HoonDing

I'm glad there's at least a large bestiary again, likely even bigger than TW1.

Why were Witchers wiped out again? Seems incredibly dumb considering how many packs of nekkers, drowners and worse are right next to villages. And they even respawn! Being a peasant in Witcher setting is absolutely dreadful. Then again, even random bandits can parry the sword strikes of a supposed master swordsman like Geralt. If they would roll they'd be able to take out the monsters too.

Fought some random level 9 bandits as level 4 Geralt, felt like cutting down trees and had to parry and roll a lot. Then some Nilfgaard patrol passed and killed the bandits in one hit. gg, legendary White Wolf, greatest swordsman in the North.

Obsidian should just remove combat from all their future games. Make episodic games like Life is strange.

I hate level requirements on items. Fight diagram for cool new sword/item -> lol I need to wait 20 levels to use it. Great way to kill exploration even more.

I think so, but it's a level 16 area..

Velen map is really big, but outside locations marked by '?' there's really nothing interesting to find. And even the marked locations are most of the time chests guarded by monsters. Unlike for instance Skyrim where there were a lot of interesting unmarked locations.

srsly though, Gwent is fun. CDPR should've just made a card game with b00bies.

It's the most inclusive game in the market right now. Many beautiful powerful women while the ugly peasant ones get face-slammed.

They're spoiled daddy's girls playing with toys. Cute though.

Does the game have an Underdark section?

Yennefer & Cirilla beautiful, all the rest are potatoface. EDIT: lol

There must be some hidden statistics on Geralt. In starting area after gaining a level or two I started to oneshot level 5 wolves and generic deserters with Igni and my sword, even though I hadn't activated abilities yet. Maybe damage done and received scales according to difference in level between Geralt and enemies. D:OS had the same and it was lame.

I laughed when one of the women in W3 got face-slammed by another woman. Aunt Tina misogyny.

I found a diagram somewhere for a unique silver sword and can actually craft it... but it's level 13.

It's striking how schizophrenic TW3 is as a game. You have a large open world, but CDPR does everything in their power to force the player to focus on the main quest by having much higher level monsters everywhere. Which would be alright if it were like Gothic but you aren't even rewarded for killing them unless you like random crafting junk and repairing your weapons every ten minutes. Basically you develop Geralt by completing main quests. Even sidequests give at most 25 xp (bizarrely enough the same amount as a succesful Axii check during dialogue). The only good reward for exploration are the magic runestones that give ability points. It's understandable CDPR made TW3 open world considering their direct competition made one but nobody would've objected against areas more similar to TW1 and 2.

Potato face Triss doesn't stand a chance against Yen.

dat inclusivity

Once you left White Orchard, I don't think you can ever return.

I'll completely ignore crossbow and bombs, targeting with keyboard & mouse is horrendous. Also, do not forget to pick up the bird skull from the opening video in the beginning area.

Gwent is best part of the gameplay by far. I don't really agree. It's as casual as any AAA arrpeegee out there. All important map locations are immediately laid out to you. There's a GTA-style glowing trail. You can turn them off but why would you? You can wander around randomly and fight creatures but 1) they give pitiful xp and 2) they just blunt your swords which are ridiculously expensive to repair. Geralt has a AssCreed/Arkham City like eagle eye/detective mode that turns him into Sherlock Holmes and makes all exploration/investigation a breeze. Kind of dubious that nearly level 20 Nilfgaardian soldiers need a level 1 Geralt to kill a wyvern. I tried to fight them and they almost kill Geralt in one hit.

This season makes even the book look good.

Also the fact that your weapons get nearly broken after every five fights and it costs a ton to repair. There's just no incentive to get off the beaten path.

Really hope the mods that remove weight limit and weapon/armour degradation will come early. Amazing they bother to put that in a game that also has Fable/GTA-like quest compass and AssCreed style map exploration.

I'm disappointed when I noticed locked house that only get unlocked when you advance main quest. It's Two Worlds 2 all over again. Also not very rewarding exploration at all. Kill a monster 6 levels above Geralt and get 5 xp... yey.