The Witcher 3

[Mabster]

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Haven't had that issue yet on my end. Interesting...

Happened to me early in the game and I haven't tried again since. In my case I put my pile of books inside a house right next to a fast travel spot. The next time I came back to add more books the whole loot bag was gone.
Some time later, I don't remember the specifics but that house and npc that lived there was involved in a quest . Maybe I had stupid luck and picked a particular house that has its contents reset or something.

[DGuinta1]

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The Hunt' Battle at Kaer Morhen is a masterpiece! WOW Video game masterpiece! Might be the best I have witnessed and played.

[Heroesandvillains]

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Yeah, i went ahead and bought it through GOG. It's downloading now. Have to go to my sisters wedding after while, but after that, hopefully will be able to start it up. Thanks for the thoughts/impressions.

I'm wondering if I need to wait til the DLC w/ chests starts up, so I can hang on to the loot?

Don't worry about that.

Just upgrade your horse saddle and you can carry up to 130 items. I never had a problem with space.

Keep in mind the only heavy things are enemy weapons and stuff. Early on you'll want to sell or dismantle these, and at times avoid picking them up all together unless you're on your way to a vendor.

Later on you won't even want those items but you'll still have plenty of space to do so if you wish.

Herbs/oils/meat/drinks weigh next to nothing so pick them up at your heart's desire. I think they weigh 1/10 of a pound each.

[42]

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Thanks and despite closing in on 200 hours, I would say that I still have a lot to do. I started three weeks ago after patch version 1.04 was released and on days im not working, I wake up at 7:30am and start playing. I'm not married and don't have any kids so obviously, my free time is my own. Have a girlfriend who's Muslim of over four years and right now, she's fasting for Ramadan so since then, I basically have five weeks in which im not seeing or spending time with her. That time goes to gaming as not seeing her sucks but I have to keep myself busy and gaming is the best way for me to do it.

That's how I have been able to get to just under 200 hours in literally three weeks of playing. I have the guide and out of the 90 critical path quests (main story), I still have 40 of them to do. I completed the Destination: Skellige quest and here I am.

Secondary quest wise, I have 46 of them left to do including the random quests that don't appear in any of the quest logs. I have 6 treasure hunts, 8 contracts, 2 fists of fury quests and 4 horse racing quests left.

Game is ******* HUGE!!! And none of the above includes those bandit camps, exploring, fighting during the exploring, the places of power, monster dens/nests and whatever else im forgetting at this moment.

Blue Dragon on Xbox 360, Rainbow Moon on PS3, Pandora's Tower and The Last Story on Wii are the last RPG's that I played on any console but didn't finish any of them. Lost interest in Blue Dragon early on. Played around 50 hours in Rainbow Moon but got tired of the grinding to level up. Last Story was good but didn't play much of it. Pandora's Tower was the closest I came to finishing an RPG in the last three generations of gaming but even that, I didn't finish.

The Witcher 3 will most likely be the one and only open world RPG of any kind that I play and complete so while there's bugs, glitches, camera bug issues and other stuff that aggravate and frustrate the hell out of me, it's still by far and away the best game of this generation and as of right now, my game of the year. The only other RPG of any kind that im going to play will be Bloodborne as that's in my backlog.

After The Witcher 3, I honestly don't see myself going through another open world RPG this generation unless a game like The Witcher comes out. On a related side note - I love preset main characters and absolutely hate having to create a character which is why so many RPG's don't interest me anymore plus they're more or less all the same. Bloodborne will be the only game that I want to play that forces you to create your character but I figure that if im going to play one of the "souls" type games, I rather just play Bloodborne as im not going to go through the entire souls series. Plus, it's a PS4 exclusive and I want to see if it's as good as other PS4 fanboys say it is.

Back to The Witcher 3, I can already say that it's an easy 9/10. I'm still debating if I should rate it a 9.5/10 but won't make a final decision until after im finished with the game completely.

