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  1. Aug 23, 2016
    0
    I would have honestly given this a 5/10, but since it was so ridiculously over hyped, for so long, that I bought it thinking it would be a solid time sink an entire year after it's release, this review is going to be a brutally honest tear down of this second string game.

    This game is awful, controls are sloppy, combat is arduous, easily glitch exploited, and uninspiring. Leveling, and
    I would have honestly given this a 5/10, but since it was so ridiculously over hyped, for so long, that I bought it thinking it would be a solid time sink an entire year after it's release, this review is going to be a brutally honest tear down of this second string game.

    This game is awful, controls are sloppy, combat is arduous, easily glitch exploited, and uninspiring. Leveling, and thus skill unlocks, are tied to main quests making the game droll and needlessly open world. Every vendor gets an often pointless cut scene. I can carry hundreds of reagents (needlessly) but only alcohol and meditation is necessary to craft after the initial production. Objects have weight, but there seems to be no purpose to it as a constraint at all.

    The game plays like an old "choose your own adventure" book, only with long uninspired, and awkward, walks through areas you are punished for exploring.

    There is extremely low experience for killing random world monsters (each kill within experience range will net you approximately 0.4% of a level which is worse than individual mob killing in WoW and each kill takes much longer) which removes a good deal of interest from exploring the "open world."

    This is combined with the oppressive finance system which actually punishes you for exploring and killing "the monster curse that still haunts the countryside."

    As an example of the terrible implementation of finance: a sword sells for less than a piece of bread costs, repair costs are imbalanced however you can always sell tons of needless herbs for a gold a piece (if you enjoy running circles around overly populated herbs that have to be in L.O.S. of the third person camera AND in front of your character to collect).

    Combat is a game of attrition, heavily dependent on holding down parry, rolling, and waiting for stamina cooldowns (could be more entertaining on face roll difficulties but I wouldn't know). There is no real "out of combat" engaging as ranged weapons do no damage of any import, enemies are obviously tethered and easily exploited for it, enemies typically attack in packs which throws out the counter mechanic most of the time, dodge is inferior to roll against packs and equally as useless as counter.

    There is no functionally new, clever combat in the game, but there is tons of rehashed combat concepts from other games that have been horribly reused here.

    The game is overly controlled to give purpose to poor implementation: missing reagents for recipes to prompt you forward, poor experience for not following the story, a poor economy to constrain your trade and attempt to limit your roaming due to the high cost/low reward of killing monsters despite easy (boring) exploits to circumnavigate it.

    The graphics aren't great for ps4, the game repeatedly failed to maintain a proper render before patching: either slowly degrading textures, or failing to display loot images, or parts of the HUD, and once dumping half of the polygons for the world littering black boxes in straight lines.

    Even after its 20+gig patch monsters often glitch below ground and pop back up, climbing over barriers rarely looks correct other than hopping fences, and additionally the text is unreasonably small and useless on my 40" tv 9 ft from my face....

    The story is choppy and terse due to the interactive implementation, not to mention forced and puerile. I'd honestly skip it if there was any other redeeming quality to the game, but there isn't.

    I could go on. There is no way I would have released this game as is, and there is little or no chance I would consider buying another title from this producer.

    I should have researched it more online, but after a year I was foolishly confident it was a solid bet given its high price point and visibility. I haven't been this disappointed since Dragon's Dogma, and I think it was even worse this go around.
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  2. Jul 17, 2016
    1
    After reading so many good reviews I was stoked for this game...Do not be tricked people this game is weak. The play control is absolute garbage, it's super clunky and sloppy. Compare it to Shadows of Mordor and you'll see what good controls should be like. The menus are way too complicated for them doing nothing. The voice acting is so cliche and lame. Every character in the game looksAfter reading so many good reviews I was stoked for this game...Do not be tricked people this game is weak. The play control is absolute garbage, it's super clunky and sloppy. Compare it to Shadows of Mordor and you'll see what good controls should be like. The menus are way too complicated for them doing nothing. The voice acting is so cliche and lame. Every character in the game looks like they had liquid wax poured all over their bodies. Everything in the game is tiny. The fighting is clunky and non-responsive. Expand
  3. May 21, 2015
    3
    What a staggering disappointment.
    First off: The controls of Geralt is an abomination.
    Everyone do this test; Watch how in his first two steps after you first push on the controller, they are really slow steps, and then he moves into stride - It's terrible. What precision and control is possible with that ? Then this test: run straight and then immediately push directly left or right
    What a staggering disappointment.
    First off: The controls of Geralt is an abomination.

