Nice.

It’s truly a great game and once it sinks it’s teeth it, it only gets better.

Take your time, enjoy it and then when you’re nearly done...stop, and play the dlc.

Also on Witcher 3, the greed of developers and publishers last year in particular really highlights what a great package the game was.

Not even counting the amazing expansions, CDPR released a dozen free smaller DLC and were constantly updating and optimising the game for about a year.

Yar, CDPR deffo seem to be the good guys. The “free dlc” stuff was a bit of a cheap shot, imo - they weren’t big things, mainly cosmetic and only a couple of missions. But the updates to how the game ran, the improvements of the UI, the updated character skins etc. in the weeks and months following release show that they really, truly give a fuck.

Then there’s the dlc you mentioned which, for me, have the best value of any dlc I’ve ever played - bought them and they’re genuinely good enough to compete with most of the other AAA games that get released. Astonishing.

Absolutely love Skellige. Lovely environment, lovely music.

Aye, cdpr is the new valve.
They're growing on me as is their gog platform.

It took a looooong time to click for me; something like fifteen hours, I think.  But when it did click...oh boy.  What a game.

Tired of Geralt? Never.

I feel sad that I uninstalled this - DLC and everything. I appreciate the work that went into it all, but the combat was just lame. I also found the detective mode really cheap looking and repetitive and all those markers on the map actually put me off. Would've been better without all that like BotW.

I wanted to love it.

This is one of the games I’m going to get back to with my year of fiscal prudence.

I bought this about a year ago and played an hour of it, much to my shame. I need to go back to it.

Maybe I will one day but I doubt it. I tried it again a while back but the combat, the finicky potion and crafting system, coupled with the laggy menu just turned me away from it.

The combat, crafting, menus and skill trees really aren't very good. Even with the difficulty higher it wasn't worth using a lot of it. There's also a lot of mindless fetch questing.

The detail and scope of the world and characters pulled me through it though. That really is unmatched.

Imagine how good it could be if they polished and refined the game systems.

My build has only levelled up signs. While the combat is sluggish, easy to cheese and overall lacking in the weight department you can get creative with all the different upgraded abilities. It’s distracting enough to not get too repetitive for me.

I’ve been looking around for some ease of use pro tips and found some good stuff, including the first which is going to improve my experience with lots of other games.

I really, really wish I’d known these earlier.

- turning the accessibility option called Zoom on in the PS4 settings let’s you press the PS+square button to zoom in. No more squinting at text for me, ever.

- L1+Square lets you get to the meditate screen instantly

- swiping touchpad brings up map screen instantly

- holding touchpad brings up inventory instantly

- when shopping, flicking the right stick lets you skip across all the infuriating little boxes in the inventory screen to the vendor’s gear

At least I know it all now.

The combat was a disappointment for me initially. I first tried this of the back of Shadow of Mordor. It’s my fault for not doing better research, but I thought it was the kind of action RPG which was really more an action game with a heavy RPG element than anything else. I find the combat less meaty and tangible than I would’ve liked. Hey ho.

I may get shot for this, but that’s what makes it feel more like a desktop PC game rather than an armchair console one.

I might try the accessibility options for this and Shadow Tactics, though.