The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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  1. shadeglare
    Nov 8, 2019
    10
    That's the first witcher game I ever played and it was just a month ago... So I think it was a revolution in 2015. Never seen such a detailed vast game world. The score speaks for itself.
  2. Sylaman
    Nov 11, 2019
    10
    It's the best f***ing game ever regardless of your preferences in genre and others. Absolutely must-to-play for everybody.
  3. musiol108
    Nov 19, 2019
    10
    In my opinions its the best RPG and Open World game. A huge amount of work has been done (just like in God of War - real actors, orchestra, talented graphic designers). U can feel the slavic mood just like greek mood in God of War. They thought about every little thing. The music is amazing, story is not linear and have a lot of good side quests. The DLC are fantastic - everyone shouldIn my opinions its the best RPG and Open World game. A huge amount of work has been done (just like in God of War - real actors, orchestra, talented graphic designers). U can feel the slavic mood just like greek mood in God of War. They thought about every little thing. The music is amazing, story is not linear and have a lot of good side quests. The DLC are fantastic - everyone should play them.
    For me its 10/10 game - it has almost everything.    … Expand
  4. Brandonw43
    Nov 18, 2019
    10
    BEST RPG EVER! played it multiple times through and never get tired of it. Story is enthralling and graphics are amazingly perfect in every way. It’s nice to have such a AAA game have mature content and still have wonderful voice acting and long story with a huge open world, quests that seem like they make a difference in the game world. I wish they would make a Witcher 4.
  5. HenriqueMAM
    Dec 7, 2019
    9
    Jogo é fantástico. Quando terminei o jogo fiquei com dificuldades de encontrar outro jogo a altura. Tanto as questão principais quanto as secundárias são muito envolventes.
  6. Barkidom
    Dec 28, 2019
    10
    Melhor game! Eu ja tinha jogado no pc e agora comprei pra ps4 só pra conferir e pra variar, amei. Recomendo!
  7. ElBruno
    Jan 9, 2021
    9
    GREAT GAME.

    pros:
    - Story
    - Very charismatic characters
    - World in general
    - Freedom
    - Secondary missions
    cons:
    - Bugs
  8. MamaGhandess
    Oct 27, 2020
    0
    Hold on, I'll come change my review next week. Or maybe next month, or the month after that. I just want to make sure my review is polished.
  9. Ferman
    Feb 12, 2022
    10
    One of the best and not boring games I've played.The witcher freezes me in the fact that she does not let me get bored during a lot of side missions and tasks
  10. fausttw
    May 20, 2015
    10
    CD PROJEKT RED you deep respect for all of the Witcher, but what you have done daungred graphics? Even in 2014, the game looked much better. Ah ... I'm very disappointed in you, and I would like to see you do better graphics at least a year? Because I'm not going to play this version. version for consoles ...

    Why are you so with the fans? That is with you since 2007? Or maybe even    CD PROJEKT RED you deep respect for all of the Witcher, but what you have done daungred graphics? Even in 2014, the game looked much better. Ah ... I'm very disappointed in you, and I would like to see you do better graphics at least a year? Because I'm not going to play this version. version for consoles ...

    Why are you so with the fans? That is with you since 2007? Or maybe even earlier. It originally came out Witcher for PC. To hell with Rockstar, they need the money, but you do it? If the console can not draw such a picture , why do not you do this for the PC what was?

    Ah ... CDPR what you've done , I'm very much cried when I realized that you did downgrade the graphics ... the whole atmosphere lost . Maybe I do not understand , but one thing I know ... Money talks , yes, talks in this age of **** money and connections . I am very disappointed , because I have never doubted and always has been for you. But from that moment , my faith in you shaken.

    CD PROJEKT RED I will still be with you, but just more do not do it , I'm sick and not me alone , have a lot of PC gamers.

    PCMASTERRACE!
    YOBAMUSTDIE!

