I gotta say man: After running into so many 3, 4, even 8 hour long video analyses on games by people with little new to say and who act in bad faith towards the developers, it's nice to see a creator get to the point and actually add to the conversation.
Really glad you enjoyed this. I definitely respect those long video analyses from afar, but if I ever make something longer than your favourite TV episode/movie, you've permission to take me out back and club me with an inflatable bat
Unlike many people I didn't play Witcher 3 first and then 1 and 2. I started with 1 and 2 and later played 3. This led to the dissapointment of "Where are Iorverth and Saskia?" It's really sad they cut all of that and more out. In my opinion they could have made that into DLC and I would have played it still. Sure, let the main questline be about finding Ciri but give me at least a DLC for all the political quests and non-human conflicts. In the previous games your choices had impact on the next game, but in witcher 3 they barely had any effect.
Yeah not totally surprised they decided to focus more on the heroic fantasy elements of the Wild Hunt to get a more mass-market appeal for the 3rd game... but I'm totally surprised they didn't want to bring back the elves/nonhumans/Scoia'tael/Saskia for any kind of DLC. That seems like such an obvious thing to do, but I guess there was more going on than meets the eye.
I've read the books and only played Wild Hunt, so up until now I've never realized of this difference between them. I guess my mind kept the game separately from the books as "its own thing", so this video was very eye opening.
It's very interesting - I'm not sure if they totally retconned the Witcher 1 - but the games are now very much considered "post-Book 5." So Geralt's chronology goes, 1. short stories (The Last Wish, etc.) 2. The Witcher Saga (Blood of Elves through Lady of the Lake) 3. The Witcher games (with Blood and Wine being the official last chapter of Geralt)
I remember playing the witcher 3 and feeling the same thing, but I hadn't even played 1 and 2. There was a couple of side quests that dealt with elf oppression and it just felt strange that a whole race of cool looking humanoids with their own rebellion and struggles had such little screen-time...
this is great, thoughtful work and i wish there were more eyes on it! i came into the series with game 3 and the way it dithered about the non-human people felt very weird.
Thank you very much for the kind comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it. All I can do is keep my fingers crossed on views! Dithering (and Zoltan's arc) definitely makes it feel like they were doing some last minute rearranging of questlines -- as was the case!
Iorveth being cut from The Witcher 3 was the greatest disaster of the 2010s.
I gotta say man: After running into so many 3, 4, even 8 hour long video analyses on games by people with little new to say and who act in bad faith towards the developers, it's nice to see a creator get to the point and actually add to the conversation.
Really glad you enjoyed this. I definitely respect those long video analyses from afar, but if I ever make something longer than your favourite TV episode/movie, you've permission to take me out back and club me with an inflatable bat
Unlike many people I didn't play Witcher 3 first and then 1 and 2. I started with 1 and 2 and later played 3. This led to the dissapointment of "Where are Iorverth and Saskia?" It's really sad they cut all of that and more out. In my opinion they could have made that into DLC and I would have played it still. Sure, let the main questline be about finding Ciri but give me at least a DLC for all the political quests and non-human conflicts. In the previous games your choices had impact on the next game, but in witcher 3 they barely had any effect.
Yeah not totally surprised they decided to focus more on the heroic fantasy elements of the Wild Hunt to get a more mass-market appeal for the 3rd game... but I'm totally surprised they didn't want to bring back the elves/nonhumans/Scoia'tael/Saskia for any kind of DLC. That seems like such an obvious thing to do, but I guess there was more going on than meets the eye.
I've read the books and only played Wild Hunt, so up until now I've never realized of this difference between them. I guess my mind kept the game separately from the books as "its own thing", so this video was very eye opening.
It's very interesting - I'm not sure if they totally retconned the Witcher 1 - but the games are now very much considered "post-Book 5."
So Geralt's chronology goes,
1. short stories (The Last Wish, etc.)
2. The Witcher Saga (Blood of Elves through Lady of the Lake)
3. The Witcher games (with Blood and Wine being the official last chapter of Geralt)
I remember playing the witcher 3 and feeling the same thing, but I hadn't even played 1 and 2. There was a couple of side quests that dealt with elf oppression and it just felt strange that a whole race of cool looking humanoids with their own rebellion and struggles had such little screen-time...
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Smashing video my guy
Dude super happy you enjoyed. Check out some of my other stuff about the Witcher!
this is great, thoughtful work and i wish there were more eyes on it! i came into the series with game 3 and the way it dithered about the non-human people felt very weird.
Thank you very much for the kind comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it. All I can do is keep my fingers crossed on views!
Dithering (and Zoltan's arc) definitely makes it feel like they were doing some last minute rearranging of questlines -- as was the case!
Yeah, just felt like a good guy in 3 most of the time.