• unknown1234_5@kbin.earth
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    2 hours ago

    love it when studios randomly come back to a game years later with a new dlc like “hold on tim had a really cool idea while working on the next one so we’re gonna add it to the old one”

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    Hoping this supercharges interest into the modding scene. The 2024 redkit release was way past the games popularity peak

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    The DLC is just retired Geralt playing Gwent in Toussaint all day and all the new content is just more tournaments and decks 🙏

    ^Seriously though judging by the title I would expect some sort of flashback, probably some kind of prequel thing involving Ciri’s backstory to lead into Witcher 4.^

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    While I’m always happy with new Witcher content I hope they don’t invalidate the perfect ending Gerald had in Blood & Wine

    • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Damn, I REALLY need to finish the third one… I haven’t even finished the base campaign.

      It’s not that I don’t like the game, I am fascinated by every part of it, and it’s been installed and updated on my computer for many years…

      It’s just so in depth, I do not have the attention span and dedication I used to in optimizing builds for a game. I felt like I was on hard mode if I didn’t use the potions and sword oils and things, but I kept forgetting what to use, and that’s assuming I even had the right stuff on me to begin with…

      That’s probably why I keep going back to skyrim more often, it’s combat is more simplified and casual. Which is funny because I always download mods to make the game more like the Witcher and improve combat…

      I’ll finish it one day, in my most recent playfhrough I had just gotten to some giant squid creature in a swamp, and kept dying so I just didn’t keep playing anymore.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Witcher ain’t Cyberpunk, but I feel the same adage applies. “Wrong town, wrong people.” With the “town” being witchers in general.

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    I find the controls for Witcher 3 are key bad looking back (just stuff like Gerald’s movement kinematics and the response times)

    So hopefully if they do this they can just do a bit of a polish pass too.

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      Did you ever try the “alternative movement” setting, which they added with one of the updates? Much faster response with that enabled.

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        No, I’ll have to check it out, thanks

        I probably have enough time to do a single play through before this releases, this game took me so long the first time!

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    Wild. So all these complete editions won’t be complete for long. Ars Technica said it’s $7.99 on GOG right now, so that’s a heck of a cheap way to get into the game if one were so inclined.

    Not quite as good as paying $6 for the Mass Effect trilogy, remastered, with all the DLC, and the loot box shit from ME3 stripped out… but not bad either.

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      There’s about as much game in Witcher 3 as in all three Mass Effects combined, so it’s still a very good deal.

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        Wow that’s insane.

        I used to play and replay Mass Effect 1-3 all the time with all the DLC and it would take me about 30 hours per game.

        How long to beat has a completionism run on TW3 at 175.

        Nice.

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      and the loot box shit from ME3 stripped out

      I wish they hadn’t stripped out the entire multiplayer mode in the remaster. It was surprisingly enjoyable (minus the lootbox mechanic)

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    I hope it will be playable on a new game. I’ve finished the game on a Switch then sold the cart and gave away the console. I’m using a pc for all my gaming now.