Same. I played it on PS4 back in the day but bought it on sale for like $7 last year on Steam and still haven't replayed it. Excited to get back into it.
I bounced off it so many times- here’s where I went wrong so you can learn the easy way lol
There’s a mutagen (perk) that grants auto heal for 20 mins when eating any food item. It is an absolute necessity and should be equipped by default at all times. If you have 5 slots unlocked, you technically have 4 because one will always be reserved for this.
Don’t give up on the bloody baron quest. It’s kind of a slog but it’s very early in the game and no other mission will be as much of a drag as that one. (It’s not horrible, it just kinda drags)
Idk if I’m just stupid or this is a common mistake- but when you craft a bomb / potion… you don’t “re-craft” another one when it’s gone. You craft the consumable once and use alchohest to replenish your supply when you rest… kinda like Elden ring and flasks, except there’s a small cost and it’s all of your consumables. This took me a shameful amount of time to understand.
Search for as many crafting recipes and expand what you’re able to make as much as possible and as early as possible. Gear is everything in this game.
Yoo, I didn't know about the potion thing! I went through the game twice (one in new game+) without using any potions because "I should save them for when I really need them" lol
I just finally started it about a week ago. I dont know what took my so long. The games amazing and the stories and decisions and moral ambiguities! I think i'll try skyrim next. Never did play that one either.
Iirc they're releasing another expansion sometime this year, historically the other two have both been free and the newer has you traveling to an entirely different country, no idea what to expect with this next one I honestly thought they were done and working on TW4
SAME!!! I have had the game in my backlog for 9 flip'n years! It's my most backlogged game.
I have been meaning to read the books first, including the new prequel one that came out recently...
I treat it like a Spiderman issue #1 comic book. I want to keep it as nice as possible, until some rainy day.
Just all the other games I've been playing over the years (Elden Ring, Crimson Desert, RDR2, etc...), Life stuff, and just me needing to buckle down (procrastination).
This will be the final update by the end of September and final DLC early next year! IT. IS. TIME!!
If you like reading the books are really interesting to read, and playing through it afterward there were a lot of references to events from the books and past games (which I did not play because they are clunkier). But it gave it a bit more depth and they really kept most of the lore from the books accurate which was awesome
Play it for the story, suffer it for the combat. It's well worth playing through everything once, do every quest, discover everything on the map. Incredibly good acting across the board. The combat does become stale and easy after a while. But this is only a minor complaint in an otherwise stellar game.
I went back to it after having ended up hating the release version, and being underwhelmed by the 2020 version.
They've added a lot of things, but ultimately it feels more like a long-running MMO: large amounts of things for veterans to do to kill time, not a lot of actual good gameplay or sense of there being any kind of natural journey to follow in a new game.
Well… yeah. Tried frigate, send fleet to tasks. What, it’s Tribal Wars style mechanic? Wait for N hours until it finishes? Oh, ok… Then tried colony. Didn’t understand then point of it. Tried to farm resources, but for what?
Most sandbox games have some goal you can achieve, at least Minecraft has dragon to kill. For me, NMS has nothing to achieve. It’s a nice game to try some exploration and space flying, setup some farm, but this doesn’t end in anything.
I enjoyed it for 15-20 hours while the gameplay was still novel to me. But at one point I sat there thinking about all the different things I could do - at this point there are so many systems, etc which is cool. Made a corvette and learned to farm some resources with it. Cool. Did some main quests - eh. One day I realized that for me, it all felt so pointless. What was I building towards? It’s just a big set of disjointed systems and upgrade trees, but ultimately the gameplay itself is very shallow.
Cool I guess if you just like the sandbox, the vibes, discovering planets, and progressing gear. I admire what they’ve done with the game and how much there is to do. But yeah, it’s just not for me.
Once a year I start thinking about the aesthetics of No Man's Sky, can't get them out of my head, reinstall the game, fire it up... and then I mine some minerals, scan a couple of things, fly around for a bit, and uninstall.
Then I just go and look at some cool old sci-fi paperback covers.
