EPTSo, let's go very quickly in the pros and cons etc:
Pros:
- Wide game. Probably the vastest sigle-player gaming experience I can recall. We're not talking like variety, like in GTA in which you can shoot, drive, fuck, play tennis, golf, etc. What I mean is that the world really feels like a world. Sometimes, you will have no choice but to travel to a place. And belive me, the atmosphere and everything makes you enjoy your ride in the horse with some nice music and beautiful landscapes. Adding to this the amount of quest you can feels like it's neverending. I found myself postponing main missions to find the ingredients for a potion, to kill a monster, to get an armor that was like 5 levels ahead of me, and I enjoyed it.
- Atmosphere. As I told in the previous point, the game does a very good job with the world settings. The game is settled in a medieval world in which magic things are seen more like a problem or 'pest' rather than the traditional 'standart'. Even if in your adventure you will deal with magic things in a way it looks like its 'normal', normal people tend to fear it or detest it. Not only that, the music, the way cities and villages are shaped. All comes toghether in a really nice world that urges you to explore it.
- Gameplay mechanics: the game is complex. Or at least, is far more complex than the traditional Assassin's creed, Batman, GTA or Call of Duty. It's actually a game that demands you read most of the tons of info it throws at you. Yes sometimes quests are repetitive in the patter 'travel here, beat up this shit'. But the way you must face different monsters and bosses makes the gameplay feel very unique. So if swordfights and spells are not good enough for you, there's always the loyal fists to punch an idiot in the face. Oh wait... that's not good enough? well there's gwent for you! what is gwent? is a card game in the game. Yes, basically a mini-heartstone inside the game! I didn't played it.... but it was there! You can play different people in the game and there's a couple of quest related to the card game aswell.
Cons:
- woah woah woah hold there! Can you say that again? A wide game brings LOTS of information: mechanics, menus, enemies, long dialogs in which you have to make decisions (which I like, but if you skip dialogs you will end up asking WTF WHATDOICHOSE!). You will spend lot of time reading, so be ready for it. I don't expect a kid to enjoy the game to be honest.
- Soft porn: There are titties, so you can't have your mom and dad watching you playing. You never know...
- There was a story? The story is not bad, but since this is The Witcher 3 you don't know much about pasts games. And the game supports a lot of stuff in past games. I don't blame them for that. But when you have THIS MUCH of things going on, you can't blame writers to have some boring story-related stuff here and there.
- Kind of unforgiving game. Since you start as a weak, the very first enemies will present a challenge you are not that much ready to go. I was getting my ass killed a lot because I fought some level 4 Drowners like if I was level 10 or something. All enemies have a special way to face them and to gain some advantages you have to complete a lot of side quests. Another thing is that when you are negotiating the price of your contract (a kind of quests in which you get rewarded by a contractor), is very hard to tell if the quest is going to be hard or easy (you have to previously chek in the menu, but who the fuck does that everytime lol) so you can't really know if you have to charge a lot or go soft. I was like level 10 and I ended up facing a level 30 or so giant ass spider. When I realized I dealt 0 damage to the spider I ran my ass off as quick as I could.
- Some glitches. The game glitches a lot more than you can expect. Few things are game-breaking but is normal to see models appearing in a obvious bad spot and that kind of stuff. My game at least had the tendency to freeze like 1/10 times at random moments.
- Experience system (I'm not sure about this one). I don't know but it feels like the experience system works like this: you complete quests which give a fixed amout of experience and even if you kill a fucking level 9999 dragon, you get your fixed experience points. This means that farming experience killing powerfull enemies wont work. Again, I'm not really sure but I remeber a quest in which some lvl25 drawfs ambushed me (I was like 10) and even if I killed them by 'glitching' them by moving in and out and stuff, I didn't got 1 level out of that fight. And they were like 4.
There's a lot to tell for this game, I still haven't finish it since I already did ....... something that I belived it was the end. And I still have stuff to do!
Try the game while the network is do---- nevermind, go play dota bitch.
Cya!!! :D