    Everyone do this test; Watch how in his first two steps after you first push on the controller, they are really slow steps, and then he moves into stride - It's terrible. What precision and control is possible with that ?
    Then this test: run straight and then immediately push directly left or right on your gamepad - after that turn, Geralt stops slowly, turns like a slow moving robot, and then moves again. It's insane.
    The basis of the main characters movement has gigantic flaws that makes this game unplayable.
    Not only that but all his movement is sugglish and non-resonsive, and when the combat is difficulty already, it makes the gameplay in the Witcher 3 an exercise in endless frustration. And it was built this way. AMAZING.

    The players animation when on rocks, against trees, sliding down a hill etc, is all terrible. The physical connection of Geralt to this nice looking world when exploring, is awful.

    If they fixed the controls, the combat would still be really boring. None of the early enemies showed much intelligence or proved an interesting or visceral fight. Hit by weapon animation when you hit the enemies leaves no strong impact, and the AI behaviour in combat very soon into the game feels very repetitive. Sure you have some strategy with the Signs, but it's still in a dull combat system against plain enemies.

    The positive: is that some of the writing is vastly improved from the Witcher 2, and even most games.
    But you have to spend such a long time traversing what is a pretty nice designed world, but that setting quality is still not high enough on it's own and for all that imposed length extending traversal imperative, or as compensation for the really poor controls and gameplay.
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  4. May 20, 2015
    2
    A large, diverse open world, lots of quests and absolutely stunning graphics. What's not to love? Well, I hate to say it, but the graphics in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are merely a lipstick-on-a-pig distraction. What the graphics will ultimately fail to do is make you forget the fact that the combat mechanics are absolutely terrible. Much of the combat in-game is purely based on timing.

    The
    A large, diverse open world, lots of quests and absolutely stunning graphics. What's not to love? Well, I hate to say it, but the graphics in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are merely a lipstick-on-a-pig distraction. What the graphics will ultimately fail to do is make you forget the fact that the combat mechanics are absolutely terrible. Much of the combat in-game is purely based on timing.

    The average gamer is going to love how the game looks, but hate how it plays. RPG's live and die by how well their combat system is received, and this game's combat system is an unintuitive, poorly-timed and oddly-keystroked mess.

    See all those good reviews? I'm pretty sure they're all just too mesmerized by how good the graphics look. It's a shame the way you interface with them is such a turd.
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  5. May 22, 2015
    0
    Witcher 3's combat gameplay is just horrible, i just bought it because everyone is praising it.
    Gameplay is medicore at best to be honest. I agree with people saying Witcher 3 have good story. But what good is story if the gameplay sucks. Might as well be watching a movie then? When it comes to games, GAMEPLAY is more important than STORY.This game have the same problem as Bioshock
    Witcher 3's combat gameplay is just horrible, i just bought it because everyone is praising it.
    Gameplay is medicore at best to be honest. I agree with people saying Witcher 3 have good story. But what good is story if the gameplay sucks. Might as well be watching a movie then? When it comes to games, GAMEPLAY is more important than STORY.This game have the same problem as Bioshock Infinite. As good as people say it is. The story is all it is good for. The combat is lackluster and I would rather watch Bioshock Infinite as a movie than play the game. I would rather watch people play the game than playing it myself.

    This is coming from a guy who enjoys Dark Souls, Monster Hunter series, God Eater, etc.

