The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Certainly the most beautiful game I ever played. All seems alive, the immersion is complete. That's become rare that a AAA game is also well finished. After several hours, no bugs ruining the pleasure and that a very good point. Congratulation CD Project, and thank you very much for this perfect game.

Dark and gritty storyline ? Check Interesting and not boring sidequests ? Check Fun combat and monster varieties ? Check Impressive world building and immersion ? Check NOT HAVING A SOCIAL LIFE ??? CHECK !!!! BUY IT

The RPG we were waiting for. 10/10

From the way the characters emote during conversations to the atmosphere, this game has one of the best presentations I've seen in gaming. Combat is fun and dynamic; Boss battles are tough and daunting. Witcher 3 is a fun challenge with a intriguing story, and in my opinion, a great addition to the Witcher series.

I pre-ordered this game on Steam. I listened to CDPR talk about how this was going to be the next level in open-world rpg's. I watched the videos and got excited. The finished product, while a really good rpg, is not what they showed and not what they hyped. Now they are saying that the trailer was not indicative of the final product. Then why not just show us the game the way it would turn out? Because they tuned it down for consoles, and despite all of their posturing otherwise, they went consoles first and made people who spent money on a good PC, the audience they have always claimed to cater to, get less of a product. On top of that, the hype machine is going full blast. Aside from graphics and characters, this game is not the Skyrim killer we were promised, and that they made plenty of jokes about at Bethesda's expense. The cheap shots about bugs are now laughable as there are plenty of immersion breaking bugs in my time with the game, now about 19 hours. The simulation of objects in the world has not changed since Witcher 1 and is no where near the type of environments we could interact with even in games like Ultima 7, let alone Morrowind. The open-world is only semi-open with more than a few areas walled off. We get Ubisoft like map checklists that go against everything they said they were about. This is all style over substance and everyone giving it perfect reviews is going against why they said they loved this franchise and this company in the first place. The positives are that, while the story is functional at best, the characters and side quests give a sense of character and place not seen yet in an rpg of this scope. The game systems only really work if you adjust the difficulty level accordingly as you go. The easy settings are beyond pointless as many of the game mechanics become useless and the higher difficulty levels don't add more challenge to encounters, just more time. There used to be 3 companies on my pre-order list. CDPR, Sega's Total War series, and Bethesda's flagship Fallout and Elder Scrolls series. Sega lost me after the still broken Rome 2, CDPR is now off the list for falsely advertising and hyping Witcher 3, and Bethesda is off just because I don't trust any of these companies anymore. Stop hyping things you cannot deliver. Just be honest and don't show anything until you know what the end product is going to be like. Id, and other companies, did this for years with the "when it's ready" slogan and it did not hurt them a bit. This is a decent rpg and an okay story, wrapped in a great, but hollow, presentation. Hopefully Cyberpunk and Witcher 4 will finally make CDPR's product equal their ambition and hype. I just hope this review is allowed to stay up amidst all of the lunacy of perfect scores. If you think this game is perfect and no aspect can be made better, then by all means give it a perfect score. I think it is being dishonest and it is a disservice to anyone that is thinking about the game.