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HoloDust on 03 June 2015
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SvennoJ said:
ironmanDX said:

The world and characters are great and I want to see more, the gameplay is a hinderance at times. For example what is the point of letting me play Ciri for a few minutes. I had another screw up with the bit where you get rudely interrupted by a cutscene when the barron gets grabbed by a griffin and put on top of the tower. I tried to get on the tower only to be met by invisible walls, clearly jumping high enough but not being able to get on the ledge. Blame me or the camera but the 'obvious' path wasn't obvious to me and I set out in the only open direction following invisble walls all the way to the harpy feeding grounds where further invisible walls barred my way. I figured maybe if I kill enough harpies the griffin will come and I can finish him off, there must be a reason I can go here. Well not, after killing 10 of them I went back along the walls to the tower where I spotted the ledge for another cut scene to finish the now completely ruined story scene. So yes, it's often not all that fun to play, but it's a great place to be and explore with awesome characters to meet. Plus it knows full well how to get you hooked with all the increasing numbers and loot.

It's not particularly the witcher's fault. It's more the nature of open world games. You have to play more and more to get the same satisfaction out of it until it leaves you burned out. At least that's my experience with these kinds of games. I'm in the honeymoon period atm after a rocky courtship, yet I know it will end in divorce, at which point I'll never touch it again.
The witcher 2 was better for me. There I was actually interested in figuring out what all the choices did and played through both paths in chapter 2 and all the mutations in the last chapter. I've stopped caring about my choices in the Witcher 3 and enjoy the world instead.


Ah, certain restictions in this game with invisible walls really suprised me...such an amateurish mistakes from CDPR. That, along terrible handling of jumping and climbing steeper hills, is really annoying me, since there are more than a few open-world aRPGs that do thic right.

Anyway, I've accepted that I have to play with POIs and quest markers so far, so I'm trying to enjoy it that way, but can't shake off the thought how much better the game would be if they were smarter in how they've designed world-quest-POI symbiosis. Still enjoying it a lot, I would still recommned it to all open-word aRPG fans, but overall I'm in 8/10 mood (which is pretty good for me, my favourite aRPGs are 9/10).