[Megathread] Witcher 3

[Redwyrm]

I bought this when it went on sale but haven't played much because I just get used to the keyboard mouse controls. I have a xbox third party controller (from gamestop) that doesn't seem to register with the game. Can someone recommend a controller that does work or is there a workaround for third party controllers. I tried looking for Microsoft Xbox One controllers but they are rare and extremely expensive.

[WarpedAcorn]

I bought this when it went on sale but haven't played much because I just get used to the keyboard mouse controls. I have a xbox third party controller (from gamestop) that doesn't seem to register with the game. Can someone recommend a controller that does work or is there a workaround for third party controllers. I tried looking for Microsoft Xbox One controllers but they are rare and extremely expensive.

You have to get a Microsoft Branded Controller for it to work. The third party ones don't. I got an XBox 360 Controller for about $25 a long while ago that works great. You can still find them on Amazon or your other preferred online site. I don't think retail stores will have anything but the Xbox One version.

[Davemetalhead]

Just re-installed the game, I have around 3 hours played all told so giving it another chance to see if I can get in to it this time. I have a couple of questions -

Should I be picking every flower/plant that I come across? Should I concentrate on particular ones?

I remember playing a card game (Gent? Gwent? something like that) in an inn and getting my arse kicked (I don't think card games are my thing!). Is this a part of the game I can ignore, or will I be penalized for not playing it further down the line? Is there a point in the game where I won't be able to continue unless I play the card game?

Thanks

[Graeham]

Just re-installed the game, I have around 3 hours played all told so giving it another chance to see if I can get in to it this time. I have a couple of questions -

Should I be picking every flower/plant that I come across? Should I concentrate on particular ones?

I remember playing a card game (Gent? Gwent? something like that) in an inn and getting my arse kicked (I don't think card games are my thing!). Is this a part of the game I can ignore, or will I be penalized for not playing it further down the line? Is there a point in the game where I won't be able to continue unless I play the card game?

Thanks

What difficulty are you playing on? The necessity of picking plants increases significantly with the difficulty as, ideally, on higher difficulties you will be using alchemy quite often. Some of the plants are definitely rarer than others and grow in specific regions though you can typically get by just through going on the occasional picking spree every now and then. A lot of the enemies/containers you can loot will give you plants too - and there's various NPC's who sell them as well.

Gwent can be a huge part of the game but it is entirely optional. There's a fair few side quests that revolve around it but you don't need to complete them. At some points in the main quests you are offered the chance to play a round of Gwent to pass the time but you have the option to decline so it isn't enforced by any means.

[Davemetalhead]

Playing on the easiest setting - I'm not one for challenging games, just play for fun. So I can pick a few plants now and again, I don't need to worry too much about it?

[Enjeh]

Playing on the easiest setting - I'm not one for challenging games, just play for fun. So I can pick a few plants now and again, I don't need to worry too much about it?

on the easiest setting you don't really need to bother with anything, other then just to upgrade your weapon/gear once in a while.

[WarpedAcorn]

Playing on the easiest setting - I'm not one for challenging games, just play for fun. So I can pick a few plants now and again, I don't need to worry too much about it?

You will need some of then as ingredients to upgrade your Potions and Flasks, but you can also purchase them at various Alchemist Vendors throughout the game (though not all Alchemists carry the same stock). But Potions and Flasks are also kind of optional and, although helpful, are not specifically required if you Specialize in Swords or Magic.

[Onvious]

You don't need to pick every flowers. Even the hardest mode is easy. I guess only gjin fight is hard when enemy up scale is on.

[anaxie]

Playing on the easiest setting - I'm not one for challenging games, just play for fun. So I can pick a few plants now and again, I don't need to worry too much about it?

playing on easiest. whats the point just go watch a lets play

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I think they could and should do a Witcher game set after Witcher 3 ( a few years would do ), where you start as a Witcher of the Griffin school. Because the Witchers have lost the ability to train new Witchers since most of the old ones are gone, you're going to be one without mutations. However, like Eskel, Geralt and Vilgefortz, the character will have an innate ability to learn magic via having a mage parent. He'll make up for it by becoming a hybrid between a wizard and a witcher's swordsmanship, making up for the lack of mutations/potions/tracking through spellcasting.

The gameplay would be awesome, as while Sign Geralt is fun to play you never get to have any truly devastating magic. This character could have all sorts of crazy shit like portals, summoning familiars, influencing the weather to make tracking a monster easier and so on.

