Read Negative User Reviews for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on PC

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Heraldozka

Dec 13, 2020

Game praticamente perfeito gráficos incríveis mundo incrivelmente grande, muitas coisas pra fazer, nunca fica chato, sla quantas hora deGame praticamente perfeito gráficos incríveis mundo incrivelmente grande, muitas coisas pra fazer, nunca fica chato, sla quantas hora de conteúdo e nada repetitivo, esse game sim foi bom.… Expand

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Kris9308

Dec 12, 2020

Juego esplendido, las misiones memorables tanto las principales como las secundarias. totalemtne recomendado

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PanPrado30

Dec 12, 2020

Very bad game with stupid main character. The world is emty and plot is writing on knee.

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YouLoose

Dec 14, 2020

CdProjectred is one of the most amateur game developers ever. Rockstar, Ubisoft, Remedy Entertainment, id Software, Capcom - All of them makeCdProjectred is one of the most amateur game developers ever. Rockstar, Ubisoft, Remedy Entertainment, id Software, Capcom - All of them make better video games.… Expand

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dansalmon

Dec 15, 2020

i did not like this game, its the only game i put down after 8 hours and said im done. i give them all the credit in the world for creating ai did not like this game, its the only game i put down after 8 hours and said im done. i give them all the credit in the world for creating a work of digital art for sure, they nailed the theme and atmosphere they really did. but the gameplay just didn't do it for me whatsoever, nor did a lot of the writing and characters. im not a fan of cd projectk red, and i dont think the witcher 3 deserves top rankings.
4 for effort… Expand

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CyberAnthem

Dec 16, 2020

@ Grubon

I'm sorry to break it to you but this Skyrim clone is not even close to be considered art. It was always overrated by small group@ Grubon

I'm sorry to break it to you but this Skyrim clone is not even close to be considered art. It was always overrated by small group of fanboys and only reason it got wider attention was because Tv show. Millions of gamers have absolutely never cared about witcher 3 and have always looked at it as extremely overrated game and it really is that. That's just fact. Now when Cyberpunk 2077 released it became obvious that these developers 1. don't care about their fans at all 2. they have absolutely no idea what they are doing. So you trying to call people trolls is just pathetic. This company deserves to be called out now more than ever.
Only idiot here is you.… Expand

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BattleforDeath

Dec 17, 2020

Huh, what can i say? I played it for 4 hours, wanted to try it out because why not. I have to be honest i have never been so bored whileHuh, what can i say? I played it for 4 hours, wanted to try it out because why not. I have to be honest i have never been so bored while playing a video game. First off, main character is extremely monotonous, almost feels like he thinks that he is better than others or something, idk, but he felt very unlikable to me. Story quests were just regular stuff, i have seen better quests in Runescape. I'm serious. Maybe there are better quests in late game? I have no idea, but this game didn't captivate me to waste more time on it.… Expand

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fooba

Jul 28, 2020

Boring combat and overall boring gameplay. Story is pretty good. Music nothing memorable. Vastly overrated.

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TowerofLife

Dec 17, 2020

Witcher 3 is not even comparable to classics like Red Dead Redemption (2010), Skyrim (2011), Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), Assassin's Creed 4:Witcher 3 is not even comparable to classics like Red Dead Redemption (2010), Skyrim (2011), Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (2013), Max Payne 2 (2003), Doom (1993) and so many more. This user score very likely got that high, because bunch of fanboys gave it 10/10's. Whatever, not recommending.… Expand

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Dukemon

Jul 8, 2020

I've tried this game like 3-4 times but never made it more than 1 hour, the combat is horrible, movement animations feel clunky and it's tooI've tried this game like 3-4 times but never made it more than 1 hour, the combat is horrible, movement animations feel clunky and it's too dense with so many needless potions… Expand

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Ganderlow

Jul 19, 2020

After playing this game for 10 hours I still don't enjoy it very much. I kept playing in hopes it would get better or be more interesting, butAfter playing this game for 10 hours I still don't enjoy it very much. I kept playing in hopes it would get better or be more interesting, but personally, this game isn't fun to me. I wish I could enjoy it as much as my friends.… Expand

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rokushowins

May 29, 2020

Finally got to play this game and ... it is a huge disappointment , first let's start with the gameplay.

- I taked my time to read someFinally got to play this game and ... it is a huge disappointment , first let's start with the gameplay.

- I taked my time to read some reviews and as others have said it feels more like watching a movie than actually playing a videogame, there are even small side quest that have like 6 cutscenes,,, you only have to pick a dialogue option and walk a bit.

-The combat is also very limited, you can't jump, you can't use stealth and there are only 5 spells, so you pretty much have to fight the same style through all the game, so the combat gets very boring and repetitive after a while, even worse if you decide to do another playthrough.

-The weapons are also uninspired, and the crossbow is one of the worst weapons i've used on a videogame, it goes from doing almost no damage to one-hit kill the same monsters if you are under water,it doesn't make any sense

-The story was also forgettable, nothing i haven't seen in others games, you pretty much are the world savior, people complained about this type of stories in others games but in this game they decided that the story was great, wich is incomprehensible.

But the worst part of this game is the open world design, aside of good graphics the open world feels very empty, compared to for example, Skyrim, cdproject chosed quantity over quality, there are much more npcs but 99% of the npcs just curse and spit, they don't talk with you and don't add anything to the game, in skyrim every npc was unique in some way, and they had something to say or even a quest related. i guess that cdproject knew that the open world was too empty so they decided to put a mark on the few npc's that have something to say or a quest to give you, wich makes exploration pointless since you already know where you have to go and with who you have to talk every time you get to a new town or city.

-Other huge problem in this open world is that everything feels too scripted, theres no random events, so every playthrough is going to be the same aside the choices you make in certain points of the main quest or side quests, so the open world is pretty much just a barren land to get through your next quest

-The dungeons are also too samey, in Skyrim every dungeon was different and had some story, item, or quest related to it, instead on the witcher 3 most of the dungeons are just small caves with a monster to hunt and nothing else

-Aside from novingrad and maybe skellige port every town or city is copypasted and as i have said because of the npcs system that cdproject chosed, most of those "hubs" don't have a single npc to talk to, the npcs are just walking around repeating the same words or making spitting sounds when you try to talk with them, very sad… Expand

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HeresaWar

Dec 17, 2020

Maybe unpopular opinion, i don't care, because i have right for my opinion. I didn't like it. I was bored most of the time, i didn't feel anyMaybe unpopular opinion, i don't care, because i have right for my opinion. I didn't like it. I was bored most of the time, i didn't feel any connection with main character.… Expand

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c00lest_nibba12

Jul 20, 2020

Game physic is absolute **** expecially on PC. And too many options. To compare: Ghost of Tsushima is introducing new options gradually. IfGame physic is absolute **** expecially on PC. And too many options. To compare: Ghost of Tsushima is introducing new options gradually. If you never played games like Dark Souls III or Skyrim, you can easily get through options. But in this game: You have all options throw at the start, so you could play with it. + quests are very similar and boring. When im fighting i dont fell like im there. + there is a bug with world map, that's disappears after a minute in menu.… Expand

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Oniiichan

Jul 21, 2020

Отвратительная боевка,сюжет не заинтересовал ни капельки,ещё и на моем ПК,когда я пытался выставить 1080р,игра выходила за рамки экрана.Отвратительная боевка,сюжет не заинтересовал ни капельки,ещё и на моем ПК,когда я пытался выставить 1080р,игра выходила за рамки экрана.

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DeniMars

Jul 26, 2020

Не понимаю такого повального восторга от этой игры. Она плоха во всем, от кривого неудобного управления, до псевдо-искусственного открытогоНе понимаю такого повального восторга от этой игры. Она плоха во всем, от кривого неудобного управления, до псевдо-искусственного открытого мира. На начальной локации ставить врагов с черепом на голове, которые убивают с 1-2 ударов, игрока, который только-только учится играть и привыкает к неудобному корявому управлению, это верх некомпетентности разработчиков. Смысл тогда от открытости мира, если меня насильно толкают по сюжету, а на всех значках вопросов отвешивают завышенные по уровню враги. Ну либо там просто копипаста места силы да гнезда. Нет смысла исследовать локации. Идти строго по сюжету и все, ну и делайте тогда коридорную, сюжетно-ориентированную игру. Дерганная камера, от которой голова кружиться начинает, особенно когда ГГ лезет по лестнице. Максимально убогая однообразная боевка. Ни стелса, ни каких то различий в оружии. Все сводится к маханию мечом и вечным перекатам. Даже знаки и те неудобно использовать. Через меню. В том же Ассассине умения (считай знаки) и то проще и продуманней реализованы. Вне боя Геральт за все цепляется, поворачивается как танк на месте, вечно куда то несется и упирается во все подряд. Играть невозможно. 80% всего геймплея это кат-сцены, от которых через время уже начинаешь уставать и тянет зевать. Инвентарь настолько запутанный, что черт ногу сломит. За что ей завышают так оценки, мне не понятно. Она плоха вообще во всем. Глупые НПС, которые тебя вечно толкают и в тебя врезаются, а спутники прижимаются к тебе и трутся об тебя, мешаясь постоянно. Да и НПС пустые болванки, декорации с одинаковыми лицами, которые по сути не несут никакой пользы в игре, только создают помехи. Мини карта с мелкими значками на которой ничерта не видно. Переоцененная игра. Единственно, за что можно накинуть баллы, так только за музыку и неплохие пейзажи ну и может быть сами квесты и их повествование.… Expand

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Vondett

Sep 4, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I spent over 100 hours in this game on hardest difficulty. Completing every side quest and all DLC content. And I hated this game .
First of , just like in many fantasy games , it kind of creates this premise that you(the character that you play, not really you in real life) are special guy whose actions will change the course of the world or how the world perceives you, it doesn't, it wont . You just yet another witcher on a job ... the whole main quest "the princess is in another castle" is just infuriatingly frustrating . You run around like a chicken completing fetch quests to no avail until you complete enough of them to finally find the princess ...
The combat gets repetitive and stale very fast , in the first couple of hours . Once you find your style - sword , magic or poisons or a mix between and kind of figure out where you want to take your character there isn't much development in that regard at all after level 5-7 , it gets boring quick . Dodge ,slash , use a sign , repeat . . . .

Voice acting is nice , but it alone does not warrant all the hype this game is still getting .… Expand

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2021betteryear

Dec 17, 2020

Pretty average game, if i'm honest. I have zero idea why it has so high rating. Not recommending!

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truelogicwarrio

Jun 28, 2020

Dull copy-paste of other games with a mediocre plot. PR company made a name for this game, bravo!

