It seems like Matt Chat 104 draws fire from the fan boys.
I've heard complaints about the lengthy travels before. Some outspoken Geralt addicts even admitted that the game starts out so so and picks up speed after the first levels.
The mediocre translation is an everyday nuisance if you don't happen to live in an English speaking country, though. But that's nothing compared with what they did to Half-Life here. They exchanged the soldiers with robots and effectively changed the whole story.