I have been playing video games since 1999 and this game is easily the best game I ever played. I never enjoyed a game like this before. I %100ed the game from the first playthrough and for sure I will do it again. This game is by far the best RPG game on its generation. No game comes close to it at all. Pros: *Amazing story. Either main or secondary quests, both of them are so amazing. The game have high level of story writing that the DLCs alone can be better than a lot of AAA games stories. *Investing in small details. Details are well presented and it will amaze you how the details are paid attention too. For example the man from the books whom Geralt had a contract with and couldn't pay him cause he disappeared and then you meet him at Toussaint so he tells him that he put his reward at bank account savings all that time. Many other details from the books and first two games are cannon and presented in well which shows how much they put effort on the events and writing. *Diverse combat. Technically combat is considered the weakest point on the game. But its still so great that says a lot about the game on how the weakest point is still so amazing. You can play the game in many different styles, you could easily play 4 playthroughs and you can play all of them with different gear and style. Cons: *Some bugs may be annoying but most of them are fixed at 1.32 and the ones left are non game breaking at all from my experience and they can be solved be re-loading the save. *The destiny of Ciri is decided by calculating points from dialogues between Geralt and Ciri and not by serious decision making on events like "Heart of Stone" and "Blood and Wine". *No Iorveth :'( I would like also to add that to have the best experience its recommended to play Witcher 1 & 2 before playing 3 since playing 1 & 2 after 3 will make you hate 1 & 2 because of how good 3 was.
I didn't expect Witcher 2 to be that good cause all of the things of skipping to 3 I heard on social media, people get triggered mostly are the ones who played 3 then go to 2 and they see that its not as good, but if you play the series in order then you would enjoy every single one of them. Pros: *Great story. *Great music and soundtracks. *Main quests are very good. *Interesting boos fights even though there wasn't many. *The concept of actions and consequences are amazing that makes Gerlat feel more like you since he is written in a way where he is too much neutral. Cons: *Kind of short for RPG game. *Side quests are not that good compared to Witcher 1 and 3. *Map are way much smaller compared to Witcher 1 and 3.
GWENT and LoR are the best CCGs on the market right now based on your personal preference. Pros: *Great strategical gameplay with no mana curve easy mode plays. *Very balanced compared to other CCGs with the frequent balance patches. *Faction identity are strong with no copy paste styles between factions. *No mana system. *Very little RNG presence and barley have effect on game result. *Draw RNG are minimized to the least. *Generous economy, with 20$ only I got full faction collection in 1 month only. *Ranked are more interesting when you reach pro rank compared to other CCGs due to the rule of playing with 4 factions to unlock your full MMR. Cons: *The paper rock scissors triangle of power between control/engines/point-slam could get a little bit boring and RNGiesh in terms of matchmaking. *Long periods between expansions could be boring to some people.
If you are a Witcher fan, then this game is a must play. A lot of people pass it just cause its a gwent related but you don't need to be a gwent fan to play. Pros: *Great story and taken from the books. *The voice acting are beyond amazing. *The graphics are very good. *The game are optimized properly and can run on low end devices easily. *Puzzles are soo interesting. *The concept of choices and consequences are applied with high quality. Cons: *Kinda easy even at highest difficulty except for boss fights. *Non boss fights are so repetitive specially the standard battles (non shorten ones).
To be fair to the game, we would need to put in our mind that the game was released in 2007 and it was the first game from the studio. Pros: *The story are good and very interesting. It kept me engaged and motivated through the whole time and never felt bored and just want to end the game. *The combat are complex and cover a wide range of options and possibilities. You just need to get your grip on the combat system then you will enjoy it. *The graphics are good for its time. *The consequence of actions are really great and implemented in a good way. The actions of the players matter a lot and it change how the whole game are played. *The potion system are interesting and offer all the things a player need to boost the experience. Good potion user will have a better time playing the game. *Simple armor and weapon system with reasonable upgradable options through the game. *The journal contain a lot of useful information specially for lore motivated players. *Romance Card <3 Cons: *Quests are not ordered and you would need to figure out what order you need to follow from the Witcher wiki. *Some Quests don't trigger automatically and you would need to search in the Witcher wiki to check what is the next phase so you would be able to trigger the quest manually (like gold rush). *Some secondary quests are essential to progress in the game main story but its labeled as secondary (echo's of yesterday, six feet under, and gold rush). *Combat with OTS may get bugged at some fights and you would need to switch to other mode. *At chapter 5 at some point the game will start crashing a lot more than usual. From chapter 1-4 it crashed only twice, in chapter 5 alone it crashed around 4 times.