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streetfighter01

Oct 19, 2020

even though it's supposed to be a rpg you can't even create a character. the character you forced to play in this pseudo-rpg is pseudo-geralteven though it's supposed to be a rpg you can't even create a character. the character you forced to play in this pseudo-rpg is pseudo-geralt of rivia which developers butchered his character so much he became a completely new character. if you want to butcher his character further you can choose a lot of dialog options that real geralt wouldn't choose lol. while main story is boring which they kinda did copy-paste the most boring parts of the books, side quests are no different than elder scrolls side quests. they even sell a dlc that has the same side quest as oblivion has without dlc BS lol. only selling point of this game is its tactical combat system, other than that it fails in every other aspect to be a good game. instead of playing this play oblivion, at least it's a real rpg lol… Expand

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BeardyMustache6

Jan 11, 2020

-Clunky combat
-Downgrade in graphics
-Large, but empty and boring map.
-Can not use all skills at the same time.

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Chalkbrood

Dec 1, 2019

How does a studio put so much money and effort into something and have it come out so wrong? The story and the writing is mostly just fineHow does a studio put so much money and effort into something and have it come out so wrong? The story and the writing is mostly just fine (generic high fantasy with stupidly limited options during sidequests) but hey it's based on a pre-existing work so it's not like they had to do much there.
People drool and clap for this garbage like it's somehow revolutionary but it came out in 2017 and it fails to do things that games in 2002 were capable of.
It's impossible to know where to start breaking down how awful the gameplay is so I'll just write a list of bullet points:
-your horse's pathing is awful even when it's supposed to be automatic
-the horse has a stamina gauge and I really cannot fathom why, it only comes up during a couple racing sidequests and those are so easy that it's pointless, so this mechanic just gets in the way of regular gameplay simply because there is a badly designed sidequest that it's relevant to
-draw distance is miserable in some areas
-npc dialogue is moronic and irrelevant, you will be fighting side by side with people and saving their lives for some pointlessly dull quest and they will shout things like "sorcery! he's a witch"
-every bad thing that already exists about open world games is basically still present, most quests are shallow and bland, everybody waits for an eternity for you to do things cause you're the only person who can, etc etc etc
-the basis of the game is that you are a witcher, a person who hunts monsters, and monster hunting contracts are miserably repetitive and uninteresting
-there's an alchemy system that begs for your inventory to be cluttered, you will never ever remember what ingredients you need cause it's always just some flower or some blood or teeth or whatever stupid thing and it won't be relevant for 5 hours and then you'll need one if you want to craft some semi useful item, this wouldn't be so bad but you have a weight limit and inventory management is terrible in this
-everything is weirdly dark, even during daytime, I found this unplayable without mods
-the main character comes across like an idiot cause some moron dev decided that he should constantly be shouting out combat taunts
-seriously the inventory management is awful, when you're looking at different weapons and armor it doesn't even show you a full stat comparison of what you're looking at and what you're wearing
-a lot of sidequests have completely unsatisfying conclusions and it feels like it's because there are questions you're just not allowed to ask, like there's some forced stupidity so that no matter what there's something bad that happens. Save the orphans? a village is destroyed. Save the village? orphans are eaten. can you talk to the spirit that's gonna eat orphans and stop it? no. can you talk to the spirit about why it would destroy the village or ask it its motivations? no
-incredibly convoluted, here is a snippet of what I did early game: I'm sent by a king to get his daughter. someone who has information about that daughter won't give it to me until I help him find his daughter and wife. I have to go ask two other people for help. one of them makes me find his goat before he helps me. then the guy with the information that I need reveals that I have to help him save the soul of his wife's miscarriage. then him and the guy with the goat ask me to go to a swamp. then I meet a little boy who knows another little boy who knows about some witches who want me to kill a creature that lives under a tree in another city. by the end of that paragraph did you remember what I originally set out to do?
-weapon degradation, not necessarily a bad mechanic but it doesn't even matter in this cause there are so many weapons that are so similar that you just keep picking up so why is weapon degradation in the game? because the devs add terrible things without thinking
-you gain abilities but you're capped at how many you're allowed to equip, this is like being in a sandbox and someone coming by and saying "no no, you can't use the shovel and the bucket at the same time", this is a terrible mechanic
-seriously dialogue is terrible sometimes, "you have to find dudu to find dandelion to find ciri"
"I'm going to go talk to whoreson jr." were two back to back pieces of dialogue, it's like the characters weren't even interacting with each other
-terrible "detective" mechanic during monster hunts wherein you hold a button that lights up what you're supposed to do so that you don't have to use your brain. it's mind numbingly dull

it's too bad, I was quite engaged and I wanted to see where the story was going but I just couldn't stomach how godawful this game was at every turn… Expand

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sumstuf

Aug 12, 2020

I only played it after watching the show and i must say its one of the best games ive ever played. Also im kinda addicted to gwent. And youI only played it after watching the show and i must say its one of the best games ive ever played. Also im kinda addicted to gwent. And you gotta play on the hardest difficulty for some challenge… Expand

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Flamingwarrior

Dec 17, 2020

Witcher 3 review:
Graphics - 8/10
Story - 7/10
Main character - 3/10
Side Characters - 4/10
Side quests - 3/10
Overall - 2/10

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3bdelrahman

Jun 9, 2020

it's just and still Overrated game of all time.
I got excited for The Witcher 3 when I saw the trailer from E3, and I bought The Witcher 2it's just and still Overrated game of all time.
I got excited for The Witcher 3 when I saw the trailer from E3, and I bought The Witcher 2 just to get into the universe, but it was so dull I haven't played for more than an hour before I had to put it away =/
Skyrim was my first TES game, and I absolutely loved it! It's gotta be the best non-MMO RPG I have ever played if you look past the bugs (which we kinda have to do if we're going to recommend the game as the bugs are temporary annoyances compared to all the fun you will have).
You don't have to be a hipster or anything, just be honest and ask yourself if Skyrim really doesn't deserve the throne for best RPG ever, because no individual can make that decision, it's the gaming community as a whole, and Skyrim sold incredibly well because it's universally appealing to everyone in the gaming community of those who liked it.

In my opinion the only game that can beat Skyrim, is a new TES game… Expand

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MichaelVickDog

Dec 24, 2019

The combat is terrible, dodges can be spammed to effectively never be hit, sword range is atrocious, the end of your blade's hit box is aboutThe combat is terrible, dodges can be spammed to effectively never be hit, sword range is atrocious, the end of your blade's hit box is about a foot shorter than your blade, and in general the combat is neither fun nor rewarding.

The story is incredibly shallow and boring, which is to be expected out of such a simple premise for a story. A contributing part to the boredom is how long it takes to get into the meat of the game, 15 hours isn't enough to even begin to have fun with the story.

Even the characters are boring, a prime example being Geralt. Geralt's personality revolves solely around having a cool voice and being sarcastic in the same manner as a middle schooler. I believe Geralt represents what CD Projekt Red storyboard developers wish they were, and in this manner, his character is incredibly shallow.

The UI is atrocious, way too many redundant menus, and interacting with them is incredibly janky and just detracts from an already non-user-friendly game.

The controls, just like the UI, are awful. The general lack of maneuverability is showcased by the input lag involved with moving that makes any amount of walking a chore.

But hey, at least the graphics look nice!… Expand

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asgerthorn

Mar 27, 2020

The Witcher was the most boring 10 hours of my life.

I'm the kinda guy who played 900 hours of The Division, 800 hours of ARK, addicted toThe Witcher was the most boring 10 hours of my life.

I'm the kinda guy who played 900 hours of The Division, 800 hours of ARK, addicted to League of Legends, die hard Zelda and Mario-fan. I loved Diablo II, hated Diablo III. I loved Heroes of Might & Magic 2 and 3. I loved Subnautica, hated Divinity Original Sin II. Loved Resident Evil 2, hated Witcher III.

Don't fall for all the positive reviews, go play Ori & the Blind Forrest instead.… Expand

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robomartion

Oct 22, 2019

Dull story, borderline amateurish writing and voice acting, this is quite clearly a game made by Eastern Europeans and not in a good way. TheDull story, borderline amateurish writing and voice acting, this is quite clearly a game made by Eastern Europeans and not in a good way. The Witcher 3 is lowbrow and unrefined like a blunt instrument made by someone who believes they know what they are doing but in reality is far from qualified. If it weren't enough that the games writing and characters are out of some odd fan fiction, the dialogue moves slowly and lacks choice, character control is oddly primitive, combat like an arcadey, spammy hack and slash, the skill system bloated and unnecessary and the environments are boring and samey, not invoking the slightest bit of curiosity or wonder and the much touted feature - the graphics - are technically strong, testament to the quality of the asset libraries they are from, but somehow hard to look at, suffering from poor, or perhaps no creative direction. I could perhaps forgive the game for some of these problems if had at least one redeeming quality but there are none.. even the menus are an unwieldy mess. It is a travesty and telling of the gaming community as a whole that games like the Witcher 3 receive unhindered praise with its glaring and fundamental problems unnoticed.… Expand

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Nerevarinho

Jan 11, 2020

Played 30+ hours and i felt that i mostly watched cutscenes and went from A to B instead of playing a game. Combat was mostly enough withPlayed 30+ hours and i felt that i mostly watched cutscenes and went from A to B instead of playing a game. Combat was mostly enough with Attack-Attack-Roll-Igni & repeat. When i ended up in a bigger city and I had to constantly talk to NPCs it was more a TV series to watch than a video game for me and get bored completely.
Expected an RPG, got an interactive movie.… Expand

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TedDawson

Nov 6, 2019

Did it buy in a sale. Overhyped and overrated. Go to A, get quest, take thing, go to B, Fight Y, do Z on the way back to A. Boring. In GTA VDid it buy in a sale. Overhyped and overrated. Go to A, get quest, take thing, go to B, Fight Y, do Z on the way back to A. Boring. In GTA V (which I rated 9 or 10) you drive to A, get Quest, go to B... still ... totally different experience...

Witcher 3 (Like GTA V) does not lack gameplay or story.... Yet I did not experience the greate game so many reviews talk about - gave up after nearly 10 hours gametime… Expand

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turlock

Apr 29, 2019

Absolutely appalling game, the pinnacle of style over substance and the most depressing part is how people completely eat it up. Just slapAbsolutely appalling game, the pinnacle of style over substance and the most depressing part is how people completely eat it up. Just slap incredible graphics on an interactive movie and everyone will eat it up and two fingers to gameplay and the elements which actually make something a game instead of a movie.… Expand

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refundedgames

Dec 17, 2020

Finished this game about month ago, i remember had to force myself to finish it, it was so boring. I was like "well whatever, maybe it justFinished this game about month ago, i remember had to force myself to finish it, it was so boring. I was like "well whatever, maybe it just wasn't for me". Now they released Cyberpunk 2077 and i bought that one as well, thinking that maybe this one will be better, hell no, it was even worse. I was again like "maybe not for me", but then other people started saying that they don't like Cyberpunk 2077 either, so it clearly wasn't just me. So i think maybe it's actually developer who don't know how to make good games. Whoever would like to say that maybe i have bad taste in gaming, well i like Red Dead Redemption 1/2, Alan Wake, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, Doom 2016 and so on. If that's bad taste, then idk what to say lol.… Expand

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aussiedude98

Aug 17, 2019

Great graphics and setting but overall I didn't enjoy it.
The game play just felt contrived and mundane to me.
I really felt I was justGreat graphics and setting but overall I didn't enjoy it.
The game play just felt contrived and mundane to me.
I really felt I was just "going through the motions", and not really using much in the way of intelligence in playing the game.
For example - the "investigation" mechanic - where I am looking for clues relating to a monster. I really did not get the feeling I was investigating and finding clues - but interacting with a contrived game mechanic which basically showed what they were.
Combat is average at best, and I did not particularly enjoy it.
I didn't feel overly involved in the story - just wandering from objective marker to the next - watching a (usually lengthy) cut scene and selecting a couple of dialog options.… Expand

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Van_DiSarzio

Aug 14, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Make sure you have a snowball fight with Ciri, otherwise she decides to top herself at the end.… Expand

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Morganfree

Sep 27, 2019

To be honest not so impressive. Zero fight skills,poor history, boring gameplay.

