I’ve finished The Witcher 3 two days ago, and here you’re posting your review just in time. Nice!
Another thing I would add to the list of the best things about The Witcher 3, although they might be irrelevant for native English speakers:
The game feels slavic rather than western. I love it! In the Russian version of the game, the peasants talk in a funny way, which shows that they really are uneducated and mostly stupid. They use funny figures of speech, modified words, etc. Everyone swears a lot using words which are on the more insulting end. I love it! I can believe a few hundred years ago, peasants in slavic countries actually talked like this. I would guess they also talk like this in the Polish version, but I don’t know about the English version.
And for the bad things, I would add:
Movement and combat feel extremely clunky. Some people recommend setting movement response time to alternative in the options. I did it, but it still feels clunky. It’s like instead of using a proper videogame engine with good physics, they took a very old engine, in which jumping and climbing are not first-class citizens, the locations are supposed to be mostly flat, and you are expected to move around very slowly (like in Neverwinter Nights or Baldur’s Gate). I am probably biased here, because right before The Witcher 3, I’ve played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which has the BEST feeling of moving around EVER—you can climb anything (and not jumping between specially designated protrusions like in old Assassin’s Creed games), jump on anything, fly around, aim your bow while jumping, and the controls during the combat and out of the combat are basically the same. And because of this, consider playing BotW as your next game.
Btw, have you read The Witcher or have you watched The Witcher? I’ve read all the books twice, and game Geralt is very similar to book Geralt, so that’s another thing I liked.
I’ve finished The Witcher 3 two days ago, and here you’re posting your review just in time. Nice!
Another thing I would add to the list of the best things about The Witcher 3, although they might be irrelevant for native English speakers:
The game feels slavic rather than western. I love it! In the Russian version of the game, the peasants talk in a funny way, which shows that they really are uneducated and mostly stupid. They use funny figures of speech, modified words, etc. Everyone swears a lot using words which are on the more insulting end. I love it! I can believe a few hundred years ago, peasants in slavic countries actually talked like this. I would guess they also talk like this in the Polish version, but I don’t know about the English version.
And for the bad things, I would add:
Movement and combat feel extremely clunky. Some people recommend setting movement response time to alternative in the options. I did it, but it still feels clunky. It’s like instead of using a proper videogame engine with good physics, they took a very old engine, in which jumping and climbing are not first-class citizens, the locations are supposed to be mostly flat, and you are expected to move around very slowly (like in Neverwinter Nights or Baldur’s Gate). I am probably biased here, because right before The Witcher 3, I’ve played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which has the BEST feeling of moving around EVER—you can climb anything (and not jumping between specially designated protrusions like in old Assassin’s Creed games), jump on anything, fly around, aim your bow while jumping, and the controls during the combat and out of the combat are basically the same. And because of this, consider playing BotW as your next game.
Btw, have you read The Witcher or have you watched The Witcher? I’ve read all the books twice, and game Geralt is very similar to book Geralt, so that’s another thing I liked.
Haven’t read the books, watched two episodes and was deeply bored.
Controls definitely have issues. Number of times I struggled to get the horse to actually gallop was not small.