Just like Vilgefortz. I found his fighting style and how he beat up Geralt awesome.

The need for more witchers is made obvious by the fact that during TW3's ending moments we have a new conjuction of spheres, meaning new monsters are popping up in the world. While the Griffin witchers would be unable to provide much in the way of magic training, the character could find an Arcanist in his travels and band up with him/her as a companion. After all, there are plenty mages in the Witcher world and not all of them play court politics.

The only issue with that is that they'd have to canonise an ending. I'd be okay with Nilfgaard taking over the North and Ciri remaining a witcher, meaning she could show up during the game(s).

well fortunately CDPR wouldnt do stupid shit like that

Now a Prequel ending when Geralt got killed with the pitchfork setting up the events of TW1

Now THAT would be something.

[Kaelwryn]

playing on easiest. whats the point just go watch a lets play

Because its not the same as playing the game yourself?

[Deleted]

I think they could and should do a Witcher game set after Witcher 3 ( a few years would do ), where you start as a Witcher of the Griffin school. Because the Witchers have lost the ability to train new Witchers since most of the old ones are gone, you're going to be one without mutations. However, like Eskel, Geralt and Vilgefortz, the character will have an innate ability to learn magic via having a mage parent. He'll make up for it by becoming a hybrid between a wizard and a witcher's swordsmanship, making up for the lack of mutations/potions/tracking through spellcasting.

The gameplay would be awesome, as while Sign Geralt is fun to play you never get to have any truly devastating magic. This character could have all sorts of crazy shit like portals, summoning familiars, influencing the weather to make tracking a monster easier and so on.

Just like Vilgefortz. I found his fighting style and how he beat up Geralt awesome.

The need for more witchers is made obvious by the fact that during TW3's ending moments we have a new conjuction of spheres, meaning new monsters are popping up in the world. While the Griffin witchers would be unable to provide much in the way of magic training, the character could find an Arcanist in his travels and band up with him/her as a companion. After all, there are plenty mages in the Witcher world and not all of them play court politics.

The only issue with that is that they'd have to canonise an ending. I'd be okay with Nilfgaard taking over the North and Ciri remaining a witcher, meaning she could show up during the game(s).

Magic in the Witcher world isn't actually hereditary unfortunately. In fact mages "breeding" so to say, especially together, has a higher risk of leading to medical issues. Vilgefortz was also an anomaly, the most powerful sorcerer known to man at that point. A lot about him is entirely unkown as he rejected his initial recruitment into Ban Ard (the male mage school) and went about on his own instead. Weaving magic and the staff he uses together in combat wouldn't allow for a Witcher type of combat in that sense, you wouldn't be a Witcher anymore, you'd just be a sorcerer.

I'm also not entirely sure whether the need for Witchers is as high as we'd like to think. While an all out conjunction right here right now at the time of the Witcher 3 would be disastrous, we already know that regular knights are becoming more capable in regards to monster hunting. The Flaming Rose even focus on it in large parts and in the books it's said that the biggest threat to humanity would really just be dragons (they're mostly extinct as far as we know), not regular monsters. Regular monsters are seen as a nuisance at best and while they require a bit of manpower we also have to take into account technological advancements. Monsters are already somewhat dealt with now, but once better weapons become available there will be even less need for Witchers.

[anaxie]

I finally finished this masterpiece (plus Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine). What an amazing game.

I bought it first on PC, but due to WoW I was unable to finish it, I always returned to WoW. I bought PS4 Pro I few months ago and finally I was able to quit WoW for a while (I will probably return, though), and the GOTY Edition of this game was on sale. I couldn't miss the chance.

I have been a gamer all my life, and for me, this game is, objectively, the best one ever made. Is INSANE the amount of GOOD content and detail that it has, is overwhelming. The AMAZING story and characters, not only of the main quest but of every single sidequest, I don't have words to describe it. How this guys made this game is a mistery to me, I mean, it raised the bar A LOT. You could like it or not, but I think that we could all agree that after this game, the industry has no excuses, it has to work VERY HARD to get close to this level of quality.

My only regret is that after The Witcher 3, I know that, while I will still have fun, it will be almost impossible that any game surprise me or get me hooked like The Witcher.