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Soulo

Apr 1, 2020

Just bought this game in 2020, for like $15,- dollar, so no harm done when i don't like it, which I do. How this game gets a 9.4 is beyond me.Just bought this game in 2020, for like $15,- dollar, so no harm done when i don't like it, which I do. How this game gets a 9.4 is beyond me. It is mine 1st Witcher I played, and I played it for 2/3 hours now, doing tutorial (learning mechanics, and it is not easy for keyboard/mouse combi, don't like control playing), and all i have been doing sofar is talking to NPC and no action, it is really boring imo. Graphics are very poor compared to the games i play now on 4k HDR, but its 2015 game, so I knew it wouldn't be the same.… Expand

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sportslegend

Oct 2, 2019

Game lags a lot and too many bugs and very poor quality of game.Worst RPG game of all time

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ShinsFortress

Sep 23, 2017

The game looks fabulous and sounds great. Set pieces great. I'm just tired of "forgetting" my skills and power between games. First chapelThe game looks fabulous and sounds great. Set pieces great. I'm just tired of "forgetting" my skills and power between games. First chapel thing out of the first village? BOOM! Arse kicked by a stupid wraith or some such. "red" enemy.... *expletive deleted*.

The first Witcher game was forgiven a lot, because did a lot of other stuff nicely. But CDPR have a LOT more resources now and by #3 all the pretty visuals in the world do not make up for what is more of a reboot than sequel for a character who looks and sounds awesome but handles like a truck, not someone with Jedi reflexes.… Expand

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Deaden

Jan 13, 2020

Overrate game. Gameplay is terrible. Without mods, it's dull gameplay. Only story is good. Rest is garbage.

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gmzreviewz

Dec 17, 2020

Overrated average game with tons of empty landscapes and monsters to kill. Basically clone of Skyrim, but Skyrim did it 4 years earlier andOverrated average game with tons of empty landscapes and monsters to kill. Basically clone of Skyrim, but Skyrim did it 4 years earlier and they did it better.… Expand

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marcantoineg

May 13, 2018

Possibly the most overrated game of all time. Story is awful. Boring gameplay. Characters are ****

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Arroyo_man

May 27, 2017

Sorry for my English but im lazy old fart who doesnt want to learn any more :P

So, I don't think i like anything about this game. AtSorry for my English but im lazy old fart who doesnt want to learn any more :P

So, I don't think i like anything about this game.

At first i think immersion in this game is a joke. You are coming in to people's houses and steel all the food, booze and other valuable equipped right from their noses. It's just ridiculous! They should at least react somehow to that. Even good old Gothic has been done better about this.
Being a Medieval-Batman isn't that fun either. Geralt is just too perfect, with no faults whatsoever. It just feels so fake and maybe it is the reason it was so hard for me to like him. Besides, you can't be anyone you want here. You are being you sitting on your butt and creating Geralt's legend and his ego. I don't think it is what RPGs are about.

The story itself, that supposed to be the strongest part of this game, is jut meh.
Geralt is looking for his so-called daughter, and at som point when her realize that Wild hunt is after her, insed of freaking out he's got time for taking 1182151/!@#"!%1 witcher contracts, wiping out all that monster nests (even not being paid for that which is wrong story-wise), doing stupid fetch quests etc. Bah! He even goes to vineyards to have a lazy nap. It's just perfectly average story, badly balanced where you can totally lost the interest of it. The fact the game tells you exactly where to go and what to do doesn't help, it just makes it mindless slasher at some point.

The graphics are OK but the landscapes doesn't feel that good. The woods are so shaky, artificial and dead (except being filled in with monsters), it doesn't feel any good exploring it.
In W1 & W2 everything was so unique and looked nice, made with attention to details. Here we have copy-paste boring villages with some copy-paste villagers that all look the same except different clothing. Honestly, sandbox style just doesnt fit Witcher setting at all.

Obviously, the combat. It just not accurate enough. You can be hit by enemy being few meters away. Besides that, all fights comes to dodging and repetitive slashing from behind. Throw some Quen barrier and you are ready to go for entire game.

Conversations are taking ages. They should be more brief, like in Dark Souls for example, where all the dialogues was live and you could quit them just simply moving out from that character. How immersive was that! Here we are forced to watch how people breath, when they sit, thinking about something pause etc. It's just so overdone, make no sense like eating a hot dog and having champagne with it. Even more because there is no philosophical content in their speeches. Its all very shallow here (nothing to do for Planescape Torment fans).

Music is the only thing i have no complains about.

Absolutely not a game for me, i love the classic rpgs above all, so if you are a fan of those you might feel bit disappointed (or a little bit more than that).… Expand

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steelcl

Nov 22, 2017

I got aboard the hype train and bought my first Witcher game. At first, even though i felt the combat was repetitive and uninspired, the mapI got aboard the hype train and bought my first Witcher game. At first, even though i felt the combat was repetitive and uninspired, the map exploration and atmosphere of the game really got me excited and I expected the combat, story and quests to improve along the playthrough.

So I've started exploring the small events in the map and the side quests. Those were a bit amusing, but nothing better than what it's possible to experience in any average RPG. Still, it was a pain in the butt that the game forces me to use those impractical and uninspired spells to defeat some specific monsters.

Then, I went to the main quests, and I got extremely annoyed by the favor-for-a-favor element that guides you to endure unmeaningful tasks to move on through the story. Finally, when you get to the big city, my motivation to keep playing got absolutely destroyed, because of the lack of things to do there. I really tried but I can't feel any emotion for any character of this game due to the boring main plot. To finish it, I even skipped some cut-scenes because everything got really tiresome.

I was expecting something like Dragon Age or even better, but you can hardly interact with any npc in the game, outside of the quests and those boring dialogues without meaningful options, which makes it hard to get emotionally involved.… Expand

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PowerfullPlayer

Nov 11, 2015

Best game ever. Just best game... .

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AegisSaige

Jul 18, 2017

One of the worst games I've ever played, solely by virtue of the completely unintuitive controls and way of interacting with the world. I'dOne of the worst games I've ever played, solely by virtue of the completely unintuitive controls and way of interacting with the world. I'd comment on the story and quests, but found the entire experience so unenjoyable that I never got through more than a handful of them.… Expand

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NaotoShirogane1

May 24, 2019

Story is boring. All side quests are same (ubisoft formule). Charachters are annoying. Main quest designs are almost bad as side quests. BossStory is boring. All side quests are same (ubisoft formule). Charachters are annoying. Main quest designs are almost bad as side quests. Boss fights are not really boss fights. Is this really a rpg game ? Where is rpg elements ? 0/10. One of the worst games i have ever played. Play classic rpgs instead that fan-service game.… Expand

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gta8b

Sep 15, 2016

Well once again, not made for pc / not optimized for pc ... Horrible gameplay, not made for a mouse. In comparison, the Witcher EnhancedWell once again, not made for pc / not optimized for pc ... Horrible gameplay, not made for a mouse. In comparison, the Witcher Enhanced Edition was much better !

The rest is nice, nice story, but overall, just horrible to play on PC.… Expand

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Hoag

Mar 11, 2017

The Witcher 3, while a vibrant and beautiful open world, unfortunately fails at what makes a game, well... a game. It is simply not fun. TheThe Witcher 3, while a vibrant and beautiful open world, unfortunately fails at what makes a game, well... a game. It is simply not fun. The combat is a mindless early Assassin's Creed rip-off. The huge, vibrant world is ultimately empty and boring. Nearly all the missions amount to you activating your special powers to follow glowing red tracks. The difficulty slider only serves to make enemies damage sponges.

The story is decent enough, but TW3 fails on the most important point: It's not fun to play, it's basically an interactive movie, not a game. 2/10.… Expand

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MaxPay

Jun 20, 2016

Graphics, animations, sounds...are 10/10. Gameplay however is boring, repetitive and unoriginal.
Witcher movement and combat is clunky andGraphics, animations, sounds...are 10/10. Gameplay however is boring, repetitive and unoriginal.
Witcher movement and combat is clunky and quests are for the huge part all the same: get the quest, follow the red paint on the ground, kill the monster, go back to collect the reward.
Level up system... there's not even a slightest difference in gameplay whether you're level 1 or 30.
Fighting enemies below your level is boring as they can barely hurt you and fighting enemies with higher level is frustrating as you can barely hurt them.
Fast travel system isn't fast at all, still takes a lot of time to travel to/from sign posts and riding horse often leads to frustration.… Expand

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eriktheviking11

Aug 21, 2016

I played the first Witcher for a few hours before deciding, unequivocally, that the combat system was not quite as exciting or strategic asI played the first Witcher for a few hours before deciding, unequivocally, that the combat system was not quite as exciting or strategic as playing Pacman. I acknowledge the substance of the lore behind the series and I admire the philosophy of the CD Projekt Red team, which is why, after hesitating for so long, I decided that I'd give the Witcher 3 a whirl.

After five hours, I've abandoned the Witcher 3 and just won't bring myself to trust CD Projekt Red again.

The combat, again, essentially requires dodging between groups of enemies or around single large ones and using the same repeated sword swings. The animations are different but the action is the same. While there are options to use some abilities, the fundamentals of the combat remain identical and very inane. There are no tactical elements to combat like you would have in a turn based RPG like Baldur's Gate, or RTS games like Starcraft, or stealth-action games like Deus-Ex or Dishonored, or even FPS/Third person fantasy games like the Elder Scrolls. The combat is repeatedly to run into a fight and dodge around with perfect timing and not get hit, which is the gameplay mechanic of a cheap, pump-and-dump console game... and such a waste of the Witcher's content.

The flaws of combat essentially ruined the game for me. While the story is interesting, I can (and just have) read it on Wikipedia in 5 minutes to skip the drama (though I'm sure much time was put into the voice acting and animations). Without the drive to improve the character, who (like all RPGs) expresses himself primarily through combat, the side content has no meaning and the main story-line becomes only that - a story-line.

I love that they tried to make something so epic in scale of integrated content and take the RPG to somewhere where it hasn't been before but this is still a game and the action in the Witcher is flawed at the core and has remained so through the series. My experience with the Witcher is so frustrating and annoying precisely because I want so badly to enjoy the game but can't get past its most basic flaw - the gameplay is terrible. The pursuit of a massive library of beautiful content is not an excuse for making a bad game.

