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  1. Sep 26, 2017
    8
    After playing through some more Witcher 3 after a total new PC build, I changed my review. Great game now that Geralt is a little more responsive with more PC power. He still has some of the worst controls of any game I've played in awhile with keyboard mouse or controller. Try and get him to move one step forward. Go ahead and try. It's nearly impossible. Try and get him to standAfter playing through some more Witcher 3 after a total new PC build, I changed my review. Great game now that Geralt is a little more responsive with more PC power. He still has some of the worst controls of any game I've played in awhile with keyboard mouse or controller. Try and get him to move one step forward. Go ahead and try. It's nearly impossible. Try and get him to stand still while attacking. Like just take a swipe or a swing or something while standing still. Also impossible. He leaps around like a wounded duck during combat. Weird and a step back in the genre when games like Assassin Creed and Shadows of Mordor give you near perfect control.
    The graphics may be the best I've seen in any game. However, why are the trees constantly blowing like an F3 hurricane is moments from hitting land. Yeah it's cool that all of the trees and shrubs move dynamically like that. But all day and night during even sunny weather? Chill, devs, chill.
    I love that when you hunt monsters, each target is a completely different creature with its own lore, strengths and weaknesses. Those fights are usually the most exciting.
    Gwent is a really simple card game where collecting the cards can be kind of addicting at first, but remember you are on a time sensitive mission to save your daughter/friend/girl. No time for that stuff . Mission tracking is very helpful. No time wasted searching for quest locations.
    There's lots to find exploring the map. Once you are a few levels higher than your mission requirements the game becomes easy as pie, as is the case with most RPGs. The signs the witcher can use in combat are mostly useless and I usually win most of my fights with dodging and striking at the right time or ya know.... flopping around like a wounded duck. ;)
    Fun, beautiful game, but not as ground breaking as people claim.
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  2. Sep 18, 2015
    6
    Believe me when i say that i enjoyed this game, however there is no way that it deserves all these 10 out of 10's and universal acclaim. if you give a game 10 then you must think it's pretty much perfect, but the Witcher 3 is a far cry from perfect. Look the story, the writing and the narrative structure of this game are some of the best i have ever seen, i don't think anyone would denyBelieve me when i say that i enjoyed this game, however there is no way that it deserves all these 10 out of 10's and universal acclaim. if you give a game 10 then you must think it's pretty much perfect, but the Witcher 3 is a far cry from perfect. Look the story, the writing and the narrative structure of this game are some of the best i have ever seen, i don't think anyone would deny that.
    My issues with the game are more gameplay and mechanical in nature: one of my biggest issues with the game is the controls in a sense, because the controls in and of themselves are fine, they make sense, however the problem stems from the wonky and frankly crappy movement animation of the character and hoarse. There seems to be a time delay between movement and controller input especially on the horse as for some reason it never responds to your commands and seems to have a mind of it's own while getting stuck constantly on the most minute pieces of scenery. and frankly the overall animation is just terrible, some of the worst i have seen since oblivion and fallout 3. Geralt himself feels like he has no body weight and moves as if he were a puppet on a string, oh and who thought it was a good idea to place those dam candles everywhere, surely this should have been picked up and fixed during playlists. Then there is the obvious graphical downgrade issue, the graphics overall are ok but unfortunately lacked that punch that the Witcher 2 had for it's time which also had far better art direction overall. Sound Design overall was fine, nothing earth shattering but fine and the music was fitting for the setting and story elements but there was nothing there memorable enough that would make me want to own a copy of the soundtrack.
    Now lastly and this is also an issue that many raised with the recent dragon age and that is the fetching and grinding and honestly i feel that there was more of that hear. i would have literally spent 80 percent of my time with this game riding and sailing all over the maps going from one guarded treasure pile to another and it wasn't any more enjoyable hear. Anyhow thats all i really have to say on this the game, it is good enough for a play through, but i won't be returning to it.
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  3. Oct 22, 2015
    6
    OK Game, but the control system completely ruins it. (Using x-box controller)
    Also there are some major bugs (Skellegs Most wanted for instance) that still need fixing even after the latest 12+gb patch.
  4. Jan 20, 2021
    10
    Mama mama un ponna kuu mama..medam pottu naan thalli kattalama...kumba konathu vethalaiya madi da
  5. Feb 3, 2021
    5
    Great story! Great characters! A decent world and a lot of content! Shame its let down massively by the horrific combat! Also the RPG elements in this game are very weak and the control is terrible.
  6. Feb 6, 2019
    0
    I couldn't get into the game. It is extremely boring and dull. The voice acting was nails on the chalkboard annoying. The combat is very simple and shallow. I had to get a refund and get myself something else.
  7. Oct 14, 2018
    5
    The combat has weight and managing the stamina adds a welcome tactical layer to the experience ; that said the game knows only to challenge you by spawning a stupid amount of enemies. Button mashing is often necessary and interior combat is as bad as it gets, which is a situation the game puts you in often.

