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'I belive in a sword. As you can see, I wield two of them. Every witcher has two swords. Unkind say, that the silver one is for monsters and the steel one is for humans. Od course, that's a lie. There are monsters you can kill using only silver, but there are monsters for which is lethal using steel'- Geralt, Last Wish. (sorry for translations, hope you got the spirit). `'Coen? Ah yes, I heard about him. He died yesterday, true motherfucker, killed at least ten enemies before dying. People say, that his silver sword is for monsters, steel one for humans. That's a bullshit. Theyre both for monsters.- She thougth'- Claws and fangs, The scale of Duty. Im not sure if its 100% accurate, but it shall be very similar.
@@yannmergezs2820 In fiction, armor is useless. Plate armor is good at blocking swords, to the point that knights had to bludgeon their opponent to death with the sword hilt instead of trying to cut them.
@@yannmergezs2820 Around 1:15 the King blocks a sword strike with the plate armor on his forearm, in almost any other fantasy based series, the man's arm would be on the ground. Followed shortly thereafter by his head. If Geralt hadn't come back, the guy would have died but his armor actually working AS armor is supposed to definitely kept him alive long enough to be rescued.
This game has incredible cinematics. The scream that Geralt makes was calculated as he wanted the assassin to stop attacking Foltest and focus on him, that and it was epic.
@@boyo4172 Let people appreciate small details that add a bit to the believability of a scene and a character's skill in a day where flair and cool scenes for the sake of looking cool without other reasons are flooding the market.
I actually think it was more akin to a war cry. No assassin is gonna stop while their target is in reach simply because some dude starting yelling. Notice how Geralt's yell got more intense when the chamberlain got cut down? It's because he was _pissed._
@@blacklight4720 Not all Witcher schools included the use of signs in combat as part of their training. Wolf and Griffin certainly did to varying degrees but Bear, Cat, and Viper were largely more martial schools.
Small detail i noticed is that when Geralt chopped of his arm and finished him, the viper assassin hit the ground before all the coins do, all that happens in only 6 seconds. Geralt is really fast
At 2:05 there is a frame where you can see that all the coins have fallen, and in the next frame they are still falling. This is done for more epicness, but yes, Geralt is very fast without it
@@Luckedge in reality both of them are fighting in such speed that the human eye would perceive it as a moving blur and its the same for letho assassinating the king on the ship
with fewer and fewer Witchers being made, and more still fewer and fewer people hiring them, some witchers ( a profession almost none of them chose), choose to disgrace themselves by allowing their sword arms to be bought as hired muscle or assassins. A man gotta eat but it is sad to see such professionals use their skills against the people they are supposed to be protecting.
@@AdamMoonyLes Which is a big deal considering lots of video game sequels have a bad habit of being completely disconnected from thier previous installments. Almost pretending as if the previous games never even existed.
@@alanchung6843 Except the decisions you make in Witcher 2 barely affects the story of Witcher 3: - Spared Aryan? Very Minor side quest difference - Side with Scoia'tel or the Blue Stripes? Doesn't matter - Helped Iorveth? Not even in Witcher 3 - Killed Letho? No affect on game. Spared him? One short side quest and maybe he appears in Kaer Morhen - And what ever happened to Anais? You can play Witcher 3 without ever touching Witcher 2. Major characters from the previous game do return. But they play no major role and neither does your decisions aside from making some very minor changes to the Witcher 3 storyline. What I'm saying is that your Witcher 2 decisions were not very important.
Because he was a chad, he walked into the battlefield with his soldiers and complemented them even, the true and last chad king of the Witcher universe
A small polish team that dealt in old games made a relativelly unknown title into one of the best swordfighting animations ever. And it only got better from there. I'm playing through Witcher 3 for the 4th time and still cone back to this epic scene.
2:03 reminds me of one of Geralt's finishing moves in TW3, only difference is that after he cuts off the arm and slices the belly, when the enemy is on their knees, he doesnt decapitate them.
Where do you think the term to disarm stems from? BTW: it was common practice in medieval Europe to amputate hands of prisoners of war. The idea was that then they are just useless mouths to feed once they return to the enemy... Similarly, slaying peasants or kidnapping them for forced labor, destroying farms, burning crops, poisoning wells and salting fields were also very common tactics.
No, Geralt would have noticed the blood and corpses anyway, so the assassin had a really small timeframe to strike. He messed up and couldn't kill Foltest in time, otherwise he could have made his escape before Geralt would have gotten him.
Love the fact that Geralt knew the assassin would deflect any throwing weapon without loosing focus and opening his guard, he then throws the pouch of gold and manages to get him off balance with the element of surprise, only then he takes the chance and deals the killing blow. That's some quick thinking right here. Also, did he collect every coin afterwards or did the King provided a second pouch? I guess we'll never know.
@@Temerczyk_Norman_Sador Given that he was serving the king in the beginning of TW2 I reckon he had his gold in a private chamber of some kind. Which was then confiscated when he was arrested. That said the gold would have been confiscated whether it was on him or in a personal room upon his arrest.
