The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

Seems to be an OK game so far, at least from what I can gather in the 10 minutes I get to play between the CTD. I'm about 5 hours in, and have crashed countless times already. Apparently since the next gen update the game has become completely unplayable, that is, unless you only want to play for about 10 minute stints. I really wanted to like this game, but I can't in good concious say it is good with such crippling performance issues. I guess I should not have expected more knowing CDPR and their quality control.

Shadows flicker randomly and half the time I try to load a saved game, the frame rate drops by 50% or more and I have to restart the whole game to fix it. Raytracing effects have an insanely heavy effect on performance, but I wouldn't mind quite as much if I could actually play the game.

It is indeed a very strange update strategy when a product, owned by a user suddenly grows 6 times in size and is unable to function properly on ones hardware anymore. Why did you decide to go back and mess up the already polished jewel? You are the company that sells good old games, so you should not have anything against games getting old! The game is a best action RPG ever, but please make this next gen update optional! You are making your customers feel insecure

Best game I've ever played so why the 2 stars, you might ask. Because since the next gen update it's not a game that crashes sometimes (which game doesn't), but this is a crash that sometimes looks like a game. 50-60 fps, everything is good, then boom. Crash. Wanna switch to another application? No problem. Crash. Although I like the game and I like the changes the next gen version brought, the amount of crashes make it useless. If it's not on a 90% sale I don't recommend to buy it.

I've been aware of the Witcher series existence for years but never bothered to play them. I started the Witcher 1 in 2019. It was a bit weird to get used to due to the controls but I really enjoyed the progression and lore. I then started the audio books. They were different, but again I like the lore and setting. After finding out the games don't need to be played in sequence I decided to jump straight into the Witcher 3 GOTY. I was blown away. The music, the atmosphere, the combat, the story... it's all amazing. There's a lot of depth in this game and the in-game GWENT card game gets you hooked after a bit too. I definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a new RPG to play. I'm just working on the last expansion right now and have over 100 hours into the Witcher 3 as a whole. The expansions add a lot to the game, and there's no cheesy in game purchases or anything of that nature. It's a solid game.