Downward Thrust Never had time to play it. Planning to do it eventually. Well, as well as learning C++ and eventually make a game myself, but you know.
so do eibhear or any other rich blacksmith/armorer. you see, i always dumped any armory loot on them but the next 3 days later they're already brimming with gold. at least runemaster didn't charge you for money for enchanting your gear. good thing for i always enchant the swords i currently use with severance.
@@rizalm.s.5994 My last NG+ on deathmarch with enemy upscaling was lvl 100 all throughout in a half red half blue build and wolf/bear grandmaster gear, and I found that maxed Aerondight + Replenishment was the best bang for the buck in the end. The heal that replenishment + Quen gives adds up considerably as you hit harder, and it saved my ass a few times.
@@HMan2828 my build was using full bear school revolves around adrenaline + potion (red/green) build. I could whirl nonstop since adrenaline generations greater than it depletes. at that point in game monster rarely gives me trouble, it's human archer that annoys me, so i enchant deflection and then whirl around until all is dead.
Remember this one? Lambert: "Never took you for a poet." Geralt: "Oh, but I am! Wanna hear a limerick?" L. : "Sure!" G. : "Lambert, Lambert- what a Prick!" L. : "Not bad!" Killed me 😂
@@Chris_KAy I was speaking on terms of the game. I would fully agree that if the conditions are true they should be treated better, but you can't make rewarding art without putting your all in it. Like it was said in the video, just because some people are unhappy doesn't mean the entire studio is aswell, but I appreciate your worrying.
I know... This game came out when I was in eighth grade, and going into high school. These past four years were actually all of my four years in high school. Oddly enough, this video was published on the day I graduated... Loved this game, but yeah time goes by sooo fast!
Blood and wine is still the best DLC ever in my opinion. So much content they coulda sold it as a separate game and people probably wouldn’t have been mad.
i’m one of the people who didn’t like Blood and Wine that much. other than the stuff with Regis, i just didn’t like it. well, no, i liked the story, i didn’t like Toussaint. it’s too... stereotypically medieval. everything the main games went out of their way to not be, they made Toussaint and i just hated it and almost everyone in it.
Blood and Wine definitely one of the best DLCs. Not only is it big and full of good story content, it also serves as the perfect farewell to the series. Hearts of Stone is imo underrated because it’s a little shorter but it has Gaunter O’Dimm, one of my favorite villains of any media/literature.
@@DuFREAKY "it’s too... stereotypically medieval" - but this is exactly how it was portrayed in the book - high medieval times fairytale kicked up to 11. It looked cheesy at the top layer, but that was the whole idea. The more dark and brutal reality is there, hidden below the colorful and fancy stuff. But I get that you may not like it, as it is so different when compared to Velen or Skellige.
Toussaint is breathtaking. Recall when you first go there and you get to see the castle in the background, rolling hills, and clear blue skies, fields of red flowers...ugh. Jawdropping.
@@tl4038 have to try it then. I meant, that witcher has so many different soundtracks. I love, fir ecample, the lotr ost, but its all around the same theme. If u know what i meam
The great thing about the battle of Kaern Morhen is not the battle itself, rather the build up that got to it, when the buildup is great the climax of the event will be even more rewarding.
Console commands, cheat engine. Two major ways to cheat. I took 9999999999 coins at the beginning of the game. Never had worry about the coins anymore.
@@Samirxkhan Well. Id say the DLC of Bloodborne is still better imo. Slightly better and more awesome. Blood and Wine has gameplay, but Hearts of Stone hands down has the better questline and story. EASY.
@@tl4038 eh, I wouldn't even compare. They're soo different. I prefer the soulsbourne games over the Witcher games (and similar titles) by I would never compare them. It's like comparing an Apple to Orange. They're completely different. They're not an Apple and a Pear.
me totaling above 500 hrs including all the DLC. putting off to finishing blood and wine because I feel sad to end the game. I am in the final mission now I have to finish it .. I don't want it to go.
@@I_Cunt_Spell Personal opinion, which I don't mind. I enjoyed the game, and so did many others so let us enjoy it. I'm aware TW3 had many issues, but I overlooked some of them because I enjoyed the game too much. EDIT: I'm refering to your first comment btw
if you raid some camps and pick up every gear they've got and sell it you can make a shit tone of money. the only downside is having to go back to the shop with while being over weight.
@@thedarkwolf6967 Quite truh, I raised 1/4 mil at the end of B&W and still have my storeage full of of gear. Did the compete Skellinge diving tour in between.
@John James Rambo gta online is still one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences despite all the microtransactions, i have played over 30 days of it and never spent anything
@@RimoltFreeGuy GTAV is the best in mechanic and gameplay, but for narrative, I don't think there is a game that surpasses TW3 DA Inquisition is the best choice-matter game too(except for the main story ending, it sucks).
Gavin The Englishman I didn’t.... dude, I simply said get a life as he feels the need to correct someone on a subjective subject when the original comment was just voicing an opinion
Bought it on release date, still play it daily today. TW3 has something that almost no other game have. For example, recently I finished AC Odyssey with its amazing large open world. It contains many cities, but it lacks some kind of soul, love, passion, which makes it every time just a random, boring city. While TW3 only has two major cities, Novigrad and Oxenfurt, but it gives me so much more compared to all those cities in AC Odyssey. I'm still not tired of Novigrad, and on the other hand, I already forgot most places in Odyssey. TW3 is a gem in many ways.
Odyssey is great, I just started it 3 weeks ago after completing the DLC content for TW3. But while I'm loving the game it doesn't have the same feel. The towns, the music, the people and vibe you get from each area is incredible in TW3. Very immersive. I get on the game just to capture that feeling again.
Big problem with AC ODYSSEY is shallow dialogue, for example in that one questline where you help the rebels kill podarkes the cruel. I killed Podarkes right after meeting Kyra because he was a cultist and i alreaddy wanted to kill him, but the entire questline she completely ignores the fact that i killed him even when i told her that he is actually her father after finding evidance about it. Other than some shallow dialogue the game itself is fun as hell
I spend 200 hours on AC odyssey and i spend 300 + hours on witcher 3. After 200 hours on AC odyssey including dlc I never want to touch it again. After witcher including expansion I want to play it again
I'm a huge AC fan and I previously thought Odyssey was the best thing ever. Then I played the Witcher 3 a couple months ago and my perspective changed entirely.
@Unkind1Baby Absolutely not true. The characters, the story, the atmosphere, I mean everything in the Witcher 3 was better than Odyssey. What came first has nothing to do with it.
my gaming experience is not the same as it was before Witcher 3, it has changed a lot and I do not want to miss such a quality in games anymore. Thank you CDPR!!!
I’m playing this for the first time. I’m so loving every minute. I’ve experienced terror laughter love - having to remember to breathe it’s so intense. I screamed with laughter over the the drunk scene. My jaw dropped during the love making scenes, whew! The depth of the quests and so original. I finished the main story line and reloaded a previous save so I can continue to explore and open all “?” Marked areas and do all quests before. I wish for one thing tho..a place at night For Geralt and Triss (my choice) to cuddle up together :) I still have expansions to do also. Just the most amazing game I’ve ever played.
I'm playing Witcher 3 since end of 2017. I had some breaks from playing this but I've finished main + first DLC. Right now I have a break and I'm reading the books :). After that I will continue with Blood & Wine (waiting in mean time for Cyberpunk 2077).
Same here! Been playing since about 1985, and The Witcher 3 is probably the best game ever. Maybe with the exception of Doom in 1993. That was incredible at the time.
@@Chrisbajs Playing since 1984 and just the same here. For me it is Elite+ on Amiga, Counter-Strike for MP, Diablo 3 as Hack&Slash and Witcher 3 as a story based single-player. Those are my all-time Favorites.
