For me this game feels quantity >>>>>>>>>>> quality.

The thing is if you don't care about ALL those characters, the setting, the story, the side stories, etc (which is normal because it really is a lot of stuff) the game is tedious, and in a long, redundant and mostly predictable game like this: means failure.

I do not like this kind of genre much, but I have played way better games like this, KOTOR 1 and 2. There is nothing really special about this game. The combat sucks, the story is too diluted, the world is too big and after a while almost every item is useless.

I am not a kid, maybe these dominant and cool characters would be attractive to me then, I don't know, but I kind of dislike most of these badass guys, including the protagonist (even being a mostly good guy and all), which I get has issues and all, but behaving all the game like that is just tiresome for me. I mean, I know the appeal of an antihero figure (Guts, Jaime Lannister, Vagabond's MC, etc), but overusing sarcasm and being "smart" all the time is boring (even more happening with almost every damn character).
For example: I can understand the game telling you a couple of times that Geralt is super manly and all, having a girl or two, but you actually end easily getting 3 and another 3-4 in side quests, and of course there are brothels. I mean, game, I got the idea the first time and I am old enough so this does not interest me.

So I did not manage to immerse myself in the game, and that is very important. Another reason is that I found the game details very bad sometimes. EG: You finish talking with anyone and they proceed to give a spin, gesture or talk ♥♥♥♥ (even going against what just happened).
The way stealing/taking items works in this game is just lazy.

I found the UI and the combat very badly designed, slow and not intuitive at all.

None of my keyboards work in this game and I tried, I swear I did, I am a computer engineer. I ended playing with my ps4 controller, which also has a problem with this game were you cannot dismount (and it is confirmed and not fixed, but I managed to work around it by programming its touchpad action for this game).

I lost interest in this game and stopped playing for weeks, I think about 5 times. In one of those I choose to a several month SL1 NG+7 run in Dark Souls 3. After that I came back and finished the game.
I honestly tried to inmmerse myself in it: reading stuff, exploring (was not so bad, but useless), thinking/researching/building a build, winning in gwent against every npc, getting all alchemy recipes (I missed 3), etc. But in the end I got bored and skipped dialogues, used wathever build and items I thought were ok and just finished the game.

I have been told that the combat gets better in the DLCs and it is like a new game and all. I have enough and no reason to believe that I would like it and even less to pay for it.

Don't get me started with the quests: leading goat/sheep/people is boring and stupid. I also had a lot of bugged quests that I needed to restart, even some bosses in the endgame.

I did like gwent, it was one of the few things that made me keep progressing in the game, but by itself is not enough.

The difficulty was very low, even not playing any of these games before.

For me this game feels quantity >>>>>>>>>>> quality. The thing is if you don't care about ALL those characters, the setting, the story, the side stories, etc (which is normal because it really is a lot of stuff) the game is tedious, and in a long, redundant and mostly predictable game like this: means failure. I do not like this kind of genre much, but I have played way better games like this, KOTOR 1 and 2. There is nothing really special about this game. The combat sucks, the story is too diluted, the world is too big and after a while almost every item is useless. I am not a kid, maybe these dominant and cool characters would be attractive to me then, I don't know, but I kind of dislike most of these badass guys, including the protagonist (even being a mostly good guy and all), which I get has issues and all, but behaving all the game like that is just tiresome for me. I mean, I know the appeal of an antihero figure (Guts, Jaime Lannister, Vagabond's MC, etc), but overusing sarcasm and being "smart" all the time is boring (even more happening with almost every damn character). For example: I can understand the game telling you a couple of times that Geralt is super manly and all, having a girl or two, but you actually end easily getting 3 and another 3-4 in side quests, and of course there are brothels. I mean, game, I got the idea the first time and I am old enough so this does not interest me. So I did not manage to immerse myself in the game, and that is very important. Another reason is that I found the game details very bad sometimes. EG: You finish talking with anyone and they proceed to give a spin, gesture or talk shit (even going against what just happened). The way stealing/taking items works in this game is just lazy. I found the UI and the combat very badly designed, slow and not intuitive at all. None of my keyboards work in this game and I tried, I swear I did, I am a computer engineer. I ended playing with my ps4 controller, which also has a problem with this game were you cannot dismount (and it is confirmed and not fixed, but I managed to work around it by programming its touchpad action for this game). I lost interest in this game and stopped playing for weeks, I think about 5 times. In one of those I choose to a several month SL1 NG+7 run in Dark Souls 3. After that I came back and finished the game. I honestly tried to inmmerse myself in it: reading stuff, exploring (was not so bad, but useless), thinking/researching/building a build, winning in gwent against every npc, getting all alchemy recipes (I missed 3), etc. But in the end I got bored and skipped dialogues, used wathever build and items I thought were ok and just finished the game. I have been told that the combat gets better in the DLCs and it is like a new game and all. I have enough and no reason to believe that I would like it and even less to pay for it. Don't get me started with the quests: leading goat/sheep/people is boring and stupid. I also had a lot of bugged quests that I needed to restart, even some bosses in the endgame. I did like gwent, it was one of the few things that made me keep progressing in the game, but by itself is not enough. The difficulty was very low, even not playing any of these games before.