The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

Before I start I will say this, I have been playing RPG's since the days of Wizardry, The Bard's Tale, and Ultima - I tried my hardest to want to like this game as a PC exclusive and as an RPG but honestly it just ended up feeling like an empty experience. Gameplay wise it feels like a lot of quests and objectives were quickly taken from some MMO's with a lot of fetch and retrieval, kill X to get Y, collect this many items. Combat is also rather slow and tedious and could have used a lot of streamlining, it also felt rather odd to switch from sword a to sword b giving combat little diversity and battle stances just seemed pointless other than to make combat last longer than it should have. The user interface and menues were also rather poor and can actually be quite overwhelming to first time players requiring a good sit down to make sure what is what and where, rather messy and disjointed overall and many times you can find yourself here more than in the actual game. Characters...... this may just be me but they just felt flat, most talking like they had a sore throat and showing nothing that makes them likable aside from one or two farther into the game (Honestly the main character has one of the most annoying voices in gaming and just gets on your nerves more than anything) My main complaint though is more of a moral issue. For the most part women in this game seem to be there for nothing more than a sex card collection game (frankly I'm betting this is why the game sold well) this is just poor taste and shows women in a very negative light. If you have a relation with the character that would eventually lead to something much later in the game that is fine since there is a build but here you can pretty much go up to a women no matter the personality and have her horizontal in no time. the fact that the Witcher 2 is doing things with Playboy just supports this view. Honestly I really did want to like this game I gave it a very long and multiple tries, the fact I never tried to return it shows my effort but it just falls flat the majority of the time. I have no doubts the sequel will sell well but since most Witcher 2 posts I visit just go straight to the sex and talk nothing of the gameplay it is obvious why it will sell well.

Unplayable old shit.

I've had this game on Steam and then on here almost since it first came out. Even after the "enhanced" edition came out that allegedly fixed a ton of the issues the original release had, it's still one of the most broken and ineptly designed games I have ever played. The writing is decent I guess(The Witcher book series is highly overrated IMO, and the author is a really arrogant jerk and something of a hack), but the gameplay is horrendous. Combat uses a stance and sort of rhythm system with counters and timed attacks which sounds like it should be fun, but it's so unintuitive and poorly implemented that you'd swear it was never playtested....and knowing what we know now about CDPR, it probably wasn't. Visually it was barely passable even at release, and has so many unintuitive and overly complicated systems like crafting and potion-making that supposedly are really important to the game, but you'll likely get way too frustrated trying to decipher the nonsense to really get into it. The absolute worst part of the game, however, is the community. The fans are insane. Much like diehards of any community, The Witcher fanboys are some of the most toxic people out there. Just go through this review section. Notice all the glowing 5-star reviews and how they all have dozens of people upvoting them, while all the negative or just middling reviews have like 1 or 2 people even engaging with them. Odds are it'll happen here too. The community really doesn't like admitting that this game sucks really bad. The Witcher 2 is okay and 3 is allegedly really good(I didn't like the first two games enough to try the third one), but they will crucify anyone that talks negatively about any of these games or the franchise in general.

GOG canceled the release of the game Devotion to appease the CCP. Don't give them another dime of your money.

Coming from many FPS and TPS shooter/RPGs, I thought I knew what to expect. The reviews are great, looks a bit like Oblivion, or other earlier Bethesda games, so that's what I expected. Opened the game and tried to map my controls. Can't use spacebar in my standard control config... okay, I'll map it to a different key. Hmm, can't map mouse buttons? That sucks. Okay, I'll give it a try. Cinematics are soooooo long and boring, really sucky animation too. Like cringe worthy bad. Grass slicing straight through the cart as it goes along. Okay, I've played games with bad cinematics before. Still willing to give it a try. Skip cinematics, first battle, finally! Okay, it says opponents in red. Got it. Go next to a red circle. Umm how do I attack? Click madly for a few minutes on every key combo I can find while my comrades finish the battle for me. Well... maybe it's somebody's idea of fun, watching other people fight while you flail around madly. I thought this was the tutorial? It didn't tell me anything useful except I was moving my mouse too fast? I don't get how that's relevant, especially since changing the speed didn't seem to do anything. On top of all that the story is so thick with Fantasy tropes it doesn't even feel like an original game, more like a mod a bunch of 13 year olds made for Skyrim (with worse graphics and awful controls). Can't believe I spent money on this. How this has such a high rating is beyond me.