The Witcher 3 - The Ultimate Critique
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TIME STAMPS:
PART 1
The Narrative
Introduction - 0:00
4:12 - Main Quests
30:11 - Side Quests
39:01 - Environmental Story Telling
PART 2
Gameplay
49:14 - Dialogue Choices
55:00 - Combat
1:07:16 - Exploration
1:12:37 - Supporting Systems
PART 3
1:13:23 - Technical Aspects (Graphics, Sound, etc.)
PART 4
1:17:23 - Epilogue
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To put it simply, this game was created by people who actually cared, loved, and were passionate about what they were creating.
Everytime I watch everything related to cd project I have to read this shit copy pasta comment about how good and passionate and wholesome are this ppl
You know, Its ironic how CD Projekt was actually a video game distribution company and they had no idea how to make a video game. Then they end up making one of the best games ever made
Too bad that love going to actually put a consequences when you just barge into people's homes and steal anything that isn't nailed down.
@@flyffs9968 Red Dead Redemption 2?
@@mariobadia4553 Rdr2 is one of the best games ive ever seen but Witcher 3 is and always will be the first
Best quest. Searching a pan for an old lady.
IndieGamer escort a sheep to its owner lol
I feel like you're being sarcastic here but to be honest i think that quest exemplifies what i love so much about this game. It's a tiny little missable side thing, doing a mundane favour for an old lady, but they've managed to make it engaging as all hell. The quest takes only a couple minutes to complete, but they still took the time to hide an interesting little story in there that feels unique and separate from every other side quest in the game.
That simple quest was to give an insight to the spy missions of Thaler =P
Best quest in the game by far is the one about Roach in BW.
toni3393 *goat
The music in the game should have won awards. Beautiful.
Word. I use the Velen, White Orchard and Skellige music to study
@@euhm8679 Same! marcin przybyłowicz was my top artist in my 2020 spotify rewind 😅
The novigrad and ark skellig music are absolutely banging.
'After the storm' always gives me goosebumps after hundreds of listens
Yeah, “laaaaaa la laughurah la laaaa” was truly magical……
I like the combat because it's very accurate to how the books described Geralt's fighting style. It is said that when he fights it looks like a dance and normal people couldn't comprehend how fast he was moving.
Same, I wasn’t a big fan of it at first (or rather I just didn’t think much of it) but after reading almost all the books it feels perfect for the franchise
Though the Witcher series on Netflix is bad but Henry and the fight directors nailed it .Its so accurate.
@@DreamofAnything I wouldn't say its bad. Its pretty good, just not great tbf, well in my opinion anyway
@@kowxley1793 yeah i agree
That description matches ciri fighting style.
"I am Geralt of Rivia. I'm a badass. Normal people shouldn't be able to one-shot me."
Peasant with pitchfork says hello.
Peasant with pitchfork *in debt*
Vincent Thendean “screams in deathmarch”
Newgame plus on death march level 100 with level 39 armour trust me is not possible for most bosses
@@ryanalleman9884 The armor level doesn't actually matter that much, unlike sword level. Armor level increases the armor rating, but the resistance percentages are way more important. You could probably do perfectly well with the lvl 34 Mastercrafted Ursine set at lvl 100, especially if you have additional bonuses to the resistance percentages, like Protective Coating or Arachas Decoction.
oh no you didn't
W3 narrative in a nutshell.
I need to find and rescue Ciri NOW.
But first let me collect all Gwent cards and become world champion.
Don't forget that you have to win every fucking boxing championship on the continent and Skellige as well
@@YaBoiFetz Boxing the troll on skellige was awesome :D
@Mr. Clean bro im doing them at level 5 and the skellige troll is whooping my ass. its so hard lmao, but i wanna do it at this level
@Plague Doctor new game +
@@nicolasmelo1211 in new game plus you start at the level you finished your first game, and you also don't get all the fast travel points to go wherever you want.
It's just like starting witcher 3 all over again but with an higher level and your last game's inventory and stash.
Luke Stephens: "The Ultimate Witcher Critique"
Joseph Anderson: Hold My Script
^^ this needs more likes‼️
Knowing Joseph Anderson, his Witcher 3 review is gonna be AT LEAST 6 hours.
@@awsomeboy360 maybe 10 😮
@@__veil__1799 i think he said it would be about 6 hours.
Haha these replies aged like milk JA is 2 videos deep and at 9 hours and some change with another on the way.
I've always been someone who gets around to playing games years after release. I am just now playing W3 for the first time and it has blown me away. I lose myself for hours at a time and genuinely find myself emotionally invested in the stories
I don't think there was a bad quest in the game.
@@ralphengland8559 Reason of State (the one where you kill Radovid) is the only bad quest cause of the end where dijkstra all of a sudden turns into a comic book villain and openly announces his betrayal to Geralt, then expects him to step aside while roche, ves and thaler get murdered
Literally just finished the main game for the first time and I felt the same way. It's eaten up the last week or so of my life and I don't regret a minute of it
I picked this up October 2022. It's the best game I've ever played. I'm an 80s child ... Didn't think I'd ever fall in love with a game again.
Just started for first time! Liking it! I'm more of a fromsoft formula guy but liking this too
Polish people make polished games.
I actually read that as (pole-ished) game
I Cunt Spell Shame, I played through the entire game with barely any bugs and glitches. It did crash once or twice however that was over the course of 3 months of almost continuous play, and wasn’t a major hindrance.
I have 200 hours into this game, ZERO glitches. so many easter eggs, things to explore. even after all this time i probably done 50% of all the quests lol.
Pretty polished imho
Jesus, you really fucked up in the head.Go back to minecraft and roblox,witcher 3 is not for you. I don't think you even played it. Is to hard to understand that's why you hate the game,but keep playing minecraft, it has a very wonderful story.
Branden Schuler No, he sounds like your casual troll. Ugh damnit, anyone who calls anything names like that is a troll... Glitcher? Seriously...
My biggest problem with Witcher 3 is that i has an ending.
david Unoi and that some beautiful quests are hidden in the world with no markers to find it
Blood and Wine kinda ties it up nicely. i'd be happy to have something else set in this world though.
david Unoi holy shit same
yea what they could have done in my opinion is simply regenerate witcher contracts even if its repetitive.kill a ghoul or necrophage. anything to keep the game alive. the bestiary was pretty huge.
my problem is i cant experience the game like its new again for a 3rd play through.
personally I absolutely loved the combat being so dependant on gear, I suck at combat in games and I love tinkering, going around the world looking for recipes, materials, figuring out the best setup of skills and gear and then seeing how gigantic of an badass my character became, thanks to that effort
it's just a thing of preference I guess
It is dependent on skill as well. I didn’t care about gear at all really, except for swords and really tried to learn the dodging and attacking. It’s not as good (The movement mostly) as bloodborne and darksouls in my opinion, but it’s really fun.
Yes you got it
So basically what are you saying is that : oh I am suck in skill based action games where your skill and understanding game mechanics is in the first place not some stupid numbers in your character stats so I can justify shitty witcher 3 combat gameplay.
That was nice one bud
@linnealager6146 I hope that one is a joke , withcer 3 is one the most if not the most casual game I've ever played for my almost 15 years experience. You don't need nothing expect high lvl fire sign.
