Staff Picks - 07 Dec 2016

[CDante]

this is awesome guys! thank you for the article, and thank you Dark0ne for picking my mod. it really made my day. :)

[Jafin16]

In response to post #45435460. #45436655, #45443770, #45444430 are all replies on the same post.

FreedomsFlame wrote: And here I was thinking that I was the only one who found Witcher 1 unplayable because of it's half-assed combat system. So glad I made the decision to just skip it and move on to 2 then 3, I almost missed out on one of the greatest RPGs of all time.

Ethreon wrote: It's not unplayable, or nobody would've played W1. It isn't the best around, but you can get past it if you enjoy the rest of the game.

Nimboss wrote: Funny, when I was into this some years ago (Witcher 1), this was a RPG game first and forth most for more and all ones into the RPG stuff and you start to sound to proclaim it was a FPS game... ? Well I succeeded click the right time in the right clicks in time most of the time to succeed when something was right "fps" you sound all to have missed or was mislead was this game was all about to begin with. I do did enjoy the rest of the game since it was a RPG. Sorry you focused to look at this as a disguised FPS game.

cdante wrote: the Witcher 3 alone gives so much attention to the first two games I believe both have more popularity nowadays than after their initial releases. I have a huge backlog of games I want to play at some point in my life, and I played the first Witcher for several weeks after I maxed out W3 and before I had to turn my attention to Fallout 4. it wasn't very comfortable, but I enjoyed it a lot.
mods like this one picked in the article really makes me want to go back and continue Geralt's story with better UI and game mechanics even though I already liked the game in the first place.

I'm rather glad I found The Witcher by chance at Target back when it was still new. Then played 2 later on after it came out, and couldn't wait for 3. I'm discovering I'm one of the rare folks who found the first 1 first.

[VoidNull]

In response to post #45435460. #45436655, #45443770, #45444430, #45468065 are all replies on the same post.

FreedomsFlame wrote: And here I was thinking that I was the only one who found Witcher 1 unplayable because of it's half-assed combat system. So glad I made the decision to just skip it and move on to 2 then 3, I almost missed out on one of the greatest RPGs of all time.

Ethreon wrote: It's not unplayable, or nobody would've played W1. It isn't the best around, but you can get past it if you enjoy the rest of the game.

Nimboss wrote: Funny, when I was into this some years ago (Witcher 1), this was a RPG game first and forth most for more and all ones into the RPG stuff and you start to sound to proclaim it was a FPS game... ? Well I succeeded click the right time in the right clicks in time most of the time to succeed when something was right "fps" you sound all to have missed or was mislead was this game was all about to begin with. I do did enjoy the rest of the game since it was a RPG. Sorry you focused to look at this as a disguised FPS game.

cdante wrote: the Witcher 3 alone gives so much attention to the first two games I believe both have more popularity nowadays than after their initial releases. I have a huge backlog of games I want to play at some point in my life, and I played the first Witcher for several weeks after I maxed out W3 and before I had to turn my attention to Fallout 4. it wasn't very comfortable, but I enjoyed it a lot.
mods like this one picked in the article really makes me want to go back and continue Geralt's story with better UI and game mechanics even though I already liked the game in the first place.

Jafin16 wrote: I'm rather glad I found The Witcher by chance at Target back when it was still new. Then played 2 later on after it came out, and couldn't wait for 3. I'm discovering I'm one of the rare folks who found the first 1 first.

The Witcher had the same problem as Neverwinter Nights 2. Combat is supposed to advance as you increase in level, so as not to overwhelm the player whilst providing a sense of progression. However, if you don't give players enough to do in the beginning they assume your combat system just suck and don't continue to play.

The Witcher combat is serviceable by the end, but my god is it dull to start with. The story is actually pretty good but I would never, ever play it again even if you paid me.

[JimmyRJump]

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Banished. Wasn't even aware there were mods for that small but oh-so fun game.

 

Looks like I'm going to get immersed again into the sounds of bleating sheep, trees come crusing down and the clink-cloink of metal hitting stone.

 

Cheers :thumbsup:

[Varana]

In response to post #45435460. #45436655, #45443770, #45444430, #45468065, #45486220 are all replies on the same post.

FreedomsFlame wrote: And here I was thinking that I was the only one who found Witcher 1 unplayable because of it's half-assed combat system. So glad I made the decision to just skip it and move on to 2 then 3, I almost missed out on one of the greatest RPGs of all time.

Ethreon wrote: It's not unplayable, or nobody would've played W1. It isn't the best around, but you can get past it if you enjoy the rest of the game.

