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'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077' (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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“Our trademark is the freedom given to the player, but always with limits,” Kalemba tells Lega Nerd

Aye, they try to hype the idea of a main quest line as something that defines their design.

😅

Thinking back I'm not sure I want Witcher 4 to feel more like CP2077, tbh. Less, if anything.

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[-] BURN@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I feel like I’m in the minority here, but imo CP2077 is a much more fun game than the Witcher 3. I couldn’t get more than a few hours into TW3 without getting bored, which was never a problem with CP2077.

It was actually one of the major reasons I didn’t initially buy CP2077, as I very much disliked the gameplay of TW3

[-] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Same here. I love Cyberpunk, but I just can’t get into Witcher 3 after attempting it a few times. It’s boring, the combat is shitty and I’m just not interested enough in the lore to deal with it. Not that the combat in Cyberpunk is great either. I guess I’m just more interested in that world.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Personally I spent over a hundred hours in TW3 and finished all the DLC whereas I couldn't get past the first few intro missions to CP2077. Gave it up in under 20 hours or so. Can't even remember why the game just never stuck out as special in any way to me.

[-] BURN@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Funny, cause I’m the same except flipped. I’m going on 300 hours into CP2077, but couldn’t make it past hour 5-6 of TW3 for much the same reason.

[-] homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Tiny boat we're in. I started with the witcher 2 right after having played dragon's dogma and couldn't handle the extremely clunky combat. My friends assured me 3 was a huge step forward and I was harassed to play the whole game on stream, and I did. Honestly, not that big of a step, the world felt starkly dead compared to other open world fare, the combat was years behind games that came out at the same time, and the story and setting did not feel very unique to me at all.

I felt the same way about a lot of the heavier dialogue that people did at large about Forspoken. Plot felt like it was on stilts, barely hitting the points it needed to to keep my interest. Not that it was out of context bits like Forspoken, but the dialogue felt out of touch with the setting really frequently. Poor selection of magic despite what was shown to you in-setting. Build balancing like an mmo where nothing you craft or otherwise come into owning early on actually mattered at all. 15 more armor was not changing the number of hits you could take in a fight it all.

TW 3 wasn't super inventive or even really fun compared to other games that launched when it did or even before, and I don't understand the extreme hype for it when everyone I talk to says the first two games are so wildly different and worth skipping, which has been my experience. If it's not about the characters' story arcs across all 3 games, what the hell is it that makes people enjoy it so much? I've looked hard, I've played hard, and I just never found it.