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Eddie_Raja on 28 May 2015
GribbleGrunger said:

Having finished the excellent Bloodborne, I thought The Witcher would scratch an itch but instead it has me scratching my head. I'm not very far into the game, hell, I haven't even defeated the Griffon yet, but there's the thing, I keep turning it off after half an hour of play. It's just so damned 'boring' and 'awkward'. It's almost as if the devs considered every possible way of making it control badly and then added them in. I dislike controlling a character who slowly increases in speed and then slowly decreases in speed, it makes those simple tasks of grabbing loot or interacting that much more frustrating. The horse isn't fun to ride either. I just feel as if this world needs exploring but every time I look out at that vista I quit. It's a weird feeling really. I just know that it's not going to be fun to walk, ride, run, gallop, fight and forage, so what is the point in continuing to explore? And then you have the menu system which is far too busy and conplex for it's own good. I get abolutely no satisfaction from looking through the menus. I'm impressed with the graphics but just like the menu and and controls, clearly the devs needed to find a way of spoiling that too by cranking up the colour to sickening levels.

Disappointed.


Yep!  I played the Witcher 2 for a couple hours and just got to bored to boot it up again.  

WARNING:  The Souls Series ruins  most other action RPG's for you because they have VASTLY inferior combat systems.  Only other RPG I can play is Skyrim.



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dukerx2 on 28 May 2015

I agree, the controls could be better but Im enjoying the game.



Mummelmann on 29 May 2015
Eddie_Raja said:
GribbleGrunger said:

Having finished the excellent Bloodborne, I thought The Witcher would scratch an itch but instead it has me scratching my head. I'm not very far into the game, hell, I haven't even defeated the Griffon yet, but there's the thing, I keep turning it off after half an hour of play. It's just so damned 'boring' and 'awkward'. It's almost as if the devs considered every possible way of making it control badly and then added them in. I dislike controlling a character who slowly increases in speed and then slowly decreases in speed, it makes those simple tasks of grabbing loot or interacting that much more frustrating. The horse isn't fun to ride either. I just feel as if this world needs exploring but every time I look out at that vista I quit. It's a weird feeling really. I just know that it's not going to be fun to walk, ride, run, gallop, fight and forage, so what is the point in continuing to explore? And then you have the menu system which is far too busy and conplex for it's own good. I get abolutely no satisfaction from looking through the menus. I'm impressed with the graphics but just like the menu and and controls, clearly the devs needed to find a way of spoiling that too by cranking up the colour to sickening levels.

Disappointed.


Yep!  I played the Witcher 2 for a couple hours and just got to bored to boot it up again.  

WARNING:  The Souls Series ruins  most other action RPG's for you because they have VASTLY inferior combat systems.  Only other RPG I can play is Skyrim.


Really? Skyrim doesn't even have a proper combat system, it lacks any proper feedback of feel, it's the fighting equivalent of an arcade racer imo.

That said; the combat in the Souls series really is fantastic.



GamechaserBE on 29 May 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
globalisateur said:


Yes. The world. It's so immersive, so much details everywhere, the world is also very cohesive. It's going to be hard to play another RPG after this one...

Or maybe The witcher 4?

Every WRPG is going to be compared to this game now. Guarilla games better have something comparable AND hire some decent script writers,

Hmm find it hard to compare All WRPG's.  Is like comparing Persona games with Final Fantasy.  Skyrim feel so different in many ways some aspects Skyrim can learn from the Witcher 3 but some in Skyrim like leveling up, playing in FPS stealthy lockpicking, creating own characters/race feels better..

What I remember is that Witcher 2 released around Skyrim's release and Witcher 3 feels like a huge improvement especially on consoles so can not wait how the next Fallout/Eso/ME will be like.



HoloDust on 29 May 2015
Mummelmann said:
Eddie_Raja said:


Yep!  I played the Witcher 2 for a couple hours and just got to bored to boot it up again.  

WARNING:  The Souls Series ruins  most other action RPG's for you because they have VASTLY inferior combat systems.  Only other RPG I can play is Skyrim.


Really? Skyrim doesn't even have a proper combat system, it lacks any proper feedback of feel, it's the fighting equivalent of an arcade racer imo.

That said; the combat in the Souls series really is fantastic.

Yeah, TES games are not well known for their combat, it's as basic as they come. Still very good games (specially Morrowind) for many different reasons, which is, I'm afraid, something that seems a lot of people who compare everything to Souls don't quite get - strength of RPGs, especially of open-world variety, does not rely strictly on combat, since there are many examples of fantastic RPGs that have...let's say, 'acquired taste' combat.

That said, I'm finding combat in Witcher 3 very satisifying - though I prefer heavier feel of games like Severance: Blade of Darknesss (which, IMO has better combat than Souls), whether it's (depending on situation and type/number of enemies) slow stand-off or frenzied duck and slash affair, so far, I've never thought 'this is not very good', which I had few times even in Gothic (btw, I still find it to be, overall, better than W3).



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GribbleGrunger on 29 May 2015

Ok, back to disliking this game again ... actually 'hating it'. Swimming ... Oh my good GOD, what an absolute shambles.



 

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GamechaserBE on 29 May 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
Ok, back to disliking this game again ... actually 'hating it'. Swimming ... Oh my good GOD, what an absolute shambles.

Honestly same for me but I got used to it just like I got used to moving Gerald. At first you bump into everything and after a while you get so used to it.  I am kind of surprised took you some time to swim for the first time?  Gametrailers pointed out that swimming controls were bad so was expecting it =p.



Roronaa_chan on 29 May 2015

If you're going to switch around so much you might wait until you are done with the game to have a proper stance on it.



GribbleGrunger on 29 May 2015
GamechaserBE said:

Honestly same for me but I got used to it just like I got used to moving Gerald. At first you bump into everything and after a while you get so used to it.  I am kind of surprised took you some time to swim for the first time?  Gametrailers pointed out that swimming controls were bad so was expecting it =p.

I've swam quite a few times but the 'hidden treasure' I've just tried to get (and drowned trying to swim back up) was inside a sunken ruins with lots of lovely jagged symetry for me to get caught on. O ... O ... O ... Get the F**K UP! O ... XXXXXX ... OOOOOO ... Rage quit.



 

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Angelv577 on 29 May 2015

I am loving it. The combat took a few deaths to get used to but I am surprised how fast I got used to it. So far 9/10 for me