The Witcher: Main Menu (theme, HD)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Although i wasn't a huge follower of The Witcher series, the main menu for The Witcher really resonated with me for some reason. I love it and the nostalgic feelings it brings. This is probably one of the best main menu's I've encountered in a game (IMO, of course)
Seeing that there wasn't any real HD quality footage on TH-cam of the menu, i figured I'd upload my own.
This is a direct recording, unedited, in 1080p.
Disclaimer:
No copyright infringement intended. Full credit goes to those groups shown in the intro. Uploaded for entertainment purposes only - i make no profit from my video's.
This main menu has more atmosphere than most games that come out today.
Walter Kowalski Now this is something I will fully agree with anyday.
+Walter Kowalski Totay Agree
+Walter Kowalski totally agree
Its legendary theme
Love that menu theme:)
The atmosphere in the W2 is dark and gritty; the W3's is epic and grand. But none of them quite captures the essence of the Witcher like the first game's. It has that melancholy and ominous feeling that's best described as walking through a suspiciously deserted village in the early morning on a cold winter day.
exactly, the first game was the closest thing to the books we'll ever see
Later games tried too hard to be pretty, with lush environments and saturated colours, especially the second one, coming off at times almost looking like Fable. The first one, though made already in the age of no darkm gritty games (save for a few exceptions like Dark Souls), is still a relict of times where creators weren't afraid to make their environments really dirty, raw and grim. It's the same if you compare Diablo 2's athmosphere with Diablo 3. For so long people were complaining that games "have no colour" and "are just grey and brown", but I think a reasonable balance needs to be struck to get full spectrum of athmospheres and themes. I haven't seen a grey mist with dark, leafless trees in a game for years.
It really felt like a dark fantasy world
@@remove_marko the first game was a piece of shit,it needs a remake
@@dreadend6058 you know shit kid, don't fix what's not broken
His name was Geralt of Rivia. He was a witcher, a professional monster slayer.
An unusual contract...
to lift the curse that held a monarch's daughter
dusk, till dawn...
@HollowIndex poland - Nazywał się Geralt z Riwii. Był wiedźminem zabójcą potworów... :)
The traitor responsible for the curse, become the bait.
Его звали Геральт из Ривии. Он был ведьмаком, убийцей чудовищ.
Необычный контракт...
That atmosphere!
Kristýna Sulková One of the best, if not the best, in history!
Kristýna Sulková EXACTLY, described it in one word. Witcher 1 seemed more darker.
Neskutečná! Nejlepší Trilogie všech dob! :3
@@polishsnake8567 jo kurva 1 ma nejlepsi atmosferu
@@akshaypawar6841 yeah it felt like how a Witcher game should be dark evil ruthless not the TW 2 and 3 are bad CUS they are NOT bad at all they are fucking great games but the first Witcher games is just the most Witcherest game its a realy good game
The W1 sound track is one of the greatest I've heard.
Running around the temple quarter at night just hits different
What about running in the outskirts during the night, huh? That music along with the cutscenes showing us the Beast gave me the creeps
@@_phenomeme_ yeah it was awesome. One of the best horror dark fantasy vibes ive experienced. And the cutscene where geralt roasts the peasants is awesome and then you see the beast.
brb reinstaling
I love the fact that someone with a JC Denton avatar wrote that. The beginning of this song kind of reminds me of Deus Ex too.
Mrster someone mentioned DX? reinstalling!
Jesus Christ, Denton.
YouFoolWarrenIsDead my vision is augmented
uNcl55
You may have copper wiring to reroute your fear of pain, but i've got nerves of steel.
wow. the witcher 1 is so atmospheric. i haven't felt anything like this in any other game
Idk why, but the flying birds in the background makes me feel nostalgic for some wierd reason
Joakim Pettersen i like it too!
indeed, me too.
козодои
Probably we are missing days spent in the countryside in childhood or young years (like me) .
Perhaps you’re seeing a medieval village sky that you once gazed in old of your past lives.
I once stayed on the menu for 20 minutes to listen to it.
Luka Skočibušić Same
haven't we all?
20 minutes? Amateur
Chapter IV... that was when I really fell in love with TW1.
For me it was Act II
@@IsomerSomai love the temple quarter and is heavy atmosphere )
jobro watching witcher 1 theme AAAAAAAAA
Yeah same, that Chapter is one of my favourite experiences in videogames
I fell in love from the very first cut scene but I get what you're saying. Fields was just another level!
