Steam had the entire Witcher series on sale for a few dollars. I bought everything for the first 3 games.
There was some discussion of it at the time, and folks seem to agree that the first one in the series sucks hard.
As that seemed to be the worst plan, I went with it.
Yes. “It’s rough.” I guess the engine and content have gotten some backports and extensions. I’m not sure if you could play other characters besides Geralt before, but now you can. (EDIT … Sorry, this seems to be BS. My bad.) They updated the graphics a lot. Its not great, but I think they fixed most of the really bad problems.
I don’t know about the story. Seems pretty awful. Awkward acting. Its been fun just trying to play the damn thing.
Um … I sort of like it. Gonna play some more now …
I started playing 1, but haven’t finished it.
I don’t think it’s bad, more like it just hasn’t aged very well, especially the combat. Which is the same thing I disliked about 3 despite enjoying it overall - clunky combat in a post Dark Souls world just doesn’t cut it for me.
The game is alright, but I’m in no rush to go back and finish it. I hope that with 4 and the focus on Ciri they will work on improving the combat system some more.