    This is the best game , it would be better only CD PROJEKT RED.    … Expand
  11. blackdogpt
    May 20, 2015
    7
    First I must say I had really high expectations for this one, maybe because the hype was huge, but well.. that's what CDPR wanted us to feel so I let myself go with it. Day 1 buy.
    Graphics are very good, but not something we've never seen before.
    Story and role-playing is amazing, the true value is here!! Soundtrack is not fascinating, sometimes it is even annoying, but don't mind this    First I must say I had really high expectations for this one, maybe because the hype was huge, but well.. that's what CDPR wanted us to feel so I let myself go with it. Day 1 buy.
    Graphics are very good, but not something we've never seen before.
    Story and role-playing is amazing, the true value is here!!
    Soundtrack is not fascinating, sometimes it is even annoying, but don't mind this too much.
    Now what really prevents it from being a 9 or a 10 is..
    The controls and mechanics... It feels like the we're back to gta 3 or something.
    The movement is poorly calibrated for sensitivity (you can only change camera sensitivity, not movement). You find yourself constantly struggling not to hit random people. Taking stairs and ladders is one hell of a nightmare. Mounting the horse is hard as well, you have to aim at the horse, figure out how not to run into it, make a full stop and press X (X won't work if your'e moving. same applies when looting).
    Combat mechanics are less bad.
    Fix this and you have GOTY.    … Expand
  12. FRAge
    Jun 9, 2015
    10
    Best RPG eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  13. fallouts
    Oct 23, 2015
    10
    Witcher 3 is a perfect example of how to do an open world RPG with in-depth quests. Unlike Dragon age, Witcher 3 is more down to earth and gritty in its presentation and lore, which is a huge compliment. The graphics are best I've seen so far on the next gen consoles, with each environment teeming with detail. The true beauty of this game is how each quest - from minor to major - has anWitcher 3 is a perfect example of how to do an open world RPG with in-depth quests. Unlike Dragon age, Witcher 3 is more down to earth and gritty in its presentation and lore, which is a huge compliment. The graphics are best I've seen so far on the next gen consoles, with each environment teeming with detail. The true beauty of this game is how each quest - from minor to major - has an interesting setup and backstory, and each character that plays a significant role in the game is memorable. Clocking in at 100 hrs, I have yet more to do. Go for this gem right now.… Expand
  14. pequenocristo
    May 23, 2015
    5
    I bought this game at release and am still waiting to truly enjoy it. Everything feels like a chore.

    My issues: -Combat is basically hopping around and then striking. The quen shield is sort of useful. None of the other spells really add anything exciting. -Combat and movement in general are horribly clunky. It feels like swimming in molasses. I'm coming off playing Bloodborne, so    I bought this game at release and am still waiting to truly enjoy it. Everything feels like a chore.

    My issues:

    -Combat is basically hopping around and then striking. The quen shield is sort of useful. None of the other spells really add anything exciting.

    -Combat and movement in general are horribly clunky. It feels like swimming in molasses. I'm coming off playing Bloodborne, so I guess it's hard to have an experience as good as that game's dynamic fighting. Tracking enemies is stupidly hard as the lock on skips around.

    -Along with movement, the mount and looting are are far more complicated than they should be. Overstepping things should be a game achievement.

    -This is not an open world. It's like Dragon Age: Inquisition where they story pushes you from large zone to large zone.

    -The story? ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

    -Items? Jesus. How much crap do I need? Why do RPGs feel like loading me up like a pack horse equals awesomeness?

    -Weapon durability. I have to repair my swords after every 5-6 encounters.

    Basically, I do not get they hype.    … Expand
  15. t4b4sco
    Aug 14, 2017
    2
    I was desperately looking for something, ANYTHING worthwhile to play. I don't play a lot of games, I admit. The few games I've enjoyed most in the (more or less recent) past were titles like GTA V, Far Cry 3 & 4 and Gran Turismo.
    Let me just say: I was fooled by the good reviews. Game of the year and whatnot. Surely, this must be an enjoyable experience, for some innocent soul looking to    I was desperately looking for something, ANYTHING worthwhile to play. I don't play a lot of games, I admit. The few games I've enjoyed most in the (more or less recent) past were titles like GTA V, Far Cry 3 & 4 and Gran Turismo.
    Let me just say: I was fooled by the good reviews. Game of the year and whatnot. Surely, this must be an enjoyable experience, for some innocent soul looking to spend a few hours of his precious remaining lifetime on a video game? There must be something in it for everybody, right? Considering the rave reviews?? Right???

    So I gave this festering heap of nerd dookie a shot.
    Played it for I don't know, 5, 10, 12 hours? I couldn't even keep track of the time because I kept nodding off.
    I don't understand what they want from me in this game. I really don't.
    Why I should invest my time figuring out if I could brew some kind of... potion or lotion or ointment or oil or whatnot out of some mushrooms and flowers and slain monster entrails that I picked up a thousandfold along the way, stumbling through this fantasy wonderland that's supposed to be "open world", only I can't do a thing that I would really do in the real open world.

