its pretty sweet but once you get hooked into it, it stops too quickly with little or none endgame. I mean they could have easily done all the quests to refresh themselves, without have to restart the whole storyline to do that. Cause restarting the storyline for the 50th time in a row starts getting depressing, and being locked out of zones you had access to before, also annoyingly lame. the melee combat also has some issues that can irritate you in the perfect moment for maximum effect. Good graphics and atmosphere though. kinda poor performance.
i played this new gwent for no longer than a couple hours before it became dead in the community making it impossible to find a match that is even close to your power. you just get steamrolled everytime, seemingly there are no bots to fill in the void for the lvl caps in matchmaking. But the core of the game mechanics is totally different from the OG gwent. Seriously, why did they steal the name? They should have gwent 1.0 with online pvp matches enabled. And then this game should have a sequel name that is different and adds on to gwent, but distinguishes as a totally different card game. This is a horrible card game. pay2win is only thing in the books here. Instead of expanding on the og gwent by adding lvling/online, they removed all core mechanics in exchange for boringness. stat padders, where tactics are removed in exchange for ppl with the most upgraded cards.
Its difficult not to like this game, i'd say impossible if you have a taste for medieval stuff. You can really tell there is a lot of depth in the game when you play it, which shows that some real effort was put into making it. major props to how well the finished product turned out. i remember being hyped about this game years ago and it was the only hype that actually ended up paying off. Honestly i believe this game series out to have infinite renditions of it like assassins creed is getting or call of duty is getting. And in future sequels they ought to add large scale battles. since there is a part of the map that shows somewhat of an "aftermath" of a large scale battle, i had really hoped the battle itself would be a part of the game. all the elements for it are already there. Also many parts of the game are locked or beyond the map and i wished you could go there eventually. like the military outpost for example. The game also needed to have a higher ratio of quests where you have a companion alongside you on the mission. or make it like optional to invite a companion to the mission with you. Also there needs to be dialogue during quests that could potentially lead to the death of your companion, or something tragic. not quite enough tragic stuff happening. but overall its still the best game i've played since ever. it is more than just game of the year. especially in these times when the expectations of games has been lowered by so many early access and triple A game companies. Usually i'm very wary of paying for DLC in a game unless it truly deserves it. well i'd definitely count this game as very deserving of DLC. its a justified purchase. hopefully they take that money and spend it on making more sequels to the series. i think this game beats assassins creed by a mile