Also, as a post-script, the merchant system doesn't make any sense. You can sell a sword and not buy a piece of bread that heals 20% of your health... perhaps this is supposed to be how things are but I find myself totally ignoring merchants entirely. Furthermore, the crafting system has an incredibly steep learning curve, without any hint as to what makes sense to do or not, which is exacerbated by the nonsensical merchant system.

And as a post-post-script, I really hate that I will not be able to convince myself to spend money on Cyberpunk 2077.… Expand

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Gette

Nov 23, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is extremely overrated.

First, the game is meant to be "standalone" according to the dev, therefore nullifying many story hooks that were made in the previous installments.

However, the game would occasionally use deus machina to solve problems from the books, despite it's standalone. It's rather convenient not required to answer for the early story hooks but "stay true" to the books.

Then, the player will go through "inevitable defeat" like the previous two games.

For example, the protagonist has to find NPC A to find NPC C, but in order to find A you'll have to talk to x amount of npcs. BUT after you talk to all those npcs, NPC B would have solved where NPC A is, therefore nullifying everything you just did.

The game forbids "money exploiting" by creating immersion breaking monsters to hunt you, instead of using the already existent level scaled guards to fight you.

The pathing is poor. It's one of those you've unlimited time to reach an event which is supposed to be emergent, just like Oblivion. Your daughter is being hunted therefore you should go and fetch pans and sheeps and girlfriends and whoreson and herbs and items in river for npcs.

The world is in dire danger! It's near the doom of everything! Quick, help me decorate my place. The horrible pathing gets ridiculous at times.

The boss of the story has 12 lines and all of his words are prude, but he is supposed to be intelligent. While a supposed emotionless Geralt has 1,000 times more lines than the boss, and most lines from Geralt are mumbling to himself.

There are so many wrongs with the game like badly implemented loot system close to pre diablo 3. Since random loots are boring and unexciting while crafting is most of the time worse than items in shops., you’ll just use the few sets and stick with those.

What I've said is just the surface, there are so much more wrongs with the game like extreme basic combats, laughable falling damage from 2 foot, fake open world that you jump "1 foot upward" then Geralt dies bugs.

The characters also felt written oriented to angst teenagers, at times Geralt’s sarcastic remarks remind me of Japanese light novels written for 13~15 years old.

The story isn’t much better and drags on with mmo style quests, the go to A so he asks you to get to B, then B wants you to to fetch C kind quests which breaks immersion. And the world is even less interactive than Gothic 2!

And don’t let me start on the use your witcher sense to follow red routine chores. It’s fun for the first time but become tedious routine chores after 10 hours, and most quests are either made with fetch or witcher sense usages.

The game sure has high production value but it’s not much a good game imho. Well, at least Gwent game is somewhat fun.… Expand

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kuehnau

May 30, 2016

Boring, repetitive, clunky, unwieldy, these are just a few words to describe 'The Witcher 3'. There is no debate that The Witcher 3 isBoring, repetitive, clunky, unwieldy, these are just a few words to describe 'The Witcher 3'. There is no debate that The Witcher 3 is improved from the other two games in the franchise, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't suffer from it's fair share of issues.

From it's clunky movement, janky quest tracking, to it's boring story, the repetitive quests, there just isn't a whole lot about Witcher 3 to appreciate.… Expand

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eclesis

Apr 19, 2016

Overall a big disappointment.
On the plus side : The gameplay is solid. The open universe is consistent, well structured and quite beautiful.Overall a big disappointment.
On the plus side : The gameplay is solid. The open universe is consistent, well structured and quite beautiful. The city of Novigrad is big, credible and alive.
However, beyond that, the game has a lot of weaknesses :
- In terms of gameplay, from time to time you will control another character for fight scenes. Since the character is overpowered, there is no challenge and no interest to those sequences that you will suffer till the end of the game.
- The difficulty in the game is not consistent and you will find hard press to kill one lonely Archgriffin when on the other side the end boss is a piece of cake.
- The main plot is quite bad. It's not epic at all. It's not well written. It has no rhythm. The ending falls flat.
- The secondary quest are for the most part not related to the main plot. A big parf ot them are generic and very mmorpg like. By the way, this mmorpg feeling is emphasized the equipment design. Differents colors for common items, magic items, rare tiems, relics, sets. The game boast a large panel of weapons and armors with no soul and identity.
- A part of the secondary quests are there to bring back sides characters of the last episodes. However, most of the time it's a botch job and you can't help to feel that the characters are juste here to male a cameo.
- Most of the side quests consiste of getting from point A to point B to deliver something then suffer a ton of dialog where your choices will not have a great impact on the game except deprived you of more dialogue if you choose to be roleplay and refuse to do something. So you will take every quest in fear of missing some great part of the story that will never come.
- The game introduces a concept of points of interest that you can see on the map. At first you will find it interesting but it will quickly become repetitive and boring.
- Your choices and decisions have less impact in this opus than in the previous ones. Only one choice has a true impact on you game experience. Some choices do impact the destiny of countries or side characters but you don't feel a big connection to what happened because it happens a the end, does not affect your experience when you play the game. You can affect the end of the game but the mechanics behind it is very silly (when you read some walkthrough to undesrtand why you get one ending instead of the other). However don't feel sad if you had the bad ending, go to youtube and watch the other endings like everyone else. Don't play the game again since it has no replay value like the previous one (The Witcher 2).
- Some will object that a big part of the plot is the father/daughter relationship between the two main protagonists. But this relationship is so weak that its feels like a bad tvserie. It's also true for all the relationships between Geralt and his lovers.
- Speaking of choices, you will discover that the choices you made in the previous episodes have no significant impacts on the story. There are only some cameo apparitions. The saddest part it that the whole "Temeria plotline" does not take into account "The La Valette heirs" and the choices you might have made in the previous episode.… Expand

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Calasade

Jun 12, 2019

Universal acclaim for this game is something I will NEVER understand. I suspect that most who give this game a positive review are casualUniversal acclaim for this game is something I will NEVER understand. I suspect that most who give this game a positive review are casual gamers unfamiliar with what a true RPG is, or simply it's a matter of being caught up by the incredible aesthetics, which the Witcher 3 has in spades.

It is a gorgeous looking game, at least on a high-end PC. Another positive is the story. It's heart-touching at times.

BUT...

The Witcher 3 suffers from serious faults.

The role-playing is shallow (and sometimes non-existent, like when Geralt is forced to break his moral code). Sometimes, decisions are wrongly reflected and other times, not reflected at all. Most of the game is filler, meaning the majority of playing-time is consumed side-quests that have no impact at all on the main story or even Geralt. Worse, however, is that the side-quests use the same formula. Trust me when I say that once you've done one side-quest, you have pretty much done them all.

The game also lacks replayability. The ultimate end is determined by a handful of decisions that come in short order following the Battle at Kaer Morhen. Simplistic, to say the least, but the true offense is that none of the decisions you make leading up to Kaer Morhen dictate any real change with that main battle or modify how the world reacts and treats Geralt. The game is always the same.

Other faults include crappy, oh-so-crappy game mechanics. Not that fluidity is required when fighting, mind you. This is perhaps the easiest game I've ever played. Even on the so-called "Death March", it's a walk in the park.

Do yourself a favor. If you're looking for that all too rarity of a game, meaning a cRPG set in an open world, check out Assassin's Creed Odyssey. It's not nearly as dumbed down and the decisions you make actually determine how the game reacts to you.

But better yet, go old school if you want a real cRPG experience. Check out Pillars of Eternity or the Baldur's Gate series, the last of which has been the king of all role-playing games since 2000.

Play the Witcher 3 if you don't want to think, if you don't wish to be challenged, and all you want to do is ride around on the most irritating horse in the world while perusing the lovely scenery. If you want an action game with considerable role-playing options, something that's intended for thinking adults, look at Witcher 1 and Witcher 2. Witcher 3 isn't even the best in its own series.… Expand

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tacomodo

Aug 18, 2015

Get quest, use witcher sense to examine a few clues, follow footsteps and kill something - rince and repeat. Game is beautiful but reallyGet quest, use witcher sense to examine a few clues, follow footsteps and kill something - rince and repeat. Game is beautiful but really repetitive. Story is ok, but very slow.… Expand

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hg1802

Jul 27, 2016

Nice graphics. The gameplay is repetitive and Boring as hell. All you do go to A get this , then go back to B get that... Even the music isNice graphics. The gameplay is repetitive and Boring as hell. All you do go to A get this , then go back to B get that... Even the music is boring and makes you sleep.
Character movement and combat is very bad.
Absolutely overrated.… Expand

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klfnaslkf

Sep 15, 2019

Самая скучная игра. Механика боя: перекаты. 2015год это провал. Надеюсь киберпанк не подкачаетСамая скучная игра. Механика боя: перекаты. 2015год это провал. Надеюсь киберпанк не подкачает

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MenNeedMeat

Nov 21, 2015

I saw this had many positive reviews and I was excited to get this. I saw the videos before its release and was genuinely excited for thisI saw this had many positive reviews and I was excited to get this. I saw the videos before its release and was genuinely excited for this game. I put it on my wishlist. Then I saw it on release and realized it got downgraded. Same as how Watchdogs has but people seem to forget it for some reason and forgive The Witcher 3 for it. It's inexcusable and people who allow this to happen are no more than sheep. I bought the game on sale because I could not justify paying full price for this game. Just as I expected, the game was pretty bad. The combat was atrocious and needs to be fixed. It's been about a month and for some reason I cannot make myself sit down and play this game again. I found it bland and tedious to play. I think it deserves a 4 at best.… Expand

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Kaeldon

Oct 22, 2015

I can see how the game has mass appeal. It's simple to play and 35% of the game is basically a good movie that you just watch rather thanI can see how the game has mass appeal. It's simple to play and 35% of the game is basically a good movie that you just watch rather than play. You have very little actual control over your character. The unresponsive movement and zoomed in field of view are the reason I don't play console games and ruin this title for me.… Expand

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thewarcritic

Nov 17, 2015

honestly it feels more like a movie than a game, the gameplay was unimpressive and easy, and i find it worse in pc than in consoles(it shouldhonestly it feels more like a movie than a game, the gameplay was unimpressive and easy, and i find it worse in pc than in consoles(it should be played with a controller), geralt is not that likable, most of the world is empty so it`s not as big as it seems, the only thing great about this game is graphics everything else is below average, i liked the first 2(mostly the 1st) yet another overrated game that i should of waited for a sale to buy.… Expand

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Gadlajk

Oct 18, 2017

The most overrated game in history, it's not bad but nowhere good as filthy casuals make you believe. Combat is and has been problem withThe most overrated game in history, it's not bad but nowhere good as filthy casuals make you believe. Combat is and has been problem with previous witcher games, epecially combat animations they're horrible,jump spin attack animation alone is enough to knock one point from this game rating. Even with much better combat and combat animations this game isn't close to 10/10 because of other problem like borign talents and items, finding legendary items is like very underwhelming. Tho main story has quality side quests are overrated, I've heard a lot of about side quests but kinda like in kindoms of amalur it's few big side quests and rest is meh. After 20+ hrs into this game I gave up trying to find out what's so good about this game.… Expand

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EmilOfPower

Aug 18, 2015

First of all - woah - such a high score. Of course its not really surprising when your game project has higher marketing budget than it hasFirst of all - woah - such a high score. Of course its not really surprising when your game project has higher marketing budget than it has development budget. All the great reviews from various game writers and media are easily explained. The ugly truth is that W3 is pretty much an average game which does not work well on the PC. Clumsy controls, glitchy graphics. After the intro I got to the very first forest fight and stopped there. Overrated is a good word for it. Advertising your product is important in this day and age, you need to promote, you need to make sure people know of you and what you've produced. That being said when marketing is employed to fabricate value when its job should be to simply promote an already valuable product, then you should know something is not right. I only hope the developer doesnt do the same thing to Cyberpunk 2077, it would be a shame.… Expand

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Juleulven

Oct 25, 2015

I'll give a 2 for graphics ... its nice...
Controls (Keyboard / mouse) are abysmal, sluggish, lagging and whatnot... and that was AFTER theI'll give a 2 for graphics ... its nice...
Controls (Keyboard / mouse) are abysmal, sluggish, lagging and whatnot... and that was AFTER the gamefolderbin***.ini modification ..

graphic are nice but really just a repetition in the different areas ... (the few i saw).
The storyline are probably great BUT i really had NO patience in waiting for it...

