Some thoughts and observations after almost 2 playthroughs;
In general the game is very pretty, I like the weather effects and the lighting especially. The Velen + Novigrad map is the area I enjoyed the most, the war and death ridden Velen is fantastic, this questline is one of the most enjoyable I have ever had the pleasure to play, the blood baron is my favourite character hands down, great voice acting, inspired. Novigrad is simply wonderful, so alive and full of character, basing it on medieval Amsterdam was a great decision, simply breathtaking at times. Oh and Sigi Dijkstra is a freaking awesome character!
Skellege was a bit disappointing (General consensus seems most players enjoyed the 1st half much more), in my opinion mostly because of technical reasons, the excessive use of fog to cover lod distance is too painfully obvious over large bodies of water(this is the biggest visual shortcoming of the game as I see it), I thought sailing the seas a la Windwaker would be really enjoyable.......nope, really boring with repetitive siren slaughters over the general ugliness and emptiness . Someone at CDR, for some reason or another decided to opened up several fast travel points without the player having to visit them once on this map alone, interesting decision, maybe he/she wasn't happy with the way it turned out either. Other then that the character movement need to be tighter, even at the expense of animation, its too frustrating especially when in close quarters, and speaking of close quarters I never had motion sickness problems with 3rd person games but the fov here is ridiculously low. We are having headaches playing your game CDR, please fix asap!
Could say a lot more , positive and negative, but time is short and I need to finish my 2nd playthrough , Thank you for this wonderful experience and your continued support is very much appreciated, you can make it even better! Cheers..