Same here, playing since mid 80s. I started to play this game a few weeks ago and I don't want to stop. I am on holiday since last weekend and far from my PC, I want to go hooooooome :-) Great game is an understatement, made me pre order Cyberpunk 2077 (my first pre order since 2013).
Bro i feel you. I was looking at my own steam acct yesterday and it said I had like 1084 hrs in this "interactive movie" cause its not a game. I try to space out my play thoughs so it feels refreshing but god dang its hard! As soon as I play another "triple A" title I find myself going back to TW3.
@@splintercelloo7 know what you mean, i have kinda stoped playing AAA games coz they are not what they are supposed to be, next one i have hopes for is steampunk, i hope they dont fall in to the ingameshop crap that all other companies today do to earn a few quickbucks and continues to focus on a good story, characters and character development
I've played all the Mass Effect games like 6-7 times (except Andromeda, which I've only played twice) and I fear The Witcher III will become like that. I'm playing it for the first time now and I don't think it will be long until I return to it.
I thought that fiend was killable even as a low level character because why else would they implement in the game. Waste hours trying to kill, I was determined to do it even as I see my damage doing like 1 point of damage. In the end gave up and look up for it, felt like a fool.
@@Claude-Vanlalhruaia I only had like 30 hours in and like lv25 maybe it took like 4+ hours to kill it dealing like 20 damage a hit. I wanted to see if it'd die.
Witcher 3 feels like Game of Thrones (well...the first 4 seasons at least] in video game form. Actual mature storytelling, incredible world building, deep characters with good conversations, it’s freaking amazing
I swear The Witcher 3 Open World Experience, is the masterpiece of this Generation of consoles. hell its even better than Red Dead Redemption 2 Open World Design.
I'm still playing. Roaming Toussaint during the day keeping the moster population down, then it's back to Corvo Bianco in the evening where Marlene has prepared a lovely meal. And then I stay up late with Ciri and we watch the stars drinking a bottle of Est Est.
The pure quality of The Witcher 3 makes me want Cyberpunk 2077 so damn bad. It may be hard to reach Witcher 3 levels of Quality, but if anyone can do it, it's CDPR
Maiq The Liar Considering the only real quality of the game was it's writing and story elements Cyberpunk 2077 can easily reach The Witcher 3 levels of quality.
@@gamersinger5118 The open world with lots of memorable (side)quests to do, great graphics and animation dont matter apparently. I liked the combat as well
@@joris8032 side quests is story content. Graphics does not make a game by any means and never did. That isn't what I am talking about when I talk about the physical world design anyway. Take for instance. you have a massive world but it is so empty. It is filled with points of interest marked initially as question marks which destroys exploration by doing so without having to find them yourself. Those small points of interest are also small, insignificant, and copy/pasted to the point that it is ridiculous. Not to mention you have very few traversal options, the horse doesn't even control that well, and fast travel is very flawed as well because of the spacing between travel posts. It is fine that you liked the combat if that is your thing but it is very poorly designed and unbalanced especially with the use of that Quen power being so overpowered. The combat system itself is so basic and I can't even begin to explain all the problems with the leveling system. My point is that the game is a good game but it is certainly not a good game for being an open world game or even for it's combat. It is a good game for being an RPG but nothing more.
@Leone Abbacchio tbh i have a hard time deciding between these two games.. both are in a masterclass level i'd love to play a witcher 3 with rdr2 graphics and controls...
I’ve just bought this game for the first time ever literally 2 weeks. With no pre-existing knowledge of the game, I didn’t really know what I was getting into. But a couple hours in I was blown away and completely immersed. I couldn’t believe it was 5 years old and still this feels like a completely fresh and new experience. I couldn’t imagine how amazing this game would be when it first came out.
Jokes on him,there was a way to farm pigs for hide and sell it for coin.XD I think i farmed for hours to have coin in general,and in the end i got the ursine and feline grandmaster sets.
Remains my favourite game of all time. I wasn’t a fan of the second game so I didn’t have high expectations, and it blew all expectations out the water. I’ve never put so many hours into a single player game before. Unlike Skyrim, the story is phenomenal, the characters are incredible, the side quests are unique and memorable and the dlc is some of, if not the best ever made. An utter masterpiece
I feel like I'm the only one that didn't truly enjoy witcher 3. I played through it cause the story was awesome. Still is the most in depth story of any single player game I've ever played. But the game itself was kinda boring imo
@@Ryan-ni7mo Nothing wrong, i dont see why a lot of people write the same as yours, maybe they see that this game has some of the highest acclaim in the gaming community and they feel they have bad taste for not liking it, i say its ok, maybe its not for you, the great thing however is you do acknowledge its quality, big respect to you.
Just finished Withcer 3 + DLC's, for the first time in 2019. Never played anything like it, still can't belive i've got so attached to all those video game characters, miss it already, what a masterpiece!
@@antonmananis7541 trust me you wont be disappointed. The first two books are filled with easily digestible short stories which do a great job introducing characters without overwhelming your memory. And it's just so fun and well written. I'm excited for you Haha
This game is fantastic and still holds up compared to todays releases. I had never played a CDPR game before this and had no clue what I was in for. Well after the base game and the 2 amazing expansions it has became one of my favorite games ever made. Right behind Final Fantasy 3/6 and A Link to the Past
Guys, you need to be aware that many parts of Witcher are not fantasy. They are looking like real places in Poland and a lot of quests are ... part of Polish history and tales. I'm glad you all enjoyed it. have a nice day.
@@sirol97 Stories and folklore are based on unrealistic events but one should remember that many of them have their roots in history or folk tales where imaginary motifs are combined with those that took place. Many things in The Witcher, even his appearance, are modelled on the medieval Polish one. Locations are similar to places that can be found in Poland. The port crane is identical to the one in Gdańsk, the townspeople use texts taken from Polish films, you can meet elements from Polish literature or architecture. Troll, who sings a military song, actually sings a song from the times of the First World War, to which the creators of The Witcher referred, is a Polish song of the 24th Uhlan Regiment. "Wierszyk", which can be found on one of the notice boards in Novigrad, is a paraphrase of a poem by the Polish poet Tuwim, known as "Poem, in which the author politely but firmly asks numerous groups of neighbors to kiss his ass" from 1937. One of the most famous Polish authors of the interwar period contained in it a satirical and blunt image of contemporary Polish society. The history of Wszelad is nothing more than a Polish story about "Popielu and Mouse Tower". One of the information boards advertises "the wedding band of Janko Muzykanta", singing such hits as "White Teddy Bear", "Miraculous Parents of Mums" or "Szła elfeczka do laseczka". (have no idea how to translate it). "White Teddy Bear" is a Polish disco song performed by various artists, which is one of the biggest music hits of the early 90's of the XX century. "Miraculous Parents I Have" is a song by Urszula Sipińska from 1988 and "Szła elfeczka do laseczka" is of course a clear reference to the Polish feast song ...... "The girl was walking to the girl's cane". All these songs are connected by the fact that they often resound at Polish weddings. In the village of Biały Sad in Dziki Gon, we meet a peasant called Borina. This is, of course, a reference to the protagonist of Władysław Reymont's novel "Chłopi" ("Peasants"). The figure of Guślarz himself is a cultural reference. This is our native equivalent of a shaman and a witch doctor. Guslarz is a person who makes gouache, i.e. simple and familiar rural magic. The word itself has existed since the Christianization of our country, but according to the Slavist Alexander Brückner it was only Mickiewicz who popularized it in his drama. Olgierd von Everec, the hero of the supplement, is a Redan nobleman and a leader of a company of robbers. He wears a nobleman's dress, is dressed in the county council, has swords at his side, shaved hair on his head, a moustache and a distinct scar, and expensive signet rings on his fingers. Doesn't he remind us of anyone? Of course - this painting is a painting by Andrzej Kmicic from "The Deluge" by Henryk Sienkiewicz. One cannot forget about the love of Algirdas - Iris. Here we will also find a reference to the "Deluge", because before her marriage to Everec Iris was named Bilewitz, while her beloved Kmicica was Olenka Billewiczówna. In the form of von Everec we can see not only an appeal to Kmicic from "The Deluge". The whole story of the cursed nobleman who signed a cyrograph with the mysterious Mr. Lusterko refers directly to the legend of Mr. Twardowski, who made a similar agreement with the devil. This legend was presented by Adam Mickiewicz in the ballad "Mrs. Twardowska". During our adventures in the addition of Heart of Stone we also find ghosts of members of the von Everec family. Olgierd's brother's name is Witold and grandfather's name is Kiejstut. These are, of course, names that refer to the members of the Gediminovich family, the Lithuanian duke's dynasty, from which Wladyslaw Jagiello also came! Together with the aforementioned Witold, we also visit the wedding in "Hearts of Stone". And not just any of them, because they are full of the atmosphere of traditional Polish feasts and full of references to Stanisław Wyspiański's drama, "Wesele" ("Wedding"). During the journey we can also meet a guard who hums the song "Rains of restlessness", a musical motif from the series "Czterej Pancerni i Pies" (Four Armored and a Dog). Another independent hero, marked as an old man, hums the song "Happy is the life of an old man", performed in reality by "Kabaret Starszych Panów" (Cabaret of Older Men). In Novigrad you can also come across a beggar who screams "Respect for the people of Wiedźminie Street" with a characteristic pathos in his voice, which is a clear reference to the song "Respect for the people of the street" by Slums Attack, a band co-created by rapper Peja. Many other minor references can also be found on the information boards. It is worth quoting references to the film Teddy Bear by Stanisław Bareja and the famous monologue by Wacław Jarząbek to the wardrobe. In The Witcher, on the board in Oxenfurt, we find an announcement starting with a sentence: "I, Jarząbek Vaclav, would like to warmly thank our King Radowid for the dissolution of the Oxenfurt Academy. As you can see, not everything is a fantasy.
