See, this is why I have a serious problem with your general attitude. You treat your own viewpoint as gospel.
It's perfectly possible for two people to understand something and come away with different opinions/evaluations.
By claiming that his opinion is based lack of understanding, you attempt to discredit his view, but there's no reason both of your opinions can't be based on understanding.
In other words: you have different tastes, get over it.
"That's because some people like me have had the displeasure to have played the Witcher - a mechanically suboptimal game made by developers who think a collectible porn card minigame and replacing every other word with the f-word/c-word somehow results in a "mature" game. That game was an abysmal disaster.
So excuse me for not being a CDPR fanboy"
Read very closely. This is not an opinion or a reasoned argument. This is blatant ignorance. "Collectible porn car minigame and replacing every other word with the f-word/c-word" is more than enough evidence to suggest this person has never actually played any Witcher title for any long period of time. Nothing more than soundbites meant to elicit revulsion and a reaction from those gullible to believe it. I'm more than happy to accept an opinion that critiques and explains through reason why they don't appreciate the game. What I will ignore and refute are stereotypes and the kinds of "opinions" you will find on Kotaku or IGN.
Maybe after playing for more than an hour I would somehow have learned not to hate the combat, the user interface, the art design and the dialogue. But I have a hard time believing I would have ever not hated playing as Geralt, which is the primary reason I gave up and uninstalled. I don't like fixed protagonists in cRPGs to begin with, and the idea of playing as a character I instantly disliked for thirty more hours was not appealing at all.
To be clear, I'm not saying that The Witcher is a bad game. I know lots of people that love it. I'm just sure I'm never going to be one of those people, in the same way I'm never going to be a fan of Skyrim or Dark Souls. Or Quake or Myst or Super Mario World for that matter.
In fairness, the game came out in 2007. Try playing KotOR and you'll realize how dated the combat, user interface, art design and dialogue are...
That's a personal choice and you are entitled to that. If I'm going to invest capital into a game, I'm going to put a bit more of an effort to see whether I like it or not. Playing an hour of The Witcher is like playing 10 minutes of an MMORPG and deciding it's not for you. To try and grasp whether an MMO is worth it or not in 10 minutes is quite frankly ridiculous. To each his own.
As far as I understand it, what CDPR is doing with their expansions are more akin to what bioware used to do with things like throne of bhaal and awakening, i.e actual expansion pack and not just a 4-6 hours of additional content. But it is more financially costly, and thus need to sell more to justify production.
Regardless, I think its far too early to make a statement like this when Witcher 3 isn't even out yet and we only have the concept idea of what CDPR is doing in their expansions thus far.
That's not ultimately germane. The point is CDPR is at least marketing that they will make a return to expansion packs. BioWare isn't even considering the idea whatsoever. The hope and reality is that CDPR will deliver a true expansion pack experience and force other companies, like BioWare, to follow suit. That is what this is about. As it stands, BioWare will never make another expansion pack again.
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. Sure, the graphics and user interface are dated and the combat is kinda clunky, but it's got a great story. And I got to make Revan a tiny black woman. I could not do that with The Witcher.
