The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

I wanted to enjoy the game but my god. The audio, specifically speech, stopped working on my game! Worked fine until I made it to the Red Baron. Saved game, continued a few days later and now I cant hear the voice acting. Just the subtitles. All the other audio is fine. Tried restarting the game etc. and the voice acting is still mute. No settings were changed so don't understand the voice acting becoming mute. All this time, I heard about how fantastic this game was, finally gave it a try. Just a few hours in, it goes stupid on me! Starting completely over is not an option. If it did it to me a few hours in, what if I did 100s of hours than it bugged out on me? The problems were drowned out on this game because people claimed it was so great. All hype! At least Skyrim didn't bug out on me like this game did!

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My big problem is how simplified the gameplay is. Most enemy weaknesses are just a simple "use this for +10%" more damage. It's all numerical and doesn't actually change the way you play. How cool would it be if there was an invisible enemy but you could brew a potion that gives you daredevil style sonic vision? That would be way more interesting than just a "numbers go up" bonus. Most of the talents are this way too, and a lot of the things you can do aren't very impactful. Bombs and signs never really felt like they did much for me, and the archery system is a complete waste of time. Each arrow hit doesn't even move enemy health bars visibily because the damage is so poor. That leaves swordfighting which is far and away the most effective and therefore most enjoyable aspect of the combat to the point where I just ignored everything else and did fine. But even then its pretty basic, just your standard light, heavy, block, parry, dodge roll system. No special stances or techniques for the most part. Ciri is a little more interesting because she gets spatial warp powers to augment her swordfighting, but it just feels kinda gimicky after a while. I wish they made the combat more tactical. Item management is also not a concern, once you craft something it just refills every time you rest and there are no consequences to resting. So prepping to fight specific monsters goes out the window. The story setup is also kind of tedious. Basically its go to three seperate places that are all level gated and look for clues. So obviously Ciri is going to be at the highest level area right? Yup. So much of the main story is just pointless side quests that don't accomplish anything. I liked the Bloody Baron storyline, but the rest was kinda meh. The one thing Witcher 3 does really well is make you feel immersed in a fantasy world. Playing it actually made me more intrigued about the books, whereas the previous two titles didn't accomplish that.

There is no way really to put it in words, you have to play it and enjoy. This is just art. It is a dark epic medieval world. If swords, magic and adventures in a charming world is what you are looking for don´t miss this one. Don't miss the expansion Blood and Wine either. It is even better than the original game. That expansion deserves winning the Game of the Year 2016 so far...

It's a fine game but at the end of it i felt like it was a bit too long and there was a lot of repetitive quests. Inventory management is a bit of a pain too and i really wish that crafted items didn't overshadow all the stuff i find.