If you relatively new to gaming, ignore the graphics, combat system and user interface which are seriously outdated and just focus on the story and characters. This is an absolute gem of a game that you ought to play at least once if your into RPGs.
Decided to give this a try, despite ignoring the overwhelming negative reviews for this expansion, mainly because I was a fan of the original games from around 15 years ago. Suffice to say it was a disappointing experience. There was approximately 24 hours worth of gameplay, but I honestly cannot recall much of it, because it was boring and straight forward. No surprises and nothing that was challenging. Story line and writing are all over the place, with many loop holes. Writing seems to have been watered down in terms of quality. It was good seeing some old characters again, but more emphasis seems to have been placed on new NPCs which for the most part were extremely annoying and not what I wanted to see in an expansion of beloved game. Not worth investing time or money on this.
This is a master piece. It is not perfect, no game ever is, but by gosh this has to be the best game I have played. The story line, characters, world building, music, graphics, voice acting, romances, etc. are just on another level. Lovely attention to detail throughout the game, and certainly it sets the standard for the RPG genre. One can tell a lot of love went into creating Witcher 3 and it represents fantastic value for money. Would highly recommend getting yourself a xbox controller for playing this.