Go Play Skyrim instead....… Expand

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upulta420

Jul 8, 2015

Most overrated game of all time! This game doesn't do anything new; it's a blend of all rpg's out there. Critics are praising it for noMost overrated game of all time! This game doesn't do anything new; it's a blend of all rpg's out there. Critics are praising it for no reason (maybe because 2015 has been **** so far for gaming or they haven't played Witcher 1 &2, which are by far better than 3). Then there is 'Free DLC Program,' which is just to create fanboys. These 'free' things could have been in the game but it was a PR move. I am tired of doing same thing over and over in this game.… Expand

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Rsharp254

Mar 6, 2016

Kinda odd how this game has such a high rating when the movement controls are HORRIBLE. Games that were made 10 years ago have betterKinda odd how this game has such a high rating when the movement controls are HORRIBLE. Games that were made 10 years ago have better controls than this. Just Google "Witcher 3 Movement weird" grabs 120,000 results. There's even mods that try to correct this, but I still have not found anything that is as good as games made 10 years ago. Walking through a damn door should not make me want to break my damn keyboard. Wasted $50!!!… Expand

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seanb1979

Jun 10, 2015

Probably the clunkiest controls I've ever experienced in a game like this. I have to run forward, then press backward and jump to simply getProbably the clunkiest controls I've ever experienced in a game like this. I have to run forward, then press backward and jump to simply get over obstacles? Seriously? Whoever did the keyboard mappings did a horrible job. I really didn't feel like remapping every command to something that made more sense. The movement physics also seem way off and the motion is very herky-jerky. I'm guessing all of the positive reviewers are using xbox controllers or something similar.… Expand

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dyselehrt

Aug 19, 2017

I don't really like the game. One of the worst RPGs I've played. I like the world and everyone in it except Geralt which I'm playing whichI don't really like the game. One of the worst RPGs I've played. I like the world and everyone in it except Geralt which I'm playing which ruins the whole game for me. I don't like his story and I don't like his voice acting. 2/10.… Expand

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bricktown

Jun 25, 2015

I was forced to create a metacritic account immediately and post my review of the Witcher 3 after seeing the 9.2 user score and 94 metascoreI was forced to create a metacritic account immediately and post my review of the Witcher 3 after seeing the 9.2 user score and 94 metascore on here. A (94!) total metascore is proof of widespread corruption in the PC critic industry.

First of all, just got a brand new computer and the game looks great. In my opinion the graphics are 9.5/10. however, after reading other reviews and talking to friends, they say the textures and environments get recycled a lot, which if true would change my score (I uninstalled long before being bored with the
graphics of the game)

Major cons:
The CONTROLS and MOVEMENT for this game are downright unplayable. The main character is extremely clunky in ALL areas of gameplay. my first thought is that this game would play well on a console controller but mouse and keyboard is just sad.

CUT SCENES are noticeably too long. every single one of them. and there are TONSSSS of cutscenes.

Combat is pathetic.
generally consists of pressing a target selector key that highlights over your enemy. once locked on your character has their movements on a track with the targeted enemy. if an additional enemy comes from the side or behind you (and they ALWAYS do) , you take a hit and it HURTS. attacking consists of left clicking and having your character do a huge lunging attack that leaves you super vulnerable. it cant be canceled? you can't really aim your swings. you just click and swing. also, all abilities and swings have a noticeable delay in activation time.
you basically have 3 modes of attack for the first 10 hours of gameplay , 2 of which are completely ineffective.

the character customization in this game is stone age.
you can chose from fast swords slow swords crossbow and BASIC magic.
crossbows are one of 4 possible skill categories to chose from and it does virtually 0 damage and is 0% entertaining to use. skill credits earned go into skills that raise attack bonus and effectiveness, no cool abilities or skill tree, just pick your weapon out of the 4 and mindlessly put all your points down that skill "tree"(column)
there are very limited and uninteresting spells to choose from, and switching spells in combat is really a drag.

the alchemy system is tedious and annoying to use but has potential

the story is quite average. i want to rate the story lower but they definitely tried to make it really good. all the cutscenes remind me of many of the popular HBO series with slow paced but deep and profound character development. however, the execution is just TOO boring. Your main character is so 'ho-hum'.

difficulty balance is all over the place.
you use your "witcher sense" for EVERYTHING. you will go around right clicking every 4 seconds to see if there is a glowing object such as a lootable chest or quest item. its VERY repetitive.

it totally feels like this game was made specifically for console. the combat seems intuitively catered to a controller style game. this pc port was extremely poorly executed in the mechanics department.

94/100 metascore!? wtf. please wake up.
this is a 4/10 or worse on the PC.… Expand

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cirko

Jun 24, 2015

This is a really bad game.. It's maybe big but it's bad, you will buy the game but end up agreeing with me..

1. The controls are ****This is a really bad game.. It's maybe big but it's bad, you will buy the game but end up agreeing with me..

1. The controls are **** sometimes you cant even jump over the smallest things, the riding controls are also **** Sometimes when i'm almost death i see, where the **** is my sword.. you need to enable your sword in every fight, and sometimes you have to do that over and over while fightning the same ****ing mob.

So then how the hype.. Marketing budget, and they give people free dlc, some stupid new armor, size on your hardrive.. for a stupid armor dlc.. 100-200 mb.. yes.. just for an armor.

You will end up buying this, but i hope you will come and write your review here.. and tell the truth. Graphic are good, but the game is almost unplayable.. This game made me realize of good real life controls are.. lol… Expand

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urieaal

Oct 24, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. its pretty...it has story...(kind of?)...

so if you played the first 2 you know this game has story potential coming out of every orifice. gerald died and was revived and because of the revive completely forgot his past. Now hes finally tracking down his true love..

plain and simple sure the game has its moments. Yet i feel like I'm playing assassins creed or shadows of mordor all over again... in that there is just to many pointless things that have nothing to do with anything scattered around the world..

I mean SURE you can collect those "PHAT LOOTS" all day long because of this... Alas I find my self utterly bored just trying to do a few things here and there. I'm not one to forgo side quests but making them a complete requirement to progress the main story is utter hog wash.

Leveling you character is too slow. do side quests or dont play on any setting other then easy. The bugs abound.. half the way points that you have to do in order to progress bug out and this is 11 patches later. graphical errors abound.. god forbid you want to jump over a fence while running or on horse back..

i wanted to love this game sooo much, because i utterly love the first 2... the 3rd how ever is utter garbage rolled up in a garbage bag full or runny disgusting baby diapers. If only game company's would stop releasing alphas and calling it a completed game... /sigh

prepare to be frustrated, there's sooo many bugs in this game.. and thats with the 1.10 patch.… Expand

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Lindell90

Jun 8, 2015

No, this is not as good as everyone is claiming. And im not saying that to be a hipster.
1. The combat system is out-dated andNo, this is not as good as everyone is claiming. And im not saying that to be a hipster.
1. The combat system is out-dated and console-esque... Its basically locking onto enemies and left clicking till you win. Uninteresting, bland combat... Also the target system seems to be half-arsed when it comes to development and smoothness
2. the main character, geralt, is as interesting as a rock... though people study rocks, which would by logic make him even less interesting
3. cut-scenes
4. cut-scenes
5. cut-scenes
6. cut-scenes
7. cut-scenes
8. cut-scenes... yes this is how it feels like
9. at 15-20 mins into the game you come by a peasant pinned by a griffon, no, you do not get to fight the griffon.. its a cut-scene
10. the grapics are, yes, you guessed right... out-dated and poorly optimised
11. how is this a role playing game? you get 2-4 options on the poorly written dialogue, there is no customization, character-building, progression, or anything interesting about the main character - which you cannot alter… Expand

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AnaiBendai

May 29, 2015

I waited eagerly for this game for many years - only to received a graphically dulled down console port with muddy, dumbed-down controls andI waited eagerly for this game for many years - only to received a graphically dulled down console port with muddy, dumbed-down controls and no ability to adjust the field of view. The controls are so bad. in fact, that I have to play on the easiest level and I still get my ass kicked because I'm forced to roll and jump around my enemies to avoid getting hit like a spasmodic idiot. I'm sure there's an incredible story and rich world to explore here behind the murky, half-baked controls - but with lag and non-responsiveness this bad - what's the use? I feel lied to by CD Projeckt which used to push the envelopes of PC gaming by providing a stellar, AAA PC experience in their games. This game doesn't even look REMOTELY close to all those preview screenshots and videos that sold me on the game years ago. I even bought a brand new i7 Alienware gaming PC specifically for Wild Hunt - but the dull, greasy graphics are so fuzzy and blurred and graphical and control options so console-dumb that I could have just as well kept my old cheapie laptop to play this ugly turd. Bottom line - Witcher 3 for the PC LOOKS like a console port, feels like a console port and sadly plays like a console port. In a word - I feel betrayed.… Expand

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DegenCutter

Jun 17, 2015

A terrible game with a boring lead protagonist and clunky gameplay. I can't recommend this game to any fan of real roleplaying games. AboutA terrible game with a boring lead protagonist and clunky gameplay. I can't recommend this game to any fan of real roleplaying games. About the only positive I could offer is that the graphics are fairly pretty, but that doesn't make for a fun game.… Expand

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acestealth

Nov 2, 2015

I'm sorry, but this game is highly overrated. It was a bad port, the interface, performance, and clunky combat all are examples of a lazyI'm sorry, but this game is highly overrated. It was a bad port, the interface, performance, and clunky combat all are examples of a lazy port. Its not often I get so frustrated with a clumsy combat system that I simply quit a game with a good story, but this is one of those times. (I played and beat VTM bloodlines for god sake) The state of gaming today is sad and this is just another example.… Expand

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MegaMattTyrrell

May 25, 2015

Yet again, just another over hyped game that you shouldn't waste your money on. Splatoon will be so much better. Don't waste your money onYet again, just another over hyped game that you shouldn't waste your money on. Splatoon will be so much better. Don't waste your money on this game. Just wait till the price goes down.… Expand

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Bitters

May 25, 2015

Witcher 3 : We have as much bare breasts and ass as Game of Thrones! Please love us even when we crash every ten minutes.

