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The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered boasts remastered visuals, enhanced combat, improved movement, enhanced monster behaviors. A skill tree revamp, transmogrifications, new finishers, and so much more. The fantastic Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions are included. The upgrade is free for all Witcher 3 owners. Coming Sept. 29, 2026.
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Meanwhile, at Bethesda, “We’re gonna release a Skyrim patch that’s disappointing for console players and a pointless nuisance for pc players! TES6 is never coming out! Our best game is maintained by the community and nearly everyone agrees it’s better that way! mwah hahahahahah!!!”
Witcher 3 is on sale on GOG right now. The same GOG that just released one click installation of Tamriel Rebuilt and Openmw for Morrowind.
The thing that is maddening (if you care that much) about Bethesda is there has been various fucking blueprints for how to fix their fucking game for eons made by fans but they just don’t give a flying fuck, here’s a random fix for a mesh in a dungeon no one visits.
Cant wait for geralt to tell me the weather again.
The winds are howling
If even HotsauceHurricane isn’t interested to know that the wind’s howling, devs have no chance of making interesting character barks.
😂
Another remaster? Wasn’t it updated already?
This is great support from the creators! Looking forward to it.
The previous update was a “Next Gen” version, with mostly graphical changes like the addition of RayTracing. This new Remaster however seems to be more indepth in the changes, affecting lot of gameplay, like adding new functionality and a skill tree, lot of little features too. I think of this new Remaster version comparable to what they did with the Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update, which could have been called a Remaster too, if it wasn’t a new game.
It got a visual refresh not too long ago, but this seems to be a lot bigger with some actual gameplay changes like a reworked skill tree and updated combat.
And its free for existing owners?!? Very cool CD: PR
Not only is it free, we get the previous 2 DLCs for free as well.
This is in promotional budget for W4, which while explains the generosity, doesn’t make it less cool.
There’s also a new paid DLC for The Witcher 3 that is not included in the upgrade.
Played it a long time ago. Looking forward to play it again. Propably the GOG version this time
Does it make a difference if you play it on GOG? I mean from the games perspective, not the DRM free download.
(•̪ o •̪) Very excited to dive back in.
paam paraaaam
I still play it and hate how all the changes probably mean I won’t be able to transfer my save.
transfer your save? what do you mean?
you’re telling me you’re not starting over on purpose for the 100 time like the rest of us?
I got kids, man. The struggle is real
There goes my modded save file 🥲
I hope I find a way to transfer it to this and the new dlc. Now to finish the game before Sep 29 in case I don’t…
This is awesome. I’m in my first playthrough and I’m enjoying it. It’s kind of a boring game so far vs what I normally play, so I do a couple quests, and then play another game. Not because I don’t like TW3, but because it’s not very exciting. I find it well written, just not very well paced. Visuals won’t help with that, but maybe some fine tuning will make it go a little smoother? I dunno. I don’t hate it or anything.
I do think it’s unfortunate that CDPR have hit their biggest successes with their open world games, because I don’t think their world design is up to much. Both this and Cyberpunk suffer from a main quest that screams “this is urgent” followed by opening up a map filled with icons.
And most of those icons are boring bullshit, but there’s enough good stuff out there that you’ll want to explore them anyway, only to be disappointed by a single troll fight or something 90% of the time rather than some interesting story.
I agree until cyberpunk, I enjoyed just being in NC even more than I enjoyed doing the main questlines. But yeah W1 is my favorite Witcher game by far despite starting it after dropping the other two pretty early on…I eventually went back to finish 3, and there’s a lot to love, but man the pacing and filler just kills it for me.
This is my favorite game ever, I’m sorry you’re finding it boring and slow paced. There’s so many little things to discover. I have more hours and more playthroughs into it than I’d like to admit.
I’m not far into it, but it seems like a pretty long game. I’m hopeful it gets better.
It’s very long if you take the time to explore the whole map and do all the side quests, but the main quest is leveled so that you don’t have to do most of the side quests if you don’t want to, unlike some games where you kind of have to do most of the side quests in order to level up enough to keep up with the required level for the main quest. If you do choose to side quest you can be way overpowered and breeze through the main quest line with no problem.
