Writing: 5/5
Gameplay: 4/5
Art Design & Visuals: 5/5
Voices & Sounds: 5/5
Atmosphere & Immersion: 5/5

This is my choice for game of the generation for the reasons below:
It is an overall package that offers high quality throughout its gaming experience.
Two top tier expansions.
Great and memorable soundtrack.
Gorgeous art direction that still look good.
Sold very well.
Single player game with no online components whatsoever that is still being talked about daily.
It inspired a TV-Show because of its success.
Huge cult following and is constantly being compared to every new big release, so its some kind of a gold standard for open world games.
Holds high ratings and numerous gaming awards universally.
Available on every gaming platform with good support.

This single game made a small developer like CD Projekt Red into what it is today, this game was an industry changer and i can easily see its influence in todays open world games and im sure it will influence future open world games as well.

This is indeed a good game. The plot while basic is very strong in the character department. The wild hunt as villians are meh but serviceable. Geralt is a great protagonist and his relationships are all very interesting to watch unfold. The music is fantastic and sound design is all around pretty decent. The world of the witcher is a fun one to dive into but the exploration of it is either really fun or really frustrating and annoying. Level gating and the mini map need to go and die. The gameplay is quite average overall, the combat is serviceable but its quite shallow and either too easy or too hard. Geralt also feels too floaty to control, he doesn’t have that weighty feel that he should. Overall i think its a pretty solid game thats carried by its great writing.

This is the kind of game that defines generations. The world is vast and expansive, and more full of life than most games have even attempted. I never touched the witcher franchise before this game, but playing this absolutely sucked me in. The lore is deep, the themes are thought-provoking, the characters are endearing, the main story is emotional and you can feel the stakes constantly rising. The game makes you understand the importance of Geralt’s mission, and by extension yours.

Geralt/you are constantly faced with choices that change character’s lives, often even deciding fates and you’ll find yourself caring about how you impact them, and how Geralt is seen by people and what you do for that world. It’s an adventure in every sense of the word, one that will make you feel a variety of emotions and take you to unforgettable places, and interact with fleshed-out and unique characters, major and minor alike.

Just go play the damn game already lol

Unpopular opinion but this game is so overrated.
The controls feel weird, aspecially on a horse. A step or a rock of 5 cm high makes the character on or off the horse fall down or stand still. For an open world game, this is terribly annoying.

Half fo the items you find are useless and you have no clue what to do with them, but they stack up in your bag so you need to return every 10 min of playing to empty your bag.

Atleast the story is nice and all in the first map. But when arriving in the big town, be carefull to not get stuck in there for 2 hours not swinging your sword once becaue of all the boring sidequests where you need to help fix a simple relationship problem or something from some random npcs...