@@vitalygangster spending hours on developing skills and researching optimal way around complex game mechanics is not enjotable for me, tinkering with my character build is enjoyable for me, I play games for enjoyment so yes
The bar and standards have been raised so high following the Witcher 3 that not even CD Projekt RED could meet it again.... *cough* Cyberpunk* *cough*
Honestly, the only thing they could've improved on was the awful combat and dialogue choices. Everything else is mint. 👌
I found that village you liberate just by exploring. I found a pack of ghouls in a seemingly abandoned village, and thought "eh, why not?" Then I ended up liberating the village, and one of the NPCs told me he'll name his first son "Geralt" in my honor.
Where I must do this
@@goblinslayer5517 I want to say that quest he is speaking of specifically is one in White Orchard.
Quan Chi thank u, do u happen to know what area of white orchard?
@@goblinslayer5517 I couldnt say off the top of my head sorry, its been a hot minute since I've played it
Quan Chi ok thanks I’ll look for it
Got the game, and both dlc’s for 15 bucks. By far the greatest deal I’ve ever gotten with gaming in my life. So much polished masterpiece, worth hundreds of hours for 15 fucking dollars.
Even at full price it’s a bargain to be fair. 200 hours into he game and just started NG+ on death march and it’s the most fun I had in ages in a single player game. Good combat that feels fluent yet still punishes you for mistakes and mis-utilizing your kit and awesome sinergy in all sorts of stupid builds you can come up with (which we all agree on it will still be euphoria with hybrid alchemy-weapon build but yeah it’s still good to have fun with bs crossbow or quen and sign builds).
Rationality rules, depends. Rockstar’s game design is super outdated by today’s standards and if you enjoyed RDR2 regardless of that you’ll probably enjoy the witcher games as well. Though your mileage may vary, I spent roughly 100 hours on my first playthrough (with dlcs and preparation for NG+) and that is far more content than I ever got from a “recently” released single player game. Definitely a good buy. If not now, then when you find a discount.
The 100 hours is pure gameplay, the other is some fiddlinng around and having fun with some easter eggs.
Rationality rules - yes. 100% yes. Get it.
So many glitches but it's mostly visual
lol "people who compare this to skyrim are making a grave mistake"
*spends next 5 mins comparing to skyrim
@Feral cat ya you are absolutely right.
@Feral cat Sure, but you cant explain why you cant compare without camparing them to be fair
He is is pointing out the differences of the two, so that if people do compare it shows how it doesn't work. They're completely different with how the game works, even if they're both RPG and fantasy. But I see what you're saying lol.
That’s called illustrating ones point! Basically the 2 games shouldn’t be judged against one another for the reasons mentioned in the video.
He actually contrasted the two which is the opposite of comparing.
I was playing for the 5th time, and everytime I was running like a dumbass and doing shit fast. Then I saw that in the hut where Keira is, the tub is full of spider webs, because she doesnt use it. She always goes to the bathroom dimention. That made me stop and look the game in a different way. This game is amazing.
I actually found the side quests were the strongest part of the game. Fully exploring the fate of the Bloody Baron, Finding out if Yennifer was truly in love, rescuing the mages, deciding to assassinate the king, deciding who would hold the throne of Skelligie, these were all huge adventures that weren't forced on you. It really made the game feel like Geralt was part of a larger world. I could have had a game made out of these, the adventures of Geralt, and never had a main quest at all. And these ideas came to their fruition in the DLCs Heart of Stone and Blood and Wine. Both of these ignored the over arching plot to focus on the adventures of Geralt.
actually i'd say that's true , i got bored of the main story when i got to the bloody baron , but then doing dandelion's sidequests and helping triss made me want to play more
exacty, witcher contracts ...
well these quests have a effect on your ending so i would say even if the game tells you these are just sidequests they are not really and partof the main quests.... quests like tower of mice or some of the missed brother/son/husband quests yes these are sidequests....at least thats my opinion
What I didn't like is what they did to dandelions character. I mean in the games he's treated just like this guy Geralts knows and tolerates even though in the books he is geralt closest friend.
Defenstrator I agree it made it feel like you had stuff to do and things to look forward to like I wonder who I will meet next , does this guy know this guy , in Skyrim some side quests were just for the grind and nothing else don’t get me wrong I love Skyrim in its own way but the Witcher 3s side quest system suited that game as they massively added to the narrative and made you feel accountable for the things going on
The story of the Bloody Baron was sad but it was one of my favorites
More like Downwarren.
NEZ IO why I liked the swampy countryside because it seemed like the perfect place for monsters to be in.
NEZ IO Yeah the atmosphere wasn’t the brightest but that’s to be expected when you’re fighting werewolves and water hags I guess.
i couldnt stand it in my first playthrought. but it has grown on me since that
He can survive. And take his wife to some doctors
"if there isn't a timer on top of your screen, take your time" - Abraham Lincoln
The game’s narrative is so good I can forgive Roach getting stuck on pebbles in the road, and the clumsy controls when trying to loot stuff.
Thats really my only gripe about the game. Roach sucks and Geralts movement in general when trying to open things up or pick things up is really finicky.
Because it's written by an Actual writer , based on a novel series , compared to plot of other games like rdr 2 who have their own writers
@@aadilahmed7384 RDR2 is equally well written. It's just a different approach. The horse control in RDR2 is MUCH better than in Witcher 3
“The combat can get a bit tedious at times” *is fighting with two broken swords*
Hard to notice the swords are broken if you play with HUD turned off I guess
With no oils/potions as well -_-
@ObjectivelyInoffensiveUsername Doesnt change the fact the combat is awful is basic. Great game but super bad combat
@@craigtrish2011 not super bad, but not great indeed. Sadly, I don't really know what I do like (I really despise dark souls combat, feels waaaay too slow for me).
@@craigtrish2011 i had no problem with the combat, even after playing all the dark souls games. i honestly don;t know what the problem is
"Then you'll run into Gaunter O'Dimm who comes up later in Hearts of Stone"... Oh boy does he...
Understatement of the century right there.
HAH, bloody onderstatement if I've ever hoord one!!!
Geralt's greatest foe will always be the peasant with a pitchfork
The combat and movement are my only two gripes. Controlling Roach is a chore sometimes, and the swordplay itself is very hit or miss. I agree that whenever I stumble across an enemy who can one shot me simply because I don't have the right level, it's very immersion-breaking.
get off the mouse and keyboard....controller is much easier
Get off the controller.... Keyboard and mouse is much easier.
I understood how to get full control over roach after 220 hrs in the game. Simply press w and shift and roach is fully mouse controlled. Release shift to look around with the mouse and press w again with shift to steer roach.
Really never had any issues, just took my time. Though I do somewhat agree with the one-shot enemies due to leveling, it does have a purpose and I personally prefer that over auto-leveling enemies that make it seem like you're not actually progressing, but that's just me
Ageeed. I hate controlling Roach and the combat mechanics are not consistent, but nothing that takes away from it overall. For me.
As boys we played Skyrim. Now as men, we play the Witcher
Yes
@@KROLOLO what?
And once we ascend from men to God's, we play god of war.
