The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer

How much longer they are milking the Witcher? It should be dry by now, right?

Are they doing some release or something? Or is this just a special commemorative video?

Such an amazing game. I’m not into RPGs but somehow got convinced to play this.
I don’t understand how I even had the energy to play 100+ hrs next to work. I often played until 2 am on weekdays, or woke up earlier to play.
I understand the complaints of the gameplay or controls, but the story and the characters are what makes this game special. It’s a journey I will never forget, some memories and feelings from it will stay with me forever
- Have you read the books? Half the fun is spotting all the divergent plots
- The controls I thought were really easy but I played on PC so I could swing the mouse around and I don't need to looks at the keyboard to hit almost any key. So for me I thought it was real easy to control contrary to what I read online
  Then I played on a console and then I understood the hate for Witcher 3 controls. I remember it feeling very heavy. Weird to control the camera and Geralt

I genuinely don't understand, is this a new edition and if so, what's added? Or is it just a trailer apropos nothing, CDPRs "not without my anus" of the gaming news cycle?
- It's a trailer celebrating the 10th anniversary of the game.
  
  That's what got me confused - why call it a trailer if there's nothing new? Not even a UE5 remaster, those are all the rage now.

After cyberpunk CD project red can go fuck themselves
- I'm playing it for the first time at the mo, seems great to me.
  
  That's good for you a lot of people still enjoyed it. I'm just saying if I ever do play it I'm going to Pirate it cuz they don't deserve my money or anyone's
- Why’s that? I enjoyed cyberpunk. I mean, of course it was released with a fuck ton of problems, but that’s not on the studio, it’s on the money people behind the studio forcing them to release and start making their money back.
  
  It should've never released the way it was and the fact the released DLC for that broken mess is disgusting greed on their part

I really had trouble getting in to that game. May try it again but it seemed a bit too… generic?
- I know exactly what you mean. I started it 3 times before I got into it
  In my opinion, a lot of the gameplay is fairly generic. Attacking a wraith feels the same as attacking a human
  It really shines in the immersion and story, though. The first two times I played it, I was skipping all of the dialog and cutscenes (depression is a bitch), so I missed all the good parts
  Once you get into the mindset of "hunting" one of the monsters and selecting the right oils and potions, it can be really fun and feel almost like "strategy". For example, there's a potion that turns your blood poisonous to vampires
  
  Wait so you can let yourself be bitten in order to slay the vampire ? I played it in 2018 but never really did the oils and stuff
- You could try The Witcher 1. Gameplay there is..unique. A little dated today but IMO has the best writing of the three.
  
  I feel like you could only think that if you're more interested in learning the setting than seeing the characters interact.
- I really enjoyed that the setting is more grounded than other games. Personally, I wouldn't describe it as generic.
  Gameplay-wise it doesn't do much interesting.
- IMHO, its gameplay is mediocre at best:
  Sluggish controls
  Character movement that is unrealistically limited without offering anything to make up for it
  Fiddly object interaction problems (e.g. candles often getting in the way of more important things)
  Bland combat mechanics
  "Open" world populated almost entirely with copy/paste combat encounters
  Little reward for exploration, since practically everything worth finding has a map marker
  A tiny handful of side quests re-used over and over with different mini-stories to make the quests seem distinct while the tasks to perform are mostly identical
  This game's strengths are not the gameplay, but the lore, characters, and story. (All the things that could be had from reading the books, or maybe watching the live action adaptation.)
  Oh, and Gwent. Gwent is remarkably well-designed for a mini-game within another game.
  
  The live action adaptation took a steaming dump on the original story sadly, some episodes are still worth watching but it's not made by people who understand what made Witcher special, no wonder Henry Cavill left
  
  What would you suggest for better open world games?
- I played through it once and really liked it but didn't see myself going back because of the generic gameplay. Apparently, the hardest difficulty forces you to use all of your oils and potions depending on the monster/situation. I think that might solve the gameplay problem since that was pretty much optional in easier difficulties. Not to mention make it a lot more immersive since you have to strategize like the witcher