The assassin was probably just dumbfounded that Geralt threw his hard earned gold at him. Witchers don’t live in luxury and the fact they value gold to survive he was like “this man lost his god damn mind” 😂
@@Temerczyk_Norman_Sador Haha, in my first playthrough of the first game, I played Foltest in dice poker and won 13000 orens. Never seen any of that in The Witcher 2. And to this day, I haven't managed to repeat that win...
This scene still goes hard as fuck all these years later. Pre-rendered cutscenes were used as a crutch for engine limitations but they're far more cinematic.
Ahhhh, I remember seeing this for the forst time after finishing the Witcher for the first time. It was epic and hyped me so much for playing the rest of the series!
I love how in the first game Geralt has animal like tendencies like scratching, growling, and pouncing from on all fours, then he slowly turned more and more human in personality toward the third game
@@casualcookin3893 It's caused Witchers are viewed as animal-like monsters, a reoccurring theme in the series. Geralt just stops trying and conforms to these stereotypes
i like the animation styles of old stuff like this. There's something like bloom but not exactly bloom... gives it that final fantasy animation or assassins creed animation feel or something. Those animations, cutscenes, CGI... back then, pretty in their own way.
Imagine being such a bad witcher that you're fully prepped up to kill a king, his guards and possibly even have to deal with a witcher, and you lose to a witcher with zero prep, potions or extracts.
Because geralt is an even more advanced witcher. Think an mk 2 witcher. He had further enhancements done to.him which is why his hair turned white. Hes the only witcher like that
@@Rodrigo_A1 vesemirs hair is white cause hes much much older. Geralt is near 100 during witcher 3 so in the netflix series hes about in his prime I'd say. Vesemir is a few hundred years old at least I believe.
Easily one of the top 10 greatest cinematics/cut-scenes in videogame history! I absolutely adored the look of the Viper-School Witchers, this one in particular. He also was a fuckin badass fighter, he was wining this fight/melee with Geralt,, so much so that Geralt had to resort to some unconventional trickery at the end there to win it. Otherwise Geralt most likely would have lost, either by being killed or at best - suffer from enough major wounds/injuries to incapacitate him. So cool, especially seeing as how this came out back in 07 or 08 if i remember correctly. Side note, after having not played the first Witcher or seen this ending cinematic since soon after it originally was released, so i had completely forgotten what Geralt looked like in that game, (and even the existence of this cinematic), until i was randomly recommended this on UA-cam. So much so that while watching it for the first time in well over a decade, early on in this scene i thought it was some other Witcher and was like, "wait a second... I thought it was Gerald who fought this dude," until it dawned on me, that that guy was Gerald.
@@Undivided-X That definitely makes sense. Still pretty damn impressive knowing how fuckin badass vanilla-Geralt is/was. But Geralt being the smart and experienced badass that he is found a way to win, and in mortal combat that's really all that truly matters.
@@Undivided-X To be fair, this isn't the first time Geralt gets his ass handed to him and has to resort to a dirty trick. The books have one or two similar moments. He's very good, but he isn't actually the best.
IIRC there's also a moment in one of the later games (Witcher 2?) where Geralt talks to another Witcher and he says that Geralt has a noticeable gap in his defense mostly around his groin/hip area, stemming from an old injury he suffered. It looks like the Viper school Witcher in this cinematic spotted the weakness and took advantage of it via the kick. And yeah, Geralt is a damn good swordsman, but he's by no means the best. There are others in the Northern Realms far better than he is. There's one guy in particular I remember from the lore who's really, REALLY good. He's so good, in fact, that he's killed several Witchers and collected their medallions as trophies, even more impressive considering that he's just an ordinary human, not a Witcher or a Sorcerer.
@@Morlev44 Absolutely true, but you have to understand that those guys are like royal guards, their job is to stand there and keep watch for a long period time, a few days of having to stay awake could dull your senses and make you drop your guard and well.. look how it ended for them
Too bad he wasn't able to save Foltest twice! It was the only king in the game universe which I've kinda liked. Even if he had some special fucking habits.
I hope in The Witcher 4 his combat style is more like this. Feet closer together, using his core and balance to strike. The Witcher 3 is my favourite game of all time, but I think the combat animations could use more work. Tighter stance, looser wrist and more fluid core.
@@azuragoddess His story is finished. I mean he will be in The Witcher 4 but he wasn't major character, I mean i'm from Poland and his major Polish voice Actor confirmed that he will be in the game
Damn, I'm old. I remember that between 2007-2011, one of the most discussed topic on Witcher forums was identity of this assassin. It took four years to get some answers. Funny thing is, even though we learn almost everything about this conspiracy in the second game, we never learn who was this guy in particular.
He was in the background of flashback scene where Geralt and other witchers fought against Wild Hunt. So that means he was familiar with Geralt. Still unknown tho'
@@simonberzl7270 Could deflect any blade...that is the point in plate armor, you won't be able to cut it, you will need a warhammer/mace or some different heavy blunt weapon with spikes to get trough. Or a shot from a powerfull bow from close up, because even some arrows won't punch trough if the bow they are fired from isn't powerfull enough or the distance is too big.
