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    1 month ago

    I’ll just wait for the Witcher 4 patch 2.0, which will release after 3 years from the original release date and will actually contain the advertised game.

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    I should probably get around to continuing Witcher 3. I just have a mental issue with quests and choices blocking other quests that I just end up reading the wiki. Help me.

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    Just in time for me to actually play Witcher 3, I’m starting this weekend. I wasn’t big on Witcher 2 and just never got around to 3 until now.

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        I sure hope so, I got quite burned on the last big budget game I’ve played years after the hype. God of War 2018 felt like a culmination of every wrong with gaming at that time (outside of mtx) and AAA games only got worse from there.

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          I will say, i didn’t think the main story was that strong. But the huge amount of amazing side quests more than made up for it.

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            I went into detail here. In short, nothing was actually engaging. Combat, puzzles and traversal all felt shallow.

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              29 days ago

              Does it also include those cutscenes where you have to press a button that pops up on the screen or you have to start the cutscene over again?

              I hate those because:

              1. Every console has a different layout for basically the same buttons.
              2. I like cut scenes being little breaks where you just watch and soak it in. At least assuming the character doesn’t make choices I hate or suddenly surrenders because a few enemies point weapons at them (after probably having fought more of those enemies actually using their weapons instead of just threatening it).
              3. If I’ve seen a cutscene already, I’d rather skip it and get back to the good gameplay. Maybe the interaction was intended to reduce that “go away cutscene, you’re boring, I want to get back to the fun stuff” but I don’t find it accomplishes that at all.
              4. It’s not good gameplay. Even if I don’t end up panicking and hitting a wrong button or missing it because I’m not ready to think about where the X button is on this particular controller, it’s not rewarding at all to succeed, other than the “yay, I don’t have to repeat this stupid shit anymore”.
              5. And I especially hate ones that prompt mashing buttons as fast as you can or rotating a stick as fast as you can (and this applies outside of cutscenes, too). I don’t find anything interesting about testing the physical limits of my thumbs and wearing down the buttons or sticks involved faster in the process.
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                Do you mean quick time events (QTEs)? The game has at least one cutscene I remember where you’re prompted to activate an ability to change the outcome, however, I think that’s it. The games usually doesn’t have them.

                Although, it does commit an entirely different sin in terms of unskippable cutscenes: There are several ‘immersive’ cutscenes with you suddenly walking at a snail’s pace or climbing slowly around while the cutscene plays out.

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      It is still my favorite game ever, regarding story, world-building, characters, music, graphics, quests and overall gameplay.

      But it’s a bit weak on combat mechanics, there I prefer Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3.

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      if you’re on pc. get the friendly ui mod and try to hide the mini map and use 3d maps marker instead. immersion is so much better

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          Occasionally we get the odd tech update but they consider it basically finished now.

          But the tl:dr is

          • Bugs fixed

          • Optimized

          • Gameplay enhanced

          • Dlc is amazing

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            There’s DLC?! With the state the game launched in I wouldn’t even buy it, they honestly lost my trust

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          I played through it last year and got one or two bugs tops, great experience and fantastic game (if you liked TW3)

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        Yes but also no. Played base game recently, and i had a lot of bugs and frustrations. Some of them because i ran it from hdd, which is not their recommended way of media to install on, but some were clearly design failures and bugs…

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      I just finished four endings and am now grinding side missions. Through oner 90h of great gameplay, I had like 5 bugs (1 crash, 1 person walking on air, 1 body that rolled away like a car, 1 car stuck spinning wheels on a flat surface, 15 cases of “summoning” a car to see it dropping upside down 30 meters away)
      I’ve seen worse in terms of bugs, and it’s an interesting game with tons of content and different ways to build your character.

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      It’s aight now.

      3060ti on endeavor getting 100+ fps at 1440. Some bugs here and there only seen one t pose in 40 hours

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    “Production” in software development means it’s available to end users.

    At first I didn’t understand they meant development.

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      Ditto. Was surprised to hear it that far along, with absolutely no prior leaks/hype, except maybe they learned from CP2077.

      Eventually sorted out they mean ‘production’ in the movie sense, not the product sense. And I suppose that’s fair, given how much modern ARPGs incorporate voice & physical acting, foley work, motion capture, etc

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    Great - what am I supposed to do with this? Hope it’s not as shit as the rest of the UE5 games or Cyberpunk? Hope my hardware can run it? Have they learnt nothing from Cyberpunk? Like STFU and maybe show people things when it’s ready?

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      Nothing. Not every information needs to be actionable by its receivers. Do not get hyped up but know there will be a next installment and wait till they show something.

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        Yeah - and us consumers don’t need every fucking milestone painted out either. We didn’t back this. Show it to us when it’s time or get the fuck out of my feed. But watch how they’ll go down the cyberpunk route and build hype over 7 years again to deliver a broken piece of shit on launch. Why? Because they made so much money last time doing it.

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          I have never seen someone so upset that there’s gaming news in the gaming community

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            I do understand the reaction somewhat though… It’s these kinds of news that gets people hyped for a game and leads to the sort of pressure that might make a launch fail as it did with Cyberpunk

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              Announcing a game is not over-hyping. If you can’t control yourself that a simple announcement that a game is in production makes you have a meltdown, then probably they shouldn’t be browsing the gaming community, where this kind of news is expected

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                Help me solve my dilemma - I do want to hear about new exciting releases/reviews of upcoming games but I also don’t want news of announced games which are 5+ years away. And especially don’t want to hear about every little morsel of info they throw your way in the 5 year build up only to launch disastrously and then keep us in the news cycle for another 2-3 years where they advertise how they are fixing their game only to turn around and ask for more money to sell you an expansion. How do I just focus on the good ones?

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                  Honestly it just sounds like you don’t enjoy reading news about games, and that’s fine, but this one is a good announcement

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      Cyberpunk runs on the RedEngine. This game will be the first for CD Project Red to run Unreal engine.

      I agree however that Unreal engine might be a bad choice. We’ll have to see. They change engine because of money as developing an engine is far more expensive than using Unreal Engine.

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        If I recall correctly, the “next gen update” for The Witcher 3 was UE5.

        I did not recall correctly.

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          That makes no sense 🤣 if they had done that then it would mean they would have to develop the game all over again in UE5. UE5 and redENGINE are two different engines and there is no “upgrading” from one engine to the other without making the game all over again in the different engine.