One bit I loved revisiting was the Get Junior storyline.
In The Witcher 3 I consult it regularly, always checking for updated character logs and rechecking when I come across new people. I can’t remember ever spending any time in a character journal in a video game. The writing of every character is brilliant. And these intersections just feel so natural throughout. That intersects with a brilliant Skellige adventure where Geralt and his gaelic pals hunt down an enormous giant on the island of Undvik. There’s the wonderful little side-quest where you uncover a conspiracy where a dwarven blacksmith, legendary for his craft, is actually not so legendary at all. It says a lot that Fallout 4 came out the same year and just never stood a chance. Everything feels purpose built and never cut-and-pasted. And playing it now I realise that no open-world RPG has surmounted it in that sense of crafted adventure. I remember playing it for the first time and thinking fuck, Skyrim is beat. You head into an abandoned elven ruin, in pursuit of the Wild Hunt, only to find all manner of traps, puzzles and mysteries. She’s no Triss, and definitely no Yen, but the sexual tension with Geralt is at its best with Keira. Geralt’s flirty banter is perhaps at its best with Keira. I particularly enjoy the first time you go on a quest with Keira Metz. Replaying it with all the time in the world, putting all the time into this world, has really been the best way to assert it as my favourite game of all time. Great quest after great quest, fantastic story after fantastic story so many to remember that it all just coalesces into one in your idiot brain. But there’s so much more that you forget. There are a lot of truly unforgettable bits, is what I’m saying. The moment you head to Toussaint and, God, you get the picture. The first time you arrive at Skellige and hear that incredible music, and realise there’s a whole fucking continent on top of that other continent. The first time you get to Novigrad and realise there’s a whole city on top of the enormous map you’ve just been exploring. The bit where you go through space and time (I think the quest is literally called Through Space and Time). The Towerful of Mice side quest, where a guy kills himself by kissing the corpse of his dead lover. The first time you meet Emperor Charles Tywin Emhyr, actual Charles Dance! The Bloody Baron and his fateful quest to reclaim his family. The problem with The Witcher 3, if there is one, is that there’s a relatively small number of brilliant moments you remember.
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It might not be the game’s prettiest iteration, but being able to download my Steam saves and continue on the go is a remarkable feat.
But you can also play on a Switch! Five years ago, when you told me that things were going to get really bad, if you’d have told me then that I would be able to play The Witcher 3 for ten-hours straight on my flight from London to Los Angeles.
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HD upgrades for textures and colour re-shades and lighting mods all go a long way toward making this game look astonishing.
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But PC is absolutely the best way to get the most out of the world that CD Projekt built. I mean The Witcher 3 still looks very pretty, you should know that if you’re thinking about playing on a PS4 or an Xbox One. I’ve modded it so it looks like it could’ve come out yesterday. It is perfect.Īnd then there’s WHERE you play it. Roleplay the stink and squalor of a swamp-lurking monster hunter with a lack of human emotions and no social skills. It really is the best time to play a game like this. But now there’s nothing else and nothing new. There was always something else out something new out. A full, comprehensive revisit is something I’ve considered a couple of times, delving into a New Game+ before conking out after a few hours in White Orchard. It’s the best opportunity to replay The Witcher 3 – a game I already adored – with the time and space to fully appreciate it. Video games are the silver lining to all this lockdown stuff, for me. A studio that always made good games, but never made a world-changing game. It’s so bad I watched Rise of Skywalker.įor most, the last half decade has been a steady decline – if you’d told me five years ago that was the GOOD BIT then I’d have hit you – but for the Little Guys That Could, CD Projekt Red, it’s been an incredible ascent. Now we’re all trapped at home, unable to see our families, scared of our own hands. A few YouTubers said unforgivable things. A lot has happened since May 2015, eh? Skipping over the politics for a moment.
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