    I'm an adult with a real job and with real stuff I have to know, review, and study from scratch to stay on top of things, why the everloving **** would I want to spend my time studying and perfecting this completely made up nonsense? Like.. uh.. you have to combine the haunted seed of barleyflower, which blossoms in the fertile soils of the ancient lands of mongo, which are under the evil reign of Balthasar Mourningwood, with the blessed dust of fookstone, which thou can buy at ye olde farmers market in dwarf springs? Are you out of your mind? What is this and why is this considered entertainment?

    This game is a 10/10 if you yourself are a 10/10 roleplaying supernerd. If you're a halfway normal person, you won't know what hit you. For its niche genre, it might be a really good game. But please don't make the same mistake I did and buy it because of the reviews. This game isn't for everyone.    … Expand
  16. GuapoGrande
    Oct 29, 2018
    3
    Serviceable but honestly pretty disappointing considering all the hype. Mostly it is a generic 3rd person open world game (a market that is massively over-saturated these days) in a Skyrim-style dark fantasy world that is most notable for the sheer never-ending volume of sidequests.

    The story is fairly poor. Geralt is a Mary Sue fanfiction character: he is a fearless world-famous    Serviceable but honestly pretty disappointing considering all the hype. Mostly it is a generic 3rd person open world game (a market that is massively over-saturated these days) in a Skyrim-style dark fantasy world that is most notable for the sheer never-ending volume of sidequests.

    The story is fairly poor. Geralt is a Mary Sue fanfiction character: he is a fearless world-famous badass, all women want him, even his enemies respect him, and he is always ready with a snappy comeback. He never suffers any serious defeats or reverses, and never even seems to worry this is even possible. He is amusing at first but quickly becomes dull. The villains are one-dimensional and bland (and mostly absent from the story, to be honest), and the main plot arc never feels even slightly urgent, so feel free to spend weeks doing odd jobs and hitman contracts for smelly villagers. Most of the main plot is "find this missing person, now find that missing person, now help this guy find his missing people so he gives you clues to find the other missing person" and on and on. A whole epic fantasy world gripped in the middle of war and intrigue, and you spend most of your time lackadaisically searching for Geralt's sassy daughter.

    There are also way too many characters, most with minimal effort put into their development yet the game expects us to care about them. It's miles away from games like The Last Of Us or Uncharted 4 which are tightly plotted around just a handful of fleshed-out characters.

    Meanwhile the combat is so-so. Pretty clunky, to be honest. Just use fast attack, sidestep, parry, and shield spell, and you can win almost any fight in the game pretty easily. The upgrade system is uninspiring, with most benefits just coming from increasing stats and with minimal variety added to gameplay over time. The crafting and looting systems are gruesomely awkward and tedious, I mostly stopped bothering trying to loot anything about 12 hours in because the camera is so awkward and it slows the game to a crawl. At first I tried crafting a ton of different potions, oils, etc, then finally realized all you ever need is the health potion and the damage up potion (oils and bombs are totally worthless), and things went a lot quicker after that.

    There is way, way too much content here. The side missions and contracts become tedious and repetitive before the game is halfway done, and a lot of them are obvious filler (admittedly a few feel substantial and well thought out). Using detective vision to follow bright red footprints is kind of neat the first couple times, but deadly boring by the 20th time even though there are dozens more times to go. It would honestly be a much better game if it were shortened 50%.

    It's also buggy. I'm playing it over a year after release with all patches installed, but it has crashed and frozen multiple times and pretty frequently I encounter weird broken animations, clipping, teleporting NPC's, non-functioning controls, and other issues that have no business being in a final release game. I appreciate the ambition of what the developers went for but that's no excuse for sloppy product.    … Expand
  17. ithinkiplaygame
    Aug 16, 2017
    1
    I went into The Witcher 3 with such high hopes, with everyone praising it as the best game ever made. Basically no one had said a single bad thing about it, and anyone who did was shouted down as an idiot.

    However, this game was BAD. Like, legitimately terrible. It seems like for how much graphic polish they gave the game, the rest of the game was an afterthought. The main "story" is a    I went into The Witcher 3 with such high hopes, with everyone praising it as the best game ever made. Basically no one had said a single bad thing about it, and anyone who did was shouted down as an idiot.

