This video came out several months before the next-gen update, and a few of these things were fixed! The lead Witcher 3 quest designer even tweeted at me after the update came out to say they had watched this video while working on it! If you're curious what was fixed, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/UcIA0RwSjjc/w-d-xo.html
That's insane! They actually fixed a lot from your list. I've would add monster trophies that have like the same boring bonuses, they don't have that unique feel like in W2. Another thing downgraded are mutagens, I mean c'mon red, blue and green when we had 8 types in W2 and to makes thing worse they are common as a drowner. Im not counting the specific monster mutagens cause they're pretty useless in the skill menu. And to fix it it's not like to redesign half of the quest.
I did the dumpling quest extremely underleveled in my latest playthrough and the sword he gave me WAS STILL not as good as the one I already had. It's a joke. EDIT: The fixed it in the next gen update.
@@NaysayKen Yes but you cannot deny the reward is underwhelming. Especially when you purposefuly do it early and it's way harder yet the reward sword is still useless.
The Griffin Witcher armour set is actually the most realistic one. Cuirasses are supposed to make you look fat, that slope, roundness and fullness of the breastplate is what forces blows to glance, deflect off the plate. Worst cuirasses ever are the flat ones that look like roman muscle breastplates, as a flat surface is so easy to pierce. Same applies to tank armour BTW.
Yep, its historical, and still people get mad at it! Like those round plates in chest near the armpit in some armours... There are people complaining about it too! But there are some mistakes too, like those 2H swords on Geralt's back! They made a more reliable way of taking it out in TW1, but TW2 / 3 they regressed.
Its not only piercing thing but also helps to distribute weight when used with belts. You dont want all the heavy weight on your shoulders but instead you want to relieve some of the weight from shoulders and let your hips do some of the work
@@jefersonmartins6471 Incorrect it was more unrealistically sheathed in W1. As a TH-camr has made videos on how you can legitimately make Back Holsters that could indeed carry a Sword and sheath/unsheathe...Still impractical and ahistorical but it can be done by the Human body. The W1 "solution" was no holster at all both swords hanging onto thin air/levitating behind Geralt in an X pattern. While he still grabs both with his right hand...The Silver blade is magically teleported to be able to be used in that hand without cutting himself you can even notice how the holstered model and used model have a flipped grip meaning even more impractically he flips the sword around. Neither make any sense there is no Anti-Gravity Defying Sign or Magic in Geralt's arsenal. Witchers are mutants but they can't overextend their bodies or break the laws of gravity/physics. That's more Ciri's thing for the latter. Really the design for the Sword Holsters is perfect in W2 and W3 besides that the swords tips clip through the sheath instead of go out the top. But the animation is fast playing so that's hard to pick up on unless you're trying to catch it. Not to mention people over look armor clipping all the time in video games. But none of the options are lore friendly as in the original works...Geralt doesn't use his Steel and Silver Swords at the same time. Nor is Silver used as often as in the books it's ONLY for Magical Monsters (not all of them like the games) and it's extremely brittle as an Silver Edge would be so to use it often would just break it. Instead he mostly uses a Steel sword for monsters and people then the Silver sword is in a case wrapped up to prevent damage from overexposure to the elements in the satchel on Roach. The devs didn't have a horse in W1 nor W2 so they did the back holstering for both. For W3 because it would be too annoying to always retrieve our Silver sword from Roach every time we encounter a monster if we had the Steel on hand instead and they established that all monsters require the Silver sword in the previous two games they repeated it even when they could be lore friendly. Gameplay practically over the lore realism. They made the right call there.
I got the witcheress ending and I was so disappointed I never got to kill the third crone. Even a cutscene with Geralt and Ciri taking her on together as the last act would’ve been amazing.
The Runewright should have paid YOU a portion of his profits periodically for investing in his business. It's only fair, and it would better justify going through the ordeal of donating such ridiculous amounts of money to him.
Meh, I mean, sure, from the perspective, described in the video - runewright is beyond ridiculous... But c'mon, guy deserves some slack for just being that teensy-weensy bit of an incentive to have some, however slight, semblance of care for money)
From story pov, 30k is insanely high and you could probably like buy whole Novigrad for this much. From game pov, it's merely nothing. Fr i am in NG+ currently, and i ignore ANY weapon in Toussaint. Except Relics, cause i collect them. I invested 30k in Runewright, all the possible money in vineyard, i have all grandmaster sets and still over 100k left. Good to mention if all the relics (i know they aren't) are 2.5k/ea i have another 100k+ in just swords. If you really struggle for money, go to Toussaint. Basic bandit sword here sells for like 800-1k and MOST of smiths has over 10k base budget.
yea I think a mechanic where you can gradually make that massive amount of 30K back would have been beneficial rather than just dump the money on him and then pay further insane amounts for the services.
Yeah think about it, not only is Geralt the main investor in the business, he is the ONLY investor in the business. He is the sole provider of the capital, he's not only the main stockholder, he is the only stockholder. But let's face it, its real purpose is a money sink.
You forgot Roach always spawning behind a wall or a fence or some trees or underneath a bridge or something equally annoying. Awesome to see there is still being created great Witcher3-content!
Try to face the fences, bushes and forest in general. Make sure the open space is behind you. It usually works, because Roach always spawns behind you. But of course she somehow manages to find that one rock or tree to get stuck behind... 😅
You know what really grinds MY gears?? The last quest in White Orchard, where you meet up in the tavern with Vesemir and a bar fight breaks out. No matter what you do, even if you only use your fists to knock them out, the fight always ends with a cutscene where Geralt dismembers the patrons and Geralt is seen as a butcher. The tavern owner even comes back to the story in the Priscilla concert and yells at him for being a murderer, and there's absolutely nothing that you can do to change the outcome. The part that bothers me the most is that the game always preaches about how sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils, but there is no choice here only a cutscene.
Dude I had this exact same frustration w that quest. I've been playing the game for the past few months on my switch after not playing for years. I did the Priscilla quest and was completely caught off guard by the tavern lady haha. I always wondered if I could've used my fists to change the outcome, unfortunate to know it's inevitable.
I will always ask myself what's wrong with people that pretends the game is so freaking open that every decision you take has to have some weird influence. At any point the game lets you chose in that scene. It's quite implied this is a fight for the dead. You wanted to fight fist? That's on you. But there's a plot to follow. Geralt and Vesemir, knowing better than you, used the swords and killed people. Using fist in a sword fight would be idiotic, especially against guards. Sure, you can do it in a game, and the solution then would be to make them immortal unless you use the sword, but then you'd have people complaining about not being able to beat the full game with fists. This era of drama-queens wanna-cry for everything is what really grinds MY gears.
@@robertoj.9509 The solution would be to just not let you sheathe your sword, with a brief animation grabbing a nearby blade if the player had none in their inventory (if necessary, can't recall exacts). Forcing players to use certain equipment is hardly a new concept. If they're going to force lethal outcomes they should really ensure they're enforcing lethal means, at least ideally.
I think the thing I hate the most is the amount of shallow/not shallow enough water pits in Velen that force you to reload a save if you fall into them. Can't walk out, can't jump out. Geralt just stays in there unable to escape the puddle.
thats if you know you have to reload the game. i was stuck in one of them for atleast 2 hour trying everything and searching it up and atlast some random said i reloaded it and it work with like 2 up votes in a reddit post with 6 comment bruh.
Just check how to turn on commands. And then if you get stuck, click " and write AllowFT(1). And you can teleport to any of ..how they called... Sticks that allow you to teleport across the map :D
The lack of closure on Vesemir's medallion drives me absolutely insane. Vesemir was a man Geralt knew for literally his entire life. His mother Visenna brought him to Kaer Morhen as a baby and for most of his life Geralt thought Vesemir was the one who gave him his name. Vesemir was a close friend, like a father in many ways to Geralt as well as a brother in arms. Geralt would absolutely want to get his medallion back. It would have been perfect if that was Geralt and Ciri's first stop after he gave her her witcher's sword. A proper witcher needs a medallion after all.
Imagine if Saskia, Iorveth and Vincent were in the game. You could have Scoia'teal, dragon and werewolf helping you defend Kaer Morhen that could have been epic.
@@rjohnm666 Dragons are very powerful but they have some weaknesses which is maybe why they were almost exterminated in Witcher 2 apart from Saskia so I think that story-wise CDPR did Saskia right because she has a good reason to stay in her human form and she has golden scales if I am not mistaken which means that she is not that big and strong and even if she was bigger I think that in Witcher universe there are plenty of ways to kill a dragon ranging from balistas, catapults, crossbows, bombs and ofcourse magic and swords.
@@rjohnm666 The Witcher universe has human dragon hunters. Dragons are not that ungodly strong besides providing heavy AoE which a very talented sorceress can also do.
True but accounting for Geralt potentially curing Vincent in the first game depending on your choices he could be dead too so I can see why they didn't bring him back. Then again, Thaler returned, sooo
It's weird how some characters get totally pissed at you for joining order of the flame rose in witcher 1, but in 2 and 3, basically EVERYONE hates scoiateal.
I really went into this thinking "Witcher 3 is a perfect game, any flaws you could possibly find would just be petty glitches", but then I actually agreed with basically everything
The more you play it, the more flaws you´ll gencounter. It only took me like 2nd playthrough to notice, how sloppy is NPC movement, which often looks as if they didn´t know, how to walk. One major thing (at least for me), which wasn´t mentioned in the video: Geralt´s movement. Sometimes, you didn´t need candles to have difficulty looting chest. All it took was the freakin unresponsive, clunky Geralt controls, which required you to move around quite a lot, before you found the spot required to loot a chest. Or just moving around in narrow spaces. It may look realistic for you to have some momentum, but ffs it´s a game and a fantasy one! Also, looting chests. Isn´t it weird, that you can enter any building and loot anything you want, people owning the house wander around you and don´t freak out about you looting their modest property? Economy is totally weird in this game. You can carry almost anything (with mods ofc), but only sell a few items to any merchant at a time. Because they are constantly out of money!
@@Morpheus-pt3wq I think the looting issue you mentioned (having to find the sweet spot) is more of a problem in the witcher 2, I don't have that problem in 3. Also once you get farther into the game, merchants will have more money. Hattori, the runewright, and the grandmaster in toussaint are all good vendors with money. Hattori starts out with very little but eventually he usually has like 10k. And the runewright and grandmaster always have 20k-30k
Hehehe nice joke bro. Many flaws to this game. Good characters and story of course. Combat, movement, pointless loot, repetitive gameplay, excessive random mobs all over the map, and more are all issues here. It doesn't stand out as much after other games have come out.
I thought that one merchant with the glasses was actually the same guy and he was just changing his outfits to stalk Geralt everywhere. He was more disturbing than some of the monsters in the game.
