On GOG too! DRM-free ;)
Complete edition is 10€, same on Steam
Complete edition is 100% worth. The dlc is crazy long and excellent.
There’s a bundle that includes the first two games as well for like an extra buck I think. Buy them and then never play them and feel bad about it.
or be like me, play Witcher 1, then play other stuff for 12 years, then start replaying it again to go through the whole series this time, then take a 6-months break 2 chapters in… 😅 (yea, I have issues)
I love its atmosphere and writing, but the jank…
Witcher 1 really has old-school difficulty syndrome. Getting past act 1 was a nightmare for me, then somewhere around late act 2 the combat became trivial and I could just stunlock everything.
The Witcher 1 is best played on the easiest difficulty. Just play it for the story.
Yeah, that’s one of the memories I retained of my 12-years-ago playthrough that the first boss was the most difficult by far.
Another of my issues is that I’m a completionist and want to play every sidequest and get most unlockables. And that means either juggling 4 wiki lists while playing, or as I ended up having to do, unify them into a single spreadsheet for each chapter. Spending hours not actually playing the game 😑
The first game is rough by modern standards. Most people (even the most diehard fans) will tell you to just skip it. The second is worth playing, but with the mindset of “this game was made in the 2000’s”. Because it is definitely showing its age too.
For the third one, just know that the intro is a slog. Get to the Bloody Baron before you write it off, because that’s when the game actually starts to get interesting.
First one was rough by the standards of when it came out in the first place. It’s rooooouuuuggghh.
The bundle is $7.49. I just saw it but already have the first two.
I kinda wonder if the first one is able to even be finished now… I had that one at launch and I couldn’t finish it due to a CTD bug somewhere in the final act.
Buy it on GOG.
I Like gog but is there any reason why to prefer the gog Version over the Steam one?
- It’s DRM-free.
- It’s (one of?) the only platforms that cares about preserving old games.
If you prefer the Steam launcher (I do), you can always buy with GOG and launch with Steam.
Do you have a source on how to do this? I keep seeing that you have to use Heroic Launcher or Lutis. I just want to buy games on GOG and then play them on my steam deck, but haven’t had time to figure out the best way to go about it
Also, do GOG games only save to internal memory and not the SD card? I read that it one article, but don’t know if that’s still true.
I’m still figuring out everything I can do with my steam deck, I just don’t have as much time as I used to, to REALLY tinker around with it
I’m not a tech guru, but pretty familiar with linux and ok with using CLI (though I’ve never needed it on steam deck, just a point of reference for my comfortability)
If you set your Steam Deck to desktop mode, the process is the same as on Windows.
Click on “Games” in the top menu bar, then click “Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library.”
Heroic also has a handy “Add to Steam” shortcut for each game:
If you “add to Steam” from Heroic, will the game still receive any updates/patches, or would you have to re-add it to Steam?
You don’t have to re-add the game but I think you have to start Heroic itself from time to time to check for updates.
From Steam’s main interface:
Games>Add a non-steam game to my library
Point it at the executable you want to add (you can select multiple programs from the big list if it automatically shows up, or manually look for it from the button at the bottom)
Boom. It’s on Steam now. You can then go to SteamGridDB and get art assets to make it look nicer than a plain gray rectangle with the default font (right click the various elements and select “manage>custom artwork.”)
Addendum: if you want to do this for VR games, you also will want to go into the options (right click, properties) and toggle “show in VR library.”
Is there any benefit to using the heroic launcher vs just downloading the game from GOG with the steamdeck’s browser and adding them to Steam? Like any patches or updates for the game would have to be done manually if not using heroic?
I’m starting to think I should use Heroic for ease of access and then adding whichever one’s I want to play at the time as a Non-steam game from there. But wasn’t sure what the pros and cons are. I appreciate the info
PSA: Steam version is also DRM-free.
I dont mean poliethical reasons I meant actual technical(?) reasons like more content or better support for something or Idk. Good arguments tho
100% of money goes to cdpr
To give the developers the whole price of the game instead of 1/3 to Steam. And to really own the game (the installers executables). GOG has sales of the Witcher games all the time.
Don’t worry if you didn’t get that discount this time. They have this exact one all the time. At least on GOG.
I got it free from epic a few years ago.
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I got the worst ending. I should really replay it with a guide some day.
If you got the one where everyone dies, yeah you should probably replay it and at least have a short list of the specific scenes/choices that determine the “best” ending(it’s something like 5).
There are also some “hidden” endings to quest chains, where the best outcome is only available if you do a seemingly unrelated quest first or make certain choices early in the chain. So if you’re interested in getting all the best outcomes, a full guide is needed.