    However, this game was BAD. Like, legitimately terrible. It seems like for how much graphic polish they gave the game, the rest of the game was an afterthought. The main "story" is a pitiful excuse, you just go and chase after a random character you're given no reason to care about, playing as a character you feel like you have no control over. There is so little choice, and the dialogue choices you do get are vague and often opposite to what I expected. At one point, I was trying to peacefully settle a conflict, and when asked where I was going, I chose, "none of your business," and then Mr. Generic RPG Man decided that meant **** off and die."

    Which leads to the combat. It is the actual worst RPG combat I've ever seen. Mash square, sometimes press trigger to take less damage while mashing square. The entire combat system is designed around one-on-one fights, with parries and rolls, which you can never use because every encounter is with 3+ enemies swarming you, blocking your movement.

    The map is boring, bland, and large for no good reason. The game does exactly what Assasin's Creed and its ilk do, by scattering meaningless side objectives and **** fetch quests across a map that was five times larger than it needed to be so they could advertise its "expansive open world." The side quests always boil down to "get a thing" or "kill a thing and get its thing," and while their stories are supposed to be interesting, they aren't.

    Moving around the map itself is sluggish and boring. You can move as slow as molasses on foot, making navigating the once again too large towns and cities a chore, or call your magic teleporting horse to move around slightly faster, with a tiny stamina bar of actually going a satisfying speed. I like the idea of your horse following paths automatically, but every path is a weird branching system of unnecessary ways to go, which of course your horse always chooses.

    Then, comes Gwent. I hate Gwent. I HATE Gwent. It is the actual worst game-inside-a-game I've seen since Caravan in Fallout: New Vegas. The rules are cryptic and stupid, and the game forces you to play it on multiple occasions, scattering dumb cards across the map. Many times I'd do a side quest, to get a glorified Yugioh card as my prize. How did people like Gwent enough to actually warrant a standalone game of it?

    In summary, The Witcher 3 is an overhyped, overly large, overrated, bloated, boring, repetitive mess of a game. Use it as a PC benchmark, or pick up the complete edition for 75% off like I did.    … Expand
  18. Raistx
    May 24, 2015
    9
    Great game! It took me about 12 hours to slowly reach level 5 (I wasn’t in a rush). Considering I just found a weapon schema requiring being level 30, that’s a good sign that I will be playing this game for 100-200 hours. That is an amazing value for money. And, that’s even before any of the upcoming free DLCs. The future is looking great!

    The open world is beautiful. I saw people    Great game! It took me about 12 hours to slowly reach level 5 (I wasn’t in a rush). Considering I just found a weapon schema requiring being level 30, that’s a good sign that I will be playing this game for 100-200 hours. That is an amazing value for money. And, that’s even before any of the upcoming free DLCs. The future is looking great!

    The open world is beautiful. I saw people complaining about this world not worthy of being “an open world”. They don’t know what they are talking about. This isn’t a corridor game. This isn’t a “Destiny open world” either. It’s a massive world and you can pretty much go wherever you like. Only in a while, they block access to an area mainly to prevent the gameplay from unravelling too quickly.

    The gameplay and storytelling is of very high quality. Goof variety of choices (spare them, kill them, insult them, be nice, etc). The fighting system is responsive and fluid.

    My four small annoyances with the game are: the fiddly inventory system (Witcher 2 system was better). The game text is too small (read the studio is working on it – I activated PS4 “Accessibility” feature in the meanwhile). The movement first step is often awkward and off (obvious when in building trying to loot (steal) items). The video sequences, even if high quality images often lack the smoothness in their movement (surprisingly with the techs of these days).    … Expand
  19. Parangaritiwi
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    Absolute trash, overrated junk.
    Do not recommend there are games that actually are worth playing.
  20. Shiftian_Be
    May 25, 2015
    7
    Really intresting, beautiful game but SERIOUS issues with controls, camera.. Dull combat system and as of now really buggy.. Audio cuts in and out, autosave not working, being hit and being able to hit while not even near target.. The soundtrack when roaming is fit for a funeral..
    Lots and lots of pop-up.. Serious framerate problems.. And longer loading screens than Bloodborne.. Which is    Really intresting, beautiful game but SERIOUS issues with controls, camera.. Dull combat system and as of now really buggy.. Audio cuts in and out, autosave not working, being hit and being able to hit while not even near target.. The soundtrack when roaming is fit for a funeral..
    Lots and lots of pop-up.. Serious framerate problems.. And longer loading screens than Bloodborne.. Which is saying something.
    Hope, by patching this game, a lot of these issues will be a thing of the past soon.
    Don't they test this **** before releasing anymore?
    Still .. As a lover of Skyrim and general RPG's, you'll love this.    … Expand
  21. SirGladez
    May 20, 2015
    10
    This is the best RPG i ever played so far. The open world is stunning, every quest is created with love, geralt is a badass, the amount of monster is incredible.... just drive to your game store and buy this game... you wont regret it... best Game 2015
  22. Niglett
    Jun 8, 2016
    4
    I have a ton of problems with this game, first of its just not fun to play. You spend the entire game chasing after some chick who ultimately is more interesting then the main character and makes me wish i could play as her thru the whole game instead.

