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.
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.
Yes indeed!
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?
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.
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
We might be soulmates
You know what this needs? Microtransactions. Shareholders will love it.
The Witcher 1 is a god damn masterpiece and I will die on that hill.
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.
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.
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.
I loved it and I was really excited about the sequel, which I hated. They ruined the combat.
Saying they ruined the combat is an incredibly hottake
It doesn’t hold up well at all… Heck, I’m sure it must have felt outdated when it released.
Graphically it was considered top notch IIRC
I’m thinking about the gameplay itself
Probably the most outdated thing about it was how it was clearly written and developed for the male gaze.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.
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.
