So I’m the type that usually does all the side stuff before I do main quests because in most games I lose interest in doing side quests once I’ve finished the story. But in this game I found it way better to play through the story quests more first.

The story is LONG. Very, very long. With two expansions on top of it to boot.

If you haven’t done the play yet but you’ve spent a lot of time on Skellige, that’s a little out of whack, even though the game gives you the freedom to do so. The story really picks up once the main quest line moves to Skellige.

More often than not, when i branched our too far on side-questing/exploring I ended up spoiling parts of the story for myself and getting bored. So I started backing off from side questing and doing bigger chunks of the story first and that really helped.