By now you've probably heard The Witcher 3 is massive, but it's difficult to put into words the game's sheer scale. Glancing at that gargantuan map dotted with question marks is incredibly overwhelming, especially if you're the kind of person who has to seek out and complete everything that pops up. It's easy to stare at your quest log (filled with several dozen requests from various villagers and royalty alike) and get paralyzed with indecision. With the two DLCs that are masterpieces in their own right, CD Projekt Red has willed into existence a new way to make its beautiful, overflowing world feel even more enveloping.
Now, I don't necessarily want to crap all over New Game+'s inclusion in The Witcher 3. It's a great way to extend the game's lifespan far beyond any logical stopping point. But for a game already as massive as The Witcher, New Game+ just feels excessive. Now, the adventure that feels like it'll never end literally never has to end - and that bugs the hell out of me.
Eyes bigger than your belly
Playing The Witcher 3 is like getting a massive birthday cake all to yourself. You take a fork and start to dig in, but slowly, you start fill up, and each additional bite becomes just a little more difficult to swallow - yet you can't stop eating, because it's just so damn good. You finally take your last bite, put your fork down next to the plate containing the leftover cake crumbs you couldn't finish, then CD Projekt Red rolls a conveyor belt up to your table and just starts pumping cakes out at you forever. That's what New Game+ is to a game like The Witcher 3: a neverending supply of cake when I'm already past the point where I should have stopped eating.
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I cannot even begin to imagine the Sisyphean-like prospects of spending another 100+ hours playing this game again. It's already far too big, and its various side quests and activities often felt essential, whether they're rewarding you with some gold, a shiny new sword, or some more lore to flesh out this already densely packed world. I was completing side quests that I was vastly overpowered for, not for the small chunk of change or the five experience points it would fork over as a consolation prize for my time - I was simply enjoying my time as this fantasyland's ronin, wandering from village to village, taking on jobs for some coin.
But after a certain point, diminishing returns kicked in, as two new question marks seemed to pop up on the map to replace each one I cleared. The Witcher 3's massive scope transformed from a blessing into a curse, one that I wanted to be done with as quickly as possible. I was really enjoying my time playing the game, investigating its gray shades of morality while putting off my quest to find Ciri for one more game of Gwent. Somewhere around hour 80, though, all I wanted was for the game to be over and done with, so my initially aimless wanderings became laser-focused, and I made a beeline for the ending.
Witcher 3 New Game Plus Mutagens
Honestly, New Game+ is the last thing I want from The Witcher 3. I'm not the kind of person to play one game forever - it's why I don't typically shine to multiplayer games like Dota 2 - and after a while, playing The Witcher became an albatross around my neck, preventing me from digging into a massive backlog of games piling up as I slowly chipped away. I felt guilty for ignoring The Witcher when I wasn't playing it, but I also felt guilty for ignoring every other game out there while I was. So my only option was to cut the cord, so to speak, and wrap up the rest of the game as fast as possible. New Game+ only exacerbates those feelings for me, and I'm simply exhausted by the thought of ever replaying the game again. Sure, I'd get a hefty boost through the start thanks to being able to use my old gear, but I got everything I wanted from The Witcher 3 the first time I played it. I don't need another go.
Too much of a good thing?
It doesn't help that every single publisher out there is trying to feed me a different, yet equally large cake of their own. Dying Light, Batman, Assassin's Creed, Mad Max, Fallout 4, hell, even the typically linear Metal Gear series is going open-world, each game aiming to be the only video game I’ll ever need for the rest of time, padding their experiences out with as much content as possible. The Witcher 3 benefits from having content that rarely feels like a waste of time, but its New Game+ is just another attempt at stretching the experience out far longer than it could ever possibly need.
There's certainly value in these large, time-consuming games, especially for people who can only afford a couple games a year, and New Game+ will be a boon to those who want to live in this virtual fantasy world forever. But there's also value in curation, in knowing that it's possible to provide too much of a good thing. If you're like me and you want to play as many games as you can get your hands on, and you have an obsessive compulsion to see everything these games have to offer, you'll quickly find that something has to give. Unless we can find a way to slow down the Earth's rotation to make the days longer, that means letting go of ever completing The Witcher 3 to the fullest - and that most definitely means never touching its New Game+ mode.
