Comic for Friday 12/30 (Early High Res)
It drives me nuts that I still haven't played The Witcher 3.
I mean... I've "played" it. I remember a bit in the beginning with Geralt and Vesimir, sitting around a camp talking about girl problems (which would probably make more sense to me now that I've seen the Netflix show). I remember a bath. I remember some training/tutorial stuff. I remember a tavern, and a fight with (I think) a hippogryph?
And that's about it. Maybe I went a little further up a road and a guy in a tower wanted me to do something, but I've never made it further than that, despite having started the game on half a dozen separate occasions.
I've never been able to stick with it, really get into it. And I want to. Not because I'm any huge fan of Sapkowski's take on fantasy; in fact I find it all a little "meh" to be honest. But because over the heard I've heard such great things about this game, I want to give it an honest-to-goodness chance. Like a real attempt, at least ten hours or so, to see if it can get its hooks into me. At that point, even if I hate it, I can at least say I gave it a real shot, and never look back.
At this point the fact that I've not played what is on many people's lists of "the greatest games of all time" draws incredulous, disbelieving responses from some. Like finding out last week that my dad has never seen The Godfather. How does that happen? they gasp. And I just throw my hands up. I have no idea.
I've been telling myself for the past year that once this next-gen edition drops, this is it. This is my time. And I'm trying to carve out a window right now; I don't want to abandon something I'm in the middle of, or try to split my attention, so I want to finish up the games I'm playing, so that The Witcher 3 can have my undivided focus.
We'll see if I can do it, or if someday I'm back here making a comic about how the Playstation 7 VR Legacy Edition of The Witcher 3 is when "I'm finally going to play this damned game."
Comments (8)
There's a new expansion coming out even lol. I enjoyed the game, but there's plenty of popular games I will never play (fortnite, minecraft, zombies, survival). People have their own preferences.
I've followed a similar path with The Witcher 3... Started, got the tutorial and the first missions out the way, then lost interest. Then a year or so later, started over, and managed to get past that same point. What happened then was a mix of completionist anxiety and sheer awe of the greatness of this open world, the little and big stories. Still it took me some 2 years to get throught the main story and the first expansion. I started Blood and Wine, but 160 or so hours of playing I was ready for something else. So what did I do? Playing HZD for the 3rd time. But nevermind that. It's a great game. I think it's also a game, that, if the next gen update (the PS4 version is so-so, pretty buggy and ugly in some places) is any good, I don't think it really matters if you start playing now, or wait another 5 years. This game is in a league of its own. That's my two cents!
This comic hits me in my backlog gut. I never played any Witcher game and then heard great things about Witcher 3, saw it get game of the year, and thought to myself that I should give it a chance. Then a show comes out on Netflix and I told myself I will only watch it after at least trying one of the games. Still have not played 1 minute of the game. I haven't spent any money on any previous version so now would be a good reason to pick a next gen copy up... after I finish the other 2 open world games I'm in the middle of (AC: Valhalla and Horizon Forbidden West). I may have a problem.
Literally the exact same thing. I finally guilt played it because of the next gen patch and it being on GeForce NOW. (Then I got distracted by Tina Tiny Wonderlands. It was 50% off and I was trying to get to point to do online coop with my brother in law because he wanted it for Christmas. Now I'm at Chapter 4 with all the side quests to that point done level 18...)
Same - while being a Witcher books/series fan - just misses the part, "Let's play W1 and W2 first, so I get the full story".
Finally started to play w1 back in 2019. Finished it in January 2021. W2 is now on 25%. So w3 will be played in 2036.... I feel you
Same here, except I didn't play the first Witcher when it came out. I bought all of them on sale years ago but never started playing until this year. Now I'm finalizing Witcher 2 and planning to finally start Witcher 3 after that :). What finally gave me the boost to start this was 700h spent on the Cyberpunk 2077 :D
I can relate. Never actually played W3, although it was part of my Xbox One bundle back then. I mean, I started it up, played a little bit, and was then mauled by a bear. Back then I really didn't understand the concept of open world games (and I don't really like them to this day), so I abandoned the game. The first game I played the longest, as I really liked the gritty story.