巫师3：狂猎-年度游戏版

with rtx enabled I cant even play this game. i was so excited for this update to as I just upgraded my pc.

I don't want to repeat what others have said, so I'm going to highlight what is so great about this game. There is no other game with a better cast of characters than the Witcher 3. And I've played all the Biowares, the Mass Effects, Walking Dead, Ubisoft's garbage, your Naughty Dogs, what have you. They are nothing compared to the Witcher. While the voice acting may be as good or even better than the Witcher 3 in the aforementioned games, the story here cannot be beat. We finally have a game where you have to make morally grey choices, where the 'right' decision isn't obvious. This isn't a moronic good/evil system that so many other games employ, it can be really hard to know what the right call to make is. It treats people as people; complicated, with different personalities and values and ideals, where both sides have cause to claim the scepter of righteousness. This is only part of what makes it so much better than the other games, which are little more than movies that you sometimes push a button to pause/unpause. The choices you make vastly change the outcome of the characters you are involved with. And as you get to know these people you care more about their fates. No other game offers this kind of player choice and really makes you feel the consequences of your actions, despite your best intentions. Graphically it's fabulous. The audio is atmospheric, and the atmosphere is great. Now. That's what's good. The bad is everything else. Notably combat, gear, inventory management, the alchemy system, and the FarCry style "find the pip on the map and chase it"-style of RPG questing. It does make it easier to get yourself involved in the story, but this system is so brainless and dull it detracts from the otherwise awesome experience. While you could just ignore it the game has not been designed for that and trying to find a quest-needle in a haystack without the minimap icons. The terrible gameplay is the tax you pay for the amazing interactive story.

Although i own it and played it on PS4 including "hearts of stone", I missed the fall sale but plan on buying it GOTY for PC from here mostly because CDProjectRed made a TRUE game for the players in every way . The story is amazing, the choices always made me wonder "...what if...", i cared for all the characters and they left a mark. Buy this. The game shows the love it was made with in every quest, in every corner of the world, in every character and his own story. This is the new standard every game should be measured against.

Update made the game unplayable

Put hundreds of hours into the game, and the latest update rendered the entire game unplayable; dx12 does not launch, dx11 has suddenly turned from 70+ fps on high to 5-10 fps on minimum settings. It's a shame to have to spend the entire time you could've been playing figuring out why after years it no longer launches...