'The Witcher 3' May Be The Best Open-World Game Ever

Forbes:
There’s something truly brilliant about the way The Witcher 3 handles its quests.

There’s a few different types of quests in the game. Primary, Secondary, and Witcher Contracts. But these three divisions are nowhere near as distinct as they may sound, and often “secondary” or optional quests will influence the outcome of primary quests and vice versa.
For instance, in one very long sequence of quests I came to the end of a pretty major story-line—or so I thought. I “completed” a main quest, and was free to move on to other primary pursuits.

[98xpresent]

That's Pretty bold.

[amnalehu]

Pretty bold indeed but I think I agree (with the best open world game part).

[Palitera]

Only if you exclude RDR, which no other game ever came near.

[nX]

I hold the Witcher higher than RDR and GTA. RPG's are simply something else and this game gets pretty much everything right.

[MysticStrummer]

Part of being the best open world, in my view, is how alive that world feels. That includes wildlife as well as NPCs doing whatever they do. I haven't played TW3 yet so I'm making no judgement, but no open world I've personally spent time with has come close to feeling as alive as those from Rockstar.

[Bigpappy]

This opinion from Forbes... \end of comment.

[orakle44]

So because he write's for Forbes he can't form a opinion on the game? I'm confused.

[CorndogBurglar]

Yeah, it is bold, no doubt.

However, i just got the game yesterday and i'm loving every second. It really is a great game, and i'm not really that bigbinto open world games.

I play the Batman games because i'm a huge comic book nerd, so its a no brainer. Aside from that, the only other game i've been able to finish thats open world is Red Dead Redemption. I put a LOT of time into Oblivion but never finished it.

Anyway, point is, the Witcher 3 is definitely up there.

[Hellsvacancy]

I personally rate Red Dead Redemption a little higher than Witcher 3, but i've not finished Witcher 3 yet, i've hardly done any campaign missions so it's too early for me to say with certainty which game is better, and even then like it matters, both games are truly excellent

Too addicted to Gwent to progress the story, I need to get on a boat to the Skellige Islands, that's where I am in the story

[nX]

You're still far away from being able to make final judgements, play 40 more hours before saying that RDR is the better game ;)

[Hellsvacancy]

That's what I thought dude, hence why I backtracked on my comment

[burza1982]

Agreed. The Witcher 3 have The Best Open world ever.

[Scrivlar]

No. It's pretty great. But no.

[Toiletsteak]

The Witcher 3 is amazing it is up there as one of the best open world games but for me RDR is the best.

[dancerOfDeath]

I dont think so. hitting all those unknown areas has begun to feel more like a chore/obligation than adventure and discovery.

The open world is really amazing and beautiful, but skyrim/oblivin/morrowind sandbox feels more like a real journey. GTA V feels more alive.

[Ghoul]

its the most detailed and "realistic" (as in believable) setting ive seen so far,
the villages, small camps are incredibly made. just the roads blew me away.
you can see wich road is used with carts, horses or trampled just by foot.

i just cant wait to see what they do the "unused " parts of the world.
so many areas are just to detailed to just ride through.

[Pintheshadows]

I enjoy wandering through the woods.

[Ghoul]

totally, the woods are even more vivid

[Summons75]

Considering it's not truly open world, I would say it's pretty great. Up there among the greats. If only the world wasn't sectioned off into different areas and you could walk from end to end.

[Pintheshadows]

That is the thing though. It isn't one open world, it is two. That is what makes it so remarkable. Velen and Novigrad are big enough to constitute an entire game. But then there is Skellige as well.

[Summons75]

While that's true it's still not completely open world and when I decided to travel to Kaer Morhen (after having advertised to me a completely open world 200x bigger than Skyrim) and I hit the "end of the world" in Novigrad I was highly disappointed.

[FrostXVenom]

Yeah only velen is enough for an open world....its more than an open world...

[Pintheshadows]

CD Projekt never advertised the game in that way. They always said that there where multiple locations. That is you projecting your preconceived notion onto it.

[KingKionic]

@Summons75

Game was never advertised as 200X bigger then skyrim. The game overall is 3.5 times bigger then skyrim.

http://gamingbolt.com/witch...

We can debate semantics but the game is a multi region world and is very huge.

[AlokTheDemon]

Well Well It is good indeed but you know gta and rdr.

