Most Underrated Game: One Year Later

exactly, all fights are like this.eery single one wth the occasional witcher sign.but noooo "best game evah"

I loved (and still love) the first Witcher, maybe my second favorite RPG behing MET, but after 5 or 6 hours I stopped playing The Witcher 2 because of the Dark Souls combat. I've never been able to continue because of it even though the game looked gorgeous and was well written. Too bad...

The only thing you really need to do in TW3 is to roll, roll, roll, hit - rinse and repeat. But it is more fun to add in more actions like bombs, signs, parry and dodge. You don't have to though. TW2 is practically the same.

Holy smokes the ending of Andromeda is a powerful gaming experience. Scott finished at 100% game completion. Level 67 I think. The galaxy map stuck at 99% for some reason even though every system was at 100%. Well, well. There are bugs here and there of different kinds, like Ryder comments triggering every so often, so maybe this is one as well. Or there is some anomaly out there that I've missed. No big deal to me.

I'm really itching to jump right in with a f!Ryder. Bioware I salute you!

I don't think it's overrated, I think it was rated fairly accurately, although for different reasons than most people seemed to focus on (i.e. "muh facial animations"). It's not the steaming pile of cow manure that many people claim it is - like I said in my initial post, there were some parts of the game that I genuinely enjoyed - but at the same time I don't see what people think is so great about it. If it were presented as its own IP and not a spinoff of an established franchise, then I think it would have been given more a bit more leeway with its rough edges.

And that's fine for an in-universe explanation, however the main problem here is that, from what I remember, it's not communicated to the player particularly well. Granted, I haven't played the game since some time last August so my memory may be failing me here, but from what I remember the only time the player is told that Jaal is willing (or planning) to sacrifice himself is when he says something along the lines of "No matter what, follow my lead.", which is a pretty vague statement.

I definitely wouldn't say its underrated. This game has so many problems that it could be the President....sorry, had to do it. In all seriousness this game was average at best which is sad for a bioware game. The pacing was off and most of the missions and sidequests felt like a chore to play through. It also didn't have an identity of its own because it felt like it was trying way too hard to channel the first Mass Effect.

It is a shame because MEA had some great plot points like filling your dad's shoes, relationship with the Angara, the exiles, the divisions in the Kett,the other arcs and pathfinders. The problem was that this and about 70% of the plot just felt underdeveloped. I did love the gameplay though.

Bioware never confirmed this (I believe). They said Inquisition had the most successful launch in Bioware's history, but I've never seen them say it was their best selling game. I'm happy to be proven wrong though.

EDIT: Changed "best selling game at launch" to "most successful launch". To be honest I don't even know what "most successful launch" means, right after Andrew Wilson said it he started commenting on "hours played" and "number of awards won" so I have a feeling their using factors other than units sold to determine this:

"Dragon Age: Inquisition captivated fans and critics worldwide as it launched in November, and it quickly became the most successful launch in BioWare history. More than 113 million hours have already been spent exploring the depth and detail of the single-player experience in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and more players are joining each day. Named “Game of the Year” by 32 media outlets around the world, including IGN, Game Informer and the Associated Press, Dragon Age: Inquisition is a true masterpiece from the team at BioWare and a game that is sure to be played for a long time to come."

Source: Transcript of 2015 earnings call.

They didn't.

river82 And we should care about the Kotaku opinion piece...why?

And "wrong". I mean clothes? Dafuq Kirk? Did we get a tinting station in TW3? No? Clothes go to DAI on KO. Mirror of transformation? Drunken barber is fun and all but little hair and beard doesn't really cut it. Get it? Cut it? Now cut this. I'm hot, and when I'm not...sorry. Round goes to DAI on KO. 

Jesus.. the first sidequest I encountered was the old lady with his loaned pan. Never ever have experienced as aggravating "hear ye hear ye" method and dull sidequest. I rate every sidequest in MEA better than that, and most of the sidequests were normal bread and butter. This made me think: have the praisers not played other games at all then?

As Serza said, even the whole start of Fallout1 and 2 are deeper than most of Witcher 3. Sad. Witcher 2 was much better game from the start. I rate TW3 mediocre, and below MEA easily.

Yup. The game is great if you ask me but it is just a fetchy as every other game out there. And sometimes way over the top. Some noonwraiths are spinechilling to fight etc. Some fight are not so hot. I have encountered very few really cool dungeons. There is one particular quest on Skellige though that really gor me the first time. Now that the mystery is out in the open it won't be as thrilling. The one really jarring thing for me though was when I had to get all upset about having to kill some rapists. Dafuq CDPR? Geralt is killing people left and right with no qualms whatsoever for no other reason than they happened to be in his way and all of a sudden he is heartbroken over some rapist scumbags?   Next time (if) I get to that point I will see if there is a way around cesspool of writing.