Immortal
Arcane
*Minor Spoilers Ahead*
INB4 Decline or Witcher 3 Sucks / GOTY / Witcher 1 was better / I love Sawyer
This game despite all it's downsides and borderline edgy writing / biowaresque influences has really good CnC. Disagree? Fight me.
Almost every side quest I have done so far has had a choice in how I finish it that leads to either an immediate consequence (AKA Bioware Red / Blue Choice) or a far reaching consequence that actually has little to do with whether I made a good or evil choice.
A lot of your choices lead to consequences that really might be bad or good regardless of what decision you actually made, CnC in this game isn't really about Moral vs Immoral decisions but actually puts much more emphasis on Cause and Effect. You may prevent something bad happening in the immediate future that was within your control, only to have something happen later as a result that you didn't intend or want, that was just as bad or worse.
Sometimes the feeling that you actually have no control on what happens in the world creeps up, almost like the developers were plotting against you or were trying to be "omg edgy my good choice meant something bad happened"..
However, after watching a character swinging on a tree after committing suicide from an unintended decision I made in the game 4 hours earlier, I really realized that it was all kinda all clicking together. The things that were happening all made sense after the fact. I was almost forced to train myself to not view every decision the game gives me as Paragon or Renegade.. It was almost like.... the game wasn't fucking shit.
This starts to lead you to feeling that things are just out of your control sometimes but it's okay, you are a cog in the wheel, sometimes you can make a change and sometimes you can't and sometimes the change you wanted to make wasn't the one you wanted.
The best part for me - is it's not just a powerpoint presentation at the end of the game where it drones on about the future of every NPC with Generic Narrator Voice #4 (Looking at you Obsidian).. It actually has branching effect on the game while you play it.
You see these changes and how they affect the world as you play in that same world. It means quests might disappear, opportunities may close off. We don't have Biff The Understudy stepping in and filling the gaps. If someone important kicks it, you feel them missing from the world.
I am extremely impressed by this part of the game. I think it is one of the most detailed CnC games ever released. Call the writing shit, the combat shit, the setting ruined and the graphics downgraded. The CnC in this game is good.
If you have played the game and caught the parts where your decisions played out later down the line and still think this game is Witcher Age 3: Inquisition, you are being edgy or retarded.
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