Nimboss wrote: Funny, when I was into this some years ago (Witcher 1), this was a RPG game first and forth most for more and all ones into the RPG stuff and you start to sound to proclaim it was a FPS game... ? Well I succeeded click the right time in the right clicks in time most of the time to succeed when something was right "fps" you sound all to have missed or was mislead was this game was all about to begin with. I do did enjoy the rest of the game since it was a RPG. Sorry you focused to look at this as a disguised FPS game.

cdante wrote: the Witcher 3 alone gives so much attention to the first two games I believe both have more popularity nowadays than after their initial releases. I have a huge backlog of games I want to play at some point in my life, and I played the first Witcher for several weeks after I maxed out W3 and before I had to turn my attention to Fallout 4. it wasn't very comfortable, but I enjoyed it a lot.
mods like this one picked in the article really makes me want to go back and continue Geralt's story with better UI and game mechanics even though I already liked the game in the first place.

Jafin16 wrote: I'm rather glad I found The Witcher by chance at Target back when it was still new. Then played 2 later on after it came out, and couldn't wait for 3. I'm discovering I'm one of the rare folks who found the first 1 first.

VoidNull wrote: The Witcher had the same problem as Neverwinter Nights 2. Combat is supposed to advance as you increase in level, so as not to overwhelm the player whilst providing a sense of progression. However, if you don't give players enough to do in the beginning they assume your combat system just suck and don't continue to play.

The Witcher combat is serviceable by the end, but my god is it dull to start with. The story is actually pretty good but I would never, ever play it again even if you paid me.

In Witcher 1, combat was great.
In Witcher 2, contrary to what's said in the post, I found it unbearable. (I started that game three times and never got far.)
In Witcher 3, it became good again.
:D

[MrBarneySir]

In response to post #45498645.

JimmyRJump wrote: Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Banished. Wasn't even aware there were mods for that small but oh-so fun game.

Looks like I'm going to get immersed again into the sounds of bleating sheep, trees come crusing down and the clink-cloink of metal hitting stone.

Cheers :thumbsup:

Check out either Colonial Charter or the Mega Mod. The Mega Mod includes Colonial Charter. Oh god, are they a timesink!!!

[AWARHERO]

Never saw that "Push Away Companion" mod before...

 

I want it... No... i NEED it!

 

Made me laugh so hard seeing Preston being shoved over the edge... lol

[thesniperdevil]

In response to post #45498645. #45515100 is also a reply to the same post.

JimmyRJump wrote: Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Banished. Wasn't even aware there were mods for that small but oh-so fun game.

Looks like I'm going to get immersed again into the sounds of bleating sheep, trees come crusing down and the clink-cloink of metal hitting stone.

Cheers :thumbsup:

MrBarneySir wrote: Check out either Colonial Charter or the Mega Mod. The Mega Mod includes Colonial Charter. Oh god, are they a timesink!!!

I am too intrigued - I played it a while ago but ended up thinking it was more of an engine than a game. Never knew there was a nexus modding community though! (also, looking forward to life is feudal: Forest Village which is very similar!)

[JimmyRJump]

In response to post #45498645. #45515100, #45532930 are all replies on the same post.

JimmyRJump wrote: Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Banished. Wasn't even aware there were mods for that small but oh-so fun game.

Looks like I'm going to get immersed again into the sounds of bleating sheep, trees come crusing down and the clink-cloink of metal hitting stone.

Cheers :thumbsup:

MrBarneySir wrote: Check out either Colonial Charter or the Mega Mod. The Mega Mod includes Colonial Charter. Oh god, are they a timesink!!!

thesniperdevil wrote: I am too intrigued - I played it a while ago but ended up thinking it was more of an engine than a game. Never knew there was a nexus modding community though! (also, looking forward to life is feudal: Forest Village which is very similar!)

@Barney

There's not a lot of mods, so I downloaded 'em all. :D

This one (Banished Plus) has a farmers glitch, sadly, where, after a while, farmers for some reason can no longer access their fields and get stuck by the side, so that the fields aren't tended to and as a result of course you have no crops. You can assign those farmers to newly made fields, but the area of the old field cannot be used to add something else and the space is wasted...

[Alrun]

Thank your for reminding me of Banished. I like this game, but I nearly forgot it. I'm amazed how many mods are created meanwhile. Now I have to play it again.

And I'm one of the crazy people who prefer The Witcher 1 to the newer Witcher games. I even love the dated grafics, for me it's beautiful. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.