this was a real struggle, i feel like i love and hate this game for an amount of facts that regard it's relase and the period before the launch, so im just gonna do the classic pro and cons bullet list. Pros: 1- AMAZING AN MANICAL CURE FOR THE DETAILS, Geralt can do lots of things, and shit happen when you do something from walking to slam a monster on the ground. 2- Immersive world and (obviously) flora and fauna at the highest level of interaction that i have ever saw in a videogame. 3-Animations are stunning. 4- Graphics porn. 5- Accurated medieval fantasy for the enviroment: castles, cities, population, swords and armors are really well caractherized but not exaggerated and exasperated with multiple cultures and ages, im Italian so i know something about medieval things (thank god this game wasn't maded by Americans). 6- Outstanding dialogues face expressions and voices. 7- Loads of characters and references from the series of books (which i absolutley love). 8- (this is a pro but also a con) Huge, just huge multi region "open" world. 9- Awesome monsters. 10- Soundtrack and musics are just...WOW. 10- Side quests are better then the main storyline. (wait, is this even a pro?) Now the cons: 1- First of all the gigantic pile of shitty advertisement and speculation in forums, youtube and social media. Disgusting. Just disgusting. Features and gameplay was really familiar when i bought the game because i knew 70% of the shit it was going to happen in the gameplay by just scrolling my facebook page or the browser. 2- Mechanics are well done but are not lore firendly with books, more action and less strategy are not good for a Witcher. 3- THE FRIGGIN LEVEL SYSTEM. im fucking geralt of rivia, butcher of blaviken, the whitewolf, gwynbleidd im a legend for christ sake (and my fucking memory was restored.). what the fuck do you mean that i can't use that silver sword because im not at it's level. and don't get me started about doing a contract with high level of difficulty. sooooo annoying and badly tought. 3-Narrative and storyline are disappointing, don't get me wrong, have some emotional and well written moments but at a certain point it is just dragged and pushed without no sense for a total boring ending no matter what choiches you've done. It had potential, but it's hilarious at one point when you need to find Ciri (and quickly because the fucking wild hunt is looking for her) to save her and: " oh a contract, wow i need money... ooooh what's in that dungeon... oooo look at this smith he can forge me some cool shit (that i can't wear for some reason)... oh look a side quest... oh wow another contract....(yes fallout 4 im looking at you) 4- The cons about a huge giant open world is that you need to FILL IT. And last but not least: 5- THE BIIIIIIIIIG, HUUUUUUGE... FUCKING... LAMING... ANNOYING AMOUNT OF FREAKING UPDATES. don't get me worng, awesome awesome yeah free content cool very cool, but interface has changed so many times, graphic in a month was well optimized and one month later was not, bugs correction, and again interface changing. for my personal point of view this creates a discontinued and unimmersive way to play a game. Conclusion: I loved witcher 1 and 2, and i loved the third one and as a matter of fact my opinin about this game has changed drastically. But really, I felt like my experience was uncomplete and at the end i felt like... "is that it?" the narrative didn't absolutely get me like the first two chapters, I had a real struggle to continue the game with those updates that was like to play an early access, which is the way that games are done in 2015/16 you just feel to have in your hands a shiny new car designed by Bugatti without no doors and 3 tires. This is a technical masterpiece with some wrong choiches by the developers in my opinion, to me was an early access that neeeded more time and better tought decisions about gameplay and narrative. Beside that this game is worth the money and i had a blast with it anyway and i can feel the passion of Cd Projeckt in making it, but i probably was very very anxious to play the game and the general hype and the reasons that i've previously described have done only bad to my experience and also because it's just different from books in many ways but not in others (this is not a guilt) FINAL VOTEs: 8.5/10 For me. For everyone that is not familiar with books and is looking to play it now that is complete is 9/10
Just Awful, poor optimization at the highest level.
Still good today. Mount and blade is rich of features and fun, can't wait for bannerlord to come out.
