{"id":113595,"date":"2016-12-12T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T09:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113595"},"modified":"2016-12-12T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:10:42","slug":"12-games-of-christmas-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/113595-12-games-of-christmas-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt","title":{"rendered":"12 Games of Christmas &#8211; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been one of the most highly-acclaimed titles ever made, and ranks as the best PC game of all time according to metacritic&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/browse\/games\/score\/userscore\/all\/pc\/filtered?sort=desc\" target=\"_blank\">user score rankings<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The open-world role-playing game has received two stellar expansion packs and heaps of free DLC.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been spending the majority of my free time playing through its main story at a relatively patient pace, frequently straying off the beaten path to disover everything the game has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Engaging with all the game&#8217;s content is a daunting challenge, as there are hundreds of well-crafted side-quests, contracts, and locations to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the vast amount of content available in The Witcher 3, every quest and mission is different, offering new surprises and encouraging players to discover its vast landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Most Witcher 3 fans have probably already completed the Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone add-ons, which contain enough content to be standalone games, but I&#8217;ve been content so far to discover the fantastic depth and detailed stories the game has to offer without rushing through the story to check out the highly-acclaimed expansions.<\/p>\n<p>CD Projekt RED has cultivated a reputation for the use of well-written characters and backstory in its Witcher games, making The Witcher 3 a completely unique title which breaks the mold set by triple-A role-playing games and sets a new benchmark for game design.<\/p>\n<p>While I will undoubtedly continue playing a lot of The Witcher 3 this holiday season, I will also be keeping my eye on CD Projekt RED&#8217;s Cyberpunk 2077 project, which looks to be the Polish developer&#8217;s next big hit.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a title=\"Permalink to The professional gaming industry saw massive growth in 2016\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/113315-the-professional-gaming-industry-saw-massive-growth-in-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The professional gaming industry saw massive growth in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Back to the<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/113081-mygaming-12-games-of-christmas-2016.html\"> MyGaming 12 Games of Christmas master list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witcher 3 is the perfect RPG companion for the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":105735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[23655,9233],"class_list":["post-113595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-12-games-of-christmas","tag-witcher-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113709,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113595\/revisions\/113709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}