    And we all know how much dodging and rolling there is in games like Monster Hunter.
    But Witcher 3's rolling is just.. Unsatisfying, overly obsessive rolling and spinning.
    Monster Hunter's rolling = precise timing to dodge a hit that would otherwise kill you. Rolling eats up your stamina bar so every roll has it's purpose.
    Witcher 3's rolling = You might as well be the Tasmanian Devil. Because spinning and rolling is the new style. I think Geralt is dancing and spinning like a fool when he attacks and its always the same.
    He does switch the swords automaticly in this game.

    CAMERA while fighting is the worst CAMERA i have ever seen in a videogame, really and this game has such a high rating?
    Story is good, but for the most part people are talking nonsense when you speak with them.
    graphics have a downgrade but are still looking good.
    this game is a let down like destiny, the order and watchdogs to be honest and it doesnt live up to the hype.
    My hopes are Batman and MGS5.
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  6. May 19, 2015
    3
    Most of the things in this game are very good.. BUT!!!!! The camera and controls in general, are just unbelievably bad. It is clumsy and unprecisly, makes it a little difficult to loot sometimes, some fight combats looks a bit ugly because of it, and it is just enoying that you run around/running into things and people like a confussed animal or something. If you have played the buggyMost of the things in this game are very good.. BUT!!!!! The camera and controls in general, are just unbelievably bad. It is clumsy and unprecisly, makes it a little difficult to loot sometimes, some fight combats looks a bit ugly because of it, and it is just enoying that you run around/running into things and people like a confussed animal or something. If you have played the buggy Assasins Creed then you probably know little about how it feels like.

    It irritates me, cause this game got so much potentiale. It have potential of course, but the bad controls just ruins the experience a bit. I really dont see the point about making a game with that much content, without making some of the most important basic things optimal. It feels like the game is unfinished, and i would LOVE if they could patch this problem, then it would be a really good game.
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  7. May 22, 2015
    0
    World is big yet boring, there is too much of the same stuff. Combat is too repetitive. Text is too small. Geralt has a bad voice. Stroy is full of cliche stuff. An immensely overhyped game. Expected something more original.
  8. May 19, 2015
    1
    WOW... to say I was excited about this game is an understatement. I know 1 is a low score and this is based purely on the broken and choppy movement/camera

    DO NOT BUY THIS BEFORE PLAYING SOMEONE ELSES COPY OR RENTING. I really tried to love it... I gave it 3 hours of gameplay before I couldn't take any more. At first I thought there was lag or similar... the videos were choppy and
    WOW... to say I was excited about this game is an understatement. I know 1 is a low score and this is based purely on the broken and choppy movement/camera

    DO NOT BUY THIS BEFORE PLAYING SOMEONE ELSES COPY OR RENTING.

    I really tried to love it... I gave it 3 hours of gameplay before I couldn't take any more. At first I thought there was lag or similar... the videos were choppy and the gameplay jerky. The gameplay is only slightly choppy but it ruins the whole experience. How on earth anyone can rate this game highly is beyond me. I went to a friends house and their game played the same. This would be a great game if the choppy/jerky camera was sorted out. It is going back tomorrow and is the biggest disappointment of the year for me.

