The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

Put hundreds of hours into the game, and the latest update rendered the entire game unplayable; dx12 does not launch, dx11 has suddenly turned from 70+ fps on high to 5-10 fps on minimum settings. It's a shame to have to spend the entire time you could've been playing figuring out why after years it no longer launches...

I sank hundreds of hours into the Witcher series, and I can honestly say that TW3 is the best RPG ever made. First of all, it's HUGE. Velen, Novigrad, Skellige - each one of those three areas is roughly the size of Skyrim, and each is packed with details and interesting characters. And there's Toussaint (Blood and Wine), which feels like a monster-ridden vacation to Italy or France. The story is extremely satisfying. You are not the One. You are the opposite of the One, a mutant, an abomination in the eyes of the Eternal Fire. Yet, your actions are what makes the world go round. There are no "some ___ stole my ___, go to a goblin cave, fetch it and be done with it" quests. If a quest asks you to fetch something, be ready to unfold the real and horrible story behind it, maybe remove a curse, and/or kill the quest giver based on whatever. There are contracts, which will have you kill legendary monsters. There is A LOT OF STUFF. The bottom line is, TW3 is well worth the money. Also, get the first two, there are many characters in TW3 that are first met in TW and TW2, so playing the first two games will help you understand who you're actually dealing with. Plus, they both have excellent storylines as well. PS. I hate portals.

While the first "next gen" patch did basically more harm then good, the soon follow-up patches fixed the most troubling issues. That said, I got a 1070 and used to have quite playable experience in basically all scenarios, which isn't the case anymore - so in case your gear hasn't been updated and you know how well it used to run, it likely won't anymore. And because of that, i actually have to tune down the graphics - ironically, now it looks even worse than before while also running worse at the same time. And 2 other issues have been introduced as well - I use a ultra-wide screen, which now seem to fk up some "scenematics" (flickering, out of center, camera tilt) - has become better after a patch, but still notiably worse than it used to. And my controller does not work anymore. How bad that is, i don't think i have to tell you.

I purchased a new PC to play the "next-gen" version but unfortunately the game is unplayable as of now (ver. 4.02). Running the game in 1440p (DLSS ultra performance) with RT enabled initially gives me about 30-40 fps. The game looks fantastisc but with continuos playtime of 10 to 20 minutes the framerate goes down to 20 and even 10 fps in some areas, which renders the game unplayable for me. Also I experienced stutter, audio sync problems and low CPU utilization of 10 to 20% on my my i7-12700F, which doesn't seem right. I followed the tech-support's troubleshoting guide but I couldn't solve the issues. Looks like this "next-gen" is only meant for the latest gen of high-end Nvidia graphic cards costing $900 upwards. Hopefully the devs will further improve the performance with Raytracing on mid-range GPUs like the RTX 3070. If so I will update this review to 5 stars.

Before to this new next gen update was a top game worked 100% but after this Complete Edition it complete trash game crashes on loading if you do manage to get it running it runs like trash