Even 9 years after its release, The Witcher 3 remains one of the finest RPGs ever. Its detailed world and ingenious quest design have yet to be surpassed by another in the genre. The next-gen update released in late 2022 was a significant visual overhaul, adding ray-traced lighting, upscaling, and frame generation to an already pretty world.
For World Book Day, here are 10 video games that feel like reading a good book—emotional, thoughtful, and unforgettable stories.
I would have included the Uncharted games as well. Good list though.
Haha it is not lost on me that two of the games in the top four were already novels before they were games
According to CD Projekt RED, The Witcher 4 map size and quests will be "more or less" the same as The Witcher 3.
Good. This bodes well for minimal open world "bloat", but enough to be a meaty living experience driven play.
I think Witcher 2 was nearly a perfect size, so I agree with you. CDPR does a good job with avoiding bloat in my opinion.
While all other studios are looking to expand and make games bigger, the new woke bunch, CDPR composed of mainly women, want to keep things simple. FANS, SPEAK UP NOW!
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Quality over quantity is what I'd ask for nowadays
pointless vastness is done n dusted ... all open world devs should focus on details and density more ... looking at you Todd for ES6. No need to expand more than Skyrim. Its aptly big. Just cram in more details.
A Flavorful Game Or A Responsive One? Or Both?
Both.
I don't understand why we need an article claiming that it's an either/or choice.
Gameplay is why we play video games, but a game should also have a good narrative to incentivize you to continue playing and look for the princess in the next castle.
might be why you play but its sure not why I play video games. I play for the story 9/10
What an absurd question. Gameplay is king. It's the reason we PLAY Videogames. The fact that you have to ask this question is already problematic.
Also, the Gameplay IS the story. YOUR story.
A great narrative with bad gamplay will always be a bad game, but a bad narrative with amazing gameplay will always be a classic. And if both are amazing, then good for you, but we know which one is expendable.
The Guardians of the Galaxy game has extremely mediocre gameplay, but the narrative and character design and development make it - in a lot of people's opinions - a good game.
same with telltales the walking dead, almost no gameplay to talk about. weird how those who perfer gameplay cant phatom that alot of people think different
i dunmo if a agree with that
silent hill 2 would be vreat example of a game with fantastic narrative but basic gameplay.
it depends how the devs make it
Gameplay everyday, might as well read a book or see a movie otherwise, some rare games have really special writing tho
Actually just picked this up yesterday on Steam, since it's $9.99 for the game and all the DLC. I've owned it for years on Playstation, but honestly never put a whole lot of time into it. Though I knew I had to play through it one day because I loved what I did play. It runs so buttery smooth on PC. Still a really beautiful game with everything maxed out settings-wise at 4K.