The new RPG motivates players to go back through it

May 28, 2015 19:38 GMT  ·  By

The Witcher 3 is now available for over a week and many fans have already completed the game once and are now jumping back into the sprawling role-playing experience for a second time, in order to make sure that they haven't missed anything.

Most Role-playing games have their replayability factor built into their actual mechanics, as some titles, such as Dragon Age: Inquisition or The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim allow players to assume new roles and classes.

However, The Witcher 3 isn't so lucky, as protagonist Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher. Sure, you can build his skills to favor sword combat or magic sign use but there isn't that much freedom when it comes to completely altering your play style.

The Witcher 3 offers many quests and still promotes replayability

Even so, it manages to make up in other areas, such as the huge amount of quests, the plentiful decisions, and the surprise results from some of them. Factoring all these things together and you can certainly go through the game a second time and get a pretty new experience.

Ahead of the RPG's launch developer CD Projekt Red made plenty of claims regarding choices and outcomes in The Witcher 3 but, now that the title is available, players can see for themselves how their actions shape the game. Sure, you can alter your decisions by reloading a save file but many big ones have an impact later down the road, when it's already hard to just go back.

As such, thanks to these delayed outcomes, players are forced to live with their choices and tempted to go back through the campaign in order to make different ones.

Throw in quests that can be failed if you progress too much in the main story, and you're more than eager to start over and ensure that you complete very single tiny secondary quest before touching the main missions.

I'm already well underway with the second playthrough of The Witcher 3. What about you? Are you still taking your time or are you already back at square one?