    If they had saved the money spent on the 'free extra crap' and spent it on development this could have been epic. Alas no though.
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  9. May 20, 2015
    0
    There is nothing special about this game other than the dialogue choice mechanic. The world is the same as in any western RPG, and the gameplay is the embodiment of averageness. Most players will be amazed by its graphics and the fact that the world is huge, but that doesn't change the fact it consists of unimaginative forests, mountains and swamps. The enemy designs are equallyThere is nothing special about this game other than the dialogue choice mechanic. The world is the same as in any western RPG, and the gameplay is the embodiment of averageness. Most players will be amazed by its graphics and the fact that the world is huge, but that doesn't change the fact it consists of unimaginative forests, mountains and swamps. The enemy designs are equally unimaginative, and the combat system you fight them with is dodge and hit with no strategy involved. Expand
  10. May 19, 2015
    4
    What an unmitigated piece of crap ! Controls and mechanics from the 1990's were enough for me to stop after an hour and ask for a refund on this overhyped nonsense.
  11. Dec 13, 2022
    0
    Что бы творите? Выпускайте версию на ps5 для всех кроме России? Главный вопрос- зачем вам это? Ухудшить ещё больше свою репутацию? Ну что у вас это получается.
  12. Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Я продолжал в вас верить даже после вашего провального релиза! И не вернул деньги за предзаказ не смотря на отвратительно проделанную работу вашей команды!
    А в ответ на преданность фаната вы вот так с нами поступаете! Игры должны быть выше политики, мы не виноваты в решениях этой власти и мы её не выбирали!
    Вы предали наше доверие и плюнули в душу тысячам преданных фанатов! Война
    Я продолжал в вас верить даже после вашего провального релиза! И не вернул деньги за предзаказ не смотря на отвратительно проделанную работу вашей команды!
    А в ответ на преданность фаната вы вот так с нами поступаете! Игры должны быть выше политики, мы не виноваты в решениях этой власти и мы её не выбирали!
    Вы предали наше доверие и плюнули в душу тысячам преданных фанатов!
    Война закончится но ваше предательство не будет забыто! Киберпанк был последней игрой вашей студии которая была куплена. До встречи в торренте ...
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  13. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Горите в аду. Я поддерживал вас, даже когда у вас было всё плохо, я топил за глючащий и багающий киберпанк, я говорил что Проджекты выживут даже когда ситуация будет критической и поддерживал вас своими деньгами. И вот так вы повернулись к русским игрокам.

    Игры вне политики, вы, продажные куски дер**а! Идите нах**, увидимся на торрентах. Ненавижу вас.
    Горите в аду. Я поддерживал вас, даже когда у вас было всё плохо, я топил за глючащий и багающий киберпанк, я говорил что Проджекты выживут даже когда ситуация будет критической и поддерживал вас своими деньгами. И вот так вы повернулись к русским игрокам.

