The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Dark Drakan]

Witcher 3 Wins Overall Game of the Year at 2015 Game Awards

Game of the Year

• WINNER: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Bloodborne
• Fallout 4
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Super Mario Maker

Developer of the Year

• WINNER: CD Projekt Red
• From Software
• Kojima Productions
• Nintendo
• Bethesda Game Studios

Best Independent Game

• Axiom Verge
• Her Story
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• WINNER: Rocket League
• Undertale

Best Mobile/Handheld Game

• Downwell
• Fallout Shelter
• WINNER: Lara Croft Go
• Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
• Pac-Man 256

Best Narrative

• WINNER: Her Story
• Life Is Strange
• Tales From The Borderlands
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Until Dawn

Best Art Direction

• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Bloodborne
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• WINNER: Ori and the Blind Forest
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Best Score/Soundtrack

• Fallout 4
• Halo 5: Guardians
• WINNER: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Best Performance

• Ashly Burch as Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
• Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider)
• Doug Cockle as Geralt (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
• Mark Hamill as The Joker (Batman: Arkham Knight)
• WINNER: Viva Seifert (Her Story)

Games for Change Award

• Cibele (Nina Freeman)
• Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• WINNER: Life Is Strange (DONTNOD Entertainment / Square Enix)
• Sunset (Tale of Tales)
• Undertale (tobyfox)

Best Shooter

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
• Destiny: The Taken King
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Splatoon
• Star Wars Battlefront

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Assassin's Creed Syndicate
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• WINNER: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Rise of the Tomb Raider

Best Role Playing Game

• Bloodborne
• Fallout 4
• Pillars of Eternity
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Undertale

Best Fighting Game

• Guilty Gear Xrd
• WINNER: Mortal Kombat X
• Rise of Incarnates
• Rising Thunder

Best Family Game

• Disney Infinity 3.0
• Lego Dimensions
• Skylanders: SuperChargers
• Splatoon
• WINNER: Super Mario Maker

Best Sports/Racing Game

• FIFA 16
• Forza Motorsport 6
• NBA 2K16
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2016
• WINNER: Rocket League

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
• Destiny: The Taken King
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Rocket League
• WINNER: Splatoon

Most Anticipated Game

• Horizon Zero Dawn
• WINNER: No Man's Sky
• Quantum Break
• The Last Guardian
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Esports Player of the Year

• WINNER: Kenny "KennyS" Schrub
• Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok
• Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer
• Peter "ppd" Dager
• Syed Sumail "Suma1L" Hassan

Esports Team of the Year

Evil Geniuses

• Fnatic
• WINNER: Optic Gaming
• SK Telecom T1
• Team SoloMid

Esports Game of the Year

• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
• WINNER: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Dota 2
• Hearthstone
• League of Legends

Trending Gamer

• Total Biscuit
• Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles
• WINNER: Greg Miller
• Markiplier
• PewDiePie

Best Fan Creation

• GTA V – Targets (Hoodoo Operator)
• Real GTA (Corridor Digital)
• WINNER: Portal Stories: Mel (Prism Studios)
• Super Mario Maker e-Reader Levels (Baddboy78 / theycallmeshaky)
• Twitch Plays Dark Souls (Twitch Community)

 

[Albion Knight]

Do you think The Witcher is better than Fallout 4?

 

[Foxtrot94]

Do you think The Witcher is better than Fallout 4?

I think yes.

I've been playing F4 at my friend's place (cause why buying it when I can go over there, right? LOL) for some time now, and TW3 is definitely the better RPG between the two.

I've been reading that F4 feels more like an FPS than an RPG, and I gotta say I agree. The RPG elements are luckluster (although not completely absent as some people make it out to be), the dialogue system is pretty janky, with very vague choices of lines, and are not nearly as well written and TW3's.

The quests I've been playing the vast majority of the times consist of a clearing mission, as in, killing stuff. Not very interesting in the slightest, while in TW3, they're so much better written and intriguing.

Skills and perks, in Fallout 4 they're mostly passive, percentage increases and stuff like that. Also Skills from F3 and NV are gone.
In TW3 there are passive ones, yeah but a considerable amount are active ones like alternative modes for Signs and melee attacks and defensive techniques.
Overall TW3'd char development system is a lot deeper.

I can't complain about their open world, Bethesda did a good job, they hardly fail at that, interesting places and exploration is rewarding. Same with The Witcher 3 though, with the difference that Novigrad stomps on Diamond City any day of the week.

Graphics, there's no contest. Witcher 3 wins.

Audio, both are really good.

Atmosphere, well, this is a subjective one, especially since the settings are different, I'd say both convey their respective atmosphere very well. Imo, the highlight in F4 is when you're exploring an area, on your toes, and a Deathclaw comes out of the underground and you gotta fight for your life. That's awesome.
As for TW3, there are some areas, like Fyke Isle, that are dripping with creepy atmosphere, ghosts and such. Always very atmospheric when you enter a forest and suddenly it becomes dark and cloudy, and you find out you just entered a Leshen's territory.

Story, I can't comment on that, I barely did the first quests in F4, but I hear the storyline ain't that great, and not terrible either. Kind of a meh.
TW3 though, was gripping and interesting to follow, always wanna know what happens next. Pacing was excellent too.

Combat is not really comparable, as you can imagine, they're completely different.

So my opinion is that yes, The Witcher 3 is the better game, and by far the better RPG.