I think others have spoken plenty about this game. I have waited years for another title to immerse me. I have found it in the Witcher 3. I bought the Collector's Edition, Steam, and now GOG. Although I jumped into the Witcher world on 3, I've been slowly catching up through various novel/story outlets and am planning to play 1 and 2 soon, once I am done with 3. The story is the usual heroic fantasy type. It is how it is delivered, and the characters that deliver it, and the world surrounding these characters, their reaction to the environment and changes, that makes it truly epic. I mean, my first playthrough I had about 138 hours into it and I had just finished the main story, bypassing almost all contracts and side quests. This was probably due to the Death March difficulty, but nonetheless, I'm going through my second playthrough now on an easier difficulty, taking my time to soak in all of the content I had missed the first time around. The only disappointment I can say with the game is the absolute ending, when you continue playing post main arc. They remove all of the critical characters, and the immersion for me immediately stopped. I have seen numerous threads and pages of complaints regarding this and supposedly they will be adding some post-end game content here soon to alleviate this. If you haven't played any of the Witcher games, you do not feel behind. There is an option when starting a new game to simulate Witcher 2, in which some dialogue is tailored in reference to Witcher 2 and allow you to respond as such. With it toggled off, the game just skips or picks your responses to these lines. Not a big deal. I didn't feel one bit left out having not played any previous game or read any previous book. Witcher 3 delivered it's own story, and opened up the whole Witcher world to me.