If I were to takeWitcher 3 : We have as much bare breasts and ass as Game of Thrones! Please love us even when we crash every ten minutes.

If I were to take all the things that annoy me in PC video games and put them in a pile, it would resemble Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt
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-Item wear
-Terrible branching dialogue
-Crap art cut scenes
-Potion gnarfling
-Obscure crafting
-Terrible lighting in dark areas
-Unbindable movement keys
-Dumb mini card game
-Horrible navigation
-Confused save system

I don't play games because I want to pretend to eat, drink, and sleep. I don't play games because I want to maintain a piece of **** sword that needs repair after every fight. This game treats me like an abused spouse that has to take out the garbage constantly. Poor level design lead me into situations where I had to laboriously keep playing a boss fight until I could use that last sliver of health correctly. Even if someone has a fix for that, all the other things in this game annoy the living &$)@& out of me so badly that I don't care. I can run faster on foot than my horse!

That hideous child-dwarf model from the beginning of the game haunts my dreams now. Her "adult pretending to be a child" voice is a shrieking nightmare. This game is so amazingly overrated that I feel like I've lost contact with my relationship to humanity.

Potion gnarfling is not a game, it's a reflex.
Item wear is not a game, it's a hole in an economy mechanic.
Crafting is not a game, it is at best a scavenger hunt.
Story is not a game, it's entertainment.
Dialogue is not a story.
Talking like "I'm batman" all the time does not make a character.
Flirty characters are not a story and are only barely dialogue.

It's like someone took Dresden Files and turned it into GTA...except they forgot the fun.… Expand

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Boonah

May 22, 2015

The game looks nice, and it's a nice cinematic experience. The actual game though is very unimpressive. The combat in all honesty is aThe game looks nice, and it's a nice cinematic experience. The actual game though is very unimpressive. The combat in all honesty is a spamfest. I don't feel like skill is involved. Spam Spam Spam win. Gets very old very fast. The AI is also horrible, you can enter someones house and pick up a quest then rob everything in the room and they will quite happily watch you do it without complaint, people will just blindly walk into you if your mounted, they don't walk round your horse they just walk into it, its bizarre.. Its an ok game but wait for the sale. The amount of 10s is disturbing though. Gamers are happy with anything it seems. Is it hyped on twitch? is your favourite streamer telling you its great? yes? then its a 10!!!! its not. Its really not.… Expand

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somedude14

May 28, 2015

I must be the only one who's noticing all the problems this game is hiding beneath it's admittedly gorgeous surface.

- Geralt controls likeI must be the only one who's noticing all the problems this game is hiding beneath it's admittedly gorgeous surface.

- Geralt controls like crap. It's like steering a truck, when he's supposed to be cat-like.

- The leveling system is immensely punishing and limited. You're supposed to stick to one tree to reap the most rewards until later on, but there's no way to know this as a new player, and by the time you figure it out you're in too deep to correct it without a hefty fee (1000 Orens to respec, which is a *lot* of money in this game)

- Loot charts are all over the place... a level 4 quest will end with a cache that gives you level 7 equipment, and a level 14 quest will end with a quest that gives you level 6 equipment

- This wouldn't be as much of a problem if you could just sell your things to vendors, but most of them are too broke to afford more than one equipment sale at a time (if you're lucky)

- Just far too much garbage loot in general. It makes the crafting system immensely tedious. Do we really need 10 different kinds of food and 10 different kinds of drink, when the end result of each is the same? It just makes inventory navigation a bigger pain.

- Inventory needs more filters. Oils and Potions should have their own tab, as should Letters, Notes and Books.

- Crafting sheet needs organization. You have level 14 items being placed above level 4 items being placed above level 8 items. Doesn't sound that bad, but over the length of the game the hindrance of this really adds up.

- Distribution of recipes for alchemy seems broken right now. You'll find enhanced and superior versions of some recipes long before you find the base recipes you need to take advantage of either (if you ever find them at all). This isn't as big of a deal on Easy, where you don't need any level of strategy to clear the game, but the higher you get in difficulties, the more important it becomes to keep up with gear and recipes, and since the distribution of both of these seems to be wild, it makes playing on anything above Normal with a build that isn't broken (like the current Adrenaline Points build) an exercise in futility.

- Far, far, *far* too much time wasted traveling. Yes, the world is gorgeous, but sometimes I don't have the time to spend my time looking at things I've already seen. There's a fast travel system, but it's implemented incorrectly - instead of being able to select places you've already been from wherever you are and instantly travel there, you need to find a nearby sign, use it, and *then* you can fast travel to other places.

- Main quest and some secondary quests are pretty interesting. However there is a *ridiculous* amount of "go kill" "go fetch" quests that are dressed up with VA to make it seem like something more than tedious padding that subscription MMOs utilize to drag out the leveling experience.

- On that, leveling up in this is just way too slow, *especially* in the early levels. You'll be around level 30 when you beat the game, when you stretch that over 200 hours, it should be pretty easy to see why this is an abysmal rate.

- Pacing overall just feels abysmal... you'll find a point of interest (most are not worth your time to check out in any way shape or form btw) that has enemies 3 levels beneath you (next to no XP) that are guarding a corpse that has a letter that starts a quest that leads you to a nearby treasure that gives you a bunch of underleveled loot... and then 50 feet in the other direction you'll find a Wyvern that's so powerful it just puts a skull next to its name and it one-shots you

I know a lot of people like to argue poor design decisions as challenging game design, but the only way any of this is intentional is laziness or an eagerness to rush an unfinished game to market. Wait for the Enhanced Edition.… Expand

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krainert

Jul 25, 2015

Story is interesting and well-told, the script, characters, and voice acting are great, the setting is intriguing if a bit cliche, the openStory is interesting and well-told, the script, characters, and voice acting are great, the setting is intriguing if a bit cliche, the open world feels richly populated, and the graphics are beautiful although short of technologically impressive -- but the combat and exploration, which together take up the majority of the playtime, are atrocious; plagued by indescribably bad controls, locomotion, and responsiveness, combat and movement become a chore, and the level design clashes with these weaknesses as it is filled with small obstacles to traversal and encounters is closed spaces. Add to that an awkward and insufficient introduction to mechanics and an expectancy that the player spends time to collect ingredients, the locations of which are unstated, and create oils and potions in preparation for each major battle, the occurrences and details of which are often unknowable beforehand. In general, the game would have done better as a book, from which it was indeed adapted.… Expand

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bumbaclad

May 22, 2015

I really hope the programmers that made this package 15 years ago are still getting royalties. Hire programmers to link a bunch of frameworkI really hope the programmers that made this package 15 years ago are still getting royalties. Hire programmers to link a bunch of framework together then create a team of only artists to rehash it into 100 different games. The Witcher is awful.
Problems from this game engine package everyone uses:
1) Movement is based on triangles making everything you do clumsy feeling.
2) Interacting with shops has to buffer the scene causing every interaction with merchants to take 30 seconds to load.
3) Games are made by teams of artists rather then programmers.

The Wither has many nice graphics and an open world with invisible zone lines that force you teleport to a sign post. Graphics look really nice at first until you realize they rehash the same skins over and over for the same creatures just different levels. The Witcher just feels like another crummy rendition of Skyrim. Biggest gripes for me are:
1) Hold you in a save game limbo rather then respawns.
2) Target system that switches based on the games misconceptions on what it thinks you should attack next. Making fights almost random, I get stuck in save limbo and have a different result every time by just spamming left click.
3) Spam food/potions to win gameplay.
4) Dialogues full of cosmetic decisions that lead to the same exact outcome.
5) It thinks it's an mmo; for example you sharpen your weapon and it is a buff that lasts 15 minutes regardless if you do anything.
6) Full of mindless quests and "events" everywhere that you will wish the world was empty.
7) Crafting/Alchemy is very unintuitive.
8) You are a magic witch fighter hero dude who trained fighting on posts blindfolded with spiked obstacles swinging but you jump 2 feet from the ground and nearly die.

This is a really tired and old game design only because it never improves. A new company takes the same tried engine/package adds new art and dialogue and calls it new. Not only do they keep the price the same, higher if you don't account for inflation, but remove content and release it as an expansion the day of. Luckily this game came with my new video card. And no one wants to play Gwent!… Expand

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TheAssDestroyer

May 30, 2015

This supposedly RPG is not customizable enough, there are no classes, you cant choose sex, there are no stats

The world is obviously tooThis supposedly RPG is not customizable enough, there are no classes, you cant choose sex, there are no stats

The world is obviously too big and quality of content is low, really the world is just huge forest copy-pastes all over the place, filled with low quality repeating tedious content, last time I checked it doesnt requires a lot of intelligence and creativity to do something this

repeat "destroy copy-pasted monster nests by pressing E on it for inconsequential amount of xp" ad nauseam

repeat "liberate copy-pasted villages from low level trash mobs so it can be repopulated with NPC who dont talk and with houses not worth visiting and with merchant who sell garbage for inconsequential amount of xp" ad nauseam

repeat "save the same copy-pasted NPC in the same copy-pasted bandit camp in the same way (by killing bandits) for inconsequential amount of xp" ad nauseam

repeat "pick worthless loot form chest guarded by group of trash mobs" ad nauseam

its just boring, and it gets boring really quickly

99% of NPC dont talk to you and 99% of houses are empty filled only with worthless loot and are not worth visiting, speaking about closed environments, dungeons can be explored in less then 5 minutes, and other environments like temples, fortresses, castles or ruins are almost non-existent, and if something like this appears in the game it can be explored in a few minutes, most of the world content is plain forest filled with copy-pasted villages and trash mobs

majority of loot in the game is worthless (usually items for crafting and alchemy and other garbage),

monsters even higher level monsters gives insignificant amount of xp and drops worthless loot so engaging in combat is unrewarding and sometimes makes net loss because you will have to spend money to repair your gear.

Enemy variety is low, you will have to fight zombies, drowners and humans most of the time

Constant surplus of money because there are almost nothing worth buying in shops. Camera movement in closed environments is atrocious, instantly moving from place to place often placing itself in areas from which are uncomfortable to watch. All places of interest are marked on the map and map is revealed from beginning so exploration is almost meaningless.

