/r/Games Daily Discussion - The Witcher 3 Appreciation Thread

This is one of the best games I have every played, and while the list of what it does right is very long and while it really does set the standard of quality that all AAA games should be compared to, there are things that could use improvement:

  • A better main antagonist - Eredin and the Wild Hunt in general is left as a mysterious etheral enemy, but you never truly get to confront them and learn why they do what they do or have that much interaction with them other than combat. The Heart of Stone expansion had a much better antagonist in Gaunter O'Dim.

  • The game suffers from some of the standard pitfalls of open world massive games today, and the big one is the minimap. The game is a hundred times more immersive when you have no minimap, and there should have been a default mode similar to the Friendly UI mod that removes the map and creates 3d markers than can be activated by witcher vision.

  • The ending is satisfying, but after the end when you are dropped back into free-roam it would be great to have an encore where so that when you go back to the various places there are little post-ending encounters with characters that lead to a nice final conversation.

  • The combat is satisfying and its unfair that people compare it to Dark Souls, however the difficulty curve could be tweaked. It's difficult in the beginning on Death March, but gets too easy by the end. The DLC's did this much better, the boss battles in the DLCs were absolutely massive challenges as they should be.

  • The levelling is kind of weird, and I never liked that you can only activate a certain set of abilities at once.

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