So to CD Projekt Red, I say thanks, but no thanks. I appreciate the thought, and I'm sure people are going to love hitting the reset button while still bringing most of their hard work with them, but to preserve my own vision of Geralt's journey (and, let's be honest, my own sanity), I'm going to politely decline. And to the village whose cockatrice problem I promised to solve: sorry, but you're gonna have to find someone else to take care of it for you. I might swing back around when the expansions hit. Maybe. We'll see.
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45User Rating: 4 out of 5
Submitted on9/6/2016
Review title of BretherezenI love the game!! But..
I love the game but I feel like it really needs an additional new game plus mode. I know that you guys do not want to make additional NG++ and so on and so forth, just make it so that way you can play the game over and over and over again without having to restart from scratch post-NG+. It doesn't need the additional difficulty from the new game plus gamemode, just make it so you can endlessly replay the story post-NG+ with the same difficulty. The game has additional replay value with the NG+ mode, but the game just dies and loses all replay value after you defeat NG+ to the point the game is boring to play any longer. Now one thing you can do is to create a save file before you start a new game plus. However this is only temporary. If you beat the new game plus profile then the game just ends. There's no replay value. You have to go back to that save file, make a new NG+ save, and then you do this over and over again having to regain everything you worked for before, all sets, etc.
Collection of all my video and written guides to the Witcher 3 Legendary Armor Sets available in New Game Plus (NG+) of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
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The New Game Plus (NG+) mode of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and its 2 expansions – Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, allows the player to replay the game from the very beginning with the same or different choices, while keeping almost all of their progress, such as Geralt’s level, learned alchemy recipes, obtained gear and more.
The NG+ offers a high level with higher stats versions of the Witcher gear sets. Here they are called “Legendary”. This article is a collection of all my video and written guides to the Legendary Witcher Armor Sets available in New Game Plus (NG+) of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. The guides show you how to start the quest, find the locations of the diagrams, craft the armor pieces, stats balance, set bonuses and appearance/design.
Below you will find links to the detailed guides. They all open in a new tab for your convenience.
CD Projekt Red has a massive hit on their hands in the form of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The excellent open world RPG released a couple of months ago, and it remains one of the most popular games of the year, thanks to the continued support of the game from the hugely talented team at CD Projekt Red.
CD Projekt Red has been described as the gamer’s studio, as they strive to meet the expectations of their community more than pretty much any other game development studio there is. This commitment to their fans is evident by CD Projekt Red’s near-unparalleled post-launch support for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which includes 16 free pieces of DLC, the last of which is set to release very soon.
As announced on the official Witcher Facebook page, CD Projekt Red has revealed that the final free DLC for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be the addition of a much-requested feature by fans: New Game Plus. This will allow players to relive Geralt’s adventure while presumably retaining the weapons and XP that they earned the first time through, though concrete details as to how CD Projekt Red will be handling New Game Plus in The Witcher 3 have yet to be confirmed.
Usually CD Projekt Red releases at least one free piece of DLC every week, but the New Game Plus functionality is going to take a little bit longer to prepare than the other DLC, so don’t expect its release just yet. However, one could safely assume that it will be sooner rather than later that New Game Plus is implemented into The Witcher 3.
Past free DLC for The Witcher 3 has included new Gwent cards, new quests, new items, and more. It’s great that CD Projekt Red has stuck to their promise and have delivered genuinely compelling free DLC content for Witcher 3 in the months after its initial launch. And they haven’t stopped there, as the post-launch support for Witcher 3 has also included the typical fixes and patches, including ones that have addressed an XP bug and small text issues.
This is even more impressive when one considers the sheer scope of The Witcher 3, a game that boasts a script longer than four novels. With 16 pieces of free DLC, plenty of fixes as a part of patches and updates, and a core game that is absolutely gigantic, no one would fault CD Projekt red for stepping away from The Witcher 3 to move on to their next project, but they’re not done yet, as at least two expansions as large as The Witcher 2 are in the works as well.
Witcher 3 New Game Plus Gwent
The extensive post-launch campaign for The Witcher 3 has been impressive to say the least, and this hard work has played off in spades for CD Projekt Red. The Witcher 3 has become a financial success and has launched the series to new heights, as the game was the best-selling game of May 2015, and continues to sell very well. Hopefully other developers follow CD Projekt Red’s lead with the way that they approach DLC in the future.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is currently available for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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