Awestriking art style. Gorgeous dungeons. Beautiful landscapes. Gothic humour. Banger music. Fairytale atmosphere but with grimdark twists and H. R. Giger that turn the familiar Story into something curiously alien. It's been a long while since I've played a game that respected your time and rewarded EXPLORATION so much as this one. The combat is always FUN and lets you combine any style you want to play. Mechanics of crafting, alchemy, cooking are extremely useful even if you spend only minimal time with them. The negatives are the crushing loneliness you can feel in the middle of certain settlements due to the lack of population, it's even worse than in Bethesda games. The existing NPCs all over the world have very little dialogue and that's mostly only quest related. So they don't feel living because you can't chat with them to learn secrets or lore or something about their lives. Most just feel like they are there for the sole purpose of giving you something to do then can't say anything after. They also have only minimal schedules, stand in place, work, sleep. And sometimes not even that, which makes stealing for example impossible in some shops. So I can't give this a 10/10 even though I love it!
I love The Witcher 3's Gwent but online deck builders and card games have never been my style. I like to see the beautiful art of the cards, especially the animated ones. I enjoy the story and lore references too. Not so much the gameplay because I have no idea how to form a strategy.
THE RETURN OF THE STALKER I love it.
First of all I let this game age and rest because I knew it was gonna be janky on release just like Kingmaker was. But after all these years this game is still a mess, it aged like milk. On higher difficulties (Core and above) the balance is terrible. Mechanics, classes, archetypes are still buggy. The world building is meh, the story is boring. The crusade micromanagement just makes it worse instead of adding valuable content. I couldn't believe this but they actually managed to make this one worse than their first game. There is absolutely no reason to waste your time with this when there are real D&D CRPGs. Avoid and forget this homebrew dogshit.
Absolute classic. I'm still in love with its atmosphere! Infinitely replayable with mods.
I've lost like 10 hours of gameplay because they've managed to mess up even the DLC implementation and it caused the "DLC required" error to ruin my recent savegames. this game is technically one of the worst trash i've played in 2018.
This game finally has the potential of becoming the Baldur's Gate 3 after all the other mediocre indie attempts such as Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny and Divinity: Original Sin. Unfortunately it's still a disaster technologically. Plenty of quests and mechanics are still glitchy. Skill descriptions are inaccurate, especially in the non-english translations. The quest descriptions and journal entries are often useless so you better grab pen & paper and start scribbling down WHERE and WHEN to go from the dialogues. Also a certain mod named Bag of Tricks actually unlocks this Wild Cards DLC content automatically, even when you haven't bought it. So you might want to look into that matter. I just wanted to simply patch my game but then Galaxy downloaded the whole 2,5 Gb mess. Please don't force your DLCs I haven't bought and don't want to play (yet) on my PC!
Peak RPG, true to the Witcher's world! I still play it every year.
