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The Witcher 3 is now the Most Awarded game of all time. (Currently at 251 awards)
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UmbraeCruxis
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Ps4 runs pretty smoothly now. I noticed less framedrops in witcher than I did in bloodborne if that tells you anything. (And Bloodborne doesn't have that many). Still a couple of glitches, but nothing terrible.
I never found the gameplay bad even after playing souls games. I still think it's fun and had a bit of diversity of you want it. I also tend to play games for story and characters though as well, and witcher 3 Is absolutely phenomenal in these categories.
All in all, it won't appeal to everyone, but it's personally one of my all time favorites.
It's pretty sad i'm looking forward to an expansion more than most games this year. Is it Blood and Wine time yet?
Feels bad knowing it's gonna be better than most full games released this year yeah.
What option would this be? A mod?
UmbraeCruxis
Banned
I think they're referring to the alternate controls option which is just a setting in the menu, but I may be wrong.
The developer gave an option in the menus to have a alternate combat controls.
that's what I'm talking about.
El-Pistolero
Member
Didn't like it that much (at all!), but congrats to the developers anyway!
Dyson Industries
Banned
hahahaha
Japanmanx3
Member
D4rth Man7iz
Member
So deserved!
It's easy to tell how much love, care and talent went into its development.
Can't wait for Blood and Wine!
It's easy to tell how much love, care and talent went into its development.
Can't wait for Blood and Wine!
AntiFacebook
Member
Which just goes to show how criminally overlooked the first witcher games was during 2007's award season
IchigoSharingan
Member
seriously.
the revisionist shit-spamming is making me puke in my mouth a little.
Let's go back to 2015 when the holiday rush of games made everyone wonder if W3 would even be considered.
Turin Turambar
Member
It's good, like a much better version of AC combat, or a bit like Batman combat but slower and more difficult.
RespectThySole
Member
Yeah I'm not sure why some act like it was so tough to beat GTA. GTA V was just another GTA. No game in the franchise has even won GOTY. A Bethesda game is a stronger contender for the media.
ugh, this is what I was afraid of. Guess I'll wait for a steam sale first.
GTA V took more GOTY awards in 2013 than the runner-up of 2015 did.
GTAV was one of the most immersive and interesting open worlds ever released. The art direction was absolutely astounding and the open world was packed to the brim with interesting gameplay-related things to do. Every nook and cranny of the world was interesting because most of them had me thinking how to get a motorcycle up there, or how to land a helicopter on top of that tiny house, or how to land a plane on a bumpy patch of asphalt.
I tried really, really hard to like the Witcher 3, but in the end it just wasn't for me. The story was decent, but I don't play games for story, I play them for gameplay, and the gameplay in Witcher 3 just isn't there. The open world looks good, but I wasn't interested in it because none of the areas had interesting gameplay implications, they were just pretty areas to travel though.
It's cool that so many people seem to really, really (really) love the Witcher 3, and if I was a more story-focused gamer, maybe I would have loved it too. But in my personal opinion, it's one of the most overrated games this generation.
UmbraeCruxis
Banned
It's really just different tastes. On the opposite side of the token, I tried really, really hard to get into GTA V because I heard people like you saying how immersive and open it was. I put in a few of hours driving around, doing some story stuff, played some tennis, and I mostly just found it kind of uninteresting. It's not bad by an means, but I was expecting something more, I guess. It never really immersed me, and I couldn't find any reason to care about the characters.
Witcher 3 gave that to me, more important npcs, other stories and a varied world that was just beautiful and more interesting(imo) to look at. I can't dispute how big GTA is, but in the ned, i Just ended up finding it super over rated as welll.
tl;dr: different tastes and all that jazz
I'm kind of surprised how someone could get bored with this game but not from DA:I.
I wonder if we'll ever find the equivalent to "oscarbait" in videogames
Did you make this? bravo!
People are narrowing this down to game journalists? As I noted above, it also handily trounced other games in the Reader's Choice awards (both games did). So I wouldn't narrow the choice down to specific groups.
I actually thought he was trolling after I read that.
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Deleted member 17706
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Very well deserved.
Bought it at release and I'm still playing it (multi-month breaks in between). I finished the main story a while back, and am almost at 100 hours now, currently working through Hearts of Stone content, which is really great.
It's one of those rare games that continues to impress me long after the initial magic wears off.
Bought it at release and I'm still playing it (multi-month breaks in between). I finished the main story a while back, and am almost at 100 hours now, currently working through Hearts of Stone content, which is really great.
It's one of those rare games that continues to impress me long after the initial magic wears off.
RespectThySole
Member
More publications participated in 2013 though. Also, I think the 1-2 gap is larger than it was in 2013 due to TW3 being a relatively similar game to Fallout 4 with clear advantages in certain areas.
GTA V and TLoU are completely different games so direct comparisons are harder to make. It basically came down to whether you enjoyed the story/characters of TLoU or the open world of GTA.
Yeah different stokes. Personally, I couldn't connect with the gameplay of GTA V at all. I just found the shooting and movement to be really clunky. I didn't care for the characters or the story either. Missions were uninteresting, etc. The soundtrack was incredible though and you have to respect what they were able to achieve on last gen consoles.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
So many theories about why, with revisionist history as well.
Krappadizzle
Gold Member
It didn't really help that the game launched in a pretty terrible state. Once Enhanced Edition came out though.....It really showed the potential of CDPR.
I kind of liked The Witcher 2 more in a few ways as well. It was a tighter game and I think the combat made more sense.
Overall tho, Witcher 3 has more bang for the buck. So many amazing side-quests won me over in spite of being unable to enact on the amazing promises TW2 seemed to give.
But that's always the strength of the middle game in a trilogy.
Overall tho, Witcher 3 has more bang for the buck. So many amazing side-quests won me over in spite of being unable to enact on the amazing promises TW2 seemed to give.
But that's always the strength of the middle game in a trilogy.
The Maverick
Member
Favorite game all time.
Darkly Tranquil
Banned
I am genuinely puzzled by the last line. I cannot think of a single aspect of DAI that was better executed than Witcher 3, and I say that as a massive (and terribly disappointed) DA fan.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
One game a year gets the vast majority.
AgentP
Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
DA:I had better magic and combat, real RPG progression that could be tailored to the play style, varied semi-open zones which were all unique, etc.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Impressive, but that's likely because there are more and more awards handed out each year.
Lan Dong Mik
And why would I want them?
I actually finally beat it about 3 weeks ago. I had it the day it came out too. An absolute masterpiece. I recently just bought it again on PC since I got a GTX970 and I've been floored by the visuals. Playing the Hearts of Stone Expansion and I think I'm half way through. I think overall it's one of my favorite games of all time.