I played skyrim when I was less than 10 and the only thing I learnt to do was steal things from people lol.
🤔
Only the Witcher 3 can make a side quest about a frying pan memorable. If said quest was in pretty much any other game it would probably be a meme.
the pan quest is a meme what
Lord Loaf he did not say it was lol
tim Grossman Gerald: hmm silent Druid: flips bird
Lol the pan quest is literally two minutes long and you can’t even understand the story behind it because the old woman blabbers in this retarded version of Middle English
@@tobyflockin7868 agreed. i often don't really get what theyre telling me until the game HUD explicitly shows me where to go and what to do. With the frying pan quest for example, I didn't know we were already standing at the house with the pan. I thought the lady was just standing next to her own house.
The combat is actually brilliant. It asks you learn about the monsters, read witcher's book, so you can correctly apply oil and cast sign. It asks you to use potions and poisons to enhance your power. These are real witcher experiences, not the experience of some regular person who happens to swing a silver sword.
Oh ok
Image this game with Souls-like combat forcing you to actually, read up on enemies, apply oils and throw bombs instead of spamming light attack
@@jmorel42 spam light attack against high level nemies and wraiths. Works really well... But of course its not darksouls combat. It would take the rpg element away a little bit imo
It’s not really the combat that’s good I tts kinda basic and mediocre but what keeps it from getting repetitive is reading about these monsters and learning how to kill them. Really cool stuff.
Combat *preparation* is great. Combat itself is a joke, even on death March with upscaling on, even without Quen abuse. The moves have terrible hit boxes and you have no control over which one Geralt does at any time, and the enemies themselves are a joke with next to no patterned attacks and mostly just variations of "slam Geralt with whatever weapon or appendage you have".
Is kind of a shame because the rest of the game is so damn good, but combat is a snore fest. Without even getting into the terrible lock on system and the insane trouble with uneven ground and verticality of hit boxes (hint - there's none) to the point where it's disadvantageous to occupy higher ground -.-
Scenes from a marriage and The Last Wish may be the greatest quests I’ve ever played in any game
What about Baron and His tragic and Dark story?
Battle of Kaer Morhen is the best fort defense battle scene I've ever seen or experienced...
I’d add the the quest where you get drunk with the boys in Kaer Morhen there as well.
@@cosmic2750 fanboys are a cancer
That crow skull at the begining near where Geralt is sleeping, you can actually pick it up at this exact location and give it back to Yen. Just one of the hundred thing I probably missed on my first playthrough.
It's crazy like the scholar in white orchard who wants to go to the war , when you get to velen and the hang man's tree you can find him hanged on it and a book there underneath that you can pick up, or like if radovid wins the war you can find and save tomira the herbalist from white orchard at the end of the game too it's the little things.
And eventually, Triss' earring too
@@anotherhappylanding4746 omg,i did
different knew it.Its one hell of a thing.
You gotta see xLetalis, you'll find many more thing you may have missed in the game :)
@@anotherhappylanding4746 Let's not forget O'Dimm...who was also at White Orchard...
I don’t see Geralt as weightless. In fact in heavy armor his hindered movement is noticeable. Also Witcher’s are like Captain America or Black Panther. Enhanced “super humans” due to genetic modification. So of course he moves effortlessly. Like Legolas walking on snow.
I could say that he feels only weightless when jogging/sprinting....doesn't feel like that in combat though.
I think the main flaw of the game is poor movement control and movement animations. The jogging animation is simply poorly done. What makes it worse is that walking and sprinting look really cool, but the jogging looks so dated, like the game is at least a decade old. They really failed at it.
As for movement issues, it's not like it's horrible, but turning and changing direction in small spaces works really bad and it's kind of unreliable so you can't get used to it, and traversing obstacles such as low walls, fences etc. can really be annoying. This game would seriously benefit from better coding in that regard. I know this is no Assassins Creed and vertical gameplay is barely existent, but it would still benefit from having better movement system.
All that aside, it's still one of my favorite games ever and it's a masterpiece overall.
Considering the armor in Witcher 3 is probably the most realistic armor in ANY fantasy game ever, heavy armor meant for humans should barely hinder geralt at all, at best medieval plate armor offered more movement in some parts than the human body was capable of, it was light and the weight was well distributed enough so that it would barely hinder a human so how would it slow a Witcher down?
Yeah well that's because named elf characters in Lord of the Rings are Mary Sue's.
@@HandleMyBallsUA-cam too bad geralt running around with swords on his back is completely unrealistic.
Mario Badia bitch
48:18 that didn't age well
biggest nosedive in quality in gaming history 😂
@@adoniscreed4031 Yeah, but I still support them, I know and we all know that they have what it takes to be that company, they got a bit careless and overconfident with CP2077, expectations were through the roof and it didn't deliver as planned, but still, they have what it takes
@@prodICYN abit careless ? They purposefully deceived all last gen console players. They have forever tainted their company name.
@@northide8785 what? ok so because they failed one game it means they can't ever come back on top? cuz oh trust me they learned their lesson with Cyberpunk, they know what they did wrong, they didn't "forever taint their name", they don't even have a bad reputation yet, most people still believe in them, and the rest don't even know what CDPR is
and purposefully?? really? does your dumbass really think they fucked up the majority of the fanbase on FUCKING PURPOSE?
@@prodICYN Do you really think that what cdpr did with Cyberpunk was just a little confident problem? I dont see the point in support a company that clearly put the sales and the money over the people who would play the game, or even the game itself. Becouse the game its still incomplete and CDPR always know it, and they release it and sold it anyways.
I love the witcher game series, its one of my favourites videogame series of all times, but in this case i just cant defend CDPR and his lies. btw I hope they fix the game and regain the reputation they build, but i see it quite distant.
I am sure that I am not the only one who gets at least 1 hidden quest every playthrough, it's always a delight to discover new quests that we've missed.
"Fallout 4 is not an RPG"
Subbed.
Skel Neldory it is it’s meant for role playing you role play
Fallout 4's choices seldom actually matter, in terms of how the game actually plays out. I love Bethesda to death, but that's not a true RPG. You are playing solely by Bethesda's rules, with minor choice differences to make it seem like you're actually playing "your own version of the story". In the end, everyone's games flesh out to be the exact same thing. Did you not ever get annoyed at the fact that your quest dialogue is summed up to basically picking if you want to be an asshole or not, and then getting the same results either way? Once I actually figured this out, the game (and most of Bethesda's games, for that matter) seemed a hell of a lot less awe-inspiring. It's actually super depressing, honestly. Fallout 3 and Oblivion weren't as blatant about it, but it's still the same "one size fits all" gameplay that presents in Fallout 4. If they fix this shit for the next TES and Fallout game(s), making them to FULLY allow for gameplay tailored to your in-game choices, they'll be beyond golden. It's only then that you can really call the next Fallout/TES game a true RPG.
In a literal sense, FO4 is an RPG. You as the player take on the role of a character and make choices in their stead. Not just dialogue choices, but choices about which faction to support and which sidequests to take.
However, I understand the logic behind restricting the term RPG in such a way that FO4 (a game which I am neutral about tbh) is disqualified, since if you cast the RPG net too broadly, basically any game becomes an RPG.
