Witcher 3 - B&W is What DLC Should Be

ThisGenGaming explains why Blood and Wine is everything a DLC should strive to be, and why we should be especially excited about this latest effort from CD Projekt RED.


<blockquote style="text-align: justify;"> Now the other day the final paid expansion for The Witcher 3, Blood and Wine, was detailed and given a release date of May 31. Blood and Wine is part of the $25 season pass or if you didn’t buy that you can pick it up for $20 or $18 if you pre-order it now. Now let me just go ahead and tell you that the amount of content in Blood and Wine that you are getting for as low as $18 trumps what some entire games ship with for $60. The expansion was described by the studio as “basically a new game” and they aren’t kidding. Let me throw some facts your way: 30+ hours of content, 90+ new quests, 40+ points of interest, 14,000 lines of dialogue, 20+ new monsters, 100 new armor pieces, 2 hours of new music, New Game Plus Level increased to 100, 30+ new weapons, New UI, 12 new abilities and more. All of that is pretty incredible but the new area of Toussaint is as big as all of the Skellige’s islands from the main game combined. Oh and the graphics in the expansion have been improved over what the base game looked like.

When you look at all of that and see that it only costs $18 it makes just about every other games DLC look like a joke. That is a massive amount of content and it shows why I personally think CD Projekt Red is the best in the business at giving players their money’s worth. More developers really need to take note of The Witcher 3’s example and give players more bang for their buck. I’ve heard some people saying that Blood and Wine could be their Game of the Year for 2016 and it’s hard to argue against that when you see this much content in an expansion.

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The graphics is beautiful. Good to see CD giving the US based devs a run for their money.

I'm just getting 12 gigs update from GOG. Could it be a preload for B&W?

No, it's hair and more hair.
TW3 = no more playing displumed chicken!

I’ve heard some people saying that Blood and Wine could be their Game of the Year for 2016 and it’s hard to argue against that when you see this much content in an expansion.

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It's DLC. DLC is not a game.

Are they finally giving me my beard?

I feel like I have a 12GB beard.

Yes, CD Projekt RED is OK. I don't particularly like "Twitching" games, but at least they put effort on it.

I look forward to buying Witcher three whenever they release a game of the year edition. Hopefully not until I've plowed my way through the remaining Final Fantasy games on my list.

Sheesh. I couldn't even finish the core game. The combat got utterly repetitive and the story became a boring soap opera that literally started concentrating on my least favorite characters. I loved W3 for a long time, but it just ran out of gas.

Give me an option to kill Dandelion and maybe I'd be interested again. Seriously, Gerald kills hundreds of people, yet DANDELION is his friend?

WTF?

Dandelion is the best character in the game. You can't kill him so that killed your game? Your problem, pal.

What soap opera are you talking about. It's more like soft porn.

Ovenall said:

Sheesh. I couldn't even finish the core game. The combat got utterly repetitive and the story became a boring soap opera that literally started concentrating on my least favorite characters. I loved W3 for a long time, but it just ran out of gas.

Give me an option to kill Dandelion and maybe I'd be interested again. Seriously, Gerald kills hundreds of people, yet DANDELION is his friend?

WTF?

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Well, no offense Ovenall, but you seem to be directing your own soap opera here. As for Witcher being one, I find that hard to believe...almost every review praised the game when it comes to portrayal of human relationships and game's protagonist is characterized precisely by more "restrained" emotional aspect.
This is a good example of "soap opera" in JRPG's, near the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qClRlzJI3Jc

As for this exp, obviously this isn't for those who considered core game too long, but I think most (adult) players will appreciate the effort CDPR put into this, considering it's scope and critical reception was there to begin with.

BoboTheMighty said:

Well, no offense Ovenall, but you seem to be directing your own soap opera here. As for Witcher being one, I find that hard to believe…almost every review praised the game when it comes to portrayal of human relationships and game's protagonist is characterized precisely by more "restrained" emotional aspect.
This is a good example of "soap opera" in JRPG's, near the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qClRlzJI3Jc

As for this exp, obviously this isn't for those who considered core game too long, but I think most (adult) players will appreciate the effort CDPR put into this, considering it's scope and critical reception was there to begin with.

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How many insults did you put in that post while trying to be clever and hiding them?

rune_74 said:

How many insults did you put in that post while trying to be clever and hiding them?

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Well, not enough to hide it from you, my good rune. But c'mmon, you have to admit there is some irony at work here.

rune_74 said:

How many insults did you put in that post while trying to be clever and hiding them?

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Ever heard about irony rune? When was the last time that you did have a full medical checkup? I genuinely suspect that you might have a bad case of stomach ulcer. And that's a best case scenario because it also could be a "grumpy old man" syndrome or, worse still, a morbid lack of a sense of humour.