What are you playing now after finish ME:A?

If you happen to be fortunate enough to be a PC gamer, I'd highly recommend picking up The Witcher 1 and The Witcher 2 either on GOG or Steam. They go on sale often and are both great games. The combat for TW1 is a bit dated, but the story and characters hold up well. TW2 is much more recent and still holds up visually. I really wouldn't recommend playing TW3 until you have gone through those games, or at least know the basic story and characters. You really can't truly appreciate TW3 fully without having that background knowledge and previous adventures under your belt.

With modifications or without?
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I disagree. TW1 and TW2's stories won't really help much understand what's going on in TW3 beyond Radovid's stuff, and the books provide a far better background not just for the characters, but also for the Nilfgaardian invasion and its implications. Plus if you don't read the books the antagonist feels really half assed imo.

Agree to disagree. There will simply be things you miss out on if you did not experience the first two games. Not only are those adventures that characters in TW3 will reference, but some of those choices also do impact TW3 and who shows up. There are also plenty of characters you simply will not know if you never played the previous games, such as Shani, who plays a major role in Hearts of Stone. There are so many callbacks to TW1 and TW2 that one would miss a lot just jumping straight into TW3.

For anyone that wants to jump into The Witcher games, playing the previous games (or at least getting plot summaries of them) are far more valuable than the books. Most of what you will learn from the novels is additional backgrounds on major characters and further context on the world. It's great for a lore buff, but most of it isn't incredibly relevant to the actual story in the games. Not to mention, the three games actually cover most of the important plot-relevant material in the novels with regard to the Wild Hunt.

Obviously, it's even better if you play the previous games and read the books, but the games are far more relevant and useful.

I can understand that. Even for a 2007 game, the combat is really bad. I don't mind it that much once you realize it's a simple timing sequence. TW2's combat is very similar to TW3's combat. I don't think you'd have an issue playing that game. The only reason I'd recommend it is because you could then import your TW2 save into TW3. It makes for a much more seamless experience.

Nothing wrong with watching a Lets Play though. My only issue with those is you don't have control over the choices the player makes, and there are a lot of choices in TW1 and TW2.

Bayonetta. Finally on PC!

Waiting for one or two more patches then will do an Insanity play through.

Last night I loaded up Neverwinter (on Xbox). A couple of new campaigns since I last played, and some changes. It was fun to return to it.

Still need to finish Ghost Recon Wildlands.

Nothing much. Currently waiting for the new patches for ME:A. In the meantime just furthering my career in WWE 2K17. I plan to do a second playthrough for ME:A before Injustice 2 comes out, because after that I'll be too busy playing that to focus on ME. Also waiting for Mount and Blade but that seems a ways off.

*IF* I finish it. I can only muster enough interest to play a couple hours a week.

MEA put me in the mood for Mass Effect so I think I'm going to go do an ME1 run, been a while. Depending on how long it takes them to update the CC and how well they do it I might even go do ME2 and 3. If they ever add some decent options for the Sara presets maybe I'll come back for a Sara run finally.

I still got TW3 sitting on my desktop waiting on me to play it, might finally get around to that.