I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they’d just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.

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    An argument could be made that Gwent offers better gameplay than the larger game in which it resides.

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      Then you purchased a wrong game and should just play solitaire.

      Witcher 3 is absolutely great, but if you just go through only the main quest, won’t explore the world and won’t do side quests then I can see you ending up disappointed.

      What I like is that side quests can impact the main quest and even the ending.

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        Then you purchased a wrong game

        Perhaps.

        But you’ve made a lot of assumptions in your comment, and you’re mistaken about most of them.

        I played the side quests. Many came with a good backstory, but that is not gameplay. Nearly all were copy/paste instances from a small pool of tedious tasks. There were a few memorable exceptions, but very few.

        I explored the world, as much as one can “explore” something that is fully labeled with point-of-interest markers. They lead the player to a repetitive handful of uninspired encounters, cloned over and over again.

        It has plenty of other flaws as well. If you loved it, then I’m happy for you, but I found the gameplay boring.

        The strengths I found in The Witcher 3 were its story, lore, characters, and Gwent. Not its gameplay.

        Meanwhile, Gwent is a surprisingly well-designed strategy game. So much so that it ended up spun off into a stand-alone version (although I don’t know how good the spinoff is).

        To each their own, I suppose.

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      There is no argument if the statement is objectively true

      The Witcher 3’s gameplay was so bad that I couldn’t finish it (the map and the quests’ gameplay part too, but that’s another story). Gwent was pretty cool though

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      Are we certain Witcher is the larger game in which Gwent resides and not the other way around?

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      An argument could be made that you are a genius. Both arguments would be equally wrong.