Dialogue options are shallow, because Geralt does most of the talking and his personality is fixed so you will have to choose only some lines, usually if important decision is involved, no more then 2 lines, other dialogue lines consists of asking for information, and other inconsequential stuff, so most of the time there is no choice in dialogues and you cant really immerse yourself into the role only to influence Geralt to be little more aggressive or nice

quests are designed poorly they all fallow the same boring pattern

acquire quest -> fallow markers and go to places A and B which are also marked on your map -> press E on every glowing object to win the quest,

everything is marked its very boring

the game even constantly tells you what to do in every stage of the quest. for example massage prompts ->go to a place -> now explore this area ->now talk to this person and so on

there is no satisfaction and brain work included in solving quests because Geralt tells about every clue, reads every note and book relevant to the quest and reveals what these clues might lead to, when you press E, for you

side quests are very short usually takes about 3-15 minutes to complete, areas and dungeons you visit to solve the quest are very small, linear and takes less then 5 minutes to explore, filled with few trash mobs and more or less worthless loot, so there are no huge maze like dungeons and underground fortresses filled with valuable loot, interesting enemies, encounters which requires smart decision making, items and people and so on

usually problems presented in quests are tied to separate individuals (for example, find something for a smith, kill monster for a farmer, ect.) and not tied to communities and settlements as a whole, so forget about epic "save the village whose inhabitants are shackled by fear, because evil witch from old times, somehow arise from its grave in deep forest and threatening their very existence" and something like that

they starts in the same fashion, that is you have to talk to NPC or read a note to acquire the quests, you cant for example run into quest, or find a clues somewhere in the world that doesnt instantly gives you quests and after some time find another clue and when going into some area and then knowing about the quests in that area from the clues you acquired, or quests that are not immediately unlocked but starts only when you advance or finish other quest and you have to make ends meet or something happened in first quests that affected the world or something like that

also quests dont interfere with each other and are not inter-connected they scattered around the world without any imagination waiting to be resolved

and they really are so tedious and monotonous and repeating you feel like trash man collecting sacks of garbage throughout the area

there are hundreds of quests in the witcher 3 but you can sort almost all of them into these 3 fallowing categories:

kill monster (acquire either through a contract or NPC)

find something (usually people) for other person find lost goods, which are few steps away from the area you acquired the quest and repeat these 3 again and again around the world, by going to marked place and pressing E to win this quests, ad nauseam and these quests are so shallow too as I said you almost never encounter anything interesting other than: go to a place - kill monster, go to a place - find something, go to a plce - acquire lost goods short, requires no brain work, small, easy, guided, isolated form each other like frozen pizzas in supermarket this is literally fast food of quests In my opinion older game like baldurs gate 2, fallout, might and magic, or diablo managed to do in one dungeon what the witcher 3 couldnt managed to do in an area needed about 40 hours to explore this game is not customizable enough and its mechanics are too simplistic for average RPG and combat is too clunky and not dynamic enough for average action game the world fails as huge battle arena as we seen in games like might and magic or diablo because combat is terrible you want to avoid most of the time, and there is simply not enough enemies in the world and it fails as interactive world with interesting content outside of combat like meeting interesting NPCs or interesting locations, or choosing from multiple solutions to resolve encounters like we seen in games like fallout and baldurs gate 2 because all areas of interest outside of combat are repeating monotonous tasks, content is repeating so exploration quickly wears off and become meaningless garbage recycling, collecting worthless loot which is also can be used only in combat and the game is not interactive enough (for example the only way you cant save prisoner from bandits camp is by killing bandits ) so I have every reason to believe this game is 4/10 that means being below average… Expand

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ajaxaddicted

May 20, 2015

Really boring single player MMO. It is a not very well done mix between Dragon Age: Inquistion(graphics) and SWTOR(story). Also - the foliageReally boring single player MMO. It is a not very well done mix between Dragon Age: Inquistion(graphics) and SWTOR(story). Also - the foliage is horrible, the wind is always blowing, the trees and the grass look flat. All the villages look exactly the same, the quests are fetch quests with Witcher Senses(Batman Detective mode) which doesn't make them any more interesting. Completed the Prologue, reached the first part where you play with Ciri, can't take it anymore.… Expand

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jpr64

May 21, 2015

I give a one because it exists : pre-ordered the game on gog 4 months ago, have an azerty keyboard, cannot play the english version becauseI give a one because it exists : pre-ordered the game on gog 4 months ago, have an azerty keyboard, cannot play the english version because the controls are fubar, movements keys blocked, graphics not in relation with the video that make me buy the game 4 months ago, no redemption without a pad, had to wait to play the game when it was available on steam, customer service is just ugly...

Well, I will not say don't buy the game, just wait for the final version...

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eelegendo

May 20, 2015

They've made the same mistake as with W2, going the console way. The controles are subpar (mouse/keyboard), sometimes they work, sometimesThey've made the same mistake as with W2, going the console way. The controles are subpar (mouse/keyboard), sometimes they work, sometimes they just won't. The "boss" fights are **** as before... That was the main reason I hated so much W2. The game is not fair: you run around, no quests, no beast of your size, so you stuck, can't level up. But you have to beat the griffin otherwise you can't go further. What is the point in this? It is bigger, shinier than Skyrim, but you just can't enjoy it. You have no space to develop.
It is not a shame to learn from the better: bosses in Skyrim or in the Arkham series were enjoyable to beat. In W3 it makes me hate the game (again).… Expand

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Mike56

May 20, 2015

2013 trailers: Photo realistic graphics, CGI quality textures, insane polygons

2015: cartoony graphics & bloom effects, boring repetitive2013 trailers: Photo realistic graphics, CGI quality textures, insane polygons

2015: cartoony graphics & bloom effects, boring repetitive quests, terrible optimization. Witcher 3 aka the biggest downgrade of this gen… Expand

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Canisrah

May 19, 2015

Look - I've played for a few hours so this is a review in progress.

I'm posted it now though because I've had to stop playing because ILook - I've played for a few hours so this is a review in progress.

I'm posted it now though because I've had to stop playing because I feel sick! The PC version has shipped WITHOUT an FOV (field of view) slider. What this means is we are locked with a narrow, zoomed in camera that is so close it's suffocating.

The PC isn't a console - we don't need to be locked into these narrow FOVs - and to do so when sitting up close to a 30 inch monitor is a recipe for headaches and nausea. The Steam and GOG forums are littered with threads bemoaning this almost unforgivable oversight (it's 2015 - FOV sliders should come as standard).

So while I'm enjoying the game; while the mood and the visuals are uniformly excellent - and the story has me hooked and there's been no crashes (frame rate dips every now and then with my GTX 780 but it's fine on medium settings) - I can't rate a game highly that prevents me from playing it because it makes me ill!

Fix it!

I'll come back and adjust my review (and score) when it's patched and I can play the game without being sick.… Expand

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AndyTiran

Oct 4, 2016

Lets start from saying that I bought it on sale and it still doesn't worth it..
I`m really disappointed with this game. The truth is,Lets start from saying that I bought it on sale and it still doesn't worth it..
I`m really disappointed with this game. The truth is, Witcher 3 is a bad overrated PC game.
It's so bad, mostly because of its CLUMSY, Repetitive and Dull combat mechanics. I lost interest on the first forest fight and stopped there. Main character feels like a heavy truck, not as a dexterous cat he meant to be.
Well yes, maybe the story would have been good, but I`m not going through the game with its bad controls and combat system, because when doing so, you literally feel physical pain and frustration.. so, so bad..
Don't be fooled by high ratings, this game is absolutely overrated..… Expand

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belph

May 19, 2015

The witcher controls really bad with keyboard and mouse. The graphics are fine, but that's about it. For my taste it has too much focus onThe witcher controls really bad with keyboard and mouse. The graphics are fine, but that's about it. For my taste it has too much focus on action and the main character sadly is not who i want to play either. If you like Geralt and can live with playing him and also like buttonmashing on a controller that game might be great for you, for me its totally unbearable though.… Expand

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Dethstar

May 19, 2015

More open, ok graphics though not what I was hoping for. Spend less time looking at Geralts back than in TW2 but still this pathetic consoleMore open, ok graphics though not what I was hoping for. Spend less time looking at Geralts back than in TW2 but still this pathetic console field of view and no field of view slider in 2015!! Damn consoles holding everyone back a decade and turning a lot of people off gaming in general.

PC gamers run current hardware that can cope with a decent field of view in whatever resolution they run at. I don't expect to be limited by developers too lazy or cheap to rework textures to provide a decent field of view. You cant even move the camera back a bit.

The environment is well done, yet somehow, that just makes it more annoying that your playing at such as bad field of view. Doubt I will finish it, way too annoying and I have a PC precisely because gaming in the ridiculous field of view forced on consoles is really distracting. What a waste.… Expand

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effthat

May 19, 2015

This looks like a fun game! Unfortunately, between the thing crashing every 15 minutes and the fixed, narrow FOV making me sick when I canThis looks like a fun game! Unfortunately, between the thing crashing every 15 minutes and the fixed, narrow FOV making me sick when I can play there's no way to know. Don't buy this yet, wait for someone to fix the obviously rushed port job.… Expand

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Protp

May 19, 2015

Sadly they sell out sooner rather than later, there is close to no difference between medium and ultra, the downgrade is real...

The fightsSadly they sell out sooner rather than later, there is close to no difference between medium and ultra, the downgrade is real...

The fights are really similar to the previous entry's a little of improvement but nothing amazing, controlls are ok, lack of graphic options and a new CD Project Red Shady as hell.

My 4 points are for the story and the price of the game 36$ GoG version, because is clearly not worthy of a full price for the downgrade alone.

RiP CDP Red...… Expand

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harviolo

Jun 1, 2015

About a year ago I bought the much lauded Witcher 2 on Steam in a sale. I installed it, launched it and tried to control the bloody characterAbout a year ago I bought the much lauded Witcher 2 on Steam in a sale. I installed it, launched it and tried to control the bloody character while the scene camera seemed to do its own thing. I quickly realised why I hate button-mashing-over-the-shoulder-lack-of-control style games. Unfortunately I had hoped that at least this aspect of the control/combat would be improved for Witcher 3, sadly that's a big hairy 'NO'. In my opinion the controls in Witcher 3 are actually worse. Sadly this ruins the game for me.

The other thing that bothers me are the graphics. In my opinion Skyrim looks better, trees in particular look **** in W3, sort of reminds me of Arma 2 on medium settings.

