This game has frozen on me several times now. For no apparent reason, it goes into a load screen and never comes out of it. Load times are a bit long as well.

The more I play this game, the more I hate the combat. I have the ability to counter incoming arrows, but it doesn't work unless you are close enough to engage them in combat.

If they start shooting arrows at you from a distance it doesn't allow you to block, it just does the witcher sense vision. You have to be engaged in combat in order to use your sword to block. That just really sucks, I was trying to counter the arrows and he just wouldn't block. Very frustrating.

The game is really good though, and I haven't stopped playing it since I got it. Really loving this game, just not the combat.

Twice now I've got stuck in a hole filled with water. What a stupid oversight.

Still loving the game though.

I'm glad you're enjoying it, can't wait to get my copy once the new rig is done!

When you are affected by game breaking bugs in major quests, the 85 is justified, it's a shame they released the game with so much bugs. I can bare the minor ones, but the infinite loading on king's gambit quest is huge, it's developers fault to release a game in this state, any other game with such major bug would get awful reviews

Yes. The world. It's so immersive, so much details everywhere, the world is also very cohesive. It's going to be hard to play another RPG after this one...

Or maybe The witcher 4?

Every WRPG is going to be compared to this game now. Guarilla games better have something comparable AND hire some decent script writers,

It really shows how people treat problems within a game depending on who makes it, that being said I think the game deserves to have its strengths praised over its faults because clearly this was a labour of love and the characters in the game show and also does its world. Not to mention the its a great success for the games industry as a whole to have such a prominent Polish developer join the ranks of industry standards, so all things considered I think the game deserves all its praise as a western RPG.

For anyone interested in RPGs btw, Konami is having daily Suikoden stream to measure interest and potentially save the Suikoden series by showing that people still care about it. If enough people join in, discuss it and buy the digital releases they may release the games on Steam, make sequals etc.

So please join in at http://www.twitch.tv/konami 3:30 PM Pacific time every weekday and discuss the series or just discover it if you're curious.

There are all kinds of action-WRPGs, it should only be compared to other open-world games - I'm really enjoying it, it's excellent in some things, but, tbh, it lacks in others.

I'm getting a bit frustrated with the crafting system. I'm hauling all these crafting components with me yet always miss one or two things to actually make something. It all adds up and I don't have much weight limit left for loot. Plus when I finally craft something I find something better within the hour :/

Why put a limit on it anyway as I'm already carrying enough with me to stock an average wall mart.
Why can't I store it somewhere (maybe I haven't gotten that far yet?)

Skyrim's crafting system was much better, compared to that this feels like a convoluted mess. Nothing is sorted, just a long list of stuff to make, same in the inventory, a big mess of different materials thrown together. You can't filter out stuff you already have or is below or above your level. No links to sub components you can craft, go through the long list yourself. I'm at the point of simply selling all the materials and don't bother with it anymore.

Back to questing, the good stuff.
This game is definitely: World (graphics), Characters, Story >>>>>>>>> Gameplay.