I don't understand watching LPs as a replacement for actually playing games. Like, I totally get watching GB's content or even stuff like Game Grumps because those are primarily personality-driven and the point is rarely the game itself, but there's so much lost in the process of simply watching gameplay that you're missing out on most of the experience.
@fallen189: I assume your computer isn't in the same room as your TV? Because there is always an extra long HDMI cord.
Yeah I could easily do that, I just liked the convenience of using a PS3 to do it
You can always go into your system settings and change the DNS manually, though that's kind of a crapshoot because a lot of the ones people post online for the purpose of accessing US Netflix tend to go offline pretty quickly.
Honest question, have you played any of the other Witcher games (or read any of the books, since TW3 ties into them in ways that the previous games didn't)? I hear complaints about the plot being "boring" a lot, and for the most part it seems to come from people who haven't - which would make sense since they don't really have any context for the story, world or characters outside of "Wild Hunt bad, Ciri good."
This looks like it will get boring quickly tbh. Purpose/goal is important in a game to keep a player going.
Tell that to Minecraft
Minecraft did have a goal/purpose, though, in building things. In Minecraft, you explore the world and gather resources so you can build cities, castles, giant penises and whatever else your heart desires. Upgrading your equipment is a means to an end, not the end itself.
In No Man's Sky, you explore the world and gather resources so you can... explore the world and gather resources more efficiently, so you can explore even more and gather even more resources.
Larian Games. All they've really done is Divinity, but there's so much variety and experimentation within that series that they may as well be a bunch of completely-unrelated games. Divine Divinity was a Diablo-like, the next few games were character-action-RPGs, Dragon Commander was this weird political sim/RTS hybrid and Original Sin is a throwback to more traditional CRPGs.
@dave_tacitus: More player agency/story-relevant choices, greater focus on your party in a context other than combat, etc.
ME1 has more RPG elements vis-à-vis combat and character creation (though so many of the Talents in ME1 were completely meaningless), but taken as a whole it didn't really amount to anything more than a shooter with weapon stats.
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