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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 23, 2017 20:54:06 GMT
I avoided those falmer caves like the plague because they all seem to go on forever, same with Dwemer ruins tho usually they are the same thing.
I love Skyrim but it's perfectly fine to criticise it.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 23, 2017 20:39:54 GMT
Yeah I don't get this "Geralt is ugly" argument for Witcher 3, he kinda is in 2 but for three they made him look a lot more conventionally attractive. Without the scars and the white hair he would kinda look like a movie star or a guy who used to be a male model. Yeah now that you come around here with the truth (?) I am totally going to make every character into his likeness in the future. Because he could be some model or something. That's why I said "conventionally attractive" that has nothing to do with personal taste or your personal dislike of the character.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 23, 2017 16:37:42 GMT
Yeah I don't get this "Geralt is ugly" argument for Witcher 3, he kinda is in 2 but for three they made him look a lot more conventionally attractive. Without the scars and the white hair he would kinda look like a movie star or a guy who used to be a male model. Anyway Triss and Yen may look like young women but Yen is about one hundred years old and Triss is probably like forty, I don't see any reason why they should be turned off by grey hair and scars. Also both these women have a personal history with him, Keira just uses him to get what she wants and other sorceresses show no interest in him at all. There aren't actually that many women Geralt can romance in the game.
So no, they do not all throw themselves at him.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 23, 2017 12:36:16 GMT
I love Skyrim but it's side content was for the most part disappointing compared to oblivion, in fact the main quest was too. Out of the four main guilds the only Skyrim guild quest I preferred to Oblivion was the companions vs fighters guild, the thieves guild comes second as that one was ok but the college and the dark brotherhood were ridiculously short, under developed quest lines compared to their Oblivion counterparts. Even the Companions quest was mostly just going to dungeons and killing things but at least that one had more compelling characters and plot than in Oblivion. Oh and lets not forget how you have to do a certain amount of each kind of those awful jobs quests in the thieves guild to complete the quest. They were also randomly selected so you either have to keep doing them til you get enough of each one in each area or keep reloading til the game selects one you want. Skyrim dumbed down it's content compared to Oblivion and Fallout 4 was even worse. So yeah Bethesda has issues of their own, their games remain popular because of mods.
Witcher 3 is a great game, one of the best to come out in years in my opinion. I don't think it's totally fair to hold Bioware to the same standard but I think there is a lot more they could learn from CDPR. That said does Fallout 4 really look better than Andromeda next to TW3? I guess taste is taste but I really don't understand why people defend that game.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 19, 2017 22:50:03 GMT
Dragon Age Origins didn't have many non white characters for the same reason The Witcher series doesn't have many, the DA series changed over time though. Maybe there will be another Witcher game one day that explores other parts of the world where white people are not the vast majority.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 19, 2017 22:29:08 GMT
The witcher 3 has the benefit of having one set character, there is no gender choice there aren't as many dialogue choices either really so that is going to result in less restraints on the story. Then again the original Mass Effect trilogy is loved, they have their issues and a lot of that is to do with choices and lack of dialogue options but the games (other than ME3's ending) still turned out really good.
This doesn't excuse everything though. DA:I and ME:A have so many half baked ideas, the Witcher 3 has very few it has it's issues but it's obvious CDPR tried their best to make the best game they possibly could.
I do think there are just some things Bioware and CDPR do differently though and that this shouldn't change. I did end up liking Geralt eventually, quite a bit in fact but he is also the reason I didn't ever play a Witcher game until last year. He's not exactly portrayed as the amazing character he really is, you really have to get to know him to see that. I like to create my own character in an RPG, i'm only going to play as a set character if they are a really good character and Geralt is but it takes time with him to realise that. I am just lucky friends talked me into picking up the Witcher 3 and now I am starting to play the first two games.
