I agree. I thought that review was a complete joke filled with so many contradictions and hyperboles.Wasn't that the review from the editor of Playstation Uk? I wouldn't put any stock in that review at all and the people in the comments said as much too.
He mentioned things irrelevant to the game itself, like CDPR 'attacking/ridiculing' Skyrim, complained the game didn't keep over 30fps (he didn't even bother to find out it's locked at 30?), said that TW3 isn't open-world and shouldn't have claimed so and also seemed to imply that Skyrim was the height of cleverly designed free roam exploration.
I liked Skyrim a lot but I don't see how he can say exploration of the wilds in The Witcher is barren but imply that Skyrim's is full of 'intrigue'.
In other words, I don't think many people will experience the game the way he did
I am happy to say I've played everyone of those games and I wouldn't give more than half of them 10/10. Having said that, their Witcher 3 review was really good and Kevin seemed like he was as passionate about playing the game as CDPR were about making it, which is always a good sign.
in the moment at launch of that games they change something in videogames, because they are converting a game in ART... like MGS IV(history and graphics), GTA IV (maybe more for the new graphics generation a remember), Bayyoneta (i don´t play this but i think is for the gameplay). Ocarina of TIme (MasterPiece)
i feel worried about IGN Review
Though the straightforward and fetch-quest-heavy main story overstays its welcome, the option of joyfully adventuring through a rich, expansive open world was always there for me when I’d start to burn out. Even if the plot isn’t terribly interesting, the many characters who play a part in it are, and along with the excellent combat and RPG gameplay, they elevate The Witcher 3 to a plane few other RPGs inhabit.
"Though the straightforward and fetch-quest-heavy main story overstays its welcome" What happened there? The main quest is the negative note in a witcher game?
im a bit worried. Any other review about the main quest?
Though the straightforward and fetch-quest-heavy main story overstays its welcome, the option of joyfully adventuring through a rich, expansive open world was always there for me when I’d start to burn out. Even if the plot isn’t terribly interesting, the many characters who play a part in it are, and along with the excellent combat and RPG gameplay, they elevate The Witcher 3 to a plane few other RPGs inhabit.
"Though the straightforward and fetch-quest-heavy main story overstays its welcome" What happened there? The main quest is the negative note in a witcher game?
im a bit worried. Any other review about the main quest?
I meant I wouldn't have rated them 10/10 at their moment of release. But, I can certainly respect other opinions and don't really have a problem with most of them cause they were exceptionally good games.
Which still doesn't explain everything because from what Kevin(Gamespot reviewer) told, this game does involve politics, difference being that it's tied a little closer to Geralt. This is supported from some of the achievement spoilers as well.
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I don't know about W3; I haven't played it yet
As to W1 and W2, I would rate them 9 and 9.5 personally.
I dunno. Makes sense to me. The Witcher 2 story was ONLY about politics. TW3's story is about Geralt's relationships. Politics are just a sub-plot.
I think Vince is just a TW2 and AGOT fans who hasn't read the books and expected every Witcher game to be about political business.
Dont worry ... the main quest wont dissapoint... IGN likes to throw around stuff like this, just to spark comment wars... they do it all the time.... its often nonesense ...
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Indeed, they are also literary the only site that said the main story is boring. I read it's rather long as a negative, but no other review stated it's boring. Maybe IGN was expecting an epic, flashy world saving story ala DAI?
Considering that the reviewer gushed about TW2 and complained when TW3 wasn't like it, he probably expected a lot of political intrigue and such, when the main plot seems to be a lot more personal in nature.
I dont want to discredit IGN... but you gotta use your witcher senses on them... alot..... =)
They also said something like this : while the plot may be boring and simple , the characters make it interisting.....
That sentence alone makes it sound like there is smth wrong with the game story , while there isnt .....
Just an example... Typical ign
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Official PlayStation Magazine UK editor Phil Iwaniuk made far too many Skyrim comparisons in his review, talking about open world. He also held a grudge to CD PROJEKT RED for things they may have said (or didn't say) in the past. When giving a review about a game, people only care about the game itself, we don't care if one of the developers got pulled over for marijuana once, we don't care if the lead game designer stole candy from a gas station when he was 11.
The Elder Scrolls and Witcher, are two utterly, completely different games, only under the same flag or genre of RPG. Skills don't work the same, experience does not work the same, nothing at all works the same way as it does in Skyrim. In Skyirm you can spam the same spell or attack on a troll, run out of the cave, wait 1 hour in game, then continue and power level your skill/experience.