I’m working on a playthrough right now and I’m less than halfway through and I’ve only done maybe 1/3 or less of the side quests so far and I’m already 7 levels above where the main quest wants me to be.
I think it’s worth it because I love the world, the characters, and the story, but every nerd has their special fandom and the Witcher is mine.
I’ll say that W3 starts horribly slow. White Orchard is one of the most boring training zones I’ve done, and Velen is rough. It’s needed for sure, but it doesn’t hook you very well. I highly recommend pushing through to Novigrad where you start meeting your friends like Triss, the story really picks up, the side quests get more involved, and it helps carry it through.
I love story rich games, Mass Effect is my #1, then RDR2, and then probably Cyberpunk 2077. Witcher 3 was very good, but to me the story just never quite gripped me like the others. The world however is phenomenal, and that’s what kept me playing.
So Velen is the second area? That’s where I am. It feels like mostly side quests strung together. I started with the butcher/baron dude, did his quests, and now I’m following Ciri’s trail. Also dealt with a witch and a village of kids.
I’m with you on the story games. I need to try RDR2 again. I did the intro and not much else, back when it was new. Borrowed it, and had to return it. I also like Mass Effect (all of them, including 4/Andromeda), and Cyberpunk 2077. I’ll also add Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and the first three Deus Ex games. I generally prefer the ones where you make it your story (Bethesda games and Cyberpunk). The difference with The Witcher and, I suspect, Red Dead, is, it’s not YOUR story, it’s HIS. In The Witcher 3, you play Geralt, and you can act out of character, but it’s still his story, and you know you’re acting out of character. For example, I set a monster free because I think the alternative was some kids would die? I’m pretty sure Geralt himself would have gone the other way, but the choice was mine and I chose the kids. I like how the game doesn’t give you easy choices. They’re both wrong to a degree, it’s just you pick the one you can live with. So I definitely like that.
Yeah it’s technically the second if you count white orchard, which you can or could not, it’s a small starter area. Velen is the first real actual area you’re in. If you dealt with the witches you’re actually pretty close to being done with Velen, I’d push through to Novigrad.
RDR2 is interesting. I agree my first playthrough I played about to Chapter 2 and put it down. Didn’t get it, everyone told me it was amazing but did not get it. About a year or two later I picked it up again, and played more, and it picked up, and then up more, and then holy shit. RDR2 is now just absolute perfection, I play it probably once a year now! I actually amend my first, I think it might have over taken ME, which is really hard for me to say but it’s just such a spectacular story.
Personally I don’t have the issue of playing as someone else. Usually I play as the opposite sex in games anyway. However I’m also very empathetic, and so I really feel what the main character is feeling no matter who it is. I think the trend of all of those games is that they’re all absolute gut punches, they really hit you in the feels in the good way, and shows what happens when you let writers truly write.
My strategy in The Witcher 3 is to always do the lowest-leveled quest, so I never end up too strong for any of them. However, through the course of Velen, I’ve gone from “the lowest leveled quest is 1-2 levels above Geralt, guess I’ll do my best” to “the lowest leveled quest is 1-2 levels below Geralt, might as well just get it out of the way.”
I also, as a guy, play girls in games, but mostly because it makes sense. Fallout 3 got me on that, where there was a perk (Black Widow or Lady Killer depending on your gender) that would grant you a buy/sell bonus against merchants of the opposite sex, and a damage buff against them as well. So I’d play a girl because most of the villains were male. The best early vendor is a woman, but she also gives a ton of quests, so I’m never really hurting for money by selling her stuff I find along the way. As soon as I got to Rivet City (the aircraft carrier in the south), I’d start focusing on the male vendors, at least until I had a decent amount of money. In games like Mass Effect and Cyberpunk 2077, it just seems like a poor choice to play the guy. Like, they hired a male voice actor to record the lines for guys who couldn’t stomach playing a woman, guys who could never play Tomb Raider for example, but I feel like they went out of their way to get a really good voice actor for the female version. Saints Row is actually an outlier here since the guy can be voiced by Troy Baker, but Laura Bailey’s almost equally good, so it’s not like the female Boss is a bad choice or even a lesser one.
That sounds about on par for the witcher there, that’s mine too. That stupid riddles in the dark quest is where a lot of playthroughs go to die because of it’s completely wrong leveling.
