The Witcher 3 is the best RPG in the last decade.

[HoloDust]

Bancho_Villa said:

HoloDust said:

Different beasts really - Skyrim is pretty much standard TES game for all its good and bad things, just dumbed down for mainstream, W3 is pretty much attempt to make high budget mainstream Gothic.

To make things bit more clear, I'd take Morrowind over W3, just like I would take any Gothic over Morrowind, but, at least for me, both Skyrim and W3 are about 8/10...but as I said, different beast, open-world RPG genre is really only thing that is common for them.

Hmm, valid points. I personally am very underwhelmed by w3. I remember reading a quote from cd red that the map was going to be 20% bigger than skyrim, and then I saw the graphics, and I fell for the hype. I just think it's funny that they directly tried comparing their game to skyrim.

Well, there isn't any WRPG game out there that is as known to mainstream audience as well as Skyrim. It is PR, Skyrim was, most likely, for most of those 20+ millions people buying it first open world WRPG they've ever played (if not first WRPG, period) - it surelly does sounds a lot better for press release than comparing it to Gothic, which is their main influence, but quite unkown to mainstream.

I like the game, I think it's very good open-world WRPG, but as someone who's been playing  c/W/RPGs for almost 30 years now, I can find a lot of flaws in it. Bottom lines - don't fall for hype, people should really do their homework, specially if they're venturing into genre they're not very familiar with and maybe above all, keep your mind open and don't compare it to other games from different sub-genres and base how you like it on that.