The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Badass monster hunter----Check Badass and funny side character--- Check Good closure on the story --- Check Awesome visuals and vast open world --- Check Affordable DLC --- Check Awesome music --- Check Very satisfying combat system --- Check Choices matters: Check What more can you want? It's frigging Witcher 3. Buy it and play it already! GOTY for me! Con: No linux version....

So. I've been a gamer for over 15 years. I've played a lot of games. Open world adventure games are my favorite. And this game, this game... it's just the best game I've even played in my life. Pros: 1. Amazing, engaging, compelling, story. 2. Brilliant story telling. 3. Long story, with a lot of quests, truly an RPG experience with a lot consequences based on player's choices. And you make a hell of a lot of choices. 4. Great quest design, almost all of them. 5. Great graphics. It looks gorgeous. Easily one of the best, if not the best graphics of 2015. 6. Rather well optimized. Very little dependency on CPU, even with a slow CPU like mine (FX-8320 @ 4.5 GHz) my GPU is running at 99% all the time. 7. Great sound editing and voice acting. 8. Amazing dev. They listen to customers and have shown that they care. 9. No DRM. Cons: 1. Doesn't scale well on different graphics settings. It's an amazing looking game for sure, but so is GTA V. Okay maybe GTA V doesn't look as good, but it still looks great on Ultra. Witcher 3 looks better on Ultra, but needs a demanding hardware, and unlike GTA V, it won't run well on lower-end hardware. Still, unlike GTA V which is a fast paced action game, this game is bearable at 30 FPS, so there's that. 2. Lost of repetitive collectibles. Seriously, there are a lot of these "question marks" in one part of the map, and it just suck to collect them all. They don't add much to the game either. That's all the cons I can think of. If you haven't played this game, go buy it, and play it. DO IT NOW. This game is bloody brilliant.

every 15 minutes the game crashes, and also it doesnt count my game time.

Ok... So, i played the first two games but this one just dont work. I tried everything to fix it but I still get that "back to the desktop"- error. The thing which makes my very mad is, that I wrote a mail to the GOG- Support and also to the Publisher but I dont get a response. And that was weeks ago. So .. i just spend money on a game which I can´t play and where no one seems to feel responsible.... THX ALOT !!!

It's really hard for me to objectively rate this game,the hype train and the DowngradeGate aside.It's due to the fact that this game covers both ends of the spectrum of both Good and Bad,with some of the Awful tacked in. The Good.The game is masterpiece in its story telling ways and the background narrative.The stories and NPC we meet in the first half of the main quest are so wonderfully unique and competently presented,I couldn't put myself away from the monitor.The Velen's background,from the political struggle,to the folklore Witches theme and subplot,even your shovelware find and kill X quests in the first 20 hours are so well put together and disguised,that the every single one of them feels unique,even if it's not and at the end of the day you will swing your sword a lot.Unfortunately, the game runs out of its steam mid-game,at the Skellige arc,where I started to get bored and skip on the content (they stopped trying and every single side quest was "eh, I don't care go kill stuff").After the battle at the castle there's not really going for it but to run through the mq skipping the dialogues.I can't put myself to finish it anymore. Still, it's the best game's narrative since Planescape Torment. And that's because of The Bad. The game as a video game is just batshit awful, contributing to the worst cancer of nowadays paradigm of making really subpar, unchallenging and uninspired LMB action games (Batman-schlocks, AC's etc.) with a lot of unrelevant busy-work and minigames that serve no purpose. The character development system is even worse than W2's, with even more +% skills where at least half of them is absolutely useless. They don't impact the gameplay in any meaningful way, other than the generic Persuasion skill for one of the signs. The combat mechanic is just awful and I can't understand why people adore it. The controls and the char. handling are wonky, awful and clearly console-centred. The Witcher 3 is still enjoyable, but definitely overrated.A lot