Well, I could not disagree more.

Has there ever been better writing and execution of any given lore in a video game?  I don't think so.  I love Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Fallout as much as anyone, but honestly....  They pale in scope and execution to the Witcher 3.

RE: The combat...  You mentioned being level 5 and failing vs. level 10 opponents.  There are many times this happen's, because your not supposed to be doing that yet.  Sounds like you haven't actually played 40 hours.  Have you reached Skellige?

RE: Dialogue, yeah they repeat some voices....  There are literally thousands of NPC's, that will all talk and engage with you, all fully voiced.  It was a gigantic scope and executed better than any Dev team has ever done.

RE:  Plot.  Did you play the Witcher 2?  Have you read the books?  If your picking it up cold, yeah it would be like starting Game of thrones in season 6.  You wont understand a lot of it, but they do a pretty good job of getting an inclusive narrative done, and the DLC stories are pretty epic.

To play the Witcher is too engross yourself in it.  I have played through it completely, 3 times, I feel there are 2 RPG's that could top it, Elder scrolls 6 and the Witcher 4.

Just my opinion though.

One of my favorite games ever made.and by far my favprite game on my ps4

One of my top 5 games of all time, and I'm an old dude who has been gaming for over 30 years. So I guess I'd say I completely disagree. But to each their own!

They were bandits, like duzens I have engaged before. There was nothing there indicating they were above my league.

All those peasants and small lords look the same, they talk the same and have miserable lives. I couldn´t tell if a NPC would give a big quest or a gigantic quest.

No, but I went after the wiki. Too many weird names and politics that are both cliche and boring.

Yeah, R is definitely dying in this supposed RPG games.

I remember playing Gothic for the first time around 2001/2 and thinking "this is superb, but a bit light on skills and attributes - it would be great if they added more D&D or GURPS alike stuff in it" - never happened. Then Morrowind came along (I wasn't fan of Daggerfall, Might&Magic was my thing back in 90s) and I thought "really nice attributees and skills, now if only there was as good of a story and world building like in Gothic, Fallout 1/2 or Planescape" - never happened.

Fast forward 15 years and AAA devs have practically killed the genre - we either have action-adventures with some RPG skills sprinkled in or FPS/TPS-RPG hybrids.

I mean, FFS, some people have balls (or just lack knowledge, not sure what it is) to call Horizon an RPG.

Most AAA games these days are. I tried the combat in TW 3 and it just didn't feel good at all. The game also constantly tells and shows you where to go. Where's the challenge?

Games like this just get inflated review scores. Reminds me of LA Noire that received 89% on metacritic yet its current-gen remaster only got 77%.

Play some Divinity 2 and STFU please....pardon the french. And they call Horizon an Action-RPG, which it is. Exactly like The Witcher 3.

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All opponents in TW3 show you their level and the game even warns you specifically if their level is way too high. If you tried to fight them but you were to weak, that's not what you should've been doing in the first place. Also if enemies appear in groups they need to be targeted/fought very differently to begin with. That's where bombs, your Witcher powers and group styles come into play.

I've played it. Your point being? Except that you're unpolite?

Horizon is not action RPG - it's action-adveture with RPG coat of paint.

TW3 is - barely, but it is.

That still makes HZD an action rpg though.