Bioware games have always given far more roleplaying options though and the more of that they lose the less I like their games. So i don't want Bioware games to become exactly like the witcher but they can still learn a lot from CDPR.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 19, 2017 21:48:30 GMT
All people were saying was Poland is like almost entirely white people, like idk possibly less than 1 percent of people in Poland are not white and the Witcher 3 is based mostly on polish mythology so yes "slavic mythology"...so it reflects their culture and their people, why shouldn't it? I don't think people were saying there can't be non white people in the game, There are some in the hearts of stone dlc but there are not very many "people of colour" in the lands that the game is set in based on the lore from the books. Sure there are a few and they could have been in the main game but they weren't and that is a problem because why? Europe is not America, a lot of the oppression that went on in Poland was not based on skin colour, this is Americans expecting other countries to change their media to reflect America and address American issues.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 19, 2017 21:36:21 GMT
but you are comparing main story points to a background character who is mostly just there to bring life to a tavern. The reason why Maryden isn't part of the main plot is because she isn't a major character, she is a side character. Priscilla is not a bard who spends all her time in a tavern singing songs, she is part of the main plot and has her own character arc and she only performs one song. It's apples and oranges, there is nothing wrong with having small characters who are just there to add flavor. That was my point. CD Projekt Red brought the hubs to life through quests that were woven into the city's life. Bioware did not have similar content with Skyhold, Val Royeux, or the Nexus, and consequently all three locations were largely dull and lifeless in comparison. Sure I agree with that, this is basically just the fact that the Witcher 3 used it's main hubs for the plot and Inquition did not. The story was mostly told in story specific areas and I agree that was crap and made the world feel even more useless and empty. I just don't see the issue with side characters like Maryden, that character worked pretty well. She sang songs about the characters and the world, this made the tavern in Skyhold a lot more interesting. It's a shame the Witcher did not have a bard like this in one of the taverns, or more performances from Priscilla and Dandelion. I actually disagree with Skyhold, there is all kinds of flavor content there some of it tied into the main plot some of it not but Bioware decided to use Val Royaux for very little so there isn't much there. An example of The Witcher 3 doing the same thing would be Vizima, only a small section of the plot happens there so it's just a small area with not much in it. So sure over all the Witcher 3 used it's world A LOT better but I still think your specific examples are bad.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 19, 2017 21:17:18 GMT
Nice song, but that whole cutscene is mired in that unpleasant Witcher aesthetic that makes me feel grimy just looking at it. And do you seriously have to sit there and watch that scene every time you want to hear the bard? Blech. People keep showing me Witcher videos and I continue to be unimpressed. Except for the monsters; they do have great-looking monsters. The bard in the Witcher 3 is part of a quest. That was the difference between how Dragon Age and The Witcher 3 were designed. The bard in DA:I is mostly useless background decoration, whereas in the Witcher 3 Geralt is drawn into the life of the city through quests. There's another quest chain where he also takes part in a play: but you are comparing main story points to a background character who is mostly just there to bring life to a tavern. The reason why Maryden isn't part of the main plot is because she isn't a major character, she is a side character. Priscilla is not a bard who spends all her time in a tavern singing songs, she is part of the main plot and has her own character arc and she only performs one song. It's apples and oranges, there is nothing wrong with having small characters who are just there to add flavor.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 19, 2017 21:06:22 GMT
Well, the animation of Leliana's song was terrible, but The Dawn Will Come was great. Yeah that is a better comparison. That Priscilla performance is just one cut scene, she doesn't perform different songs there every time you go or anything it's just one event in the game so it's not fair to say she is better than the Skyhold bard, she's a performer sure but her purpose in the game is not to just be in a tavern and sing songs. Tho personally I thought the dawn will come scene was a bit out of nowhere and the transition to Skyhold in general didn't work for me, it seemed to be style over substance but it was still a very well made set of cut scenes.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 17, 2017 14:15:34 GMT
Andromeda did better than Inquisition, at least I have mixed opinions about the world.
Inquisition has the Hinterlands which is much larger than it ever needed to be and packed full of trash quests, then you get to the other areas and there is almost nothing in them. Like they would usually have at least one side plot but those plots were very bare bones and seemed kind of repeated in other quests for example the Crestwood quest and the Emprise Du Lion one seem to have more or less the same ending. There were no cut scenes at all really outside of the main plot, companion quests and skyhold stuff and the side npcs were usually quite dull.
Andromeda inherited some of these issues but not nearly as badly. There are far more meaningful side plots and a good chunk of them have cut scenes and interesting npcs, there are still quite a lot that don't though. The later areas are legitimately better content wise than the first.
The areas do look very good too in Andromeda, Inquisition had a few great looking areas but most were nothing special.
So I think Andromeda does open world better than Inquisition but it's still beaten by TW3 and probably Horizon, tho I have not played that one.
