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Everyone told me to just go to The Witcher 3 directly, told me it was "cluncky"(as in old gameplay, bad mecanics, etc...). BUT it is surprisingly dinamic, the alchemy is interesting, and overall I am loving it. I do have mods installed that change textures and makes Geralt move like 16% faster, though it does not change a thing from story nor gameplay. :)

Bad voice acting, a very slow start for the first 5 hours or so, and a weak translation. Even so The Witcher is one of the finest RPGs ever made in which the choices you make have a real noticeable impact. These choices however, are never a clear choice between good and evil as there are only shades of grey in the world of the Witcher. Everything has its downside and every character its own self-serving agenda. The consequences of these choices are handled amazingly well, as they're never clear until much further along and they always have a very real impact on the story and how you are perceived in the game. Add to all this a great story that comes together brilliantly at the end, a great alchemy system, and a distinct lack of handholding in a game that trusts the player to be able to think for themselves, and the end-result is a brilliant RPG that does justice to the way they used to make RPGs.

From the bloated cutscenes, lacklustre dialogue, and uninteresting characters to the tedious control system, this is a dull, dull, dull grindfest from beginning to the point where I finally gave up out of boredom. Sword play takes up a large proportion of the game and is basically a matter of mouse-click, mouse-click [pause], mouse-click and so on ad infinitum in battles against various humans, beasties and boggarts that always follow a set routine of moves relating to their character or species type. You basically have one option when fighting which is click your mouse at the right time to watch your character (who by the way is a blank space that its hard to have any interest in whatsoever) deliver a blow. Fighting becomes very boring, very, very quickly. Outside of fighting you'll spend a lot of time endlessly running around the same bit of game world performing pointless side quests, and (I assume this was the game designers intention) taking part in the two god-awful side games of boxing and poker dice to raise cash. Just think of the endless hours of fun you can have playing a truly rubbish boxing game to earn enough oren's (the in game currency) to buy a book, in which the information contained will then allow you to run around killing monster after monster to harvest a brain, for example. The logic being that you cannot recognise, and therefore, are unable to see the brain of something you've killed, until you have read the right book. Fortunately, now you know about brains you can sell them to earn oren's, which ironically you don't really need many of to actually complete the game: To do that you have to basically whale on everything with a sword, and you get one of these for free at the start of the game. By your hundredth mouse clicking bashfest you won't really care about the cliched plot. Avoid: Like the plague in the game.

This game is absolutely terrible. Everything bad about AAA RPGs. Terrible presentation and graphics. Nonsensical, ridiculously bad dialogue. Grind grind grind with no variation, dungeons recycled again and again with no apology. Quests have you going back and forth over and over. A game who's sole challenge is memorizing arbitrary alchemy and monster jargon rather than skill or tactical play. It is an absolute miracle that this game garnered good reviews. The next game is much much better, but still guilty in terms of gameplay, which still suffers from the same thing, and in some ways in a far worse way.

I played this many years ago when it came out with discs, still enjoying it today. One of the most iconic RPGs ever made. The combat is terrible, compared to modern day games (2024), however it is easy to get used to. For such an old game, it looks decent.