I mean in Super Mario, you take on the role of a character and make choices in their stead. So is Super Mario an RPG? Kind of.
But again, I think if you take RPG too literately, you let games take advantage of the tag and drown out true Role Playing Games with meaningful character and world building, dynamic games where your narrative choices change the world around you, and your build choices affect how you play and what resources you bring into a given challenge.
Mercy Grey Just compare FO4 to FO3 and NV and you don't need anymore reasons to why FO4 is a shitty so-called RPG.
Its more of a Sandbox Shooter
By the way: in the Ciri's quest you mentioned, when you had to steal the horses, you could actually not steal them and end up in a fist fight with the guy over your disagreement
And Ciri will be very disappointed :(
Poor little Ciri, one of the most obnoxious characters in the game. I was happy to get the ending where she dies. Mwahaha! What I'd give to see Radovid scoop out Yennifer's and Triss' eyes.
Long live Radovid, etc etc.
Radovid that little bastard :D
Radovid! Radovid! Radovid!
Bro, you did it backwards. If anything you do the side quests first since everyone knows that the main quest is what moves the story along.
But I enjoyed slight diversions more and even completed Hearts Of Stone before finishing the main game...didn't really want to treat it like Skyrim, hehe
That doesn't make much sense in my opinion. It breaks the immersion to do all those side quests while your daughter is in great danger and the wild hunt is close and could potentially take over your world.
@@derEnzoni just like to imagine Geralt needs money for his life on the road and the side stuff is what sustain him.
I was blown away by the game from like minute one, but I think the thing that renewed my excitement partway through was when I got to Skellige. I kept finding myself thinking “I LOVE this place”. I loved the landscape, the people, the culture, just the way characters spoke to me. The fact that after one contract quest, the quest-giver literally asked me if I was okay and if I had any wounds that needed to be patched up shocked me all over again. 2020 and this game still holds up incredibly well.
Im sorry sir, you have the witcher disease, which is passed on from this great game where the symptoms are:
1. All other games seem tasteless
2. You cant stop asking people to play gwent
3. You try to critique witcher 3 but just keep praising it
4. You have a fond addiction in finding
The only cure, is for other developers to make games just as good this or better, so I'm sorry you can't be cured.
Let's play Gwent
Revan 'subtle nod`
He must play the goat of all games Skyrim
VeroMithril its called virtual boy
VeroMithril look it up
*watching him bang on that shield*
Me: Use Axii!
Player: *Uses Aard and it doesn't work*
Me: *internal screaming since I did that too once*
Or use the flamethrower version of Igni so that way the shield is too got for him to hold. That's what I do so that way, no shield lol.
@@Grayknight1000 damn i never knew that worked, even though ive never leveled igni lmao. ive yet to do a sign run through of the game
@@leonidus3147 They actually showed that in their E3 demo. I tried that in the game and it worked xD
ikr, they make Aard look so easy in the Netflix series
My moto is when in dought use IGNI! :)
"combat is too easy" "i like a challenge" "i didnt use certain skills as they are too op" "i played this game on the third hardest level" Hmmmm...
I played this game on the hardest difficulty and it was a cakewalk seriously this game is so easy its made for children
@@herbieoliver2403 yes I feel like a big man
@@juancampos9468 I agree the hardest difficulty feels like it should be the normal difficulty
@@juancampos9468 only get to level 25 and then play through it it makes the gsme alit mkre challenging
@@juancampos9468 Death march is really hard the first 5-9 levels, and then u just become op. I could easily take on lv 18 enemies when i was lv 11. Maybe its moddable?
Two things I don't like about Witcher 3:
1) It ends.
2) It set the standard and my expectations so high that even 5 years after I played it for the first time I'm still having trouble finding other games to play that feel worthwhile.
A game with amazing graphics and atmosphere along with great story and interesting side quests. It also set the standards high for me as well, for a week that is. Then I reflected a bit about it. Game has some issues. Repetitive gameplay, unbalanced difficulty and hand holding problem solving (witcher senses basically telling you exactly where to go for example). Still, a great game overall
I'm one of the few, I love the Witcher 3's combat system.
Edit: After playing Fallen order, the Witcher 3’s combat seemed a bit old to me, but never the less it’s still a fun combat system.
Its miles better than assrim. The the grand scheme of games the combat is average but that isnt why people enjoy the game so much. Its the music and the A+ story
E.
And of course the world itself
It's not the best, but it was good enough
play on deathmarch? its super fun and not bland. i actually like the intensity of it, casting quen bc tbh thats the most important sign on deathmarch, and then waiting until you can cast it again to actually go balls to the walls on people. and when you get hit once youre like "ah shit, im gonna die next hit" so you back off to cast quen.
I freaking love the combat in this game as well. I don’t know why so many people dislike it. Slamming a potion of blizzard and thunderbolt and using whirl in a huge mob of bandits is so satisfying to me. Plus being able to counter pretty much everything except monsters the sizes of barns is super fun. I love a combat system that relies on well-timed parries, but hate how slow dark souls is, so witcher is the perfect in between for me.
@@leonidus3147 I completed it in death March without signs lol I would get 1-2 hit from odim and b&w dlc bosses but I eventually mastered them.
Combat can be actually pretty fun if you jugle signs, attack types, blocking, consumables and environment effects (especially on the highest difficulty).
I saw him taking no advantage of the signs.
yep, it's not the best combat system there is, I think that spot is reserved for games that REQUIRE you use your options to the highest extent possible, I mean if you are lazy you can spam quen and then just button mash to victory, but if you make yourself try a bit a harder and try to be creative then it is fun. It took me a while until it became fun to me, and then it just became second nature after a while. Luckily, the narrative and the lore is so immersive that it didn't even bother me.
The most enjoyable part about the combat system is getting obliterated by a new enemy type, only to have that "aha" moment on the second or third try when I realize that a certain enemy is vulnerable to Yrden for instance, and gets severely hampered by it. When you figure out what is the weak spot of an enemy type, it gets both easier and more fun to fight it.
@@Mikri90 I just put everything into making igni burn the opponent as much as possible then realized some opponents can't be burned. It made me switch up my tactics. Then I decided to make people burn and/or bleed. It worked for everyone except the guards. For them it was axii then 1 hit ko. Didn't even think to use potions and oils till near the end of the game where I was clearing out high level monsters. It was never stale and only got better with each new and unique foe.
yeah combat def isnt perfect especially when fighting groups of enemies but using signs help to make combat more fair
I tried to get a immersed in this game but it was shattered when I realized I could just steal people's stuff right in front of them and they won't do a thing about it
The side quests are incredible. I did all of them and they were as good as main quests I couldn't believe it. I was used to assassins creed side quests doing the same thing 100 times with barely any narrative at all.
You don’t need to apologize for being stuck on this game. It’s 2021 and I just blew the dust off that shit and popped it back in for round 4. I completely understand how you keep coming back to geralt’s incredible conclusion. It’s a masterpiece
The difficulty slider was useful, since when I got a hang of the mechanics I could increase the difficulty rather than being forced the reset the game and lose hours of progress.
That is exactly what I did. On my second play through I had it on story and sword, but it was way too easy for me so I increased the difficulty.
you mean wasted 2 months playing witcher and started all over again? that's fucking madness
@@notkimpine what?
