The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the slowest of slow burns. Developer CD Projekt Red has stated that it would take something like 200 hours to play through absolutely everything the unprecedentedly dense open world has to offer. After spending about 50 hours with the game since its release last week, I easily believe that. Even ignoring the massive number of side quests, though, the primary story line demands a commitment on par with an earlier era of role-playing games, when AAA development wasn't nearly so cost-prohibitive.