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I was one of those players who had no issues from the start (laptop). It suffered from outrageous hype and overreach that no game would live up to. That said I found the characters and missions really engaging, gameplay is great - different builds make for genuinely different ways of playing. The world design and atmosphere (and soundtrack) are amazing and honestly a long way ahead of almost any other game I've played. The world needs to be a bit more immersive (more stuff to do perhaps) but that is minor. It has some genuinely moving moments. Perhaps not on a par with RDR2 but not far off in some instances, imo. I've sunk hundreds of hours into it and its a world I still like going back to.
MrSweary-
more stuff to do perhaps
I see this quite a lot, but then I thought it's a story game in an open world, rather than an open world stuffed with things to do (aka GTA). I actually liked that it didn't suffer from "job fatigue". That's me though.
I'm just waiting for the X/S update for Witcher 3 now...
RonnieOatmilk
Aye, that's a criticism I'd heard raised. I mostly hear about CP2077 from the Witcher games community, where the most toxic section of Witcher games fandom uses it as another thing to beat CD Project Red over the head with (and also to vent steam about there being POC in the TV show - there's zero connection between these things ofc but toxic fans are toxic fans). But from the sane part of Witcher fandom I do hear people saying the story telling and characters aren't so good.