10. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Will You Actually Care About The Story?
It's easy to
take one look at The Witcher and get lost in a world of Skyrim-esque wonderment, remembering just how intrepid an adventurer you once were and how the idea of this gigantic all-seeing, all demon-slaying world was something you'd happily live in for months. For Wild Hunt - and the previous games in the series - that world is tied to a lore taken from a string of seven novels; the surmising of which is one of the biggest hurdles developer CD Projekt RED must overcome right away. The very reason the previous games are regarded as cult classics is because they couldn't totally nail the beats of their story to any sort of enjoyable rhythm in the long run - instead after starting out extremely strong, past the halfway point there's so many unfinished quests and dialogue options left open that players just simply gave up. Metal Gear Solid 4 was the last big title to attempt summarising three whole game's worth of content into its narrative, and it did so terribly - a host of flashback cards popping up that made little sense to anyone other than series-long fans. As The Witcher titles are infamous for being one of 'those games' you start and never finish, whether or not CD Projekt get this right will be the deciding factor between this being a world-enslaving Skyrim, or a "Honestly, it's good guys!" Dragon Age.