and yet its still the best game i ever played. if you expect GTA 2077 you'll be disappointed, if you liked previous games from CDPR you'll love it. Night City is truly incredible, we've not seen a city of such scale, detail and density in a game before, and we're not gonna see one any time soon, its really jawdropping and it makes you feel tiny. the same detail is found inside of various buildings and is also true for character models, who not only have high quality textures, but also facial/body animations, you can tell people's emotions just by looking at their face and body language, on top of that you have quality lightening (and ray tracing !) for the first time in my life i feel like i'm playing a next gen game. gunplay has quality sound, animations and feels good, when compared to melee combat in Witcher games CDPR did a much job on their first try, which is rather impressive. driving is mixed bag, bikes feel good, but cars are worse, main issue is overly sensitive controls, its near impossible to make small adjustments while driving which makes it feel "jerky" the game allows you multiple playstyles like melee, hacking, and gun oriented, the way you earn perk points by using all different skills rewards you for mixing things up which feels rewarding, and being able to assign the perk point to any skill tree only furthers that, i love the design, my only issue would be that CDPR could've gotten little more creative with the skill trees, seeing more skills rather than stat increases would be welcome. the story is good, the campaing takes around 25 hours, and there's a lot of quality sidecontent that'll extend that to 50 - 100+ hours depending on whether you focus on major sidequests or want to clear all map markers if i could give it 4.5 stars i would, because there are lot of bugs, but at the same its an amazing game that will only get better with time, i'm sure lot of people chimping out right now will come back to it in couple of months.
Thronebreaker is single player RPG with a great story made by writers of Witcher 3, and the gameplay consists of Gwent puzzles and matches, one thing to keep in mind is Gwent has been vastly improved from the small Witcher 3 mini game, the card style, board (or should i say battlefield !) and the complexity and balance have all been improved. game looks absolutely gorgous, the story is brilliant and the choices you make along the way feel even more difficult than any Witcher game, you also have fun puzzles and fights throughout the game while building up your army. recommended for any fan of the Witcher lore, if you're a fan of card games its a no-brainer, if you never played any i'd still recommend it, just play on easy and enjoy the beautiful world and engaging story.
The game has changed since beta, in a lot of ways, mostly for the better, CDPR continue to improve the game with every patch. a lot of people can't comprehend Gwent had to change in order to improve, and speaking from experience its hard to re-learn the game mechanics and cards as we've had a lot of changes coming out of beta, its easier to scream how the game is bad in hopes CDPR change it back rather than learning how to play,
