This woman works at Bioware. This is who calls the shots in the game industry.
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I was certainly filtered by 2 back in the day (long before 3 existed) and its very clunky tutorial trying to explain you the controls. I can only imagine how bad 1 was if that was the improvement.
But that's part of it being slav jank. Basically every game made there in that time frame was known for being hell to play in some way (Witcher controls, Stalker bugs) by worth it for the wierd world it gave you.
Witcher 2 wasn't an improvement. Witcher 1 has an entirely different combat system. Which, to be fair, is pretty weird and takes some time getting used to but it actually works quite well. Has been a while since I've lasted played Witcher 1 but if I remember correctly it had the least frustrating combat system of all 3 titles.
Good to know. I've only played like 1-2 hours of 2 and 3 and hated my time with both, so I'm not well versed in them in any way.
But I was at least aware of their existence before 3 came out and suddenly everyone I know was a Witcher fan.
I think I've played through W3 twice but I do think it's very much overrated. It's nowhere near as good as people make it out to be. The combat system is probably the worst thing about it. It's one of those where playing on the highest difficulty is akin to banging your head against the wall. From a gameplay perspective the animations are absolutely horrible. Especially in fist fights.
I'll agree on that. The actual gameplay portion was horrific to me and I just could not get around it, even if the writing between those sections was quite good.
And considering most people only talk about the story, and the card game, I think its very much a case of people just mindlessly completing it as filler content to get to more dialogue.
I'm sure some people enjoy it plenty, but I can't imagine I'm in the small minority that find it terrible.
I always see people claim the controls were janky in witcher 1, but I would say it was the mechanics and the way abilities worked that was the problem. Like dodging and rolling were basically useless. A lot of abilities and talent trees were buggy and unbalanced. I remember there was a gold talent in the Intelligence tree that claimed to reduce the stamina cost of signs by 20%, but it actually didn't do anything at all. I ended up reloading to an earlier save when I found that out. There were probably at least a dozen different talents that didn't really do what their description claimed, and Igni was of course ridiculously overpowered. There really wasn't any reason to use any other skills except Igni because I could just one-shot everything with a 360 degree aoe blast on the hardest difficulty.