    The magic signs have their importance but you will be spending most of your time
    The combat has weight and managing the stamina adds a welcome tactical layer to the experience ; that said the game knows only to challenge you by spawning a stupid amount of enemies. Button mashing is often necessary and interior combat is as bad as it gets, which is a situation the game puts you in often.

    The magic signs have their importance but you will be spending most of your time recharging your shield which essentially confines your magic abilities to boosting your armor. The perks, abilities, and weapon upgrades are mechanically useful yet they fail to excite beyond their functionality.

    Dialogue wise, the genealogy of answers is quite shallow and deprived of branching - Suffice to experience Deus ex: Human revolution's dialogue system to understand what I mean by that. There is no "Game" to be found in the dialogue mechanics. The characters are inanimate dolls and the choices on offer are nothing more than a bunch of glorified playback buttons.

    Exploration wise, I think the game does a descent job in terms of environmental story telling, but nothing that is worth the praises beyond the best the competition has to offer. Shenmue 2 does much more in my opinion and the game came out nearly 20 years ago. The investigative phases are a real joke too, where you are mindlessly following red marks - yet another example of shallow, unaccomplished mechanic.

    The pacing is a real problem too ; During the first half of the game (10hrs), the story literally stalls. The game becomes more engaging once you reach the second half, but it feels too little too late. The characters are likable and by the end of the game I did feel some attachment towards some of them. The difficulty is also an issue, where the beginning happens to be much harder than the end; I beat the final bosses on my first attempts while being vastly under-leveled.

    The visuals are fairly bland retrospectively ; For instance, I find the sunsets particularly vulgar and over-saturated . The towns also, lack authenticity in their structure and layout, and that is particularly jarring if you compare it to the original Assassin's creed's urban layout, which feel substantially more authentic and researched.

    To conclude, I'd say that the disproportionate success and admiration this game has generated, comes from the fascination that the average nerd historically hold toward medieval sword and shields ; It's the "game of thrones" generation that has brought Wild hunt to the pinnacle.

    Wild hunt is not a bad game, it's just so far from being this timeless masterpiece.
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  8. May 25, 2015
    7
    There is a great game here, I don't doubt it. However the system requirements are just too high, it's not going to run well for many people. Using a MSI GTX 760 2GB, i5-4570, 8GB Ram 30-40 FPS on the lowest possible settings was the best performance achievable, or a whopping 7 - 12 FPS maxed, 22 FPS with Hair works turned off.

    The game is also rather buggy, and was crashing quite
    There is a great game here, I don't doubt it. However the system requirements are just too high, it's not going to run well for many people. Using a MSI GTX 760 2GB, i5-4570, 8GB Ram 30-40 FPS on the lowest possible settings was the best performance achievable, or a whopping 7 - 12 FPS maxed, 22 FPS with Hair works turned off.

    The game is also rather buggy, and was crashing quite often.