    the combat is garbage with two different "dodges" one thats makes you jump too far leaving you to have to roll again to get back to    I have a ton of problems with this game, first of its just not fun to play. You spend the entire game chasing after some chick who ultimately is more interesting then the main character and makes me wish i could play as her thru the whole game instead.

    the combat is garbage with two different "dodges" one thats makes you jump too far leaving you to have to roll again to get back to being able to hit them and some kind of side step thing that is way to short and useless to the point were you might as well just roll like a retard.
    you are also suppose to change between light and heavy attacks, both of them make the main character look like a ballerina in armor swinging around and spinning all over the place. So after two hours when Gerald is done spinning around to get his sword to connect to an enemy, the enemies are just fancy looking sponges who takes way to much damage. So spamming the heavy attack is just as good as anything else.

    the map is way to big for its own good, with next to nothing to do and uninspired and boring enemy models. you are suppose to use your horse to get around the map, and you can put the horse on autopilot but the autopilot works just as well as letting jesus take the wheel when driving up a mountain.
    The horse tries its damnest to stick to the roade but keep crashing into things and making you stop, go backwards and try to continue on the roade.

    I really tried to care about the characters, and get into the world with the quests but the quests usually as exciting as watching paint dry. I completely gave up at the akward werewolf mission were the poor voice actor had to snarl and grunt as if he had too much mucus in his throat. At that point i gave up and turned off the game.

