It ' s like Red Dead Redemption and Mass Effect had a baby in a Medieval setting . I ' ve only had it for a week but it ' s pretty awesome . The thing I ' m most impressed with is the fact that the side quests don ' t feel cookie cutter and bland . Each area is about the size of some other games total world maps and they ' re jam packed with stuff to do , at first I let out a sigh thinking I would need to do hours of pointless fetch quests but once I got stuck in I noticed that each side mission was actually pretty interesting and unique , in fact for the first few hours I thought they were story quests lol . Plus the story is pretty dark and deals with a lot if adult themes which is pretty refreshing actually . To give you an idea of the size Ive been playing for hours every night after work for the last week and I ' m still in Velen , the games 2 nd area , I ' m only half way done clearing that area out and there ' s still about 13 of the map I ' m yet to even see . There are another 4 areas that I know if after this and as I said I still haven ' t run into recycled or lazy content . I ' m usually very critical of side quests and filler content , Witcher 3 I find difficult to criticise on that front .