The Witcher 3 | Review Thread

To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
 
SlasherJPC said:
I've not been able to read a lot of the reviews yet but did any of them suggest more carrying weight for Garalt? I've been playing 2 and I'm constantly getting over encumbered.
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Yeah,it´s so annoying in W2 imo.
i hope someone makes another mod that removes weight limit for W3.
 
Emerson said:
I just don't see the problem at all. As long as there is plenty of content (is anyone questioning that?) who cares if there's a "go get my shit" quest now and then? If you're engrossed in the world and the characters, you'll probably enjoy doing just about anything. And if you don't, skip that one and do something else.
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There isn't anything wrong with them. Lots of games have them. You just need some good content to go in there with the errands and it is mostly fine. I am just pointing out that there will be some of the base level effort quests in this game, given its size.

FATALITY said:
framedrops now is sub 30 fps?
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Uhh, what else would you call a game dropping under 30fps?
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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How long did it take you to make this troll post? 2/10 tops.
 
EatChildren said:
I've read a handful of reviews, here's my 5c on some of the hotter topics.

RE Main Quest: Few of the reviews downplay it, some outright praise Geralt's personal journey. That's something to remember, maybe for new Witcher fans. An overwhelming majority of RPGs place the protagonist in the middle as the chosen one/god/hero/lord of everything. The series isn't like that. Sweeping changes happen, but often as a backdrop or around your character rather than to or purely because of your character. Keep that in mind you'll always, in a way, play second fiddle to the world itself.

RE Endings: Reviews are divisive but remember there are multiple endings with variations OF those endings based on progress of the plot. It seems you just kinda get a summary of how it all ended, for better or worse. You're never guaranteed a happy ending. Or a cathartic abundance of closure. Maybe your ending will be exactly as you wanted. Or maybe it will be unexpectedly tragic and a bit of a downer. That's how these games roll. The Witcher 2 fucking ended on sorcerer/sorceress genocide and a mass invasion, neither of which you could prevent.

RE Fetch Quests: Seems the main quests are the culprit, and I could see how: you're probably tasks with far reaching "get X of Y" to progress. But most reviews don't paint fetch quests in the same way people are familiar with from the likes of Inquisition and Skyrim. Most reviews praise context and development of quests. Most quests in games can be distilled down to basics of fetch, but context is key. And that context, along with ramifications, sound like the game's biggest strength.
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I would agree with this summary.

Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."
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What's a loading screen?
 
mnz said:
Sounds like you are more into video game sites and PR than actually playing games.
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Sounds like he's a realist rather than apart of the rabble that seem to get overly excited over scores rather than the reviews themselves.

The whole thread is full of people repeating the same 9/10 and 10/10 scores while quoting the same excerpts from these reviews. Yet this hype, generated by sites who have it in their best interest to rate it highly (some of which were given paid trips, early builds etc), is what will drive sales. It's pathetic.
 
I am excited to play it and in the meantime I will continue the witcher 1 story on pc (got it and w2 for like $5 in a steam without really knowing a reason why I got it lol)

It will be good to play them at the same time to flesh out the world of w3 while I play it.
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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So to assist people on the fence you highlight all the bad points?

Very helpful indeed
 
EatChildren said:
I've read a handful of reviews, here's my 5c on some of the hotter topics.

RE Main Quest: Few of the reviews downplay it, some outright praise Geralt's personal journey. That's something to remember, maybe for new Witcher fans. An overwhelming majority of RPGs place the protagonist in the middle as the chosen one/god/hero/lord of everything. The series isn't like that. Sweeping changes happen, but often as a backdrop or around your character rather than to or purely because of your character. Keep that in mind you'll always, in a way, play second fiddle to the world itself.

RE Endings: Reviews are divisive but remember there are multiple endings with variations OF those endings based on progress of the plot. It seems you just kinda get a summary of how it all ended, for better or worse. You're never guaranteed a happy ending. Or a cathartic abundance of closure. Maybe your ending will be exactly as you wanted. Or maybe it will be unexpectedly tragic and a bit of a downer. That's how these games roll. The Witcher 2 fucking ended on sorcerer/sorceress genocide and a mass invasion, neither of which you could prevent.

