The Witcher 3

intune · 16-05-2016 2:24pm

What an insane title. I know it is lame but I still haven't even gotten through it at all. There is so much to do and discover. That is a perfect example of a title which every game studio should look up to. Can't wait for the last release. Looks great and even more content

allibastor · 17-05-2016 9:15am

I have finished the main quest at Lvl 35.

Now paying HOS expansion and for the first time in ages I am actually being killed by bad guys.

I still am finding one thing pissing me off, Merchants.

I have load of gear and no matter where I go to flog it I am getting like 1/4 of the stated price for all my stuff.

I am trying to master craft everything and I need to buy dimetrium and gems, cant find them anywhere yet I am paying 3-5K a go for bits.

arcticmonkeys · 17-05-2016 10:22am

J. Marston wrote: »

I've forgotten absolutely everything about controls, inventory, shortcuts and items. This is going to be so tough on Death March.

Same here. Didn't know the DLC is coming out so soon and I'm still only level 16-17. I've been playing passingly just before Uncharted 4 arrived and found myself getting sucked back into the story again, looking forward to Blood and Wine I must say.

weiland79 · 18-05-2016 8:53am

Any tips for Gwent? I started playing the inn keepers last night and actually won the first round but then lost the next two rounds. My opponent started pulling out some high value cards that I couldn't beat and by the time the third round started I had no card left and had to forfeit.
Should I be collecting and buying as many cards as possible throughout the world?

Zero-Cool · 18-05-2016 9:12am

If you see ANY gwent cards for sale, buy em up. Key is to build the deck. Tough starting out with a week deck but keep playing inn keepers and merchants. If you talk to any quest characters and it offers you a game of gwent where the writing is in yellow, that means it is part of a quest line and highly recommend you try winning before moving on with other stuff as certain ones can disappear depending on what happens to those characters. Check guide online for where valuable gwent cards can be found or bought.

Joshua J · 18-05-2016 11:33am

Level 11 heading to Novigrad now. Good game but Jesus she can be a bit of a grind at times too. Not played one game of gwent, what's the incentive?.

Kiith · 18-05-2016 11:41am

Joshua J wrote: »

Level 11 heading to Novigrad now. Good game but Jesus she can be a bit of a grind at times too. Not played one game of gwent, what's the incentive?.

You play Gwent because it's brilliant...that's the incentive

Never noticed any sort of grind i have to say. There was always plenty of interesting quests to do, and never felt like i needed to do things i didn't want to.

Zero-Cool · 18-05-2016 11:50am

Agree with Kiith. I didn't touch Gwent in the early parts of the game but once I spent some time with it, the game might as well have been called Gwent: Witcher stuff on the side.

Never found it a grind either. All the quests whether main or side were brilliant and I levelled up along with the game and what I needed at a good pace.

18-05-2016 12:08pm

Joshua J wrote: »

Level 11 heading to Novigrad now. Good game but Jesus she can be a bit of a grind at times too. Not played one game of gwent, what's the incentive?.

I felt the same way about gwent until I tried it. It's quite a relaxing distraction to play an hour of gwent against important characters to get decent cards.

allibastor · 18-05-2016 12:16pm

Joshua J wrote: »

Level 11 heading to Novigrad now. Good game but Jesus she can be a bit of a grind at times too. Not played one game of gwent, what's the incentive?.

I found the game was hard for the first 12 levels.

After that it got a bit easier. And more fun.

I still find it hard to believe that Human NPC can beat the tar out of me though.

Skerries · 18-05-2016 12:23pm

weiland79 wrote: »

Any tips for Gwent?

I find if you let the pc win the first round he might use up his good cards and you can then win the next 2 rounds

sheep? · 18-05-2016 12:28pm

Skerries wrote: »

I find if you let the pc win the first round he might use up his good cards and you can then win the next 2 rounds

Especially if you use a whole rake of spies in the first round.

Joshua J · 18-05-2016 1:17pm

allibastor wrote: »

I found the game was hard for the first 12 levels.

After that it got a bit easier. And more fun.

I still find it hard to believe that Human NPC can beat the tar out of me though.

Maybe that's it. I'm playing it on hard diff and dying a fair bit and the loading times are quite long can feel a bit grindy in that respect.

