The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Played about 2 hours of The Witcher 3 DLC tonight, and will probably do some more before I go to bed. So far, I've done about 5 minutes of the main quest before getting distracted by side quests, lol! Basically, it's more of The Witcher 3, and everything you'd expect from it. Though one warning: The developers said you should be at least level 30+, and while my level 35 Geralt hasn't had much trouble on the normal setting yet, I have been fighting level 32-36 enemies already, so you may want to make sure you're at least level 32 before starting, if not higher (that's actually the level they put you at if you choose to play the DLC directly from the menu, without starting a new file or using a previous save, so that makes sense.)

As expected, had to save a backup of my NG+ progress since I was way underleveled. I've played I guess about 9 hours so far. It's said to be a 10 hour expansion but I think it must surely be more as I've only just practically finished one of the two quests you get after the initial one and I can't imagine that the rest of it would be so rushed.

The quest for the third wish has a real slog of a boss. I had to turn my game down to easy to beat it. Not only does it do so much damage that even a full Quen can't fully protect you every time he hits you with his weapon he gets all the damage back as his own health, so you are literally not allowed to get hit at all (on normal that means he gets back over 1000HP per hit and it's still over 500HP on easy). he also summons allies if you damage him enough which he then turns on to recharge his HP that way. 

On the plus side you do get to loot his HP recharging weapon afterwards. 

Ended up finishing it last night. I found the last part a bit frustrating when playing it, but it was certainly interesting and well put together. Overall the DLC actually was fantastic and brought my opinion of the overall game up a bit. At this point, I probably prefer it over Dragon Age: Inquisition, which has actually gone down for me over time,  due to how weak the DLC is.

The trick to the Caretaker is, I basically needed to forget about all my signs except Quen, and just treat it as a Dark Souls fight. Once I did that, it went great, and I got it on my second try, without having to lower the difficulty back. I pretty much just sat back for a bit, and it took me very little time to figure out his pattern and when I had an opening to attack. The only part that gave me trouble was trying to kill off the other enemies before he could use them to heal himself. Otherwise, he was shockingly easy once I figured him out. Also, if you use quen you can take one hit before it starts to recover his health, or at least my Geralt was able to.

Just a few days until the final episode of Tales from the Borderlands drops...got me thinking, what the hell's happened to the Game of Thrones finale? The last episode was released in July according to the dates on wiki. 

Yeah The Walking Dead Season 2 is getting a three episode DLC following Michonne.

Can't say their Minecraft game interests me at all, by the way. I also read a report on it recently that implied that it is really, really bad.

http://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-story-modes-first-episode-is-a-blocky-mess/

I've just finished Tales from the Borderlands. Don't want to post any spoilers but I will say that i did think the finale was a little weaker than the rest of the season and I have mixed feelings about the ending. 

Well, I ended up with mixed feelings as well. On the one hand, the big action sequence was amazing, and there were some pretty cool choices. On the other hand, I didn't like the opening part too much, the ending reminded me of Borderlands 1 in a bad way, and a couple of the plot twists seemed random, like they just came up with them completely on the spot. I liked it overall, but yeah, it definitely wasn't as strong as some of the previous episodes.