I actually liked the combat system a lot...
you probably haven't played the WB games
Love it too. Yeah, it gets easier and easier as you get used to it. Which is something other players find unnatural because...? Btw, w3 definitely had the most dynamic and badass looking meele combat ever. Just the number of masterful moves geralt does sword in hand towards different directions and angles lol
chris murlock I have I agree on melee it’s much better than Witcher but the core of the combat is the sword fighting
After playing TW1 and TW2 I found the combat in TW3 quite good actually, as it wasn't getting in the way of the story.
And being honest: mods really really make this game shine like no other game I have played as they introduce enhancements to the hud, the combat, the graphics, the menus and lots of other little details. I deeply recommend you to play this beast of a game with at least 20 non inmmersion breaking mods and oooh man... you're gonna love it
Well after all, some people like eating shit :D
First time on your channel, VERY impressive work my friend you deserve everything, it is nice to see such an in depth analysis of one of my personal favorite games of all time
I just bought this game and I absolutely hate it. About 30 hours of gameplay in. I wish I never bought it. Gwent is the best part of the whole game. 3/10 stars. Too boring
I love the way you talk about this beautiful experience. You Sir, Keep on trucking and speaking about games the way you do. I love every second of your videos. I've spent around 100 hours in this world. It was beautiful. Watching this years after playing, I feel the need to play again. It Deserves it. Especially since I originally played on a Day 1 PS4. Now, I'm installing it on PC through GoG. I'm hyped. I didn't play the DLC first go around. Blood and Wine, here we come.
Thank you Mr. Luke Stephens. Love your work. I can see you doing great things.
In defense of the movement during combat, Geralt is supposed to feel 'weightless', Witchers are, after all, superhumans (Geralt even more so, as he is physically blessed since birth, and because of that he was subjected to experimental mutations, making him physically superior to pretty much all humanoid creatures, including other witchers). And his way of fighting (meaning with all the fancy pirouettes and stuff) actually exists as an actual sword fighting style in real life, and Geralt's fighting style in the books, the first game and TW3 is modeled after that style. Also, as 'cheap' as Geralt's speed and agility may seem, it doesn't even come close to how powerful he was in the books (in my opinion at least). As for the difficulty, I recommend sticking to Death March difficulty and turning enemy up scaling on, you still won't need an awful lot of skill for the combat itself, but strategy will be required as well as using the alchemy system to its full potential.
Gijs Peters There is no defense. It was clunky. That is that. Stop trying to defend it.
Flamevectros11 It was in no way 'clunky', the combat is very responsive and streamlined, just not very challenging.
The main complaint from most players when regarding gameplay was that it was clunky. Don't try tell me I am wrong. It was clunky. That is fact, not opinion.
Flamevectros11 It wasn't, but whatever. "Haters gonna hate", as they say.
Something being clunky isnt a fact.
I never claim that The Witcher 3 is flawless, only that it is perfect for me. I am grateful that CDPR made it accessible to gamers, like me, who couldn't succeed at a Soul's game if our lives depended on it. The stories, the soundtrack, the facial animations all made it an immersive and wondrous game for me. Would I have preferred a smarter horse and not having to parallel park Geralt to loot?.....yeah probably:) I also wouldn't have minded less spitting(blech) and while I understand the reuse of lesser character models it was immersion breaking at times. Still, if that was how corners needed to be cut in order to make this masterpiece of a game, so be it!
I understand people have different tastes and those who must customize their own characters or must have stealth or must have true ranged options or must have combat so grueling that it makes them want to gouge out their eyes with a fork, are obviously not going to appreciate this game as much. I think, though, that some are just butt hurt that CDPR came out of relative nowhere with this fantastic game to knock whoever their chosen developer is off its throne and then rubbed salt in the wound by following exemplary consumer practices showing both respect and gratitude to their fan base.
Funny. I struggled with TW3 combat a lot more than all 3 souls games. I think I definitely died more in the witcher than i did in dark souls 3. But that has to do the fact that the combat in TW series has always been... well... not very responsive and accurate to say the least. Absolutely love both series of games though.
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Comin' up on 60 years old soon....if you enjoy trolling grandmas that says more about you than it does about me :P
Jalinah well said sir.
7 years since the game came out, 3 years since I played it for the first time. I have probably played it through 4 times by now, and just started my fifth playthrough a couple days ago. It's been my favorite game since I played it for the first time and I seriously cannot get enough of it. This was an amazing video, albeit two years old. Well done.
"The Ultimate Critique" Mr. Anderson might have something to say about that in a few months haha.
Fuck Joseph Anderson
I love how you just blow past having a mildly annoying conversation with an eldritch god in the first half hour of the game.
Eldritch god? Well well sir I think me and you could have an interesting conversation, I back that theory completely
Gaunter o’dimm moment
@@mafan-_- jesus, how i hated that guy :D
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4:12 - Main Quests
30:11 - Side Quests
39:01 - Environmental Story Telling
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Gameplay
49:14 - Dialogue Choices
55:00 - Combat
1:07:16 - Exploration
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@@user-wb8um6kd8f This was posted back when timestamps in the description didn't work on mobile. And I wouldn't be surprised if they still don't work on the iOS UA-cam app because Google doesn't update their iOS apps like they do their Android apps.
The first time I played this game, I torrented it. But while playing it I started falling in love with it so much I bought it on Steam out of respect for CDPR.
God I truly wanted this for CP 77
"Allowed myself not to use quen cause it's too op" Uses quen against a bear. 😂
I think that was just for background footage
fantastic critique video. thanks. please give this treatment to other games too
Will do!
and the dlc.
1 hour and 20 min. The ultimate qritique. Can you do bioshock next?
That severed arm example was an awesome catch. I never noticed it. Maybe on the next playthrough i will find more.
Gijs Stollman he made one for blood and wine 5 minutes ago
The bar is set so high, even CD Project RED couldn't reach it again #cyberpunk2077
Most impactful game I've ever played
"These games that are so lvl dependent" - well, that's the idea with a RPG.... If you could just dodge and win battles with pure skill, what would motivate you to look for sercrets, hidden quests, etc?
Still feels awesome doing the high level quests at a low level. I've always do Heart of Stone about 10 levels short of the recommendation. Sure I can't use anything I get from it immediately but everything feels so much better completing it. It takes patience and perseverance to actually complete the quests. Heck, I even did Blood and Wine the same way and it was really fun. Sure, some fights weren't fair at all at such a low level, but the stuff in the main quest was doable with some effort...felt odd fighting the last boss in the main quest at level 35 instead of like level 21 which I think is the recommendation for the last MQ mission.
@@DragonessYT problem with that is anything unique you get from it will be weaker than it should be. I'd personally rather not have items scale
@@DragonessYT the problem with that you hardly do any damage to them and then it becomes just a slog of a fight
Actually make them interesting?
@Mark Lucchese ight bro obviously you didnt find the town where people got turned into pigs. smh, one of the best side quests.
I was never a fan of open world RPGs but the witcher III had me entranced. Plus it is narrative driven which is what really made me not wanna play Skyrim etc
And voice acting!!!