Wspomnienia. Pierwsza część miała to coś.
Co roku przynajmniej raz trzeba przejść, bo oszaleję.
kurwa mać mam 18 lat a ta gra dalej jest dla mnie straszna i chyba za to ją kocham
Nie grałem z 4 lata bo przeszedłem 8 razy 1 część, część 2 z 5 i cz 3 z 3 razy.... przerwa a..... a teraz wrócę znów poczułem ze chce zagrać
Ciary za każdym razem gdy słyszę tą muzę
Przeszedłem ją pierwszy raz w tym roku a mam 35 lat. 62 godziny grania i na pewno zagram jeszcze nie raz.
The atmosphere in this game is insane, even just the menu is oozing with character.
There is something thats so special about this game that makes you forget all its flaws...really love the game with all my heart. This deserves more recognition...The Witcher trilogy has really been such a great journey for both us and the White Wolf.
the only flaws was the combat which takes time to get used to it and the second chapter too much back n forth and 4th chapter wedding plot which was pretty useless.
@@murtazarizvi368 Yeah as I said, there are several flaws with the game and it is very outdated, but it leaves the kind of nostalgic aftertaste that despite all the flaws you still get a good feeling.
The beginning is so calm,and you can actually hear the winds blowing in the fields and the...sort of gloomy mood of the village you see behind...and then you get to hear this beautiful music slowly enthralling your mind...
Бальзам на душу. 13 лет тому назад играла..
Как же давно это было
soglasen! Vtoroy Vedmak toze napisan crasivo@@Umnyi8K
When I bought this game, along a new PC, in 2008, I spent 15 minutes in main menu just soaking in the ambience before starting the game. Witcher 3 might be a much bigger, better game, but for me it's the first one. October evening of 2008. It was also the last time I played a game until morning.
Same. I also sat through the entire credits when I beat the game.
Just finished reading the "Lady of the Lake". I feel awfully empty right now.
Jovan Roland Read it again. And again. I'm always reading the books during Skyrim's loading screens.
rofl :D (kinda late though)
Same. I re-read Spakowski dozens of times. He is a classic literature level. Better than Martin with GoT and anything else. Absolutely. And CD Project did the greatest job
@@crestfallenknight7983 but still, JRR Tolkien is far more better than Sapkowski
@@alexanderaaron7930 Its hard to compare Tolkien to any other fantasy writter really. I mean, if there are some legendary writers, Tolkien is the God and Creator.
1:43 sounds familiar
+crus tom Nostalgia tends to do that. Makes you draw connections where there weren't any, or recall ones you thought you had forgotten.
:D
+crus tom it has a somewhat resemblances of a game called Ascend , Hand of Kul . didn't liked the game very much but the tracks were godlike-ish
How is that basically the Witcher 3 theme? I listened to both hundreds of times and heard no such thing. Or do you mean the Witcher 3's cheesy war theme that is just too loud? I haven't listened to that one much, can't bear all that mediocre shit. This, on the other hand, is a damn masterpiece. It is like nothing else, and I feel sorry for people who try to imply it is inspired by something else.
This music at 1:43 indeed in Witcher 3 and all the Wither series. All the soundtracks have the basic "Believe" theme song in them and incorporate it into a lot of the music soundtracks.
Warning: hearing this and Witcher 3's can (and will) make you cry in a nostalgic way.
I love this game.
PS: play it with Polish voices!!!
you should be playing the game like that so well done bruh
No, czech voiceover is masterpiece.
Tomáš Novák Agreed. For the first Witcher the Czech voiceover is hilarious and really adds the nostalgic feel for me. The Witcher 3's polish voiceover is amazing though.
English was always better Doug makes great voice for Geralt
@@theo_athens Not sure if troll but I would say over 100 folks who thumbed up the main comment give a shit
0:59
This is where nostalgia kicks in
I want to cry every time I hear this part
Right in the feels
Give me chills since 2011. Best saga in games history.
Leo Bonhart and Vilgefortz make games' villians look like weaklinks, the original badasses.
2011?
what a pleb
playing the saga since 07
Bonhart is badass, but Vilgefortz is pure evil sonz of bitches.
That and Stalker :)
убери аватарку нацистов
Thank you Poland!