@@chacharealsmooth941 If that's all it were, each frame of a photorealistic scene in a PBS renderer would have more aesthetic value than any paintings by the old masters. Bugmen are incapable of truly understanding things like beauty and power of depiction so, so they without fail resort to bean counting as an approximation of them. The human element in art is beyond their understanding. Go coom to polycounts or something, leave me be.
They still are. It’s not going to be a 100% smooth launch when you are releasing one of the first new gen games with an expansive open world hundreds of vibrant flashing lights. CP2077 was a bad launch but an overall great game
@@Itslilmoist yeah but unlike CP the Witcher 3 won 260 game of the year awards and was the most awarded game of all time until 2021 when it was beaten by the the last of us part 2. So yeah its nice to be stunned and all but people really loved the gameplay and the extraordinary storyline of Witcher 3 plus its graphics is awesome enough to be played and enjoyed on all the platforms it was offered. CP don't even come close to where Witcher 3 stands.
This is why Vesemir doesn’t allow Viper and Cat school Witcher’s to be in Kaer Morhen. And why Wolf, Griffin, and Manticore school Witchers are the most respected
@@Soradakanizat ursine witchers are not assassins like school of cat and viper witchers but they are not very friendly to other witchers even from their own school.
A future game that takes place around the founding of the first Witcher school would be cool. Or just in the earlier days before there were only like 10 Witchers left, maybe the main character could be from the griffin school
Man that Viper Witcher was giving Geralt the work. Bet you when he saw Geralt throw gold at him he was like “YOU FOOL! Why would you throw your hard earned money at me!?” Then dies ☠️
The memories from this ! Because i didn't even knew this was a game i'd watch this GMV on Die With Honor from Manowar with my little brother. That was sooo good back then ! And this is how i got into metal few months after 😂😂
What does not make sense is why the Temerians suspected that Geralt was responsible for the successful second assassination attempt, especially after saving Foltest from the first and helping them take the La Valette tower. Guess they really did not have any brains......
Geralt, being a witcher, was a nice scapegoat, expecially because the barons of Temeria were more preoccupied with gaining more power over the Kingdom. You should also note how Roche, head of Temeria's special forces, didn't believe Geralt was guilty.
The first game was the most lore accurate from the way Geralt looks to the kind of Signs it had to the fact that Geralt only carried the steel sword on his back in this cinematic (the silver sword was rarely needed with the decline in number and frequency of monsters and Witchers generally always knew when they were going to hunt and kill a monster so it was kept with their horse). The concept of two swords on the back was borne of necessity because players didn't have a mount and because the games in general violated the lore regarding the rarity of monsters for the sake of diverse enemy content.
@@bradyangbradyang the witcher geralt kills here,helps him fight the Wild Hunt along Letho and the other 2 viper school witchers,you learn this in Witcher 2
They could literally make a CG series about the short stories in episodic format with this level of quality and writting and it would be miles better than whatever Netflix is doing.
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Steel for humans, silver for monsters... gold for the witcher
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@@B0Sajwah O valley od plenty oooooo
@@KoD997 toss a coin to your witcher!
'I belive in a sword.
As you can see, I wield two of them. Every witcher has two swords. Unkind say, that the silver one is for monsters and the steel one is for humans. Od course, that's a lie. There are monsters you can kill using only silver, but there are monsters for which is lethal using steel'- Geralt, Last Wish. (sorry for translations, hope you got the spirit). `'Coen? Ah yes, I heard about him. He died yesterday, true motherfucker, killed at least ten enemies before dying.
People say, that his silver sword is for monsters, steel one for humans. That's a bullshit. Theyre both for monsters.- She thougth'- Claws and fangs, The scale of Duty. Im not sure if its 100% accurate, but it shall be very similar.
timangar Very nice! That post was so good, i had to write it under a screenshot of that scene :)
The fact that royalty is always in steel plate armour for no reason really saved Foltest huh.
And proves that it is for a reason and everyone should follow suit.
@@Henrikstinker should follow suit of armor
Am I right
AM I RIGHT
@@maximedurante7574 yes
kings were always high value targets
that's why he wears it
Geralt: saves King Foltest from a witcher
King Foltest: fuggin dies to a witcher at the beginning of the next game anyways
Sometimes it be like that
GOldenPROdigy115 it really do be like dat sometimes
Nope. Thats wichter 3.
@@bigbud6842Wrong Foltest dies in witcher 2 and Geralt gets blamed for it.
@@bigbud6842 You might have just mistaken him for Radovid there, bud
Would you look at that: plate armor actually working and saving the wearer's life.
dcbanacek2 explain
@@yannmergezs2820 In fiction, armor is useless. Plate armor is good at blocking swords, to the point that knights had to bludgeon their opponent to death with the sword hilt instead of trying to cut them.
@@yannmergezs2820 Around 1:15 the King blocks a sword strike with the plate armor on his forearm, in almost any other fantasy based series, the man's arm would be on the ground. Followed shortly thereafter by his head.