I'm on my third Witcher 3 playthrough, first Death March run, and both loving it and thriving in it more and more thanks to reading the books and watching tons of videos like these! I so vividly enjoy absorbing the lore and details of the world and adding it to my role playing as Geralt whenever I pick up the controller. Such a beautiful game 😋
I have an interesting theory about the person in the training dummy at the beginning. The training dummy had a helmet with the nilfgaardian wings on it and the eyes of the person were blue. Could this be a reference to the nilfgaardian knight (Cahir - who had blue eyes and was described to be kind of "pretty") that Ciri had nightmares of?
Yes, you solved the mystery.
Nigga you're good. That dude who kept saying he wasn't Nilfgaardian? You're a genius.
Brett Gerardi That'd make sense
I think its Renfri. The girl Geralt kills in Blaviken to earn his name "The butcher of Blaviken. Renfri's hair was described as 'straw-coloured' and her eyes the "colour of the sea"
My man. You are a genius.
Great vid!
Although i feel like ignoring the crafting, potions, oils, bombs, and Witcher Gear really impacted your opinion on the combat system. Trust me it makes a big difference
Also the mutagens. A bit late to the party but that’s what really opened up the combat even more. The versatile kit you are supposed to be using is what separates the difficulty levels. The higher you move the more likely you will have to use your consumables and have to refill them with strong alcohols creating a never ending cycle of macro management and an immersive experience of going around trying to find all the components for every potion and oil possible so you won’t have as hard of a time with all the enemies. A real witcher would certainly plan everything out just like this otherwise they would fall like the witchers whose gear you are trying to collect.
A few decotions/potions plus Euphoria (from B&W) equals broken gameplay. It's virtually impossible to do DM without alchemy, but that difficulty becomes a trifle when you actually use alchemy. Combat isn't very well-balanced, unfortunately, but it still feels cool to play.
This remains one of your best reviews. I often come back here to watch it again on late evenings. Well done!
I'm just now playing it on PC in 2020 and it's great tbh very interesting I feel like I'ma be playing this game for years!
Please do Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine separately. For Hearts of Stone I would like to know your analysis on Gauter O'dimm as a character and the concept of evil that he represents.
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Great critique, but I disagree with you about the combat difficulty.
I see it like this... for people who just want to experience the story / environment and don't want to be hindered by having to worry about combat, they should play on the "Just the story" setting.
On the other hand, the higher difficulties are for people who are interested in the advanced combat systems like potions, oils, bombs, etc.
On easy and medium you will never need to worry about potions, oils, bombs... hell, even signs are unnecessary for those difficulties. But on hard and very hard you will almost certainly need to understand and utilize those systems properly.
So essentially I see it as a way of adding a necessary complexity to the combat as you increase the difficulty. To say that this game shouldn't have a difficulty slider seems silly to me. Unlike souls games, lots of people play The Witcher 3 for something other than the combat. Souls combat is balanced for gamers who want a challenge, but The Witcher 3 combat needs to work for complete noobs as well, hence the low difficulty options.
Edit: I guess I commented too early, didn't realize you were going to talk about the stuff below, but I think it just boils down to either preferring immersion or progression when it comes to combat.
As for the huge focus on gear and level, I can see why some people wouldn't like that. For example, why wouldn't you be able to kill a Nekker in Velen just as easily as a Nekker in Skellige? I do however think that it's necessary for this kind of game. If there was no player level, and all Nekkers throughout the whole game had the same health and damage, then I would feel no sense of progression in my ability. On top of that, the amount of quests would be extremely overwhelming. Even though at some points in this game I might have 30+ quests in my log at once, a lot of them recommend me to be a much higher level than I currently am which makes choosing my next quest and progressing through the world a much smoother process imo.
Also, when it comes to the floatiness of Geralt, I've found that accepting that this game's combat is not at all like souls combat makes me appreciate it a lot more. It also makes sense lore wise. Witchers are extremely fast and Geralt's combat style isn't about power, but rather speed and precision. He even compares it to dancing, and that's often how it's described in the books.
So anyway, this comment ended up being way longer than I had planned.
Love, Taylor
wow. this was the best comment i've read so far in the comment section. Everything else was people blabbering without any proper construction of the sentence or just mocking luke instead of giving proper constructive criticism
My thoughts exactly (although I would never have succeeded in writing them down as well as you have, good sir!)! Thanks for that and have at least a like and a reply. :)
Very true, but even on Death March you don't need to use potions or bombs etc. to be effective.
@Taycott Great comment man :)
@Taycott .... Amen
this is a lil late but just wanted to give you a compliment with regards to your own personal narrative and critique for this video. It is well structured and easy to follow while providing well adjusted viewpoints from various perspectives. Even with English as my first language, I find it a struggle to put words in such an order that is engaging and easy to follow as you did. So what you did here really impressed me and inspired me to get better at writing and presenting my thoughts.
So much effort put in this video, thank you!
I think one of the biggest immersion breakers I encountered in witches 3 is the looting system. More specifically, the fact that 99% of the NPCs in the game do not care if you loot their entire home from top to bottom right in front of them.
In many ways I'm glad they didn't utilize a sneak system as Bethesda did in the elder scrolls games, as I also find that system to be immersion breaking, but I do wish the NPCs in witcher 3 cared a little more about the items in their home/inn. I'm at least glad that guards care enough to attack you for it.
If it helps you can always pretend that people are way too afraid of witchers to maybe say something. I dont know ^^
Maybe they kept it as a running joke?
Robin Ekelund That's what I've always thought.
ive always viewed it as me just picking up random pieces of junk that have no value to them, but to me as a witcher is pretty useful. like twine, string or scraps of leather. i mean yah those things have value but not that much, its when you accumulate a bunch of that junk that you then use it to craft stuff. as far as like food and other stuff goes... yah i do kind of feel a little weird stealing that kind of stuff from some poor peasants, then again i did just save their village from an annoying noonwraith or pesky forktail, so whats a ham sandwich or roasted chicken leg in the grand scheme of things. plus, i am the butcher of blaviken... soooo maybe they're scared shitless and dont want to say anything lol
LOL. I always thought it added an extra bit of dark character. The guy is a master swordsman, a mercenary of sorts, and a kleptomaniac who understands that being a Witcher alone may not pay all the bills. Being in a medieval kind of time setting with far less security settings than what we have today also makes it kind of funny.
Plus, you could always just imagine that the NPCs are too scarred to actually say something to Geralt while he is doing it. Perfectly understandable.
Ironically, the song that IS stuck in my head is "Toss a coin to your witcher".
Where's the irony?
Gerritt94 an update to the game with this added to dandelions voice lines would be amazing
You ever heard that one song thats like whistling in skellige? Now THAT is quality. Same with the novigrad song.
for me it’s the one that goes ye yey yey yey yey yey yey yey yey and the one that plays while playing gwent
There Aphelion yes that’s what i mean
1:18:52 After playing Cybperpunk 2077 and listening to this, tears came to my eyes
Its all fault of the new management, the new director, tge guys who made witcher trilogy majority of them have left cdpr after new director got appointed so cdpr isn't a messiah anymore, they are just like anyother gaming company now with final goal of making shitloads of money
I can't agree with you more. Perfect analysis! Just one more thing regarding the immersion: the weather. It's just anoying how the trees are always swinging (even in the clear day) and the every day storms with thunders and heavy rains are just tiring.
am i the only one who beat the witcher 3 more thn 3 times n didnt got bored of the combat? i thought combat was great tbh
emerson uebinger me. I don’t think the combat is amazing but I do enjoy it and it still isn’t old to me
I've finished it 3 times and I think the combat system is the best.
