Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  An argument could be made that Gwent offers better gameplay than the larger game in which it resides.

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  • takeda@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then you purchased a wrong game and should just play solitaire.

    Witcher 3 is absolutely great, but if you just go through only the main quest, won’t explore the world and won’t do side quests then I can see you ending up disappointed.

    What I like is that side quests can impact the main quest and even the ending.

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    • who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then you purchased a wrong game

      Perhaps.

      But you’ve made a lot of assumptions in your comment, and you’re mistaken about most of them.

      I played the side quests. Many came with a good story, but a story is not gameplay. Nearly all of them were copy/paste instances of a small pool of tedious tasks. There were a few good exceptions, but very few.

      I explored the world, as much as one can “explore” something that is fully labeled with point-of-interest markers. They lead the player to a repetitive handful of uninspired encounters, cloned over and over again.

      It has plenty of other flaws as well. If you loved it, then I’m happy for you, but I found the gameplay boring.

      The strengths I found in The Witcher 3 were its story, lore, characters, and Gwent. Not its gameplay.

      To each their own, I suppose.

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      • MolochAlter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Gwent is actually a slight hack of an existing board game called Condottiere, which is IMO the better game.

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is no argument if the statement is objectively true

    The Witcher 3’s gameplay was so bad that I couldn’t finish it (and the map so uninteresting, but that’s another story). Gwent was pretty cool though

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are we certain Witcher is the larger game in which Gwent resides and not the other way around?

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    An argument could be made that you are a genius. Both arguments would be equally wrong.

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• SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I felt that way about blitzball in final fantasy 10 (I think). Never finished the actual game.

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