Witcher 3 is 3 years old game today

i was born in 1998, i turn 20 in september

Yesterday was Witcher 2's birthday as well.
Best games ever made desu.

custom games was the shit. Now i have to go listen to the soundtracks again

>people under 30 browse this site

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>Skyrim, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Duke Nukem Forever were 7 years ago

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JUST

The open world, its design, and the exploration in The Witcher 3 is absolute garbage. (and keep in mind this is just one of many flaws in this game, but let's only focus on this one now)

Right off the bat - the minimap, the quest markers, and GPS ruin the entire experience completely. Just like that, this one single feature automatically destroys the whole idea of exploring and turns it into tedious and boring garbage. Following a GPS trail to a POI on your map is not exploring. Exploring means discovering stuff on your own. Stuff that YOU discovered, not stuff that's already been shown to you on your map.

But of course you can disable all the GPS and all the markers on the map. But that doesn't solve the problem at all, because the core exploration and open world design in The Witcher 3 is garbage.

All loot is leveled, meaning you will never find anything exciting or find anything useful. All items you find will always be "just ok for your current level". And that's only when you do find a sword, because almost all the loot you find in the world is useless crafting junk for useless alchemy system. There is no point in exploring because everything you find is useless garbage.

Take a game with great exploration, for example Gothic 2. In Gothic 2 there is absolutely no level scaling for loot, which means that at level 1 you can find a very powerful armor or a sword if you search in the right place. This makes exploring very exciting because nothing is marked for you on the map, and you never know just what you might find behind the next hill. You are curious to see what treasure is in that cave you see. You know it might be something valuable. It's also very rewarding and motivates the player to explore more.

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This never happens in The Witcher 3, because as soon as you see a POI on your map, you can be sure as hell that it's going to be more useless crafting/alchemy ingredients. Or in rare instances, a leveled sword. It's not exciting, interesting, and most importantly - rewarding. Going to the POIs on the map in Witcher 3 is just done for the sake of it - just cause "I gotta do SOMETHING in this game, right" - rather than the player's own curiosity and desire to find interesting and cool shit.

Money being completely useless in the game is also another problem. When the money in the game has value and is hard to get, exploring will automatically become much more rewarding and interesting. Instead of just finding swords, armors, or alchemy ingrediets for you to use, you could also find regular items that have value to them - chalices, bracelets, necklaces, even junk loot that you can't do anything with other than sell it to a merchant. But since money has value in the game, even finding junk loot is rewarding because you know that's always some extra dosh after selling it to a merchant. And that extra money will be useful to you. Even exploring and finding junk loot has rewarded you. The money in The Witcher 3 is meaningless and not used for anything. Therefore it further destroys the exploration.

To sum it up, the exploration in The Witcher 3 is boring, pointless, and pretty much a filler.

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>*whistles for magic horse*
>autoruns on road to quest marker
>*toucan sam vision activates*
>"Mhmm....giant slash marks all over the victim....a Drowner™, gotta be"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*follows nose*
>guys in Drowner™ costumes appear
>"OY BLOODY 'ELL FUCKING CUNT SHIT FUCK CUNT, IT'S A FUCKIN' WITCHER IT IS! GET "EM"
>"Shit you stink" ALALALALALALALALA *sets guys on fire and they stumble and recover immediately, does a cinematic slash and cuts guys in half"
>"Mhmm....Bandits™ pretending to be Drowners™......better tell the village head about this"
>"Come on, Roach"
>*autoruns on road back to village*
>"OY BLOODY FUCK CUNT WITCHAH, WOT ABOUT DA CONTRACT WESE PAIDS YA FOR YA BLOODY FUCKING CUNT?"
>"Just some bastards posing as Drowners™, here's proof *shows flipper*"
>"OY KURWA, HERE'S YA REWARD DA WHOLE VILLAGE CHIPPED IN"
>"Drowning in Danger" Complete AHHHHHHHHHH
>10 crowns received

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>Goldeneye 007 was 21 years ago

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I turned 20 in January. Let us hope for the better, brother.

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SHUT UP
SHUT UP
SHUT UP
SHUT UP

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good times

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>You will never be a part of his crew.

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Was anyone else absolutely annoyed by ciris British accent?
It's was killing me every time she open her mouth.

>not setting the game language as Polish

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I built my gaming PC just for TW3. It has some serious flaws, but my first run through the base game and the expansions was pretty magical. Used to skip meals just to play it.

>Pokémon Sapphire was 15 years ago
Just slit my throat, tbqhwy.

this, overrated garbage. People that were saying this is better than skyrim should be lined up and shot because I wasted 10 euro on this crap.

> tfw no cosplayer gf

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man I got cancer trying to finish gothic 2, I actually prefer gothic 3 because of the best scenery I saw in a game.

>skyrim was 7 years ago
boys were entering the roaring 20s

How the fuck is Skyrim ever better than Witcher 3?
WItcher 3 is literally Skyrim, but with a story, interesting characters, voiceacting, and generally just better in every possible way.
The only thing that Skyrim has that Witcher 3 doesn't is the ability to play as anyone you want, but this makes your character and the game just soulless.