Next Witcher 3 Expansion is "Better Than the Main Game," Dev Says

@jerfff: While i love TW as a series and 3 as well, you can notice my replies in the comments below. I find flaws in your essay.

Your first point is mute. It refers to raising the difficulty, in particular. Most games have only one difficulty and others are judged based on the default (normal). So saying, raise the difficulty to make it more fun is kind of a mute point because that is a relative scale based on individual preference, play style and skill. Some might even have to turn the combat down to enjoy the game or even appreciate the combat. Not you or i but some.

Your second point, i agree with that pirouetting makes combat more fluent and graceful but that doesn't change the fact that you can roll to victor even on the highest difficulty. I didn't, but if i had I could had i probably would have gotten bored of the mechanic.

Onto your third point, all signs being useful doesn't change the fact that some are essential while others can be entirely overlooked if so desired. Quen is effectively a cheat which i am fine with but it is the single most essential skill in the game since many enemies can one shot you. My preference goes to Yrden in combination with Quen makes you unstoppable. Aard, Axii and Igni are useful in certain situations but the other two are effectively universal. Axii would be my 3rd favorite simply because in some cases you can get easily surrounded in a very open area and you have to protect the NPC, gaining 1-2 body guards helped with the frustration of not being able to solo protect them. Aard and Igni are situational at best but as you mentioned satisfying because some really hard fights become significantly easier. Having said that, it did take away from some of the challenge of the fights.

Your fourth point i completely agree with and have nothing to contribute.

Keep in that i love the witcher 3 but when i play the game i have the feeling that combat was designed with two types of gamers in mind, the casual who just wants to roll to victor and the gamer who wants to dance around his opponent! There is this discontinuity between the two gameplay styles which is evident by the fact that many people are nagging on the games combat. In my opinion, rolling should have been less useful, the base difficulty should have been higher and quen should not have been such a game changer when coupled with the fact that you can always sustain it.

@homestar99: If/when you get around to playing this game, here are some good pointers for approaching the combat.

@jerfff: This is a nicely written response (much nicer than, obviously you're retarded) to all those that people that complain about the combat in this game. While I've tried to explain to some people that there can be a bit of a learning curve and once it clicks it'll be tons of fun, this gets at a lot of the roots causing people to feel dissatisfied with it.

@jerfff: i've seen many reports from people on console claiming the combat didn't work well and the inventory was almost impossible for them to manage with the gamepad. so, they talk a lot of crap and give it terrible ratings.

but, it's well easy to tell they were just hoping for a hold-forward-and-mash-buttons experience. and the Witcher has never worked that way. one of the great things about them all has been the semi-complicated gameplay that gives so many options for your combat strategies.

@jerfff: Right on -- Thanks for your input, it helps for pro players input.

@jerfff: The combat is responsive, crisp, clean, and satisfying, and I'm more than glad that this wasn't some JRPG menu combat game. Even FF7 the remake and Scalebound are being influenced by Witcher 3 by choosing to go with a similar action rpg approach instead of the traditional rpg mechanics, and the maker of the new Horizon game for PS4 was quoted as saying that influence for that game came from W3 and that you don't need online multiplayer to make a great game, you just need a great open world like in W3 and gameplay which works and fits that world to make it successful.

@jerfff: It's very satisfying combat for those that choose to learn it! :)

@GunEye: Sorry to say to you this, but they have informed that neither of those two are going to show up in Blood & Wine

@ughz:CTRL+F Enter ughz and look at this argument with me below, don't even bother replying to this because we've already had this discussion and he has been thoroughly stomped.

His above essay is a vain attempt to make his stomping dispensary on page 2 of the comments section but BY MY WILL, THIS SHALL NOT PASS! We must always remember!

@ughz: Bro, you're too big of a hater to like the game, I can understand that. You sound as if W3 should be some perfected FPS game meant for e-sports play or some MOBA perfectly balanced in leveling and so on. The type of person that you are will not allow you to enjoy the game, and it's understandable as to why. Your personality type conflicts with what the game is really about. You should go practice for your next MOBA LoL tournament with your finely tuned leveling character anal gameplay which is "not broken". .

@ughz: The open world they were going for definitely hurt the game, more so than if they had followed the structure of Witcher 2 instead.

@ughz: Couldn't disagree more.

@ughz: Couldn't agree more

@ughz: I don't think we played the same game haha. To each their own.

@ticklemepink: A trend reacquires more than one developer to be doing this.So far only CDPR has released DLC priced content ($15-20) as expansions. Blizzard released their expansions at the $40-60. Maybe we haven't played the same games though, can you give me some examples? I would be really happy if expansions were coming back :D

@slappy54: Exactly how i felt as well, and i'm sure creating such an open and empty space of a world, is another reason for this happening. Hearts of Stone did it better, and this could as well.

@Dannystaples14: My body is waiting. I am ready.