An argument could be made that Gwent offers better gameplay than the larger game in which it resides.
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FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Like playing Gwent instead of fighting monsters as the witcher?
who@feddit.org 2 days ago
takeda@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
who@feddit.org 2 days 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.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Gwent is actually a slight hack of an existing board game called Condottiere, which is IMO the better game.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 day 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
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Are we certain Witcher is the larger game in which Gwent resides and not the other way around?
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
An argument could be made that you are a genius. Both arguments would be equally wrong.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
I felt that way about blitzball in final fantasy 10 (I think). Never finished the actual game.