Fallout: New Vegas is the only game to fit in that category, and even then the combat system is a bit clunky.
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Geralt was never an avatar for the players in the series, you play as Geralt of Rivia, Geralt has his own morality codes and personality that you only nudge, as you said, to do different things that Geralt might do because of his personality and character.
If Geralt was an avatar for the player, then people would be able to kill civilians and innocents like in TES games, Geralt of Rivia would never do that under any circumstance, but it is true that in Witcher 2 some things happened that defied his character in the books, but overall, you play as a pre-defined character, and to be perfectly honest, I prefer RPGs that do that, because pre-defined character make a damn good story most of the time, while "avatar" characters are dull most of the time like in the modern Bioware RPGs.
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While I think there is totally a place for "blank slate" characters. I do agree that roleplaying as a pre defined character is really interesting to me. Particularly because the choices you make are more grounded and realistic. In Bioware games you are pretty much an angel or a blood thirsty devil, theres little in the middle.
In this regard...I have to disagree. Amensia is not a story-thing...amnesia was the way that devs used to allow the player to role as Geralt of Rivia without the obligation to follow his moral codes and personality.
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That because themes in Bioware stories are a kind of "United we stand against the evil", with a clear definition of good and evil. The only game which detach from this theme was Dragon Age II...but the story telling was really bad.
Without total obligation, but mostly all the choices you do are in Geralt's character, and most of the things he says are mostly in his character as well, because Geralt is a grey character and he could do evil and good at the same time.
Exactly.
But his general personality says the same. The reader is slowly introduced to the story and to the kind of choices your character does.
I really like it. CDPR did a good job giving you enough to really "feel" how your character is in terms of personality and then start thinking LIKE him, that is another form of roleplaying all on it's own, where the roleplayer instead of taking the role of a blank-slate stereotype/class takes on the role of a certain character and starts acting accordingly. CDP did really well in giving they player JUST the right balance between freedom of choice and Geralts character, making those 2 games a very dense and engaging experience.
My opinion is that if they can have a better combat system and character customization than The Witcher 2, the amazing graphics that The Witcher series has always had, the same quality story that The Witcher 1 had, and a well designed open-world then they will succeed in making the next "quintessential" RPG.
If anyone asked what the last example of a "quintessential" RPG was. I'd say... I dunno... maybe Deus Ex 1.
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Yeah, the main problem about New Vegas was that Obisian was forced to recycle all the assets from Fallout 3. And with them, even the technical problems.
Read Dead Redemption redefined why I play RPG's. I play RPG's for the story and character impact on the world through choices.
I find skill menus and reading dialogue text immersion breaking.
RDR showed you don't need to stop the game to select dialogue options. You can have the npcs chat and tell you the situation, then your actions can decide the course of events you will take.
The open world technology now allows you to use the environment more, why would you want to stop the game and read a skill menu? when you could instead level your skills by practicing with a sword or magic master for instance.
The skill tree could be replaced by side quests to attain those skills. Much better than random little stories.
We need to get away from the old ideas of skill menus, character levels, and inventory management and focus more on interactive open world gameplay development.
The future of RPG's is the devs creating ai that react to your actions and create procedural events, so you are effectively creating your own quests without them having to write them for us.
For example: After the game I would like to play as a new Witcher in the world state i left it as geralt., Maybe i choose to setup or train with a new or existing school somewhere, maybe nifguard or temeria gets annoyed and I have to deal with them.
That to me would redefine role playing games, just interacting with the open world and having the npcs react to me without a linear story or any skill menus.
I find skill menus and reading dialogue text immersion breaking.
RDR showed you don't need to stop the game to select dialogue options. You can have the npcs chat and tell you the situation, then your actions can decide the course of events you will take.
The open world technology now allows you to use the environment more, why would you want to stop the game and read a skill menu? when you could instead level your skills by practicing with a sword or magic master for instance.
The skill tree could be replaced by side quests to attain those skills. Much better than random little stories.
We need to get away from the old ideas of skill menus, character levels, and inventory management and focus more on interactive open world gameplay development.
The future of RPG's is the devs creating ai that react to your actions and create procedural events, so you are effectively creating your own quests without them having to write them for us.
For example: After the game I would like to play as a new Witcher in the world state i left it as geralt., Maybe i choose to setup or train with a new or existing school somewhere, maybe nifguard or temeria gets annoyed and I have to deal with them.
That to me would redefine role playing games, just interacting with the open world and having the npcs react to me without a linear story or any skill menus.
RDR isn't an RPG though, its an Open World action/adventure. All those elements you want to throw away (skills, dialogue options, character levels, inventory) are pretty much the types of game play systems that separate RPGs from other genres.
That said, I do agree that many of those elements are in need of a redesign, especially character levels.
That said, I do agree that many of those elements are in need of a redesign, especially character levels.
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Then you want an action/adventure, not an RPG.
Oh, well, the TRUE death of quest design.
The game is going to achieve that, in consoles the game have some bugs to fix, not performance related, in pc performance ir worrying and need to be fixed but probably not. The quality of the game itself as a game is OUTSTANDING if we follow the articles this week.
They've said they're still working on the Xbox One performance; they think they can get it to 1080p, but no promises.
On PC, they're still working on Ultra-level (and presumably higher) performance, but a well-equipped PC plays the game fluently on High and clearly better than on PS4. So, no, performance on PC is not worrying.
The reply is very simple.
They won't.
But of course, media will call it redefining. They called DA:I redefining and that game doesn't know where it's own arse ends.
CDPR is capable of making a good game. Redefining?
Witcher 2 had an influence on action-RPGs. Because it was very much a focused experience that did not care much for anything else.
Dark Souls did redefine many aspects of action-RPGs. Because it was, again, focused, it was good at the parts it redefined.
These two games, are the only damn ones I would call having any influence what-so-ever in recent years. They changed things. Until they will be redefined again.
Witcher 3 doesn't seem to go that route, it's more of the same, in a bigger map. Sure, it's innovation for Witcher series. In RPGs, doing an open world game, is not an innovation, it's a design decision.
Unless Witcher 3 introduces something new, we don't know about, or does something in a truly masterful manner, it won't redefine anything. It may be a good game, but from what I've seen so far, it's not redefining.
We will see when it comes it. Or at least you will see, I'm afraid I won't have time for that.
Dragon's Dogma progressed monster fighting to more than just hacking away at their ankles and lowering their hit points.
Climbing a monster and flying into the air with it, is something I've only ever seen in cutscenes. I even had my AI companion catch me in the air after a harpy lifted me off the ground.
Maybe they can incorporate climbing monsters in the enhanced edition
Climbing a monster and flying into the air with it, is something I've only ever seen in cutscenes. I even had my AI companion catch me in the air after a harpy lifted me off the ground.
Maybe they can incorporate climbing monsters in the enhanced edition