I do wish though that companies stop releasing games earlier than they should as the bugs and glitches is what will lower my score from 9.5/10. Patches are great but they also screw up a lot of stuff. I have had more problems in the last few days with 1.05 than I had the previous three weeks with 1.04. Also, just stupid crap. For example, in Skellige on one of the surrounding islands, I was in the water and despite trying for at least five minutes, I could not climb out of the water despite there being a platform that was no more than an inch above the water.

I know that people hate button prompts but when it comes to climbing and stuff like that (think RE4), I prefer a button prompt so the character can just climb the hell out of the water or up or down depending on where im going.

The menu interface is bad for several reasons and I wish it was all more organized and sorted. Reminds me of the PS4 XMB with the difference being vertical instead of horizontal.

Despite my negatives, im still enjoying the hell out of the game which is obvious since im almost at 200 hours and my previous high was 120 hours in AC Black Flag. Excellent and great game that in so many ways is an epic classic and the first true one this generation but yet, it's hard for me to get past the bugs and glitches.

I know that a lot of gamers have complaints like "there's no game/exclusives" and the "online play sucks" or whatever but none of them come close to numerous games being released earlier than they should have. I would hate to think how many patches this game would need if it was released last September or even this past February before it was delayed twice.

With all of that said, im STILL playing because the game itself is that damn ******* good and thus far, none of the bugs and glitches have been game breaking or unplayable for me. Hoping it stays that way.

Sorry for the LONG post.

Are you and Blzer related? :wink:

[ImTellinTim]

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My take regarding loot. I sell everything except for one backup silver and steel sword to my Feline swords. Sell everything else. Keeps me flush with cash. The things to make sure you keep an eye on for weight are saddles (only need one), heavy armor, and bigger animal hides. You can carry way, way more ingredients than you'll ever need. Also, I picked one set of witcher gear and went with it - the Feline set because I decided to go with a fast attacking build. I feel like if I went to craft all the witcher gear, it would just clutter my inventory with things I'll never use.

Finally - do the horse races as soon as you discover them. You will eventually get saddlebags for free through them. The earlier you increase the inventory, the less often you need to stop off and sell things.

I have never had to worry about being overburdened and don't care if I have somewhere to store things.

[DGuinta1]

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This game never ceases to amaze me.

[DGuinta1]

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Just had made some new sweet armor made! wo0t!

[ImTellinTim]

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The Hunt' Battle at Kaer Morhen is a masterpiece! WOW Video game masterpiece! Might be the best I have witnessed and played.

Spoiler

Those cocksuckers killed Vesemir. I haven't been this legitimately pissed about events in a video game since I took control of Joel in TLOU when Ellie was being held captive. Those Icelandic death metal wannabes are going to pay.

[DTX3]

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finally decided to buy the game , surprised I lasted this long without doing so. Never played this series, any tips, hints or advice before starting my journey?


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[kwebbvols4423]

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finally decided to buy the game , surprised I lasted this long without doing so. Never played this series, any tips, hints or advice before starting my journey?


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In combat, don't lock on to your target and be strategic. Dodge and parry, don't just go in with a hackers mentality lol.

[DGuinta1]

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What's the best way to post a pic. here of my bad *** Witcher outfit?

[choadler]

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Game of my lifetime for me. 100 hours in and I still can't get enough. Absolutely amazing.

[canes21]

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So for anyone who's played the first Witcher, how did you beat The Beast? I'm pretty sure I got to this part a little too quickly and as a result am too weak to really get much done. I keep getting close to killing it, but each time Abigail does not get back up and heal me and as a result I die every time because she isn't there to assist me like she was meant to.

[HealyMonster]

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just finished the game.

Wow, what a ride. I'm level 35, can't say definitively how many hours I've played but it's gotta be in the hundreds.

Best game I've ever played in my life. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Heck of a job by that development team that made the game man, a true masterpiece.

I ran with the ursin armor, then switched to the wolf armor once I hit 34, and I had the Skellige armor on my horse. I have a few question marks to tidy up still, looking forward to the next chapter opening up in September wi the expansion dlc

[DTX3]

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I just reached Heatherton, does anyone know where to find the key to the locked house? Found one on a body but it's not for the house apparently.