In a nuttshell, Phil Iwaniuk thought you could just go off right at the start of the game, not talk to a single person, level up, and gain powerful items. He mentions scaling, which he obviously is a fan of scaling in open world games, he mentions how he is unable to kill things higher level then him. Yet we see say Jesse Fox kill a level 7 when he was level 1 right in front of us on Youtube.
He completely missed the fact that their is no scaling in the game, the dumbass ran way off into something over 20 levels higher then him, died, then complained. Quest do not scale, items do not scale, enemies do not scale, and he completely was shocked that they didn't.
The developers have stated that its not the same type of open world as Skyrim, I have never taken in that Witcher 3 was a sandbox. Your playing as one character, with a specific set of skills for a specific reason, to kill monsters. In Skyrim your whoever the hell you want to be (in every single way practically), and you can do whatever the hell you want to do, and gain from it. Skyrim is a good game (obviously), but its not the Witcher 3, and anyone half intelligent can watch gameplay of Witcher 3, and see that it is definitely a large open world game.
My aggravation, why do they let reviews like that fly? That's like me giving Mortal Kombat X a bad review because when you hold back you don't block like you do in Street Fighter. "I kept trying to block the persons attacks by holding back, but I just couldn't do it, the developers lied, this is not a true fighting game". It is about that moronic.
The Elder Scrolls and Witcher, are two utterly, completely different games, only under the same flag or genre of RPG. Skills don't work the same, experience does not work the same, nothing at all works the same way as it does in Skyrim. In Skyirm you can spam the same spell or attack on a troll, run out of the cave, wait 1 hour in game, then continue and power level your skill/experience.
In a nuttshell, Phil Iwaniuk thought you could just go off right at the start of the game, not talk to a single person, level up, and gain powerful items. He mentions scaling, which he obviously is a fan of scaling in open world games, he mentions how he is unable to kill things higher level then him. Yet we see say Jesse Fox kill a level 7 when he was level 1 right in front of us on Youtube.
He completely missed the fact that their is no scaling in the game, the dumbass ran way off into something over 20 levels higher then him, died, then complained. Quest do not scale, items do not scale, enemies do not scale, and he completely was shocked that they didn't.
The developers have stated that its not the same type of open world as Skyrim, I have never taken in that Witcher 3 was a sandbox. Your playing as one character, with a specific set of skills for a specific reason, to kill monsters. In Skyrim your whoever the hell you want to be (in every single way practically), and you can do whatever the hell you want to do, and gain from it. Skyrim is a good game (obviously), but its not the Witcher 3, and anyone half intelligent can watch gameplay of Witcher 3, and see that it is definitely a large open world game.
My aggravation, why do they let reviews like that fly? That's like me giving Mortal Kombat X a bad review because when you hold back you don't block like you do in Street Fighter. "I kept trying to block the persons attacks by holding back, but I just couldn't do it, the developers lied, this is not a true fighting game". It is about that moronic.
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Its always fascinating to me that some people will hyper focus on the one or two negative comments in a review and accept them as the gospel truth, while ignoring the masses of other reviews that hold a very different opinions about those same aspects.
The constant comparison with Skyrim is getting on my nerves too... PC Games said it best there too: Skyrim was a sandbox, not an open world, so most comparisons are totally moot. It had a very poor presented, uninteresting story, and would have been completely forgettable as an RPG if it wasn't for the modding community... practically the only thing Skyrim did better then Witcher 3 was the character system, which was much deeper and more impact full.
http://www.gamewatcher.com/news/2015-12-05-where-s-our-review-for-the-witcher-3
How much truth is there to this? Never even heard of the site and it's getting reddit in a tizzy. Has CDPR confirmed? I'm not really worried, but curious.
How much truth is there to this? Never even heard of the site and it's getting reddit in a tizzy. Has CDPR confirmed? I'm not really worried, but curious.
Solid reviews all around, even from those critical of the game. It seems they really have nailed the open world and that's a big relief. What's not a big relief is wondering what the PC and Xbone versions will be like since CDPR saw fit to hold them back. Could be they'll turn out better with that day one patch, actually. In which case it's a shame the PS4, which apparently has technical issues, is their flagship platform. At least in regard to these early reviews. I wonder who'll review the other two platforms since all the major sites have already published their impressions.