While I’m always happy with new Witcher content I hope they don’t invalidate the perfect ending Gerald had in Blood & Wine
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Takios@discuss.tchncs.de to games@lemmy.world
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/media/news/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-songs-of-the-past-announced/
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Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Good old Gerald :D
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Damn, I REALLY need to finish the third one… I haven’t even finished the base campaign.
It’s not that I don’t like the game, I am fascinated by every part of it, and it’s been installed and updated on my computer for many years…
It’s just so in depth, I do not have the attention span and dedication I used to in optimizing builds for a game. I felt like I was on hard mode if I didn’t use the potions and sword oils and things, but I kept forgetting what to use, and that’s assuming I even had the right stuff on me to begin with…
That’s probably why I keep going back to skyrim more often, it’s combat is more simplified and casual. Which is funny because I always download mods to make the game more like the Witcher and improve combat…
I’ll finish it one day, in my most recent playfhrough I had just gotten to some giant squid creature in a swamp, and kept dying so I just didn’t keep playing anymore.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They actually updated the game with a lot of quality of life stuff. Things like automatic oils when you draw your sword, so you don’t need to constantly dig through menus to reapply it.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Witcher ain’t Cyberpunk, but I feel the same adage applies. “Wrong town, wrong people.” With the “town” being witchers in general.
charokol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Will this DLC remind me how to play the game?
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve restarted so often because of that. In so many games!
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
CDPR is about to serve us up the tutorial again, but with entirely new music.
Sepix@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Planned for 2027 …
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If everything goes to plan.^^
Stupendous@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hoping this supercharges interest into the modding scene. The 2024 redkit release was way past the games popularity peak
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I find the controls for Witcher 3 are key bad looking back (just stuff like Gerald’s movement kinematics and the response times)
So hopefully if they do this they can just do a bit of a polish pass too.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Did you ever try the “alternative movement” setting, which they added with one of the updates? Much faster response with that enabled.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
No, I’ll have to check it out, thanks
I probably have enough time to do a single play through before this releases, this game took me so long the first time!
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Wild. So all these complete editions won’t be complete for long. Ars Technica said it’s $7.99 on GOG right now, so that’s a heck of a cheap way to get into the game if one were so inclined.
Not quite as good as paying $6 for the Mass Effect trilogy, remastered, with all the DLC, and the loot box shit from ME3 stripped out… but not bad either.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s about as much game in Witcher 3 as in all three Mass Effects combined, so it’s still a very good deal.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Wow that’s insane.
I used to play and replay Mass Effect 1-3 all the time with all the DLC and it would take me about 30 hours per game.
How long to beat has a completionism run on TW3 at 175.
Nice.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t doubt it. Mass Effect 1 was short — anyone who says otherwise spent time exploring planets and doing stuff they were told was important but wasn’t. You don’t even get achievements for collecting all the ores, relics, and whatever else we were collecting in surveys and in those downed satellites we wasted skills to unlock. I think, at most, it was XP. Mass Effect was the original Eden Prime mission, the time on the Citadel, the three planets the council sends you to, that beach one where spoilery stuff happens, the last world, and then the final fight. 2 and 3 made you do a bunch of stuff to have the resources to complete the game with everyone surviving (more or less — you had to really set up Spoiler and Spoiler both surviving in Mass Effect 3, from the first one).
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
and the loot box shit from ME3 stripped out
I wish they hadn’t stripped out the entire multiplayer mode in the remaster. It was surprisingly enjoyable (minus the lootbox mechanic)
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
My guess is, they just didn’t want to keep the servers up. I got Mass Effect 4 (Andromeda) at deep discount, but it came with multiplayer bonuses. I didn’t realise I could have saved $1 ($4 vs $3) to skip those bonuses. And the servers are offline. So, oops. Shame on Xbox for selling multiplayer packs for a game with multiplayer shut down, but $4 for Andromeda isn’t bad.
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hope it will be playable on a new game. I’ve finished the game on a Switch then sold the cart and gave away the console. I’m using a pc for all my gaming now.
elvith@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
On the plus side, Witcher III on PC is usually dirt cheap in a sale.
Anivia@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s also DRM free, even the steam version, so you can just copy it from a friend.
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s why I’m not worried about the price, but the playability. Worse case scenario, I’ll have to replay a bit of the game. It’ll be a little fun seeing the game with some decent graphics for a change.
ryphez@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dang I need to get back to this to play thru blood and wine first
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
The DLC is just retired Geralt playing Gwent in Toussaint all day and all the new content is just more tournaments and decks 🙏
^Seriously though judging by the title I would expect some sort of flashback, probably some kind of prequel thing involving Ciri’s backstory to lead into Witcher 4.^
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m sure it’s a tie in DLC to TW4. Now I’m wondering if I should put off my first TW3 playthrough until this DLC is out lol.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t delay. If its connected it will be locked until after a certain point anyways
Lojcs@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s a 200hr game. By the time you reach it withcer 4 will be out
TheEntity@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If that’s it, I’m so in!
mursejoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I also have never played it and this might convince me to go back and check it out. I picked it up on Steam years ago for like five bucks.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah same here. I keep meaning to, but there’s so many good games and I have limited screen time. About 50 hours in to baldur’s gate at the mo and looks like this is going to be a long one!
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Or sirens?