This game ages like the finest (Blood and) Wine Just a true masterpiece in RPG design, capturing a magic like no other I can say a few words and trigger powerful memories in anyone who has played it. Don't believe me? The baron, Realising who his wife is. The Tower of Mice. Yen with poor Skjall. Ciri squeezing Geralts hand in Vizima. Every single magical moment with the wonderful Triss. Dijkstra being an absolute lad. "Mine?! But mine were black with soot!" Radovid's fate. Charles Dance' performance as Emhyr. Gwent. Morkvarg. Contract: Skellige's most wanted. (No spoilers) Drunk night with Lambert and Eskel. Ciri Snowball. Vesemir. (No spoilers) Keira and Lambert. Gaunter O' Dimm. (Don't read into his initials) The Crones. The "Bad" Ending and how well written it is. Letting Svanrige rule Skellige. (Most don't know this is possible) I'm barely scratching the surface of the surface on how many memorable moments are in this truly wonderful experience.
There is an actual "Gwent the card game", but it is kind of different than the one we play in the witcher 3. Took me a while to adapt but I found it to be pretty good and interesting
This was worth the purchase on the summer Steam sale! Also, you can farm crowns for grandmaster gear by grinding bandit camps. Just don't kill the final boss.
@@ferdiafitzgerald8378 Do you really think that Ubisoft's flagship (more of a canoe with holes in it) copy/paste trash is comparable to the likes of The Witcher III?
@@lightyagami8645 The Witcher III's combat actually takes strategy. You need to prepare for each fight, brewing potions and fortifying your gear to suit your liking, and utilizing the options you have to exploit the weakness of each monster you fight. If you don't do that, you will keep losing. AC: Odyssey is just another microtransaction-filled open world button masher like Shadow of War (which doesn't have microtransactions anymore :D) without the interesting abilities, great animations, good ragdoll physics and epic executions. Odyssey is like a 6/10. The Witcher III is like a freaking 9.5/10.
I completed whole witcher 3 without brewing too much potions it's very simple , you just most of times can't die against human and it's pretty easy with no interesting combos or it's easy to me becuase I played bloodbourne right before I played witcher 3 . Witcher 3 didn't require any strategy you will obviously do better with potions In oddyssey you actually have to make a strategy you either go stealthy or go to combat straight , you can't button mash in oddyssey anyways becuase they would kill you in like 10 seconds . Oddyssey simply gives the player more options in combat than witcher 3 do , like first is stealth , then there is a wheel of skills that you have to work on , like what would you do have skills that help in stealth on both of your wheel , have agressive skills on one and stealthy on another , or have meme skills like Spartan kick . Then we go go ranged combat in which it isn't even a trainer that oddyssey have 100 times better ranged combat like in witcher 3 crossbow do little damage , and you can't attack anyone by crossbow by one goddamn button but in oddyssey it's far more complicated in oddyssey and it have far more effect on your gameplay . Oddyssey defenitlry have better animations than witcher 3 Oddyssey skill tree is essential to the game itself while witcher's one isn't essential for you it feels just optional while oddyssey have more and better abilities as well Button mashing might work in witcher 3 but it as hell wouldn't work in oddyssey normal mode Oddyssey is a 8/10 Witcher 3 is a 9.5 out of 10 ( due to story , characters e.t.c )
It’s 5 years now and this game is still timeless. Nothing came close to capturing a similar feeling of “coming back home” when revisiting a game world.
I bought it on June 26th 2018 , spend amost a 1 month in total (between work and other stuffs) doing EVERYTHING on the game and acumulate by the end when i finished all , roughly 268 hours of game time. This last Saturday , i reinstaled the game , and start a new save game this Sunday (not from NG+ , but from 0) in Death March to start the game all over again. Why? because the game is THAT amazing to make me reinstall it after leave it for amost 5 months since the last time i play it.
the levelling scaling are quite terrible though and while the places makes sense... where are the damn toilets..? we were given home, so nice after upgrades etc, and my first question in mind was. "where's the bloody toilet..?"
And here I am reading the secong book, with the intention to read them all and after that play all 3 games because I want to enjoy this masterpice at is fullest
As good as the game is, Alchemy was really watered down and simplified, maybe they were thinking about the catual gamers IDK, the Witcher 1 alchemy was more detailed and immersive, I loved the fact that you could come up with random potions that either have a positive or negative effect on Gerlat, I hate how you only need alcohol to replenish your potions the Witcher 3, of course I know it makes the game less tiresome for some gamers but it really makes all those ingredient plants placed in the world pointless, I wish the system forced you to keep using the ingredients when replenishing the potions and bombs.
just one thing... ciri's dodge is too op lol (well i know she is basically a living legend). usually u just skip a dialogue in game cause sometimes it's kinda boring... but not in this one imo
Imagine if all developers would focus at the game being good and playable instead of trying to make as much money as possible... In my opinion games (especially The Witcher 3) are pieces of art
Man I remember when I tried so hard to get the right ending and raged so hard🤣 First I got the ending where Ciri died, then I got the ending where Ciri became empress of Nilfgaard, and finally after a week I got the right ending. Crazy bc it was so worth it!
Just started a new playthrough on Witcher 3 yesterday....it holds up very very well over time. I've got over 185 steam games and NONE of them are the quality of Witcher 3.
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Tell me about a time you went back to a game... 4 or 5 years later. Was it still a masterpiece?
Downward Thrust Never had time to play it.
Planning to do it eventually.
Well, as well as learning C++ and eventually make a game myself, but you know.
Grand Theft Auto 5, Grand Theft Auto 4
Spent 137 hours in that game and I still remember every bit of it.
TLOU is alwaya a masterpiece whenever I go back to after breaks away.