    The core game underneath the technical issues, is actually a really solid one though. If you have a monstrous PC it is a MUST have game, but for the average bloke I would just pass for a game you can actually run.
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  9. Dec 12, 2017
    0
    Generic uninspired fantasy setting and a lead with zero emotion.
    The gameplay is good however, but everything else turns it down due to how generic everything is
  10. Dec 17, 2020
    10
    Absolutely fantastic RPG even tho it was realeased 5 years ago. I still enjoy it a lot
  11. Dec 17, 2020
    10
    masterpieceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
  12. May 23, 2015
    5
    Combat is incredibly floaty, worse than the Witcher 2's. Menus, keybinds and the interface are streamlined. I just finished the main story with 42 hours played on the hardest difficulty.. Did quite a few side quests.. Doing all of the scavenger hunts probably took up around 50% of my played time., I think if I did every single secondary quest I ran into I MAYBE could have squeezed theCombat is incredibly floaty, worse than the Witcher 2's. Menus, keybinds and the interface are streamlined. I just finished the main story with 42 hours played on the hardest difficulty.. Did quite a few side quests.. Doing all of the scavenger hunts probably took up around 50% of my played time., I think if I did every single secondary quest I ran into I MAYBE could have squeezed the length of my play through to around 50 hours.. Far cry from the 200+ that were advertised. And it's not like I'm a speedrunner or anything. The only reason why I didn't do a 100% completion game and finish every single side quest is that I totally outleveled every single side quest. I hit level 31 right before finishing the game and half of my quests were "gray" and completely useless. I started doing the secondary quests, but I was just hitting all of the level 12-20 things for around 2x their total HP with a single fast attack so... that's not really very fun.

    Experienced quite a few bugs during my play through. Nothing game breaking, but annoying nonetheless. At one point, the camera slowly zoomed forwards on to the back of Geralt's head, then zoomed inside of his face. Several times I was jumping around and Geralt got stuck floating in mid air next to an object, which I had to close the game and reload an earlier save to fix. The horse controls are completely awful, and you'll often get stuck on nothing while riding down the middle of a road. Happened to me all the time in the middle of a certain street in Novigrad.

    Don't even get me started on the endings. There are apparently three different main endings, which hinge entirely on a single quest chain. Two of the endings are pretty much the same. Smells too much of ME3 for my taste. It also reviews what happens to all of the major characters in the end of game cutscene, which is the only redeeming feature of the ending.. But it still doesn't change the fact that there are basically two endings, and they both hinge totally on a single quest chain.

    Basically, the only reason why I'm rating the game as highly as I am is because the story(apart from the ending) is fantastic, and the voice acting is top notch. Every NPC you interact with in the game has wonderful voice acting.
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  13. Jul 25, 2015
    5
    I think The Witcher 3 has a fantastic storyline, which is why I'm still rating this a 5 out of 10, but it's not a good game.

    My character often gets snagged up in the environment, something that I haven't seen in a game for a long time, so I have to mash the jump and direction buttons to continue the direction I wanted. Traveling on the horse is just frustrating with it's constant
    I think The Witcher 3 has a fantastic storyline, which is why I'm still rating this a 5 out of 10, but it's not a good game.

    My character often gets snagged up in the environment, something that I haven't seen in a game for a long time, so I have to mash the jump and direction buttons to continue the direction I wanted. Traveling on the horse is just frustrating with it's constant detours in the wrong direction and stopping because it's hit a blade of grass too high (and I'm using patch 1.07 which was supposed to improve the horse).

    The repetitive dialogue drives me nuts, it's like the people in a village have a few lines of dialogue that is repeated over and over every time you walk past. People walk into you while you're standing still and shout that you've hurt them. The combat is boring and unrefined compared to the prequels, you just cast your favourite sign then dodge/parry and then counterstrike most enemies.