Anyway I don't like being overly negative on a title like this which undoubtedly has had a lot of work put into it so perhaps if there is a1st person mod and a high res texture pack then I will re-install.… Expand

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hrsr0

May 19, 2015

Gameplay is the most important however even that is absolute garbage, delayed actions by 0.3 seconds , character control is delayed too ,Gameplay is the most important however even that is absolute garbage, delayed actions by 0.3 seconds , character control is delayed too , graphics a real and complete joke after the downgrade for console parity idiocy, skills are pathetic and , no mod support AT LAUNCH , even worse than witcher 2 , music is terrible, story is standard witcher wich is above good, overall 3.5/10 at best , game is a letdown EVEN IF YOU expect nothing or no improvement over the last 2 iterations of witchers, quests are good., runs @ 55-60 fps @ 1200p on 4 year old hardware wich is good,
graphics 3/10
gameplay 5/10 ( kbm controlls are crap )
story 7/10
sounds/1/10
music 0/10
atmosphere 2/10 ( is linked 100% to graphics and music, since those elements provide that atmosphere feeling ),

overall a let down not worth the money, dlcs add trivial things .… Expand

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Akemiqq

Sep 10, 2015

let me start telling you this, I bought the GOG version and I have been playing this game ever since it's released, currently I have itslet me start telling you this, I bought the GOG version and I have been playing this game ever since it's released, currently I have its 1.08.4 patch which is considered as the latest . I admit I have a bit old PC but I can play GTA V with high settings fine, I can play Dragon age inquisition with high settings fine but not this game? why? some says this game is so demanding but to be honest, when a game is so demanding it means either the game is graphically awesome or badly optimized but we everyone know Witcher 3 downgraded its graphic quality just before it's released and it doesn't have a realistic look so why it's so demanding? because it's unoptimized , the game is a console port and badly optimized, and there is poorly coded Maxwell favour Gamework on top of it.

there are a lot of bugs in the game, character movement isn't that fluid like in GTA ,you feel like it's a bit robotic when moving, the same feeling has when fighting and riding a horse. water quality, terriann quality isn't that good either ,it looks like a bit cartoonish, the only pro side of this game is having good looking characters and weapons.

animations are quite bad, character movement, tree shaking when it's windy are absolutely horrific. the trees shake like thick papers when it's windy, there is no realism at all in it. the water quality is quite bad, it doesn't even look like water, but some heavy fluid. combat is repetitive and boring and dull, horse riding doesn't feel like fluid, it's same as the character movement, so robotic, if you want the best character movement then go to GTA. the story is fine, level design is fine, the world is huge and wonderful ,there are a lot of places to explore , but the game performance discourages me from playing, who wants to play a game with 30fps and low?
in towns it goes even low like 23fps, I reduced all settings lowest as possible but the situation is still same, I have seen that a lot of people defend this game, I dunno why, you need a gtx 980 to play this game with Ultra quality at 1080p@60fps but that card is so expensive, it just suggests gtx 770 as recommended means u should be able to play the game with max settings with 1080p@60fps with gtx 770 but it's quite impossible.
when you set all settings to Ultra on gtx 770 ,the fps goes to 30fsp.so basically on a recommended system you can't achieve 60fps at 1080p on Ultra mode. then why it's even recommended?
only SLI high end cards can pass the 60fps and single gtx 980 card can achieve 60fps in towns.

this game purposely reduced the performance of AMD cards recently though it's fixed I am pretty sure still it favours Nvidia Maxwell users over other users. I feel like this game is developed to push people to buy Maxwell cards so it's more like a Nvidia marketing plan. Physx can't even be turned off.

I suggest that wait for like 2-3 years until more powerful hardware shows up and bugs in this game are fixed, then go ahead and buy because this game is worth, I heard that DirectX12 patch might come so soon which means there will be a tremendous performance boost since gtx 400 cards. don't buy now and wait, so you can have the game at cheap price too.… Expand

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RPGWizard

Jul 8, 2015

The Witcher 3 have a big world but the game don't seem to know what to make of it. It's just about the main story line. Exploring is hardlyThe Witcher 3 have a big world but the game don't seem to know what to make of it. It's just about the main story line. Exploring is hardly rewarding, the witcher gear quests are mostly go and fetch, there are no complex dungeons, just some small caves, everything is easy rewarded, bland and empty.… Expand

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Apergy

Aug 24, 2016

This game is a complete masterpiece, one of the greatest games of all time. Stunning graphics, absolutely heart warming campaign with endlessThis game is a complete masterpiece, one of the greatest games of all time. Stunning graphics, absolutely heart warming campaign with endless potential for DLC. Great game, cannot recommend more.… Expand

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nysailorscout

Feb 10, 2020

This game was incredibly overrated. Let me go over the problems:

COMBAT & CONTROLS (-): The combat is like a bad version of Bloodborne. TheThis game was incredibly overrated. Let me go over the problems:

COMBAT & CONTROLS (-): The combat is like a bad version of Bloodborne. The controls are as stiff as a board and the targeting is unsatisfying. Most of the game can be handled by throwing up a magic shield sign (Quen) and mashing the regular attack button. There will be times where you are unable to pick up an object without simultaneously using your "look" camera functionality and movement because you cannot do something as simple as face in a particular direction.

WEAPON/EQUIPMENT VARIETY (-): There is only 1 primary weapon type for the entire game, which is outrageous for an RPG! Games from the 80's had more variety. In a single-player solo RPG, there needs to be more variety or it just becomes an adventure with tacked-on stats.

MAGIC (-): The magic system is very clunky to use in combat, along with being too basic. This discourages people from making non-melee builds.

NPCs (-): Most of the NPCs are ugly on purpose and usually dull. Some of the facial animations are frightening.

VOICE ACTING (-): The English voice acting of Geralt is a forced low voice, so it is guttural at the expense of color and emotion. They could have just hired somebody that naturally has a low voice and we could have been treated to a more fully-developed Geralt.

WRITING (+): This is a good point. The writers took time to flesh out characters, particularly Geralt. He is not a blank cipher. He has his own hopes and fears and complicated motivations. I wish more games would have writing like this!

GRAPHICS (+): This is another good point. The special effects (like sunlight and riding) are excellent and it makes the world feel real. Yennefer is beautiful in a way that I never thought possible for a computer-generated image. She crosses over the uncanny valley.

In short, The Witcher 3 would have been great as an adventure or movie! But as an RPG with poor combat, clunky controls, boring weapon/magic and shallow character customization and levelling, it is just not a game that I would recommend.… Expand

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Corefitz

Feb 16, 2020

Waow... I have no words.

What an absolute waste of time and money. Okay okay, so: First off, I've tried playing The Witcher 1... didn'tWaow... I have no words.

What an absolute waste of time and money.

Okay okay, so: First off, I've tried playing The Witcher 1... didn't even get past the tutroial, so that set a bar for me right from the start. Now I've heard so many great things about The Witcher 3 through the years, but I kept my distance because of an extremely bad and unsatifying experience.

With that said, I decided to give The Witcher 3 a try... and oh boy do I regret everything about it.

First thing that messes with me is the mouse sensitivity, either you put that thing ALL the way down and make navigation in menus insufferably slow, but your camera doesn't fly round when you're in character mode... or you just have 2000% motion blur all the time, but are able to normally navigate menus.

So... Actually starting a new game! Now, as a brand new player to the series, I went all in on the tutorials, getting things explained and shown, little did I know I would have to sit and just read for hours before the game itself even started... or well, the games tutorial started. at this point I was already considering whether this was worth it, since this lowered every expectation I already had... I mean how can I be expected to remember all this stuff with no way of getting it explained again unless I have to break the pace of the game, minimize it and google stuff?

So getting to moving around... barely, every time I move what seems no more then 10 meters, there's a new pop-up giving me another "this is important, you do it like this, which will affect the world you play in" generic message. Cool choices matter, I get that by now.

So (extremely) slowly and with a ton of pauses because of explanations, I FINALLY get to the combat section of the tutorial. And what do I get... never before have I had to read that much to understand a combat system. I could go on about the wall of text new players are met with.

After finnishing reading more stuff about this minor obscure detail in combat, I get to the actual thing... It's worse than Skyrims system. Extremely clunky, free-targeting-city unless you choose one specific target... which somehow always ends up in the back ranks so you might as well retarget, and suddenly, that target is in the back ranks... oh my lord. At this point I'm about ready to give up, Heavily discouraged by what feels like The Shakespere Collection in text, that has to be read and understood, and utter stupidity in combat systems. But I press on becuase there has to be some light at the end of this tunnel.

Welcome to the actual game itself. Now please have en eternaty of go-here-do-this quests with absoultly no diversity. And if you wanna defeat this foe you've never seen before... guess what, you have to break the pace of the game, stop combat and read even more about how to even damage a Noonwraith.

So at an all-time low in-game, I decide to try to get some more exp so I can be at least somewhat useful... Oh wait, let's pause the game becuase, during the tutorial we didn't make you read about skill points, brewing potions or weapon durability.
Just great...

After actually giving up on reading and just wanting to mess around, I slam my space button and just skip it, deciding to figure it out at some point when I really need it.

So finally leaving the starting... town? I suddenly encounter an enemy that's no more then TWO WHOLE LEVELS above me... and suddenly all of my attacks are reduced by 90% in damage... Are you actually for real?... Fine whatever... I'll flee and come back later... but oh wait, your health is low and you can only heal by eating food which is horrendously slow... Now please be attacked by 8 Drowners at the same time, which all stun you and kills you... and btw you didn't save so please redo all your missions.

I finally just gave up and closed the game.

So what did I learn.
- Unless you're willing to come out of the game with a PHD in Witcher stuff, don't open it up.
- Whatever you try to do, assume you have to read about it in some random book, stupid pop-up or your journal.
- Combat is insanely clunky, even if you side roll enemies still hit you and you lose 1/3 of your HP from lesser monsters... You never ever have the chance to counter attack because of sheer numbers disadvantage... And why do I have to choose between 2 different swords to even damage propperly (This should be something that comes naturally... not something a player should activly choose)
- Story is very unimmersive and flat. at least the tiny bits I got to "experience" (Seriously, just 2 edge-lrods in some tavern)
- There are so many systems that are so extremely confusing to new players, that they don't even bother learning them
- The leaning curve in this game just requires you to be a working at NASA.
- Unless you can connect a controller, the game is insufferable with mouse and keyboard.
- The game, AT LEAST, uses a nice color palette.
- Total playtime: 5.5 hours.… Expand

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Invisible_Mango

Oct 24, 2019

Overhyped, overrated trash. Combat system sucks, the music is grating and annoying, I can't stand the main character, the world is so drab IOverhyped, overrated trash. Combat system sucks, the music is grating and annoying, I can't stand the main character, the world is so drab I have no desire to see any more of it. It feels to me the game makers deliberately tried to make this game as ugly as possible. Everyone else in the world likes it so there's that, but the only thing I got out of this game was the fact that it was a good way to test my new gaming PC when it came out. I love big sprawling RPGs, but this one left a sour taste in my mouth.… Expand

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ABR

Nov 29, 2018

This game has pretty graphics, animation of NPC's, good folk music and the worst and the most boring combat system with swords I've ever seen.This game has pretty graphics, animation of NPC's, good folk music and the worst and the most boring combat system with swords I've ever seen. Spent 300 hours playing alchemistmage build. I was waiting, when this game will be interesting, it never happened. Though, some characters are good enough, but like in Coen brothers movie, they don't develop during the playthrough, you just move on. And all this story like "Chasing Amy (Ciri)". I just wanted to play game about the main character, not his step-daughter.

If you want to play a good game - play AC Odyssey, instead of this "greatest game ever". Why zero? I was hyped and was very dissapointed with this game. There is only one Witcher game - the first one. No freedom at all, you must play for Ciri, you must communicate with this b***h Yen.

The only good about this game is its DLC "Hearts of Stone", at least it has interesting antagonist and nice story plus Shani.

4 for DLC.… Expand

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