RE Fetch Quests: Seems the main quests are the culprit, and I could see how: you're probably tasks with far reaching "get X of Y" to progress. But most reviews don't paint fetch quests in the same way people are familiar with from the likes of Inquisition and Skyrim. Most reviews praise context and development of quests. Most quests in games can be distilled down to basics of fetch, but context is key. And that context, along with ramifications, sound like the game's biggest strength.
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Thanks for this.

Regarding fetch quests, that's really what I expected (and wanted actually). Context-less fetch quests and collectathons are the worst and that doesn't seem to be the casehere.
 
Leb said:
Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."
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An archaic design that still lives on... I thought we killed it with the awful DAI inventory... ffs, when will people learn...
 
mnz said:
Sounds like you are more into video game sites and PR than actually playing games.
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I'm a news editor and author, so yeah, it's one of my problems, i always searching for news and information. But i'm still enjoying to play games, thankfully. I just hope that broken hype will not disrupt my experience when i finally start playing in TW3.
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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So, people should make an informed decision based only on negatives?
 
Interinactive said:
Sounds like he's a realist rather than apart of the rabble that seem to get overly excited over scores rather than the reviews themselves.

The whole thread is full of people repeating the same 9/10 and 10/10 scores while quoting the same excerpts from these reviews. Yet this hype, generated by sites who have it in their best interest to rate it highly (some of which were given paid trips, early builds etc), is what will drive sales. It's pathetic.
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These scores are not in any way surprising for CD Projekt Red fans or Witcher series vets. I doubt all these great reviews are "paid" for


CD Projekt Red are one of the top developer's in the world IMO
 
Rajang said:
No wonder every dev is trying open world genre now. Reviewers tend to overlook alot with those games.
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Like I said before, there is a huge love affair with just walking around and looking at shit now. No matter how bad your combat is, quest design, dungeons, character progression, story etc is.... as long as I can walk around and look at some stuff and it is pretty you gettin that 9/10.
 
Our thread title lengths are not accommodating enough to allow me to tack on a warning about MGS4 reviews discussion in this thread, but suffice to say, we ARE NOT going down that course though. I will not allow it.
 
Kenzodielocke said:
I think it has more to do with the bigger RAM of the consoles.
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It's likely the more ram they have to work with then it's more opportunity for larger world design is present.

I mean fitting all off those objects on screen with large draw distance. It's seems more memory intensive compared to other games.
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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Picking all the negative quotes and leaving out anything positive is "fair and representative".

Edit: Ah jokey Leb.
 
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Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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I hope this is satire…

(I think it is)
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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:)

Is the Gamespot review really saying "perpetual loading screens"? I thought there was only loading between the 3 main regions?
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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You chose all negatives to help others decide on a purchase, very uneducated post to say the least.
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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ironcreed said:
So, people should make an informed decision based only on negatives?
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It's a joke post. He's been making funny and absurd faux-negative posts for a couple of days now. The way he's edited it is so completely horrible; it's kind of a reverse on what DVD cases do when cherrypicking favorable quotes.
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

Gamespot: "[the game] is prone to... bugs and visual glitches... perpetual loading screens... jarring... pop in."

Game Informer: "... long load times. Breakable weapons interrupt the adventure. [Ciri sequences] far from exciting... locations difficult to access, lacking good fast-travel locations. Witcher sense... overused... [ending] rubbed me the wrong way, disappointment lingered long after the credits rolled."

IGN: "main quest... mundane, even perfunctory... technical [caveats], 30fps... too much to ask, transitions between maps... too long... glitches... pop up. ...too much padding in the form of meaningless fetch quests and collectathons."

Kotaku:"...shortcomings in the enemies' artificial intelligence... the developer's technological ambitions... overwhelm the PS4's capabilities and the frame-rate and responsiveness become a real problem... inventory management... a real mess."

PCGames.de: "Spreche Meinen besten Dank aus... Chr. Rex"

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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wow thanks for the post,, i can't believe the reviews this game is getting considering it's so bad! i think i'll skip this and get dragon age 2 instead.
 
Leb said:
To assist those individuals trying to make the most informed purchasing decision possible, I've helpfully compiled what I feel to be a fair and representative collection of excerpts from the higher profile reviews.

I haven't had a chance to see how the actual numerical scores are shaping up, but assuming that these excerpts accurately represent the prevailing sentiment, well...
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Fox News is proud of you.
 
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