The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Review | GES

GES Writes: "The Witcher 3 is finally here and it is definitely worth the wait, this is the first Witcher game that I actually really got into and I must say that it is the best Action RPG game I have played this year so far. It’s refreshing to find a game actually delivering on all the aspects and everything that the developer promised.

The first thing you will notice about The Witcher 3 is the outstanding graphics and how real the environments feel, you really feel yourself drawn into the game and this is not just thanks to the graphics but also the way the story and world has been created. The main story line is great to follow and all the characters involved are deep and interesting especially Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer. Geralt is yet again the main protagonist but you will get some time with Ciri as well, which creates a great difference and great to feel and see the differences."

[tamarkovia]

The foliage (leaves especially) are shite on my ps4

[affrogamer]

return the game then!

[zidane1341]

That's funny, they look great on my Xbox one. Hmm...

[starchild]

Your PS4 must be defective and artifacting. The foliage in the Witcher 3 uses the same alpha textures other games use, but it also has translucency and is dynamically animated. There's nothing "shite" about it relative to other games. Perhaps the world is so convincing that your mind automatically compares it against foliage in the real world instead of comparing it to other games.

[tamarkovia]

Maybe

[DC777]

Well, I also play on PS4. Sometimes they look like shite and other times things look amazing. There is a lot of back and forth graphically but you can see from the overall lighting and scenery what the intention was. It's just not "brought out" in all PS4 scenes.

I wasn't hyped for this game at all. Decided to give it a try. I am mighty happy, the story is great and just pulled me in like a good book. I think the acting is great too. It's not some convoluted mess that makes no sense like a lot of other games out there.

There are some glitches and issues but hopefully they will be patched. The game play and story outshines them all.

[feraldrgn]

I wouldn't say it's a 5/5.
It's damned good but no open-world game, where exploring glitches quests, should get a perfect score.

[zidane1341]

That's every open world game. Elder Scrolls? Yep. Gta? Yep. Far cry? Yep. Dragon age? Yup. Saints Row? Yup.oh what about fallout 3? Oh wait there were many glitches :(

Spoiler alert: all games have glitches especially big open world ones.

[showtimefolks]

Oh so that makes it okay?

Witcher 3 is amazing but not perfect score
gta 5 launched without I
issues so what are you talking about

Farcry launched with out issues

Dragon age had issues?

Saints row come on mam

[feraldrgn]

Then clearly that shows that they need to work on getting the quest system to work properly, doesn't it?

The whole point of open-world games is that you get to go where you want, but if by exploring it glitches quests, then it's counteractive.

I'm not talking about other bugs, just quests in specific.

[Maxor]

I thought Bloodborne would be GOTY until I played this. The Witcher 3 is so freaking epic that it killed my anticipation for anything else coming out in 2015.

[averagejoe26]

Eh. The Witcher, while fun, is pretty generic in most aspects. Not to mention its rather lackluster combat system and unoriginal art direction (and the myriad of bugs). I'd still give it to Bloodborne by far, but to each their own.

[showtimefolks]

Mgs5

Goty will be decided between

Witcher 3
mgs5
bloodborne

I still think bloodborne may win just because a lot of journalists love it a lot

Witcher 3 needs few more patches. But it's getting there

[eklektic]

Any one having issues with npc's not loading. Blacksmiths, merchants, and mission givers. I have to sit for up to a minute before they load in. And some times i have to meditate to get them to load.

[starchild]

I haven't seen any issues like that. In fact, I get very little pop-in of any kind, other than occasional hardly noticeable shadow pop-in at a distance. But I am playing it off a SSD and I'm not sure how it performs on standard hard drives. What are you playing it on?

[eklektic]

Ps4 sorry probably should have put that in there.

[feedphil]

Ya happened to me once with the town by keiras place I fast traveled in and out to make him load up

[Dyldog69]

2 hours in one bug semi confused horse great dialogue

[darksky]

This review is using screens from the original 2013 reveal. The release game doesn't look like that at all. Lazyness or are they trying to fool people.