This game needed more time in the oven, some very annoying bugs,and some of the worst load times I´ve ever seen, but the quests are so good that I manage to put up with all the flaws.

Novigrad is a city in Velen, that's how I understood it. Same map anyway.
I haven't been checking if I actually receive all xp, levelling up is very slow. It is a bit disappointing that you don't get better rewarded for taking down a mini boss 8 levels higher than you. You do get the full 2 minute punishment when you die :/ I like the variety in moster design, much better than the npcs. There is this particular trader that keeps following me around everywhere, creepy.

The ? are a big cop out. Most are generic guarded treasure and bandit camps. Treasure could have been placed better, there are plenty ruins and other interesting places instead of putting it somehwere in the middle of nowhere.
Ironically the one thing that lures you in the most (that big tree in the south of Velen) is completely fenced off by invisible walls and the edge of the map. The only way in is through a narrow funnel with high level foglets. Maybe I can do it now at lvl 15, I was lvl 8 first time I tried to climb that mountain.

I would have really liked a compass bar with the direction I need to go on instead of the mini map. Running around with one eye on the mini map breaks immersion the most for me. Yet you still need it otherwise you constantly need to open the sluggish main map.
Same with witcher sense, a distance indicator or hot/cold type indicator would be much better to guide you around the search area. Now all you do is guide a triangle along a circle in the 2D map until something red stands out. You're not searching the environment at all. It doesn't help that wicther sense dims out what you should be searching in.

It's a lot of fun anyway as long as the camera behaves and you don't die. (damn that fall damage is insane)
8/10 for me, gameplay and menu design keep this game from true greatness.

F@#k got the bad ending! F@#k! F@#k! F@#k! F@#k! F@#k! F@#k! F@#k! I'm so depressed, time for a sad shower.

Whats even more annoying is that everyone I helped (Novigrad, Temeria, Skellige) got a happy ending but Geralt got screwed over >_>

You were a bad father

I personally got the best ending on my first try :P

I thought I was being protective, I thought I was teaching her to use reason as opposed to using emotions. *sigh* The fact that everyone else I helped (Baron, Temaria, Roche, Keira, Lambert, Mages,Skellige) got a good ending makes me even more upset >_>

When I was doing my playthrough I was thinking of going your route as well but then I saw how Ciri acted and decided to let her make her decisions for herself and I'm glad it all worked out in the end. The bad ending is depressing as fuck though from what I saw on YouTube. It would suck to play everything and see it all end like that.

Mummelmann said: Man, I can't wait for my new rig and absolutely murder this on Ultra! Will be epic!

:D its beautiful on ultra at 60fps!. you just need at 980 and above to achieve that :)

you need to do side quests, treasure hunts, witcher contracts and  discovring the questions marks.  Those give you alot of experience points.  i just did the baron side quests and i am already level 12 lol.