that's an amazing deal considering the expansions alone are 30+ hours long!
Gaming The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Deal expires 8th of Jan I think so will hold off a few days before taking the plunge.
how can you be so reluctant to buy this game when you've pumped so much time and money into the scam that is Destiny?
Because I'm sure there were two better deals on the store a few weeks ago but missed out on them
I bought it this eve - went for the regulr game - will see if I like it before I buy the DLC.
Was impressed - bought it before we started the first heist setup, and it was downloaded by the time we had finished! Not bad for 30Gb!!
Was impressed - bought it before we started the first heist setup, and it was downloaded by the time we had finished! Not bad for 30Gb!!
Played any of it or waiting till tomorrow?
Will give it a go later 
Why is the expansion pass never on the sale . It costs more than the full game at launch to me.
. It costs more than the full game at launch to me.Check the us store see if it's back on deal there, with the exchange rate for you it would be even cheaper, I think I got it for $22 when I bought it a few weeks back on that
Edit: its actually $25 on the US PSN right now for the game not DLC it ends at 11AM pacific time and with the exchange rate on sites like off gamers its almost giving you the game £32.16 for $50 plus the cost of paypal or shit like that, @Damien
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My flatmate has bought this for his ps4. Looks like I'll be playing this after all.
Bit fiddly via remote play. Not played much of the game but it looks okay so far. Will play more tomorrow or later today if I'm not knackered.
you really are the worst.
The opening cinematic sceny thing grabbed my attention. I only had a few hours sleep last night so not played much of it so far and not going to make a hyperbolic judgment until I've played more than what basically amounts to the tutorial and a bit of horse riding
I'm playing on hardest difficulty and that stupid griffin is doing my head in too. Not going to lower the difficulty thoughYeah the camera can be weird, I've had to knock it down from hardest difficulty to 2nd easiest alreadyGriffin was giving my problems. It's a steep combat learning curve imo, I went off what the glossary said too and it just seemed feckin useless.
Once you get to grips with the buttons and combat it falls into place and that battle turns out easy.
The only game until now that really has a foresty feel in the forest. Not just a feckin' bush/three randomly placed.
Decided to just leave it for now and go check other things out. Currently helping a crossdressing merchant with a facial similarity to Big-Red or Duffy
Crossdresser in White Orchard?
Ah right, I remember him.
can't say Duffy or Big-Red will be over the moon about that comparison though.I take back the comparison to Big-Red if it helps. Changed my mind about thatAh right, I remember him.
Didn't know you were so nice! I did same thing.
Barely scratched the surface of the game but can see why it won game of the year and why the developers have been praised so much.
All the missable stuff is a pain in the balls though
Got this game for Christmas and I have already racked up over a days playtime. Incredible game with so much content. Every time I start to do a main quest I get sidetracked and two hours later actually start doing the thing I'd set out to do. I take it that Velen is the largest area?
I think skellig isles are probably bigger. Though velen plus novigrad combined might be the biggest map.
I remember going to Skellige and thinking I must nearly be finished the game if I'm going off to an island.
Nope.
Nope.
Jesus Christ It's almost intimidating how huge this game is. It did feck me over one time where I took a Witcher contract which for some reason glitched and didn't provide a recommended level. An hour later and I was fighting some huge spider monster which kept killing me in one hit. Turned out the mission was recommended for level 33s not level 2... Had to load a different save slot from about two hours before.
It's almost intimidating how huge this game is. It did feck me over one time where I took a Witcher contract which for some reason glitched and didn't provide a recommended level. An hour later and I was fighting some huge spider monster which kept killing me in one hit. Turned out the mission was recommended for level 33s not level 2... Had to load a different save slot from about two hours before.@swooshboy have you done any witchering yet?
Hardly any - I need to put some time into it. Am at the very very early stage where everything still feels overwhelming - I love the look and feel of the world, but haven't really tried to understand spells etc, or crafting, or alchemy or pretty much anything!
I saw this video the other day - really shows the depth of world that they have created:
Will get back in there soon
Start playing this again after a few months break and I have no idea why I stopped in the first place. Absolute blast!