    Игры вне политики, вы, продажные куски дер**а! Идите нах**, увидимся на торрентах. Ненавижу вас.
  14. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Нельзя политику к играм приплетать! Глупый поступок так относиться к фанатам!
  15. Mar 3, 2022
    0
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  16. Sep 1, 2021
    0
    One of the overrated game I have ever played control is very bad and fighting system is trash
  17. Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Ну, я любил ваши игры) да и буду продолжать в них играть, правда вот прибыли вы от этого никакой не получите
    По вашей логике, что мы должны сделать? Мы разве начали этот конфликт? А что, если я вам скажу, что беларусы вообще тут не при чем, потому что они не так давно пытались что-то изменить, но у них не получилось. Где вы были, когда им требовалась поддержка? Я так зол на вас, потому
    Ну, я любил ваши игры) да и буду продолжать в них играть, правда вот прибыли вы от этого никакой не получите
    По вашей логике, что мы должны сделать? Мы разве начали этот конфликт? А что, если я вам скажу, что беларусы вообще тут не при чем, потому что они не так давно пытались что-то изменить, но у них не получилось. Где вы были, когда им требовалась поддержка? Я так зол на вас, потому что вы под копирку делаете то, что делают другие, не хотите разбираться в ситуации. Ведьмак крутая игра, Киберпанк я купил по предзаказу, но обосрался, когда увидел что там. Но возвращать не стал, все надеюсь что почините. Не стал возвращать, только из-за уважения к вашему труду.
    Можете перестать делать локализацию - мы сами переведем. Можете не выпускать игры в России больше совсем - мы найдем где их взять. Мы любим ваши игры, но больше не любим вас
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  18. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Русофобы.......................................................................
  19. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    За блокировку на территории РФ.
    За блокировку на территории РФ.
    За блокировку на территории РФ.
  20. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Всегда поддерживал вас , не ожидал что вы настолько конченые.. Лицемерные фашисты!!!
  21. Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Прекрасная игра, даже не ожидал, что разработчики окажутся латентными нацистами.
  22. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    русофобы
    пришло время и проявили своё истинное лицо, жаль что столько лет доверяли вам, а вы так со своим комьюнити которое не имеет отношения к политическим играм
  23. Mar 5, 2022
    1
    Ведьмак 3 занял в моем сердце одно из самых почётных мест. Я не помню, сколько раз благодарил команду разработчиков и небеса за этот шедевр. Но ваша ангажированность и желание подлизнуть политиканам убили веру в вас. С сегодняшнего дня, вы для меня мертвы. CDRP RIP. Покойтись с миром под руинами моей разрушенной любви.Ведьмак 3 занял в моем сердце одно из самых почётных мест. Я не помню, сколько раз благодарил команду разработчиков и небеса за этот шедевр. Но ваша ангажированность и желание подлизнуть политиканам убили веру в вас. С сегодняшнего дня, вы для меня мертвы. CDRP RIP. Покойтись с миром под руинами моей разрушенной любви.
  24. Mar 5, 2022
    0
    раз уж в стиме вы трусливо прикрыли страничку вместе с оценками то оставлю заслуженную вами оценку тут
  25. Mar 5, 2022
    0
    не нравится отношение разработчиков к людям. Применяют двойные стандарты. Позор.
  26. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Отличная игра, но гнилые разработчики, от всей души надеюсь, что успеха вы больше не увидите.
  27. Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Witcher 3 Отзыв не про игру, а про студию : Русские специально покупают ваши продукты в стиме, чтобы как-то поддержать ваши продукты, а не просто качают пиратки и бесплатно играют. Русские хотят поддерживать разработчиков, русские хотят, чтобы у игр появлялось продолжение. Я специально не проходил эту игру на пиратке, потому что понимал, что это игра хорошая и стоит ее купить, чтобыWitcher 3 Отзыв не про игру, а про студию : Русские специально покупают ваши продукты в стиме, чтобы как-то поддержать ваши продукты, а не просто качают пиратки и бесплатно играют. Русские хотят поддерживать разработчиков, русские хотят, чтобы у игр появлялось продолжение. Я специально не проходил эту игру на пиратке, потому что понимал, что это игра хорошая и стоит ее купить, чтобы поддержать разработчиков. А теперь эти разработчики плюют мне в лицо и говорят, что мы запретили наши игры в твоем регионе. Польская студия с каждым днем теряет кредит доверия и фанатов, которые хотят Вас поддерживать. Я призываю всех больше не покупать продукты этой студии и пиратить, лишать этих лицемеров всех денег, которые они могли бы заработать на русско-язычном населении. Вы не достойны нашей поддержки, поддержки людей, которые ни в чем не виноваты и от которых ничего не зависит в этом государстве. Expand
  28. Sep 6, 2019
    1
    Surprisingly bad game too many bugs, glitches, and crashes, walking, swimming, and riding horse controls are sloppy at best, quests are long and pointless, fights are easy except when they block constantly.
  29. Mar 3, 2022
    0
    CDPR opened for me a huge universe of Witcher games. It was with great pleasure that I went through the Witcher 3 3 times and then the first and second parts. Cyberpunk 2077 was also very much waiting for, despite the poor technical component, I passed the game and got incredible pleasure. I bought your games for support, even started using GOG, because of your noDRM policy. And I want toCDPR opened for me a huge universe of Witcher games. It was with great pleasure that I went through the Witcher 3 3 times and then the first and second parts. Cyberpunk 2077 was also very much waiting for, despite the poor technical component, I passed the game and got incredible pleasure. I bought your games for support, even started using GOG, because of your noDRM policy. And I want to thank you for all these emotions. But you spit in your biggest community's face. We have supported you all this time, protected you, rejoiced with you. You have lost your most loyal fans... Expand
  30. Mar 8, 2018
    4
    I may be missing something here, but I have been totally unable to get behind this game, despite 20+ hours of trying. I'm wracking my brains to uncover why I cannot enjoy it, and it is difficult to put into words. The graphics (especially light effects and weather cycles) are really nice, and the Eastern Europe-inspired countryside is wonderfully realised. There is a nice atmosphere aboutI may be missing something here, but I have been totally unable to get behind this game, despite 20+ hours of trying. I'm wracking my brains to uncover why I cannot enjoy it, and it is difficult to put into words. The graphics (especially light effects and weather cycles) are really nice, and the Eastern Europe-inspired countryside is wonderfully realised. There is a nice atmosphere about the game and when you reach the second 'continent' it truly opens up. The dialogue choices are staggering and expansive for sure. The effort that has went into making this game is so evident throughout but unfortunately, for me, there are too many key flaws that mar the whole experience for me and have actually made me give up playing.