I’m with you tbh, on the characters. Jennifer Hale did so so much better than Mark Meer in Mass Effect. Mark did great, but Jennifer just brought it to another level. Then cyberpunk. Holy shit, female V was so good right? I honestly have never played as male V because as soon as I get to the character creator I remember how good it is to play female V and I just can’t. The raw emotion she brought for that whole game was just perfect. That game was so great, could have you beating up a guy for catcalling you with a baseball bat to 5 minutes later you’re tearing up over the next gut punch. I’ve never played Saint’s Row, but I might just for Laura Bailey
I loved White Orchard.
The game is notorious for having a slow, boring start and it’s a turn-off for many. Not sure why, but white orchard always feels like a slog. It usually clicks ( it might not for you, but it usually does ) 10-ish hours in, once you get deeper into velen/novigrad.
White Orchard was fine. I dreaded the boss fight because my brother-in-law had a hard time with it. (I later learned he was playing on the highest difficulty.) So I did everything else I could. I may have missed things — everyone knows the Witcher games are full of details people tend to miss. Only thing I didn’t do that I know I could was kill cows to summon the secret boss. Not messing with that.
I’m in the next area. It let me choose the area. I chose the one with the lowest level. I’ve done what I think is a main quest (with the butcher/baron?) and I’ve moved on from that. I think I’m following his next lead on Ciri. It’s led me to a city they said I needed a pass to enter via the bridge. I swam across, zero consequences. Later got a pass by doing a side quest.
Yeah, the game should be wide open for you now. This region is the meat and potatoes for the main quest
… When does it get better? Ice zone, or even later?
I may have to give it another go at some point.
Ice zone? If it’s the one I think and you still don’t enjoy it you may want to put it down. It’s not gonna get more enjoyable.
Idk, the first time i play i like everything up until Novigrad, somehow the game grind to a stop and i have to slog through it and get to Skellige. I’ll have to play another time for the DLC and see if my opinion change or not.
Super cool. Loved the game and the ability to wander around and find something interesting going on. Many games I’ve played cough Zero Dawn cough don’t really have a lot going on outside the main story (in my experience) I might have to track down a complete armour set one of these days.
Hate how the armour sets have a bonus but you’ll probably never upgrade them far enough to activate it…
Not gonna lie, I’ve sunk around 100 hours into this game(no dlcs), and it’s felt like such a one-trick pony. Good main story is well written. Cool. Indeed.
Gameplay is so incredibly ass after the first 20 minutes, where the game looks promising, so it builds anticipation for all the rpg systems, that fail hard at their jobs. Economy, Levels, and crafting, are ass the moment you start using them.
And by god, the secondary writing of the micro-quests that are supposed to make the world feel lived in was “passable filler” at its best, and the “Follow the Orange Highlight” was unavoidable half the time.
It is a game that was cobbled together around a book’s story, and honestly has aged horribly.
And honestly, seeing them re-release it a-la Skyrim, after Cyberpunk’s whole ordeal, feels like such a Corporate move.
(Getting it in before someone tries to tell me it’s going to have revamped systems according to the release trailer, forgive me for not trusting the company until the game comes out and we see the results… In the meantime, I’ll be waiting to see how much they charge for the repair and prettying up of a game they already made ten years ago. I hope I’ll be proven to be just a negative Nancy.)
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Barryamelton said:
It’s free. It’s there in the trailer.
Well fuck me, I'll take that L. I was proven a negative Nancy.Complaining about a free upgrade to a game you personally didn’t like is weird. What, you have to go out of your way to let us know you don’t like it? Dude you’re literally a meme.
You’re giving me Zelda-Breath-of-the-Wild-fan vibes
A game which came out after the Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2, and learned nothing from the best.
I’m extremely curious what other games you have played where sidequest content is better written than in W3.
The issue I had was that there were too many and you had level progression issues with too much xp if you did most of the sidequests in a area and they didn’t update so it was dumb to do it later when you come back and you’re way overleveled.
Yeah that’s a much more reasonable criticism. There is an option to enable enemy upscaling which helps if you get overleveled.
It’s free. It’s there in the trailer.
Well fuck me. I’ll take that L.
I was proven a negative Nancy.