    Such a shame because the story, voice acting, graphics and the attention to certain details in the game could have made this a classic.
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  14. Oct 21, 2015
    5
    Nice story even in every side quest, nice features, overhaul graphics
    but... NOPE
    it has HUGE patch but still poorly optimized low framerate, unless you have high end gaming PC
  15. Dec 1, 2020
    10
    Definitely one of my favorite games. Story and the Witcher universe is so large that you can easily get lost in this world. Loved every hour i spent in the game. Missions are fun and have diversity. There are also a lot of quests to do. Soundtrack is just amazing. Characters are so real. There are some technical problems like the control of the Roach but after all it's a 10/10
  16. Dec 17, 2020
    10
    Giving this game 0 or 1 because of cyberpunk 2077 is just pathetic. Get a life
  17. Dec 17, 2020
    10
    เกมโลกเปิดที่เรียกว่า มาเกือบทุกอารมณ์ เนื้อเรื่องดีมาก ภาพก็สวยตามยุคสมัย ถ้าจะยกให้เกมในเป็นเกม Action RPG / Open World ยกให้เกมนี้เลยจ้า
  18. Dec 29, 2018
    1
    Don't really know what to say besides the fact that its an interesting idea, but CDPR made it into a mock game.
  19. Feb 6, 2019
    0
    he camera and controls in general, are just unbelievably bad. combat gameplay is just horrible, flat map, empty, repetitive scenery wanted to like this game but the absolutely pathetic combat system
  20. Oct 17, 2017
    5
    Rating The Witcher 3 seems quite difficult. I have the utmost respect for all the work that went into this game. It contains a moderate amount of great ideas and fun content that seems personal and passionate, which is a true gift to gamers nowadays considering the excel-sheet game-design of current "AAA"-titles. But those fun pieces are overshadowed by design decisions that throw themRating The Witcher 3 seems quite difficult. I have the utmost respect for all the work that went into this game. It contains a moderate amount of great ideas and fun content that seems personal and passionate, which is a true gift to gamers nowadays considering the excel-sheet game-design of current "AAA"-titles. But those fun pieces are overshadowed by design decisions that throw them into a melange that, at least in my opinion, is pretty much drab and humdrum. The sum is less than it's parts. In the end, I couldn't get myself to finish the game despite trying several times.

    The Good:
    - Astonishing level-art, great models and textures (Novigrad is frickin' massive)
    - Witty episodes in-between (returning a goat; herding pigs; rock trolls; some dialogues)
    - Quest design being tied to story elements; solving mysteries.

    The Disputed
    - Story:
    Overall, its tone, atmosphere, and mentality seemed more in accordance with (the popular) "Games of Thrones" than with the spirit of its own subject. My guess is: that's the reason why this game is so popular: so "dark", so "grown up". Therefore the game's story is a grimdark succession of tragedy after tragedy. Tragedy no matter what. Why? Because of drama. Want to save children? Then other children will die. Want to be diplomatic? Can't be, everyone's corrupt. Want to survive? Kill or be killed. It's this monotonous "human nature is **** " and all around edginess ("you gotta be a dirtbag yourself") that's now copied by every major player in the media industry, be it television, films or games... smells like teen spirit.

    Yes, there also was one such tragic quest-line in the Witcher 2, a game I really liked, but that's the difference: If you repeat this concept again and again and make it your one trick pony, it gets artificial and melodramatic. Besides, while the concept of neutrality was a really interesting topic in the books and also the first 2 games, in the third game Geralt's options to act neutral seemed reduced to Geralt behaving like a stone-cold mercenary, a calculating entrepeneur, regrettably.

    The Witcher novels, as far as I remember, manage a nuanced balance of "dark" and "light" content. At it's core they also convey a lot of gritty humour, sober human warmth and friendship, exciting (i.e. NOT depressing) adventures and tales, and a lot of eroticism (there even was a testimonial from Playboy magazine on the back of the first book). In Comparison, humour, adventure, friendship, and eroticism became a minor aspect of the Witcher 3, whereas the grimdark gore and edginess went into overdrive. Alas, it's also the reason I couldn't really get into the story, I'm no fan of GoT and its grimdark dramatically dramatic drama.