I agree with a lot of these, but I'm surprised that there were no Roach-related points... Whether it's Roach's getting caught on invisible/non-existent fences, getting stuck on trees, struggling to leap small obstacles, or appearing kinda far away from you & not coming to you when called.
I say this every time I load up the game. The horse mechanics in this game are HORRENDOUS. Let's not forget how ROACH will spawn behind a fence, up on a hill you can't get to, or 50 feet behind you forcing you to U-turn whenever you call him.
I've had it with horse physics in video games. Real life horses are so athletic and agile. Imagine a real life horse-jumping competition and insert Witcher 3 physics in it, it would be a crap show. Horses sticking to objects, missing their jumps half the time, cannot make right and left turns.
@@One.Zero.One101 "Imagine a real life horse-jumping competition and insert Witcher 3 physics in it" I died laughing on this because I had legit imagination of a horse getting stuck on every tiny thing and then a retarded horse meme right after hahaha
For me one of the biggest issues was the never changing war situation between the Redanians and the Nilgaardians. It would have been amazing if there were at least some small changes in the world...
OMG I had the same thought 7 years ago haha, in the prologue is literally more geopolitical changes than in the entire rest of the game up until the end
War doesnt really change that fast. Especialy when it was mostly politics and the game doesnt take place over multiple years. Idk how would you want the war situation to change.
They just had an indecisive battle and now basically sit on opposite sides of a major river regrouping. I dont really have a problem with them not moving for those few ingame weeks. War in that age wasnt that fast.
Never had I have so little interest in political conflict. I don't even care who wins. In fact, more often than not, I sided with Nilfguard. The Northern Realms are a fucking shithole. Maybe Ehmyr will bring order to that place and Ciri might as well rule once he dies
@@genesisosuna The first game was made by inexperienced immature fellad. The second game was made for and by adults. The third game was made to be a commercial success.
What you said about Fringilla makes so much sense with regards to B&W. I found the short romance with Syanna so strange, and felt there was much more romantic tension between him and Annarietta. But Fringilla and him having had such good romance in the books when they were in Toussaint would have made so much sense for them to bring that back ~20 years later in the game
Yeah it's not a romance at all and it's weird. They seem to make a point of having the male character (you) objectified, but it really feels like they had to add their mandatory soft-porn scene in the DLC and there were no other credible female candidate.
When I first started playing the game and fell in love with it, I spent hours clearing the skellige question marks to get extra loot to sell. It wasn’t so much the clearing them that annoyed me, it was the sirens attacking my boat and sometimes destroying it when I’m over encumbered forcing me to swim slowly back to shore. It only happened a couple times before I realized I could shoot them while continuing to drive the boat.
Gotta love how one person talking about frustrations they suffered due to once lacking knowledge of a game mechanic so often brings out several others who discover said mechanic through the comment.
I remember a very specific hole in Velen, where my Geralt fell in and I literally couldn't get out. The movement in this game has never been the best, but that had never happened before. I literally had to reload a previous save file because Geralt kept rolling on the same spot as if he was on a treadmill.
Can happen in quite a lot of spots, especially in ruins, when you try climbing over a wall and on the other side there is no way back up the wall. Even more annoying when you are diving in shipwrecks - never save inside such spots, rather safe before you climb around / dive.
@@kevintyson1947 both of you. you dont have to reload a past save to get out of it. just save at the spot you are stuck and reload it you are gonna apear at the top of the hole and u can leave it.
@@irgendwer3610 You'll find a lot of people with Thalassophobia who are terrrified of Subnautica. It's meme'd on as the game that will give you thalassophobia if you don't already. So yes, it doess affect them. Sh*t, I don't even have thalassophobia and Subnautica was terrifying at first. It's like how spider enemies cause arachnophobes major problems in getting through a dungeon. When you're immersed in a game, the things that you hate and are scared of IRL feel more real.
Surprised you mentioned that there's a lot of water 'question marks' (or points of interest) in Skellige but didn't mention the ones that are underground with no cave entrances anywhere in sight. Those were much worse in my opinion. Absolutely agree on the runewright thing - feels like an extremely "gamey" way to spend money in the late game. Funny how it's a lot more expensive than even fully renovating the winery in Blood and Wine.
@@Hybe123 i read that that's why cavil left/was kicked off of the show, he was a hardcore fan of the games and books and netflix wasn't doing them justice and he voiced those issues he had with them
@@bargainbrandmilk9858 yes, we as gamers get a different perspective of what witcher and geralt should look like and how the story should go and what would geralt do opposed to what someone that only read the books get... in my opionion, geralt from the books differs a bit from the geralt from the games... because the games geralt is a vision of geralt from another creator. That's why even sapkowski doesn't like the games even though they have globally popularized his books, the game geralt isn't the book geralt
I think my top pet peeves are: - falling off a cliff because you were attacked by some flying creature - dodging away from your loot after you've killed your opponent - getting up those damn mountains in Skellige - merchants with different prices and merchants running out of money before I've dumped the rest of my Skellige loot on them. The stash gets extremely slow if it's too full but I'm not gonna throw the stuff away either. During my first play-through there was one armorer in Toussaint who never ran out of money, but during my second one now, even he has barely any money
The smith in Kaer Trolde (En Craite castle) will restock after you meditate. I forget if it's a whole day or less, but I used him to get loads of money from looted swords.
These would definitely be some of my complaints in most open world games. Games have too many different limitations when it comes to dealing with scaling terrain.
It's odd that games still implement such tedious things and even make them worse over time. Instead of being able to just sell my stuff to a vendor I have to either travel to many ,or wait and meditate ... it changes nothing, in the end but wastes time. Same with the gear repair. I guess it's supposed to be a money sling but quickly it becomes so cheap that it's absolutely no issue ... but you have to fix the damn swords every 10 minutes. Once again, nothing is archieved, but time is wasted.
they clearly added more money on the toussaint merchants. tens of thousands of money on them to sell all of your crap on them. but for whatever reason they didnt upgrade the money on the base game merchants since that dlc came around. and of course the merchants that craft things dont offer the best prices on items, so despite you dropping hundred thousand on them to make armor, its pointless to try and sell anything when even the best gear goes for few bucks instead of the thousand the empty pocketed merchant would be offering for it.
YES THE NEVERENDING CYCLE OF LIGHTHING CANDLES!! And one thing that wasn't mentioned.. I find it annoying that it's so hard to tell if a sword is a unique item or not. And the inventory is still a bit cluttered, even though they did fix it.
The inventory design is just terrible, looks like something in a game from 2001. Instead of just auto filtering loot you have to manually filter through it and drag it into slots. Also the "pocket" feature where you have to drag items into 4 different slots where u have to assign 4 independent keybindings to each slot is just beyond complicated and poorly designed..
you forgot to add the fact that you CANNOT jump while in combat! not only would it be cool to have some jumping attacks, but when you are climbing up a mountain that requires you to mantle up ledge after ledge you are prevented to do so if any harpie or the like is flying near you because it forces you into combat mode. So, you have to wait till they fly down to you so you can kill them and mantle the next ledge. Also, if in combat and you get backed up to a 3 sided gate or barrier you cant jump over them to escape an enemy.
exactly. sometimes honestly i just want to get to my destination and don't want to fight the nearby pack of wolves but I can't because Geralt can't jump.
As a book reader I'll add the absolute lack of mention of Milva and Angoulême only one throwavay line about Cahyr hurts quite a lot. Luckily Riegs features quite prominantly in Blood and Wine and Dandelion is in the main game, but for Geralt to not think more about people who saved his life in more ways than one and heled him save Ciri and Yen, doesn't sit right with me. People who he respected and was prepared to die for should have been mentioned more than as Gwent card...
I think there is a general problem with CDPR and the books, in Witcher 1 the plot is basically a copy of the plot of the books with Triss instead of Yen and Alvin instead of Ciri. Zoltan and Dandelion never mention Yen or Ciri to Geralt, yet they reference a lot of other stuff. Same in Witcher 2 (though not as bad) there's a lot referenced, but rarely relating to the main plot. Witcher 3 is literally continuing the plot of the books and yet you run into this same issue again. Ultimately I think the writers at CDPR included what they liked about the books and forgot about the rest (hence why Triss is pushed so hard as a romance option, thankfully they didn't make a cunt of Yennefer)
@@totallynuts7595 After finally finishing 3, I've come to appreciate the story telling of 1 far far more than its...gameplay. Although I enjoyed 2 and 3, 1 is definitely the better story. And what you said makes sense in that case.
@@xpAnnaaa Estoy de acuerdo contigo, pero no totalmente. Witcher 1 tiene malos dialogos, pero tiene mucho encanto y ambiente fenomenal. Witcher 2 y 3 tienen que asi. Todos son geniales en ese sentido, pero los dialogos son mejores en los demas.
Can notice one more thing - when character in combat automatically switch the target to the one which is far from him and just attack "the air" with the sword, ignoring previous target which is close and fight him.
More annoying for me is when Gerald does not draw his sword at the beginning of combat and you end up fist fighting an enemy close range. Got smashed by enemies several times, trying to draw the sword manually, because it takes so long.
Literally dealing with this in the next-gen update as we speak. I also hate how Geralt insists on spinning before nearly every sword swing. Makes it so damn near every enemy in the game (from strongest to weakest) is faster at swinging a sword/weapon than Geralt, a seasoned Witcher.
The most annoying thing is that you can never go back to the emotions from the first playthrough. I was so surprised, happy and amazed by this world, but on the next playthrough you start to notice all those things you mentioned and these "first" feelings mostly fade away. BTW: Great content and keep going!
Note for people on the Hattori quest. This sword he gives you now scales with character level, and it's damage from what I can tell is slightly above the standard aeapons you'll get at your level and only a few numbers below relics at your level so it's a good option to keep around for when your sword starts lagging behind in levels
The Skellige question mark problem could’ve been solved by adding purchasable treasure maps that you have to go off of. Less markers and allows you to be a treasure hunter when you want to.
I really wish the game would have given us a bit of more info on what happened after the war's end,especially for the Nilfgaard ending. Showing some Black Flags around Novigrad would have been cool too
The Runewright is the ultimate troll!!! Especially as I then had to do Corvo Bianco :'-{ The copy and paste issue with Kids is hillarious as well. I think there's like five Gretka's dotted around!! And completely agree about Hatori :-D OMG do we REALLY need Mastercrafted swords that badly? Do we?
@@Sarah-og3mp best place to farm money IMO is one of the Hanse castles in Toussaint, the largest one, Mont something. If you don't kill the boss, you can collect ~6,000 worth of stuff and sell it to the grandmaster smith and repeat that endlessly. This is how I financed Corvo Bianco and all my grandmaster gear displayed there. It's even fun because it's quite the melee and the enemies are fairly high-levelled.
