vemin: also fall damage is ridiculous.
Mighty Geralt can kill mosters and bandit-packs but is one-shoted falling from ladder.
I bet the final boss will be some giant-evil-ladder

NasherUK: I hate the level gating as well. It doesn't make a lot of sence when the main character is supposed to be a godlike swordman, but gets 2 shotted by a random bandit because his level is to high.

james5272: I wouldn't have a problem with this if it was the Witcher 1. But Witcher 3? Geralt feels as clunky as he did in Witcher 1. Like you've been playing him this entire time and every game he gets amnesia and forgets all his skills and attributes. Constantly starting over from scratch, and, yes, having to deal with low-lifes like they're the hardest thing he's ever fought. And really by game three, with how much notoriety Geralt has, most of those low-lifes should be running *away* from Geralt. This is just stupid.

How about... uh... you know... letting the players *watch* their character get more epic over an RPG franchise? We even have save imports. Why start Geralt out like a newborn in Witcher 3? Should be fighting gods and demons from the getgo. Not Bandits and Drowners like he just got his Witcher legs and is getting a feel for his place in the world. Constantly reseting the stats of an RPG hero makes it feel like there's no progression involved. Honestly, that's my biggest issue with Witcher 3. Each game acts like the books do - self-contained stories about the adventures of Geralt. When they should, in fact, be throwing Geralt into increasingly more epic situations each game and have him reach increasingly new heights of power by the end of each game, because as someone sinking hours into *one character* in a CRPG, that's what you want to see. Instead, Witcher 1? Helping everyday people do their chores while piecing together the politics of the world. Witcher 2? Helping everyday people do their chores while piecing together the politics of the world. Witcher 3? Helping everyday people do their chores while piecing together the politics of the world.

It's downright boring. Geralt has status now. They could've put you in charge of Kaer Mohen. Had you training an army to fight an incoming force. You're no longer a pawn Witcher, you're someone with social ties to people of high influence who are indebted to you. Instead we got this, Geralt being the ***** Witcher again playing a game of hide-and-go-seek. What ****.

xDarKSchneideR: I'm in level 2 and killed a bear level 8, a water witch level 6, various wolves (and huargos) level 5, etc... I died many times at the beggining but when I learned the combat system, well, still dying but less :P
Try to dodge with side walk (B button in the xbox) instead rolling (A button).

Good luck :)

geenius3ab: Alright the beef I have now with Witcher 3 is that it's pretty much the same as Dragon Age Inquisition (With improvements mind you.).. But I feel like this takes far too much away from the story up till now.
The biggest design mistake in my opinion is the levels system and the way "quests" are done. For example.
I bought a map from a merchant in Velen. Thought it would give me an interesting armor piece and was excited to do it.. Boom. The level requirement for it was 33 meaning that it was completely impossible to do. So with this comes an issue. You made me interested in a content that I have NO CHANCE of doing until later in the game and there's constant level restrictions everywhere I go.
In the starting area, I could pretty much take on any quest and do it without an issue. It felt seamless in its execution. But in Velen everything falls apart and turns into an MMORPG.

Spoilers for WItcher 2 ahead:
I'll bring up Witcher 2, in the end of it, you killed an elder dragon. Solo.. You don't have amnesia in Witcher 3, so there's no point taking away all the power that we had.. Yes I can understand it's a new game, so you gotta make things harder. But in that case don't give us a carrot and tell us that you can only get it after you reach a certain level. That's not how Witcher 2 was where you could do pretty much everything without thinking of your level and if you got an quest that you had to do later, it was usually just a "Hey there's this treasure in your next area" and you acknowledged it without thinking of the levels or anything..

The controls themselves also feel not well thought out. The strong attack requires you to hold down a keyboard button while pressing the mouse button which doesn't feel good. While you went for the Assassin's Creed mouse layout with the block and parry being on the RMB. In WItcher 2 it was on E, and it worked fine.. Because you also had the alternative of dodging out of the way, so most of the time you rather dodged and gave them a power attack.. Now it's far more fiddly. And I can't see the reason of taking the block away from the E key, especially when it has no combat function and you can't even bind block to E without unbinding all the other keys that are on it (ALthough all of them are non-combat keys.)

peternl: This game is clearly not for you. I suggest playing a game where you get every easy and they hold your hand, this way you avoid frustration and money loss.
Oh and DA:I is not even close to what TW3 is there two different games one is exmode repitive crap other is deep driven story with huge open world rich to explore.

panpilus: The stories in Witcher 3 are stunning, the way CD Project is telling them amazing. I feel sometimes like in cinema - tho like in 90s not these days .) The wolrd is challenging and you want to explore it. The game had some birth pain (AND I CANT STIL BIND THE "C" KEY cause default holster), but comapre this to Dragon Age is like compare ET to Blade Runner...

P.S. Nevermind I finaly read FAQ - this game has no flaw ;]

Moneydie: Only thing to stop you going after the higher quests is ability.

It does take a while to do but it's very possible for a low level to take down something 12+ levels higher. Trouble starts when the monster is airborne and level?? as if they will happily one hit kill.

So far I've found witcher 3 to be far more engaging than elf root: inquisition.

geenius3ab: .. there's no flawless games in this world. ..

AlienMind: Dungeon Keeper
System Shock 2
Deus Ex
Gothic
Guild Wars
Crysis
Book Of Unwritten Tales
VTM:Bloodlines (with fan patch)
Falcon 4.0 (with fan patch BMS)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl
Dead Space
Total Annihilation
Quake 3 Arena
Unreal Tournament
...

You didn't say "games which somebody doesn't like", you just said "flawless". The gameplay in these games is so tight you will not be able to say one thing to make better about them and being agreed on by majority of people. Thus: Flawless.

But I can already tell you some bad design decisions in W3:
- Refilling all your potions without cost or resources when sleeping for just one hour.
- The "Space" roll-dodge incomparable superior to "Alt" dodge with no downsides, so "Alt" dodge is useless. Remedy: Make dodge distance to right or left larger?
Still game so far holds up to W2 standards, which make it still a good game. If it's a very good game like W1.. I can only tell if I finished the story.

Fuz: I disagree on many of them.
Not flawless at all. It's only your personal liking to them.

geenius3ab: "Only thing to stop you Is ability" there's a reason why people hate bulletspongy enemies, because those break immersion. There's monsters that lose 2% of their total health with 5 of your hits. So you deal like 0.4% damage with each of your hits and you die in 1-2 hits from those monsters. Now tell me if that's realistic? No it isn't. Flailing around and having to hit the monster for 250 times to kill it is a joke while you die with 1 hit. That isn't an restriction in ability, that's something that's meant to be impossible. And to make matters worse if you do take on that fight and do kill it, all you get is a weapon or armor that you can't use, rendering everything you did meaningless.

geenius3ab: ...All of them had issues from a slightly clunky gameplay (VTM.), to a game turning into a linear mess with aliens in Crysis ..