The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered boasts remastered visuals, enhanced combat, improved movement, enhanced monster behaviors. A skill tree revamp, transmogrifications, new finishers, and so much more. The fantastic Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions are included. The upgrade is free for all Witcher 3 owners. Coming Sept. 29, 2026.

  • Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    There goes my modded save file 🥲

    I hope I find a way to transfer it to this and the new dlc. Now to finish the game before Sep 29 in case I don’t…

  • _aj@piefed.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Super cool. Loved the game and the ability to wander around and find something interesting going on. Many games I’ve played cough Zero Dawn cough don’t really have a lot going on outside the main story (in my experience) I might have to track down a complete armour set one of these days.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    3 hours ago

    This is awesome. I’m in my first playthrough and I’m enjoying it. It’s kind of a boring game so far vs what I normally play, so I do a couple quests, and then play another game. Not because I don’t like TW3, but because it’s not very exciting. I find it well written, just not very well paced. Visuals won’t help with that, but maybe some fine tuning will make it go a little smoother? I dunno. I don’t hate it or anything.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I’ll say that W3 starts horribly slow. White Orchard is one of the most boring training zones I’ve done, and Velen is rough. It’s needed for sure, but it doesn’t hook you very well. I highly recommend pushing through to Novigrad where you start meeting your friends like Triss, the story really picks up, the side quests get more involved, and it helps carry it through.

      I love story rich games, Mass Effect is my #1, then RDR2, and then probably Cyberpunk 2077. Witcher 3 was very good, but to me the story just never quite gripped me like the others. The world however is phenomenal, and that’s what kept me playing.

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      3 hours ago

      This is my favorite game ever, I’m sorry you’re finding it boring and slow paced. There’s so many little things to discover. I have more hours and more playthroughs into it than I’d like to admit.

        • lonefighter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          It’s very long if you take the time to explore the whole map and do all the side quests, but the main quest is leveled so that you don’t have to do most of the side quests if you don’t want to, unlike some games where you kind of have to do most of the side quests in order to level up enough to keep up with the required level for the main quest. If you do choose to side quest you can be way overpowered and breeze through the main quest line with no problem.

          I’m working on a playthrough right now and I’m less than halfway through and I’ve only done maybe 1/3 or less of the side quests so far and I’m already 7 levels above where the main quest wants me to be.

          I think it’s worth it because I love the world, the characters, and the story, but every nerd has their special fandom and the Witcher is mine.

  • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    115·
    3 hours ago

    Not gonna lie, I’ve sunk around 100 hours into this game(no dlcs), and it’s felt like such a one-trick pony. Good main story is well written. Cool. Indeed.

    Gameplay is so incredibly ass after the first 20 minutes, where the game looks promising, so it builds anticipation for all the rpg systems, that fail hard at their jobs. Economy, Levels, and crafting, are ass the moment you start using them.

    And by god, the secondary writing of the micro-quests that are supposed to make the world feel lived in was “passable filler” at its best, and the “Follow the Orange Highlight” was unavoidable half the time.

    It is a game that was cobbled together around a book’s story, and honestly has aged horribly.

    And honestly, seeing them re-release it a-la Skyrim, after Cyberpunk’s whole ordeal, feels like such a Corporate move.

    (Getting it in before someone tries to tell me it’s going to have revamped systems according to the release trailer, forgive me for not trusting the company until the game comes out and we see the results… In the meantime, I’ll be waiting to see how much they charge for the repair and prettying up of a game they already made ten years ago. I hope I’ll be proven to be just a negative Nancy.)