Witcher 3 or Skyrim

Con · November 15, 2016, 08:34:10 PM

The quests in Witcher 3 feel really organic and compelling. You understand the urgency and want to help instead of feeling like you are grinding. Coupled with the gorgeous scenery there are many times I will stop and just look at the world around me its so believable.

Con

acctingman · November 15, 2016, 09:00:31 PM

Curse you all!

Hopefully they're be a XMas sale of it somewhere.

Gusington · November 15, 2016, 10:51:46 PM

The Game of the Year edition of Witcher 3 can be had for 30.00 in many online shops.

Toonces · November 16, 2016, 07:34:50 AM

I'm sure Witcher 3 will be on sale over Xmas.

Meantime, not sure why you're not playing Skyrim. This doesn't have to be an either/or proposition.

bboyer66 · November 16, 2016, 08:12:54 AM

Witcher III and it's not even close.

acctingman · November 16, 2016, 09:30:03 AM

Quote from: Toonces on November 16, 2016, 07:34:50 AM
I'm sure Witcher 3 will be on sale over Xmas.

Meantime, not sure why you're not playing Skyrim. This doesn't have to be an either/or proposition.

I played Skyrim for a couple hours last night and while it's gorgeous, I found myself wanting to go to bed on time! :wow:

It's not grabbing me the way I was hoping. I will finish it someday, but for now, I'm playing a few other games I need to finish.

After watching a few videos on Witcher 3 I'll pick it up over the holidays.

Thanks for all the input gents.

JasonPratt · November 16, 2016, 03:58:49 PM

Skyrim starts pretty slow, despite its dragon apocalypse prelude 'mission'. I didn't feel I had really opened up the game until I succeeded in following my escort to the edge of Whiterun (one of the two opposing faction capitols in the game -- I chose to go that path). I arrived in the middle of the night, and was greeted by the local constabulary running around with torches trying to stop a rampaging giant at an outlying farm near the forest / mountain's edge.

I don't know if that was scripted -- I never saw giants get that close to Whiterun again during my 250ish hours of playtime -- but I sure wasn't expected to get involved and I didn't. Before then I was a little meh. After that I was hooked.

Gusington · November 16, 2016, 07:44:43 PM

I love both but I think Witcher 3 has an edge...until Elder Scrolls VI is released.

MikeGER · November 17, 2016, 03:16:50 AM

Quote from: Con on November 15, 2016, 08:34:10 PM
The quests in Witcher 3 feel really organic and compelling. You understand the urgency and want to help instead of feeling like you are grinding. Coupled with the gorgeous scenery there are many times I will stop and just look at the world around me its so believable.

Con

wrote this on 6/24/2015 in an old thread ...and its still valid!

yesterday i wanted to just explore one additional "?" (it was a monsternest) and see what happend to me in the next 2h realtime (i couldn't stop ;)) ... after the fight i got close to a bandit-hide-out, i had seen earlier but was to week in the past then ... now i gave them the good news:-) after the fight i was close to an unchecked village ...so i went in to check the blackboard (to see even more "?" ;) )
i talked to a poor granny, who then hired/convinced me to clear her former home (a manor) from ghosts ... i went strictly to that place (killed some wolfs and bear on the way) and 'evaded distraction impulse' to explore two new "?" on the way (i went straight through the middle of them on the map right through the wood and saw a wonderful canyon in the eveening light ...to explore on the way back)
now came where Wichter 3 really shines ... of course i got ambushed by the ghost i and killed them and investigated the houses and barns of the manor for loot, which is just following SOP in RPG ... and then its started to get CSI Velen ;) ...and then piece by piece the backstory why there where a ghost (connected with information pieces the granny had revealed to convince me first to actually take the contract) ... a whole oustanding entertaing like a short-story written for that universe (dark and getting darker personal) story got told :-)

all the quests and sidequest seem to be of that quality O0

jomni · November 17, 2016, 08:57:02 AM

Grandma Gamer prefers Skyrim. She has a YouTube channel by the way.

Sir Slash · November 17, 2016, 01:51:59 PM

Me too Grandma. \m/

Toonces · November 18, 2016, 08:23:41 PM

Whelp, I just booted up Witcher 3 again. I have to admit, I just am not seeing what you guys are seeing.

I haven't played enough to tell how good the story is- it may be (probably is) very, very awesome. But from a pure gameplay perspective, Witcher 3 feels like a video game to me. There's all the little map thingies and stuff all over, there's the 3rd person view, and whenever you talk to someone it goes into that movie mode, like you're watching them talk to each other rather than YOU are talking to the person. It's completely immersion killing.

When I play Skyrim, I feel like I'm actually the character in the game doing things. In Witcher I feel like I'm watching a character in a movie that I'm directing.

I'm really surprised I'm so off from the masses on this.

Gusington · November 18, 2016, 09:46:32 PM

Sir Slash · November 18, 2016, 11:06:13 PM

You're starting to repeat yourself. Repeat yourself. Repeat yourself.

Rayfer · November 19, 2016, 08:37:03 AM

Quote from: Toonces on November 18, 2016, 08:23:41 PM
Whelp, I just booted up Witcher 3 again. I have to admit, I just am not seeing what you guys are seeing.

I haven't played enough to tell how good the story is- it may be (probably is) very, very awesome. But from a pure gameplay perspective, Witcher 3 feels like a video game to me. There's all the little map thingies and stuff all over, there's the 3rd person view, and whenever you talk to someone it goes into that movie mode, like you're watching them talk to each other rather than YOU are talking to the person. It's completely immersion killing.

When I play Skyrim, I feel like I'm actually the character in the game doing things. In Witcher I feel like I'm watching a character in a movie that I'm directing.

I'm really surprised I'm so off from the masses on this.

+1 There are others here who feel the same.