Love The Witcher 3, but a few small grips [game mechanic spoilers]
First, I love the game. Amazing story line and lots of fun to play. I cannot believe how much I love GWENT. Best minigame I've seen in a very long time. Definitely beat boring old dice from the Witcher 2. Anyways, a few small gripes. 1) It takes wayyyy to long to level-up in this game. It appears killing monsters does not give XP (correct me if I am wrong). That to me is a major mistake. Even if I am mistaking on that, the game simply takes too long to level up. At least so far in the early stages where I made level 5. 2) I don't care for how upgrading abilities works this time. You only have a couple slots so you have to upgrade a single ability heavily or else you cannot use all you've unlocked at once? Unless I misunderstand how it works, it appears you can only have up to 12 different special abilities the entire game. That is quite lame when you look at all the things the Witcher 2 allowed. The Witcher 2's player progression mechanic was far superior from what I can tell. 3) It takes way too long for vitality to regenerate when not in combat. First ability I upgraded was the +10 vitality per second when not in combat. Without it, you could never have enough health items to finish the game. I thought in older Witchers, meditating refilled the health, but in this one it does not. It's not so bad when crossing the country, but when on a major quest and in between battles, I often do things like make a cup of coffee while waiting for my health to refill. 4) I'm not sure what I feel about equipment that becomes damaged over time. This is something Oblivion tried but was removed from Skyrim if I recall properly. It becomes a bit tedious and expensive. Early on, it's hard to find coin. Having said that, I kind of like the added challenge. *note* My game is being played on death march thus progression is slow (lots and lots of deaths) and some of these things, especially number 3 and I imagine to an extend number 4 may not be as bad on easier difficulties.