Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (single-player Gwent RPG)

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Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (single-player Gwent RPG)

Post by Sly Boots » Wed Aug 29, 2018 9:05 am

CDPR has announced that they're producing a fully single-player version of Gwent, the card-game introduced in Witcher 3, apparently built around a 30-hour RPG-style story.

The action will mostly be Gwent I suspect, but seeing as I bloody loved Gwent but had no interest in playing an online multiplayer version, this has tickled my interest:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/0 ... nebreaker/

Has a store page on GOG already:

https://www.gog.com/game/gwent_thronebr ... c3ff556dc5

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Post by Jez » Wed Aug 29, 2018 9:57 am

Loved Gwent also. Not sure I am into it as a standalone thing though. Maybe on a tablet sort of thing.
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Post by Medicine Man » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:50 am

I'd be more into a single player Gwent thing than the online game they have at the moment. Which I want to love btw, but despite my best efforts I just cant get in to it.

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Post by Medicine Man » Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:57 pm

October 23rd released date announced...

https://www.gog.com/news/coming_soon_th ... cher_tales

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Post by Sly Boots » Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:02 pm

:o

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Post by Medicine Man » Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:08 pm

Indeed.

I just cant get over the name though. Thronebreaker. Sounds like a euphemism for a particularly large and unwieldy stool that might prove troublesome for the plumbing.

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Post by Sly Boots » Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:12 pm

:lol:

Reminds me of the time we were sharing a caravan for a family holiday, and a mate tagged along for one night as we were visiting an old school friend who lived up the road. The first night he got food poisoning. What followed was quite harrowing for all concerned, not least when we found he'd destroyed the toilet seat in the en suite bathroom.

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Post by Medicine Man » Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:25 pm

Harrowing sounds about right. Especially with those paper thin caravan walls!

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Post by Sly Boots » Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:31 pm

Medicine Man wrote:
Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:25 pm
Harrowing sounds about right. Especially with those paper thin caravan walls!
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Post by Medicine Man » Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:02 pm

I feel for you.

After watching Ken Burn's recent Vietnam doc those guys had it comparatively easy compared to what you must have had to endure.

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Post by Sly Boots » Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:07 pm

:lol:

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Post by Sly Boots » Thu Sep 27, 2018 4:44 pm

There's an impressions piece on PCG as well. I've not had a chance yet to read it, but here 'tis:

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/thronebreake ... d-puzzler/

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Post by Sly Boots » Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:53 am

I'm not sure if it had a price already, but it does now, £23.40 and released on October 23rd:

https://www.gog.com/game/thronebreaker_ ... cher_tales

I read the PCG impressions piece and it sounds great, a lot meatier than was expected and probably more than they really needed to make it - CDPR once again going above and beyond.

Tempted to pre-order. It's a little pricier than I generally pay these days but will have to see how my finances are doing in a week or two.

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