The Witcher 3 Is Not Fun To Play (But The Quests Are Godly)

[SvennoJ]

I had another hour or so to play, but the game only managed to annoy me.

First the fight with the griffon, or more accurately the controls and the camera. I didn't die but it was far from a satisfying experience, just a sigh of relief, glad that's over.

Then in the garrison the game felt it necessary to torture a farmer, so I try to find a way to stop it. I guess you can't. Locked door, nobody wants to talk, if you try to attack them they turn out to be 10 times stronger than you. Why did they need me to kill the griffon, they could have simply shot it out of the sky...

Next a brawl in the tavern. No I don't want to fight them, they're just drunk and live here after all. I try to persuade them with magic, yet it only stuns them. I put my sword away to knock them out in a fist fight like earlier, doesn't work. He automatically draws his sword again. I keep fending them off, only using stuns, not harming them trying to find a solution when the game suddenly starts loading and presents a cut scene with all of them dead and me hacking the last guys head off. WTF???

I missed half the conversation after that, thinking about what I could have done differently. I exit and reload, guess not. Can't do anything about it. I hate that in games, don't give me control if you're just going to make me do stuff I don't want to do.

Long cut scene later, now it's question time about The Witcher 2. Umm, I don't really remember, and I played all different paths anyway. Does it matter? I guess I spared him in one of my playthroughs, maybe he's still alive, I don't know. Where are my clothes, here I'll set your fancy suit on fire, 'abilities not available right now'.
Yeah I quit for today, not in the mood anymore.