EDIT: Actually yeah thinking about it it's the loading times that are my issue I think.

K.O.Kiki · 18-05-2016 1:58pm

Sale on GOG until 1st June.
https://www.gog.com/promo/20160516_special_promo_the_witcher_series

allibastor · 18-05-2016 4:30pm

What is GOG,

And is the withcer 2 on Xbox 360 worth getting?

It is like 15-20 euro in my local CEX

MiskyBoyy · 18-05-2016 4:38pm

allibastor wrote: »

What is GOG,

And is the withcer 2 on Xbox 360 worth getting?

It is like 15-20 euro in my local CEX

Yeah it's worth getting but I wouldn't pay €15 for it especially as it was free with gold before. Shame you missed it?

It's €9.89 on 360 digitally at the moment if that's any good to you?

Robert ninja · 18-05-2016 4:49pm

allibastor wrote: »

What is GOG,

The dev/publisher combo of the game you're interested in. K.O.Kiki linked them.

Digital Solitude · 18-05-2016 5:23pm

allibastor wrote: »

What is GOG,

And is the withcer 2 on Xbox 360 worth getting?

It is like 15-20 euro in my local CEX

Online PC game shop, owned by CD Projekt Red

Its really a really good game, dunno if its worth €15 nowadays

Joshua J · 18-05-2016 5:25pm

allibastor wrote: »

What is GOG,

And is the withcer 2 on Xbox 360 worth getting?

It is like 15-20 euro in my local CEX

I completed 1 and 2 recently because I wanted to play the trilogy. Only place I could get Witcher 2 was Gamestop and it was €27, preowned, two weeks ago. Got the Witcher 3 in Argos for €25 lol. Bloody Gamestop. Witcher 1 and 2 are great games imo defo worth a play through.

Sonics2k · 18-05-2016 6:22pm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Online PC game shop, owned by CD Projekt Red

Its really a really good game, dunno if its worth €15 nowadays

Is it? That's genuine news to me

Sephiroth_dude · 18-05-2016 6:46pm

Really must get back into this and finish the base and then I have two expansions too look forward to.

Washington Irving · 18-05-2016 10:13pm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Online PC game shop, owned by CD Projekt Red

Its really a really good game, dunno if its worth €15 nowadays

Sonics2k wrote: »

Is it? That's genuine news to me

Slight correction; it's owned by CD Projekt, who are the parent company of CD Projekt Red.

/pedant

allibastor · 19-05-2016 10:09am

Has anyone done the Runecrafting????

Is it worth it.

I have spent 5 K of my 80K thus far and dont see any massive use. I am level 36 and kind of over powered as it is.

L'prof · 19-05-2016 11:12am

allibastor wrote: »

Has anyone done the Runecrafting????

Is it worth it.

I have spent 5 K of my 80K thus far and dont see any massive use. I am level 36 and kind of over powered as it is.

I've levelled up completely and it's probably not, but at the same time you don't really need massive amounts of crowns in the game anyway. I know there's a vineyard to buy in the next DLC but I'll still have enough cash to make a good start on that straight away and I'm assuming I'll have it maxed out long before I finish that chapter of the game. I just don't see the sense in not trying it out to be honest.

Zero-Cool · 19-05-2016 3:59pm

Happy Birthday Witcher 3, here's a new trailer for Blood and Wine to celebrate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJT5XRftOU

Antar Bolaeisk · 19-05-2016 7:14pm

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Online PC game shop, owned by CD Projekt Red

Its really a really good game, dunno if its worth €15 nowadays

It will forever be worth E15, that and more. One of the best games ever made.

The major problem with The Witcher 2 is that they came along and made Witcher 3 which blew everything else out of the water

It's on sale for $3.00 at the moment on gog which is almost stealing it's so cheap.

Digital Solitude · 19-05-2016 8:11pm

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

It's on sale for $3.00 at the moment on gog which is almost stealing it's so cheap.

That's why I don't know if its worth €15, like that's what The Witcher 3 cost me like 9 months ago.

I know prices differ but given its age and its not a Ninty first party game I'd wait for the sales

Sonics2k · 20-05-2016 9:11am

Now, I'm not a big fan of Cosplay at all, but stumbled across this yesterday from the CDPR page and he's got a tonne more of them.

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