I'd also say Fallout 4 has a worse open world than any of these games it's just like building after building filled with Raiders, oh and we must remember to pick up as much junk as possible so we have enough to throw at the broken settlement system ect ect.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 17, 2017 13:45:22 GMT
I've spent the last month trying to give TW3 a second chance... and hating it as before. I've now watched 3 different playthroughs of ME:A (still waiting for another patch before starting to play it); but I'm convinced the side quests are on par with TW3 - which are NOT meaningful... fetch these ingredients and brew this potion or go kill this nest of monsters (which will respawn for the most part) or find the damn key to this locked door under water over here and then come back to loot that room and get the same damn junk you already got from a gazillion other loot sites... most of which are alcohest anyways. People really have blinders on about how similar these games really are. At least ME:A is about exploring an actually unknown (Andromeda... a place none of us has ever been) rather than reviving old ghost and werewolf stories that people have been scaring children with for centuries. I doubt I'll ever finish TW3... it's long, boring and utterly pointless. Can't wait for them to patch a few more things in ME:A so I can get started on it... but I'm really not expecting much out of the sidequests either. TW3's "gold standard" is really just more of the same old crap. If they want to learn how to do sidequests... RotTR is my gold standard with their optional challenge tombs... of which there were only about 15 or so. Everything else advanced the main story. Open world is crap in a story-based game because it sacrifices the story to let people wander around and "be lost" - which I don't find fun. You are comparing tasks in Andromeda to the question marks on the map you can do in TW3. Sure neither are massively meaningful though I do feel like I got a lot more actually useful stuff and was more challenged by those quests in TW3 than I was by the Andromeda ones, on the other hand tasks in Andromeda sometimes have party dialogue or end with some kind of meaningful resolution. The actual side quests though, like the ones with actual writing and npc's you can talk to ect, The Witcher 3 just has far more and they are far more detailed. Andromeda has a few interesting side plots, like it totally beats Inquisition for side quests but it doesn't come close to The Witcher 3. The main story in the Witcher 3 is also not sacrificed in any way for the open world.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 14, 2017 11:59:15 GMT
to be fair as I said i've shelved it, it could be better now I dunno.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 14, 2017 11:51:43 GMT
Yes it does this for a good while and then half the time I get stuck on the loading screen and have to do it all over again. It loaded really fast before the patch and that bug was rare, that's why I've shelved the game for a few months til it's fully patched.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 13, 2017 15:50:54 GMT
I would say the dislike of these characters is more to do with the writing than them being black characters.
Vivienne I really liked but she's basically a far right conservative. She's also massively bitchy, opinionated and unreasonable she's like DA's version of Katie Hopkins.
Jacob was boring, seemed very stereotyped to me too, I don't hate the character but I also feel like he added very little to the game.
Liam is a mixed bag, I like him more than I dislike him but he can be very frustrating just like pretty much all of Kristjanson's characters.
Also Isabela is black (yeah I know she didn't really look very black) wasn't much hate for her, not much for Anderson either.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 7, 2017 11:55:15 GMT
Yeah it can be disabled tho it's a hassle to do
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 7, 2017 2:12:41 GMT
actually I think the loading screen bug is worse now, and load times are quite a bit longer to, I have it on an SSD and it used to load pretty quick.
Not getting the issues in the OP tho.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 7, 2017 1:12:43 GMT
I restarted just to see how the intro changed, so far the animations are a bit better I also think everything looks better. Probably the new lighting, habitat seven just looked prettier than I remember especially the sky, not saying it didn't look good before but it's deffo better for me anyway. Also might be because the textures are loading faster now.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 7, 2017 1:04:07 GMT
works fine for me tho it's a shame the endless loading screen bug is still in the game.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 6, 2017 22:43:29 GMT
Yeah the puzzles are easy and this is coming from someone who hates video game puzzles, haven't failed one yet. The fact that people are complaining about this and complaining that SAM solves everything for you is a little hilarious tbh. I'm not against more keys tho, some people wont want to do them and that's fine.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 5, 2017 19:04:58 GMT
I guess the trade off for having females of all the other races was having only one model for each gender other than a select few uniques, it's like Bioware doesn't realise that they need to be doing better and not doing the same lazy shit they did years ago. It looks even more obvious now graphics have improved so much.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 5, 2017 18:52:58 GMT
I can't imagine them adding new heads in via a patch, tho that is one of the biggest problem for me too. There should be several heads and a unique head for lexi. There also should have been a lot more variety in skin textures, colours, markings, eyes ect.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 5, 2017 18:47:06 GMT
Mostly I remember the club music from the OT being annoying. Tho I agree there aren't really any memorable tracks from this game where as there are tonns from the OT. The sound design in Andromeda is amazing tho so it kinda doesn't matter to me as the game is immersive enough soundwise.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 4, 2017 19:11:18 GMT
Patch in threesome option plz Bioware.
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Post by mikeymoonshine on Apr 4, 2017 19:06:12 GMT
This wasn't as harsh as it could have been. :lmfao:
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