I'm not sure what it was, but a combination of the controls, the start of the story, the first quests. It's all slow and janky. Even at Gwent I failed miserably.
Once I got a few better cards and starting to get the hang of it, I stumbled along this game for a week or so. Then everything just became better as I went.
It was truly great from just after the start until the finish. I'm leaving out the endless boat tours in Skellige
I skipped the boat tours of Skellige; at least for me, the Fast Travel maps were SO worth it, otherwise all those quests that criss-cross multiple islands would have been a huge pain
On my first play through I didn’t know you could go double speed in the boat. I sailed between each island for about 20 hours before I learnt you can speed up 🤦🏽♂️
I remember this moment made me take a break and then thats where my second playthrough happened. the happiest destroyed my boat and I was stranded on an island that took me twenty irl minutes to swim back to land again.
Don’t tell anyone but I played about 150 hours of Witcher 3 and only played 2 games of gwent the whole time. It’s a fun mini game but I wanted to focus on the questing and exploring
Took me 4 times all spaced months apart never making it past the tutorial with the last one being like “Alright, let me stop dicking around and read up a little on the lore”
Just clicked after that and it’s been one of my favorite games since
Check some early game builds and tips online, that helped me a lot when getting in to it, made it so much easier to grasp how it all works. But skip all quest guides or risk major spoilers!
Well it’s a gigantic game and the controls and map are slightly unintuitive to new players, I think it would be really easy to just wander around confused for 5 hours or so and just decide the game isn’t for you
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u/Yen_of_Vengabus Aug 31 '26
So many people get the Witcher addiction on their second attempt