Downward Thrust Dark souls 1 and dont need to even say why
"You really only spend most of your gold repairing your gear." *Laughs in Grandmaster Gear*
That Ofiry rune master is now the wealthiest man in the world all because of Geralt.
so do eibhear or any other rich blacksmith/armorer. you see, i always dumped any armory loot on them but the next 3 days later they're already brimming with gold. at least runemaster didn't charge you for money for enchanting your gear. good thing for i always enchant the swords i currently use with severance.
@@rizalm.s.5994 My last NG+ on deathmarch with enemy upscaling was lvl 100 all throughout in a half red half blue build and wolf/bear grandmaster gear, and I found that maxed Aerondight + Replenishment was the best bang for the buck in the end. The heal that replenishment + Quen gives adds up considerably as you hit harder, and it saved my ass a few times.
@@HMan2828 my build was using full bear school revolves around adrenaline + potion (red/green) build. I could whirl nonstop since adrenaline generations greater than it depletes. at that point in game monster rarely gives me trouble, it's human archer that annoys me, so i enchant deflection and then whirl around until all is dead.
lol, the grandmaster craftman in Beauclair is the richest one
Remember this one?
Lambert: "Never took you for a poet."
Geralt: "Oh, but I am! Wanna hear a limerick?"
L. : "Sure!"
G. : "Lambert, Lambert- what a Prick!"
L. : "Not bad!"
Killed me 😂
The convo between geralt and lambert were pure gold lol
The witcher 3 is living proof that true art will always surpass the fakes thank you CD Project Red for being amazing
Exactly
Dude, that was really well said truth.
this game is exactly why people still believe so firmly in CDPR
agree but hearing about the conditions they worked this out doesnt make it as true as you credit it.
@@Chris_KAy I was speaking on terms of the game. I would fully agree that if the conditions are true they should be treated better, but you can't make rewarding art without putting your all in it. Like it was said in the video, just because some people are unhappy doesn't mean the entire studio is aswell, but I appreciate your worrying.
Ruined my RPG experience by playing this game... nothing can live up to this masterpiece
Some games like Ac Odyssey try but just doesn't seem to get there. Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty good though.
This was a terrible RPG game, if you want a good RPG play kingdom come deliverance
@@thefinalroman I heard that Ac: Origins is actually up there with Witcher 3, even if Witcher 3 is better in comparison
Ben Dover That game is completely overrated. Some many technical issues and poor voice acting hinder its enjoyment even if it has deep rpg elements
@@natedawg5309 Nice bait
What the hell? 4 years? Life, please, ffs stop going so fast!
The time pass but no amount of games will change the fact that The Witcher 3 Is The Best Game ever. © A Night to Remember.
Ikr, I had just turned 20 when this game came out.
@@EmeraldBayMovies I was 21 yo at the time. So sad I missed the release.
I was 17 just about to graduate high school when this came out...
I know... This game came out when I was in eighth grade, and going into high school. These past four years were actually all of my four years in high school. Oddly enough, this video was published on the day I graduated... Loved this game, but yeah time goes by sooo fast!
Blood and wine is still the best DLC ever in my opinion. So much content they coulda sold it as a separate game and people probably wouldn’t have been mad.
I love dawnguard dlc, and blood and wine looks amazing. Something about dlc's including focusing on vampires just is so damn cool to me
Shivering Isles and Blood and Wine are probably the best DLCs ever made
i’m one of the people who didn’t like Blood and Wine that much. other than the stuff with Regis, i just didn’t like it. well, no, i liked the story, i didn’t like Toussaint. it’s too... stereotypically medieval. everything the main games went out of their way to not be, they made Toussaint and i just hated it and almost everyone in it.
Blood and Wine definitely one of the best DLCs. Not only is it big and full of good story content, it also serves as the perfect farewell to the series. Hearts of Stone is imo underrated because it’s a little shorter but it has Gaunter O’Dimm, one of my favorite villains of any media/literature.
@@DuFREAKY "it’s too... stereotypically medieval" - but this is exactly how it was portrayed in the book - high medieval times fairytale kicked up to 11. It looked cheesy at the top layer, but that was the whole idea. The more dark and brutal reality is there, hidden below the colorful and fancy stuff. But I get that you may not like it, as it is so different when compared to Velen or Skellige.
I still play this regularly love just roaming plains of toussant
Toussaint is amazing
I have to buy DLC.
Velen is my favorite a beautifully miserable place
@@levon5574 I agree with you.
Toussaint is breathtaking. Recall when you first go there and you get to see the castle in the background, rolling hills, and clear blue skies, fields of red flowers...ugh. Jawdropping.
u missed the fact of soundtrack. imo no game has a so brilliant atmospheric soundtrack with so many facettes.
Nier Automata. Genre is not same though.
is a facette like a female version of a facet?
Dark souls 3 also has amazing sound tracks
I dont know what facettes mean, but Bloodborne imo has the best atmospheric gameplay there is when it comes to it this generation.
@@tl4038 have to try it then. I meant, that witcher has so many different soundtracks. I love, fir ecample, the lotr ost, but its all around the same theme. If u know what i meam
I will never forget the battle of Kaer Morhen, that was so epic and well done
Better than siege of Kings Landing
It literally was the best moment after "Meeting the Swallow" in the whole game. Yet, it is still the best.
The assassination of King Radavid!
The great thing about the battle of Kaern Morhen is not the battle itself, rather the build up that got to it, when the buildup is great the climax of the event will be even more rewarding.
One of the best and memorable battles in gaming history
Ghost ship? WHAT ghost ship?? Now I've got to play it all over again! YAY! :D
My thoughts exactly! I was like, "There's a Ghost Ship???" Now I can't wait to play it all over again!
Yeah it's somewhere near Hindarsfjall and Ard Skellig
Got 100% completion in this game, yet I never saw that ghost ship :P
There is always an excuse to play this masterpiece again.
There is always something to do in the island
God dammit... Now I feel like playing the witcher 3 for a millionth time..
Amen brotha, same here haha
Hell yeah
Damn, I just started it 2 weeks ago and have been loving it so far. I’m glad I picked it up
Lol, what a loser...
Paulo K not very nice
Arguably the most consumer friendly game made since the advent of dlc.
The original Skyrim was really great too in that regard
@@kapitanbeuteltier5889 The last great game Bethesda made.
@@RevanBC you mean fallout 4 ?
@@lightyagami8645 I most defiantly didn't mean Fallout 4. It's good but not great.
@@RevanBC that's not how you spell Fallout 3*
Skyrim was mediocre in every aspect. Except maybe soundtrack and exploration.
Witcher 3 is 100 % without a doubt numero uno the greatest game ever made story gameplay fun factor graphics difficulty
It’s the Goat
BS fanboy.
@@Daniel-Rain-YT or... someone who enjoys the game and doesn't pay attention to failed insults from fundamentally unhappy people.
@@Daniel-Rain-YT who hurt you?
lmao someones just turned 15 this year hahahaha how mamy games so you have kid?
Yeah but don't forget Nier Automata either...
"There's really no way to grind for gold or cheat the system-"
*Flashbacks to cow slaughtering and pearl farming*
*Followed by nightmares about some tax collector and a chort...*
Actually, you could farm fortresses in Toussaint...
There was also that bottle merchant in Novigrad.
@@misiek_pmt Everybody know i think :D
Console commands, cheat engine. Two major ways to cheat.
I took 9999999999 coins at the beginning of the game. Never had worry about the coins anymore.
The expansions / DLC for Witcher 3 are better than most AAA games.
not to mention all of the free dlc that 99% of other companies would use as micro transactions
True that. Blood and Wine, a DLC won GOTY 2016. A freaking DLC won GOTY.
@@Samirxkhan Well. Id say the DLC of Bloodborne is still better imo. Slightly better and more awesome.
