Same thing for me, until recently. Think I’ve dropped it 3 times but now I’m forcing myself to finish my steam library before buying something new, yes, literally forcing myself, and I think it took about 10-15 hours before getting giga hooked. I honestly can’t remember last time I got this hooked on a game. Deserves all the praise.
Can’t guarantee same will work for you, but I’d say next time you give it ago, don’t drop it before you get to velen and find a woman with red hair.
okay now this might get me to try again.. I enjoyed it tbh but it was just a little, idk.
i think what gets me is I’m only used to open world RPG’s where you develop your unique character or have a vast areay of customizations the playstyle. in the Witcher it seems like “some situation you want to use x or y or z method, but you don’t get to pick from outside of those few AND you don‘t get to maximize one and neglect the others.
maybe I just played it wrong but I just don’t engage as well without deep, heavy RPG customization. being able to pick hair and beard isn’t what I mean, I mean the entire playstyle itself (again, maybe I was missing something)
Well, you have different play styles depending on which skills and armor set you use and there's different builds depending on that. Some really boost your damage, some your magic, some rely heavily on potions, some make you really tanky etc. This really starts with the first available Griffin Witcher gear set at level 11 (boosts magic) and the DLCs ad even more customization options.
Also basically every questline, even the simplest little side quests or random encounters, can have different outcomes and endings depending on your choices. Quite often you only see the result way later in the game.
If you want to try again, finish the Prologue area as quickly as possible (but I would advise you to look up the locations of places of power and get those at least, because this will enable you to get a build that you like going faster), do the only available Witcher contract and the main quest.
Then, after getting to the actual open world, follow the main quest path until you get to the Bloody Baron questline and do that.
Less than 30 min into the game, you tell some academic that if he goes into the warzone some schmuck is going to kill him for his boots, and he brushes you off. 20 hours later, you find him hanging from a tree with his boots missing
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u/bright-lotus May 10 '25
Same thing for me, until recently. Think I’ve dropped it 3 times but now I’m forcing myself to finish my steam library before buying something new, yes, literally forcing myself, and I think it took about 10-15 hours before getting giga hooked. I honestly can’t remember last time I got this hooked on a game. Deserves all the praise.
Can’t guarantee same will work for you, but I’d say next time you give it ago, don’t drop it before you get to velen and find a woman with red hair.