    The combat is awful, there are no two ways about it. Controls (both in and outside of battles...horse riding is a nightmare) are sluggish. Options for attacking are quick or hard strike, or dodge pretty much. 3 out of the 5 signs (spells) effectively do the same thing (stun the enemy). The camera and screen placement causes enemies to linger unseen ready to pounce on your preoccupied back. You can increase your damage output with potions and oils. And this is pretty much when the combat ends. The skills you can choose upon levelling up have little to no impact on the game, unlike similar lightly RPG titles like Fallout of Bioshock. The absence of true RPG elements here is probably what disappointed me most, yet the game feigns these properties often. Levelling up is almost entirely achieved via quest completion. The minimal amount of XP gained from killing enemies is baffling to me and one of the system's biggest flaws. And in the game's more difficult moments, there is no respite for trying to better yourself (like the Souls series or other traditional RPGs) - losing is often not your own fault but one of the many system flaws'.

    The story and characters are fine, but the endless fetch quest plot was already grating on me by the 20 hour mark. A single quest stretches on for hours with literally the same tasks repeatedly in succession. I failed tasks through absolutely no fault of my own (people dying in other locations). There is little motivation to complete anything, and when you do your rewards are meager. This all adds up to giving me little desire to progress in the game.

    This may be the game for many people out there (evidently), but I cannot play it any longer on account of the above issues. I recognise its merits as a well-presented, expansive and busy medieval world with loads to do and see. But being marketed as an action RPG, I expected these elements to be strongest when they are in fact the contrary. I can't get over the lack of depth in the game's battle and growth systems. I completely appreciate that the depth lies in the story/quest/dialogue-focused branching narrative, but this is not sufficient for a title in this genre. I'm maybe misinterpreting what the game's truly all about, but I thought this after the first few hours, after 10 hours, after 15 hours. It would be a waste of time continuing to play something that I don't enjoy, but this is not to say the game is rubbish. I just cannot see by its flaws giving their importance to me, and wish everyone playing it the best of experiences. The Witcher 3 is just not for me.
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Universal acclaim - based on 79 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 78 out of 79
  2. Negative: 0 out of 79
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jul 8, 2015
    100
    The conclusion of Geralt’s game saga couldn’t be better. The large open world, great storytelling and dozens of hours of pure fun – this game is an absolute must for every RPG fan. [Issue#253]
  2. CD-Action
    Jul 4, 2015
    95
    This truly outstanding game raises the bar to new heights that will be extremely hard to reach for BioWare, Bethesda and any other developer. [07/2015, p.38]
  3. Jun 23, 2015
    80
    The Witcher 3's subject matter, its almost defiant doubling down on its treatment of women as titillating props for Geralt and the player, even as it tries to flesh out more female leads, is its most disappointing aspect. This constant presence weighs down what would otherwise be an excellent bit of closure for Geralt's video game saga — which isn't helped by the control issues that often detract from sequences meant to break up open-world monotony.