Blood and Wine has gameplay, but Hearts of Stone hands down has the better questline and story. EASY.
@@tl4038 eh, I wouldn't even compare. They're soo different.
I prefer the soulsbourne games over the Witcher games (and similar titles) by I would never compare them.
It's like comparing an Apple to Orange. They're completely different. They're not an Apple and a Pear.
The side quests are better than most other entire games
Best game I've ever played. Spent well over 300 hours on it. I actually cried when I saw the closing credits rolling.
300? Pfff I've easily sunk 1,000 into it over the course of like 4 years.
Same. 856 hours over 2 playthroughs with 0 regrets.
me totaling above 500 hrs including all the DLC. putting off to finishing blood and wine because I feel sad to end the game. I am in the final mission now I have to finish it .. I don't want it to go.
@@swafsal bro i feel you
@@philwoj8112 gay
Bought the game on release, poured hundreds of hours into it... and I still come back to it from time to time just to live in the world of the game.
Had to install The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge
mod after 100%. Brilliant mod, gives me a fun objective as i walk around the maps.
Lol, poor writing, bugs and glitches are sooo amazing.
@@I_Cunt_Spell gtfo then. go play andromeda
@@Oryyyt
Just because andromeda is crap doesn't negate the fact that glitcher 3 is one of the most overrated games ever made, imbecile.
@@I_Cunt_Spell Personal opinion, which I don't mind. I enjoyed the game, and so did many others so let us enjoy it. I'm aware TW3 had many issues, but I overlooked some of them because I enjoyed the game too much.
EDIT: I'm refering to your first comment btw
"You don't need to grind for gold"
Blood and Wine DLC: Well no, but actually yes.
if you raid some camps and pick up every gear they've got and sell it you can make a shit tone of money. the only downside is having to go back to the shop with while being over weight.
@@thedarkwolf6967 Quite truh, I raised 1/4 mil at the end of B&W and still have my storeage full of of gear. Did the compete Skellinge diving tour in between.
CDPR is the only company I will trust with pre ordering
Rockstar too
@John James Rambo gta online is still one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences despite all the microtransactions, i have played over 30 days of it and never spent anything
And Naughty Dog
@@matthewm47 i agree CDPR, Rockstar and Naught Dog can never disappoint me
From software??
A true masterpiece, one like Witcher 3, is eternal.
The whole saga is a masterpiece.
cyberpunk might be the next masterpiece 👌🏻
And Nier Automata with it's fantastic story and characters.
The Witcher 3 is the reason why I wish they had pills to completely forget certain things so I can replay it fresh everytime
Right??
Jason Janova. Order 66 rich piana
@@chadwarden5039 get what deserve for not collabing with me
Glen tennis you couldnt be more wrong lmfao..maybe take the drug more than once and you'll have a different opinion.
So true..
Still the best game I have ever played.
Play some more games
@@lightyagami8645 last of us is a masterpiece to. But is to short. :(
Quantity doesn't matter quality do
You should play Rockstar games like Grand Theft Auto...The Witcher 3 pales in comparison.
@@RimoltFreeGuy GTAV is the best in mechanic and gameplay, but for narrative, I don't think there is a game that surpasses TW3
DA Inquisition is the best choice-matter game too(except for the main story ending, it sucks).
9:57 "They force you to imbrace the role playing aspects" - puts a green mutigen next to red talents
yes. synergy is a must
Embrace*
Is it worth buying for my birthday
@@IAmLif3ofdreads yes 100 % it may seem at first a little boring but after the first 5hrs you cant stop
@@ff-fd3ob I have the patience for it believe me
This game was way ahead of it's time. 10/10 best rpg of all time.
It still is ahead tbh
Final Fantasy 6-10 are better.
CaptainIronbat Get a life dude
Gavin The Englishman I didn’t.... dude, I simply said get a life as he feels the need to correct someone on a subjective subject when the original comment was just voicing an opinion
Best RPG true, but the game is kinda overrated. I finished everything in around 80 hours, and I took my time here!
Bought it on release date, still play it daily today. TW3 has something that almost no other game have. For example, recently I finished AC Odyssey with its amazing large open world. It contains many cities, but it lacks some kind of soul, love, passion, which makes it every time just a random, boring city. While TW3 only has two major cities, Novigrad and Oxenfurt, but it gives me so much more compared to all those cities in AC Odyssey. I'm still not tired of Novigrad, and on the other hand, I already forgot most places in Odyssey.
TW3 is a gem in many ways.
Flying Dutchman And Toussaint!
Odyssey is great, I just started it 3 weeks ago after completing the DLC content for TW3. But while I'm loving the game it doesn't have the same feel. The towns, the music, the people and vibe you get from each area is incredible in TW3. Very immersive. I get on the game just to capture that feeling again.
Flying Dutchman Origins had more passion than oddysey imo
Big problem with AC ODYSSEY is shallow dialogue, for example in that one questline where you help the rebels kill podarkes the cruel.
I killed Podarkes right after meeting Kyra because he was a cultist and i alreaddy wanted to kill him, but the entire questline she completely ignores the fact that i killed him even when i told her that he is actually her father after finding evidance about it.
Other than some shallow dialogue the game itself is fun as hell
i came to AC Odyssey just because of the romance, it kinda unique
Witcher 3 is better than assasin's creed odyssey.
Like if you agrre
I spend 200 hours on AC odyssey and i spend 300 + hours on witcher 3. After 200 hours on AC odyssey including dlc I never want to touch it again. After witcher including expansion I want to play it again
I'm a huge AC fan and I previously thought Odyssey was the best thing ever. Then I played the Witcher 3 a couple months ago and my perspective changed entirely.
Odyssey tries to be like Witcher.
@Unkind1Baby Absolutely not true. The characters, the story, the atmosphere, I mean everything in the Witcher 3 was better than Odyssey. What came first has nothing to do with it.
@Unkind1Baby I don't about all that but to each their own.
my gaming experience is not the same as it was before Witcher 3, it has changed a lot and I do not want to miss such a quality in games anymore. Thank you CDPR!!!
I’m playing this for the first time. I’m so loving every minute. I’ve experienced terror laughter love - having to remember to breathe it’s so intense. I screamed with laughter over the the drunk scene. My jaw dropped during the love making scenes, whew! The depth of the quests and so original. I finished the main story line and reloaded a previous save so I can continue to explore and open all “?” Marked areas and do all quests before. I wish for one thing tho..a place at night For Geralt and Triss (my choice) to cuddle up together :) I still have expansions to do also. Just the most amazing game I’ve ever played.
I'm playing Witcher 3 since end of 2017. I had some breaks from playing this but I've finished main + first DLC. Right now I have a break and I'm reading the books :). After that I will continue with Blood & Wine (waiting in mean time for Cyberpunk 2077).
In blood and wine dlc Triss can visit You if i remember it correctly. But ill say no more to not spoli ;) ps. Triss was My choice too :)
One of the best games I've ever played. I'm over 40 now so I've played a few ;)
Same here! Been playing since about 1985, and The Witcher 3 is probably the best game ever. Maybe with the exception of Doom in 1993. That was incredible at the time.
@@Chrisbajs Playing since 1984 and just the same here. For me it is Elite+ on Amiga, Counter-Strike for MP, Diablo 3 as Hack&Slash and Witcher 3 as a story based single-player. Those are my all-time Favorites.
PIs it worth buying for my birthday
@@IAmLif3ofdreads Yes yes yes
Same here, playing since mid 80s. I started to play this game a few weeks ago and I don't want to stop. I am on holiday since last weekend and far from my PC, I want to go hooooooome :-)
Great game is an understatement, made me pre order Cyberpunk 2077 (my first pre order since 2013).
getting close to a 1k hours and still cant get enough, wish i could play this game for the first time again, prob the best games ever made
Whew, nice. How many playthroughs have you done?
