The White Wolf Returns in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[The Artificially Prolonged]

The Witcher is a weird series for me.

I'm a big fan of RPGs. I love the premise, the story and the in-depth gameplay that the Witcher series provides, but for some reason I never finished the first game until the second one was on its way to me in the mail.
And it seems this story will repeat itself again, as I still haven't finished The Witcher 2.

I don't know why, but somehow I just stop playing them when they near their end.

I just couldn't stand The Witcher (first game). It was so tedious and boring, the story was meh, characters more so. The stilted acting, character designs, and combat were all so horendous.

I haven't played The Witcher 2, but is it any better?

I had the same problem with the original Witcher game, but I have been playing The Witcher 2 recently and trust me the game is a massive improvement on the original in every way.

OT:

Hell yes bring on 2014!

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Can't say I agree with that developer that everyone likes open world games. Some people prefer a more restricted story because they don't like the fluff that comes with open world.

I'm still definitely looking forward to this though, as long as they flesh out the world and make it absolutely beautiful I'm sure it won't hinder the game.

 

[Zing]

Awesome.

The Witcher 2 made Dragon Age 2 look like amateur hour.

 

[Piorn]

Oh YES! My Savegame is ready!

I'm actually in a bit of a dilemma.
On one hand, I regard my savegame as my story. I made the choices I found reasonable at the time and I stand to it, even if they're not the best possible outcome. It's something personal, and going back to do something else would devalue the entire concept of consequences.
On the other hand, I missed out on almost a quarter of the game...

 

[W3rK]

The Witcher is a weird series for me.

I'm a big fan of RPGs. I love the premise, the story and the in-depth gameplay that the Witcher series provides, but for some reason I never finished the first game until the second one was on its way to me in the mail.
And it seems this story will repeat itself again, as I still haven't finished The Witcher 2.

I don't know why, but somehow I just stop playing them when they near their end.

I know EXACTLY what you mean, it's very similar with me. It might seem like a contradiction but I think some part of me enjoys the world so much that it doesn't want the story to end; so instead of continuing I choose not to play at all. I've had it with some Elder Scrolls games as well.

 

[Norrdicus]

I think I got to Act III. I was trying to find the leaders of Salamandra, screwed some rich girl and had to sneak around in the sewers. Couldn't get any further as I managed to get into some glitch where the game would crash as soon as I tried to leave the sewers. Trish was mad at me, I joined with the other girl at her grandmother's house.

The first two acts just felt like absolutely nothing happened and just felt boring overall. As for the combat, it just felt really floaty to me. While the story was getting better, I don't want to play through 10 hours of absolute bore to get there again.

EDIT: In short, I shouldn't have to get through 10 hours of boring story and gameplay with tons of tedious sidequests (I did them all that I could) to reach the good parts of the story.

You only got a little ways into act 2.

Nah, it's Act 3. The first time you meet Triss after the prologue is in the beginning of Act 3 when you're recovering from Azar Javed's ambush

 

[kommando367]

Hell
The
Fuck
YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to patiently wait for the 360 port...

Won't happen. Maybe a 720 (or whatever they're going to call it) port will.

They were calling it the Durango last time I checked.

Imma probably buy one of those anyway.

 

[WashAran]

I would have loved to here the conversation about Geralt new design.
I imagine it went like this.
Dev1 "How can we make Geralt look more badass?"

Dev2 "Beard?"

Dev1 "BEARD!!!"

 

[Rad Party God]

Holy crap... I jizzed my pants a little... I hope their new engine is better optimized than the previous one, although I highly doubt it... I guess that it'll be the first game that makes me consider a serious upgrade for my PC (and The Secret World, that game is definitely pretty).

Also, REDengine 3?... what?, when did they used REDengine 2?.

 

[Norrdicus]

Also, REDengine 3?... what?, when did they used REDengine 2?.

They used that for the Xbox360 version of Witcher 2

 

[aelreth]

Something in 2014 to preorder besides the Kickstarters.