If Geralt hadn't come back, the guy would have died but his armor actually working AS armor is supposed to definitely kept him alive long enough to be rescued.
Kinos141 thank you both
dcbanacek2 thanks I see now
This game has incredible cinematics. The scream that Geralt makes was calculated as he wanted the assassin to stop attacking Foltest and focus on him, that and it was epic.
That and foltest actually using his armour to save himself, and the combat looking pretty neat. Good cinematic overall!
Err yeah, he screamed to get someone's attention, not exactly an epic 400 iq move. It's a cool scene and game but relax kid.
@@boyo4172 Nothing wrong with appreciating something you like eh!
@@boyo4172 Let people appreciate small details that add a bit to the believability of a scene and a character's skill in a day where flair and cool scenes for the sake of looking cool without other reasons are flooding the market.
I actually think it was more akin to a war cry. No assassin is gonna stop while their target is in reach simply because some dude starting yelling.
Notice how Geralt's yell got more intense when the chamberlain got cut down? It's because he was _pissed._
0:45 geralt walking away with a smile like “today was a good day”
Eli Veil "Ain't nobody gotta die toda- *sees bloodstain* Shiiieeee-"
Hmm...
Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
I got to say it was a good day
And of course someone has to come in take things too seriously and ruin the joke smh
I love how you can tell he's fighting another witcher based on his fighting style.
Actually, I suspect the idea was to conceal from viewer, the fact he is fighting a witcher. Otherwise they would have use signs.
Not really
@@blacklight4720 Not all Witcher schools included the use of signs in combat as part of their training. Wolf and Griffin certainly did to varying degrees but Bear, Cat, and Viper were largely more martial schools.
the do a flip and dance style. Funny how the witxher pushed him when he was behind instead of just backstabbing him.
@@winzyl9546 It would help if you have seen how other witchers fight before watching this.
Small detail i noticed is that when Geralt chopped of his arm and finished him, the viper assassin hit the ground before all the coins do, all that happens in only 6 seconds. Geralt is really fast
That and he manages to fight against 2 blades with one.
@@spikey288 Yea, 1:42 that looked really uncomfortable and hard to block with that big ass sword but he managed pretty well.
At 2:05 there is a frame where you can see that all the coins have fallen, and in the next frame they are still falling. This is done for more epicness, but yes, Geralt is very fast without it
@@Luckedge in reality both of them are fighting in such speed that the human eye would perceive it as a moving blur and its the same for letho assassinating the king on the ship
@@Sheogorath- BTW It is also probable that the witcher assassin also took elixirs.
2:00 TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER
Oh valley of plenty
That song is catchy as fuck. I think Netflix did a pretty decent job of adapting it. The Striga episode is one of my favs.
Oh valley of penis* 😂
that is perfect
No offense that song sounds corny and gay. They should revamp that weird bard.
2:00 he just literally threw money at his problem, didn't he?
And it was more effective than when Sekiro did it...
Witchers killing each other is the last thing I wanna see
Agreed
with fewer and fewer Witchers being made, and more still fewer and fewer people hiring them, some witchers ( a profession almost none of them chose), choose to disgrace themselves by allowing their sword arms to be bought as hired muscle or assassins. A man gotta eat but it is sad to see such professionals use their skills against the people they are supposed to be protecting.
@@Selvokaz viper school witchers are trained to be assassins to originally kill anyone who could start any big wars. How far have they fell
- Caesar same kind will always fight each other,its nature
I really hated when geralt had to kill 2 of his old buddies in wither 2.
I love how well this set up the Witcher 2.
It's almost like Witcher 2 is a sequel or something..
XD
@@AdamMoonyLes Which is a big deal considering lots of video game sequels have a bad habit of being completely disconnected from thier previous installments. Almost pretending as if the previous games never even existed.
@@nik774
Like the witcher 3
@@alanchung6843
Except the decisions you make in Witcher 2 barely affects the story of Witcher 3:
- Spared Aryan? Very Minor side quest difference
- Side with Scoia'tel or the Blue Stripes? Doesn't matter
- Helped Iorveth? Not even in Witcher 3
- Killed Letho? No affect on game. Spared him? One short side quest and maybe he appears in Kaer Morhen
- And what ever happened to Anais?
You can play Witcher 3 without ever touching Witcher 2. Major characters from the previous game do return. But they play no major role and neither does your decisions aside from making some very minor changes to the Witcher 3 storyline. What I'm saying is that your Witcher 2 decisions were not very important.
When I first beat this game, back in 2008, I really thought that was Geralt's clone or twin brother. xD
@Velocerbate Not exactly af, almost though, but yeah.
@@moisesfreire6408 it's okay man, apparently there are 60 people thought the same thing.
@@moisesfreire6408 Dude just admit you were dumb af, theres no shame in it.
@Velocerbate and you, ,of course, we're a genius who knew the ending before the start and finished it before it began lol. Muppet.
@@K4LZand..... another genius, who knows the plot of every game before the developers even finish it lol.