You're welcome! :)
nie ma za co ziom! :D
Arrêtez donc de parlez dans votre étrange langage! Moi aussi je peux le faire, vous avez vu ! (Sinon merci pour les avoir créer ces jeux c'est gentil...)
You're welcome, buddy ;)
Flecista piesciowy
A czy oni zrozumieją co napisałeś? :D
that witcher feel
Why is the first game so brilliant?
Theres something special about it I dont know, anyone else know what I mean?
I feel it too. Maybe you can feel, that CDPR wanted to make a game because they loved the franchise. It makes me forget the the flaws(glitches with the models, lack of different char. models, bad dub(english, hungarian...).
The Blancmange
Yes! I agree
It was a game made by a Polish studio for Polish players that was never meant to leave the PC.
The sequels were designed as multiplats for the western audiences since the very first sketches.
Its a better work of art
It's called nostalgia man
Simply the best theme in all the three games. Sometimes when i'm walking around and it slowly starts raining, this songs come to my mind.
1:40 is epic
***** kinda celtic
***** hmm a little bit
best drop ever
Dope
That menu music was more epic than most game's entire OST. period.
FINISHED IT 10 TIMES, GONNA FINISH IT EVERY YEAR!
Old, simplier times. Without worries. Without traumas. Without all that shit. Waiting for the next day of school, to tell your friend about that new quest. Good old days
Old man
I'm playing the chapter 3 of The Witcher (2007). Usually I don't play RPG, only FPS, 3rd person action games, racing games, sport games.
The music is fantastic, especially this one. The first 15 seconds of this track always give me chills.
This game atmosphere is incredible... so far, one of the most memorable and intense gaming experiences I've ever had.
yeh I havnt played W2/W3 but apparently W1 has by far the best atmosphere.
KingProne the witcher 3 has also a really good atmosphere but witcher 2 not so much
@@duartegoulao5875 Other way around the fuck?
@@ssjbroly8735 I meant good btw
I remember, before starting the actual game I would listen to this song and then pres "continue"
The first game captures that dark, gritty and melancholic feeling of the books perfectly. When I first played this game after already playing Witcher 3 and 2 I thought it would be a crappy outdated old game but I couldn't be more wrong. I got hooked by the story and the atmosphere and it was a blast.
Played in 2024 still a very good game amazing atmoshpere
Ryczę żywymi łzami... całe moje dzieciństwo... Życzę każdemu takich gier w młodości
Ta nostalgia jest po prostu nie do opisania...
i Gothic
Pierwszy raz przychodziłam grę jak miałam 11 lat i wracam do niej regularnie
i remember me staying 10 minutes in this screen just to listen to the music.
No game can ever compare to the vibe of this game. After years it´s still one of my favorites.
this theme is the reason i hate to start a game. the music is just too good and doesnt appear ingame.
It appears ingame too.
+Zsoli No, it's not. I completed this game about 40 times so I know, right?
Witcher 1 had a great OST though imo
It appears in Kaer Morhen, in a slightly changed version but it does.
Near Vizima.
We all are bewitched... Magic spell been done
"Wait, that sword is for monste-!"
the most memorable line from Witcher 1..
Part of me wishes that Geralt had said "I know." in response, but I suppose it would have been superfluous. We all knew Geralt well enough by that point to know he was thinking it.
re-instal in 3...2...1...
Best Witcher main menu theme.
@Rob305
No u
goosebumps, goosebumps everywhere
My favourite game of the franchise.
After all this time?.. Always...
I find myself coming here again and again. Mesmerizing.
I am so happy that I am gamer and musician of 30 years of old and never played a Witcher game yet! All the adventure awaits me :)
💔 This game is a masterpiece
The witcher 1 , 2 and 3
damn this gives me chills
Very atmospheric music... This one is the best part for me.
Feel like something of a veteran, having played all three games as they came out.
Though I haven't played much of 3 yet (in the middle of exams, finishing next week thank God) I feel like 1 has a magic that the other two just can't live up to. It's difficult to articulate, but there was just this darkness, this griminess....this sense of suffering everywhere.
2 was...meh. Very linear, short and I felt the story was too complicated to really get into. Like they'd mention someone's name once and expect you to know who they were talking about a whole act later.