It’s not a bad system but it’s just very simplistic
emerson uebinger I don’t understand who goes into an rpg and then bitches about combat. Not even close to the point.
@@daveyjoneslocker4703 Combat is integral in a game about killing monsters and enemies all the time. If you can't make it beyond the usual button mash that the Witcher 3 has been complacent with, I'm sorry but it really fails in that regard.
Almost all the weapons are swords, and almost all have the same fighting choreography, and that shit gets bland real fucking fast. Not to mention, Geralt always seems to forcibly home in on a single enemy, making you quite vulnerable from an attack. Comparing Witcher 3's combat to say another ARPG, like any of the Dark Souls games or Bloodborne, and one can quickly see how much of a difference the depth of combat is. Witcher 3 is just swords, while DS/BB have hammers, twin blades, axes, daggers, etc.On top of that each weapon can have multiple (unique) weapon choreographies depending on your input (e.g. holding down R2 or sprinting before an attack).
Although the design of the open world, its sidequests, and story eventually won me over, I cannot deny that Witcher 3's combat left me quite dissatisfied and stopped me from playing for more than 1 (and a half) playthrough(s).
What makes the Witcher 3 great for me is the story telling and the graphics.
The combat is fun but not excellent
The movement mechanics are ok but not great.
But the environment, story telling, quests, and characters supersede any of the game's negatives.
Glebinator I complete agree. I tried to like this game but I just couldn’t. The gameplay and open world were so horribly dull.
@@OLDACCOUNT740 Warning: there be spoilers here! You're right in the sense that the world is fairly static, but it's not designed to be a sandbox rpg (ala elder scrolls/fallout). You aren't meant to interact with every single NPC, in the same way that you aren't meant to "change the world." That's not your role in this story, it's Ciri's. The Witcher 3 is better when you become emotionally invested in the other characters (I didn't really care for the bloody Baron which is why it took me 2 tries before I got past it). It's about the impact you make on their lives and Geralt's. In addition to that your choices have heavier narrative weight the later you get into the game. LAST CHANCE B4 SPOILERS!!!
The choices you make in the game carry more weight in the world the farther along you get: in the beginning of the game you just affect a few people. Then you affect a town. Then you affect a city. Then you affect a kingdom (and potentially assassinate a King). They did this intentionally to allow players to become adept with how the game handles morality, so that the later you progress you become more capable of making decisions, and it reflects your progress in the game as well. The world and the narrative decisions you make grow as you experience more of it. I know I'm repeating my points a bit but they're worth repeating: I almost didn't make it through the Witcher 3, and I firmly believe the first act with the Baron is the worst one in the entire game.
@Glebinator Just keep chugging, that's the best advice I can give. The world is static at first because you aren't a player in the grand scheme of things yet. Your progress throughout the story will indicate both 1) Geralt's growth as a character and 2) your growth as a player. Also, you're right about the loot. It doesn't really do things different other than raise your stats. The combat is dull if you don't play on the hardest difficulty. But these aren't the things that the Witcher 3 excels at.
Warning: there be spoilers here! You're right in the sense that the world is fairly static, but it's not designed to be a sandbox rpg (ala elder scrolls/fallout). You aren't meant to interact with every single NPC, in the same way that you aren't meant to "change the world." That's not your role in this story, it's Ciri's. The Witcher 3 is better when you become emotionally invested in the other characters (I didn't really care for the bloody Baron which is why it took me 2 tries before I got past it). It's about the impact you make on their lives and Geralt's. In addition to that your choices have heavier narrative weight the later you get into the game. LAST CHANCE B4 SPOILERS!!!
The choices you make in the game carry more weight in the world the farther along you get: in the beginning of the game you just affect a few people. Then you affect a town. Then you affect a city. Then you affect a kingdom (and potentially assassinate a King). They did this intentionally to allow players to become adept with how the game handles morality, so that the later you progress you become more capable of making decisions, and it reflects your progress in the game as well. The world and the narrative grow as you proceed through the story. I firmly believe that the first act is the absolute worst part of the Witcher 3. You have little impact on the world like you do in the 2/3 acts. The bloody Baron is a boorish character and his narrative annoyed me. But if you push past that the game really begins to shine and it's honestly a fantastic experience. Let yourself care about the side characters too; they are some of the realist NPC's I've ever experienced, and by the time I finished the game I had a lead ball in my chest.
@@babadook1283 I forced myself to finish the game and while I can see the objective amount of effort and time that was invested into making this game, it just wasn't for me. The story and characters didn't captivate me - and quite frankly bored me. The dialogue bored me to tears not to mention the god awful gameplay. However, this is just my opinion and I am glad that you and many others enjoy this game. I have a high amount of respect for CDPR as a company, for their consumer friendly practices and obvious care and passion towards their games. I look forward to their future titles such as Cyberpunk.
@@OLDACCOUNT740 I'm glad you gave it a honest go at least. Sorry that you didn't enjoy it. I hope that cyberpunk manages to tick the boxes that Witcher 3 missed for you.
Just finished this game for the first time so I can finally watch this critique
this was actually the video that made me sub. im back 3 yrs later for a rewatch.
I liked the combat system a lot personally.
Me too. I see so many videos where the player rolls and sidesteps constantly and don't use any potions or oils. Very bad at combat. Counter attacks make combat so much fun and the execution of countering is very well implemented. I didn't see a single counter in this reviewers combats. Not very skillful at all.
simone buettner Alright so we got coconut, cream, nutty and chocolate chip.
Which cookie do you want?
Eat Me i dont know about simone but I'll have the chocolate chip please
Person gripe with it is that enemies 6 levels above you are damage gated and you do practically no damage. I usually ended up relying on Igni to do percentile health damage instead of whacking things with the sword. I played on all difficulties except Story Only.
SPPSports ikr whirl and rend is so much fun!
short answer: fall damage.
Just discovered you, and binged your channel since yesterday.
Really looking forward to your take on this one. One of my favourite games of all time (even with it's flaws)
The expansive fantasy epic from CD Projekt Red has emerged as one of the most notable games of all time and has raised the bar for open-world RPGs. Every nook, cave, swamp, and city street in The Witcher 3 offers something new to explore in its darkly beautiful environment that spans most of a continent. The Witcher 3 and its two sizable expansions are truly exceptional thanks to Geralt's skillfully crafted side stories, monster hunts, and unusual adventures. You might easily lose yourself in this game for hundreds of hours and still not see everything it has to offer, but every single one of those hours will be totally worthwhile.
Err... you do know that Geralt canonically got killed by a peasant wielding a pitchfork, right?
He can be oneshotted alright.
have you done the side qiest with the witcher from the school of the cat who slaughtered a village? if you let him live he tells you that the villagers tried to kill him and they stabbed him with a pitchfork and just missed his lung
@@diazespamvalyrium8990 that's pure luck, he dodged in the last possible instant. Geralt even has scars in the Witcher 3 from his pitchfork wounds, canonically, he's dead.
