I agree with this, the oils and stuff aren't needed of you're not playing on hardest difficulty anyway.
Gaming The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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I agree with this, the oils and stuff aren't needed of you're not playing on hardest difficulty anyway.
Right, i've reinstalled this so that I can have another bash (i'm picking up where I left off for a 4th time). Issue i'm having is that I can't get the mods set up correctly to continue with my game. Arghhh.
I think it's more lazyness because I have the list of mods I used just haven't taken the time to install them properly.
EDIT: Installing the unification patch with the Mod Manager was mistake number 1 it seems
I think it's more lazyness because I have the list of mods I used just haven't taken the time to install them properly.
EDIT: Installing the unification patch with the Mod Manager was mistake number 1 it seems
it's 4 years old and a current generation game ffs, the graphics are on par with games released in the past few months.Agreed.
I liked this game but could never really get into the story, which resulted in me never finishing it after going to the isle of mists.
The world they built was great though and I liked the fact that most choices didn’t have a “correct” answer. Combat was okay, nothing special.
The world they built was great though and I liked the fact that most choices didn’t have a “correct” answer. Combat was okay, nothing special.
Not a patch on RDR2! Pretty good though. Animations are nowhere near however.
Back up and running 
Now let’s see if I can get past Skellige.
Now let’s see if I can get past Skellige.RDR2 set a ridiculous bar for animation and how the world responds to you.
It did yeah. Big job on for anyone wanting to make a world that feels as alive. I think RPGs can get away with animation not being so smooth but they need to have life in the big worlds.
I'll be honest, I think Horizon ZD ruined me. It was the first modern game I played after buying a console for the first time since I was kid and I was totally engrossed by it for weeks. Since then I've tried loads and loads of games but nothing has gripped me the same way - the only game I haven't got bored of and actually managed to finish was The Last of Us which was great but I still prefer the open world style.
I'm hoping RDR2 might scratch that itch for me. Going to start it next week.
I liked the story and setting of HZD, just found the gameplay a bit flat and the world wooden. But I think that's thanks to BOTW totally taking worlds to a whole new level.
RDR2 is an epic story, but the gameplay is really poor. I personally think HZD is a better game than both that and Witcher 3 overall, but all three are undeniably quality games in their own rights for their own reasons.
I find Skellige a chore. Last play through I did as little as possible to get through that part while being almost completionist on everywhere else.Back up and running
See I bought a switch and Zelda after HZD thinking it would fill that gap and found the gameplay utterly repetitive and after several hours, the world a bit childish and cartoony. I did the four divine beasts and kind of gave up on it - I've tried to pick it up a few times since but always do a couple of shrines and then lose interest again.
The story and setting of HZD were great but it was the combat that kept me engaged and still does. There's such a depth of weaponry and strategies to use when taking on properly vicious enemies and I love the stealth vs balls out decision making before any attack.
That's disappointing to hear about the gameplay in RDR2. Will I just be frustrated if I go and pay for it?
Zelda was more about what you do with the world, how creative you could be than anything. The game itself could have been better, which is why I have it behind OoT and 3, but that world and how cohesive it works is unmatched and the new standard of what could be done in terms of interaction.
RDR2 is still a good game, and you might like the gameplay enough. After all I thought Witcher 3 was passable just enough to enjoy the game as a whole, and I liked a lot of aspects of HZD (just found it all a bit flat as they focused on graphics more than anything else). RDR2 is pretty trash in the actual controls, and the shooting is a plain chore, but I wouldn't say the game as a whole is bad. It's an experience more than anything, and a pretty good one at that. Until it starts dragging on at least.
I was the opposite way around. I played TW3 first and couldn't get into HZD at all. I found most enemies could be killed by squating in a bush and whistling for them to come over and just found the whole thing a bit uninteresting. Whereas TW3 is my favourite game ever.
