The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

This is still, after a second play, the best game out there!

best RBG and possibly game series I've played, and you should play them all

Witcher 1: Plays kind of like a singleplayer solo MMO, it was great. Witcher 2: Secretly a tech demo for TW3, it was good, but I didn't care for it that much, can't say why (Hint: It was short and had stupid QTEs) Witcher 3: Your wallet bursts out of your pant pocket, flaps over to Geralt, and feverishly asks him "Why can't more AAA games be this damn good?!", and then promptly spits out loads of dosh gleefully at Geralt- I mean CD Projekt Red, and then promptly returns to your pant pocket, completely empty. You will lose *minimum* 100 hours playing this wondrously fantastic game, and it's damn good expansions.

As a mature (old) gamer, I don't have a lot of time to invest in addictive immersive RPGs anymore. But this game didn't really give me any choice in the matter. As a huge fan of DragonAge, I didn't think another sword and sorcery RPG would be able to top it but TW3 beats it handily in every phase (except possibly game controls and some aspects of the interface that made me spend too much time in the menus). The only thing I missed (and not too much) was the "companion" concept. Would have loved having Yen and Zoltan at my side for the side quests. But on every other level this game delivers an experience that is so far above any other that, upon finishing the base game last night, I've already bought and downloaded TW and TW2, and am about to try to find the books. I'm obsessed! Totally immersive, the game is so real that find myself cherishing the NPC relationships and mourning the dead. The openworld is so beautiful and interesting and so well constructed that you feel like it must be a real place on some other astral plain. The story is so good. Even the side quests are intricately plotted, unlike some other games where they are merely vehicles for acccumulating xp and loot. And I love that almost every decision I made influenced the course of the game in an entirely unpredictable way. I never knew which answer would produce what result. In short, if you enjoy RPGs, this is the game you've been waiting your whole life for.

SUPER