I have to give king foltest some serious credit he was able to hold the assassin for longer than I’d expect.
Because he was a chad, he walked into the battlefield with his soldiers and complemented them even, the true and last chad king of the Witcher universe
@@fungustheturd4004 He also banged his sister, true chad.
And the only reason why Letho was able to kill him quickly was that the king was too focused on his children.
@@thebandofbastards4934 also believe that was a blind monk but not an assassin and he realizd that bit too late.
@@fungustheturd4004 That's Radovid.
A small polish team that dealt in old games made a relativelly unknown title into one of the best swordfighting animations ever. And it only got better from there.
I'm playing through Witcher 3 for the 4th time and still cone back to this epic scene.
2:03 reminds me of one of Geralt's finishing moves in TW3, only difference is that after he cuts off the arm and slices the belly, when the enemy is on their knees, he doesnt decapitate them.
Now it is clear where Jaskier came up with his song
Lambert Lambert what a prick
Lamberrick XD
LMAO
even though the show was before this but ok.
@@gilgamesh7055 What do u exactly mean by that
So... 16 years ago it was possible to perform swords fight scene. Such a wonderful dance.
Witchers: low population
Witchers: kills each other
I'm not sure Geralt knows what the term "Disarm" means.
I think he follow to this term a bit too literaly
I mean it worked didnt it
He learned from Lord Vader.
Where do you think the term to disarm stems from?
BTW: it was common practice in medieval Europe to amputate hands of prisoners of war. The idea was that then they are just useless mouths to feed once they return to the enemy... Similarly, slaying peasants or kidnapping them for forced labor, destroying farms, burning crops, poisoning wells and salting fields were also very common tactics.
@@edi9892 bruh
This cinematic was so good
Why the heck the Viper witcher chose to attack while Geralt was still there? He could have waited liked 5 minutes and totally succeed.
Probably to frame him
No, Geralt would have noticed the blood and corpses anyway, so the assassin had a really small timeframe to strike. He messed up and couldn't kill Foltest in time, otherwise he could have made his escape before Geralt would have gotten him.
Agreed maybe its only for advertisement lol
Arrogance
@@Lerozyl Well as the guy said the Assassin could've waited until Geralt was gone and then enter the area and assassinate everyone there.
They should remaster Witcher 1 and 2 so that way most people who don’t have access to them could play them and get the full story line.
witcher 2 is ok.
Um. Just play them? Any pc should be able to handle Witcher 1 by now.
Wait until 10-25 years later
they should full rmk witcher 1 and 2.
found the console peasant
Love the fact that Geralt knew the assassin would deflect any throwing weapon without loosing focus and opening his guard, he then throws the pouch of gold and manages to get him off balance with the element of surprise, only then he takes the chance and deals the killing blow.
That's some quick thinking right here. Also, did he collect every coin afterwards or did the King provided a second pouch? I guess we'll never know.
Rather no, bacause in the beginning of witcher 2 assassins of the kings Geralt has not many orens i eq.
@@Temerczyk_Norman_Sador Given that he was serving the king in the beginning of TW2 I reckon he had his gold in a private chamber of some kind. Which was then confiscated when he was arrested.
That said the gold would have been confiscated whether it was on him or in a personal room upon his arrest.
The assassin was probably just dumbfounded that Geralt threw his hard earned gold at him. Witchers don’t live in luxury and the fact they value gold to survive he was like “this man lost his god damn mind” 😂
@@Temerczyk_Norman_Sador Haha, in my first playthrough of the first game, I played Foltest in dice poker and won 13000 orens. Never seen any of that in The Witcher 2. And to this day, I haven't managed to repeat that win...
This scene still goes hard as fuck all these years later. Pre-rendered cutscenes were used as a crutch for engine limitations but they're far more cinematic.
That's one way to explain why he doesn't have those 8,000 orens at the start of the Witcher 2...
Why? Could he not picked them up?
don't overthink a joke@@thedarkknight9021
@@thedarkknight9021 No. That is evidence for investigation.
it's clever though.Geralt was fighting strong style and was losing.he tossed that gold pouch quickly switched to fast style and won in an instant.
Ahhhh, I remember seeing this for the forst time after finishing the Witcher for the first time. It was epic and hyped me so much for playing the rest of the series!
CDPR, if you're not going to give us witcher 4, at least please remake this masterpiece.
The witcher 4 is already in development
@@kidzak98 yeah, but i heard that Geralt will not be in there, yet even tho the game sets in witcher's world but it still not "the witcher" for me T_T
@@butler3251 we've had 3 games as Geralt. It's time to move on.
@@abitofthisnthat exactly, I love geralt as a character but I want someone fresh!
Are you sure about that? o.O
I love how in the first game Geralt has animal like tendencies like scratching, growling, and pouncing from on all fours, then he slowly turned more and more human in personality toward the third game
Why was this a thing tho,are they more animalistic when younger?
@@casualcookin3893 No, CD Projekt just made Geralt more human-like in subsequent games.
