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Morphineus
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For some reason I just can't give a damn for this game. I liked Gwent, but a whole game instead of it being a distraction: meh.
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2018 00:57 Post subject: |
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I played it for characters and writing, both were great.
The gameplay was ok, but I wouldn't call it good.
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2018 11:08 Post subject: |
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So is the writing good enough to get through the average gameplay? I never liked Gwent.
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2018 11:10 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: | | So is the writing good enough to get through the average gameplay? I never liked Gwent. |
Yes. Great story, full of twists. |
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2018 13:21 Post subject: |
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Yea the characters, story, writing, even music are top notch.
With the descriptions given by the narrator it feels like an interactive book, a well written book.
Queen Meve is personally among my top female characters in gaming, she is really well written and simply badass.
If you don't do any of the puzzles and side stuff and just go through the main story, its piss easy so you will breeze through it...
...until the very last boss battle, fuck that fucking motherfucker.
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| Posted: Mon, 26th Nov 2018 13:36 Post subject: |
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There are tips to beating him, on my second playthrough I was crushing everyone by 200 points, until the last prick 
We were tied 1-1 in rounds, then the deciding 3 round the mofo keeps dropping cards, healing too, I had passed with no more cards to play, I was up like 260 points. And guess what happend, he caught on and the result was like 262-262 and I won for some reason the last guy is a cheating prick.
And this is proly the new record, 688 points
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| Posted: Thu, 13th Dec 2018 19:10 Post subject: |
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I hate this new card system, I find it way worse than Gwent as it was in the multiplayer game. It just gets so convoluted, it's less risking and bluffing like in poker and more about convoluted special effects. I like Gwent, not Hearthstone or whatever inspired this card gameplay.
And those "puzzle battles" are just the icing on the shitcake, I simply do not care enough for a card game to invest such an effort.
I thought I liked the game for the first hour, too. Well, now it's uninstalled, thank god for piracy. Good thing is that it didn't sell well, so less card shit in the future hopefully.
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prudislav
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Location: The land of beer and porn
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| Posted: Thu, 13th Dec 2018 19:11 Post subject: |
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well fuck cards ... i just love the story in this one 
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Nodrim
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Location: Romania
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Jan 2019 21:32 Post subject: |
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| The Game Slashers wrote: |
All in all, I consider that CD Projekt Red has managed to overcome the challenges associated with their first departure from the Witcher games. Thronebreaker features a very well-written story that kept me glued to the screen, especially when coupled with the fun Gwent challenges and puzzles that have evolved so much from their first iteration as a mini-game. There are some issues that affect the game here and there, but they seem minor when looking at the entire package. At some point in the game, the narrator hints that there might be some other stories to be told, and if that’s the case, I can’t wait to hear them.
Pros:
+ Excellently written story, protagonist and cast of characters
+ Many varied, diverse and fun Gwent challenges and puzzles
+ Choices and consequences are well implemented and offer replayability
+ Great use of companions, both in terms of narrative and gameplay
+ Impressive artistic design and attention to details
+ Brilliant soundtrack and voice acting
+ Many references for those who have read the Witcher books
Cons:
– The overabundance of resources trivialises some choices and decreases their emotional impact
– No support for multiple decks discourages experimenting with new decks
– Lack of cards for some factions
– Occasional stutters and freezes
– Somewhat too easy
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Source:
www.thegameslashers.com/2019/01/thronebreaker-the-witcher-tales-review.html
(not written by me)
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ixigia
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Location: Italy
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Jan 2019 22:44 Post subject: |
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Yeah, when it comes to the actual quality of dialogues, the characters and how the events evolve (or devolve) it truly is an absolute gem. It's a shame that the Gwent itself in here is a shadow of its former self with the 99% of the standard battles being as engaging as watching drunk whoresons sleep on the streets of Novigrad. Still worth playing as an interactive virtual book with excellent storytelling 
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Jan 2019 23:08 Post subject: |
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I started watching Jesse Cox's playthrough and abandoned it. Shitty ass "puzzle" battles and slow moving story.
Is this shitty card system inspired from Hearthstone or what? This is the opposite of Gwent!
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bronson
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Location: Asteroid B-612
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Jan 2019 23:17 Post subject: |
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| VGAdeadcafe wrote: | I started watching Jesse Cox's playthrough and abandoned it. Shitty ass "puzzle" battles and slow moving story.
Is this shitty card system inspired from Hearthstone or what? This is the opposite of Gwent! |
I was really disappointed with gwent in this game. Loved it in the W3 but both here and in the Gwent multiplayer game it couldn't draw my interest.
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Jan 2019 23:28 Post subject: |
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I liked the standalone Gwent gameplay early on in the beta before they redesigned it to be more complex. I don't remember exactly what they changed but there was a lot of armoring cards, locking cards etc. I abandoned it.
I used to think they would implement a single player mode into that Gwent game but they instead created an entirely new system that's nothing like Gwent. I hate when I have to focus on the health and armor of the cards themselves, I like a more poker-like approach, with the weather cards, the decoys, the spies, the bluffing! They are fucking *cards*, not "monsters" with their own stats.
In this fucking thing they have a puzzle battle with "boulder" cards "rolling" down the lanes each turn. Or the puzzle Battle with the even-odd health gimmick and the cards toggling lanes. I uninstalled the game but I can only imagine the autism that I would witness in the later puzzle battles.
Good thing is that it failed financially.
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| Posted: Thu, 24th Jan 2019 13:57 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: |
WHat I really hate are the so called puzzles. Being forced to use an exact sequence is idiotic.
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Yeah, I used the walkthrough for those. |
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