The rest of the industry has much to learn about this game (I could write a book about this topic): the DLC price/content relation, which is, again, INSANE in this game; how important is to make good characters and an adult, interesting story and world (The Witcher had the job done before they started working on it, because its based in a saga of books, but thats no excuse for the rest); the really HIGH quality of the secondary quests/activities...

I sincerely doubt that this game will be surpased in this generation, but I wish to be proved wrong.

My only complain about the game is that it could be really overwhelming. So many things to do, a world SO big. I know. it sounds like a stupid complain, this is what we gamers want, I high quality game with tons of content, but, maybe it was just a problem for me, as a completionist.

My advice: play little by little, enjoy, this game is going to last you for months/years (because, yeah, it has a lot of replayability), don't try to make everything at the same time, just relax and enjoy the trip.

Have you ever played... Morrowind? Baldurs Gate Bhaalspawn Saga ? Planescape Torment? The Witcher ONE? How about Legend of Heroes , YS? no? well what are you waiting for

industry is fine

Stick with these developers / localizers

Obsideon Entertainment (Kotor 2 , Fallout NV, South park Stick of truth, Pillars of Eternity 1/2, Neverwinter Nights 2)
Piranha Bytes (Gothic / Risen / ELEX
Larian Studio (Long List of Divinity Games
XSEED/Falcom (Ys / Legend of Heroes series and other delightful games)
CDProjectRED (polish love)

In 2018 moving forward avoid developers too big for their own who only care about milking the shit out of you and fuck the consumer. this means

Fuck
Paradox interactive
Warner Brothers
BLizzard
Activision
EA
Bioware
Bethesda
Ubisoft
Konami
Capcom
Square Enix

all these companies are dogshit to how they were 10-15 years ago

Square Enix doesnt understand why people loved the old Final Fantasys and not ACTION games

Capcom has no fucking idea what to do with resident evil since Code Veronica. Look no further than RE5/RE6 and fucking The Operation racoon and umbrella corp games

Konami HEY GUYS lets kill Metal Gear and Castlevania

Ubisoft MILK MILK MILK MILK MILK yearly shovelware

Activsion Shovelware Bungie Activisions left testicle also are fucking idiots who havnt made a good game since Halo 3

Bethesda Oblivion the idiotic bland world exploration where every bandit has daedric armor, Skyrim Fuck RPGS guys! 2018 milk edition, and Fallout 4 less dialogue edition with possible the most hated season pass in the history of gaming, Creation Club AFTER pissing people off TWICE with the paid shit. Avoid Bethesda like the plague

EA Its EA they kill everything

Blizzard grindfest dogshit WoW casino royal edition ran by Diablo 3 B team, Micros shoveled into every IP they own. Lack of depth

BIoware Dragon age 2 awsome button. dragon age inquisiton empty world edtion, Mass effect 3 fuck choice and consequences, Mass Effect Abortion IV,

Paradox? heres a game. now heres the 70 DLCS we chopped off and will sell to you 5$ per, Steam sale coming? better double the price of every single game in our catalogue

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Because its not the same as playing the game yourself?

when you could beat a fight with the monitor unplugged on that setting again. whats the point?

smash your hands on the key board watching the video. only difference is you have money still.

[Kaelwryn]

when you could beat a fight with the monitor unplugged on that setting again. whats the point?

smash your hands on the key board watching the video. only difference is you have money still.

Don't really understand what your issue is. If someone wants to play on the easiest settings, there's nothing wrong with that. Watching someone else play a game is not the same as playing it yourself. Not everyone is interested in the challenge.

[Davemetalhead]

playing on easiest. whats the point just go watch a lets play

Because I want to? Because that's how I enjoy playing games? Because I'm not a teenager that measures my self-worth by playing games? Because I don't give a monkey's fart what keyboard warriors such as yourself think?

Actually, it's mainly 'cos I'm crap at games - playing on the easiest setting and I've already died a couple of times in the starter area around Whitehaven

On a different note I have another question - I've brewed a couple of alchemy potions, I notice that when I do so the recipe disappears from my list - does this mean I can only brew each one once only in the whole game? I assume not, so I'm guessing I have to find/buy the recipe each time I want to brew it?

[pateuvasiliu]

Magic in the Witcher world isn't actually hereditary unfortunately. In fact mages "breeding" so to say, especially together, has a higher risk of leading to medical issues. Vilgefortz was also an anomaly, the most powerful sorcerer known to man at that point. A lot about him is entirely unkown as he rejected his initial recruitment into Ban Ard (the male mage school) and went about on his own instead. Weaving magic and the staff he uses together in combat wouldn't allow for a Witcher type of combat in that sense, you wouldn't be a Witcher anymore, you'd just be a sorcerer.

