I had the opposite ~ I ran around doing everything I could to avoid reaching the end, I had drive not to finish the game.
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At least you enjoyed yourself unlike me now. I also did pretty much all of the smugglers caches around Skellige. Most of that stuff was junk of course.
200+ hours, 2 full playthroughs, played on PC...
Not a single game breaking bug or immersion breaking situation for me.
I don't know what's wrong with your copy of the game @Alan989 but...
It's the GOG version so I don't know why I'm getting these bugs. And what's with this nonsense about Skellige's Most Wanted being fixed? It still doesn't work for me.
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Anyway, I'm basically just giving up on TW3. I'm going to keep it installed in case I do come back to it, but I can't see myself playing it for the foreseeable future.
I have the GOG Version too. Had no gamebreaking Bugs. Just the "Wanna look at my Stuff", Black Pearl and the Statue Bugs.
Finished the game once, a few weeks ago, playing it for about 112 hours in total. Never touched the game again ever since. The ending just killed all the fun for me.
No issue here on the PS4 version. I mean, minor graphical issues, but nothing game breaking and nothing that causes me to lose interest.
The only reason I haven't started a third play through is because I'm waiting for the first expansion to come out before playing through again.
The only reason I haven't started a third play through is because I'm waiting for the first expansion to come out before playing through again.
I am going through it for the second time, now slowly, without using any fast travel, and uncovering all ? sites. I am planning on doing and uncovering everything the game has to offer, and it seems to be a lot. For example, on my first run I missed the connection between a quest about a frying pan in Velen with Thaler's negotiations with Nilfgaard. It was super-cool to learn that the guy who borrowed a pan, garroted that other guy, and burned his papers, was our friendly neighborhood master-spy Thaler. 
So right now I am still going strong, but I'll stop after I finish, and will wait for the first expansion to come out. In any case I have great hopes that EE will address our criticisms of the plot, but even as it is now, I will be playing TW3 as many times as I played TW1-2.
So right now I am still going strong, but I'll stop after I finish, and will wait for the first expansion to come out. In any case I have great hopes that EE will address our criticisms of the plot, but even as it is now, I will be playing TW3 as many times as I played TW1-2.
No. Just no. I took a break last week and played Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. Although I think it is a great little game, when I went back to TW3, I was blown away by everything about TW3. Sensory overload.
Witcher 3 is a good game if your new to the series but to me it not a proper Witcher game.
I don't agree. I played TW2 also. TW2 was great, but TW3 just flat blows me away.
But does it only blow you away base on the scale and scope of the game? If you take both games and compare it pieces by pieces, Witcher 2 is superior in my opinion. Witcher 2 feel like a handcraft world while Witcher 3 seem like it copy and paste generated.
I didn't enjoy 1 or 2 in their original forms at all. Only got into them with the FCR rebalancing and reduction of loot and character inflation.
I've played W3 through twice now, which in my book makes it better than vanilla W2, but it suffers from the same faults as the earlier ones with even fewer logical reasons (Geralt is no longer afflicted by amnesia or whatever it was that made him incapable of functioning at the start of both previous games ~ now he is supposed to be fully functional and has been on the path for 6 months (i.e. longer than the entire length of W3)... yet he can barely figure out which end of the sword he should hold and can only dress himself in a handful of clothing sets....) I enjoyed it. A lot. Twice. But Oh My God... the character development is overdone and is about to get a whole lot worse thanks to NG+.
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I've played W3 through twice now, which in my book makes it better than vanilla W2, but it suffers from the same faults as the earlier ones with even fewer logical reasons (Geralt is no longer afflicted by amnesia or whatever it was that made him incapable of functioning at the start of both previous games ~ now he is supposed to be fully functional and has been on the path for 6 months (i.e. longer than the entire length of W3)... yet he can barely figure out which end of the sword he should hold and can only dress himself in a handful of clothing sets....) I enjoyed it. A lot. Twice. But Oh My God... the character development is overdone and is about to get a whole lot worse thanks to NG+.
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TW3 just feels like a bigger TW2 to me. I'm not getting that cut and paste feel like I did occasionally with Skyrim, except with some of the NPCs.
True. A predefined and seasoned character like Geralt is always much more fitting to an action adventure than to an RPG with character progression.
But then again I guess we play the Witcher games for VERY different reasons...