Jesus...i don't even get where all this witcher hype is coming from when you heard almost NOTHING about the first two.
Thats because the old publisher was Atari. The new publisher, WB games, has taken on a full force 'modern gamz marketing' stance and are putting more money into marketing than they allotted cd prijekt for development.
The previous 2 games were pretty good. The first was trail blazing big open world, and was pretty ahead of its time. The second was... Good, but exactly what had been flooding the market during the ps360 open world era. It didnt really go anywhere but better graphics.... And since dragons dogma came out and showed you can have open world games with amizaballs monster hunter (light) gameplay, its mechanics are pretty dated.
The third one is absolutely gorgeous (Even after the downgrade everyone should have seen coming, seriously its still pretty damn good looking) but... it still pretty much plays exactly like its predecessors, with very few, rather unwelcome changes, like qte's and lamo context sensitive actions and attacks. Its... SHallow and pathetic mechanically. I could see through the games trnsparently mechanical workings instantly. Such creature ai, mechanic, and encounter design is a travesty to the spectacular work of the artists who created the creature.
Then they had the audacity to compare it to monster hunter/dragons dogma, except 'It looks good' with their crap 90's pathetic gameplay design and ai. That griffin fight was seriously, absolutely, horrible. Completely wretched and horrible, and boring, in a world where monster hunter or dragons dogma exist. Which unfortunately means, that since capcom is very obviously NEVER going to make another dragons dogma, and this isnt going to be remotely close, I am left with bumpkiss, and get to watch as a mediocre game that never evolved is overhyped by pr mouthpeices, who will make sure to go out of their way to crap on far superior playing games, and watch as the sheeple swallow the crossing pr streams with gaping mouths. JOY.