"Oh no... I skipped a stair on my way down... I better die." No really I had this happen at release of the game. I went down some stairs in Novigrad and without any reason at all geralt got falldamage from walking down the stairs to fast.
I've been following your channel right from the start. Both xLetalis and yourself are godsend for us Witcher fans. Was really bummed out to see your previous video (the long one on the Witcher 2) being demonetized by TH-cam. I was halfway through watching it and later noticed that you had removed that video. Please consider reuploading that one again sometime in the future. Thanks for putting in so much work to create these amazing Witcher contents.
@@Habixus Yeah, I hadn't watched the entire thing by the time I posted that comment. Stupid YT and their baseless rules/regulations are beyond my understanding.
what I hate the most is how empty and pointless the world feels after the mainquest your characters are gone and you have the feeling your decisions didn’t matter :(
5:36 I cannot count the number of times this has happened to me. It's made more annoying because I know for a fact he *can* jump it (I've done it before) he usually just.. _doesn't_ for some reason
OMG THE DIVING BRIDGE YES I AM SO GLAD YOU MENTIONED IT. I figured out a way to leap across it in the dive animation leading to a pretty funny looking recovery.
I pretty much agree with all the points displayed. Djikstra would never do that infront of Geralt, he's a smart man. Reason of State was very underwhelming, and the whole Roche, Iorveth stuff too. And especially the endings from Witcher 2, the one that would be most jarring is how Roche went from serving Radovid, to back to wearing his Blue Stripes uniform and being a guerilla, I know it's too much to account for, but, a mention would've been cool.
I actually don’t mind the underwater combat bit. Underwater sections in games are always garbage. It was a relief to have things simplified with the crossbow.
It always bothers me that after completing the main quest that the game reverts back to a mid game state. With that change they could fix the problem with Radovid's death or victory. Drives me nuts that you never see the impact of your actions. Would love them to change that in the enhanced/complete version.
There are actually some consequesnces after, atleast if you don't kill Radovid. For example Var Attre house in Novigrad is occupied by Redanian army. But yeh, i also hate how low impact it has
Would be cool, the argument that it reverts back to a midgame state so players can finish quests doesn't sit right with me, loads of quests have cutoff points that fail them, are dozens of quests that fail after the Isles of mists. So for example, contracts given out by redanian soldiers, can either fail of nilfgaard wins and have to be completed before the last quest. It'd be cool to see nilfgaardian soldiers in novigard or nilfgaard camps destroyed
@L cant stand it, would rather have seen them cut out 20% of the filler content in velen/novigrad/skellige to focus on a post main quest environment that doesnt result in virtually every major character just disappearing
@L It’s definitely not laziness. Just like the video talked about, CDPR had to scrap a lot of ideas because they didn’t have the time to make them work and seeing the consequences of your actions on the world was probably something they simply didn’t have the time to do. It sucks and it’s definitely a flaw with the game but to call it lazy is pretty disingenuous.
I absolutely 100% agree with you regarding Iorveth. He was my favourite character from W2, and I was hoping the whole way through my first playthrough of W3 that he'd pop up, and even 2 playthroughs later I thought I MUST be missing something.
I've always been pretty disappointed with the presence of the Wild Hunt throughout the game. It was really implied in the trailers that they were essentially on the war-path. It would have been cool to see a dynamic similar to the random encounters with dragons in Skyrim. In this case, have the weather drastically change to a frigid setting and having a pair or triplet of riders come out of nowhere on the road to 'hunt' you (just like in the early game cutscene). That, maybe up the frequency as you progress major plot-lines, and have a village or two discovered burned would have been nice too. Something to make it feel like this was getting out of hand.
HOOO Boy, do you have a hot take. Your suggestion would turn the Hunt into obnoxious roadblocks, just like what happened with the dragons in Skyrim. It would absolutely kill the pacing. Your complaint stems from the larger issue of pacing in open world games. The game's story is pretty much a race between you and the Hunt, it doesn't have enough breathing room to let you side quest, but it's an open world game meaning that at any point you can "pause" the main plot to play gwent for 100 hours and come back to the main plot and nothing would have changed. There are games that do this worse, but it's a flaw here as well.
I half agree with both of you here. Ik Im late to the party, but whatever. Dont think they need to be random NPCs scattered around, but I agree that the pacing of the Wild Hunt was wierd. They were set up as these massive villains, then you basically dont encounter them after early Velen until Kaer Morhen. And thats like 2/3 of the base game. Since after Kaer Morhen, things speed up immensely, they are kinda rushed, even. I always felt like these guys dont really had enough room to breathe. Not even the king, and let alone his sidekicks who did like 1 thing each, and youre supposed to feel good about beating them? I just didnt care a whole lot. Well, killing baldie for killing Vesemir felt good, but thats about it.
They were pathetic. Considering the game has the byline "The Wild Hunt" it had very little impact in the world at all. Unless you're on the main quest, no one else gives them a passing remark.
@@RickReasonnz Couldn't agree more. Eredin in the trailers looks like a Sauron-like character but then he just kinda sucked as a character and also died so easily.
I actually didn't mind having all those water locations 'cause looting a large area of them ended up being 10,000-15,000 Crowns after selling them, which I used to upgrade my Feline and Griffin Gear to Superior, and initially build my Bear Gear, and then upgrade to Enhanced and Superior right away. I ended up not being broke by after all this, and it was all due to selling stuff found in those water locations. I considered it a boon, and am glad it was added.
Most annoying thing in Witcher 3 is that if you refuse Emhyr gold your brown roach replaced by dark niflgardian. The most annoying part is that i always forget about it.
16:16 I agree. In Vanilla Witcher 3, it really sucks that you can't track down he Weaveress and to kill her and get back the Medallion for Ciri. Thankfully, a mod called "Ciri's Lost Memento" addresses this pretty well by having you accompany Ciri in hunting down the Weaveress. That said, my biggest gripe with Vanilla Witcher 3 is how lonely the game feels once you beat the main story. You have all of these great characters that you get to interact with but they vanish out of existence once you beat the main story. It's only until after you beat Blood and Wine that you get to see Ciri, Yen, Triss, or Dandelion again. Much like with the lost memento, there is a mod that fixes this issue in a lore friendly way called "Multi Companion Enhanced". It's such a good QoL mod that livens the post game up.
Considering how the good ending is almost tailor made for just that purpose of going after Weavess, it seemed such a shame that CDPR was never able to put it into the game. I guess I'll have to get that mode and try that out.
This ^ I just finished the Witcher for the first time a couple weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to play the DLC’s but the world just feels so empty and sad and… finished. Why bother with the DLC’s?? 😭
@@emilygriffith6702 Yeah, it really feel does feel empty on Vanilla Witcher 3. After my first unmodded playthrough, I was shocked to see all of the beloved characters gone. It made finishing the game even more bittersweet. In terms of the DLCs, I definitely recommend playing them. Hearts of Stone is a blast, it has a lot of interesting characters in it (returning ones like Shani and new ones like Olgierd) and you get to meet Vesemir's former lover (dialogue changes depending on if he's still alive or not). For Blood and Wine, you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not playing it. It's been 6 years since it released and it's still the best DLC I've ever played. A whole new map to explore, an amazing story, and so much to do in it. It's also Geralt's last hoorah and it ends his journey so well. You also get a visitor that stays at Corvo Bianco (the home you get during the DLC) after you beat the DLC. So, it's not as lonely as it was pre-DLC.
When I think about the question marks in the water at Skellige, I always remember the time in my first playthrough when I was overincumbered and sirens destroyed my boat so I had to slow swim back to Kaer Trolde to sell all the stuff and steal, I mean, borrow a new boat. Needless to say, I didn't clear these question marks after that playthrough. Great video, btw, and I agree with most of these. Never noticed the Griffon Armor thing, though.
The Blade from the Bits now upgrades with your level. It’s not the best at each level, but it’s on the higher end. Also there is a Castle Town fast travel marker, but I think it spawns when the barons storyline ends.
The thing about armor making Geralt look "fat," medieval armor was actually made to have a rounded front, usually over the stomach area, specifically because it made it more likely to cause blows to glance to the side. So this is actually a case of more accurate armor design than most games have. Fantasy design, of course, is a different story, and artists are free to play with what looks good over what's practical. Like fantasy armors with gigantic shoulder pieces. A lot of them can look cool, but the entire point of shoulder pieces would be to make blades swinging down more likely to glance off AWAY from the neck, hence why actual armor would have high pieces near the neck and slope downward over the shoulder, and a lot of fantasy designs with lots of ornate grooves and such would actually either catch a blade entirely, or even make it more likely to slide into the neck.
This. I was really annoyed that Roche was in the game but there was no trace of Iorveth anywhere to be seen. They also completely sidelined the Scoiatel after them having such a heavy presence in the previous two games. W3 just wasn't as satisfying for Scoiatel fans. I even foolishly hoped for some kind of Dol Blathanna DLC back in the day.
And what about the 10 crowns you get from the guy who asks you to dive into the ocean in Skellige to find a black pearl, for which you make a round trip from Novigrad to Skellige and back to Novigrad ?
According to CDPR, they're moving the Crow's Nest fast travel point into the settlement for the Next-Gen update. The conflict with the scripted event is solved by having a villager putting-up the fast travel sign after the event happens. Nice little solution. Edit to add: There's also fixing fall damage!
I went into the game and... the fast travel sign is still outside of crow's perch. And yes it is the next gen version. Maybe if I do a new game and get all the way up to that point the change will be noticeable.
@@genesisosuna a bit late to the party but just wanted to mention that after the baron quest concludes there‘s a new fast travel point inside the keep which is pretty neat. By far the best point to travel to for fast repairs and access to the stash
Feel you on all them. Should have included Roach too. I hate Roach in the game. I just run everywhere. Plus, when you are trying to get out of any water on to land and instead of just stepping or climbing out, Geralt turns around and dives back into the water.
It’s a shame they seem to have cut so many Roche/Dijkstra/Iorveth related content. That would have been great. I loved Reason of State ( not the ending of course ) and would’ve been totally in for more of those guys. About Hattori, that guy’s quest line is also extremely difficult when you first arrive in Novigrad. I remember starting it because I thought it was a random plot device being like level 16, only to realise once I was already facing the dwarves that it requires you to be level 25. Those dwarfs were impossible to kill. I had to relaunch my safe.
