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On Mon, 25 May 2015 22:14:29 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
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>The Witcher 3.
>The more I look at Videos & read reviews the less enthusiastic I feel re. 
>this.
>The combat looks very repetitive - just hack n slash away.
Not quite... turn on the Witcher 3 Combat Tutorial (when you buy the
game....)
>Overall poorer than 1 or 2, certainly less RPG.
Really? More concentration on the story and the game-world's
inhabitants and a little less on the mechanics of ability trees makes
it less of an RPG? 
>Arguably this thread should be the 'action' group.
>
>I'm mentally putting Witcher 3 in a list along side Two Worlds , Arcania - 
>Gothic 4
>& even Ravens Cry . That's not a compliment.
>The complex character & stories of the Witcher World intrigue me
>but perhaps to do it justice in a comp. game
>it would need to be in An Adventure type design..
>(\__/)
>(='.'=)
>(")_(")  mouse (Hack n Slash n Bash a Bit)
>
>
>

Hmmm.... indeed..... 

Having read what you said, out of curiosity I logged in ~ 3 hours ago
into Steam and perused the user-comments on the game. Out of the 8000+
comments,  7912  were rated 'positive' and 791 'negative'.  I sampled
the first 50 or so of the 'positive' and 25 or so of the 'negative'.
Strange that the positive reviews truly raved about the game, its
scope and depth, its graphics goodness and its character development,
and most of the negative reviews raved about 'technical issues' or the
'combat system. or 'alchemy system' or... something else peripheral to
the game itself not being to their taste..... Seems to be a lack of
understanding that these latter are just the chosen tools of any
action RPG and may need some relearning, just as with say Elder
Scrolls thru Gothic 3 thru Witcher 1 -->2 --->3.
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I am about 20 hours into the Witcher 3 (PC), running all Patches up to
1.04 on a clean install.  No crashes, As a long-term single-player
action-RPG fan, for me Witcher 3 is, so far, the finest action-RPG
ever produced. A truly-huge game in a dynamic world with stellar
story-telling, significantly interesting and varied mini-quests,
nuanced decisions that deeply affect the plot outcome, deft character
portrayal, even minor characters reveal their opinions and feelings,
gorgeous graphics with microscopic attention to detail. Perfect choice
of voice actors in all encounters so far, with scripting and character
animation that almost matches some of the best live-actor movies.
Combat mechanics by far the best (and most intuitive for
action-gamers) of all The Witcher series. No problem with mouse and
default WASD, only a minor remap of the ALT key for me (Remap
available in 1.04). Immersive, immersive, immersive.....

Morrowind in its time held the action-RPG crown and even now 
with some of the best graphics mods is still a significant contender.
However, The Witcher 3 with its seamless action-engine (at least on
the PC) and the loving attention given to all aspects of its creation
has now seized that crown.

John Lewis