The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Molly]

Sure is a beautiful game.

[Angantyr]

Yeah, it is. It's the best looking game I've played. I heard some people say it was clunky, but it runs entirely smooth on 60 fps. And looks amazing.

[BASNAK]

I think it's more about the game getting easier as you progress, when it used to be the exact opposite.

The final bosses were amongst the easiest in the game. I completely shrekt one of them didnt even have to use any food or potions. Playing on the second hardest difficulty. The cave Keira brings you to in early game which I thought would be a short mission, which was the reason I didnt buy any food or prepare myself, was probably one of the hardest parts in the game for me. Had to reload countless times since I couldnt regenerate.

[Xant]

http://imgur.com/a/9GLKn?third_party=1#_=_

Some really cool screenshots.

Disgusting, who can play this downgraded crap?

[Overdriven]

Holy crap there's so much to do in Novigrad. Didn't think it would take so long but I've been doing every quest I can find and have so far spent more time in that damn city than the countryside. Really appreciate the atmosphere there as well. Occasionally just find myself wondering around exploring aimlessly. So far been through levels 11-20 just there. Still got lots more to do as well so haven't even thought about Skellige.

[Falka]

Disgusting, who can play this downgraded crap?

My thoughts exactly 

The cave Keira brings you to in early game which I thought would be a short mission, which was the reason I didnt buy any food or prepare myself, was probably one of the hardest parts in the game for me.

What about this messed up kiddo od Red Baron? TOugh bastard he was.

[Molly]

I love the Red Baron quest so much. Such great storytelling, with twists and turns, awesome character design on the botchling and the witches. Not to mention the bad ending of that quest... There are games with main plots not even closely as thick and atmospheric than this semi-sidequest! :O

[BASNAK]

What about this messed up kiddo od Red Baron? TOugh bastard he was.

Didn't fight him 

[Angantyr]

If you're also tired of listening to the same storybook videos over and over:
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/66/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fwitcher3%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D66%26preview%3D&pUp=1

[Daunt_Flockula]

I'm level 16 in Novigrad, doing the treasure quest along with a bunch of side quests and have to say nothing there is even remotely challenging.

You really should increase difficulty to death march. Everything then becomes a challenge. Being able to randomly meditate in the midst of a quest isn't even so much relief either, because you aren't regenerating hp during meditation.

[Golem]

Check this out! https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/3851/
Dampen the gamma correction to the lowest setting and you've got yourself Witcher 3: The Wild Trailer The Game. Seriously, if you can run on Ultra it looks fantastic, but even on Low it makes the world look way better.

[Xant]

You really should increase difficulty to death march. Everything then becomes a challenge. Being able to randomly meditate in the midst of a quest isn't even so much relief either, because you aren't regenerating hp during meditation.

What difference does it make when you regenerate Swallow potions anyways? None.

[Daunt_Flockula]

What difference does it make when you regenerate Swallow potions anyways? None.

Plenty. It took me a while to finally brew and start using potions (I had to run from most fights and was having a hard time gathering ingredients and resources). I didn't also immediately realize that stocks were replenished using alcohol in inventory. Before that, it was all about consuming what little food I could find.

Swallow alone isn't immensely helpful as it only slowly regenerates hp. It was only after I upgraded it to be available in batches of 4 and also brewed white raffard's decoction that potions made life easier.

[Xant]

Plenty. It took me a while to finally brew and start using potions (I had to run from most fights and was having a hard time gathering ingredients and resources). I didn't also immediately realize that stocks were replenished using alcohol in inventory. Before that, it was all about consuming what little food I could find.

Swallow alone isn't immensely helpful as it only slowly regenerates hp. It was only after I upgraded it to be available in batches of 4 and also brewed white raffard's decoction that potions made life easier.

Overdriven is level 16, so presumably he has more alcohol than he can ever use. You not realizing that meditating replenishes stocks also seems to have no bearing on the difficulty, considering everyone else knows it by now.

Vanilla swallow has always been more than enough for more.

[Angantyr]

With Swallow, enemy damage and hp is the only significant difference between the difficulties, food and Quen active shield mode doesn't matter much, and Sun and Stars is more a convenience. DM is the only difficulty where you have to parry and dodge with some consistency.

I've crafted and upgraded the Wolven Armor, it's pretty nice, it has higher level requirement than the other Witcher gear and good stats, and it looks like something Geralt could've worn in the prequels and a mix of Lambert and Eskil's armors, especially in the Enhanced and Mastercrafted variants. I've also done a few respecs, for now settling on a pure swords build with both Whirl and Rend, Fleet Footed, Razor Focus and Resolve. So I can use both fast attack, strong attack, whirl, rend, dodge, roll and parry to spice combat up a bit.