I was stuck because the previous save file I had was all the way back in the inn at the crossroads, so I thought it would be best to just trudge through that quest on death march. I had to cheese them with axii, hoping for one shot kills, but I don't remember if that worked or not. Still though, it was extremely tedious and annoying
I mean, this game is so long but I feel like it should be so much longer! So many things are just inconclusive or just rappidly ended, and so much content was left out.
Oh, I remember that bridge. Made me hate that edge of the map, even though I managed to achieve a 95% not-dive consistency. And the questionmarks in the water: I ignore them. As for fall damage, I once saw Geralt die from a drop that wasn't even as high as his knee. Full health.
the "fat griffon armor" is really just a traditional medieval style cuirass. they were designed with a convex shape to give an airgap between you and the armor, allowing a less personalized fit, that you can adjust with padding, and would continue to fit as you aged and packed on more and more weight in your midriff as lords were oft to do. a lot of the non-witcher armors also have that same convex shape... that said, grandmaster bear with a dye job is my usual go-to. the head to foot length doesn't make a lot of sense to me though and I sort of wish that it ended just abovethe knees where the chainmail ends as that would make much more sense for mobility and weight management.
The one that bothers me the most is probably when we get the popup that tell us "the world will be kept as if Radovid won" or something like that after doing all the work so that doesnt happen 😫😫 Always thought that a novigrad full of nilfgardians or with some change if Dijkstra gets in charge would be amazing.
I think the message says something like "the world will be reset to previous state", not that Radovid had won, but it's still exactly as bad. I particularly hate the witchhunter shouting on the market square. You just can't ignore them, they are so loud, and I need to go right past them every time I have some swords to sell. Luckily, mods are a thing. (I think my comment with the link got deleted, so if you want to find those mods search for "Consequences of War" on nexus mods
It´s a shame. Early game got soo much love (especially Baron quests) with some heavyweight decisions, while late game is full of convenient shortcuts of decisions with no added weight, only affecting certain characters and not the world itself. The "world be reset to previous state" is one of the worst, although it´s probably done to not have devs remake multiple areas on the map for just one-time use, as there was not much to do after you finished the base game. This all was probably done far before they even knew, what kind of story will Heart of Stone be.
Personally I tolerate Gaspard but that’s probably due to the fact that I’m also narcoleptic so I connected to him with that although I will admit that it’s kind of strange how severe his case is and I feel it borders on extreme exaggeration like we don’t just completely shut down every 10 seconds or at least I haven’t known us to do that
What made me really mad about the game was nothing that actually happened in the game, but that the achievements are super buggy. I'm a very passionate achievement hunter and get all achievements in games I like, and Witcher 3 has some very very hard achievements. Some of them just wont unlock no matter what you do, like completing the game on death march. It was hard enough the first time, then I finished it again on NG+ and still nothing. I made a screenshot that shows three hard achievements at once and none of them unlocked. I contacted support about it and they said they were working on it. That was three years ago :|
I agree on almost everything In this video (except wicher 2 related, because I haven’t player it yet). I was especially surprised to learn how lethal gravity is to monster slaying mutant and I was disappointed as a fan of the books to not see Fringilla Vigo in Beauclair. There is also another isue related to diving, when you are close to a boat with some momentum and you jump, which ends in Gerald diving insted of jumping onto the boat.
Before I have even watch the video I am going to say one thing I hate: The Dwarves on the Isle of Mists. They become this annoying roadblock just before reaching what is arguably the emotional climax of the game and then the bastards steals your boat. I always give them up to the Nilfgaardian's when meeting them again later in White Orchard
Hey man, would love to see your last video come back again. It was actually a really fun watch and sent it to my friends Hope you get through this Also, love all your videos
The candle thing annoyed me for a while but after watching a friend play the game and they getting annoyed, it made me chuckle. Lol it has a certain charm to it. lol
what about roach going crazy off the road, running straight towards enemies and getting stuck on little rocks. All this happens regularly and trust me is not me, my control or lack of skills
Agreed on all points. Especially the mangled and therefore sometimes non-sensical storylines are grating. I saw your (now defunct) Witcher 2 video and I liked it very much because it gave me some insight on previous happenings. I never got the controls of both Witcher 1 and 2 to work for me, so I never got beyond the starting areas. Keep doing what you're doing, and good luck! 😎
I got Witcher 1 to work ok on my pc, but the controls for Witcher 2 were super wonky until I bought an Xbox controller for my pc. Then I was able to plat Witcher 2.
I didn't know anyone else had a problem with the Eldberg bridge! That bridge was my nemesis during my first playthrough. As soon as you said it was too specific and the video was showing the Eldberg bridge, I got so excited and started laughing immediately.
One of my minor complaints with The Crones is that I think they got killed rather anti-climatically. There's a ton of build-up to them in Velen and a slow-roll reveal of what they are and what they want. And Ciri and Geralt just go, "Wanna go gank 'em?" And they do. I found them interesting villains, but I was hoping for a more involved quest-line besides just showing up and boss fighting them.
For those who did not find it out, or have not played the game since the next gen update. In the very middle of crows perch. Right next to the blacksmitsh, the devs put a fast travel point. Now the game is trully the GOAT
Definitely agree with the diving bridge. A lot of the story cuts you bring up make me think that the problems in development of Cyberpunk started way way earlier with Witcher 3. Potentially the duct tape and staples that held the final Witcher game’s team together started to fray to the point where it wasn’t able to be worked around.
What I really hate is that you have to kill the Doppler and one of the succubi in order to get their mutagens for the concoctions. Would have been great if you could get them through some other means. And I don't mean by opening up console commands.
Re Fringilla in Blood and Wine: There is an unaccessible item of interest hidden behind the wall behind the cashier in the wine shop... the same shop were you find Fringilla's letters (if I remember right). I always thought that shop had some deletered content behind it.
I had to come back to this cuz I just had a revelation that there’s actually a reason they can reuse the same model for that merchant. He’s the traveling merchant that when you first meet you can talk to, asking about whether it’s dangerous to travel. So you’re meeting the same guy in different spots lol. Might not be true but it helps from being distracting
Glad to find a video on this topic! I actually just finished playing for the first time, and found lots of the game really irritating. Not enough to stop me playing, but often you get to the end of a story, having tried to do everything right, only to get a terrible ending. The snippets of conversation choices often don't really let you know how the conversation will go, and sometimes veer off the opposite way from how it seems (eg Dushy died thanks to that). Ciri was gone at the end of my play, again from trying to do all the right things. And what about that quest with the woman who's turning into a bird? You have to betray her trust in order to get the best ending, ugh. Another time I was forced into playing a game of Gwent even though I have no interest in that part of the game, and then lost 5% of all my savings. I also would have gone with Triss over Yennifer, but choosing "Let's try again" was apparently a rejection. Then there's little things like regular crashing, though maybe that's just me. And things glowing after you've looted them. Some things glow until you get to them and then they stop and there's nothing to loot. The UI is super slow and tedious. There's no easy way to see where the nearest quest is or how far each quest is. You have to select each one in turn, go to world map, see where it is, then back to the quest view, then scroll to find the next one you want to test etc. The big update didn't fix any of these things, although at first it did make it impossible to save a game and made it almost unplayable.
For the candles being (non)strategically placed, the reverse also holds true. Say you're just goofing around and want to ignite/extinguish all of the candles in a room. Several will be placed in just such a way that you can't do so without accidentally re-hitting the candles you just finished with, or there's only 1 pixel of the screen where Geralt HAS TO BE to get to them. Or, worse, you're trying to avoid looting a container because it has another copy of the same damn book you already have 50 copies of and it won't let you extinguish that last candle without looting the bookshelf first!
One thing I was annoyed at, since I finished Hearts of stone before the main quest, was that when I gathered friends for the battle, I couldn't ask Olgierd von Everec. He would have been a great person to have there, throwing himself into battle without fear. His personality would have made it great, combining his flippant attitude with a desire to redeem himself.
Could definitely see it working. The only issue of him not being in any cutscenes could probably be solved by placing him near the entrance and having him die almost instantly during gameplay. It would be tragic, wasteful, but ultimately a plausible end for a man too accustomed to immortality and a good redemption for him as he gets to return the favour for Geralt while dying heroically in defence of Kaer Morhen
I can't help but agree with all your points. First of all, it is sooo sad that there is nothing on Iorveth. He was such an amazing chatacter. Then how things end in Reason of State is really disappointing, it starts of so promising and ends in total disaster. And also the lodge so sad that you can't really interact with the sorceresses more. Yes, a Weavess quest would have been amazing. Loved the video;)
As a person with Narcolepsy, Gaspard is just another example of laughing at a person with Narcolepsy and not laughing with. It's a trope that not only has been done to death, but furthers the notion that Narcoleptics should be the butt of the joke. It's punching down and it encourages the player to punch down as well.
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This video came out several months before the next-gen update, and a few of these things were fixed! The lead Witcher 3 quest designer even tweeted at me after the update came out to say they had watched this video while working on it!
If you're curious what was fixed, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/UcIA0RwSjjc/w-d-xo.html
That's really cool!
That's insane! They actually fixed a lot from your list.
I've would add monster trophies that have like the same boring bonuses, they don't have that unique feel like in W2. Another thing downgraded are mutagens, I mean c'mon red, blue and green when we had 8 types in W2 and to makes thing worse they are common as a drowner. Im not counting the specific monster mutagens cause they're pretty useless in the skill menu. And to fix it it's not like to redesign half of the quest.
the last time i did the sleepy guy quest he only fall asleep twice and i didnt had to spam for him to wake up. i think its a fix from the upgrade
Was more than excited to see a sign post by the barn in crows perch, when doing my next gen playthru last week. 👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘
"Players find the hard difficulty is hard" type of shit is sooo accurate😂🤣🤣
I did the dumpling quest extremely underleveled in my latest playthrough and the sword he gave me WAS STILL not as good as the one I already had. It's a joke.
EDIT: The fixed it in the next gen update.
IKR 🤣 i also completed it very underleved
Yeah I spent 15 minutes killing the dwarves that attack you for a shitty sword that was 5 levels too low even though the quest was 20 levels too high
We just do it for the access to the master sword smith right?
@@NaysayKen Well yeah
@@NaysayKen Yes but you cannot deny the reward is underwhelming. Especially when you purposefuly do it early and it's way harder yet the reward sword is still useless.
The Griffin Witcher armour set is actually the most realistic one. Cuirasses are supposed to make you look fat, that slope, roundness and fullness of the breastplate is what forces blows to glance, deflect off the plate. Worst cuirasses ever are the flat ones that look like roman muscle breastplates, as a flat surface is so easy to pierce. Same applies to tank armour BTW.
No, the worst cuirasses ever are boob-plate, which literally directs the attack towards the center of your chest.