@@casualcookin3893 It's caused Witchers are viewed as animal-like monsters, a reoccurring theme in the series. Geralt just stops trying and conforms to these stereotypes
Reminder that the Viper school witcher was winning, and Geralt lives only because he had a pouch of coins. Viper school is the school of chads.
tbh I was kinda rooting for the hooded witcher
that was a witcher?
@@SirToaster9330 yup. He was a witcher from school of the viper.
well.....now pit Witcher 3 Geralt against him......he would Murder That Witcher in no time
@@hulkbelowall9532 Geralt with his memories before Witcher 1 does. Letho claims Geralt is more powerful than him before losing his memory.
One of the best post credit scenes ever !!!
First Witcher have the best storywriting and puzzles.
Toss a coin to a Witcher..............or a whole bag
Nice.
Foltest watching these killing machines fight like 👁️👄👁️
in witcher 2 when you realize this particular assassin wasn't even trying to kill geralt
When fighting Gerald of Rivia, sometimes you need an extra hand.... Ok I’m walking myself out right now lol
I wanna play this with Witcher 3 gfx and controls
blackbrow x how do you know that?
@blackbrow x who told you that your gf/wife's boyfriend?
in the end of witcher 3 geralt clearly retires
@blackbrow x Probably a pre-sequel about Vesemir, or a spin off of Geralt in medieval Japan would be great games
@Gerardo Tellez 😂😂😂😂😂😂
i like the animation styles of old stuff like this. There's something like bloom but not exactly bloom... gives it that final fantasy animation or assassins creed animation feel or something. Those animations, cutscenes, CGI... back then, pretty in their own way.
Geralt is basically a Medieval European Samurai with supernatural abilities and he's fucking awesome.
Geralt is much more than a pathetic samurai
Just look at what kind of people they where in medieval times
@@hellothere-ij2ij Knights > Samurai
And he still doesnt wear actual armor.
Samurai were henchmen for big landowners and spent most of their time off the battlefields cutting down peasants.
Imagine being such a bad witcher that you're fully prepped up to kill a king, his guards and possibly even have to deal with a witcher, and you lose to a witcher with zero prep, potions or extracts.
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Geralt definitely got his ass kicked in this fight. Geralt was just a smarter fighter overall and caught him by surprise.
Because geralt is an even more advanced witcher. Think an mk 2 witcher. He had further enhancements done to.him which is why his hair turned white. Hes the only witcher like that
@@bignaaasty5096 vesemir?
@@Rodrigo_A1 vesemirs hair is white cause hes much much older. Geralt is near 100 during witcher 3 so in the netflix series hes about in his prime I'd say. Vesemir is a few hundred years old at least I believe.
@@bignaaasty5096 Vesemir is nearly 600 years old in witcher 3
Witchers are functionally immortal they only die when they fall in battle.
Looks like Geralt tried to use Wolf fighting style against an agile opponent
"Tis only a flesh wound"
Easily one of the top 10 greatest cinematics/cut-scenes in videogame history! I absolutely adored the look of the Viper-School Witchers, this one in particular. He also was a fuckin badass fighter, he was wining this fight/melee with Geralt,, so much so that Geralt had to resort to some unconventional trickery at the end there to win it. Otherwise Geralt most likely would have lost, either by being killed or at best - suffer from enough major wounds/injuries to incapacitate him. So cool, especially seeing as how this came out back in 07 or 08 if i remember correctly. Side note, after having not played the first Witcher or seen this ending cinematic since soon after it originally was released, so i had completely forgotten what Geralt looked like in that game, (and even the existence of this cinematic), until i was randomly recommended this on UA-cam. So much so that while watching it for the first time in well over a decade, early on in this scene i thought it was some other Witcher and was like, "wait a second... I thought it was Gerald who fought this dude," until it dawned on me, that that guy was Gerald.
Pretty sure the assassin had prepped with potions and decoctions while Geralt had to go into the fight vanilla.
@@Undivided-X That definitely makes sense. Still pretty damn impressive knowing how fuckin badass vanilla-Geralt is/was. But Geralt being the smart and experienced badass that he is found a way to win, and in mortal combat that's really all that truly matters.
@@Undivided-X To be fair, this isn't the first time Geralt gets his ass handed to him and has to resort to a dirty trick. The books have one or two similar moments. He's very good, but he isn't actually the best.
IIRC there's also a moment in one of the later games (Witcher 2?) where Geralt talks to another Witcher and he says that Geralt has a noticeable gap in his defense mostly around his groin/hip area, stemming from an old injury he suffered. It looks like the Viper school Witcher in this cinematic spotted the weakness and took advantage of it via the kick.
And yeah, Geralt is a damn good swordsman, but he's by no means the best. There are others in the Northern Realms far better than he is. There's one guy in particular I remember from the lore who's really, REALLY good. He's so good, in fact, that he's killed several Witchers and collected their medallions as trophies, even more impressive considering that he's just an ordinary human, not a Witcher or a Sorcerer.
@@Zaxares ,the man in mentioned is Leo Bonhart.
