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[Mockingword]

Silly feminists, all caring about things and such. It's just a video game, why can't you just shut your nagging brain off for a minute?

 

In fact, shut it off forever.

[AkiKishi]

Even though it has a fixed protagonist it has far more meaningful story branches than any recent Bioware game. What you do in the game actually matters a great deal. I enjoy the bleak rawness of it, I don't really look for my games to view fantasy worlds through a modern prism , in fact I prefer they don't.

The Triss scene is sweet, but Geralt still screws around, although much if not all of it is optional. The combat system is pretty awful though, I really hope they fix that up for part3 because it's dragged both Witcher and Witcher 2 down.

[ladyoflate]

Even though it has a fixed protagonist it has far more meaningful story branches than any recent Bioware game. What you do in the game actually matters a great deal. I enjoy the bleak rawness of it, I don't really look for my games to view fantasy worlds through a modern prism , in fact I prefer they don't.

The Triss scene is sweet, but Geralt still screws around, although much if not all of it is optional. The combat system is pretty awful though, I really hope they fix that up for part3 because it's dragged both Witcher and Witcher 2 down.

 

I get that, it's just a game has to check a certain number of requirements for me to want to play it. Custom protag? Point towards play. sort of thing. Rampant sexism/racism? 3 points against because it's important to me. Past rampant sexism/racism without strong indicators of a switch in direction, point against.

 

oooh, raw bleakness. Also not my cup of tea, shame. Tends to aggravate the depression.

[AkiKishi]

oooh, raw bleakness. Also not my cup of tea, shame. Tends to aggravate the depression.

 

Probably want to avoid it then. It has it in abundance. 

[ladyoflate]

Probably want to avoid it then. It has it in abundance. 

 

Win conditions/happy joy time are something else I need, even if you have to play the game 30 times to get to the Ultra Level New Game+. Which is perhaps ironic considering I play Dragon Age, but I have many ot3s and saying 'screw ALL OF YOU OVER HERE' and running of to be a pirate is hardly unpleasant.

 

so how bout them maps eh

i hear they're expansive.

 

I hope there's one dumb questline where an NPC asks you to get something from the ancient temple across the entire game, and when you bring it they're like 'oh btw I forgot this can you go back' several times.

 

And the end of the questline is a cutscene of everyone gathered in a circle around said NPC, kicking them in various lower extremities.

[Maraas]

The Witcher series has exceptional story-telling.

Oh, I don't know about that.

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The first installment has drawn me in because it was the Witcher, and I actually quite liked that approach to combat and especially combat related stuff: potions to see in the dark, to move faster and all that. I've spent more time grinding the dungeons over and over again than anything else. Story was weak compared to the novels, but served its purpose, allowing to roleplay famous Geralt of Rivia, back from the dead.

 

And with the Witcher 2 that magic was completely broken for me, and the story... well, it was fine, I guess, and branching, and all that. But I didn't feel the urge to return to it once I finished the game for the first time. BioWare games make me want to repeat that experience, talk to those people again, see what happens if. I've been meaning to take another route with Witcher's 2 second act ever since Enhanced Edition came out. Never did, there's always something. I just didn't care enough for its story, I guess.

[AkiKishi]

I remember being very suprised when replaying Witcher 2 because I was expecting the usual illusion of freedom that goes nowhere stuff (like the Mages Templars) instead I got almost two different games. Albeit with the same horrible combat system as long as they fix that , the game should be golden.

[TacticalAce]

I remember being very suprised when replaying Witcher 2 because I was expecting the usual illusion of freedom that goes nowhere stuff (like the Mages Templars) instead I got almost two different games. Albeit with the same horrible combat system as long as they fix that , the game should be golden.

I think the "2 different game effect" should be the direction that bioware goes, their games are already structured in such a way that it would fit right in I.E. hard decision making. It would greatly improve replay value and will literally :make your decisions meaningful". You hear that phrase a lot but a lot of times its the same road just different pit stops, but in the end it all leads to the same finish line.

 

I'll even go further then that. I would vote for Bioware to drop open world for that style of game where your game feels completely different based on your decisions I.E. the places you visit, the people you meet etc. What if you chose to side with the "Villians" and they became your party members, and the story just completely switches. I know that would never happen, at least not a large extent but its something worth thinking about.