@@Oxygen97 3 or 4 i think, alot of running around exploring
Bro i feel you. I was looking at my own steam acct yesterday and it said I had like 1084 hrs in this "interactive movie" cause its not a game. I try to space out my play thoughs so it feels refreshing but god dang its hard!
As soon as I play another "triple A" title I find myself going back to TW3.
best game EVER
@@splintercelloo7 know what you mean, i have kinda stoped playing AAA games coz they are not what they are supposed to be, next one i have hopes for is steampunk, i hope they dont fall in to the ingameshop crap that all other companies today do to earn a few quickbucks and continues to focus on a good story, characters and character development
No clickbait videos compared to 6 months ago! Keep up the good work Downward Thrust!
Nah tomorrow's video "how cd Projekt Red killed THE Witcher."
UnknownUser The Witcher DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC, EPIC STYLE.
Remember when he made several videos about Sony’s stance on crossplay?
I really hope cyberpunk lives up to witcher 3's success.
Remember, nothing is as good as how our minds can create it. Cyberpunk is too hyped a game to live up to the expectations, sadly...
@@dr.embersfield1551 exactly I expected rdr2 to be some game out of this world but it's just like any other game with better graphics and mechanics
@@xchino0427 its a 10/10
I guess we will see at e3 bring it on i cant wait
@@nightking5907 cdpr are the best im convinced 2 great games and 1 masterpiece already!.hopefully the 2nd masterpiece on the way
Just started playing the game yesterday, I gotta say, the Bloody Baron questline could literally serve as a game of its own.
Just you wait....
Wish i could mindwipe any memory of this game just to play it again fresh
That questline actually almost ruined the next part of the game for me... Almost. Too good.
@@nolanhillhouse3266 when have you played witcher for the last time?
Still one of my favourite games of all time! The sound track still gives me chills... legendary!
Fields of Ard Skellig
The band's name is "Wardruna". Check em out on the usual places. Awesome music.
Priscilla's Song literally gives me chills every-time I play through this game again
You and XLetalis need to STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS GAME.
I've already done 4 playthroughs, PLEASE DO NOT TEMPT ME TO DO ANOTHER ONE!!!
Only 4?...you filthy casual
@@arbabosumandal6163 Yeah, me too. But I racked up 210+ hours on each one :)
you gotta crank those numbers up
Oooh! go on, do another one
I've played all the Mass Effect games like 6-7 times (except Andromeda, which I've only played twice) and I fear The Witcher III will become like that. I'm playing it for the first time now and I don't think it will be long until I return to it.
"Can't grind for gold"
*cow hide scheme intensifies*
Which they later patched in a humorous way, props to them
Which later was implemented in multiplayer Gwent as a card. Props to that, too.
I thought that fiend was killable even as a low level character because why else would they implement in the game. Waste hours trying to kill, I was determined to do it even as I see my damage doing like 1 point of damage. In the end gave up and look up for it, felt like a fool.
The boss is killable. But if you kill it another comes TRUST ME.
@@xnatedizzlex I know that it is killable at certain level but trust me you won't even put a dent when you're a low level character.
@@Claude-Vanlalhruaia I only had like 30 hours in and like lv25 maybe it took like 4+ hours to kill it dealing like 20 damage a hit. I wanted to see if it'd die.
Witcher 3 feels like Game of Thrones (well...the first 4 seasons at least] in video game form. Actual mature storytelling, incredible world building, deep characters with good conversations, it’s freaking amazing
King of the Wild hunt > The Night's King
@@1900OP Gaunter O'Dimm >>>> The Night's King
Is it worth buying for my birthday
Try books, you’ll like them
@@IAmLif3ofdreads Game totally worth it. Books are a masterpiece too
I swear The Witcher 3 Open World Experience, is the masterpiece of this Generation of consoles. hell its even better than Red Dead Redemption 2 Open World Design.
I have honestly never seen such detailed DLCs, such good storyline and such good mechanics
What good mechanics? quen, attack, roll, quen, attack, roll, rinse and repeat? ah ah ah
@@Daniel-Rain-YT have your own opinions, dont have to agree with everything in life
@@CB_here He's right lol
@@XxT0kY0DrfTstYlExX Thats up to you how you play it, easy or difficult.
How much is the dlc now on xbox
its not a "game". its a life stealing experience/
I'm still playing. Roaming Toussaint during the day keeping the moster population down, then it's back to Corvo Bianco in the evening where Marlene has prepared a lovely meal. And then I stay up late with Ciri and we watch the stars drinking a bottle of Est Est.
Such an idyll.
Thank you Sony for making the PS5 backwards compatible with PS4 games. That gives me an extra 7 years to enjoy this absolute masterpiece...
@Helicida Most of the games I'm interested in are PS exclusives with a few exceptions...
And you'll get next gen version for free as well no matter the platform
Just started the game AGAIN for the 5th time 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
I beat in 7 times already ( bought game in 2018)
I'm only at 2. I'm waiting to forget the quests a little to play it a 3rd
Literally only had it for a year and completed it 4 times with all the dlcs, I’ve poured so much time into it
Bought the game in January 2020 I've finally beat the whole game plus DLCS now I'm in new game plus to change the story
The pure quality of The Witcher 3 makes me want Cyberpunk 2077 so damn bad. It may be hard to reach Witcher 3 levels of Quality, but if anyone can do it, it's CDPR
Maiq The Liar
Considering the only real quality of the game was it's writing and story elements Cyberpunk 2077 can easily reach The Witcher 3 levels of quality.
@@gamersinger5118 The open world with lots of memorable (side)quests to do, great graphics and animation dont matter apparently. I liked the combat as well
@@joris8032
side quests is story content. Graphics does not make a game by any means and never did. That isn't what I am talking about when I talk about the physical world design anyway. Take for instance. you have a massive world but it is so empty. It is filled with points of interest marked initially as question marks which destroys exploration by doing so without having to find them yourself. Those small points of interest are also small, insignificant, and copy/pasted to the point that it is ridiculous. Not to mention you have very few traversal options, the horse doesn't even control that well, and fast travel is very flawed as well because of the spacing between travel posts. It is fine that you liked the combat if that is your thing but it is very poorly designed and unbalanced especially with the use of that Quen power being so overpowered. The combat system itself is so basic and I can't even begin to explain all the problems with the leveling system. My point is that the game is a good game but it is certainly not a good game for being an open world game or even for it's combat. It is a good game for being an RPG but nothing more.
I think the current Witcher 3 looks milions times better than the E3 footage personally
In some ways yeah but the E3 footage had more impressive lighting
The 173 dislikes are from water hags
This made me laugh so hard tho... lol!😂😂
We should find their nest and blow it up
i am actually started to play this game at 2019 and it was the best game i ever played better then RDR2
@Leone Abbacchio No, the quest design is kind of wack in rdr2 at times
@Leone Abbacchio tbh i have a hard time deciding between these two games.. both are in a masterclass level
i'd love to play a witcher 3 with rdr2 graphics and controls...
RDR2 felt rushed to me
This is the best game I've ever played and I've played alot.
Alright you got me convinced i'm gonna re-install.
Why did you even uninstall it thats like a sin
Somebody cast Axia on you!
Why would you uninstall this game. You must have been of your head!
I just bought this game, I’m already loving it
try romancing triss and yen at the same time xD
I envy you.
Gog sale?
Do NOT try romancing triss and yen at the same time -_-
Bought it 0.5 years ago and it was THE BEST RPG i ever played
Same
You know you can just say 6 months right?
@@Koomoee 😂😂😂
same :-)
CDPR: "We don't aim to make just a game. We try to make a work of art."
I've been chasing the Witcher 3 feeling for three years and it's been heartbreaking because nothing else has come close.