I'm also not entirely sure whether the need for Witchers is as high as we'd like to think. While an all out conjunction right here right now at the time of the Witcher 3 would be disastrous, we already know that regular knights are becoming more capable in regards to monster hunting. The Flaming Rose even focus on it in large parts and in the books it's said that the biggest threat to humanity would really just be dragons (they're mostly extinct as far as we know), not regular monsters. Regular monsters are seen as a nuisance at best and while they require a bit of manpower we also have to take into account technological advancements. Monsters are already somewhat dealt with now, but once better weapons become available there will be even less need for Witchers.

The new conjuction would add monsters into the world again. Knights won't know how to fight spirits or lift curses.

The books' statements are kinda retconned by the game.

And magic is hereditary, Geralt and Vilgefortz both had immense magic potential due to their origins. I don't recall anything about difformities for them, just for others mages.

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playing on easiest. whats the point just go watch a lets play

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well fortunately CDPR wouldnt do stupid shit like that

Now a Prequel ending when Geralt got killed with the pitchfork setting up the events of TW1

Now THAT would be something.

A prequel would be dumb. The story is already set in stone.

[Kaelwryn]

Because I want to? Because that's how I enjoy playing games? Because I'm not a teenager that measures my self-worth by playing games? Because I don't give a monkey's fart what keyboard warriors such as yourself think?

Actually, it's mainly 'cos I'm crap at games - playing on the easiest setting and I've already died a couple of times in the starter area around Whitehaven

On a different note I have another question - I've brewed a couple of alchemy potions, I notice that when I do so the recipe disappears from my list - does this mean I can only brew each one once only in the whole game? I assume not, so I'm guessing I have to find/buy the recipe each time I want to brew it?

You only need to craft a potion once, then you should have a vial in your inventory. Whenever you rest, and provided you have alcohol (I think it was?) in your inv, it'll refill all of your potions.

[Davemetalhead]

You only need to craft a potion once, then you should have a vial in your inventory. Whenever you rest, and provided you have alcohol (I think it was?) in your inv, it'll refill all of your potions.

Ah, thank you!

Is this explained anywhere in-game? I admit I probably don't read as much of the Bestiary as I should, but I'm wondering what other information I may be missing out on by not reading a particular section somewhere.

[Darkarath]

Have you ever played... Morrowind? Baldurs Gate Bhaalspawn Saga ? Planescape Torment? The Witcher ONE? How about Legend of Heroes , YS? no? well what are you waiting for

industry is fine

I played a LOT of Morrowind, a little of Baldur's Gate, and quite a lot of Neverwinters too... and man while they were amazing games (especially Morrowind IMO), they weren't nowhere The Witcher 3 level; they weren't as HUGE as improvement as The Witcher 3 compared to everything else (IMO, of course).

Industry is fine, they're quite a few games that are amazing, but if they follow CDProject it would improve SO much.

[Deleted]

The new conjuction would add monsters into the world again. Knights won't know how to fight spirits or lift curses.

The books' statements are kinda retconned by the game.

And magic is hereditary, Geralt and Vilgefortz both had immense magic potential due to their origins. I don't recall anything about difformities for them, just for others mages.

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It really isn't, the games have done a very good job in maintaining the book's canon as much as they can. The creators are great fans of the books and they would not be so disrespectful as to outright change things that blatantly.

Knights also won't need to fight spirits or lift curses, as we know from both the books and the games; mages are equally capable of doing exactly that.
For more information on the issues with magical breeding refer to "Blood of Elves" - The Poisoned Source by Tissaia de Vries. Adding to that, we don't know who Vilgefortz' parents were. It's very, very unlikely that either had magical abilities as they simply abandoned him in the gutter of Lan Exeter.

[anaxie]

I played a LOT of Morrowind, a little of Baldur's Gate, and quite a lot of Neverwinters too... and man while they were amazing games (especially Morrowind IMO), they weren't nowhere The Witcher 3 level; they weren't as HUGE as improvement as The Witcher 3 compared to everything else (IMO, of course).

Industry is fine, they're quite a few games that are amazing, but if they follow CDProject it would improve SO much.

I like you a lot