3 is good so far! Gameplay and graphics wise, I can't complain. The world certainly feels big and populated. My only complaint is how light the nights are. I've had daylight sometimes at about 3am. Don't know if that's a glitch, but...kinda weird. Whatever the case, I think we all have a special place in our hearts for 1...
Exactly what I think, like second one is okay and third one is great but they still lack something that the first one had and I don't know what it is..
+MadnesS8705 it's the menu theme
+MadnesS8705 I know exactly what you mean. Third game is an example of a masterpiece and it's so good but when compared to 1 it lacks one thing, the drive.
When I was playing the game, the journey of witcher 1 felt a lot more impactful and imprinting on my senses. I felt geralt's lines and actions in cutscenes were a lot more daunting and satisfying than that of 3's. On top of that, having to work quite hard to progress through the story by running around a lot, crossing out suspects and reading journals made me feel that I was involved in Geralt's journey on a more personal level. 3 has its share of awesomeness but the hand-holding witcher sense that produced the same old analysis made the experience more compulsory than motivating. Turning off witcher sense doesn't help as some tracks become nigh impossible to find like a needle in a haystack. Being sandbox could have diluted our motivation to move forward as well.
I wouldn't hesitate to say that witcher 3 is a better game than 1 but after all this time I still like 1 more. 2...is...is...let's just forget about it.
+mj still with out 2 3 would not exist
Stefan S i guess. witcher 2 did have the most beautiful women in the franchise, or dare I say the industry
Well, I am a huge follower, fan, supporter of the series and quite addicted to it. I love this song since 8 years back when I first played The Witcher for the first time. It is not in the OST somehow. But I listen to it whenever I start a new TW1 playthrough, followed by TW2 and TW3 too... awesome trilogy, born from awesome books too.
When you started tw1 it was like you time travelled to their 13th century fantasy world
The dynamic background rules. Crows bring it home.
Я прошёл игру несколько дней назад, но уже чувствую ностальгию.
Я прошел ее лет 10 назад
@@straxofficia страшно представить как это давно было.
8 years on and that drop at 1:41 is still so fucking savage!
the witcher 1 was released in 2007
Блииииин
Сколько лет прошло, я досехпор слушаю это😌
Да согласен, сразу 2008 год вспоминаю
Хе-хе, мой старый акк, год комменту, как время летит.....
WITCHER REMAKE IS COMING
*BETTER ATMOSPHERE THAN IN WITCHER 3*
Ofc Witcher 3 is great, but... I love Witcher 1 more for some reasons...
For me it has to do with the sense of scale. Due to the fact that the maps in Witcher 1 are separated the world feels much bigger. If you look at the world map the distance from Vizima to the south of the lake is about the same as Novigrad to Oxenfurt in W3, but because the lake map in W1 was build in the way that you don't see Vizima on the opposite shore make the world feel massive. In Witcher 3 everything feels so tiny.
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And how to dont like The Witcher games? This music, atmosphere and story :3
Tidious gameplay in 1... really had to push through it but the atmosphere was amazing. Also I loved how the game did not handhold you AT ALL!
What an amazing franchise.
Now this is something I will fully agree with anyday.
NOSTALGIA....
I'm sooo glad I grew up with this game. Today I just remembered the specific part of this theme song: 1:28 where I always as a child could rip off my ears from how much it slaps. And yet it still slaps the same way as it did 9 years ago. God I love this.
No matter how many games will come, this will forever stay as a masterpiece!
The best game saga ever!
And always it will be!
Love from the Czech Republic!
POLAND IS BASED AND AWESOME
Why I can't press NEW GAME? :)
not enough disc space
Too bad GPU, please buy new RTX 2080Ti
@@Geralt12HW damn, I only have GTX 1060
@@vulthurmir2478 I can understand you, man. I only have ShitForce 210. Nothing more to comment.
@@Geralt12HW my comment was meant to be purely humoristic. I'm more than satisfied with my GPU, even though it has not been on it's full speed (my motherboard is holding it back).
I have heard this music yeas ago, but I couldn't remember where. The memory of it kept coming back to me from time to time and I wouldn't know what was that. The satisfaction when I finally found out it was the Witcher 1 intro music - can't even describe it!
Absolutely love it!
Instead of Gwent cards, we had better cards in W1.
I only just got to Chapter II, but this game resonates on so many levels already. Very good job with creating music that makes your presence in the world feel more immersive
Thats partly Gerald of Rivia Theme from Witcher 3 :). Thats good to know!