Agreed
No Zelda fans here
Try dark souls if you haven't already i get same feelings about soulsborne games as i do for the witcher
I’ve just bought this game for the first time ever literally 2 weeks. With no pre-existing knowledge of the game, I didn’t really know what I was getting into. But a couple hours in I was blown away and completely immersed. I couldn’t believe it was 5 years old and still this feels like a completely fresh and new experience. I couldn’t imagine how amazing this game would be when it first came out.
"The game doesn't give you that much gold and honestly you don't even need it"
*laughs in Grandmaster Armor*
Jokes on him,there was a way to farm pigs for hide and sell it for coin.XD
I think i farmed for hours to have coin in general,and in the end i got the ursine and feline grandmaster sets.
Remains my favourite game of all time. I wasn’t a fan of the second game so I didn’t have high expectations, and it blew all expectations out the water. I’ve never put so many hours into a single player game before. Unlike Skyrim, the story is phenomenal, the characters are incredible, the side quests are unique and memorable and the dlc is some of, if not the best ever made. An utter masterpiece
I feel like I'm the only one that didn't truly enjoy witcher 3. I played through it cause the story was awesome. Still is the most in depth story of any single player game I've ever played. But the game itself was kinda boring imo
@@Ryan-ni7mo Nothing wrong, i dont see why a lot of people write the same as yours, maybe they see that this game has some of the highest acclaim in the gaming community and they feel they have bad taste for not liking it, i say its ok, maybe its not for you, the great thing however is you do acknowledge its quality, big respect to you.
Just finished Withcer 3 + DLC's, for the first time in 2019. Never played anything like it, still can't belive i've got so attached to all those video game characters, miss it already, what a masterpiece!
I literally started my second playthrough...
*TODAY*
I started my 3rd a couple weeks ago, it ages like fine wine. Im still seeing things ive never seen before.
@@Smokez360 On my second play though right now. Still a phenomenal game the second time around and I'm sure it'll be on my 10th playthrough
I just finished the game with both of it's expansions and now my life is filled with void😭
Read the books if you haven't. They are amazing and have kept me engrossed for months
@@a_legitimate_salvage That's actually one of the book series I was planning to read :)
@@antonmananis7541 trust me you wont be disappointed. The first two books are filled with easily digestible short stories which do a great job introducing characters without overwhelming your memory. And it's just so fun and well written. I'm excited for you Haha
Play it again I'm on my 4th play through
Then it's the perfect time for you to begin a new game plus!
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Play it without HUD, immersion is so much better.
Witcher 3 is a masterpiece.
friendly hud mod is an essential
*Sigh*
Installation in progress....
For me this is the best game ever made
This is my favorite all time game. It's pure gold.
4 years and my younger bro still calls Geralt "Witcher".
Instead of Wichaa
The game that made me stop playing after a couple of hours...
...to read the whole book saga before resuming Geralt's quest :)
It’s to the point that I actully want to be Geralt
You forgot to mention the excellent soundtrack.
Funny this is, the background music of this video is from Witcher 1.
This game is fantastic and still holds up compared to todays releases. I had never played a CDPR game before this and had no clue what I was in for. Well after the base game and the 2 amazing expansions it has became one of my favorite games ever made. Right behind Final Fantasy 3/6 and A Link to the Past
Grumpy Dad Gaming my 1st cdpr game too
I still play this game once a year. 100 hours of my life be damned. Triss Merigold is worth it.
#TeamTriss
This game was fucking amazing. One of the few times I genuinely cared about what happened at the end.
Guys, you need to be aware that many parts of Witcher are not fantasy. They are looking like real places in Poland and a lot of quests are ... part of Polish history and tales. I'm glad you all enjoyed it.
have a nice day.
Polish tales and folklore is fantasy mate.
@@sirol97 Stories and folklore are based on unrealistic events but one should remember that many of them have their roots in history or folk tales where imaginary motifs are combined with those that took place. Many things in The Witcher, even his appearance, are modelled on the medieval Polish one. Locations are similar to places that can be found in Poland. The port crane is identical to the one in Gdańsk, the townspeople use texts taken from Polish films, you can meet elements from Polish literature or architecture. Troll, who sings a military song, actually sings a song from the times of the First World War, to which the creators of The Witcher referred, is a Polish song of the 24th Uhlan Regiment. "Wierszyk", which can be found on one of the notice boards in Novigrad, is a paraphrase of a poem by the Polish poet Tuwim, known as "Poem, in which the author politely but firmly asks numerous groups of neighbors to kiss his ass" from 1937. One of the most famous Polish authors of the interwar period contained in it a satirical and blunt image of contemporary Polish society. The history of Wszelad is nothing more than a Polish story about "Popielu and Mouse Tower". One of the information boards advertises "the wedding band of Janko Muzykanta", singing such hits as "White Teddy Bear", "Miraculous Parents of Mums" or "Szła elfeczka do laseczka". (have no idea how to translate it). "White Teddy Bear" is a Polish disco song performed by various artists, which is one of the biggest music hits of the early 90's of the XX century. "Miraculous Parents I Have" is a song by Urszula Sipińska from 1988 and "Szła elfeczka do laseczka" is of course a clear reference to the Polish feast song ...... "The girl was walking to the girl's cane". All these songs are connected by the fact that they often resound at Polish weddings. In the village of Biały Sad in Dziki Gon, we meet a peasant called Borina. This is, of course, a reference to the protagonist of Władysław Reymont's novel "Chłopi" ("Peasants"). The figure of Guślarz himself is a cultural reference. This is our native equivalent of a shaman and a witch doctor. Guslarz is a person who makes gouache, i.e. simple and familiar rural magic. The word itself has existed since the Christianization of our country, but according to the Slavist Alexander Brückner it was only Mickiewicz who popularized it in his drama. Olgierd von Everec, the hero of the supplement, is a Redan nobleman and a leader of a company of robbers. He wears a nobleman's dress, is dressed in the county council, has swords at his side, shaved hair on his head, a moustache and a distinct scar, and expensive signet rings on his fingers. Doesn't he remind us of anyone? Of course - this painting is a painting by Andrzej Kmicic from "The Deluge" by Henryk Sienkiewicz. One cannot forget about the love of Algirdas - Iris. Here we will also find a reference to the "Deluge", because before her marriage to Everec Iris was named Bilewitz, while her beloved Kmicica was Olenka Billewiczówna. In the form of von Everec we can see not only an appeal to Kmicic from "The Deluge". The whole story of the cursed nobleman who signed a cyrograph with the mysterious Mr. Lusterko refers directly to the legend of Mr. Twardowski, who made a similar agreement with the devil. This legend was presented by Adam Mickiewicz in the ballad "Mrs. Twardowska". During our adventures in the addition of Heart of Stone we also find ghosts of members of the von Everec family. Olgierd's brother's name is Witold and grandfather's name is Kiejstut. These are, of course, names that refer to the members of the Gediminovich family, the Lithuanian duke's dynasty, from which Wladyslaw Jagiello also came! Together with the aforementioned Witold, we also visit the wedding in "Hearts of Stone". And not just any of them, because they are full of the atmosphere of traditional Polish feasts and full of references to Stanisław Wyspiański's drama, "Wesele" ("Wedding"). During the journey we can also meet a guard who hums the song "Rains of restlessness", a musical motif from the series "Czterej Pancerni i Pies" (Four Armored and a Dog). Another independent hero, marked as an old man, hums the song "Happy is the life of an old man", performed in reality by "Kabaret Starszych Panów" (Cabaret of Older Men). In Novigrad you can also come across a beggar who screams "Respect for the people of Wiedźminie Street" with a characteristic pathos in his voice, which is a clear reference to the song "Respect for the people of the street" by Slums Attack, a band co-created by rapper Peja. Many other minor references can also be found on the information boards. It is worth quoting references to the film Teddy Bear by Stanisław Bareja and the famous monologue by Wacław Jarząbek to the wardrobe. In The Witcher, on the board in Oxenfurt, we find an announcement starting with a sentence: "I, Jarząbek Vaclav, would like to warmly thank our King Radowid for the dissolution of the Oxenfurt Academy.
