The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition

Seriously, The Witcher 3 is maybe the best open-world RPG ever made. It does so many things better than its predecessors because player's choices really have consequences for the world and for the story itself. 100/100

I have been playing this game since release and I love everyithing in it! Soundtrack, plot, gameplay - everything is perfect! I think that GOG and others have to add 6th star to that game.

This is a stodgy, uninspired but well-made action-adventure game with some basic RPG mechanics. The only thing that kept me playing was the story & scenery... especially the scenery - hats-off to the environment artists. Gameplay is mostly combat with some token RPG elements (including grind unfortunately), weak character development, stilted dialogue, few choices. Hated Geralt, hated his appearance, voice, personality, his cringeworthy cut-scenes, hated having to look at him take-up screen-space all the damn time. Hated how he always asked for money even though the loot was far more valuable... where I'm from this is extremely distasteful behavior. Also found his relationships with other NPCs to be unconvincing, which harmed the main story. Loved Dijkstra and Zoltan, the Barron, Johnny and the bog crones, Roche and Radovid were also pretty interesting. Found Skellige & Toussaint characters were too bullshitty & comical to care about. Game mechanics are basic: limited character progression and customization, limited controls, super-simple magic system, limited dialogue options. There is no inbuilt console (have to install from a 3rd party source), lacks a noclip command to get around the bullshit parts of the game like not being able to climb over an easily climbable scaffold. NPC handling is standard lifeless MMO theme-park style: roaming cardboard cutouts with a basic routine. Enemies congregate in clusters, usually around loot and respawn quickly (except named enemies). There is no NPC economy or ecology. Felt alone in the game. Player actions have little noticeable impact on the world.

THE GOOD The story is superb. cutscenes are amazing Combat is smooth, though often too easy because you can dodge anything anytime. THE BAD After deciding for a completely new approach to exploration, The Witcher 3 became an Open-world exploration game, differently from the 2 predecessors. In previous Witcher games, as well as other RPG's like Dragon Age, quests followed a certain formula. There were quests showing you on the map exactly where you have to go and there were quests which invited you to be a bit more inquisitive. The way you accquired quests could depend on your own curiosity often times. In the Witcher 3, however, you DO NOT have this second kind of quest. EVERY SINGLE QUEST is shown on the map. Even when Geralt is not supposed to know the excact location of someone, there it is: a big yellow mark showing exactly which house you have to go to. Any quest instrucion is completely unecessary. You don't need to worry about witcher investigation either because the game does it for you, with big red markings on where you have to click. But wait, the game still offers you lots of opportunity to discover interesting places, the map is big and you'll get to explore all that, right? NO. Any undiscovered point of interest is already marked on your map. Put that together with the fact that TW3 has hundreds of side quests, and you just got yourself a tiresome, boring job of running from point of interest to point of interest, going from one big yellow mark on the map to another, until someone gives you some reaward. To sum up this game doesn't want you to read anything quest-related, it doesn't want you to be curious. RPGwise, this game is definitely a step back, after so many interesting improvements in other RPG's, Witcher 1 and Witcher 2 included.

Wow. What an amazing game. I really wasn't into these kind of games that involve the slashing and looting but honestly I enjoyed every moment of running around the different maps. I wasn't too thrilled on the long cutscenes as I enjoy the gameplay much more however they did a great job at delivering me the story at an easy pace to understand as a first time witcher player.