Note that some of the "hidden chain outcomes might be bugs, so at least one isn’t always listed in all guides:
!!Spoiler!! - Spoils ending to an early main quest chain.
If you free the whispering hillock spirit before talking to the village leader, it prevents Anna from turning later and the game acts as if the kids are safe(although they don’t show up where they otherwise would).
I think I’ve played the opening scene a dozen times. I know it’s gonna be good, but I never go back to playing it.
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Everyone is saying get the trilogy bundle, but the dlc bundle is what’s important
I wish I had the patience to like this game. It seems so well made.
I played all the way once and less than 50% a half dozen times. It’s just hard to get into for some reason.
I wish Cyberpunk went under -60% off. I don’t tend to buy stuff over -80-90% sale, so more patience for me… 😅
You’re not the only one. Pretty sure I got W3 with dlc for $5 ages ago. I’d like to get cyberpunk with dlc for no more than $15. Especially since I was pretty hype for that game. Had been itching for something with a proper world to explore and get lost in, felt like it was going to scratch that itch. I don’t often buy things day one, but I was taken in by the advertising and CDprojects rep. I took the day off work and then didn’t even buy it because of everything.
I was a day one purchaser of CP2077 and played it on a rebuilt $30 PS4. I guess I just got lucky in that I had almost no bugs, not even a t pose, and it maybe crashed three times in the twentyish hours of my first playthrough. But I remember seeing it on sale for like $10 at Walmart not a month or two after release. Like they got shovelware bullshit they don’t discount like that!
Sweet another addition to my 15+ year old account I only made because of the first humble bundle. I really tried putting effort into one and two, but they never gripped me. Hopefully I can find time to invest in this guy.
The trilogy is only $7.49 btw.
The third one is a significantly better game in pretty much all aspects.
The intro act is a bit of a grind, but once you make it to the main story, it’s really good.
I saw this some days ago and decided to buy ut only to realize i already owned it 🫠
I’m so patient I haven’t played The Witcher 1 or 2 either. Should I get W3 Complete + W1 + W2 for
9.99 + 1.49 + 2.99 = 14.47, or get the trilogy bundle with only the W3 base game for1.49 + 2.99 + 3.99) * 0.9 = 7.62and wait for the W3 expansions to be more than 70% at some future date? (In other words, are W1 and W2 likely to keep me busy for a long time, and does a playthrough of W3 need the expansions installed at the start or is it more of a ‘complete the base game and then to the expansion content afterward’ sort of thing?)Also, are “The Witcher Adventure Game” and “Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales” worthwhile/important?
I only played W2 and W3. W2 was not necessary to play the third one, but it’s certainly not a bad game (I personally didn’t like it as much due to the fairly linear story telling). W1 I am told is not that great. Both are much shorter than the complete edition of Witcher 3 I’d argue. The DLC should be fine if added afterwards, I can wholeheartedly recommend both. Blood & Wine especially has received wide praise back then as “being a whole game in the shape of a DLC” .
Thronebreaker is a tales-game that I haven’t had the time for yet. I was told it’s solid.
The Witcher Adventure Game is essentially a board game and is absolutely not necessary for any of the other games. If you like board games and have people to play it with, it’s actually quite good. It has a bit of a learning curve and I very much recommend reading or watching whatever tutorial you can grab a hold of, because it is not all that intuitive.
I didn’t much like W1 and W2. Especially W2 feels like it’s on rails. The story is pretty good though.
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35 years old and this is one of the most overrated franchises I’ve ever touched.
Go away, Todd.
Still too much money to be giving CD project red
Explain?
After the launch of cyberpunk I lost all respect for them and pirate from them now. They don’t deserve a dime.
I understand that fixed it… If you also buy the DLC.
I still think it’s unreasonable to let it slide
Il not sure you understood my question? Maybe you can explain why you think o e mishap is deserving of shunning?
It’s simple. It has really become common in the gaming industry to release a broken game then “fix” it later.
Cyberpunk was worse than no man’s sky at launch. Hello games is a small team of people with deadlines set from Sony and a natural disaster going through their office plus multiple legal battles going. CD projekt red had no excuse. They’re a AAA studio that also published themselves. So there’s no excuse to release the game how they did.
I disagree with the new norm of launching a broken game. I think it shouldn’t be common. If marvel released a movie and half the film had no CGI or editing then I wouldn’t watch or pay for that movie not many people would.
So CD projekt red doesn’t deserve any money because it will just encourage them to release another broken mess then “fix” it later with a paid DLC.