As you can see, not everything is a fantasy.
@@AirsoftAddicted OMG dzięki.
@@bullet1544 My pleasure.
This game ages like the finest (Blood and) Wine
Just a true masterpiece in RPG design, capturing a magic like no other
I can say a few words and trigger powerful memories in anyone who has played it. Don't believe me?
The baron,
Realising who his wife is.
The Tower of Mice.
Yen with poor Skjall.
Ciri squeezing Geralts hand in Vizima.
Every single magical moment with the wonderful Triss.
Dijkstra being an absolute lad.
"Mine?! But mine were black with soot!"
Radovid's fate.
Charles Dance' performance as Emhyr.
Gwent.
Morkvarg.
Contract: Skellige's most wanted. (No spoilers)
Drunk night with Lambert and Eskel.
Ciri Snowball.
Vesemir. (No spoilers)
Keira and Lambert.
Gaunter O' Dimm. (Don't read into his initials)
The Crones.
The "Bad" Ending and how well written it is.
Letting Svanrige rule Skellige. (Most don't know this is possible)
I'm barely scratching the surface of the surface on how many memorable moments are in this truly wonderful experience.
Gwent is still one of my favorite past times especially coming out of a game. I wish they had a dlc just for more cards and people to play
There is an actual "Gwent the card game", but it is kind of different than the one we play in the witcher 3. Took me a while to adapt but I found it to be pretty good and interesting
Witcher 3 is the pinnacle of al games. I can't live without this game I am so in love with it
This was worth the purchase on the summer Steam sale! Also, you can farm crowns for grandmaster gear by grinding bandit camps. Just don't kill the final boss.
I think more Witcher fans should give Thronebreaker a go. Sure, Gwent is used for combat, but the characters, world and story are fantastic.
Downward thrust: Theres no way to cheat the system for gold.
Cows: Hold my hide.
Or pigs at White Orchard
@@LeviSandoval not as much effective as cow hide
Monte crane bandits: hold our swords
Update Fiend: Hold my horns
Still the best story driven RPG ever created.
Have u played ac odyssey?
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Do you really think that Ubisoft's flagship (more of a canoe with holes in it) copy/paste trash is comparable to the likes of The Witcher III?
@@utisti4976 in gameplay , it's beats witcher 3
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The Witcher III's combat actually takes strategy. You need to prepare for each fight, brewing potions and fortifying your gear to suit your liking, and utilizing the options you have to exploit the weakness of each monster you fight. If you don't do that, you will keep losing.
AC: Odyssey is just another microtransaction-filled open world button masher like Shadow of War (which doesn't have microtransactions anymore :D) without the interesting abilities, great animations, good ragdoll physics and epic executions.
Odyssey is like a 6/10.
The Witcher III is like a freaking 9.5/10.
I completed whole witcher 3 without brewing too much potions it's very simple , you just most of times can't die against human and it's pretty easy with no interesting combos or it's easy to me becuase I played bloodbourne right before I played witcher 3 . Witcher 3 didn't require any strategy you will obviously do better with potions
In oddyssey you actually have to make a strategy you either go stealthy or go to combat straight , you can't button mash in oddyssey anyways becuase they would kill you in like 10 seconds . Oddyssey simply gives the player more options in combat than witcher 3 do , like first is stealth , then there is a wheel of skills that you have to work on , like what would you do have skills that help in stealth on both of your wheel , have agressive skills on one and stealthy on another , or have meme skills like Spartan kick . Then we go go ranged combat in which it isn't even a trainer that oddyssey have 100 times better ranged combat like in witcher 3 crossbow do little damage , and you can't attack anyone by crossbow by one goddamn button but in oddyssey it's far more complicated in oddyssey and it have far more effect on your gameplay . Oddyssey defenitlry have better animations than witcher 3
Oddyssey skill tree is essential to the game itself while witcher's one isn't essential for you it feels just optional while oddyssey have more and better abilities as well
Button mashing might work in witcher 3 but it as hell wouldn't work in oddyssey normal mode
Oddyssey is a 8/10
Witcher 3 is a 9.5 out of 10 ( due to story , characters e.t.c )
witcher 3 is one of 2 games where i walk instead of running everywhere, because the scenery and music is that gorgeous to look at and to listen to.
What's the other?
@@thetrustysidekick3013 Assassin's Creed 2
I never skipped a conversation too. I even listened farewell, so long, time i was on my way when geralt said it every damn time. Love it
Yea.. bought it 2 weeks ago..well you could say I dont sleep that much anymore lol 3 hours sleep it is and then off to work
It’s 5 years now and this game is still timeless. Nothing came close to capturing a similar feeling of “coming back home” when revisiting a game world.
It's just an amazing story with amazing characters in an amazing world with incredible music...it basically did what Game of Thrones did to TV.
Sam But with a better ending
One of my favourite game of all time , I’ve played it through 3 times and about to do another play through .the atmosphere is amazing.
I finally just got this game a week ago. Doesn't feel 4 years old at all, and I am a absolutely as in love with it and I was told I would be
I bought it on June 26th 2018 , spend amost a 1 month in total (between work and other stuffs) doing EVERYTHING on the game and acumulate by the end when i finished all , roughly 268 hours of game time.
This last Saturday , i reinstaled the game , and start a new save game this Sunday (not from NG+ , but from 0) in Death March to start the game all over again. Why? because the game is THAT amazing to make me reinstall it after leave it for amost 5 months since the last time i play it.
You play 8 hours a day? Wow you must be so beta male
The Withcer 3: "I have the most beautiful immersive open world in a video game to date"
Red Dead Redemption 2: "You god damn maggot"
the levelling scaling are quite terrible though
and while the places makes sense... where are the damn toilets..?
we were given home, so nice after upgrades etc, and my first question in mind was. "where's the bloody toilet..?"
The WITCHER 3 is The Best game till today, IMHO))
And here I am reading the secong book, with the intention to read them all and after that play all 3 games because I want to enjoy this masterpice at is fullest
wise man
Been playing witcher 3 a lot just bought it last sunday. ❤️
* Uses OP alchemy build *
cOMbAt iS ToO eaSY!!!
Alchemy is broken, I had 25k dmg.
As good as the game is, Alchemy was really watered down and simplified, maybe they were thinking about the catual gamers IDK, the Witcher 1 alchemy was more detailed and immersive, I loved the fact that you could come up with random potions that either have a positive or negative effect on Gerlat, I hate how you only need alcohol to replenish your potions the Witcher 3, of course I know it makes the game less tiresome for some gamers but it really makes all those ingredient plants placed in the world pointless, I wish the system forced you to keep using the ingredients when replenishing the potions and bombs.
Witcher 3 is the best...
Waiting for cyber punk 2077
hell yeah
just one thing... ciri's dodge is too op lol (well i know she is basically a living legend). usually u just skip a dialogue in game cause sometimes it's kinda boring... but not in this one imo
Imagine if all developers would focus at the game being good and playable instead of trying to make as much money as possible...
In my opinion games (especially The Witcher 3) are pieces of art
Man I remember when I tried so hard to get the right ending and raged so hard🤣 First I got the ending where Ciri died, then I got the ending where Ciri became empress of Nilfgaard, and finally after a week I got the right ending. Crazy bc it was so worth it!
Witcher 3 makes me want to cry in joy. What a masterpiece.
Just started a new playthrough on Witcher 3 yesterday....it holds up very very well over time. I've got over 185 steam games and NONE of them are the quality of Witcher 3.
Somehow CD Project Red did the perfect game in every aspect.
combat sucks from beggining to end