Well, that was until the end where I presume I got the worst possible one... Actually feel down right now because of it. Guess that's the sign of an amazing game. I was planning on doing all the side quests and contracts but that silence and emptiness in Kaer Morhan after that ending fecking killed me. I'll need to have a sleep on it
Well, that was until the end where I presume I got the worst possible one... Actually feel down right now because of it
. Guess that's the sign of an amazing game. I was planning on doing all the side quests and contracts but that silence and emptiness in Kaer Morhan after that ending fecking killed me. I'll need to have a sleep on it What ending did you get?Start playing this again after a few months break and I have no idea why I stopped in the first place. Absolute blast!
Well, that was until the end where I presume I got the worst possible one... Actually feel down right now because of it
At the top of the tower Ciri decides that her fate is to go through the portal and sacrifice herself to stop the frost that will eventually kill all life in all the worlds. Presumably this kills her.
Then Geralt goes back to Crookback Bog to kill the last crone to get Ciri's Witcher medallion back. He rips up the house to look for it and when he finds it he puts it to his face, sitting there in despair.
It then pans out with him still sitting there like that while the place is overrun with monsters and it ends...
Then after the credits you start off in Kaer Morhan which is completely empty. Was hard to take!
Then Geralt goes back to Crookback Bog to kill the last crone to get Ciri's Witcher medallion back. He rips up the house to look for it and when he finds it he puts it to his face, sitting there in despair.
It then pans out with him still sitting there like that while the place is overrun with monsters and it ends...
Then after the credits you start off in Kaer Morhan which is completely empty. Was hard to take!
Yeah that's the worst ending. And you can't even go back to a recent save to change it, you'd have to replay hours to change it. I like that about the game though, what ending you get isn't just determined by what button you press in the final scene, but on your behaviour throughout the final third of the game. Although it can be a bit vague to know where you went wrong.
yes its the ending I got and it was poor - took a break from it to play battlefield and going to redo it again - the most recent save takes you back to when you first land on that island and its a good hour of gameplay as you say.....can't let it finish like that though - I went to see the King in Vizmia before setting off which was a mistake and i should have had more confidence in Siri in the end......after investing all those hours she deserved a better ending - did you complete all side missions and question marks?
Visiting the King in Vizima is not necessarily a mistake. When you are there you have a chance to positively affect Ciri to help avert the bad ending, but it's potentially a deciding factor in determing which of the other endings you get. To answer your last question, yes I completed all side missions and question marks. The Skellige question marks are tedious to reach and most are lame smuggler's caches, so they aren't worth it. I'm certainly not going to bother with them again on future New Game+ playthroughs. I was pretty thourough but I might've missed some minor quests I guess.
Although I'd platinumed this on the PS4, I couldn't help but double dip and get it on PC. Got the vanilla game & Hearts of Stone for €28, and oh boy, the game looks great on PS4, but PC with ultra textures just makes the game pop like no other. It's so so gorgeous. Averaging around 50fps, when the game does stay at 60fps I cry a little because it looks even better but I can't get it locked @ 60 without sacrificing some eye candy.
Anticpation levels for the Blood & Wine DLC is fever pitch.
Anticpation levels for the Blood & Wine DLC is fever pitch.
honestly looking forward to this more than most full games coming out in 2016.
And on top of that there are some nice graphical mods over at The Witcher 3 Nexus. I'm running Super Turbo Lighting Mod and The Witcher 3 HD Reworked, highly recommended. Even after 150+ hours I find myself stopping and taking in the environments from time to time. It's simply stunning. I'm really looking forward to Blood & Wine because it gives me a chance to extend my stay in this incredibly crafted world. And CD Projekt Red said they wanted to create an even bigger and better world for Cyberpunk 2077...
Woah, you're running graphical mods? What GPU and CPU are you using?
I think he has the same as me, GTX 970. The game easily maxed out for me on it so I can'y see why graphics mods wouldn't be fine!
That's correct, a GTX 970. CPU is older, an i5-3450, but it's more than adequate. The GTX 970 is a phenomenal card without the price tag of a real high-end card. Only thing I turn off is Hairworks, it's a minor visual treat that comes with a cost of roughly 20 fps. Other than that, I have everything maxed out and have never even experienced as much as a single framedrop. There's the occasional microstutter that I haven't been able to determine the cause of, but it's not a big deal. I don't think the graphical mods impact performance that much anyway, give it a go. With the Nexus mod manager it's a piece of cake to switch them on and off.