Y'know I would love for No Man's Sky to almost be a slick Roblox, where other people can make their own games and stories within the world that's been laid down. A little five-hour sci-fi political story that all takes place in one star system, a siege on a space station, mediating a war between two planets, whatever. I know there's mods but it doesn't seem to be working out.
I mean the main premise from what I remember was exploring, and I still to this day LOVE just exploring, the atmosphere the game provides is fantastic and I think that's what it does well.
I remember hearing they dropped the ball when the game released then they actually did give all the updates they promised, I've been looking for another space game to play after outer wilds and wanted to ask if no man's sky is worth it. The genre of game doesn't matter to me as long as it's a good game lol
The amount of updates and fixes easily overcompensates for god awful release of the game, even though the devs still don't feel like they payed off their "sins"
If you are interested in the game, you for sure will get enough content to satify your needs for the price you'll pay(especially if the game will be on sale)
The amount of updates and fixes easily overcompensates for god awful release of the game, even though the devs still don't feel like they payed off their "sins"
Hearing this line over and over again makes it really hard to talk about the game honestly, because even the most valid criticism is met with "the devs are so wholesome they truly care they updated their game!".
It's not just here either, every review on Steam, Youtube and every other platform goes on and on about how the developers 'truly redeemed themselves' and it's like that's great but can we actually hear about the gameplay for 5 seconds?
People still criticize NMS. The most common (valid) criticism is probably the lack of real depth to any of its systems and mechanics. But naturally that is greatly overshadowed by the sheer breadth of the game.
I’ve only just started my journey with 20 hours invested and it feels like I’ve barely scratched the surface. I can see how this is one of those games where you really get out of it what you’re willing to put in. So not going to be for everyone.
I think a big part of it is that it's just a huge sandbox game with a ton of stuff to do. Lots of people will not like it or get bored quickly, but it's not usually gonna make someone really angry and hate the game, they're just gonna lose interest and move on. But the people who do like it have such an obscene amount of content that is all free with the base game purchase to go through, so they tend to gush about it a lot.
To be fair I think it is still to this day the biggest disparity between expectations and release. Cyberpunk tried, but I don't think it even got close.
lol The main reason why I don't like remastered games they will start working totally badly on my pc too in The Witcher 3 I get 60fps medium / high this remaster gonna drop it down to 30 maybe even 20
This might just be cope on my part but I'm a bit hopeful that this remaster might improve performance a bit. I say this because the current Enhanced Edition could use a bit of optimization, and in my experience it actually is a little bit harder to run than Cyberpunk. Hopefully a more thoughtful implementation of RT features could alleviate that a bit, but we'll see.
I think this is a big reason for it being called remastered and not just another update to enhanced. They said something earlier this year about further optimizations coming to the Witcher 3 and I don’t think anything meaningful was changed leading up to this announcement
Maybe I am phrasing my question wrong: there's gameplay videos of the new combat. I look at videos of the current combat as well, and it's hard for me to tell a massive difference. Does it seem significant enough of a difference from the way the videos and gameplay are?
I am a big Witcher 3 fan and I agree that the combat was lackluster and mediocre. However, I’m weird and I actually like plots and stories, and the world building in Witcher 3 along with its stories was more than enough for me to get hooked. I will always highly recommended the game for its ambiance alone.
But I will fully concede that the combat isn’t anything too special and is very repetitive mechanically.
Honestly, yeah. I love most things Witcher-related (just look at my username lol) but even at the time people were ragging on TW3 for its combat and whenever I replay it I always have a combat mod installed.
I feel if you play an “old” game you have to account for the standards back then and also how it evolved from the previous instalment (if there was one).
Like if I picked up GTA: Vice city right now I know the gunplay would drive me a bit mad and same for the cars.
Same for Mass Effect 1 and the Mako (if you know you know).
Saying this having sunk an ungodly amount of hours in both of those games back when they came out ( I am talking about 10 play throughs for ME with a different class/alignment each run).
The best example I have for this is GTA5: I played it for the first time a good 10 years after it came out and I hated the gunplay when I started, it felt clunky / not great. Why ? It had been 10 years since it came out and in the meantime I had played more recent games that had set a newer and better standard of what I considered “good/fun”.
