Angelus said:
Slade6alpha said:
I bought the other two as it seemed like actual new story content. Plus all three were $15 a piece..Might look into the trespasser later though.
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Why didn't you just buy the gold edition, or whatever they call it, with all the content? That thing is constantly on sale for peanuts. In any case, you have to play Trespasser, it's the best of the DLCs, by far.
Slade6alpha said:
@Angelus
You seem like the only one here completely qualified to answer this question seeing that you literally got every single achievement in Witcher 3 and DA Inquisition. (Yeah I stalked your GS)
Which is the better game and why? Don't even want to know how in the world you managed both of those things. Props though. |
Witcher 3 is miles better. I'd happily argue it's the best game ever made, to date.
The writing is far superior across the board, ranging from individual dialog, side quests, to the main story. It's masterful at interweaving side content in a way that makes it feel like it's all part of the greater whole. It's more focused. The game is more mature in the handling of it's themes, and the way it presents them to the player. The characters are more personable. It's more emotionally engrossing. The soundtrack, and the atmosphere are just....epic. The world feels more alive.
I could talk about Witcher 3 all day and not run out of superlatives to describe it, honestly.
Now, I will say this; I'm a massive Dragon Age fan, and I actually replay those games (Origins in particular) more often than I replay the Witcher, but it's because despite being very similar in their style of setting, and inhabiting the same genre, they're ultimately rather different games. Witcher 3 is definitely the overall far better executed game, but there are some things it can't do, simply because it chooses not to. In Dragon Age, I can go back in and play with different party members, mess around with entirely different skill builds, and even after multiple playthroughs I can usually always find at least one or two new variations of certain outcomes that I hadn't seen yet. I love that kind of thing. Witcher will let you do some things a bit different to be sure, but the changes you see there are more nuanced, because the overall experience is so cohesive that you can't really go too crazy with individual quest lines. Even in terms of gameplay, while Witcher offers you some freedom to how you play, the net result is always very similar, because at the end of the day, all of Geralt's tools - whether you focus on sword play, magic, or alchemy - really interweave together for optimal play, so you always end up using a bit of everything in most situations. I also love the more tactical, overhead, chess style combat of the series (even if they've made it significantly more action friendly since the original). Plus I'm kind of obsessed with character creation. So, aside from the fact that they're both dark fantasy RPGs, and they both have really great lore, they're not really particularly similar in my opinion.
TLDR: Witcher 3 is the best game I've ever played. I've put over 300 hours into it. Every single aspect of the game literally oozes quality. But it doesn't scratch all my RPG needs.
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