    at the end of it all i sold the game and deleted it from the ps4. I never wanna play it again and i have warned any friend of mine that want to play the game.    … Expand
  23. khotboat
    Apr 21, 2018
    0
    Extremely overrated game and the most boring combat I have ever seen. Would not recommend buying this game
  24. phil24
    Aug 29, 2015
    10
    Witcher 3, everyone loves it and no one has finished it :) yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
  25. Saratosa75
    Jul 11, 2015
    6
    Good game, but not without flaws and glitches. I'm not sure how to interpret the 10 out of 10 scores anymore. In my opinion, it should be preserved for the absolute best. I can understand, that many people got used to broken and bugged games so much, that they are willing to push out a 10 for a game, which has several problems in both technical and design.
    I'm not going into what the    Good game, but not without flaws and glitches. I'm not sure how to interpret the 10 out of 10 scores anymore. In my opinion, it should be preserved for the absolute best. I can understand, that many people got used to broken and bugged games so much, that they are willing to push out a 10 for a game, which has several problems in both technical and design.
    I'm not going into what the Witcher 3 is about, or how you progress in the game. You can read 99% of the reviewers describing of what this game is.
    Instead, I point out obvious and not so obvious issues.
    Let's start with the menu system. While it's not the worst, neither great. For example, if you enter the inventory (key: i), it takes 2 steps to get out. The Witcher's inventory is also quite disorganized. Your weapons and armor plus potions are lumped into one screen, while other items you collect are under other tabs. Looking at the items you pick up, is confusing and that little yellow star indicating the newest item is barely visible or completely invisible if the item is yellow. Most of the time it's hard to make out what exactly I picked up, especially looking at the herbs and miscellaneous items, because the icon is small and after a few hours, your inventory fills up to a point, where you loose track of what you have or what you should do with.
    Trying to pursue to make one specific sword, armor or potion could be frustrating and tedious, so best advice is to pick up everything. I mean everything, even a rotten piece of meat or a broken fishing rod. You are going to spend a good amount of time of picking up everything that is pickable. If you thought Dragon Age: I was bad with herb picking, you ain't seen nothing yet, until you play this game.
    Actually the title should have been Witcher 3 : Public Waste Management.
    Another issue has to be the money system. You are not going to have a lot of money throughout the game. You are going to spend it on repairing your sword and armor after every 10 enemy you fight. At boss fights, your equipment will brake and your potions will run out. Sound challenging - yes, but plan to visit a black smith in about every 20 minutes and spend enormous amount of money on repairs. You found a unique sword and armor? You may consider finding another one, instead of repairing it. Kinda makes the rune stones almost useless and equipment with sockets for them.
    Potions.Equipment
    I have 2 different potions i can use during traveling or combat, but I can switch them out, if I access my inventory, which as I said, involves hopping through 3 different screens.
    Why not just let me equip at least 10 of them? I got 10 numbered keys on my keyboard. Why the redundancy and the immersion braking by navigating through menus while in combat?
    Combat:
    Maybe it's only me, but blocking is almost useless. Most people will not block, because it can cause plenty of damage anyway, or stagger. I mean my level 12 witcher staggers from a level 1 bandit. So why should I even bother blocking, if I can just roll around? So they made the blocking another useless function, and with it, the whole parrying and counter attack options as well. Now, my old and experienced witcher relies on rolling around the ground left and right and its sword skills consist just a little more than whirlwind cuts and then roll. Spin around again with the sword, roll away quick.
    I'm not sure what happened, because blocking/parrying/countering worked quite well in Witcher 2. They just dumped the whole thing, or is it bugged?
    I also noticed, that even if the enemy doesn't hit towards me, the hit still counts? For example, a wolf was biting towards me, so I side stepped. It bit into the air, but apparently I lost health, like it bit me directly.
    So now, I don't side step. I only roll and stab. Stab, stab roll. Roll roll stab. Rinse and repeat, if I want to live and win.
    Bugged or a design feature?
    Bugs and glitches.
    This may be temporary, but they still exist.
    1. On shores, if I get off the horse, sometimes Geralt starts swimming in an ankle deep water. Kinda funny, but if you got enemies around, you are dead.
    2. Re-loading a quick save can have various effects. For example, you can can't open the same chest or various items missing from the ground. You use your witcher senses, but the items that were highlighted before are gone. Or the chest won't highlight anymore.
    Or you can't complete a mission, because the mission specific item is gone. I couldn't free a jailed person, because the key disappeared upon re-loading the game.
    3.
    Bugged, stucked animations, clipping issues.
    There are certain lootable boxes, that can't be looted, because it's under other items and the "loot" text doesn't appear, no matter how you turn towards it.
    Geralt puts away the sword if it fights an enemy, which can disappear and re-appear. Like a wraith or a ghost. This can be a pain in the butt, because that one second could cost your life.
    I'm out of space, there are more    … Expand
  26. veilex
    Jun 29, 2015
    10
    This is the epitome of what a good PC game looks like. It is in depth, lacks petty money-grabbing micro-transactions, includes free DLC, is absolutely gorgeous, with believable characters that you can't help but want to know more about. Its a game that makes you want it to never end!
  27. tbutcher1
    Jun 11, 2015
    9
    This game can be objectively argued to be one of the absolute best fantasy action RPG video games ever made. The story is memorable and very captivating. CDProjekt RED made no mistakes when writing it, especially because of the fact that it is totally non-linear. All the quests are very smooth and don't drag on too long. Even if there is a lot of traveling involved, I have always found itThis game can be objectively argued to be one of the absolute best fantasy action RPG video games ever made. The story is memorable and very captivating. CDProjekt RED made no mistakes when writing it, especially because of the fact that it is totally non-linear. All the quests are very smooth and don't drag on too long. Even if there is a lot of traveling involved, I have always found it fascinating to ride through unexplored terrain on horseback, even discovering new towns whilst in the middle of a quest, which I may do upon my own bidding. The characters, you may love or you may hate, but they strike emotion, and that is what makes them unforgettable. The world is vast and filled with a myriad of things to explore. It would take hours for me to bore myself looking around the map, let alone a single town. It is very obvious that there was some inspiration from other games, such as Dragon Age: Inquisition and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. If you have not played either of the first two Witcher games, I recommend you play at least one to familiarize yourself with some of the core elements of the game.

