Honestly I don’t think Gwent works with physical cards. Too many calculations. It’s a nice item for collection, though.
As far as physical card games go, Gwent is on the low end of things when it comes to complexity and calculations. Magic the gathering exists after all.
I haven’t played MTG in a few years (and don’t intend to come back what with the SpongeBob crossover and all) but Magic used to at least try to limit mental math in terms of changing values on cards. Buffs lasted a turn, and anything permanent was auras or equipment or +1/+1 counters.
Gwent has a lot of numbers changing value contextually, often by multiplication instead of simple addition. Now, combat math and all that is way more complex in Magic, but Gwent does have lots of changing numbers to track.
I was very impressed by Gwent in that they managed to make a collectible card game that didn’t feel derivative of Magic. Not an easy feat.
The actual CCG they had was miles better than the one in Witcher 3 as well. I miss that game.
A very appropriate release to celebrate the 10th anniversary of TW3 (my god time fucking flies). Much like the author of the article I was always surprised there weren’t any physical editions of Gwent being sold. And again like the author, I hope it’s the Witcher 3 version of Gwent being sold and not the standalone. I want to re-live my degenerate decoy/spy shenanigans.
Wait, 10th anniversary?? WTF, I’m old
It came out just a couple of years ago, right?
To be fair, Coelacanth, I don’t think you’re a normative judge of the passage of time.
What do you mean, the Cretaceous period was just yesterday.
Am I the only one that avoids Gwent altogether when playing Witcher? Like, I don’t go to that world to play cards, if I’m loading it up it’s cause it’s swords and magic time.
Me too man. I never got good at it either, it felt pretty random to me the few times I played. Maybe it would be good if you spent time building decks, but I don’t care enough to do that.
Overall it’s just an annoyance that’s forced on you two or three times.
Yeah I’m glad it’s not a vital part of the experience but don’t mind that it’s there for people who like it. Kind of like card games in real life. :)
I hated it at first. Then I got pretty good at it and realized that I still hated it.
Witcher 3 became a Gwent sim. I loved it.
I play it exclusively for the Gwent
Difficulty: story only
Cutscenes: skipped
Gwent Difficulty: hardOptimal.
I do not understand this at all… but I respect it.
