Alas, CD Projekt, the Polish company behind both ‘The Witcher’ videogame series, based on the novels of Polish fiction author Andrzej Sapkowski, as well as the DRM-Free digital PC gaming service, GOG.com, managed to fulfill one of my worst premonitions with their third, and most likely final, ‘Witcher’ game, “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” (“Witcher 3”), in that they took another four years since the last game in the series to release it. Between 2011 and 2015, many things changed in the videogame industry, including both design paradigms and player expectations. “Witcher 3” did meet rave reviews when it released in 2015, with overwhelming numbers of players and not a few critics proclaiming it to be The GOAT (Greatest of All Time). Based on my lukewarm impressions of the s... |
Rating of 3.5/5 |