• communism@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Not a series but I tried playing Witcher 3 because of the meme about how much redditors loved it. I played for about 10 hours and got bored and never bothered playing again. I wouldn’t say it’s a bad game but I didn’t understand the hype. Also, despite playing it years late with a decent graphics card, I had regular issues with frames. That is not a performant game.

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      2 days ago

      I will say Witcher 3 kind of forced AA/AAA games to up the quality of their writing. It still stands up as some of the best writing in games, but maybe a little less obviously so after a decade of other competent game stories.

      What’s really exceptional is how pretty much every sidequest is also very well written, with believable characters and compelling situations. Many games, again especially before W3, might have pretty good main plots, but the sidequests would just be endless dross with maybe one or two standouts.

      As for performance, you probably enabled some silly options. Both Witcher 2 and 3 pushed the envelope in crazy ways for PC graphics; there’s an ultra setting on W2 that was still bringing GPUs to their knees a decade later as well. The game still looks great if you turn it down a little.

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        2 days ago

        Its one of those games that felt cheap at full price back when it launched, i can’t say that for 99.9% of the stuff coming out nowadays.

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      2 days ago

      It’s a 2015 game that is straight up relevant to this day, also maybe there was something wrong with your settings because it ran flawlessly for me on a rx6600 and its a game made for nvidia.