    I am afraid , however, I must address the graphics. If you were expecting to play what you saw in the 2013/2014 trailers, then you may be disappointed. The game was heavily optimized to keep frame rates up. In doing thus, the game has become a lot less pretty and overwhelmingly realistic. The foliage is clearly not three dimensional, the hair (even with Nvidia Hairworks) does not look very kosher, and some of the terrain textures look rather grainy. There is still some very beautiful imagery, but overall, it is definitely not up to par with some of the less recent games, like DA: Inquisition. However, this does not take away from the gameplay.

    All in all, this game is a marvelous experience and I highly recommend you try it out, graphical downgrade aside.    … Expand
  28. Poopypants123
    Jun 6, 2015
    10
    This is by far the best RPG ever made. The attention to detail is astounding. You feel fully immersed in the world and like your choices have an actual impact on the world. One of the best games to ever come out. Not to be missed
  29. Lamoi
    Jun 26, 2015
    7
    Firstly I would like to say this game has many fantastic qualities. And it's one of the few games that I can safely recommend as being a quality product and it's clear a lot of love went into making it.
    It's plays relatively smoothly. The atmosphere is amazing, and the details the game has is very impressive.
    However, anyone thinking about buying this game I would simply suggest    Firstly I would like to say this game has many fantastic qualities. And it's one of the few games that I can safely recommend as being a quality product and it's clear a lot of love went into making it.
    It's plays relatively smoothly. The atmosphere is amazing, and the details the game has is very impressive.

    However, anyone thinking about buying this game I would simply suggest considering a few things.
    I have found this game to have a really plodding pace. And it's been difficult to get over it. I would say so far my experience has been, travelling the world, talking to folks +++ (there's ALOT of talking!), looting items which there value and usefulness is not clearly explained. The menu system and crafting system are not clearly explained at all... I spend my time walking around, looking at stuff, trying to read books and notes (quest items) so as not to miss stuff.. But the thing is - this is 70% of my time spent with the Witcher 3. All this is then bookended with action about 30% of the time. Now the action is straight combat. There's no stealth, no bow and arrow, so no long range combat really. And it gets a little repetitive especially against humans. But the combat is good, but considering apart from talking a lot, and exploring, this is the only thing there is to do. However, the boss battles mostly are absolutely epic!

    I'm just saying this for anyone who gets a bit inpatient with cutscenes and a lot of talking in games, I would be hesitant to recommend this game. And I've played the heck out of games like Skyrim. So I was ready for a lot of talking in this game but was not prepared for how much talking and the slow pace that cannot be deviated from. And dare I say, at risk of being fire bombed by fans, a good portion of the content isn't terribly interesting.

    I'm simply saying this game often requires of you hours in a single sitting to get to something worthwhile. And in between there's alot of walking about and gassing to the locals and not doing much that's interesting.    … Expand
  30. Big_Bear
    Jun 2, 2015
    8
    A very, very good RPG that for me places better than DA Inquisition but is not a Skyrim beater.

    As usual there are a host of ludicrous reviews by people who are not gamers and are too stupid to understand a 0-10 scoring system; like do they realise a 0/10 would be a game that did not even load up? A particularly pathetic 'review' comes from hb1209, read if you want a laugh. Good -    A very, very good RPG that for me places better than DA Inquisition but is not a Skyrim beater.

    As usual there are a host of ludicrous reviews by people who are not gamers and are too stupid to understand a 0-10 scoring system; like do they realise a 0/10 would be a game that did not even load up? A particularly pathetic 'review' comes from hb1209, read if you want a laugh.

    Good - Beautiful and huge game world, unlike games like Red Dead or GTAV there is plenty to do in it as well. The story is excellent and even without playing previous Witcher games will keep you hooked. The voice acting is also superb compared to most other games and is up there in quality with the likes of Mass Effect series. Finally, finally you are now able to customize Geralt a bit. Gameplay is good enough to facilitate your journey through the game.

    Bad - Levelled armor; in any game ever made, is just annoying, games should follow Skyrim and Souls and just let players wear anything, it just works better. Also, no RPG should have armor that is unobtainable; once again, much like FF games, the antagonists wear cooler armor than can ever be obtained by the player, a crazy design decision by the devs. The reason I lasted an hour on the Witcher 2 was because I couldn't customize the player character; now I can which is a huge plus but it would be better if players had the option of designing their own character from scratch.

    Verdict - If you enjoy the games I have mentioned, Skyrim and Dragon Age especially, you will enjoy this game also. The lack of character creation takes away from the RPG element but doesn't ruin the game. 8/10.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#4 Best PS4 Game of 2015
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#2 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2015
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#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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