The Witcher 3 (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Monday, November 28, 2016, 03:18 (2926 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I'm glad you like it! It's an amazing game that everyone should experience.

I strongly dislike the crafting system. It just feels tacked on and, despite hundreds and hundreds of components, is pretty shallow, I think. I engage with it as little as possible. Alchemy is fine, despite being very similar. I just don't like the way the components all break down, and, once you have a bunch of components, the menu load in becomes borderline unbearable.

I also didn't mind the cast of characters from the old games. They do it well enough that you can pretty much immediately understand that "Oh, Geralt knows this guy." But it's pretty much never important how Geralt knows him, or their relationship is explained well if it is important.

I'm not sure where you are in the story, but be weary of Novigrad. Once you get there in the main story, it turns into a bit of a slog for a few hours. You track down one person to find another person to find another person . . . The pace comes to a nearly complete halt. I burned out at that point on my first play of the game. But power through and the story really kicks into high gear. You still have a whole new area to travel to and explore (and my favorite area of the base game).