Yep, its historical, and still people get mad at it! Like those round plates in chest near the armpit in some armours... There are people complaining about it too! But there are some mistakes too, like those 2H swords on Geralt's back! They made a more reliable way of taking it out in TW1, but TW2 / 3 they regressed.
Its not only piercing thing but also helps to distribute weight when used with belts. You dont want all the heavy weight on your shoulders but instead you want to relieve some of the weight from shoulders and let your hips do some of the work
The Griffin armor is my "dad armor," which is perfect because I'm always in it when I go find Ciri.
@@jefersonmartins6471 Incorrect it was more unrealistically sheathed in W1. As a TH-camr has made videos on how you can legitimately make Back Holsters that could indeed carry a Sword and sheath/unsheathe...Still impractical and ahistorical but it can be done by the Human body.
The W1 "solution" was no holster at all both swords hanging onto thin air/levitating behind Geralt in an X pattern. While he still grabs both with his right hand...The Silver blade is magically teleported to be able to be used in that hand without cutting himself you can even notice how the holstered model and used model have a flipped grip meaning even more impractically he flips the sword around. Neither make any sense there is no Anti-Gravity Defying Sign or Magic in Geralt's arsenal.
Witchers are mutants but they can't overextend their bodies or break the laws of gravity/physics. That's more Ciri's thing for the latter.
Really the design for the Sword Holsters is perfect in W2 and W3 besides that the swords tips clip through the sheath instead of go out the top. But the animation is fast playing so that's hard to pick up on unless you're trying to catch it. Not to mention people over look armor clipping all the time in video games.
But none of the options are lore friendly as in the original works...Geralt doesn't use his Steel and Silver Swords at the same time. Nor is Silver used as often as in the books it's ONLY for Magical Monsters (not all of them like the games) and it's extremely brittle as an Silver Edge would be so to use it often would just break it. Instead he mostly uses a Steel sword for monsters and people then the Silver sword is in a case wrapped up to prevent damage from overexposure to the elements in the satchel on Roach.
The devs didn't have a horse in W1 nor W2 so they did the back holstering for both. For W3 because it would be too annoying to always retrieve our Silver sword from Roach every time we encounter a monster if we had the Steel on hand instead and they established that all monsters require the Silver sword in the previous two games they repeated it even when they could be lore friendly. Gameplay practically over the lore realism. They made the right call there.
Honestly the Hatori quest line is worth it just to see Sukrus and his brother in law make up . Their dynamic at the end is weirdly endearing
"Szwagier, chodź będziemy napierdalać Nordlingów"
-Sukrus
so it was you sukrus, I should have known.
"aigth we gonna beat him up."
Im gonna beat your ass up with him instead!
"dawaj ich sukrus"
- Geralt Riv
I got the witcheress ending and I was so disappointed I never got to kill the third crone. Even a cutscene with Geralt and Ciri taking her on together as the last act would’ve been amazing.
Agreed. At least , the scene where Geralt gives Ciri her witcher's sword could just have had a line "now lets go get that last crone..."
IT HAS HAUNTED ME EVER SINCE!!!
Look into "Ciri's Sole Momento" if you're playing on PC :)
I didn’t even know you could go kill the last crone!! Now I feel robbed
Its crazy cause the witcheress ending is the best one overall but compared to the other 2 it feels short.
I always saw the merchants as one guy working as a spy for Nilfgard wearing hilariously unconvincing costumes changes so Emeyr could keep tabs on you.
M "Welcome, welcome!
G "Que aen suecc's?"
M "Essea math, visse?"
G *smug face
M "Bloede kusse."
The Runewright should have paid YOU a portion of his profits periodically for investing in his business. It's only fair, and it would better justify going through the ordeal of donating such ridiculous amounts of money to him.
Meh, I mean, sure, from the perspective, described in the video - runewright is beyond ridiculous... But c'mon, guy deserves some slack for just being that teensy-weensy bit of an incentive to have some, however slight, semblance of care for money)
From story pov, 30k is insanely high and you could probably like buy whole Novigrad for this much. From game pov, it's merely nothing. Fr i am in NG+ currently, and i ignore ANY weapon in Toussaint. Except Relics, cause i collect them. I invested 30k in Runewright, all the possible money in vineyard, i have all grandmaster sets and still over 100k left. Good to mention if all the relics (i know they aren't) are 2.5k/ea i have another 100k+ in just swords.
If you really struggle for money, go to Toussaint. Basic bandit sword here sells for like 800-1k and MOST of smiths has over 10k base budget.
yea I think a mechanic where you can gradually make that massive amount of 30K back would have been beneficial rather than just dump the money on him and then pay further insane amounts for the services.
Yeah think about it, not only is Geralt the main investor in the business, he is the ONLY investor in the business. He is the sole provider of the capital, he's not only the main stockholder, he is the only stockholder. But let's face it, its real purpose is a money sink.
It's a Ponzi Skeem. Invest in crypto.
You forgot Roach always spawning behind a wall or a fence or some trees or underneath a bridge or something equally annoying.
Awesome to see there is still being created great Witcher3-content!
Try to face the fences, bushes and forest in general. Make sure the open space is behind you. It usually works, because Roach always spawns behind you.
But of course she somehow manages to find that one rock or tree to get stuck behind... 😅
Roache Spawned once on a Roof in Toussaint for me never had that before
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I think Roach will explain why he keeps stucking behind walls
And I always said "stup*d horse" everytime I called it 😅 unresponsive pet at all
Roach randomly walking into the middle of a dialogue scene.
You know what really grinds MY gears?? The last quest in White Orchard, where you meet up in the tavern with Vesemir and a bar fight breaks out. No matter what you do, even if you only use your fists to knock them out, the fight always ends with a cutscene where Geralt dismembers the patrons and Geralt is seen as a butcher. The tavern owner even comes back to the story in the Priscilla concert and yells at him for being a murderer, and there's absolutely nothing that you can do to change the outcome. The part that bothers me the most is that the game always preaches about how sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils, but there is no choice here only a cutscene.
Dude I had this exact same frustration w that quest. I've been playing the game for the past few months on my switch after not playing for years. I did the Priscilla quest and was completely caught off guard by the tavern lady haha. I always wondered if I could've used my fists to change the outcome, unfortunate to know it's inevitable.
Geralt didn’t have to behead the dude tbh, bit overkill
I will always ask myself what's wrong with people that pretends the game is so freaking open that every decision you take has to have some weird influence. At any point the game lets you chose in that scene. It's quite implied this is a fight for the dead. You wanted to fight fist? That's on you. But there's a plot to follow. Geralt and Vesemir, knowing better than you, used the swords and killed people. Using fist in a sword fight would be idiotic, especially against guards. Sure, you can do it in a game, and the solution then would be to make them immortal unless you use the sword, but then you'd have people complaining about not being able to beat the full game with fists.
This era of drama-queens wanna-cry for everything is what really grinds MY gears.
@@robertoj.9509 The solution would be to just not let you sheathe your sword, with a brief animation grabbing a nearby blade if the player had none in their inventory (if necessary, can't recall exacts).
Forcing players to use certain equipment is hardly a new concept. If they're going to force lethal outcomes they should really ensure they're enforcing lethal means, at least ideally.
oh that happens? I never knew cause I pulled out the sword immediately and cut them to pieces....oh well they wanted to kill me I think so all's fair
I think the thing I hate the most is the amount of shallow/not shallow enough water pits in Velen that force you to reload a save if you fall into them. Can't walk out, can't jump out. Geralt just stays in there unable to escape the puddle.
thats if you know you have to reload the game. i was stuck in one of them for atleast 2 hour trying everything and searching it up and atlast some random said i reloaded it and it work with like 2 up votes in a reddit post with 6 comment bruh.
God this early in the games life I got stuck in a literal puddle on the road and couldn't get out
Just check how to turn on commands. And then if you get stuck, click " and write AllowFT(1). And you can teleport to any of ..how they called... Sticks that allow you to teleport across the map :D
Very annoying bro.. Even is the same in the next gen
I have never experienced this, so i must do so so i may experience the true Witcher 3 experience.
The lack of closure on Vesemir's medallion drives me absolutely insane. Vesemir was a man Geralt knew for literally his entire life. His mother Visenna brought him to Kaer Morhen as a baby and for most of his life Geralt thought Vesemir was the one who gave him his name. Vesemir was a close friend, like a father in many ways to Geralt as well as a brother in arms. Geralt would absolutely want to get his medallion back. It would have been perfect if that was Geralt and Ciri's first stop after he gave her her witcher's sword. A proper witcher needs a medallion after all.
Imagine if Saskia, Iorveth and Vincent were in the game. You could have Scoia'teal, dragon and werewolf helping you defend Kaer Morhen that could have been epic.
@@rjohnm666 Dragons are very powerful but they have some weaknesses which is maybe why they were almost exterminated in Witcher 2 apart from Saskia so I think that story-wise CDPR did Saskia right because she has a good reason to stay in her human form and she has golden scales if I am not mistaken which means that she is not that big and strong and even if she was bigger I think that in Witcher universe there are plenty of ways to kill a dragon ranging from balistas, catapults, crossbows, bombs and ofcourse magic and swords.
@@rjohnm666 The Witcher universe has human dragon hunters. Dragons are not that ungodly strong besides providing heavy AoE which a very talented sorceress can also do.
I kill Saskia every time I play W2 so I'm glad they left her out.
True but accounting for Geralt potentially curing Vincent in the first game depending on your choices he could be dead too so I can see why they didn't bring him back.
Then again, Thaler returned, sooo
It's weird how some characters get totally pissed at you for joining order of the flame rose in witcher 1, but in 2 and 3, basically EVERYONE hates scoiateal.
I really went into this thinking "Witcher 3 is a perfect game, any flaws you could possibly find would just be petty glitches",
but then I actually agreed with basically everything
The more you play it, the more flaws you´ll gencounter. It only took me like 2nd playthrough to notice, how sloppy is NPC movement, which often looks as if they didn´t know, how to walk.
One major thing (at least for me), which wasn´t mentioned in the video: Geralt´s movement. Sometimes, you didn´t need candles to have difficulty looting chest. All it took was the freakin unresponsive, clunky Geralt controls, which required you to move around quite a lot, before you found the spot required to loot a chest. Or just moving around in narrow spaces. It may look realistic for you to have some momentum, but ffs it´s a game and a fantasy one!
Also, looting chests. Isn´t it weird, that you can enter any building and loot anything you want, people owning the house wander around you and don´t freak out about you looting their modest property?
Economy is totally weird in this game. You can carry almost anything (with mods ofc), but only sell a few items to any merchant at a time. Because they are constantly out of money!