1:10, The sound I make losing on a boss fight in this game and forgot to make a previous save.
Foltest sounds like tiktoks text-to-speech guy
I think Geralt took the sentence "Toss a coin to your Witcher" too far...
bruh those guards are some mighty heavy sleepers
To be fair, the assassin was a Witcher.
@@mavezemagnifique yeah but you'd assume they'd come to help once screams begun and steel started clunking
"nah I'm gonna sleep this one out"
@@Morlev44 Absolutely true, but you have to understand that those guys are like royal guards, their job is to stand there and keep watch for a long period time, a few days of having to stay awake could dull your senses and make you drop your guard and well.. look how it ended for them
2:31 - so The Undertaker was a witcher?
Too bad he wasn't able to save Foltest twice! It was the only king in the game universe which I've kinda liked. Even if he had some special fucking habits.
I hope in The Witcher 4 his combat style is more like this. Feet closer together, using his core and balance to strike. The Witcher 3 is my favourite game of all time, but I think the combat animations could use more work. Tighter stance, looser wrist and more fluid core.
Geralt isn't going to be in the Witcher 4. It's an entirely new main character.
@@SamFisher007 Geralt is already officially confirmed for the Witcher 4.
@@Shinobi560 wait, what? Wasn`t his story finished?
@@azuragoddess His story is finished. I mean he will be in The Witcher 4 but he wasn't major character, I mean i'm from Poland and his major Polish voice Actor confirmed that he will be in the game
Still badass as all hell to this day
Damn, I'm old. I remember that between 2007-2011, one of the most discussed topic on Witcher forums was identity of this assassin. It took four years to get some answers. Funny thing is, even though we learn almost everything about this conspiracy in the second game, we never learn who was this guy in particular.
He was in the background of flashback scene where Geralt and other witchers fought against Wild Hunt. So that means he was familiar with Geralt. Still unknown tho'
Just finished the game snd watched this, best part of the whole game, ready for 2nd one
1:15 If this was any other universe Foltest would've lost his hand there.
I would like to think that the plated armor a king wears could deflect a dagger but i get where you are coming from
@@simonberzl7270 Could deflect any blade...that is the point in plate armor, you won't be able to cut it, you will need a warhammer/mace or some different heavy blunt weapon with spikes to get trough.
Or a shot from a powerfull bow from close up, because even some arrows won't punch trough if the bow they are fired from isn't powerfull enough or the distance is too big.
@@IonutzGamesMc No bow can pierce plate, not even a crossbow.
@@thedarkknight9021 Except bows and crossbows did in fact pierce plate, French soldiers in full plate were killed many times by English longbowmen.
@@darthkenobi6726 French Soldiers did not wear full plate, that is a fictional retell of the event.
Anybody remember the beautifully OP witcher vipers from the gwent beta?
Deal 1 point of dmg for every alchemy card in your deck.
@@zamaskowany12 Yup you got it! Was hella strong. I miss the gwent beta so damn much, didn't like homecoming
@@hitxmark404 Same I actually played since the closed beta when there was no RNG at all and Nilfgaard wasn't even a faction back then.
Everyone who played that broken deck is a pussy bitch
@@zamaskowany12 Nice man. I played since open beta dropped, put in hundreds of hours and loved it. Wish they'd return gwent to its former glory
I guess you can say he tossed a coin to the Witcher
Geralt took "Toss a coin to your witcher" very seriously here
"Screw the rules, I have MONEY!"
When you win because you remembered "toss a coin to your witcher" song
This came out in 2007. It's almost 2020 and this still beats so many modern titles in terms of visual beauty as well as action.
Now that is not true at all. The models are okay, great for the time, but doesn’t hold up to modern games.
@@BruceWayne-fj9bm Beauty (and visual depiction of power and grace) is more than just racking up the polycount or texture res.
With nostalgia goggles, everything looks beautiful.
@@chacharealsmooth941 If that's all it were, each frame of a photorealistic scene in a PBS renderer would have more aesthetic value than any paintings by the old masters.
Bugmen are incapable of truly understanding things like beauty and power of depiction so, so they without fail resort to bean counting as an approximation of them. The human element in art is beyond their understanding.
Go coom to polycounts or something, leave me be.
@@tiffles3890 It's not about realism. It is about being outdated. I'm sorry.
Everyone's not giving the Viper proper attention. He's a gigachad Assassin.
This was one masterpiece of a game
“For your toil, Jerome, a bag of lukewarm chicken nuggies”
“Thank you your highness, master.”
even at this time their cutscenes were already so smooth..CDPR was really an amazing developer before cyberpunk
They still are. It’s not going to be a 100% smooth launch when you are releasing one of the first new gen games with an expansive open world hundreds of vibrant flashing lights. CP2077 was a bad launch but an overall great game
Compare CP2077 to TW3. The difference is clear. Even with mods TW3 looks nowhere near as stunning as CP which only came 5 years later
@@Itslilmoist yeah but unlike CP the Witcher 3 won 260 game of the year awards and was the most awarded game of all time until 2021 when it was beaten by the the last of us part 2. So yeah its nice to be stunned and all but people really loved the gameplay and the extraordinary storyline of Witcher 3 plus its graphics is awesome enough to be played and enjoyed on all the platforms it was offered. CP don't even come close to where Witcher 3 stands.
