The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

I have installed and loaded up this game, played the tutorial and the first few quests multiple times in hope that all the rave reviews would become true for me. I am just not enjoying the game though. Geralt is kind of a jerk. I feel like he is the kind of character who appeals to young teens or early 20 somethings who want to live out this fantasy of being broody and sex-drenched. To me it isn't enjoyable to play out a teenage boy's fantasy. Although I may have tolerated it if the combat didn't feel like getting used to a debilitating handicap. Graphics are pretty though and I love the attention to detail and feel of life in the game. On a final note, I am not saying the 5* reviews are wrong. I just thing the game is not fun for a more mature audience.

We still encounter the same problems as before: - The whole item, alchemy, herb collecting is a mess, his constantly amnesia is really getting annoying at this point. His brain must be a sieve with holes as big as the universe itself - Economy is absolutely bonkers, the investment into any contract (time and money) does not even balance out what you have to do. I would understand if this is about the internal universe and stuff but we are talking about my real lifetime and existence on this planet which is limited, don't put a game in front of my that laughs at this fact, fix your economy - They made the equippables even worse. Not just the whole crafting stuff is convoluted as hell, now they have durability. Why? No one knows, how they degrade is mambo janbo as well. Have fun figuring out what degrades how and why. And to keep your stuff not falling apart is as expensive as getting new gear. wtf ... - This game is not rewarding in experience, it's again totally incomprehensible what will give you exp and what not, especially if you think stuff that witchers do would give more than anything else. Nope, does not. What - the open world make you backtrack even more than in the games before, you got a horse now ok, but the concept itself is stll lazy and horrible game-design. This is so absolutely unorganic it's a joke. I'm at a loss here. The same problematic with the games before, instead of doing something really good they do all of it mediocre. At least the art and shiny polygon team had their fun with it. Should have been a graphic-novel.

I dont know who had the idea that if a player has the game of the year edition ,add the dlc landmarks to velen even if the player didn' even touched the first main mission of the dlc. It just ruins the progression of completeing the landmarks. I just finished the main story and wanted do complete all of the landmark on velen, but i just simply cant because i am lvl 35 and most of the dlc mobs lvl 39-40. So if i want to complete the landmarks i must start the dlc. The game is awesome, but little details such as this can ruin the players mood during the game.

Now its an overbloated mess, runs like crap on a 3080ti and 10900k, and has cringe TV show inclusions no one wants. Also I dislike the new art on the page, just for the record. It looks like the ugly new game that's coming out. I have very little hope for this series.

True to the books, The Witcher 3 delivers our favourite feminine warrior, servant of witches in its third and final instalment. Playing in the impersonal third person view, we follow the witcher Geralt of Rivia as he is manipulated and used by the heroines who play the main role in the story. The overall quality of the game is above average, with the combat (without mods) being average against monsters and below average against human opponents. Magic, iron swords and potions are the weapons with which Geralt does his mistresses biddings. As in the books, the main story line is quite cringe and boring with plentiful of negative stereotypes and empowerment messages. Some of the side quests were actually quite nice and enjoyable, but overall the game failed to engage me with any of its characters, least of all the main one. Despite having read the books and knowing the author is a man, while I was playing I couldn't help myself thinking that The Witcher is exactly what I would expect a woman to write (having known a few female feminist writers), so it is not surprising it found a great number of female and effeminate fans. Apart from the cringe story and characters the character and item levelling is a chore that really gets in the way. Luckily mods got rid of this major negative point, as well as improving combat and adding other neat things. So a great thanks to the modders. It is a real shame about all the political activism, which took away too much of what I might have otherwise enjoyed. But... if you like magic, feminine and negatively stereotyped men and empowered super-women I highly recommend this game. If on the other hand you know what H.E.M.A. means and are not down with current trends around gender politics and stuff you will both laugh and cringe your way through the game, if you choose to play it. Despite the engine upgrade and some great mods I see The Witcher 3 as the worst of the three games in the series.