@@Morpheus-pt3wq I think the looting issue you mentioned (having to find the sweet spot) is more of a problem in the witcher 2, I don't have that problem in 3. Also once you get farther into the game, merchants will have more money. Hattori, the runewright, and the grandmaster in toussaint are all good vendors with money. Hattori starts out with very little but eventually he usually has like 10k. And the runewright and grandmaster always have 20k-30k
There sooooooo many flaws in this game ,fortunately the story, dialouge ,facial animation, design and the gameplay kinda saved it
"Perfect game" well there's your problem. Thinking any game is perfect
Hehehe nice joke bro. Many flaws to this game. Good characters and story of course. Combat, movement, pointless loot, repetitive gameplay, excessive random mobs all over the map, and more are all issues here. It doesn't stand out as much after other games have come out.
Also, the "Maybe you're running low on broken rakes" made me laugh out loud 😆
I was bored once and tried to see how many broken rakes I could amass. I believe I was around 5k by the time I lost interest...
I thought that one merchant with the glasses was actually the same guy and he was just changing his outfits to stalk Geralt everywhere. He was more disturbing than some of the monsters in the game.
Maybe it's Gaunter using a different appearance
This is my thinking too in most games where the merchants have the same character models.
@@Dark_Mishra
witcher 3 re-used the npc models too much
@@barryallen2240 or even worse gaunter has competition or a rival running around staking out his competitor's proxies
@@somethingrandom869 Looking to buy ?
I agree with a lot of these, but I'm surprised that there were no Roach-related points... Whether it's Roach's getting caught on invisible/non-existent fences, getting stuck on trees, struggling to leap small obstacles, or appearing kinda far away from you & not coming to you when called.
I just started playing the game, and how, oh, how many times have I said "God damnit roach" lol.
@@Bodharas Shiiieeet I got a whole new vocabulary thanks to Roach hahaha
I say this every time I load up the game. The horse mechanics in this game are HORRENDOUS. Let's not forget how ROACH will spawn behind a fence, up on a hill you can't get to, or 50 feet behind you forcing you to U-turn whenever you call him.
I've had it with horse physics in video games. Real life horses are so athletic and agile. Imagine a real life horse-jumping competition and insert Witcher 3 physics in it, it would be a crap show. Horses sticking to objects, missing their jumps half the time, cannot make right and left turns.
@@One.Zero.One101 "Imagine a real life horse-jumping competition and insert Witcher 3 physics in it" I died laughing on this because I had legit imagination of a horse getting stuck on every tiny thing and then a retarded horse meme right after hahaha
For me one of the biggest issues was the never changing war situation between the Redanians and the Nilgaardians. It would have been amazing if there were at least some small changes in the world...
OMG I had the same thought 7 years ago haha, in the prologue is literally more geopolitical changes than in the entire rest of the game up until the end
War doesnt really change that fast. Especialy when it was mostly politics and the game doesnt take place over multiple years. Idk how would you want the war situation to change.
They just had an indecisive battle and now basically sit on opposite sides of a major river regrouping. I dont really have a problem with them not moving for those few ingame weeks. War in that age wasnt that fast.
Especially the never ending book burning in Novigrad gets on my nerves
Never had I have so little interest in political conflict. I don't even care who wins. In fact, more often than not, I sided with Nilfguard. The Northern Realms are a fucking shithole. Maybe Ehmyr will bring order to that place and Ciri might as well rule once he dies
I definitely wanted more missions with Roche. I liked his character a lot.
Me too, exspecially after the Witcher 2
Roche was an absolute bro! Like a human-equivalent of Geralt the Witcher. Competent and righteous.
@@eaaeeeea Murderer of women and children... *slow clap*
Witcher 2 Roche was so great. I still don't know why they absolutely butchered his character in 3. Wish there was more to be done with him.
@@genesisosuna The first game was made by inexperienced immature fellad. The second game was made for and by adults. The third game was made to be a commercial success.
What you said about Fringilla makes so much sense with regards to B&W. I found the short romance with Syanna so strange, and felt there was much more romantic tension between him and Annarietta. But Fringilla and him having had such good romance in the books when they were in Toussaint would have made so much sense for them to bring that back ~20 years later in the game
On the other hand you get a juicy choice. Do you want a better political situation or do you only care about your friends.
Yeah it's not a romance at all and it's weird. They seem to make a point of having the male character (you) objectified, but it really feels like they had to add their mandatory soft-porn scene in the DLC and there were no other credible female candidate.
@@sumizuoomike what painter?
When I first started playing the game and fell in love with it, I spent hours clearing the skellige question marks to get extra loot to sell. It wasn’t so much the clearing them that annoyed me, it was the sirens attacking my boat and sometimes destroying it when I’m over encumbered forcing me to swim slowly back to shore. It only happened a couple times before I realized I could shoot them while continuing to drive the boat.
Wait....WHAT???? You can shoot them while at the tiller? I just finished all the question marks except for the Guarded Treasure with the Archgriffin.
You can shot them while sailing?? REALY ? LOL
Gotta love how one person talking about frustrations they suffered due to once lacking knowledge of a game mechanic so often brings out several others who discover said mechanic through the comment.
I remember a very specific hole in Velen, where my Geralt fell in and I literally couldn't get out. The movement in this game has never been the best, but that had never happened before. I literally had to reload a previous save file because Geralt kept rolling on the same spot as if he was on a treadmill.
Yeah me too! Some watery hole in the swamp I think!
Can happen in quite a lot of spots, especially in ruins, when you try climbing over a wall and on the other side there is no way back up the wall.
Even more annoying when you are diving in shipwrecks - never save inside such spots, rather safe before you climb around / dive.
yeah I believe I have fallen into that same watery hole in the swamp as well.
@@KossolaxtheForesworn yup same here. I was PISSED because my last save was 3 hours ago from that point
@@kevintyson1947 both of you. you dont have to reload a past save to get out of it. just save at the spot you are stuck and reload it you are gonna apear at the top of the hole and u can leave it.
As someone with thalassophobia as well as a completionist streak, the Skellige sea question marks are unskippable torture.
even virtual seas affect you?
@@irgendwer3610 You'll find a lot of people with Thalassophobia who are terrrified of Subnautica. It's meme'd on as the game that will give you thalassophobia if you don't already. So yes, it doess affect them. Sh*t, I don't even have thalassophobia and Subnautica was terrifying at first.
It's like how spider enemies cause arachnophobes major problems in getting through a dungeon.
When you're immersed in a game, the things that you hate and are scared of IRL feel more real.
@@irgendwer3610I hate virtual seas and spiders just as much if not more than real ones so yeah they still effect people with phobias for them
Surprised you mentioned that there's a lot of water 'question marks' (or points of interest) in Skellige but didn't mention the ones that are underground with no cave entrances anywhere in sight. Those were much worse in my opinion. Absolutely agree on the runewright thing - feels like an extremely "gamey" way to spend money in the late game. Funny how it's a lot more expensive than even fully renovating the winery in Blood and Wine.
Finding alchemy recipes in the wrong order. "Oh great, I found superior oil recipe I'M JUST MISSING THE DAMN BASE VERSION"
Those 3 Fringilla Vigo lines are still better than anything we got in the show LOL
Ooof, the show is just terrible. Season one even held it's ground but season 2, jeeesh, what the hell was that 😄
@@Hybe123 i read that that's why cavil left/was kicked off of the show, he was a hardcore fan of the games and books and netflix wasn't doing them justice and he voiced those issues he had with them
@@bargainbrandmilk9858 yes, we as gamers get a different perspective of what witcher and geralt should look like and how the story should go and what would geralt do opposed to what someone that only read the books get... in my opionion, geralt from the books differs a bit from the geralt from the games... because the games geralt is a vision of geralt from another creator. That's why even sapkowski doesn't like the games even though they have globally popularized his books, the game geralt isn't the book geralt
I think my top pet peeves are:
- falling off a cliff because you were attacked by some flying creature
- dodging away from your loot after you've killed your opponent
- getting up those damn mountains in Skellige
- merchants with different prices and merchants running out of money before I've dumped the rest of my Skellige loot on them. The stash gets extremely slow if it's too full but I'm not gonna throw the stuff away either. During my first play-through there was one armorer in Toussaint who never ran out of money, but during my second one now, even he has barely any money
The smith in Kaer Trolde (En Craite castle) will restock after you meditate. I forget if it's a whole day or less, but I used him to get loads of money from looted swords.
These would definitely be some of my complaints in most open world games. Games have too many different limitations when it comes to dealing with scaling terrain.
It's odd that games still implement such tedious things and even make them worse over time.
Instead of being able to just sell my stuff to a vendor I have to either travel to many ,or wait and meditate ... it changes nothing, in the end but wastes time.
Same with the gear repair. I guess it's supposed to be a money sling but quickly it becomes so cheap that it's absolutely no issue ... but you have to fix the damn swords every 10 minutes. Once again, nothing is archieved, but time is wasted.
they clearly added more money on the toussaint merchants. tens of thousands of money on them to sell all of your crap on them.
but for whatever reason they didnt upgrade the money on the base game merchants since that dlc came around.
and of course the merchants that craft things dont offer the best prices on items, so despite you dropping hundred thousand on them to make armor, its pointless to try and sell anything when even the best gear goes for few bucks instead of the thousand the empty pocketed merchant would be offering for it.
YES THE NEVERENDING CYCLE OF LIGHTHING CANDLES!!
And one thing that wasn't mentioned.. I find it annoying that it's so hard to tell if a sword is a unique item or not. And the inventory is still a bit cluttered, even though they did fix it.
The inventory design is just terrible, looks like something in a game from 2001. Instead of just auto filtering loot you have to manually filter through it and drag it into slots. Also the "pocket" feature where you have to drag items into 4 different slots where u have to assign 4 independent keybindings to each slot is just beyond complicated and poorly designed..
The sick part is that the runewright charges so much that you need to go diving for treasure in skellige, a match made in hell
you forgot to add the fact that you CANNOT jump while in combat! not only would it be cool to have some jumping attacks, but when you are climbing up a mountain that requires you to mantle up ledge after ledge you are prevented to do so if any harpie or the like is flying near you because it forces you into combat mode. So, you have to wait till they fly down to you so you can kill them and mantle the next ledge. Also, if in combat and you get backed up to a 3 sided gate or barrier you cant jump over them to escape an enemy.
exactly. sometimes honestly i just want to get to my destination and don't want to fight the nearby pack of wolves but I can't because Geralt can't jump.
@@gargoyleguy lol yea if it wasn't for that oversight the game would be damn near perfect. I still love the whole world.
