What makes this game great?

It's crack for fans of AAA games because it's lavish, long and stuffed to the brim with bespoke content. A lot of the people in this thread will have already emphasised this. It's just so full of unique, custom content and the current market for these sorts of games loves content munching. There's very little that's repeatable or cut-and-pasted about the Witcher 3 and ultimately that's why people will die on a hill for it.

Don't get me wrong. I really liked the game. But in a medium where we call games "pandering" for a variety of reasons - some justified, some not - The Witcher 3 really does give people what they say they've wanted: immense scale, fetishistically detailed visuals and high quality content out the wazoo, and in that sense it panders to everything big games are these days very successfully.

I thought the same thing. My saving grace is that it wasn't announced to mobile. So, at the very least my addiction can be contained to console. For now...

The part with the witch (noon wraith) and the cave is still in the tutorial area of the game (White Orchard). Geralt acts as a link to the player and we are the ones bringing our emotions into the game with the choices we select. Geralt then reacts accordingly.

You are still very early into the game, but it sounds like the style and mechanics just aren't your taste, which is perfectly alright too.

Who else loves Rock Trolls?

@barrock: Bit of a late reply.

I definitely love them! I love their primitive grammar, strange contractions, and choice of words. I especially love a certain troll northeast of Oxenfurt.

THIS. Once you get used to the controls and mechanics, the game is WAY TOO EASY even on the hardest setting (I'm speaking of the hardest setting at release, I believe they added another since, which I'd recommend trying). That was the only reason I got bored of it after 150 hours... too easy. But I'm going to get back into it and finish the DLC, and try the harder difficulty - because that's exactly what I wanted them to fix!

@reap3r160: Your reaction to the game is normal or at least similar to mine. Coming off Bloodborne (which has a fantastic, stylish and buttery-smooth combat flow) the Witcher is the most over-hyped trash game of 2015. Hate that game.

Normally I'd throw down right about now, but coming off of Dark Souls 3 and back into the Witcher for Blood & Wine, Witcher combat is just so... so.... Man that story is great.