Once I got over that I had fun and finished the game, but I genuinely believe some iconic games are of their time and you kind of have to be there.
The most I ever felt this was trying to play Goldeneye/Perfect Dark again. I played those two so much when I was a kid. I tried playing like a year or two ago and it's unplayable. There just have been so many advancements to controllers and control schemes that without an overhaul it's just impossible to play. STALKER is up there too if you don't mod it. And New Vegas is passable but the walking and jogging speed are just way too slow.
I've been a lifelong Witcher fan (back from 90s, when I was a fan of the books), and I played W1 and W2 with great pleasure.
Witcher 3 was a masterpiece as a game on release. But it is a masterpiece DESPITE its combat, its progression, its loot system and, sadly, even its plot beyond the first chapter.
The combat was clunky and just poor, with cool moves gated needlessly beyond progression and the strikes simply being incorrectly distributed. Half of all skills were completely useless, with a handful being overpovered. The loot that wasn't part of a set was always bad and useless. The bosses were literally three identical Sauron-like elves in armor with forgettable names, plots and zero personal investment, and the White Cold was turned into a Mumbo-Jumbo magical planet killing device instead of simple climate change like in the books. And the bugs, who can forget them!
But man, the quests, the design, the vibe and the characters were so, so good that it overwhelmed everything.
The short-dodging mechanics, weaving in spells and getting the occasional execute animation could combine into really nice sequences, it was pretty good for 2015. Granted Bloodborne was out that year too, but I think witcher 3 was very under rated in this department.
I am a big witcher 3 fan and i dont know what people have with combat. You literally doing same moves like in Souls game.
Attack, Parry, dodge, dodgeroll,. OFC souls game bossess have more moves and you need focus more but still, combat is same. Yeah, i dont talk about mage build or something.
But all the other remasters of other franchises all have prices. Though CDPR would rather have Witcher games fans save up and buy Witcher 4 when it releases.
It's kinda wild how much they fumbled the 2077 launch, and then they barely added anything to it and just fixed some bugs then made a paid DLC and suddenly everyone is acting like they're an amazing company and it's an amazing game again. I guess all the people who were annoyed at the launch stopped playing and talking about it, so all that's left is the superfans that are easily pleased.
I briefly checked patch logs for the updates and I can't agree with the "barely added anything and fixed some bugs". What kind of stuff would you call considerable if what we have now is not enough?
Like many players, I bought Witcher 3 on sale. I was so immensely satisfied with the game that I would gladly have bought it again, but giving CDPR money is like trying to convince your drunk mate it's your round.
Every other company on earth so far asked you to pay for Remaster.
CDPR upgraded the game many times, it wasn't too long ago they upgraded to "next gen" for free for a 10YO game (unheard of) and then just a couple years later they give free DLCs (the first two) to all players (digital and physical) AND free Remaster.
Their competitor release Remaster for big bucks with no real upgrades (think of Horizon, The last of Us, Skyrim...)
So question about it being an update: is there a way to still play the original complete edition? I'm slightly worried that the remastered update will be harder to run on my current PC, but I know I can run the original.
I don't know, sorry. They'll probably make a separate version for gamers like you, just like they did with the classic version. But don't take my word for it :/
About to play it for the 4th time. Think I'll get some official merch for myself as a Christmas gift in show of support honestly considering I got the game+DLC for like $10.
poe2 was always designed to be free when full release. And all updates will be free. They make money on their shop with a lot of microtransations that improves your gameplay
It's not p2w but if you don't spend money on it you'll struggle in the endgame a bit, as you won't be able to store as many items, which limits your crafting and such.
Yep, it’s like 30-60$ for some storage and ability to comfortably trade with others(you need paid storage to use it as your “shop” to sell stuff), and you are pretty much ready for game mode with multiplayer and trade (trade league), till (and including) the very endgame. I’d say it might be not enough for some of more challenging game modes like solo self found (ssf) if you play A LOT(you can’t trade with other players in that mode, so you need to accumulate lots of stuff for yourself rather then buy and sell on demand like in trade league, therefore you need more storage). And those purchases are forever and work in both poe1 and 2.
