a few guides to let you know which choices are thought out with hours of cut scenes and which ones result in a 'you died of disentary' style abrupt outcome. Combat and all movement is rough. Every swing or turn you make takes seconds to animate AFTER you press the button. You don't press X to fast swing, you press X to command Geralt to fast swing and then he'll do it after. You dont push your stick right to move right, you push it right, wait for him to turn fully, start his stride and end his stride. Walking through buildings was STILL the largest challenge on Death March. Exploration reminded me of Tera. EVERYTHING is reused. New gear is just the same gear but this one has a gold background. There are maybe 3 faces for each gender and race so every cabin (let alone every town) has identical people, bins, and monsters right next to eachother, even with crowd sizes set lower. I lowered it initially because I saw 5 identical peasants (face, hair, clothes, and all) walking in a row and thought it was a quest or something but then it happened again and again... There are entire buildings with furniture that have been completely recycled without changing a color. The most devistating part was the choices though. Regardless of dialogue choice, be it 'flirty', 'kind', or 'furious', Geralt will growl and grimace at everything he speaks to: murderers, monsters, his daughter, children. The game punishes you if you don't play Geralt as money hungry and unfeeling by making you mean regardless. I feel blessed that I never cared about Triss from previous games because while presented as a romance choice she has about a fifth the content as Yen. Definitely follow a guide!

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Posted on: June 4, 2022

Games: 0 Reviews: 2

I can't delete my own review

very frustrating and dissapointing

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Posted on: October 11, 2023

rei757

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 1

Controller Support

The fat that this game it not a Pc exclusive and the PC version does not support controllers it real stupid

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Posted on: December 23, 2017

Socratatus

Games: 270 Reviews: 72

Pussy Witcher?

Didn`t expect to give this game such a low rating. Considering the raving and someone even said it was as good as Morrowind, I never got that vibe from this game at all. In fact I got really bored. Morrowind never bored me this early on. Now I played the Witcher 1 2 and thought they were great, but here there is something wrong with him. It`s like he`s become a pussy. He seems to be just riding around for the sake of women all the time. Let me explain, at the start of the game he`s seeking a woman, ok, fine. Not sure why... is it for love? He finds her. Oh now he`s got to find Ciri who might be in trouble- Do I have a choice to say yes or no? Nope, I just have to agree. She`s uber super good which is like in every tired feminist movie we see today. Also I don`t want to play as uber Ciri, I bought the game to play as the WITCHER, Geralt. Why does he even have to rescue her if she`s this good? But he crawls after her anyway. So I wander about the nice countryside in forced 3rd person doing some sidequests (some are interesting, most not). Bump into a guy where another woman needs help and had a baby that was aborted... sigh.. In the Witcher 1 and 2, Geralt was HIS OWN MAN. Sure he sought women but for a very simple reason, to have his way with them! ;) Sometimes to help them, of course. But now he`s a wimpy mangina chasing women around like a love sick dolt. Heck, you don`t even see any female nudity like in the previous games (well I saw a bit of a bum). The women are patronising to him, talking to him like they own him and he won`t even lip back. I stopped playing out of boredom and a lack of feeling like I was playing the REAL Witcher and went back to Dragon Age where I felt more like a Man in a real adventure where I`m not chasing women forlornly everywhere. Graphics are admittedly, amazing. It`s not enough. Maybe it`ll get better later when I can be arsed to go back- If ever. Disappointing. I`m sure I`ll be called a sexist and all that- Don`t care.

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