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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The first witcher game was what introduced me to the series a year ago. Yes, it looks like shit on first sight but once you get used to it its one of the best games ever made imo. The story, the depth, the mechanics were pretty awesome for the time.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My favorite mechanic was the running across an endless field from village to tiny village to collect nude cards of the local ladies.

... I may have spent a lot of time in the first chapter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yes indeed!

[–] AdmiralShat 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried it a few years ago and I kept doing front flips for some reason, asked someone on reddit, got called stupid for not knowing and some variations of get gud, so I deleted it

Why with the unrelenting front flips?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No idea. I‘d say your mistake was coming to reddit for help in gaming. Lemmy isnt better but i think the gaming subs are quite brutal.

[–] AdmiralShat 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Some of them are great, I've gotten a lot of help from Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress subs and the DRG sub is nice.

But yeah the majority of the subs get absolutely toxic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

We might be soulmates

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

You know what this needs? Microtransactions. Shareholders will love it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The Witcher 1 is a god damn masterpiece and I will die on that hill.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's got one thing really going for it and that's the story. There's some nice ideas about consequences along the way. There's not really any bad choices to make, but sometimes there aren't any good ones either.

But the gameplay is a hodgepodge of things that don't fit. It's a top down ARPG battered roughly into the shape of a third person brawler. I can see why it's getting a remake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You think that, but you've fallen for their clever tricks.

Witcher 1 was a CRPG. It was just a heavily modified Neverwinter Nights, aka DND, complete with d20 combat and skill rolls. That's one of the reasons they reached out to Bioware for help making it :)

Sure, they slapped the sword switching and stance stuff on top but ultimately you might as well have been rolling dice to hit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I said ARPG because apparently it was supposed to be a PC port of Dark Alliance. Is Dark Alliance a CRPG or an ARPG? I remember playing it on the PS2, but it's a long time ago now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I loved it and I was really excited about the sequel, which I hated. They ruined the combat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Saying they ruined the combat is an incredibly hottake

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't hold up well at all... Heck, I'm sure it must have felt outdated when it released.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Graphically it was considered top notch IIRC

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm thinking about the gameplay itself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Probably the most outdated thing about it was how it was clearly written and developed for the male gaze. I don’t even mean the sex cards, I mean how Triss and Shani are purely there as objects of attraction with hardly any personality aside from being sexy women.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If you're going for a remake and not a remaster, why wouldn't you change a bunch of stuff? Let's face it, there will be a fair a share of people who have only played Witcher 3 and they will probably hate the remake if it's not as good or does stuff completely different.