The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

So sad when things become main stream and lose their quality... I remember playing The Witcher "1" and being in awe. To this day I'm still not sure why the 3rd game is so praised... There must be the same people who think Skyrim was a great game... Other than the better graphics and new stuff, this game has not the same feeling than the other ones from this universe. The quests, the items, all of it feels like ordinary stuff found in any other big budget game.

This is probably one of the most overrated titles of the last decade or so. Graphically, it's really pretty and judging by the level of details one can tell the devs put their heart in this game (very rare these days!). However, combat on foot is tedious, combat on horse is simply awful (both PC and NPCs will keep missing the target) and, worst of all, the quests are simply boring. The quests are of the "fetch" type for the most part, with a lot of: 1. go speak to Mr X; 2. go on the other side of the map and investigate/kill/talk to Mr Y; 3. go back to Mr X to get your reward, but wait! since you're here, why don't you do me another favour and go to the other end of the map and talk/kill/investigate Mr Z? Thanks! Rinse and repeat. Side quests also seem to have relatively little background/story so far, and are very disconnected from one another. I tend to be a completionist when it comes to RPGs, but after 25h of The Witcher 3 I stopped doing secondary quests and only focussed on the main plot; by 37h, I gave up on the main quest as well, as that also became repetitive (I got as far as Skellage, but my interest in finding Ciri was decreasing by the minute). Sure, the world is big, but it feels like it's not really worth investigating after the first couple of locations. You mostly find only a bunch of monsters/bandits to kill, a couple of pretty (eye candy) places to admire and more fetch-quest givers. No dungeons, no long and articulated side quests, no mysteries to unravel. Even the cities like Novograd, which is rendered magnificently in great detail, feels pointless and bleak as it is devoid of ***interesting*** things to do. Sometimes it felt like the devs went for quantity (of quests, monsters, alchemic reagents) rather than quality. In all honesty, I could recommend this game only to players who have A LOT of time to kill, have fairly low expectations of what a REWARDING quest should look like and love combats where they can SMASH buttons on the keyboard.

Saw Witcher 3:Wild Hunt was on sale on GOG and Amaz*n. So created account with GOG to purchase and try GOG out versus the "other" company. After account was created and logged in, the title is switched to not being on sale after putting in cart. After removing it and going back to game page, no longer on sale. Can't help but feel this was kind of sketchy.

The AXII spell is bugged so bad it can't even be used for anything. I fucked up my playthrough by investing in magic, and I thought the puppet feature would be neat, but nope. Now I'm annoyed because I've wasted 6 points with nothing to show for it.

I played Witcher 3 2 times. First time, the game bugged out without me knowing, so I got the worst ending altough I did everyting to get the best ending. Second time, I missed one decision with Ciri and the ending is completely whacky. I dont want to even play the Addons now. So all in all I wasted 200 hours of my life just to have shit endings. Thats what I call "immersive" story-writing when one choice out of 10000s or one bug can change the whole outcome of the game. Lol.