CDPR is edging its players to have an easier time to sell Witcher 4. They have an uphill battle to justify Ciri's existence as a Witcher, UE5 stutters, and whatever good will they lost after releasing Cyberpunk.
And you can't really help me either since task manager isn't in english for me, and im once again too dumb to find the setting that would change it to english.
ctrl+shift+esc (or equivalents if you’re also not using an english keyboard) opens task manager i believe. then flip through the sidebar menus until you see multiple graph menus, then flip through there until you see whatever the equivalent to memory or ram is in the language your task manager is in. you might just be able to see the number from the side-graph though. powers of 2 are standard for ram (eg. 2gb 4gb 8gb 16gb)
I'll take the update thank you im so broke 😭 also did anyone else notice something off about the new trailer tho? Like has gamescom trailers been smothered with DLSS 5 or is it just me?
I am honestly worried that my computer won't be able to play it after the upgrade. I can currently play it at moderate settings, but if it puts the graphic fidelity on par or close to Cyberpunk 2077, I'm afraid my GPU won't hold up to it.
hoping the combat is good this time. the gameplay is whats kept me from playing past learning gwent. it took me 2 years to make it past the tutorial because i kept dropping the game and restarting months later
Cyberpunk launched with problems. The ‘expert complain’ bros annihilated them and proclaimed the company would implode….
The game now is epic.
Cdpr still making things great years later.
It’s easy to continuously complain about something when you have no concept of reality. But worse is that after a while it becomes the normal thing to do. And complaining is the first and only thing you go to.
Dude, Cyberpunk was straight up removed from PSN when it was first released because it had so many issues. It wasn't just "expert complain bros with no concept of reality" making shit up. You are greatly underselling how bad the condition of the game was when it first came out
I mean, I am not trying to be cynical, but let's talk in terms of facts:
CDPR had a ton of goodwill, especially after Witcher 2, and they rode it almost flawlessly with The Witcher 3's release. CP2077 had so much demand, it had the chance of turning into a new GTA in terms of hype.
They dropped the ball really, really, really hard. They still haven't fully recovered.
They didn't recover CP2077 purely out of the goodness of their hearts, they had a lot invested and needed to recover that reputation.
CP2077's updates, and these new releases, are an attempt to do that. They pretty much could be considered part of their marketing budget. They need to build that goodwill so people don't hesitate to buy Witcher IV.
These updates are neither a miracle nor a gift. They are very much trying to recover from a blunder that still aches quite a bit for them.
I played the 2.31 when it released the game was still a buggy mess, I had to use a mod to open a bugged door so i could proceed with the mission.
it got so bad in phantom liberty i just gave up on finishing it after impersonating the french brother and sister. even the parking gave me trouble in that place because the path was close i had to reload before the level and do it all over again just to be able to park where i should
(im not even talking about how they treat you like literal crap if you pick the unmasculine male V)
If ea removed a base game version and increased the price by $10 people would be losing their minds but this is cdpr the company that can release a literally broken mess and still get glazed.
I'm assuming the upgrade will struggle to run on the steam deck. Was playing through it before but never beat it. It runs wel on it now, so I guess I'll wait and see.
TO BE FAIR there's near-zero chance Witcher 3 is going to get any sale now until the remaster drops on Sept 29. What is priced, is priced. And we dont know if the remaster itself costs more past that point.
All we know is that current owners of W3 before the remaster get it for free.
Basically this is kinda a loss on those who didnt jump onto W3 during the many years and many sales it dipped really low (like, I remember a 90% off one time), which, sorry bud :/
I know a lot of big TW3 fans, I don't think I know a single one who actually likes the combat. It's really not that stupid to say of a game where combat is central that has such poorly thought-out combat mechanics that it has poor gameplay
I really do appreciate learning developer not only acknowledges and fixes their mistakes, but also strives to improve their relationship with their fans afterwards as well.
CDPR waking the fuck up and making the Witcher 3 remind the world why it's the best RPG 11 years after it's released because Crimson Desert and Kingdom Come deliverance 2 came out
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u/Dracofear Aug 26 '26
Witcher 3 has been on my backlog for far too long. The new remaster is probably the push I need to actually play it finally.