@@antonioskoda9516 Canonically he WAS* dead. Unless ciri reviving him wasn't canon for whatever reason
@@dutbud9049 the books are canon. Games are not, unfortunately.
@@antonioskoda9516 Why not? Aren't the games based off of the books?
Who’s back playing this game after watching the Netflix series?
Who isnt? Record amount of active players currently. I bought it for the third time; pc, Xbox and now Switch
I'm just now getting into it because of the Netflix series
@@Xylerius Get ready for one of if not THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME...at least for me. lol. I wish i could relive that moment again.
Me, trying to finish the game for the 3th time and dive into the DLC's for the first time :)
I am but only cos I turned the show off when Triss turned up! What a joke!
Whenever people complain about the combat in this game I ask how they play it and it’s always the same. You quen and dodge. If you make the gameplay boring it’s gonna be boring. You are talking about the combat system and show us the most boring combat on screen. You fight overlevelled monsters, you don’t use potions or oils, you don’t use decoctions, you sidestep more than you strike, you don’t counterattack. No wonder you didn’t like it. I loved it. And I say that as someone who played through (and loved) Dark souls and bloodborne. Witcher combat is an absolute joy, but you have to work for it a bit. Put it on the highest difficulty and think about how you will defeat the enemy before you engage in combat. It’s great.
I personally just like it. I'm not super hyped about it just because It doesn't match my style 100% but I don't get how anyone can say it is bad. I personally really enjoy the oils bombs etc. And sometimes just senselessly rolling around XD
What is most impressive about that first side quest is, you can go about most other side quests and main story and never set foot on the Nilfgaardian camp, so you may never encounter the lover. Unless, you decide to explore. There are no other quests or side quests that specifically send you to the camp unless you're already in that area and/or pick up a quest by accident. It's just too good.
when he said that he felt like geralt was floating around in combat, he has to realize that the combat was motion captured by a real master swordsmen and of course enhanced it a bit due to how geralts superhuman.
plus a master swordsman doesn't pirouette lol
there are no master swordsmen only showmen
At first I thought it felt floaty too but I became used to it over time
I like the floatiness tbh, remember gta 4 and 5 hand to hand combat? I hate that clunky shit
Red dead 2 gave me hope for games after I spent 2 years completing the Witcher 3.
RDR2 was the first game to even compare to W3. Unless I have missed some magnificent game that just hasn't crossed my path on steam.
@@johnmcelroy5804 Exactly
God of war was nice too, but its really tough to compare it to the witcher 3. Cus its not really an rpg but has rpg mechanics. Sure it doesnt delve as much into detail as rdr2 or witcher 3, but it gives a really heartwarming story about how life is not always about survival.
@@johnmcelroy5804 Persona 5 Royal... although it's not on steam right now 😅
@@kostasspirou1010 Sorry, but no, not even in the same league
Thank you for the advice. You hit the nail on the head man.
Spectacular review, I watched it to the end. I'm just about to embark on my 2nd playthrough after 2 years away. Let's go Oilers.
51:17 Someone else has probably already told you this, but during the quest "Payback", you can in fact refuse to steal the horses, given you pick the correct dialogue options during the conversation with Aegar. You end up in a fight with him, which upsets Ciri.
AtaraxisBE
Aegar was a dickhead. He tried to get Ciri, who is like a daughter to Geralt, into a crime. When Geralt refuses to let Ciri get involved Aegar fucken attacks?
Thank you, he's definitely right that you can't always say no, so it was very weird that Luke chose this as an example
The horse controls omg I wanted to kill my own horse 🐴 they need to team up with the reddead team to get the horse shit right lol everything else was amazing
"you stupid fucking horse" "get over here roache!" these dialogues should be made available to geralt in the game
Honestly climbing certain guard towers was impossible for me. I once spent like 5 minutes trying to climb a set of stairs. I kept falling off xD Never had problems with the horse or swimming tho.
I prefer the horses in Witcher 3 by far, or maybe it’s because I’m more used to keyboards but I couldn’t ride the horse for shit during my first Red Dead Redemption playthrough. I liked the swimming too but I prefer GTA V’s
Yea, horseriding in RDR was so shitty.
@Mayor Three Doge BOTW horse controls is the Standard. Nintendo got it right.
Very good review. Regarding quests and exploration; it never occurred to me to concentrate on the Main Quest. I approached the game that as a Witcher travelling between locations I would pick up contracts and explore along the way. Just as in Skyrim, I explored and picked up quests along the way of progressing aspects of the Main Quest line.
Playing the game for the 22th time and i NEVER seen the missing arm and the body in White Orchard.
Amazing detail !
I really loved the combat in this game, it feels real, i dont get why people didnt like it.
Same here man. I don't get it. I think a big part is people using the roll constantly. It's so much better if you use counters and sidesteps on humanoid creatures. I reserve the roll for AoE and monster attacks. For instance when he was fighting the human with a shield it was fucking painful to watch. If he waited and countered, he could have killed him quickly. Instead he whacked at the guys shield until he got lucky. Not fighting smart at all.
"fighting the human with a shield it was fucking painful to watch": Oh my god so glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. That was literally making me CRINGE. How does someone get to level whatever and not notice that shit doesn't work. And if he didn't understand how parrying worked he could just use axii. Maybe his critique has some legitimate points somewhere in there, but how can anyone take it seriously after seeing that fight...
+masterflashter we're cut from the same cloth here :D Sidestep humanoids, strong attack, roll behind, stab from the back, finisher.
+fili stinist how they go that level while still fighting like a newcomer? quen and quick attack spamming, thinks it's a solution to everything. and they critique the combat system :""D
That's a good question. I'd be embarrassed to post a video with such shitty combat technique. The combat is very good if you develop some skill as opposed to quen/roll spamming.
I'm a couple of years late to the party, but anyway:
In the beginning, when talking about the narrative of the game, I'm surprised you didn't mention the first encounter with Priscilla. I enjoyed the game when I started it, did a bit of side quests, did a bit of main quests and BOOM. The Wolven Storm. I was seriously hooked on the game when that song began!
Dude today literally just downloaded the game
FrttMs Imo Geralt feels like an unlucky main character who is constantly getting himself wrapped up in situations despite trying to keep a humble life despite saying this it doesn’t feel forced its welcome by the gamer (me at least ) and it always intrigued to find out more who is this person where was she during the Witcher 2 etc
Wolven Storm made me cry and I'm not ashamed to admit it 😎
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@@Arthur122293 So, did you enjoy it?
This dream scene makes me think that the dummy represents Vesimir, who was killed by Imlerith when the wild hunt invades Kaer Morhen. The frozen Ciri represents Geralt himself, who was frozen when the Wild Hunt broke through the main gate. And Geralt in the dream represents Ciri, who was seeing this whole situation and couldn't do much, until she lost control, and released her powers. In short, the Geralt of the dream was somehow in Ciri's perspective. At least that's how I see it.
You are actually right, because in the books their dreams intertwined each other in a specific situation that has already happened or is about to happen.
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