The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt user reviews (PC)

The Witcher is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe, full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. In The Witcher, you play as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter tasked with finding a child from an ancient prophecy.

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Highlights:

• The story itself is awesome: the locations range from your Northern Realm's Velen (no man's land), the free and beautiful city of Novigrad and The Skellige Isles (very norse-like in several aspects, feels like you're in the land of the Vikings to an extent).
• Vast open world that IS NOT randomly created and filled with dull stuff.
• This is the first open world Witcher game.
• Awesome game, reminds me of Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim, and Dragon Age. Bringing the best of those together in a world bigger than GTA V is truly something magnificent. While also telling a very good and mature story in a beautiful setting.
• You can import your save file from previous witcher games or answer questions during your beard shave which will shape the game.
• For those who have enjoyed previous Witcher games, there's little that will be unexpected- combat with unique enemies that requires forethought, but now with a crossbow, more gear and better lock control. The real improvements are in atmosphere and exploration.
• The Witcher 3 can be rough around the edges and other games are definitely doing some more impressive things technically, but the overall Witcher 3 experience is definitely greater than the sum of its parts (found in 3 reviews).
• Good story, could be hard to follow if you have not read the books but the characters and events are excellent.
• Game is pretty long, takes about 100 hours to complete both main and side missions.
• The only action RPG that weaves side quests into main quests making them matter and have an actual impact in the main story.

Main story and side quests

• The game is separated into 3 questing categories. Main storyline, secondary and witcher contracts each of which has its own story and memorable moments. The lore will keep players engaged.
• You actually get to feel like a real witcher\monster hunter by taking on some really fun witcher contracts.
• This game has the best side quests ever. They‘re funny, cruel, sad and sometimes ridiculous (in a good way).

Graphics

• Simply stunning. It's the best looking RPG I have played and the places I got to visit especially later in the game made my jaw drop left and right.
• On the technical side the game runs really smooth, although with certain drops from 60 FPS to ~40 FPS.

Gameplay:

• While the game is fairly easy on the lower difficulties, it becomes brutal on the hardest difficulty, Death March, exploration and side quests becoming the only way to survive during the early stages of the game, the difficulty becoming way more bearable once you go higher up in level (you also need to use potions/oils alot early on in order to survive the contracts).
• The Witcher 3 also has a game inside a game. It is called gwent. It‘s a card game and it can be really addicting (found in 3 reviews).
• Traveling by walking, running, horseback, swimming, boat immersion and fast travel requires signposts instead of just a game about instant traveling all over. Exploration can also bring out more quests you've never seen before.
• Simple yet advanced combat system, e.g, potions, oils, bombs, decoctions, etc.
• Controls and combat system are different from TW2. The combat got easier and requires less strategy. Although the combat was made simpler, it is not boring at all, and the difficulty is adjustable so the strategy becomes necessary sometimes.
• Crafting system is superb and, true to immersion, weapons and armor must be physically contracted to smiths for crafting.
• The combat is best compared to Dark Souls and Monster Hunter, as long as you're not overlevelled or playing a low difficulty setting.

Sound:

• The voice acting is great, much better than Witcher 2 and feels far more professional.

Recommended for:

• If you like open worlds and action RPGs.
• For Geralt de Rivia fans.
• If you liked previous Witcher games or books.
• Get this game if you want, heavy story, tons of quests, beautiful landscape, legit dark fantasy feels and weighted skilled-required combat that's not just mindless hack and slash or pause-planning.

System Requirements:

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
• Processor: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz / AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660 / AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
• Hard Drive: 35 GB available space

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Trove user reviews

Thirsting for danger and lusting for loot? Grab your friends, hone your blades, and set off for adventure in this free-to-play action MMO. The Sun Goddess has shattered the world into infinite realms. Now they’re yours to explore, build, and protect – all in the name of fun!

Users comments:

Highlights:

• Different worlds for beginners and advanced (found in 2 reviews).
• This game is like Minecraft + Cubeworld + WoW, Even i am playing on NA server (I am in AU) It doesn't feel like i have a high ping, more like it's a single player smooth game.
• Cornerstones are great, in that the player can have a portable house that they can throw anywhere out in the hostile adventure zones, as a "home away from home".
• Large open worlds (found in 4 reviews).
• Basically a suped-up version of Cube World with MMO elements that's actually being updated.
• The F2P system is also excellently designed, with premium accounts earning extra rewards for things such as dungeons, and a few exclusive items.
• 10/10 Times Better Than Cubeworld and one Of The Best F2P Games (found in 4 reviews).
• It has the art style and visuals of Minceraft, the exciting boss battles and loot drops of the Borderlands series, and the MMO aspect & RPG elements of Realm of the Mad God (found in 3 reviews).
• Plenty of interesting classes to play and easy to unlock (found in 3 reviews).
• Not P2W (everything can be bought with in game currency except for a few exlusives and cash shop cosmetics).
• There is a lot to do in the game ranging from solo questing dungeons to doing shadow arena (kind of like a raid) with a bunch of friends and a good profession system with; ringcrafting, gardening, fishing and crafting (found in 4 reviews).
• Awesome loot system (found in 18 reviews).
• Helpful community (found in 4 reviews).

Gameplay:

• The game makes it fun to do both building and fighting, and makes it so its hard to get bored of either.
• The entire game is randomly generated making there feel like there's nothing to actually explore, it's just randomly generated terrain and dungeons (that also seem to be very repetitive).
• Fun gameplay (found in 20 reviews).
• The gameplay is pretty repetitive, since most of it involves going to dungeons to get your currency and loot. The closest to a quest system available are Challenges, which can only be done once you've hit Mastery Rank 30, and they only happen once every 20 minutes or so. Plus, all you get out of them is flux (one of the main currencies in the game) and Boxes.
• The max level is 20 and gear can be adjusted and upgraded to better suit your playstyle.
• Character customization is simple and easy to use, but I'd like to see more colors and options for the face, as well as body options.
• Mounts, pets and wings provide smoother gameplay but doesn't make you overpowered damage wise. Most of these things are just pleasing to look at while defeating mobs.

Issues:

• Great game until you hit a 800+ minute wait time. Once servers have enough space this will be the game to go to.
• Queue Position : 1000+. Estimated Wait: more than 30 minutes. Happens too often... (found in 4 reviews).
• The time it takes to connect to the servers can be tedious.

Recommended for:

• If you like Cube World or Minecraft.
• If you like playing with friends.
• If you enjoy open world games.

System Requirements:

• OS: Vista 32-bit Service Pack 2
• Processor: Intel Core i5-2XXX @ 2.0GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 2.6GHz
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better
• DirectX: Version 10
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Hard Drive: 1 GB available space
• Additional Notes: Graphics driver: OpenGL 3.2 or DirectX 10.0, Glyph Client, and registered Trion Worlds Account

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Ark: Survival Evolved user reviews

As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing & starving on a mysterious island, you must hunt, harvest, craft items, grow crops, & build shelters to survive. Use skill and cunning to kill or tame & ride the Dinosaurs & primeval creatures roaming the land, & team up with hundreds of players or play locally!

Users comments:

Highlights:

• One of the best games in years and certainly the best survival game around (found in 4 reviews).
• You can play Ark: Survival Evolved both as a single player game, as well as in multiplayer mode, either on public or privately hosted servers.
• You can try to tame and ride dinosaurs.
• Great private server options and a single player mode.
• Great leveling system (found on 10 reviews).

Gameplay:

• On your own is going to take a long time to make a study house and gather materials.
• Crafting is very seamless, pretty much a basic system though, which works just fine for replayablity. Repairs are on the spot until you get better items then you'll use the Smithy. You can refine items so they won't break when you level higher (found on 12 reviews).
• You'll get killed constantly, either by a player or by a dino.
• It's easy to get killed by high level players while you're a newbie.
• The community that is sheltered by official servers is incredibly toxic. If you don't have an "in" with one of the supertribes that belong to a server, you're probably going to get raided/killed in a few days (found in 4 reviews).
• It's easier to play on PVE servers or a private server with friends (found on 6 reviews).

Issues:

• The developers of ARK are constantly updating the game with patches to increase optimization and bugfixing. They're always adding new content.
• Optimization is pretty bad which means you need a high end system to play (found on 4 reviews).
• The company does not intend to wipe/reset the official servers, so superclans get richer, while scattered tribes and solo players get poorer.
• The graphics are good, but the performance issues are huge (found on 12 reviews).
• This lag isn't a problem on most local/private servers.

Recommended for:

• If you like survival games.
• If you like minecraft, Dayz and 7 Days to Die.
• If you enjoy open world games, with highly realistic day/night cycle and temperature.

System Requirements:

OS: 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, or Windows 8
Processor: 2 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit CPU
Memory: 4000 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX10 Compatible GPU with 1 GB Video RAM
DirectX: Version 10
Hard Drive: 20000 MB available space

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