That one 3 min. cutscene, made in 2007 is better, than whole 2 season show on netflix...
This is why Vesemir doesn’t allow Viper and Cat school Witcher’s to be in Kaer Morhen. And why Wolf, Griffin, and Manticore school Witchers are the most respected
Denbu ? What about the bear school witchers tho don’t forget about those ursine beasts
@@Soradakanizat ursine witchers are not assassins like school of cat and viper witchers but they are not very friendly to other witchers even from their own school.
It's odd, I think any witcher would kill Foltest in a fraction of a second with just a pointy stick
He was wearing a full plate armour and Geralt ran immediately to his rescue, this is what ended up saving Foltest.
Love this scene...they make it Beautiful...Thanks for that Beautiful Gane...🤘👍👍🤘
2:04 that moment you KNOW you fucked up
2:02 when you play witcher deck in gwent.
2:00
Press 'X' to toss coin to Witcher
A future game that takes place around the founding of the first Witcher school would be cool. Or just in the earlier days before there were only like 10 Witchers left, maybe the main character could be from the griffin school
Don't forget about one small thing - this witcher from viper school was probably on drugs and Geralt still managed to beat him
Still my favorite Witcher game.
If only it was re-made with the Witcher 3 Engine and graphics etc.
Many choices, romances and different atmosphere , thats real Witcher
@@ТАДАМ-ю4ж yes. I don't like remaster, but keeping it OG
Geralt's perfect strategy in beating that Viper School Witcher? "TOSS A COIN TO YOUR WITCHER!" and it's super effective! 😜
Man that Viper Witcher was giving Geralt the work. Bet you when he saw Geralt throw gold at him he was like “YOU FOOL! Why would you throw your hard earned money at me!?” Then dies ☠️
I like to think the viper was already juiced up on potions, and geralt haf to fight smart to win.
@ 2:02 when he dehandinates him, you hear a critical hit sound. You’ll only know the sound if you played the game.
2:02
- geralt uses "toss a coin to your witcher"
- *effective* -
- Viper witcher dies
Well turns out he caught on to the whole "toss a coin to your witcher" thing afteral.
The memories from this ! Because i didn't even knew this was a game i'd watch this GMV on Die With Honor from Manowar with my little brother. That was sooo good back then ! And this is how i got into metal few months after 😂😂
Foltest *exist*
Netflix : Gotta make him fat and ugly because he loved his sister
HBO: no, the fat one is Robert
Foltest in the Witcher game is more ugly. But at least in Netflix, being a fat it's suit his character more as a depressed king.
I thoughts SJWs were pro-incest these days... guess you need to be either black female or transgender as well.
talk about "tossing a coin to your witcher"..
"Toss a coin to your witcher..."
Malus edgelord vs deathmaster snikch (2019 colorized)
Toss a coin to your witcher ?
Hell he tossed the whole bag of coins !
just finished the game, was really worth playing 👍👍
Royal Heads of the Wall. Nice Foreshadowing of what’s to come.
Looking at this now, why didn't the assasin just wait for Geralt to leave? xp
Probably to frame him
To frame Geralt.
How was he supposed to wait until Geralt left if he had killed people in 1:06?
What does not make sense is why the Temerians suspected that Geralt was responsible for the successful second assassination attempt, especially after saving Foltest from the first and helping them take the La Valette tower. Guess they really did not have any brains......
Geralt, being a witcher, was a nice scapegoat, expecially because the barons of Temeria were more preoccupied with gaining more power over the Kingdom. You should also note how Roche, head of Temeria's special forces, didn't believe Geralt was guilty.
The first game was the most lore accurate from the way Geralt looks to the kind of Signs it had to the fact that Geralt only carried the steel sword on his back in this cinematic (the silver sword was rarely needed with the decline in number and frequency of monsters and Witchers generally always knew when they were going to hunt and kill a monster so it was kept with their horse). The concept of two swords on the back was borne of necessity because players didn't have a mount and because the games in general violated the lore regarding the rarity of monsters for the sake of diverse enemy content.
This was awesome
Fun fact: This witcher also helped fight the Wild Hunt at the Hanged Man’s Tree
What?
@@bradyangbradyang the witcher geralt kills here,helps him fight the Wild Hunt along Letho and the other 2 viper school witchers,you learn this in Witcher 2
I hope they make this a boss in the remake
Heh or a quick time event lol
He probably knew this guy if he wasn't amnesiac.
They could literally make a CG series about the short stories in episodic format with this level of quality and writting and it would be miles better than whatever Netflix is doing.
I just realised that Witcher 1 Geralt looks heaps like Witcher 3 Lambert
He should have brought his monster pet.
I'm so used to playing the Witcher in Polish that I was legit blindsided with the force of a freight train when I heard the voices in English