Why is The Witcher 3 so good? It’s because…

It’s good mainly because it’s built on a very solid and well-written foundation. When I played it I kept thinking “wow, what a story.” The gameplay itself didn’t impress me that much, but the narrative feels on the level of big fantasy works like Harry Potter or other classic fantasy films.

I wouldn’t say it reaches the same quality as The Lord of the Rings, but it gets close when you consider that the tone is more raw and the characters feel more human and flawed. That’s part of what makes the world so believable.

So in the end, the game is great not only because of CDPR, but because they were smart enough to buy the rights to a rich universe created by its original author. Read the books and you’ll feel the story is even deeper and the characters even more compelling there.