Remakes, remasters and rehashes

W3 was probably the game of that generation for me, I liked it a lot.

I have one real world friend who thinks W3 is the GOAT. I however have never played it.

I got pretty bored after a while. I don't think it helped that my armour looked totally ridiculous, which undermined a lot of the gravitas the story was going for.

"I once killed a wyvern twice my level, through liberal application of Quen and a lot of patience"

That's a euphemism I'm going to start using.

W3 is fine. I think I've managed to get about 30 hours in on a couple of platforms until the map is just a splurge of icons, I forget what I'm supposed to be doing and it all seems a bit pointless. It's fine. The trees are nice, and it's always windy.

I really liked it. Initially it feels like a fairly standard open-world RPG with rather clunky combat, but it soon becomes apparent that the writing is where it shines. The world feels beaten-down and lived-in, and there are little stories everywhere you look. It's nice to get something that's based around Eastern European myths and legends, rather than the more generic Tolkien rip-offs we usually get, it has a unique feel to it. The quests are well-written, choices are meaningful, Geralt is a grumpy twat and things often go in surprising (and dark) directions.

In many ways it's the opposite of something like Skyrim, which is expansive but sometimes feels a bit copy-and-pasted and generic. Every corner of The Witcher 3 has been carefully hand-crafted, and it all adds up to something quite special.

I played through the main game (not a small undertaking) and started the first DLC but never got more than a couple of hours into it. I can't remember how to play the game at all any more, or what I was supposed to be doing. Not sure I want to replay it all, but we'll see.

Blood & Wine, the second DLC, is basically a full game in its own right. Brand new map, new story, new characters. Might be worth playing through just that, once the new upgrade drops.

I picked up the GOTY edition for next to nothing in a GOG sale a while back, so I'll definitely check out how badly my PC runs it.

Blood and Wine ended my Geralt's story so fucking perfectly, nothing ground breaking or new just Spoiler - click to showretiring in the new dlc region with Yennifer after all of that shit with Ciri, the Wild Hunt, the reaper dude in Heart of Stone, the Vampire shit in Blood and Wine…Geralt gets to rest, at the time it felt like finally closing a particularly hefty book that ended really well

The trees are nice, and it's always windy.

Hmmm… Might be worth another go after all…

I've yet to complete Witcher 3, but the 10 hours I put in it, I really enjoyed. I think it was around my first son was born so I just stopped. I think it's like £5 for the game with the DLC so I'm thinking of jumping in myself when the update is here. Also on a side note. The campaign card base game Thronebreaker was brilliant if anyone is into strategy card games with the level of Witcher characters, story and writing.

You spent at least 7/10 hours on Gwent didn't you

Yes. Good news is the Gwent that's in the Witcher 3 is a completely different game to Gwent that I played for years after. I'll have zero interest in messing around with it this time around.

I'm not sure which Gwent I dislike more, the card came or the actual place. It's slow, doesn't contain a lot of interesting tactical choices and seems a bit pointless… and the card game is bad too… tip your waitress, the fish is great, I'll be here all night etc.

The new Resident Evil 4 remake is worth it just for this promo video alone.

That is amazing.

They're making a whole series of them..!?

Yeah, I'm surprised no-one here noticed until now. They did the same for RE Village, but with puppets…

I regret to inform everyone that the incels are at it again.

https://www.thegamer.com/resident-evil-4-remake-woke-review-bombing/

The internet was such a bad idea, wasn't it.

Is this that guy who basically said it was awful because they took out all the times you could see up Ashley's skirt?

These people are cretins.

References to "newvegas2" have appeared in the SteamDB package history for Fallout 4. 🤔