No cloud saves. Having a Larian account is worthless. Lost all progress after a HD failure. Doesn't matter how good the game is. Losing all progress shouldn't happen. Larian's failure.
Corrupted my save. Buy it on Steam.
The Witcher 3: - Is beautiful - Is huge and expansive - Has an outstanding story - Has mostly great acting - Is complex, lore driven, and has a superb crafting system that really drags you in But The Witcher 3 also: - Has godawful combat, problems with hit detection and a parry system that barely works. Moves designed for a much faster fighting system are slowed down by animations and make combat unresponsive and irritating. It's slow to respond to everything. You swipe right through enemies without hitting you, and they'll swipe right through you without hitting you. - Does not respect your time. You can't fast travel unless you're at a signpost and in some areas signposts are a long way apart, meaning that instead of keeping the gameplay flowing you're just travelling. There's only two places to mastercraft items, and you have to walk 200 paces to get to them, they can't mastercraft all items, and you still have to walk back and forth between your stash. I've spent a lot of my time in this game just moving between places. It detracts from how good other parts are. - Has too many pointless monster encounters: they're everywhere. While you're manually travelling between places, they slow you down even more. - Drags on, even in the main story. It just never seems to get to the point. - Is repetitive. Witcher contracts are all variations on three themes. - Has an extremely unrewarding levelling system, where if you're a couple of levels above the recommended, you end up with very low exp and coin rewards. It makes you just avoid secondary and contracts because there's no point. - Has fixed levels for its weapons, which makes doing any other quests, or tackling the main overlevelled, unrewarding because the game no longer rewards you. You can't upgrade anything but witcher gear. Mastercrafting is laborious and grandmasters are frankly ridiculous. Spare 60 hours? On sale? Go for it. Otherwise, nah. Skip the grind, read the books.