    The Bad
    - Stuff to do all over the place: What to do with the (literal) hundreds of "points of interests", and how to react to the (literal) tens of thousands lootable herbs all over the place? When and what to gather? Gather them at all? Is it worthwhile? I'd say: No. You thought Zelda BotW's krog seeds were a completionists nightmare, well, you haven't seen this.
    - How to get to all these places? The game is designed in a way that the only efficient method to get to places is looking at the mini-map and following the dotted line leading you to your next spot or quest. While the scenery you walk or ride through is nice, it's just that: scenery, empty scenery. I wonder how much time players have spend looking at that dotted line on the mini-map. I wish there was an eye-tracking study about this.
    - There's so many "NPCs". But except story NPCs and merchants, you can't interact with any of them, which seems kinda odd. There's whole villages with no NPCs to talk to, just "models" walking around. The term "NPC" is misleading in this case, it's more like "bots" or just part of the non-interactive scenery, like trees.
    - Loot. Generic, random loot everywhere. Besides the witcher gear quests, there's no "artifacts" or truly special items to discover.

    - All of this adds up to: Aside from the story quests there's no real discoveries to be made, no feeling of adventure, no real incentive to explore the open world. And while I do not know the look and location of many villages in this game or the nooks and crannies of Novigrad, I remember the layout of the mini map quite well.
    - Combat and moving around the world. There are a lot of other reviews that already cover this topic in all its particulars.

    Summary / tl;dr:
    If you're a fan of GoT-style stories, don't mind spectating Geralt's dot as it travels around the minimap to your next story dialogue, and fancy your combat to be rolling and pirouetting, than there's some fun to be had with The Witcher 3 and some beautiful sceneries to be seen.
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  21. Jul 2, 2015
    7
    the game has excellent graphics, great story, big map but a big map not made to explore, only to do quests like CD Projekt Red said you can go wherever you want. but the roaming feels very limited. like the missons are pushing you along like nothing to do here. this that. otherwise just manages a just somewhat good. not much.
  22. Jun 5, 2021
    10
    The game has amazing story that got my hooked in the game for hours, fun combat system and hoards of great side quests with awesome characters. I really got connected with geralt and other characters that were written with so much back story and personality. I enjoyed every single moment of this game. It has a great setting in vast forests, swamps and tall mountains. Huge variety ofThe game has amazing story that got my hooked in the game for hours, fun combat system and hoards of great side quests with awesome characters. I really got connected with geralt and other characters that were written with so much back story and personality. I enjoyed every single moment of this game. It has a great setting in vast forests, swamps and tall mountains. Huge variety of monsters and choices that shape the outcome of the game. Expand
  23. Sep 10, 2017
    0
    If you can plz explain to me how a convoluted Shadow of Mordor clone deserves more than a 0/10 then go for it buddy. I enjoy complex RPG's with complex elements to them, The "witcher" is simply but a psuedo complex so called RPG ( the witcher being a hack and slash a genre that deserves no praise what so ever). This little number is nothing like Skyrim, Skyrim being the creme de la cremeIf you can plz explain to me how a convoluted Shadow of Mordor clone deserves more than a 0/10 then go for it buddy. I enjoy complex RPG's with complex elements to them, The "witcher" is simply but a psuedo complex so called RPG ( the witcher being a hack and slash a genre that deserves no praise what so ever). This little number is nothing like Skyrim, Skyrim being the creme de la creme of truly great RPG's. Some people have dismissed Skyrim and I believe that is because they do not understand the complexity of genuinely complex games and that is a sad moment, when people cannot recognize greatness. Expand
  24. Dec 15, 2020
    10
    Божественно. 10/10 просто ахуительно, ваще бомба, а не игра. Из за такой можно и жизнь нахуй послать.
  25. Dec 15, 2020
    10
    Simply the most breathtaking video game ive ever seen, the atmosphere, the story, the writing of the game... Just makes me wish i could erase my memory back and recomplete this game all way from the beginning, through the best DLCs ever... In my meaningless opinion, this is game resembles perfection, by far the best game of all time, still a big shame Cyberpunk came with such an horrifyingSimply the most breathtaking video game ive ever seen, the atmosphere, the story, the writing of the game... Just makes me wish i could erase my memory back and recomplete this game all way from the beginning, through the best DLCs ever... In my meaningless opinion, this is game resembles perfection, by far the best game of all time, still a big shame Cyberpunk came with such an horrifying state... But Witcher 3 is simply the best game of all time Expand
  26. Dec 15, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece! Great story, characters, music, atmosphere. One of my favorite games.
  27. Sep 14, 2015
    7
    Starts out as a great RPG and the best of the series but after the first 30 hours it becomes dull and lifeless. By that time I just wanted it to end. Many quests simply aren't "witcher" tasks - fetch this, fix that. There are many quests to complete but they are the same basic stuff over and over again.