@GTXMAN Indeed. The intro/Main Menu accurately portrayed the overall tone of the game in my opinion. The atmosphere is one i really quite like.
The menu background, which basically looks like an animated watercolor painting - really is unique and i don't have any memory of encountering such a thing in a game before. I love it, and it works very well, simple yet very effective. The scenery/weather reminds me of Wales (UK) during the autumn months (now, basically).
Great stuff.
This masterpiece must be saved for prosperity
1:42 Geralt Of Rivia
Killed dozens of dangerous monsters...
... Lost with one villager with a giant fork
I have finished this game 3 years ago but keep coming back for the music.
:)
Where it all began
Ошеломительный эпик,мурашки по коже)👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This is the beginning! This is where it all started for me! Can't stop listening to it,even today.
Bruh the nostalgia hits hard. Loved that gloomy and Slavic atmosphere...
Just when I fall back in my memories to vizima outskirts and felts.... NOSTALGIA
The Witcher... > rest of role playing games. Nothing more to add :).
+Andrés Vlad Doménech Alcaide What about the Elder Scrolls series? O.o
+Juozapas Špokas Elder Scrolls is great for atmosphere but I can't compare with Witcher series anyway. I love them not get me wrong but Witcher is special to me too..
+Juozapas Špokas I also love the saga ;P. But the witcher is special for me, mate.
+Juozapas Špokas How is Elder Scrolls a role-playing game? You don't have any real RPG elements there. There's open world, inventory, and a basic skill system, but loads of game has those things now. Games like GTA, Assassin's Creed or Mad Max have those elements, and no sane person would call those games RPGs. But the minute someone puts swords and dragons to the mix, it suddenly is the RPG of the year.
Role Playing Game needs a good story, well written characters and freedom. And not freedom to move around the map, but to affect the world, the story and other characters in real and meaningful way. Witcher has those things. TES doesn't. Player character in Skyrim has shit to say and has no real personality. This is not acceptable in a real RPG game.
+Juozapas Špokas Elder scrolls have cool open worlds which are nice to explore, but when it comes to plot and characters... a bit patchetic.
The only thing I don't like about this theme, it's the aggressive guitar at the end. Everything else is just perfect! Love it!
10 Years...
I love this theme!
Holy shit my childhood remains here
The witcher 3 is great game but it doesnt have the atmosphere that witcher 1 has
I really love the musics in the other games, but to me this is the one track I always come back to. The one that started it all. What a ride.
The gateway drug that hooked me on a trilogy.
A "fisstech" of sorts, as some would say.
@@Sqlfox Yeh... How much of this sh*t you have?
@@Sqlfox aaaaCHOO!
When i first purchased this back on release date, i found it really complicated and it was buggy on release day so i gave up and uninstalled it, a year or 2 went by and i reinstalled it and have enjoyed the journey ever since. 1 and 3 are in my top ten games.
И игра и темы, стереть бы память и по новой пройти
И стирать не надо. Я уже не помню ничего. 12 лет прошло с того момента. Удобно;)
I only really discovered the Witcher series in November 2018. I'm a sucker for a getting into the lore of a franchise so I started with TW1. And although TW3 is a huge game and real technical masterpiece, TW1 had its really unique atmosphere and completely caught me, despite the aged graphics. It also made me start reading the books, because I wanted to really know all the characters' history. And when it comes to the soundtracks, this menu theme and "River of Life" probably embody the Witcher games for me, along with the Kaer Morhen theme.
Блаженство для моих ушей
incredible music,real feel ambience and music!great emotions :)
This menu create my mind how is time and life
Instant goosebump
juz takie gry nie wychodza
wiele takich gier jak Wiedźmin 1 to nie było
1st witcher had the best ost and athmosphere, 2nd had the best story, 3rd has the best gameplay and the world. Nothing more, nothing less, each game is amazing and unique.
The music director or the composer is a genius, he knows how to play with the emotions through music
The swords, the potions, the movements, I love it.
I see that we all agree on the atmosphere here !
For me it's a strange feeling of old grimm tales and mysticism, witches hunting, muddy villages and dirty lands that stretches far to the horizon like Scottish Highlands walked by a lonely white wolf
Still gives me chills after beating the game years later...
The best game ever made the best sound score ever.. I mean it