The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

 PlayStation 4
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9.2

Universal acclaim- based on 18653 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16,965 out of 18653
  2. Mixed: 587 out of 18653
  3. Negative: 1,101 out of 18653
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  1. cancali
    Apr 15, 2018
    0
    This user resume well my thoughts about this game: "Played 15 hours into the game, trying to find why people kept praising it. What I found was a sluggish combat system. An experience system that only rewards repetitively questing and hunting monsters was a colossal waste of time. Along with a game company that gets angry when people "play their game wrong" seeing fit to change anythingThis user resume well my thoughts about this game: "Played 15 hours into the game, trying to find why people kept praising it. What I found was a sluggish combat system. An experience system that only rewards repetitively questing and hunting monsters was a colossal waste of time. Along with a game company that gets angry when people "play their game wrong" seeing fit to change anything and everything a player finds that isn't hack and slash mechanics. Leveling up magic is this game does not ultimately help you."… Expand
  2. epistm87
    Nov 13, 2015
    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
  3. jio1337
    Dec 27, 2015
    0
    Game starts with a huge learning curve.
    the combat choice is move slow slow slow or 10 meters.
    and where in the early game do they tall you to stock up on hammers and food. so u enter a dungeon with no hammers no food and get **** or have to work the cave for hours to get out. better delete the save and start over. game looks nice but is over hype and crude. the horse will make sure    Game starts with a huge learning curve.
    the combat choice is move slow slow slow or 10 meters.
    and where in the early game do they tall you to stock up on hammers and food.
    so u enter a dungeon with no hammers no food and get **** or have to work the cave for hours to get out.
    better delete the save and start over.
    game looks nice but is over hype and crude.
    the horse will make sure u die by running into the combat and block your movement. dead.
    the horse will stick on stuff. to bad you cant beat the **** to death.
    now i only ask who will repay my sons granddad for this travesty?    … Expand
  4. megabear
    Jul 25, 2018
    0
    This game does not deserve a 9+. The game seems to have a lot of things to do, but when you take a step back the game is about rather than quality.

    - Quests are terrible. I wish they had been more creative.
    - Story is lacking. Feels very diluted and stretched thin.
    - Characters are not very likable.
    - Combat is clunky
    - Game is buggy, as expected of Bethesda
  5. arostislavna
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    Good, but not great. I have never been a fan of medieval fantasy games as a rule, and my experience basically consists of Dragon Age Origins, which I liked.

    There is a lot of care into the story of this game (and it pays off immensely), but some technological aspects were overlooked and they reused things and because of that, I cannot give it a perfect score. I have to say it has    Good, but not great. I have never been a fan of medieval fantasy games as a rule, and my experience basically consists of Dragon Age Origins, which I liked.

    There is a lot of care into the story of this game (and it pays off immensely), but some technological aspects were overlooked and they reused things and because of that, I cannot give it a perfect score.

    I have to say it has pacing issues, and I did not enjoy the hunt to find Ciri in the beginning of the game, it is after Ciri is back that the game is fleshed out and gets interesting.    … Expand
  6. redo
    Jul 24, 2016
    0
    Please don't play this game. It's very boring. Combat system is bad. There are a lot of bugs which was not fixed until now. Only graphics in this game is good.
  7. hg1802
    Jul 31, 2016
    0
    Absolutely overrated. I won't believe Metacritic ratings anymore.
    relatively 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 is boring and makes you sleep.
    Character movement and combat is very bad.
  8. dadadad597
    Aug 24, 2016
    0
    Rly? 10000 ratings for PS4 and PC? Rly? Six months ago there was not even half ratings. Good job Metacritic! CDP or Fanboy did own show. What a shame :((((
  9. Scandaltown
    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.    … Expand
  10. degenetron
    Oct 4, 2016
    0
    This game is a polished turd, with all the mannerisms and depth of a brazilian soap opera. Whoever think it's an rpg game must be out of their minds, it aspires to be a middle age GTA and fails miserably.
  11. jdvb00
    Jul 13, 2018
    0
    this game is epic and beautiful although it makes a lot of mistakes........
  12. jokerthief
    Mar 3, 2017
    0
    Unfortunately I cannot play this game because I'm one of the people who have gotten the infamous CE-34878-0 bug that will crash the game every time you try to load a saved game. I got this error in 2017 and have read on the internet of others having this problem in 2015, yet they STILL haven't patched this bug. It's a travesty. So beware if you pick up this game, if you get this bug, youUnfortunately I cannot play this game because I'm one of the people who have gotten the infamous CE-34878-0 bug that will crash the game every time you try to load a saved game. I got this error in 2017 and have read on the internet of others having this problem in 2015, yet they STILL haven't patched this bug. It's a travesty. So beware if you pick up this game, if you get this bug, you will not be able to play it.… Expand
  13. Unknown-Critic
    Dec 9, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Boring as **** It starts off really slow and when the world does open up you are stuck in an endless loop of fetch quests and some of the worst combat ever. The side quests which this game gets praised so much for are nothing special. They are all the same, requiring you to gather an item or kill some thing. I wonder why a game like Assassin's Creed 3 did not get praised as much as this even though it had meaningful, story-driven, well written side quests in 2012? Why didn't that game get similar critical acclaim? Its combat system and characters are also a million times better.

