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So I just read this book on history of games called "Blood, Sweat and Pixels" and was fascinated by the chapter on The Witcher 3 and mostly how the team put in so much thought and care in every single side quest. And seems that there are a lot of moral decision to be made on each adventure. So I finally decided to give it a try. Got any advice for me?

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If you wish to keep your sanity through the entire game, I suggest only doing the really big side quests and ignoring the majority of the others. The game is fucking huge, and it can easily become repetitive doing everything.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The sidequests are fucking great though. Didn't play all, but those I did could be main quests in a different game. I had to skip some because there is just stupid amount of them and I was overleveling fast.

Don't do map completition though - trying to do all is truly insanity

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

As a general rule of thumb, if it has dialogue, it's going to be pretty good, and surprisingly so a lot of the time. The Witcher 3 is still unmatched for quality and quantity of side quests.

This wasn't a particularly good open world game even for its time, so I'd say ignoring the map markers completely is often smart.

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is very true, especially around mid game.

There are significantly more quests than you need to advance levels and eventually you get level 30+ having done all the side quests and there will be several unfinished missions for recommend level 7-20 that become worthless unless the story/character behind it interests you.

Definitely grind early missions as they are basically tutorials and also give you lore on all the factions, don't worry too much about gold as you will rarely be able to buy weapons better than what you find.

By mid game you'll have tons of access to loot for selling and will probably be more interested in spending money on refining/upgrading items than buying mediocre armor and weapons.

The bombs and oils are great if you keep them upgraded

Never sell ingredients you don't have a billion of, you can buy a potion to redistribute your levels and switching from magic/physical build to late game Alchemist is really strong and fun and changes up play style.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would say do every actual sidequest but don't bother clearing the map of all question marks. Hunting for Witcher school gear is also just mostly cosmetic and optional, but they're the coolest armors and swords.

Also, if you're not playing on the lowest difficulty, read the infos in your journal regarding the creatures and prepare accordingly.

[–] TPTheWiper@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

I spent like 4 years playing with my best friend. We were having a beer in the evening he watched me play Witcher on death March, i tried to do everything. It was the best way to play the game i think. Took us 4 years though.

Red Baron is the best questline imo