Launch
Yay! You can skip the splash screens!
Oooh Pretty!
CDPR! Cześć Hello!
Then the game goes through a short video (again in their graphic novel style from Witcher 2), explaining Witchers, and the current war going on.
The Menu and Game Config
The main menu loads fast! In The Witcher 2, even after you skip the opening titles, the game has to load.... something.... which a good 30 seconds or more, so you're sitting there looking at one frame of the opening cinematic until the menu loads. Whereas in Wild Hunt it loads in a few seconds after the cinematic (even if you skip it).