    Another big problem I have with this game is the Witcher Senses mechanic (another way to say "Detective Mode"). This is basically same as the detective mode you find in Arkham games. But unlike those games where that mode is meaningful and helps locate enemies when you are surrounded by dozens of them and do not want to get spotted, the Witcher 3's Witcher senses serve no purpose. They are mainly used in those 'murder mystery' solving like scenarios where you walk around with the mode and everything is highlighted. You go up to the highlighted item or location and click a button and you do the same until the trail ends. I get no satisfaction out of this type of gameplay. I'm not solving any mystery. I'm just pushing buttons at the place where the game wants me to. Basically, I'm letting the game play itself.

    Even its most highly praised quests are the same. You need to find Ciri, a girl who is like a daughter figure for Geralt so he just goes around asking for her and for a little piece of information they ask him to do a favour for him and this is where the bulk of the game's story is. You doing stuff for other people who tell you to go meet next person who may know where Ciri is and then you doing a favour for them, rinse and repeat. Yet this is being hailed as "great writing". If this is great writing and storytelling then I'm sorry but that only means that video games have an incredibly low standard when it comes to storytelling.

    This game does nothing that hasn't been done before. Its main quests are nothing more than the countless fetch quests you find in a game like Skyrim.    … Expand
  14. gnolnihs
    Mar 28, 2018
    0
    Played 15 hours into the game, trying to find why people kept praising it. What I found was a sluggish combat system. An experience system that only rewards repetitively questing and hunting monsters was a colossal waste of time. Along with a game company that gets angry when people "play their game wrong" seeing fit to change anything and everything a player finds that isn't hack andPlayed 15 hours into the game, trying to find why people kept praising it. What I found was a sluggish combat system. An experience system that only rewards repetitively questing and hunting monsters was a colossal waste of time. Along with a game company that gets angry when people "play their game wrong" seeing fit to change anything and everything a player finds that isn't hack and slash mechanics. Leveling up magic is this game does not ultimately help you. Any time a viable magic build has been found by players CD Projekt removes it nearly immediately stating that you need to be a warrior.

    Why is the combat system bad? Let's compare it to Dark Souls, Dark Souls is a game where you telegraph your moves and if you do the wrong move you are punished. In the Witcher 3 you also telegraph your moves, but your character at random changes targets, and flys around like a ballerina. The need for spinning attacks to be your "fast attack" is ridicules. This game focuses entirely on attempting to look appealing and not throws common sense and good game play out the window. The hit boxes feel miles long (for your character only) and while there is a dodge button it is completely useless because all enemies have a jump at you an attack move. Negating your entire dodge due to the extremely poor hit boxes. If you hit an enemy whilst they are in mid attack fear not they will still hit you, there is no such thing as knockback for enemies, that is only something the player character suffers from. If you do manage to down a few hundred monsters, don't not fret you will not level. You can grind monsters to your hearts content and your character will never improve as experience is largely only granted by quests. The unending struggle to overcome bad controls make this game nothing more than an irritation.

