The Witcher 3: 5 Best Moments
The reasons you fell in love with CDPR's masterpiece.
Henry Cavill's much anticipated turn as Geralt of Rivia has now come and gone, and the shockingly binge-worthy nature of this Netflix effort has left many of us with a Kikimora sized hole in our lives that needs filling until Season 2. Many out there have decided to slate this craving of theirs with a little-known diddy of a game called 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'.
CD Projekt Red's absolute masterpiece has seen a resurgence in sales since Netflix dropped its Witcher series, and it is once again garnering the buzz among the gaming world it so richly deserves.
The expansive open-world RPG has been in many discussions concerning the best game of it's ilk of all time and it is not difficult to see why.
The jealousy surges through my fanboy veins as I think of these people discovering this game for the very first time. It's enough to make a man reminisce.
5. Gwent
Confession time; I am terrible at Gwent, truly awful, but oh how heads would have rolled if I had not mentioned it in a Witcher 3 post.
A card game so popular it spawned it's own spin-off game for those who did not quite get their fill from the Witcher 3 alone, Thronebreaker, Gwent follows in the footsteps of other RPG card-based mini-games such as Triple Triad.
It consumed hours, days, weeks of Witcher players time; so much so that some of the biggest critiques aimed at the series was the lack of Gwent.
The depth and strategy of the game lend itself to something that easily consumes this kind of time and garners this kind of acclaim. There is just so much to it that calling it a mini-game seems to do it a disservice, clearly CD Projekt felt the same.
Like so many elements of 'The Witcher 3' it is the time and effort seemingly put in to Gwent that make it such a stand-out piece of a game absolutely brimming with stand-out moments.