As a book reader I'll add the absolute lack of mention of Milva and Angoulême only one throwavay line about Cahyr hurts quite a lot. Luckily Riegs features quite prominantly in Blood and Wine and Dandelion is in the main game, but for Geralt to not think more about people who saved his life in more ways than one and heled him save Ciri and Yen, doesn't sit right with me. People who he respected and was prepared to die for should have been mentioned more than as Gwent card...
I think there is a general problem with CDPR and the books, in Witcher 1 the plot is basically a copy of the plot of the books with Triss instead of Yen and Alvin instead of Ciri. Zoltan and Dandelion never mention Yen or Ciri to Geralt, yet they reference a lot of other stuff. Same in Witcher 2 (though not as bad) there's a lot referenced, but rarely relating to the main plot. Witcher 3 is literally continuing the plot of the books and yet you run into this same issue again. Ultimately I think the writers at CDPR included what they liked about the books and forgot about the rest (hence why Triss is pushed so hard as a romance option, thankfully they didn't make a cunt of Yennefer)
@@totallynuts7595 After finally finishing 3, I've come to appreciate the story telling of 1 far far more than its...gameplay. Although I enjoyed 2 and 3, 1 is definitely the better story. And what you said makes sense in that case.
@@xpAnnaaa Estoy de acuerdo contigo, pero no totalmente. Witcher 1 tiene malos dialogos, pero tiene mucho encanto y ambiente fenomenal. Witcher 2 y 3 tienen que asi. Todos son geniales en ese sentido, pero los dialogos son mejores en los demas.
Can notice one more thing - when character in combat automatically switch the target to the one which is far from him and just attack "the air" with the sword, ignoring previous target which is close and fight him.
never use auto aim against many enemies, it's not helping. I have it on against a single enemy / boss fight but otherwise it's useless.
More annoying for me is when Gerald does not draw his sword at the beginning of combat and you end up fist fighting an enemy close range.
Got smashed by enemies several times, trying to draw the sword manually, because it takes so long.
@@diekritischestimme me when fighting death march bosses, just punching them hopelessly and then them killing me in 4 hits
Literally dealing with this in the next-gen update as we speak. I also hate how Geralt insists on spinning before nearly every sword swing. Makes it so damn near every enemy in the game (from strongest to weakest) is faster at swinging a sword/weapon than Geralt, a seasoned Witcher.
The most annoying thing is that you can never go back to the emotions from the first playthrough. I was so surprised, happy and amazed by this world, but on the next playthrough you start to notice all those things you mentioned and these "first" feelings mostly fade away.
BTW: Great content and keep going!
Feel you.
The witcher 3 is a life experience, the only game that made me feel such deep emotions is RDR2.
Note for people on the Hattori quest. This sword he gives you now scales with character level, and it's damage from what I can tell is slightly above the standard aeapons you'll get at your level and only a few numbers below relics at your level so it's a good option to keep around for when your sword starts lagging behind in levels
"Maybe you re running low on broken rakes" 😂We ve all been there...
My biggest complaint is that you never get the Sangreal that Annarietta promises you.
Go steal that shit bruh
Really ?
The Skellige question mark problem could’ve been solved by adding purchasable treasure maps that you have to go off of. Less markers and allows you to be a treasure hunter when you want to.
I really wish the game would have given us a bit of more info on what happened after the war's end,especially for the Nilfgaard ending. Showing some Black Flags around Novigrad would have been cool too
I had a glitch or something once and Gaspard fall asleep just 2 times. I've never been that happy in my life😂
The Runewright is the ultimate troll!!! Especially as I then had to do Corvo Bianco :'-{
The copy and paste issue with Kids is hillarious as well. I think there's like five Gretka's dotted around!!
And completely agree about Hatori :-D OMG do we REALLY need Mastercrafted swords that badly? Do we?
Ironically doing the skellige question marks would solve this problem
Yes we need mastercrafted swords. So for me that's always been the motivation. I knew the sword would suck even on my first playthrough...
@@Sarah-og3mp best place to farm money IMO is one of the Hanse castles in Toussaint, the largest one, Mont something. If you don't kill the boss, you can collect ~6,000 worth of stuff and sell it to the grandmaster smith and repeat that endlessly. This is how I financed Corvo Bianco and all my grandmaster gear displayed there. It's even fun because it's quite the melee and the enemies are fairly high-levelled.
@@countluke2334 Oooh. Good one to know. Thanks :-)
@@countluke2334 i´ve only used them, until i got Aerondight and later, during NG+, i stopped using crafted swords altogether.
The only thing I hate is how unforgiving fall damage really is.
"Oh no... I skipped a stair on my way down... I better die."
No really I had this happen at release of the game. I went down some stairs in Novigrad and without any reason at all geralt got falldamage from walking down the stairs to fast.
I've been following your channel right from the start. Both xLetalis and yourself are godsend for us Witcher fans. Was really bummed out to see your previous video (the long one on the Witcher 2) being demonetized by TH-cam. I was halfway through watching it and later noticed that you had removed that video. Please consider reuploading that one again sometime in the future.
Thanks for putting in so much work to create these amazing Witcher contents.
He didn't remove it, it got taken down by the algorithm :(
@@Habixus Yeah, I hadn't watched the entire thing by the time I posted that comment. Stupid YT and their baseless rules/regulations are beyond my understanding.
The video is on his Patreon page now.
what I hate the most is how empty and pointless the world feels after the mainquest your characters are gone and you have the feeling your decisions didn’t matter :(
So true Blood and Wine makes it better but it's still sad that you can't see most of the important Characters
What I hate about skellige is the fun of sailing is completely ruined since you can’t go more than a minute without being attacked.
5:36 I cannot count the number of times this has happened to me. It's made more annoying because I know for a fact he *can* jump it (I've done it before) he usually just.. _doesn't_ for some reason
I walk on the beams to get cross.
All Points 💯. Fringilla Vigo could have been added to Blood and Wine where she would have rescued Syanna From the "Land of A Thousand Fables" i.e., the 2nd time in Good ending or 1st time in Unseen Elder ending & Explain the gravity of Higher Vampire Situation to the bit©hy Anna Henrietta.
4:15 - I'd replace this with the 'Princess' escort mission. At least with Gaspard you don't have to ring a bell the whole time.
yeah, but goats are cool :)
Princess is at least funny and it's early in the game.
One thing I hate about witcher 3 not having enough monsters nests, sometimes i don't want to talk, I just want to be a witcher and end monsters.
OMG THE DIVING BRIDGE YES I AM SO GLAD YOU MENTIONED IT. I figured out a way to leap across it in the dive animation leading to a pretty funny looking recovery.
I pretty much agree with all the points displayed.
Djikstra would never do that infront of Geralt, he's a smart man.
Reason of State was very underwhelming, and the whole Roche, Iorveth stuff too.
And especially the endings from Witcher 2, the one that would be most jarring is how Roche went from serving Radovid, to back to wearing his Blue Stripes uniform and being a guerilla, I know it's too much to account for, but, a mention would've been cool.
The "No Fall Damage" mod on PC is GODLY, not only is the nuisance taken care of, but the 100 foot superhero landings are badass to boot!
I actually don’t mind the underwater combat bit. Underwater sections in games are always garbage. It was a relief to have things simplified with the crossbow.
It always bothers me that after completing the main quest that the game reverts back to a mid game state. With that change they could fix the problem with Radovid's death or victory. Drives me nuts that you never see the impact of your actions. Would love them to change that in the enhanced/complete version.
There are actually some consequesnces after, atleast if you don't kill Radovid. For example Var Attre house in Novigrad is occupied by Redanian army. But yeh, i also hate how low impact it has
Would be cool, the argument that it reverts back to a midgame state so players can finish quests doesn't sit right with me, loads of quests have cutoff points that fail them, are dozens of quests that fail after the Isles of mists. So for example, contracts given out by redanian soldiers, can either fail of nilfgaard wins and have to be completed before the last quest. It'd be cool to see nilfgaardian soldiers in novigard or nilfgaard camps destroyed
@L cant stand it, would rather have seen them cut out 20% of the filler content in velen/novigrad/skellige to focus on a post main quest environment that doesnt result in virtually every major character just disappearing
@L It’s definitely not laziness. Just like the video talked about, CDPR had to scrap a lot of ideas because they didn’t have the time to make them work and seeing the consequences of your actions on the world was probably something they simply didn’t have the time to do. It sucks and it’s definitely a flaw with the game but to call it lazy is pretty disingenuous.
I absolutely 100% agree with you regarding Iorveth. He was my favourite character from W2, and I was hoping the whole way through my first playthrough of W3 that he'd pop up, and even 2 playthroughs later I thought I MUST be missing something.
I've always been pretty disappointed with the presence of the Wild Hunt throughout the game. It was really implied in the trailers that they were essentially on the war-path. It would have been cool to see a dynamic similar to the random encounters with dragons in Skyrim. In this case, have the weather drastically change to a frigid setting and having a pair or triplet of riders come out of nowhere on the road to 'hunt' you (just like in the early game cutscene). That, maybe up the frequency as you progress major plot-lines, and have a village or two discovered burned would have been nice too. Something to make it feel like this was getting out of hand.
HOOO Boy, do you have a hot take. Your suggestion would turn the Hunt into obnoxious roadblocks, just like what happened with the dragons in Skyrim. It would absolutely kill the pacing. Your complaint stems from the larger issue of pacing in open world games. The game's story is pretty much a race between you and the Hunt, it doesn't have enough breathing room to let you side quest, but it's an open world game meaning that at any point you can "pause" the main plot to play gwent for 100 hours and come back to the main plot and nothing would have changed. There are games that do this worse, but it's a flaw here as well.
I half agree with both of you here. Ik Im late to the party, but whatever. Dont think they need to be random NPCs scattered around, but I agree that the pacing of the Wild Hunt was wierd. They were set up as these massive villains, then you basically dont encounter them after early Velen until Kaer Morhen. And thats like 2/3 of the base game. Since after Kaer Morhen, things speed up immensely, they are kinda rushed, even. I always felt like these guys dont really had enough room to breathe. Not even the king, and let alone his sidekicks who did like 1 thing each, and youre supposed to feel good about beating them? I just didnt care a whole lot. Well, killing baldie for killing Vesemir felt good, but thats about it.
They were pathetic. Considering the game has the byline "The Wild Hunt" it had very little impact in the world at all. Unless you're on the main quest, no one else gives them a passing remark.
@@totallynuts7595 If that's what open world means, referring to gameplay versus style of setting, I've been using the word wrong for years.
@@RickReasonnz Couldn't agree more. Eredin in the trailers looks like a Sauron-like character but then he just kinda sucked as a character and also died so easily.
I actually didn't mind having all those water locations 'cause looting a large area of them ended up being 10,000-15,000 Crowns after selling them, which I used to upgrade my Feline and Griffin Gear to Superior, and initially build my Bear Gear, and then upgrade to Enhanced and Superior right away. I ended up not being broke by after all this, and it was all due to selling stuff found in those water locations. I considered it a boon, and am glad it was added.