    The quest mechanic, the only thing in the game that seems to reward experience. The level recommendations on it are by no means accurate. A level 5 quest my decide it has level 12 monsters. Meaning if you attempt it at say level 6 you will be destroyed. The quests are always fetch this or go kill that. There is little diversity and leaves the game feeling like a second job. Personally, I would rather be earning money then grinding repetitively though a very unrewarding experience. A large problem with this game is effort to reward ratio is far of base. Nothing makes you feel like you have done a good job or achieved anything. Monster killing is pointless, but you'll talk to the right villager and instantly granted 400 experience, every level only takes 1000 experience to gain, so 400 experience is substantial. The questing experience isn't granted based on how difficult the quest is or how long it took to do, simply at random. If you are looking for a rewarding RPG in this sense, maybe try Horizon or any of the From Soft games (Dark Souls, Bloodbourne, Demon Souls).    … Expand
  15. khotboat
    Apr 21, 2018
    0
    Extremely overrated game and the most boring combat I have ever seen. Would not recommend buying this game
  16. NachoProblem
    Feb 2, 2020
    0
    I'm honestly baffled how this game scores so high. Aside from graphics, it does nothing well. The story is slow and aside from the wild hunt itself, boring as hell. The combat is downright awful. It's slow to respond and nothing more than a button masher. You'll be sitting there spamming square most of the time andoccasionally throwing in some spells
  17. Thebadrussian
    Nov 19, 2018
    0
    Really boring story and boring side quests, I don't know but the story is so lame that I needed 3 new starts to finish this game. This game is just about sex and violence, no deep story and full with bugs. No worth the 60€ I spend for this game back in the days.
  18. EptaEpt
    Sep 13, 2022
    0
    Sorry, but positive feedback is not available in your region. At least until your leadership changes the two-faced policy in their actions and statements.
  19. Console_god
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Русофобы.......................................................................
  20. aligits
    Jan 20, 2019
    0
    witcher is the clear example of the word overrated for games this game is good but it has way too many flaws and the only reason of why people loved it is just because cd projeckt red has given the masses what they want and if you give the masses what they want you obviously will have its support
  21. rocco30
    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.
  22. shootingstars99
    Sep 5, 2019
    0
    Liking this game enough to give it a 10 out of 10 is the gamer equivalent of a 14 year old girl in YouTube comments a few years back saying, "I'm not like the other girls, I like heavy metal like Asking Alexandria and Bring Me The Horizon". So many people act like this game is so great and think they are different for thinking it's a masterpiece, when in fact they all are parroting theLiking this game enough to give it a 10 out of 10 is the gamer equivalent of a 14 year old girl in YouTube comments a few years back saying, "I'm not like the other girls, I like heavy metal like Asking Alexandria and Bring Me The Horizon". So many people act like this game is so great and think they are different for thinking it's a masterpiece, when in fact they all are parroting the same thing about a game that isn't that great at all. First off, this game isn't very good at, you know, being a game. The combat is abysmal, their pitiful attempt at adding any modicum of depth was adding oils to the blade that are useful in certain scenarios to make it appear as if you aren't playing a game who's combat is half a step away from being as shallow as something like Kingdom Hearts. Who cares if the world is expansive or the story is fine if the game play itself is abysmal; it's like having an oven that doesn't heat anything up. Next time someone says something to the effect of, "I'm not a normal gamer that likes Call of Duty or FIFA, I like real games like The Witcher", remember the teenage girl scenario mentioned in the first sentence, and just have a chuckle.… Expand
  23. C4dovnik
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Лицемеры, которые плюнули в лицо всем игрокам РФ
  24. RoWckYy
    Jul 26, 2019
    0
    Overrated game, i really tried to enjoy the game by exploring the map, doing as much secondary content as possible and understanding the story. But i just keep getting tired of the game. Hopefully CD Projekt Red seem to be making a huge step up with Cyberpunk 2077.
  25. Geraltsucks
    Sep 10, 2019
    0
    Just about the most boring game I've ever had the displeasure of playing. Boring story, boring combat. Boring boring boring.
  26. JenikMax
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Всегда поддерживал вас , не ожидал что вы настолько конченые.. Лицемерные фашисты!!!
  27. Serx79
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    unplayable game on release from company that are super politically engaged.
  28. Prun
    Feb 25, 2021
    0
    Отличная игра. Хороший сюжет и великолепные допквесты, графика и боёвка. Поляки - спасибо!
  29. Cloudy83
    Dec 25, 2020
    0
    Juego muy sobrevalorado, sobre todo en la jugabilidad, la historia si es muy buena pero falla en lo más importante en un juego.
  30. Geraltandiz
    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
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4
#4 Best PS4 Game of 2015
2
#2 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2015
8
#8 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2015

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Metascore
92

Universal acclaim - based on 79 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 78 out of 79
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 79
  3. 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. Polygon
    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.
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