RDR2 I found to be gorgeous and great early on, but it just wore me down with tedium. It's gorgeous and wonderfully reactive, but every quest seems to involve a long slow ride to the destination while someone moans about their problems followed by a huge shootout. Plus I didn't find any of the characters likeable. Shooting wasn't all that good. I stopped playing midway through chapter 3 as the story goes nowhere for ages and I got bored. I intend to go back, but don't know if I ever will.
TW3 and RDR2 could give each other a good competition for most clunky awkward controls. Although both would lose to Metal Gear Solid 3.
God bless Quen and it's game break brilliance. I ease past a lot of enemies now (on Death March).
With that being said, I do hope it gets challenging again soon.
I'm also using the levelled Witcher gear mod which may be having an affect also. I feel like I should remove it but guess i'm committed to it now.
With that being said, I do hope it gets challenging again soon.
I'm also using the levelled Witcher gear mod which may be having an affect also. I feel like I should remove it but guess i'm committed to it now.
Quen is the best?! It's been my least used. I use Axii (fully levelled up) to take em out for a second then bash em, and Igni if I wanna do some damage or take a cnut out the sky.
Do All RPG's have long loading times on the PS4? Every time, I die, I swear, I am waiting there with a controller in hand for close to 2 mins, just staring at the screen.
With the exception of this, I am liking the game so far, although I am still just very early into it and at times, all the customizations you have can tend to get a little confusing.
With the exception of this, I am liking the game so far, although I am still just very early into it and at times, all the customizations you have can tend to get a little confusing.
A lot of them do yes. But ps5 will have a ssd so it should be better next gen.
The thing with HZD is that the combat mechanics only start to get really interesting once you're equiped to take on the really large beasts. Thunderjaws, Behemoths, Stormbirds, that kind of enemy. Utilizing your entire range of weaponry and mixing up strategies to take them down is HZD at its best, and in my opinion very few games come close to that high. It just takes a long time to get there and the earlier stages can feel a bit dull. Combat against human opponents is so utterly awful it almost had me drop the game at one point. I'm glad I didn't though.
I found the early combat in HZD fun too though. Sneaking about and gaming enemies out one by one, and then mopping up the dregs at the end.
Obviously more challenging and fun later, but still very good early too.
HZD the better game for me.
Obviously more challenging and fun later, but still very good early too.
HZD the better game for me.
I didn't know it was possible to play The Wild Hunt without abusing Quen, especially with the shield ability that replenishes health.
The Witcher 3 has more interesting characters and the world feels more alive. But I loved putting together the pieces of the past to find out how the world's really gone to shit in Horizon.
Combat... if only you could play Horizon with a mouse. I absolutely detest aiming with a controller.
I will never, ever understand this. A mouse is good for Solitaire - a controller for everything else!
It’s so easy with Quen. Use it, fight, get hit, retreat, use again. You can defeat entire mobs and bosses without any health damage.
Bitch, you crazy.
Shooters are so much better with mouse + keyboard.
Never has a person been so wrong on an internet forum. Hang your head.
Shooters are easier with a mouse I grant you, but not better.
The combat system in HZD is incredibly intuitive and immersive and really rewards patience and practice. How can that be improved by pointing at targets and clicking with a mouse? Just because it's easier, doesn't make it better.
This is fun
No.
Fecking Corkonians, always were a bunch of loonies
PC gamers are weird
But HZD has a better and more surprising story and the combat is superior.
In terms of combat.... Witcher 3 ---> Horizon ---> RDR2
Sleeping Dogs tops the lot though
Sleeping Dogs tops the lot though
Without you realizing, you helped me remember the name of this game that I wanted to order...In terms of combat.... Witcher 3 ---> Horizon ---> RDR2
Sleeping Dogs tops the lot though
Yeah it had lost my interest long before then, a few other games came out and I wasn't going back to it. Plus you're playing as a ginger.
In terms of combat.... Witcher 3 ---> Horizon ---> RDR2
Sleeping Dogs tops the lot though
I'd love a sequel to that.
Gotta try again with TW3... Starting to think it'll never happen for me with this game.
I thought people like you were just a myth.
If it involves aiming, a controller is awful. Mouse is just infinitely superior for that. Same for RTS games or management games.