Originally Posted by Wormerine
Unlike Fallout1&2 where each character has a rather unique path to experience.


I was merely trying to say that Fallout likewise isn't only remembered for its story, certainly not by me.

I personally really don't get any BG vibes from The Witcher 3. The devs may have started out by heavily modifying a Bioware engine for the first Witcher, but that's about the only connection I see. With Bioware you could really see that they were coming from a tabletop background, and that there was more to it than just the storytelling (which other games have too). Something that is also touched upon in this series of articles.

https://www.shacknews.com/article/1...ty-engine-era-of-rpgs?page=8#detail-view


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As a dungeon master, Ohlen had learned to cater to a diverse range of tastes. “I learned that there are people who are into the story, and then there are the people who are into the tactics and the rules,” he explained. “You have to keep both of them engaged. You can give the story folks more interested in rules, tactics, and leveling up, and you can get the people who are rules focused more interested in the story. All players enjoy all of that. They enjoy both aspects, the power gaming and the story.”



In The Witcher I'm technically oft watching a series of very long cutscenes, and they don't even have that much dialogue choice. Mechanically, it's also a simple game, one that plays much more akin to something like Assassin's Creed than say Pillars Of Eternity, New Vegas or even BG 3 EA now (which is naturally a big reason of its successs). None of this is a dig at The Witcher as such. However, that's me.

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