When, I was a kid, I wanted to make my own games. The idea was to have a living breathing fantasy/medieval world. Witcher 3 kind of hit that on the nose, and unlike my 15 year old self had the characterization and the writing to make such a massive project, just so enjoyable instead of a large slog of samey content over and over. It is a vast world and a vast adventure, with people of all types, with a very humanist outlook on life. I honestly prefer it to the witcher books, and with the witcher series on netflix coming back, I played witcher 1, witcher 2, and witcher 3. I will be very honest, witcher 1, I barely made it, chapter 2 and three kicked my ass. Witcher 2, It flowed very quickly cause after all it felt very linear. Witcher 3 however, was like coming home again, everything felt... right. The controls are so innuitive for me that I didn't even remember half of them before, the first fight I was swinging back and forth like a expert. I was on the highest difficulty on new game+ I eventually turned it down, cause the fights were doable but it was a lot of time and effort per fight that I couldn't afford anymore, cause I don't have as much free time.
