The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

This action-adventure, rpg-light game has beautiful graphics, interesting and believable characters, refined storytelling, a humongous amount of content, and... it's just too easy. If you like stories you will love this game. If you hunger for a challenge, you will be disappointed, as even on the hardest difficulty, combat is easy and unchallenging. For this reason I can't even finish the game, the lack of challenge makes me bored, even though the world is beautiful AND ugly and is immersive and interesting in and of itself. I am disappointed, as The Witcher 1 & 2 provided enough challenge to remain interesting throughout, but with this one, I breeze through fights that are more than 5 levels higher than I am, on the hardest difficulty.

Played it for 2 weeks almost every day prior to next-gen (4.0) release. Have Ryzen 9 5900x and 3070, no overclocks and other stuff. On max graphics settings it run really, really well, easy 144+@1080. Capped it off at 144 after some time. As expected of 2015. game on this hardware. After update landed, max settings from before are now somewhere in the middle. Max settings without RTX on, that is. And DLSS/FSR2 being off as well. Still "High" in settings but there are now Ultra+ settings. And game looks a lot (to me) better at those. Dropped FPS from stable 144+ to 75+ (no 72fps cap unfortunately, I have 144Hz monitor and if I can't have 144, 72 is next stop) but honestly, gameplay-wise, same stuff. It's not the type of game where this is too noticable. With RTX enabled for all 4 thingies, it looks even better. I didn't think it'll make that much of a difference but I'm glad I was wrong. FPS drops to 20s-30s. Turning DLSS on and setting it to any setting, it boosts it to some 60fps at best (in the village for example) and 40s in the forest. It looks like shit on Performance and Ultra performance modes and there is minute difference in fps for Quality and Balanced modes so I kept Quality mode on. After a dozen hours of playing like that (RTX max, other gfx settings max and DLSS in Quality mode), Afterburner graph show relatively stable 40fps. Entering dense(r) forests during the day will drop fps to high 20s and being wherever there is no shitton of leaves and grass will bump it to 60s. Playable, imo. Focused on technical aspects because I saw a lot of different takes on this, after the next-gen update and wanted to add my 2 cents to it. On Steam, it seems to have a Launcher added, which is a really dick move if you ask me and it not being in GOG version makes GOG version twice as good. That Launcher breaks Steam Overlay for the game as well. Really dick move. No crashes so far, had 2 before update, 0 after but I have but a few hours after the update. Game great.

After a long haitus from gaming I bought Witcher 2 first and loved it so much I jumped into Witcher 3! Such a detailed and spectacular game! This game is so powerful that I still look out over the hills near my home and remember the desolate and special feeling for standing in some forsaken, remote wilderness in Witcher. The sense of landscape and scope this game inspired is nothing short of miraculous! The combat system, spell system, inventory system, even GWENT is just amazing. And the scope and variety of NPCs and interactions is mind boggling. The only real critique I can muster is that you are definitely the hero (or anti-hero) in this story and as such your scope for being good or evil is limited. But then you are playing Geralt, most powerful Witcher of the times, caught up in a story that shakes the entire foundations of society! Get it, play it, NOW!

A masterpiece game!! G.O.T.Y. In 2015 There´s nothing more to say.

I didn't play witcher 12 and i get witcher 3 with nvidia gtx 970 but now i ready to say that i totaly want buy season pack and all dlc to say THANK YOU GUYS FOR THAT GAME! Amazing graphic gameplay and storyline and of course brilliant MUSIC!!! and ambient sounds. This is mix of impressive idieas and hand from right sight. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO BUY!!!