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On Fri, 29 May 2015 20:19:32 GMT, john...@frontier.com (John Lewis)
wrote:

>On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:14:29 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
><no-spam@never.spam> wrote:
>
>>The Witcher 3.
>>The more I look at Videos & read reviews the less enthusiastic I feel re. 
>>this.
>>The combat looks very repetitive - just hack n slash away.
>Not quite... turn on the Witcher 3 Combat Tutorial (when you buy the
>game....)
>>Overall poorer than 1 or 2, certainly less RPG.
>Really? More concentration on the story and the game-world's
>inhabitants and a little less on the mechanics of ability trees makes
>it less of an RPG? 
>>Arguably this thread should be the 'action' group.
>>
>>I'm mentally putting Witcher 3 in a list along side Two Worlds , Arcania - 
>>Gothic 4
>>& even Ravens Cry . That's not a compliment.
>>The complex character & stories of the Witcher World intrigue me
>>but perhaps to do it justice in a comp. game
>>it would need to be in An Adventure type design..
>>(\__/)
>>(='.'=)
>>(")_(")  mouse (Hack n Slash n Bash a Bit)
>>
>>
>>
>
>Hmmm.... indeed..... 
>
>Having read what you said, out of curiosity I logged in ~ 3 hours ago
>into Steam and perused the user-comments on the game. Out of the 8000+
>comments,  7912  were rated 'positive' and 791 'negative'.  I sampled
>the first 50 or so of the 'positive' and 25 or so of the 'negative'.
>Strange that the positive reviews truly raved about the game, its
>scope and depth, its graphics goodness and its character development,
>and most of the negative reviews raved about 'technical issues' or the
>'combat system. or 'alchemy system' or... something else peripheral to
>the game itself not being to their taste..... Seems to be a lack of
>understanding that these latter are just the chosen tools of any
>action RPG and may need some relearning, just as with say Elder
>Scrolls thru Gothic 3 thru Witcher 1 -->2 --->3.
>------------------------------------------------
>I am about 20 hours into the Witcher 3 (PC), running all Patches up to
>1.04 on a clean install.  No crashes, As a long-term single-player
>action-RPG fan, for me Witcher 3 is, so far, the finest action-RPG
>ever produced. A truly-huge game in a dynamic world with stellar
>story-telling, significantly interesting and varied mini-quests,
>nuanced decisions that deeply affect the plot outcome, deft character
>portrayal, even minor characters reveal their opinions and feelings,
>gorgeous graphics with microscopic attention to detail. Perfect choice
>of voice actors in all encounters so far, with scripting and character
>animation that almost matches some of the best live-actor movies.
>Combat mechanics by far the best (and most intuitive for
>action-gamers) of all The Witcher series. No problem with mouse and
>default WASD, only a minor remap of the ALT key for me (Remap
>available in 1.04). Immersive, immersive, immersive.....
>
>Morrowind in its time held the action-RPG crown and even now 
>with some of the best graphics mods is still a significant contender.
>However, The Witcher 3 with its seamless action-engine (at least on
>the PC) and the loving attention given to all aspects of its creation
>has now seized that crown.
>
>John Lewis

The Witcher series always had a strong point with characters and
dialog.  I liked 1 and 2 because they didn't make me feel like a 12
year old D&D nerd when I played them, and like GTA 5 actually get a
laugh out of me at times.

I hope by the time I get around to trying it again, the technical
issues that matter to me have been worked out enough that I can enjoy
it.  For example, still present in version 1.04 is the audio problem.
The audio is lower than every other app, and using the audio control
on my keyboard doesn't work.  It is literally the only game I've ever
seen that was able to fuck up something as simple as the volume
control, and the only Windows app on my system that behaves that way.
The framerate is fine but movement still looks jerky.

This wasn't an issue with 1&2.  I think it says a lot that I really
liked 1&2 and had an immediate negative reaction to 3 at the current
price point. Clunky as others have said.  I hope they can fix it.

Glad you're liking it in the meantime.