John2290 said:
I thought the issues with The witcher 3 on launch on the PS4 were horrendous but somehow very forgivable given the game was so good. They did fix the worst of it fairly fast like the UI text size and the bogs frame rate. Thing is, besides the Bogs frame rate my mate with a beast of a PC and a killer laptop, was having worse issues than I so I didn't bother buying he game on steam, stayed for the trophies and ecosystem and when I went back for the DLC on OG ps4 the game was working superbly with reworked menus and no issues in sight besides longer load times after death which for some reason didn't bother me the first time round even after the plat and many deaths.
All in all, I was disappointed at launch but that was over ridden by how good the game, I had little issue on my second run going for the plat after patches and fixes and I was blown away by how well everything worked going back for the expansions.
As for getting swept up in the hype, that's not me. If a game is getting me pumped up that much and I'm loving it in the moment, time away from it doesn't effect my opinion but mostly solidifies it. I'm in my twenties now, I know my self well enough to know what I will look back on in retrospect and still have the samr opinion as I do in the moment. My posts may seem hyperbolic and rating games as my GoTY do far or GoAT as with Divinity OS2: DE are actually calmly thought out and evaluated. Unless divinity does something drastically different and the rewriting of Act 3 goes completely wrong I can't see at this time as to why it wouldn't be anything less than the game I have played the last week, pure and utter perfection.
TW3 was a game beyond all in 2015 and it's strengths outweigh all ot's negatives to a degree where they can not only be forgiven but you barely notice them.
Divinity OS2 on the other hand has the strengths with little of thw weaknesses. It's... as I keep saying some kind of perfection and just as, if not more engrossing and fun as TW3 or any game I've played.
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I will be turning 30 years old in less than a month (September 28), and while I am capable of straying from the pack and enjoying things despite their mass appeal, I can fairly say that certain factors can influence me to some degree.
I am a little ashamed to admit it, but here's an example: I hadn't played World of Warcraft for several expansions, and a couple months ago I had decided that I wanted to re-experience it again. I played the game for less than three hours before getting bored and deciding that it wasn't fun anymore.
The new expansion just recently came out, so the game is trending again, and given all the praise I've been hearing, I gave it another shot. It's been a week or so and I'm still playing, now level 40. So why didn't I enjoy the game two months ago?
Knowing that other people are also playing and enjoying the game influenced my ability to enjoy the game. It's strange, and something I feel I should be ashamed to admit, but I'm just being honest. I think there is an instinctual part of our brain that rewards us for doing things that are socially acceptable.
I may be exaggerating the extent to which this force influences us, but I think it's present at least a little bit in most everyone. Like when a sequel comes out to a game (or movie) that you've never played (or saw), and you seek to find out if it's necessary to play the original game first. Why even be interested in the sequel in the first place; why not go play the original?
I sort of took us off topic. :P
Regarding the Witcher, I'm curious now how my opinions of the game would differ if I tried it again today. I own the game, so maybe I'll give it a shot sometime.