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SvennoJ on 14 June 2015
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DakonBlackblade said:
SvennoJ said:
DakonBlackblade said:
They hired the Witchers 3 quest designer its a done deal, this game will be awesome and will not feature any stupid meaningless fetch quests or the kill 5 wolves type of quest.

Depends who they hired. I just had dive for a black pearl quest, straight from WoW.
Kill 5 wolves is all over the game, except now it's find out what's haunting ...... and kill it.
Sure they add a bit of story around it, but you're still doing the same fetch / kill quests.

There are plenty awesome quests in witcher 3. I hope Horizons can avoid the temptation to pad it out with meaningless filler.

Are you seriously comparing the witcher contracts wich are incredibly well designed and involved, where you track the beast down using all of your enhanced senses, learn what it is, prepare for the battle beforehand, learn all the backstory of why that beast is there and is doing what it is doing, with a simple kill 5 of a certain monster type of quest ? The witcher contracts are amongst the best quests in the game, its Geralt doing what he does best.

 

And the pearl diving quest, wich admitedly is the closest thing to a fetch quest in the whole game, isnt just a filler either, it has a story that sets it up very well and makes it matter, the quest giver has a wife wich is going insane with some sort of mental diseasse and asks you for a very rare black pearl so he can try to show her that pearl he promissed in an atempt to snap her out of her insanity with, its definetly not your everyday fetch quest it fits the story and is much more involved with the world youre playing in.

 

No sidequest on The Witcher is a filler, they all fit the world, have a story and Geralt only does them because they make sense. Some of the sidequests are more involved than many of the mainquests and every main quest in this game is superb. The quests are by far The Witchers strongest point.

That wasn't my experience. I ran into the guy in Skellig, asked me to dive for a pearl for his wife, (got the quest there) no back story given. Then I got the pearl and he said meet me in Novigrad for the reward. I haven't gone there yet. Just a random guy asking me to check random oysters for a black pearl. That happens a lot in W3 that stuff happens out of order ruining the quests.

Track the beast down is nothing more than follow the red markers. There is a back story yes, the game play is the same every time. Why not read a collection of short stories instead if the gameplay doesn't add anything.
Treasure hunts are simple go here, spot the chests. Add generic bandit camps, guarded treasures, monster nests, abandoned sites, there is a lot of filler.

There is tons of great stuff as well, yet all the filler drags it down. I love the exploration and the characters and still play it every night. Yet after a string of generic quests I feel like I've just been doing busy work.