I'm relatively late to the party with KCD, mainly because I don't buy games straightaway on release. I wait 6 months or longer for bugs to be squashed and the price to come down. Playing KCD in mid-2019 has been one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I'm in my mid-40's and have been playing games since the early 80's, and KCD has to be in the top 3 games of all time for me. I do actually work at a medieval castle so the setting plays into my interests, but even so I'll just lay out why I think this is an excellent game to buy now. The attention to detail and historicity of the game. Voice acting is excellent, with some very funny dialogue at times. Some parts with quite esoteric gameplay. The quest in the monastery was an interesting change of pace, as was the quest with an eccentric priest. The mini-games like sharpening blades, brewing concoctions all made sense in the world and didn't break immersion. I liked the combat system. Every game with combat has to use an abstracted model of real combat in a game and I think KCD's is a good one. I think people had problems with it initially because it doesn't conform to the hack n slash paradigm that dominates action games. Combat takes patience and learning and at the end of a fight gives you a real sense of achievement, especially if you manage a combo. The graphics are beautiful, although that does come at the price of pretty hefty hardware requirements to get 60fps. The main story is good, but it was the story of the game world as a whole that was the most interesting to me. A topic of medieval history I didn't know much about. There was a few niggles in the game like guards stuck in the air, my horse getting stuck or me getting stuck in bushes (although I've had that happen in real life tbf) guards suddenly getting triggered to arrest me for no reason. Nothing major that spoiled my enjoyment though. I really recommend the game if you want something different and want a game to immerse yourself in