[KingKionic]

Witcher 3 is a masterpiece in game world creation that`s for sure. Great story,setting, environment and immersion.

It has earned its place as the best open world of all time.

Just scrolling through novigrad going in and out of places in this large city and going into the sewers is very immersive.

Riding through velen from place to place you notice the care every part of the environment looks very alive and the forests caves and swamps look fantastic.

You can just see how much care was given to every place you pass in the game. Its just on another level

[iliimaster]

idk about that i seen the first hour or so gameplay on youtube... read dead redemption to me is king, but best played on ps3... i just got RDR got xbox360 and the undead nightmare, and I noticed that stuff appears delayed in the 360 version and in the ps3 version its smooth and no delays in the graphics.

[Allsystemgamer]

You watched an hour of a game that takes over 200 to complete. Isnt your opinion valid

[Pintheshadows]

The funniest thing is the first hour will only be White Orchard.

[iliimaster]

allsystem ? cool go buy the game and have the time of ur life

[EvilWay]

Fallout 3, Red Dead Redemption and The Witcher 3.... Idk which one I would choose as the best open world game ever

[Kane22]

one of the best open world games i've played is okami

[SpinalRemains138]

GOAT open world?

Disagree heavily.

[Brisco]

Love the game! It's freaking awesome! Can't stop playing.

[Dyldog69]

Not open world. The game is actually very linear with levels like white orchard and velen etc. The lack of connectedness through seamless region transitions like open world games have makes it linear while borrowing elements of open world. The "fast travel" in tw3 is actually level selecting with the ability to backtrack. While the levels have open areas their lack of playable connectedness makes it a linear game. CDPR falsely advertised tw3 as open world and should have said that it has elements of an open world while predominantly being a linear story driven experience.

[WizzroSupreme]

*ahem* GTA V. That is all.

[BiggerBoss]

While I dont consider GTA V the best open world game, it does have the best open world in a game imo. So much attention to detail

[Gatsu]

It is the best...so far. I absolutely love it, but as time passes there might come better ones ;).

[Dfooster]

It's a big open world but I would rather have a more interactive smaller world. In novigrad you can't interact with much, the towns folk have nothing to say and it's difficult to appreciate the architecture due to constantly monitoring the almost invisible white dots on the minimap so you know you're heading in the right direction. They should have stuck a direction arrow on screen like skyrim so you can concentrate on the world and get to know the place.

To be fair it's a great game though I'm really enjoying it but I think it will be bettered before long,

[Pennywise138]

I still have to give it to skyrim but the witcher is definitely a top 3. Probably just behind gta5.

[leemo19]

Its a fantastic open world game, one of the best Ive played in awhile, but I may have to go with Skyrim or RDR over it. Its probably just me, but I feel there's more interactions with things in Skyrim and RDR than TW3, when traveling across the country side. You can travel over miles and miles of land in TW3 and lots of times you won't really interact with anything other than grabbing plants.

[Big_Game_Hunters]

No. Xenoblade chronicles X's world is Much more interesting and beautiful with unique alien terrain and a massive range of wildlife that give the world so much more life than running into nothing but drowners,wraiths, wolfs and ghouls.

[eklektic]

This game is a bug fest i have no clue why it's getting so much praise. I put in over 50 hours and had to quit because of how shit it is. It's like unity all over. Npc's pop in and out of the ground or not even there. Whole towns not spawning in. Monsters warping around. And popping in and out the ground. The horse is half retard no offense to the mentally handicap. The fighting is extremely easy. I was enjoying it for the first 30 hours then novingrad just ruined everything. Terrible! Merchants that you have to memorize where they are so you can either sit for over a minute for them to spawn or meditate so they pop in the world. The sounds not loading while in novingrad and all around it. I mean i could go on and on and on. No way is this the best open world game not even close.

[Father__Merrin]

this game is really being bigged up at the moment

[cfc83]

Dunno. I loved rdr, but i haven't played many open world games. Really liking witcher 3, and i'm not experiencing many bugs. It's a fairly complicated game, so i'll just do the best i can to make the better decisions. I also like bright colours and regional british accents in a medevil surrounding. I tend to avoid games that are too dark in colour, with grainy textures.

[Wii_nes_007]

Nope, sorry. A game has to be playable to be considered the BEST of anything. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[llMurcielagoll]

One of The best I agree. But THEEE best ever? I wouldn't go that far.