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Loving this game! So addicting! I feel I made a few mistakes to the storyline, but hey, that's how it goes in this type of game.
The card game Gwent was driving me crazy! I think I'm getting better however. Still learning though. I just keep playing until I win. Just the ones I can win cards from.
This place is HUGE! It's going to take me forever. But that's the point I guess. A nice long, super fun game to play for a while.

Anyone else playing this? What are your thoughts without giving away spoilers?
 
Is this a game where you really need to have played the previous titles to really enjoy it? Or is it something you can just jump in with? Simply that my wife has been eyeing this for PS3...
 
I also like Gwent a lot. I'm fairly good at it too, in contrast to some of the combat (I'm fine against most, but werewolves are beyond me. I think I fluked one triumph, and another time I heroically 'won' by going a long way around to avoid fighting the werewolf in question, which was shown to be dead [presumably of boredom/laughter-induced heart attack] later in that quest).

I've not played either prior game and never felt especially lost.

The decisions appear very well done, although I'm still quite early on so it's hard to gauge their weight beyond immediate consequences. The world, in both a cultural/story sense and physically, is extremely good. Countless times I've been wandering about and just stopped to admire the view.

Put up an early thoughts post on my blog: http://thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-witcher-3-ps4-early-thoughts.html
 
I love the game as well, I never played the others before either. I like the game mechanics and how shay out do is reflected in the game. (Choices mean a guy commits suicide or not etc..) the fighting is a pain on higher difficulty level but that's when you learn to go scout for potion materials and such.. I've yet to finish it let alone be halfway the exploring area is huge..
 
I love it as well. Played through the main quest and the first expansion (Heart of Stone). Then I started over on new game +, and will build up my character to play the second expansion (Blood and Wine).
 
Incidentally, those without the game really should get the GOTY edition. Comes with base game plus all DLC, just £32 or so now (bargain, of you don't have the original). I'll wait a bit, hope the price falls to £20.
 
Has this got quite a bit of sexual content in it? I think I saw some on Honest Game trailers, but gave no indication if they're part of the main story or mods, etc.

Simply that I'm tempted to get my wife Witcher 2 then 3, but if she feels like she's playing a male sexual fantasy, she'll be really narked at me. :)
 
Brian Turner said:
Has this got quite a bit of sexual content in it? I think I saw some on Honest Game trailers, but gave no indication if they're part of the main story or mods, etc.

Simply that I'm tempted to get my wife Witcher 2 then 3, but if she feels like she's playing a male sexual fantasy, she'll be really narked at me. :)
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Yes or no. This is a choice with almost every woman Geralt encounters. But he can choose not to go through with it. Or you can skip it as it's a cut scene.
 
Picked up the GOTY in last week's Steam Sale for £20.99 and I'm absolutely loving it. I've played a fair few RPGs in the past (Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallouts 3 & 4, Mass Effect 1, 2, 3, Dragon Age, and back to Baldur's Gate etc) and this is proving to be far and away my favourite to date. Most of this is down to the way it plays, its mature themes, the brilliantly thought through quest lines that somehow manage to develop characters as well, and the combat, which is a lot more than just hack and slash. It also helps that it is beautiful to look at, I won't lie :ninja:

But I find my preferences also lean towards playing as Geralt. In other games, when you create your own character, they always feel a bit lifeless to me. Here I'm playing a character who's leaped off the pages of a series of books, who comes with all this backstory and a cast of friends and enemies with whom he has a history, and the world feels alive in part because of this.

Normally, by this stage (20 hours in), my interest would be beginning to wane and I'd be fed up with wandering around ticking off quests or markers on the map. But here I'm getting more and more excited about what's to come. Yesterday I sat down in front of the pc and thought I'd fire the game up for half an hour between footie matches on tv. Four hours later I was still sitting there, footie forgotten, deeply involved in the Bloody Baron sequence of quests, having fought my first battle against a member of the Wild Hunt, and now trying to release a stillborn child from a curse.

It was bloody marvellous :)
 
Witcher 3's fantastic, I just wish my PS4 didn't scream so much when playing it...
 
It seems to be very well optimised on pc. I'm running it on a GTX 770 and I've got most of the settings at 'Ultra' and it's smooth as silk and the pc is barely getting warm. Contrast that with XCOM 2, where I've got a lot of the settings turned down - play that for a while and I could switch off the central heating and save on my bills for the winter :D
 
Alright, alright. I bow before the PC Master Race *doffs cap and runs off to his console peasant hovel of inferior graphics and screaming console*

:p

Mind you, The Witcher 3 looks gorgeous. And has a fantastic story and characters. Intrigued about where the next one might go.
 
thaddeus6th said:
Alright, alright. I bow before the PC Master Race *doffs cap and runs off to his console peasant hovel of inferior graphics and screaming console*

:p
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:lol: Oi, I just bought a PS4 - don't put me off it before Christmas! :D
 
If you bought it just now (a slim or pro) then it's got much better cooling so you're alright.

It's just me, the Jonah of buying consoles, who needs to whine :p [Seriously, every damned time I get one there's a better version released within a year or so].
 
^^ The previous two generations I jumped in at launch and it happened to me, too.

Gods, Witcher 3 gets better and better. Just spent the last couple of hours doing the Crones of Crookback Bog quest. Freaky as hell.

Or as Elmer Fudd might say, "Be vewy, vewy quiet - I'm hunting witches!"
 
The witches are fantastically creepy. Even though it's the first/lowest level aspect of the main questline, they're ghoulish. Excellent character design and music helps a lot too.
 
105 hours and counting and oh dear - I really stuffed up Geralt's love life. Like really :whistle: :D :ninja:
 
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