Kotaku doubts Witcher 3 (scandalous)

According to the popular video game website and highly respected journalist "Kotaku", having played the Witcher 3, doubts have arisen, casting doubts.

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/01/26/played-witcher-3-still-doubts

it was a familiar rhythm of other open-world-ish RPGs like Skyrim and Dragon Age. Each step felt like second nature, for better or worse.

I thought Witcher 3's first few hours were OK, but it wasn't like somebody had to pry my fingers from a controller or scrub my fingernail flecks from a keyboard.

I mastered timing or distance, though. The former was especially apparent when I was trying to counter attacks with a quick press of the block button at just the right moment. I just couldn't find the sweet spot. It never quite felt natural

Seriously. Just find a path, hold a button, and the horse does the rest. I could get used to this.

Still, there were a lot of them, not to mention a frame rate that would occasionally drop into the single digits.

Geralt can run and jump and climb now! Like an assassin who's also a parkour master or a courier who's also a parkour master or any other modern video game character (who's also a parkour master). In my experience, however, it all felt kinda creaky and disjointed. Movement controls felt robotic. Clambering up cliffsides caused Geralt to pause briefly before hoisting himself up. In the grand scheme of things, these are smaller issues, but they prevented me from feeling the intoxicating flow of forward motion that other games with hyper-mobile main characters achieve.

After my first hour, I felt like I'd mainly watched cut-scenes, up to and including one that was a cool fight scene against the aforementioned griffin. Why couldn't I play that, I immediately wondered?

The Witcher 3's third-person camera is mostly fine outdoors, but it's utterly wretched in cramped confines.

How much of it feels like filler, meaningless flab ballooning out the hips of an experience that already has plenty of meat on its bones?

...and we're done here

Having proclaimed the video game series "The Witcher" overrated: Reality is once again, entering the fray. a beacon of hope:among hyperbole falsehood.

Loltaku.

Kotaku is not always a reliable source of information.

and people sees tc and realizes it's another craptastic thread (shocking)

The Kotaku man had hours of hands on time. Apparently (on a pc, not consoles) it is currently dipping to single digits.

Nice cherry picking of the article content there.

not only the source is loltaku but the author is nathan grayson. It seems he couldn't bang someone from the team so now he's giving them bad previews to tease them.

The complaints about the horse and the parkour I find them really silly though. Like seriously:

"prevented me from feeling the intoxicating flow of forward motion that other games with hyper-mobile main characters achieve".

My expectations for W3 are that it'll be DAI with poorer voice acting, more edginess, equal lore, better combat, and the same amount of boring fetch quests.

The Witcher games do a lot that makes them enjoyable, but him knocking the combat or questing isn't exactly shocking. The franchise has been built on some straight filler bullshit you go through, with some limp dick sword combat that isn't all that satisfying. Purely on a movement standpoint he's always felt sluggish, slow, and janky. It might not be Skyrim levels of underwhelming, but it wouldn't be a surprise if they had weak combat for a 3rd time running.

The bigger surprise would be if someone honestly tried to diss the game for it, while acting like Skyrim/Dragon Age did that shit better, those games have coma inducing combat engines.

let me guess bewbs=bad and the poor wimmz feelings?

I guess I'll have to play it and see for myself.

I wouldn't be surprised if this guy is just making shit up about this game so it looks like he has legit complaints, instead of writing an article about "waaaaaaah muh soggy knees." It's Kotaku after all

@princeofshapeir:

5/10 not enough demisexual genderfluid otherkins

who gives a **** what the yakuza guy say

It pisses me da f*ck off that we're on the third game and they still haven't managed to build a half decent combat system but random games like Lords of the Fallen have perfected it from the get go... wtf is their problems-.-. An open world title with tons of content but poor combat system is baaaad news.

Pretty much juat described every open worls game.... don't worry...... this will sell.

I just want to play it for the story, so everything else could suck for all I care, as long as the story is great.

If there is any kind of female nudity in The Witcher 3 Kotaku will hate on it regardless

PC Gamer preview

"And yet, the next evening I found myself feverishly re-downloading The Witcher 2 to get my fix. I wanted more Witcher 3"

"But clearly, the game resonated with me on some deeper level. It triggered that gamer compulsion to lose myself in a world, to cannonball into the deep end and sponge up every last bit of its mythology."

"The Witcher 3 quietly, insidiously sunk its hooks in deep."

"The game is great at making you feel like a Witcher."

"The Witcher 3 knows how to dress up its quests, and sometimes that makes all the difference."

"It's still damn hard. If you were worried CD Projekt might dull The Witcher's difficulty for console crowds, you can stop now."

pretty much loltaku has become a nest for garbage sjw.

Still can be good. It revolves around if I am ready to play a game of this type.

I'd rather believe SolidGames than Kotaku.

Interesting.

If witcher games gets criticized for its over sexualization then game of thrones should be criticized as well.

Seeing as the other Witcher games are overrated and only adored bc of CDPR way of playing the "we're for the fans" tape over and over again....I don't doubt this game will be, like the other games, pretty to look at, obtuse to navigate and control, and have the most cliche stereotypes.

Then ppl will say (mostly PC gamers) it's deep and not unintuitive and have an original cast and story.

And also they'll throw in sex for no good reason and over use swear words to fool ppl I to thinking that's what makes something mature.

what are sweat words?

Here is a freezepage link for people who want to read the article without paying Kotaku.
As far as I am aware Kotaku has yet to apologize for their wrongdoings against gamers.
http://www.freezepage.com/1422387938IMQGIRYFHW

It's probably not politically righteous enough for them. Ignore them.

@lostrib: lawl...like I said...you have nothing to do but this forum.

You literally posted a snarky childish question about my typo before I edited my post.

Funny thing is I always got the game of thrones vibe while playing the previous games in the series.

you never dissapoint with stupid and ignorant comments. Did you buy a pc yet or are you still counting them pennies?

@mr_huggles_dog: actually I'm at work

@lostrib: you must work 24/7 if you lurk this forum at work

@Krelian-co: I bought TW2 on PC...again you don't know me and just want to join the bandwagon. Others ppl hated on these games but for some reason you had to get personal with me.

@mr_huggles_dog: that makes no sense at all. But yes I do work quite a bit

@lostrib: that makes no sense at all but yes what I said takes a little mental effort to understand

@mr_huggles_dog: flagged for antagonistic trolling

It does.

@lostrib: that doesn't surprise.

@mr_huggles_dog: honestly why are you concerning yourself with how I choose to spend my time

@uninspiredcup: What were they playing on?????

Still, there were a lot of them, not to mention a frame rate that would occasionally drop into the single digits.

@lostrib: honestly why are you concerning yourself about everything I post?

@mr_huggles_dog: I'm not. But honestly why do you care what I do with my time, and why does it matter?

@lostrib: I'm not, but honestly....why do care about what I post?

ROLF...that sentence...does it even makes sense? that has to be one of the most pretencious sentences i've read on a gaming website since...well, since the stupidity of the death of gamers.

So yeah, **** Kotaku.

Anyway, it might sound impopular but when it comes to RPGs, i trust Kevin-V for reviews and previews, the man knows his RPG's.

And here I was expecting complaints about sexism.