First of all let's remove all technical aspects of the game such as rules and mechanics aside and focus on the feel of the game.
I've always imagine gwent being a get that Geralt would play with his friends at a tavern or brothel with friends and "others" much like he did while playing in the series of the Witcher. He would go on and "1v1 me bro" to random people in the world.
That's exactly how Gwent 1.0 felt. A game that is played on a table with a couple of pints, a minstrel singing a tale of Sir Robin and some questionable ladies scamming poor drunk sobs.
Now this 2.0 version which seems tied to Thronebreaker has me feeling like my cards are actual units that I'm (the leader) leading into battle. It no longer feels like a game Geralt would play. And more of a game Geralt would have actually fought.
You see this through the background although not very dynamic, is an actual battlefield of some kind. The leaders are actual avatars with what seems very slow motion animations.
I don't care about the rules and the mechanics and the meta.... Those can be tweaked until they find a sweet spot, but I think they should go back to their roots of this being a card game that Geralt plays drunk and possibly intoxicated, and not a battle simulatiom in which Geralt participates in while having all his witts about him.
I've always imagine gwent being a get that Geralt would play with his friends at a tavern or brothel with friends and "others" much like he did while playing in the series of the Witcher. He would go on and "1v1 me bro" to random people in the world.
That's exactly how Gwent 1.0 felt. A game that is played on a table with a couple of pints, a minstrel singing a tale of Sir Robin and some questionable ladies scamming poor drunk sobs.
Now this 2.0 version which seems tied to Thronebreaker has me feeling like my cards are actual units that I'm (the leader) leading into battle. It no longer feels like a game Geralt would play. And more of a game Geralt would have actually fought.
You see this through the background although not very dynamic, is an actual battlefield of some kind. The leaders are actual avatars with what seems very slow motion animations.
I don't care about the rules and the mechanics and the meta.... Those can be tweaked until they find a sweet spot, but I think they should go back to their roots of this being a card game that Geralt plays drunk and possibly intoxicated, and not a battle simulatiom in which Geralt participates in while having all his witts about him.