10 Best "The Game Is Bigger Than You Think" Moments

6. The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

There are many games that don’t show their full map hand at the start of the game and The Witcher 3 is one of them. While this is a blessing in this instance because more Witcher 3 is never a bad thing, boy is there a lot to do.

Of course, making your way out of your original point of embarkment, White Orchard, is certainly a reveal that shows you more of the game map, as is your journey through Velen and eventually to the main city of Novigrad, nothing compares to rocking up in Skellige. Since this moment takes place dozens of hours into your playthrough and you feel like you have a handle on the scope of the game, particularly since every location is absolutely flooded with quest objectives to cross off, villages to explore, and secrets to uncover, nothing can quite prepare you for this enormous group of islands. It is as exciting a prospect as it is daunting if you’re a completionist like me, and it’s not just because there are literally 58 Smuggler’s Caches to pick up from various points in the water.

It’s also because Geralt cannot fly and is not a mermaid but instead rides a horse and boy he does not swim quickly so if you lose your boat at sea to some sirens you can be swimming for quite some time.

If you didn’t appreciate how big the Skellige Isles map was before that point then you sure will when the closest climbable land mass is about four and a half minutes of holding ‘W’ or pushing forward on your joystick away.