Witcher spin-off games are *extremely* weird



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44 thoughts on “Witcher spin-off games are *extremely* weird”

  1. I’m sorry for the huge gaps between videos. It’s really frustrating me, too, but I honestly don’t know what it is I’m doing wrong or where I can speed things up without cutting corners.

    I keep picking topics that really interest me, and I try (not saying I always succeed) to make the best video I possibly can with zero padding. I don’t even know if it shows in the final product, but I keep working and reworking things until I feel like there isn’t a second of my audience’s time wasted.

    Anyway, on a positive note I’m super happy to finally have this video out! Onto the next 👀

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  2. thronebreaker is really so underappreciated, making any choice that resulted in "you chose one evil in favour of another" had me howling, bawling, and crying on the floor but I loved every second of it. i also played it in the polish dub, which was a great experience ngl

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  3. CDPR should have made standalone Gwent into a silly singleplayer game where Geralt and friends play some gwent after the ending of Witcher 3.
    So basically Poker night at the inventory. But with gwent.

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  4. I know people will disagree with me, but I do not care. I know the gwent had issues, but still I consider that the best and most fair CCG ever. Despite that I knew it won't succeed sadly :/

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  5. I actually refunded Thronebreaker because I expected a standalone Gwent game from The Witcher 3 with some basic story framed around the gameplay. Sadly, two hours was enough to figure out that it wasn't what I expected from a gameplay perspective, but not enough to figure out that the story itself might actually be the main reason to stick with it. Now that I listened to you talk about this game, I actually wanna go back and try it again. Too bad that it will be too little too late…

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  6. I loved thronebreaker, i like card games so i basically played gwent before thronebreaker, and i loved it but i never replayed since 2018, what i can say is that the gwent gameplay gets a bit old to the end of the game, its a game better played every now and again to not get bored

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  7. I enjoyed Thronebreaker, including the combat. My only issue was it didn't have any replay value. Sure, there was a lot of diverging story choices, but the combat didn't have any variety. You had one deck design, thats it. Still, worth it for just the one playthrough. Soundtrack is fantastic, too.

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  8. I can't really fault them for the thronebreaker marketing, if you recall, Gwent inside W3 was extremely popular, everyone loved it, I really don't get why these people didn't want to play a standalone gwent with a story, because I did buy it at launch precisely because of it.

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  9. I was really hoping that they would just take Gwent from the Witcher 3, exactly like Witcher 3, and make it a standalone, single player game. It would be a fantastic mobile game, even. Change as little as possible. Don't even change the artwork. The "low effort approach" is what many people wanted. I mean, you could have had complicated multiplayer Ultra-Gwent as well, but why not give us Witcher 3 Gwent too?

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  10. The problem with Gwent to me was that it was a standalone card game. And I (and i think a lot of witcher players aswell) dont care much about a card game other than as a minigame inside their big RPG. So even if Gwent was like the Gwent inside Witcher 3, I would not have continuesly booted up a separate .exe just to play a card game. I think the standalone gwent was better than the Witcher3 Gwent but they needed to get the Hearthstone Audience and the MTG Audience to play Gwent and not the Witcher Audience. (Now obviously there is gonna be some overlap but not as much as the Devs were expecting i think)
    And i dont know if Gwent was good enough to compete with established Card Games.

    About Theonebreaker: i saw it when it came out and i was interested but I was always waiting for a sale to pick it up for like 5 Bucks and now i still havent gotten to it because there was always more interesting things to play

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  11. Thronebreaker has great battle mechanics, you need to think about your deck, and event battles (where u use a prebuild by game deck) are awesome, because there is a riddle that you need to solve, it's super interesting if you like card games.

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  12. I Love Thronebreaker and Gwent. I regularily finished high on the Gwent ladder. Sadly, it is not getting the love it deserves (esp. Thronebreaker). I woudnt play Thronebreaker though or even recommend it if you don't like gwent.

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  13. Man, I was so ready to scoff and laugh at all the failed spin-offs that just didn't meet the quality that the Witcher IP is known for, but then you got to Thronebreaker and I forgot that was also a "failed" project, and made myself soooo sad thinking we were THIS close to a Thronebreaker-esk Iorveth game……. D:

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  14. Thronebreaker was excellent. Seriously. It had an amazing story, tons of choices, surprises, fun gameplay and strategy. I absolutely love everything about the game. Its a masterpiece. I remember i couldnt get off the game for straight 24 hours. If you like card games or witcher story, u definitely should check that game out. I wish they made more witcher tale games..

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  15. I never tried Thronebreaker, mostly because the story is told to you in text form, it's the same reason why I don't find Nintendo games all that appealing. When I play a game I want a story to be told to me, I don't want to be the narrator, I love reading books but there's a weird limbo when it comes to games that have a lot of text in them where they are neither? I may not be the majority here but I would've jumped on it day 1 if it was narrated like the Witcher 3.

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