The Witcher 3's big selling point is just the ridiculous amount of fully fleshed out and detailed content in it. All the dialogue was fully voiced and animated (which was still pretty novel at the time) and there was a ridiculous amount of it (to the point that it still hasn't been matched since AFAIK; Cyberpunk may have beaten it in sheer volume but I'm unsure, it didn't feel like it did), with even random sidequests in places you had no reason to ever be storywise having these fleshed out scenes telling stories that have literally nothing to do with the main plot, and often they'd narratively tie into other side stories in unexpected ways and things done in one sidequest would impact others. And there's just so much of that, well over a hundred hours of it.
The gameplay itself is mediocre, though still better than pretty much any other comparable big open world game especially from that era, but the writing's decent and the game as a whole is a very impressive body of interconnected stories that's unmatched in its scope. IIRC you can just not do the majority of the :bonk: content too, probably all of it. Some characters relentlessly flirt with Geralt, but you can just brush them off.
The Witcher 3's big selling point is just the ridiculous amount of fully fleshed out and detailed content in it. All the dialogue was fully voiced and animated (which was still pretty novel at the time) and there was a ridiculous amount of it (to the point that it still hasn't been matched since AFAIK; Cyberpunk may have beaten it in sheer volume but I'm unsure, it didn't feel like it did), with even random sidequests in places you had no reason to ever be storywise having these fleshed out scenes telling stories that have literally nothing to do with the main plot, and often they'd narratively tie into other side stories in unexpected ways and things done in one sidequest would impact others. And there's just so much of that, well over a hundred hours of it.
The gameplay itself is mediocre, though still better than pretty much any other comparable big open world game especially from that era, but the writing's decent and the game as a whole is a very impressive body of interconnected stories that's unmatched in its scope. IIRC you can just not do the majority of the :bonk: content too, probably all of it. Some characters relentlessly flirt with Geralt, but you can just brush them off.