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"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago

Unpopular opinion:

Witcher 4 won’t be as good as Witcher 3 cause the third one was very good.

So no matter who they chose, it’s probably gonna be underwhelming.

[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

also the formula is starting to feel old so it won't have as much lustre as long as they don't reinvent themselves

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

This is why we'll never see elder scrolls 6

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, I didn't like Skyrim as much as Morrowind, so I think there's some room for ES6 to improve on ES5.

[-] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Morrowind is the best. Oblivion remaster is better than skyrim (in my Morrowboomer opinion) and that was just refreshing a 20 year old game. I feel like there is a lot of hype for TES6 that it may not live up to, but surpassing skyrim is definitely doable.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh we will see it ! I'm confident it's going to be shit, but who knows

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

It can be better

If they fix the horrendous gameplay

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Fix two things:

  1. The weird loot range issue, where if you’re not standing in juuuuust the right angle, you won’t be able to loot certain corpses or containers.
  2. The fact that, outside of combat, controlling Geralt feels like driving a boat. Weird large turn radiuses, slow start and stop, etc… The devs did this to make his movement look more natural, but it feels like the game is constantly fighting against or trying to correct your inputs.

Combine those two things together, and you get a consistently frustrating experience outside of combat. Installing a ranged loot mod was one of the biggest quality of life upgrades. You walk near a corpse or container, and it automatically gets looted.

The combat can also get repetitive at times, and the difficulty scaling is weird too. But as long as those two things and still deliver a good story, I think players will ultimately walk away happy.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

If I ever replay it I'm going to try and remember the existence of this mod because it was painful

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

People downvote you but I feel you.

The gameplay just doesn't hold up, the combat is too basic, has no depth and become stale really quickly

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought the same thing about Cyberpunk, they couldn't make lightning strike twice. But in the end, once the issues were fixed, it's also one of my favorite modern games.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Although I really liked cyberpunk and I’ve finished both that and Witcher 3 and cyberpunk is my favourite…

Really? I thought Witcher 3 was iconic, like it broke out of the regular gaming culture and into the mainstream, idk if cyberpunk did that.

My world would be better if Witcher 4 is better than 3 but I have doubts

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