problems with the witcher: 1) too much dialogue and it's mostly pointless.. like you said with mass effect 2/3, it's easy to skim the text for the major ideas while skipping through.

2) The combat is really easy, evne on the hardest difficulty.  Throw up your protective barrier spell, go into combat, roll around to avoid getting hit, attack, rinse, repeat.  if you get hit, throw up the protective barrier again.  This barrier essentially gives you one free hit with no damage.  People online were calling one guy a cheater for using it repeatedly.  It's not cheating, it's part of the game.  Sure, you could test yourself by not using it, but that's stupid.

3) The story isn't that great.  Not bad, definitely not great.

4) Doesn't feel like an epic.  3 chapters I guess, I'm at chapter 2.  each chapter is a different city.  in Dragon Age, you go to a different city often enough to feel like you're in a real country.

5) Boss fights.  NOt many, but when they're there, it takes away from the game.

6) Definitely some bugs.. sometimes, it either won't show n the map where to go, or the location is incorrect.

7) there was one quest in chapter one where you have to find an item.. go to a cave, kill some baddies, get the ingredient, AND YOU DONT EVEN USE IT FOR THE POTION! So it's essentially useless, but you HAVE to do it to advance the gameplay.  Another guy online commented saying that it's a broken quest, too, something about you can make the potion without the ingredient before doing the quest, but then you lose the potion when you do the quest. Makes no sense.

8) Just not a very engaging game. No other way to explain it.  

9) Not many weapons/armor.  Probably a decent amount of potions to make, but I don't deal with that. I'd rather hack and slash.  

10) Get 5 abilities, can upgrade them I guess. No need, all you need is that protective barrier.  I never even use the other ones.. You'd probably have to on the hardest difficult with some enemies that never fucking stop blocking, but other than that, you don't need 'em.

11) After I beat it, I'm selling it. 

Studying for this GRE, it's not too bad.  The hardest things are the permutations/combinations.  For some reason, I have trouble with them, but that's it.  Verbal you just have to know the words' definitions.  ETS (company that does the GRE) claims they're away from that, but if you don't know the definitions, you can't always take context into account.

Also, there are only 80 questions on the whole test.. I think 100 but 20 are for future testing research.  plus 2 essays.  $160. Probably take it in August.