The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

I have yet so spend more than a few hours playing this game but it seems to piss me off almost right away every time. I start the game, am awed by the great graphics then I am annoyed at the controls (PC) and find myself dying, unable to control my character or his abilities worth a damn. I've been playing video games for over 35 years and I know a fun game when I play one. This one had potential and I guess some like it, but I am glad I paid only $20. I really kind of hate it. And, I was playing it on the easiest mode with battle option. Try making an interface that isn't so convoluted and overly-sensitive. Sometimes i can't approach things well, my char turns or gets caught in some corner or falls off a slope and cannot get back up. It just goes on and on with frustrating and annoying problems with the interface and world interaction. Too many ways to get frustrated. Not my kind of game.

It's not just game. It's something more.

The Witcher 3: - Is beautiful - Is huge and expansive - Has an outstanding story - Has mostly great acting - Is complex, lore driven, and has a superb crafting system that really drags you in But The Witcher 3 also: - Has godawful combat, problems with hit detection and a parry system that barely works. Moves designed for a much faster fighting system are slowed down by animations and make combat unresponsive and irritating. It's slow to respond to everything. You swipe right through enemies without hitting you, and they'll swipe right through you without hitting you. - Does not respect your time. You can't fast travel unless you're at a signpost and in some areas signposts are a long way apart, meaning that instead of keeping the gameplay flowing you're just travelling. There's only two places to mastercraft items, and you have to walk 200 paces to get to them, they can't mastercraft all items, and you still have to walk back and forth between your stash. I've spent a lot of my time in this game just moving between places. It detracts from how good other parts are. - Has too many pointless monster encounters: they're everywhere. While you're manually travelling between places, they slow you down even more. - Drags on, even in the main story. It just never seems to get to the point. - Is repetitive. Witcher contracts are all variations on three themes. - Has an extremely unrewarding levelling system, where if you're a couple of levels above the recommended, you end up with very low exp and coin rewards. It makes you just avoid secondary and contracts because there's no point. - Has fixed levels for its weapons, which makes doing any other quests, or tackling the main overlevelled, unrewarding because the game no longer rewards you. You can't upgrade anything but witcher gear. Mastercrafting is laborious and grandmasters are frankly ridiculous. Spare 60 hours? On sale? Go for it. Otherwise, nah. Skip the grind, read the books.

It is very seldom, that a game can be called 'perfect', but in my opinion the witcher 3 deserves to be called that: amazing gameplay and stunning graphics (which look better than a lot of more recent titles). Thanks to wine and dxvk it also runs great on linux (I've been playing it on ultra graphics on ubuntu 20.04).

This is one of the best games ever made. I've played just over 300 hours (one playthrough), it never got old, and there are still some things left to do. They really refined Geralt as a character, and the other characters are fantastic as well. The main storyline was great, as was the two expansions. Even the side quests have interesting stories. This game really upped the ante on open-world games, and I can see how it improved the genre as a whole. 10 out of 10.