re: *Official* Witcher 3 Release Thread

Went to recover a box for some guy on the side of the road, killed by drowners very quickly. How do you even level up? I must've missed that part of the tutorial.

I've been able to play about 30 minutes at a time. The kids found out I have a new game and decided to get sick. Both of them.

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How do you even level up?

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Go to character section of menu. Once you select a skill you have to place it in this sort of skill tree thing.

It is an interesting dynamic because you may want to select a skill, but have nowhere to place it.

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you can also gain skill points from "places of power

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These places are always 100% totally safe. Never any super high level monsters around. Feel free to run right up to them disregarding your surroundings!

I like that idea. I want to follow this thread and bitch about not playing.

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Might be smart, I did it with DA:I.

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Yep, good idea.


Anywho, so what happens if I tell the commander I killed Aryan or say I let him go while getting my close shave?

it appears you are in the minority, like with most threads I've seen you in

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Is witcher one big massive map or is it like dragon age where you use a map to go to medium sized locations

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from what I remember when reading about this game, there's one large map that you spend most of your time in then the major cities have separate smaller maps

I sort of agree with him, because the complexity of finding, managing, and progressing all of the many resources required to survive, let alone complete a game like this, can be overwhelming for a casual gamer, more of a chore than a fun challenge -- it's tough to enjoy the narrative and environment when you're so busy trying to figure this shite out and stressing about missing something small but potentially game-breaking because you forgot to loot a chest 6 hours ago. I consider myself unapologetically casual and tend to avoid games like this. I never finished Witcher 2, but I am making an honest effort this time.

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it appears you are in the minority, like with most threads I've seen you in

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Look, I really don't care. I've grown past the need to feel special because I can beat a hard video game.

As soon as I gain control of my level 1 witcher, everything else around me is level 2+, there are only like 4 quests that I can find, and I'm still level one. I go to this village to kill a wraith and when I get to the last step, the game tells me I should prepare, use potions, and enhancements but the game doesn't do anything to tell me how or where to actually get any of that.

When I get into battle with the wraith which is level 2, I fight it until my sword breaks then it kills me because I can't dodge the attacks due to the game's animation lock.

If there's one thing Kingdoms of Amalur did right that's build a damn good third person action-RPG combat system. More of that please. Less of this Dark Souls wannabe BS.

I don't even hate the franchise. I've played 10 hours of Witcher 1 and only really stopped because I decided just to skip to Witcher 3. This franchise was much better when it was more akin to NWN or Dragon Age than when it tried the more action-oriented route.

I saw this coming long before release, but I got sucked into the hype.