The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

For the longest time, I thought I was just becoming a jaded asshole. Every RPG I bought I was skipping dialogue and cutscenes after 5 minutes because the story bored me. Gameplay on those games was good enough to where I kept playing, but didn't have a clue what was going on. The worst part? I didn't care. Well the Witcher 3 definitively proves: It's not me, its the quality of games that's been steadily on the decline. I've been playing games since I was a kid. Even at 4 years old, I was playing Mechwarrior in my dads lap, and I've always loved playing. The Witcher 3 is the first game in a long time where I don't skip dialogue. I don't skip cutscenes. I definitely don't watch a movie at the same time to fill the void of narrative a lot of games have. This game has an interesting story, and I don't mean "oh, hey, that's interesting," I mean, "wow. This has held my interest in a single playthrough of over 150 hours, and I'm not even done with the base game." The story is wonderful, rich, and interesting. There were only a few times where I wanted to do or say something in a conversation that I couldn't, but not enough to take me out of it. The combat, in my opinion, is nothing exceptional, but that is by no means a criticism. I'd much rather a fairly standard, but robust combat system, than a fairly standard, but robust story. The combat holds up, there's only a few issues in my opinion, and those are with the dodges. The roll-dodge covers too much distance, and the sidestep doesn't cover enough. Beyond that, I've no complaints. The last thing I have to say is I avoided this game for a long time, because the first few times I tried it, I was trying to play with M+KB. I forced myself to play 3 hours where I was just miserable. After a third attempt at playing this game, but with a controller, I was hooked, and bought both DLC when I was 70 hours into the game. If you're on the fence, you should buy this game. Now... Back to playing Blood and Wine. Love to CDPR

For past decade, this is very first game I have enjoyed so much. Story is awesome, side quests are cool and non-repetetive, DLCs are absolutely fantastic! Disregards to some minor issues after release, fixed by patches, gmae experience is comparable or even surpass the one I got from Last of Us and Horzion: Zero Dawn. This is exactly the game as it should be.

Its been years and the story and characters still linger in my mind like a life altering novel. Even if you hate RPG's you will like this.

Been approximately 1.5 years since I have played the game and I have missed it terribly in that time. I don't know how many hours I put into playing the game while I had a place to stay and a great gaming system. But I believe I did at least four new game+. I am pretty sure I did every quest multiple times. I never became bored with the game. I recently bought a laptop that will be delivered next week first thing to be installed are the three Witcher games. I feel like a kid waiting for Yule.

This is one of those games that will take over your life. Gameplay is awesome, graphics are awesome, music is awesome, story is awesome. Also dont skip over ANY of the side quests, even those are amazing. Just a very organic story with amazing characters. Once i finished this game, i felt lost, and until this day I always go back to re play this masterpiece. I think I have passed this game 3 times at the least! Oh and the DLC's are basically games of their own, also amazing.