    I loved the fact that the DLCs were free but every time a DLC was released so did a
    Starts out as a great RPG and the best of the series but after the first 30 hours it becomes dull and lifeless. By that time I just wanted it to end. Many quests simply aren't "witcher" tasks - fetch this, fix that. There are many quests to complete but they are the same basic stuff over and over again.

    I loved the fact that the DLCs were free but every time a DLC was released so did a patch. The patches took the game from solid to buggy. Graphical glitches are comical like when you teleport to a signpost while on Roach and you are floating in the air. Each patch just breaks things even more. None of the DLCs really add much though. The patches did add some useful features like pinning but even that is buggy. Every time you go into Alchemy it explains pinning again. The key binding are also messed up in the latest patches. Half the time I have to unbind, bind, unbind, bind certain keys until it works. Swimming and calling the horse are the most common.

    Speaking of swimming, the sea parts are horrific. Combat is next to impossible because you balance on a tiny boat and, because of glitches, tend to simply slide into water. Combat underwater is a joke. I got to the point where I just sped past enemies. For a game where a significant chunk is water this is really bad. 2 of the worse bugs occur in water as well. In one case I had just finished fighting some sirens and suddenly I was thrown out of the boat and immediately died (I was lv 30 at full health). Another time I was standing in the boat and suddenly I "teleported" far above the water and dropped. More common is the fact that when you get close to enemies you go into combat stance and for reasons I cannot understand you cannot jump. So the logical approach of jumping out of the boat near land to fight enemies won't work.

    Overall it isn't a bad game, especially early on; but as it drags on and on it simply becomes mediocre. Better than W2 but arguably not better than W1.
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  28. Apr 23, 2022
    0
    переоценённое и расхайпенное унылое говно.
  29. Dec 15, 2020
    10
    Does i need to say that this is simply the best singleplayer game ever? ....nope
  30. Jul 28, 2015
    7
    Very solid game and really good fun. Ambitious, well executed and visually gorgeous. This game is vast and you can easily lose hundreds of hours exploring and playing this very well envision game. The positives are self evident and its an RPG done to a brilliant standard. Faults are also there, lag in areas, and most notably very poor movement controls. Which for a game like this shouldVery solid game and really good fun. Ambitious, well executed and visually gorgeous. This game is vast and you can easily lose hundreds of hours exploring and playing this very well envision game. The positives are self evident and its an RPG done to a brilliant standard. Faults are also there, lag in areas, and most notably very poor movement controls. Which for a game like this should never of happened. Patches are still inbound to fix things and has also broke things increasing lag further in areas. Not the best post game support to fix issues, which in the modern gaming world isn't good enough. Other then that a great game with a fantastic story. Expand
Metascore
93

Universal acclaim - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Jan 28, 2016
    90
    The Witcher 3 says no to all of this - it's a great game with a fully realized setting, it's a joy to play, the business model behind it treats its customers like human beings, and it delivers a story that finally hits the tone of the books.
  2. Jan 20, 2016
    100
    Probably the best open-world RPG ever made, but it still falls prey to some of the genre's worst traps.
  3. Nov 4, 2015
    80
    I've made it pretty clear that it's hardly a flawless game, but that doesn't change the fact that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is something pretty bloody special and you should absolutely play it.