TW3 has become a solid paradigm in the game industry for all the AAA furure games who will try to walk this grounds.
Too many concepts for so low immersion...
I was raised in adventures game era... first time I touched this game at PSX, it was great relief. It was amazing be able to play it again in computer.
From now, all new generation game have a star to follow. The Witcher 3 is the best game ever made! Not only by its astonishing graphics and animations, which per se are breathtaking, nor by the playability, that is a solid step forward in game evolution, nor even by the charismatics characters, that we loved since The Witcher 1 or by their backgrounds histories (which always was amazing, much before The Witcher 3 be imagined), and still not by the terrific lore from the Witcher's world... it's all about the storytelling! The Witcher 3 brought me from the laughs to the tears, from the scare to the jubilation... for the very first time, I've really felt the need to help people, to now what is happening to "my" (Geralt's) friends, to fight for the weaks (personified in Geralt), even in some side quests, I caught me so engaged to the gameplay, that I get to get really tired, sad, angry or frustrated, behind the control, while dealing with such pains resultant from the war in the game. And I also caught myself (as Geralt) being loyal to what I think be the most closest to the true love of Geralt: Yennefer. It's equally amazing the furious expression of Geralt when he's close to start a fight against a "monster" til the death and the expression of a silly boy staring his first love when talking to Yenn... it's so embarrassingly natural and real, how many times we fell in love this way? Most of the time it happens only once, and yet it may be so rapturous and so fleeting at the same time. This game was a gift. I can only thank you for that. =]
I still have a original copy from 1996. This game blew my mind in 90'', I was young and this game showed me everything a game could be. One of my fav adventure game, sharing place with The Dig and Monkey Island! Very nice move with this, GoG! Thanks!
