The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

After hearing and reading so much about the Witcher-Games I decided to buy all of the and play them one after another. My mistake was to test if Witcher3 would run at my system. Somehow I found myself playing the game through all DLCs before just thinking about starting the Games 1+2 (instead of that I read all the Witcher books before finally starting with Witcher1). Now it's time to start another round of Witcher3 this time with all the decisions I made in Part1+2. As so many worte before me. This game has set a milestone of how an Open-World-RPG should work and make player enjoy it. For example: It's around 22 o'clock you find a side quest. Well, why not. Can't be that long. ----- 2 hours later. Still the same quest, you glimpse at the clock "damn I need to go to school/work, but I also want to know what happens next." And that only for a side quest! I really love how all of the Quest were designed. I even played Gwent in the end (I was sure that I would skip that) 'cause it was so much fun. My wish for future Witcher Games would be unlimited Inventory+CarryWeight 'cause that annoys me in so much games. Why not make this optional? So that players can decide if they want it or not? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eines der Spiele, bei denen ich eigentlich nur mal eben gucken wollte, ob sie auch richtig laufen. Am Ende war ich dann inkl. DLCs durch und mehr als begeistert. Witcher3 hat einfach Maßstäbe gesetzt wie ein Open-World-RPG aussehen sollte. Selbst die Nebenquests fesseln einen stundenlang an den PC. Inzwischen habe ich auch Teil 1+2 nachgeholt und werde irgendwann ein neues Spiel mit den dort getroffenen Entscheidungen starten. Man merkt deutlich wie sehr die Entwickler darauf bedacht waren an die Buchvorlage anzuknüpfen. Für die nächsten Witcher Spiele hätte ich nur gerne die Option auf unendliches Inventar+Gewicht. Warum ist das eigentlich keine einstellbare Spieloption?

Let’s start with what didn’t work. The capped XP system makes quests feel less rewarding and the open world is bloated with useless stuff. The game heavily relies on its map and minimap. The latter, in particular, kills immersion. The atmosphere of the game is haunting and beautiful and a lot of environmental storytelling. But instead of appreciating the world around you, your eyes are glued to the top right corner of the screen to watch that minimap while traveling. Yet it excels at the most important thing of all: You become emotionally invested in the story and its characters. Every Dialog is well written and flows perfectly, revealing personality out of the various characters and this is the reason why they and Geralt are likable characters. Quality of Voice Acting is high and Conversations feature expressive gestures, camera angles, and animations that make the interactions feel real. When you walk in various locations such as Novigrad, you see every detail as if the city was hand crafted, bustling with life. The world is consistent in its incredibly realistic and well realized details. It mixes a high level graphical fidelity with style es well. Even a decade after its release, the visuals hold up. Player choice remains central. Decisions have consequences sometimes immediate or delayed, often ambiguous. Moral grayness is a core theme. You'll often think you made the right decision, only to find out there were no good choice at all. That said, the adaptation takes liberties. Characters are altered, events retconned, personalities of known characters change and if you've read the books, it can feel jarring. This is both an adaptation and a continuation, with a different vision of the original work. The Witcher III does a lot of things right and it offers not a perfect but an immersive well written story, with interesting NPCs, also an incredible atmosphere with massive detail in this world, some makes the world feel truly believable.

With the nextgen patch this game is beyond perfection.

I`m just proud of CD Project Red wich is the best game producer in my country <3

At the time of writing, this game is best open-world RPG mankind ever created