I read a lot of these comments and I have to say I whole heartedly agree with all of them. I bought this game new to the series. My favorite games are open world sandbox game. This game blew all the other games out of this universe. This game made me want to explore, fight, loot, learn, and dare more than any other rpg open world game I've ever played. It's the only game that made me want to go the extra mile in order to get the result I wanted. I want as far as to look for and craft all three tiers of griffin armour. Games like assassin's creed I was never motivated to go treasure hunting or get unique gear. I love this game. I can say that it is my number 1 favorite game I have ever played. Not exaggerating. The world is beautiful and has immersed me in the environment of nature, civilization, and culture like no other game has before. I spent so much time exploring and experiencing I was often a higher level than the main story required i be to safely complete it. I thoroughly played this game from start to finish...to the end. I had to re-do the ending 3 times to get the desired end. Lol. It was a lot of work, but I finally got ciri to become a witcheress. On top of all my praises so far I must say that this game also excels at making well put together characters you actually feel something for. The story was so perfectly written. The end could have been after you found ciri but no it went on so much more. They made you work to find ciri and then afterwords you got to work with ciri and become companions with everyone. The ending was amazing...except the fact when I gave ciri the sword a small summary of what the results of your actions were then....you arrive in a large empty fortress...I felt so depressed and sad. I was surrounded mere moments ago by people that I felt for, then I am all alone in a fortress that looks as though there were just people there and left right as I arrived...the fires still going on the torches. Eskel gone it even says in the character profiles that he takes care of the fortress now, lambert gone (kind of to be expected), triss/yen gone...ciri is gone. The only people I could find is zoltan and dandelion back at the inn. No sorceress of the lodge members to be found. Quite depressing. In near to come dlc I hope that these characters make a return permanently. Honestly it's hard for me to find the will to continue played without any of these characters existing. I don't think if they remain missing I'll play much more. It's so empty without them. I would like to see a dlc of us able to restore at least a little the witcher school. Recruit more witchers and/or rebuild and renovate the fortress. It's so depressing there. A large fortress surrounded by huge mountains and endless wilderness all alone. Those are my only two real must have dlc. Also fix some bugs lol but I can manage those a lot more than an empty fruitless world. Oh lastly I'd like to see the racism in novigrad lessen significantly. I killed radovid for a reason. I wanted to restore the northern realms and also get rid of the root of the evil. I succeeded but I have yet to see any changes in the cities appearance and conduct. Kind of upsetting seeing as the reason I went back 4 hours in the campaign for the 3rd time so I could kill radovid and make the continent a better place. 9/10 game. 10/10 once we get some life into the post campaign game!