Most annoying thing in Witcher 3 is that if you refuse Emhyr gold your brown roach replaced by dark niflgardian. The most annoying part is that i always forget about it.
16:16 I agree. In Vanilla Witcher 3, it really sucks that you can't track down he Weaveress and to kill her and get back the Medallion for Ciri. Thankfully, a mod called "Ciri's Lost Memento" addresses this pretty well by having you accompany Ciri in hunting down the Weaveress.
That said, my biggest gripe with Vanilla Witcher 3 is how lonely the game feels once you beat the main story. You have all of these great characters that you get to interact with but they vanish out of existence once you beat the main story. It's only until after you beat Blood and Wine that you get to see Ciri, Yen, Triss, or Dandelion again. Much like with the lost memento, there is a mod that fixes this issue in a lore friendly way called "Multi Companion Enhanced". It's such a good QoL mod that livens the post game up.
Considering how the good ending is almost tailor made for just that purpose of going after Weavess, it seemed such a shame that CDPR was never able to put it into the game. I guess I'll have to get that mode and try that out.
This ^ I just finished the Witcher for the first time a couple weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to play the DLC’s but the world just feels so empty and sad and… finished. Why bother with the DLC’s?? 😭
@@emilygriffith6702 Yeah, it really feel does feel empty on Vanilla Witcher 3. After my first unmodded playthrough, I was shocked to see all of the beloved characters gone. It made finishing the game even more bittersweet.
In terms of the DLCs, I definitely recommend playing them. Hearts of Stone is a blast, it has a lot of interesting characters in it (returning ones like Shani and new ones like Olgierd) and you get to meet Vesemir's former lover (dialogue changes depending on if he's still alive or not). For Blood and Wine, you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not playing it. It's been 6 years since it released and it's still the best DLC I've ever played. A whole new map to explore, an amazing story, and so much to do in it. It's also Geralt's last hoorah and it ends his journey so well. You also get a visitor that stays at Corvo Bianco (the home you get during the DLC) after you beat the DLC. So, it's not as lonely as it was pre-DLC.
When I think about the question marks in the water at Skellige, I always remember the time in my first playthrough when I was overincumbered and sirens destroyed my boat so I had to slow swim back to Kaer Trolde to sell all the stuff and steal, I mean, borrow a new boat. Needless to say, I didn't clear these question marks after that playthrough.
Great video, btw, and I agree with most of these. Never noticed the Griffon Armor thing, though.
Asking O'Dimm to make you rich also gives 5000 crowns. How is that even close to rich?
O'dimm should really count for the witchers massive inflation, that can buy like two shirts.
The Blade from the Bits now upgrades with your level. It’s not the best at each level, but it’s on the higher end. Also there is a Castle Town fast travel marker, but I think it spawns when the barons storyline ends.
Another great video, keep up the good work mate! And thanks for all the effort you put into these vids
That’s a good name
I approve
The thing about armor making Geralt look "fat," medieval armor was actually made to have a rounded front, usually over the stomach area, specifically because it made it more likely to cause blows to glance to the side. So this is actually a case of more accurate armor design than most games have.
Fantasy design, of course, is a different story, and artists are free to play with what looks good over what's practical. Like fantasy armors with gigantic shoulder pieces. A lot of them can look cool, but the entire point of shoulder pieces would be to make blades swinging down more likely to glance off AWAY from the neck, hence why actual armor would have high pieces near the neck and slope downward over the shoulder, and a lot of fantasy designs with lots of ornate grooves and such would actually either catch a blade entirely, or even make it more likely to slide into the neck.
Nothing hit me as hard about Witcher 3 as Iorveth missing from the game. Witcher 2 is one of my favourite videogame stories and I was really attached.
This. I was really annoyed that Roche was in the game but there was no trace of Iorveth anywhere to be seen. They also completely sidelined the Scoiatel after them having such a heavy presence in the previous two games. W3 just wasn't as satisfying for Scoiatel fans. I even foolishly hoped for some kind of Dol Blathanna DLC back in the day.
And what about the 10 crowns you get from the guy who asks you to dive into the ocean in Skellige to find a black pearl, for which you make a round trip from Novigrad to Skellige and back to Novigrad ?
According to CDPR, they're moving the Crow's Nest fast travel point into the settlement for the Next-Gen update. The conflict with the scripted event is solved by having a villager putting-up the fast travel sign after the event happens. Nice little solution.
Edit to add: There's also fixing fall damage!
I went into the game and... the fast travel sign is still outside of crow's perch. And yes it is the next gen version.
Maybe if I do a new game and get all the way up to that point the change will be noticeable.
@@genesisosuna a bit late to the party but just wanted to mention that after the baron quest concludes there‘s a new fast travel point inside the keep which is pretty neat. By far the best point to travel to for fast repairs and access to the stash
@@genesisosunaik it's been months and i'm sure you've already figured this out lol but the sign is added after the fire.
Feel you on all them. Should have included Roach too. I hate Roach in the game. I just run everywhere. Plus, when you are trying to get out of any water on to land and instead of just stepping or climbing out, Geralt turns around and dives back into the water.
It’s a shame they seem to have cut so many Roche/Dijkstra/Iorveth related content. That would have been great. I loved Reason of State ( not the ending of course ) and would’ve been totally in for more of those guys.
About Hattori, that guy’s quest line is also extremely difficult when you first arrive in Novigrad. I remember starting it because I thought it was a random plot device being like level 16, only to realise once I was already facing the dwarves that it requires you to be level 25. Those dwarfs were impossible to kill. I had to relaunch my safe.
I was stuck because the previous save file I had was all the way back in the inn at the crossroads, so I thought it would be best to just trudge through that quest on death march. I had to cheese them with axii, hoping for one shot kills, but I don't remember if that worked or not. Still though, it was extremely tedious and annoying
I mean, this game is so long but I feel like it should be so much longer! So many things are just inconclusive or just rappidly ended, and so much content was left out.
Oh, I remember that bridge.
Made me hate that edge of the map, even though I managed to achieve a 95% not-dive consistency.
And the questionmarks in the water: I ignore them.
As for fall damage, I once saw Geralt die from a drop that wasn't even as high as his knee. Full health.
the "fat griffon armor" is really just a traditional medieval style cuirass. they were designed with a convex shape to give an airgap between you and the armor, allowing a less personalized fit, that you can adjust with padding, and would continue to fit as you aged and packed on more and more weight in your midriff as lords were oft to do. a lot of the non-witcher armors also have that same convex shape... that said, grandmaster bear with a dye job is my usual go-to. the head to foot length doesn't make a lot of sense to me though and I sort of wish that it ended just abovethe knees where the chainmail ends as that would make much more sense for mobility and weight management.
I’m so glad this channel blew up. Keep up the awesome work.
The one that bothers me the most is probably when we get the popup that tell us "the world will be kept as if Radovid won" or something like that after doing all the work so that doesnt happen 😫😫 Always thought that a novigrad full of nilfgardians or with some change if Dijkstra gets in charge would be amazing.
I think the message says something like "the world will be reset to previous state", not that Radovid had won, but it's still exactly as bad. I particularly hate the witchhunter shouting on the market square. You just can't ignore them, they are so loud, and I need to go right past them every time I have some swords to sell.
Luckily, mods are a thing.
(I think my comment with the link got deleted, so if you want to find those mods search for "Consequences of War" on nexus mods
It´s a shame. Early game got soo much love (especially Baron quests) with some heavyweight decisions, while late game is full of convenient shortcuts of decisions with no added weight, only affecting certain characters and not the world itself. The "world be reset to previous state" is one of the worst, although it´s probably done to not have devs remake multiple areas on the map for just one-time use, as there was not much to do after you finished the base game. This all was probably done far before they even knew, what kind of story will Heart of Stone be.
Personally I tolerate Gaspard but that’s probably due to the fact that I’m also narcoleptic so I connected to him with that although I will admit that it’s kind of strange how severe his case is and I feel it borders on extreme exaggeration like we don’t just completely shut down every 10 seconds or at least I haven’t known us to do that
Hey! Wake up!
What made me really mad about the game was nothing that actually happened in the game, but that the achievements are super buggy. I'm a very passionate achievement hunter and get all achievements in games I like, and Witcher 3 has some very very hard achievements. Some of them just wont unlock no matter what you do, like completing the game on death march. It was hard enough the first time, then I finished it again on NG+ and still nothing. I made a screenshot that shows three hard achievements at once and none of them unlocked. I contacted support about it and they said they were working on it. That was three years ago :|
I'll bet that Dark Souls players collectively chuckled when you said that people complain about armor making Geralt look fat.
Not being able to kill orianna definitely bothered me more than the last crone
I agree on almost everything In this video (except wicher 2 related, because I haven’t player it yet). I was especially surprised to learn how lethal gravity is to monster slaying mutant and I was disappointed as a fan of the books to not see Fringilla Vigo in Beauclair. There is also another isue related to diving, when you are close to a boat with some momentum and you jump, which ends in Gerald diving insted of jumping onto the boat.
Before I have even watch the video I am going to say one thing I hate:
The Dwarves on the Isle of Mists. They become this annoying roadblock just before reaching what is arguably the emotional climax of the game and then the bastards steals your boat.
I always give them up to the Nilfgaardian's when meeting them again later in White Orchard
I understand you, but I still save them because they didn't want to harm you.
@@GandalfderDauerblaue It was more like they didn't care at all what happened to me (or Ciri).
Selfish bastards.
It’s so cool to watch this now after the complete edition because a lot of things on this list the devs have actually fixed.
3:56 I'm glad they finally fixed that
Hey man, would love to see your last video come back again. It was actually a really fun watch and sent it to my friends
Hope you get through this
Also, love all your videos
I have literally died to fall damage WAY more than I have died to enemies in witcher 3 lol.
The candle thing annoyed me for a while but after watching a friend play the game and they getting annoyed, it made me chuckle. Lol it has a certain charm to it. lol
what about roach going crazy off the road, running straight towards enemies and getting stuck on little rocks. All this happens regularly and trust me is not me, my control or lack of skills
Big salute to me for going through the hell of gaspard not once not twice but 52 times
Agreed on all points. Especially the mangled and therefore sometimes non-sensical storylines are grating.
I saw your (now defunct) Witcher 2 video and I liked it very much because it gave me some insight on previous happenings.
I never got the controls of both Witcher 1 and 2 to work for me, so I never got beyond the starting areas.
Keep doing what you're doing, and good luck! 😎
I got Witcher 1 to work ok on my pc, but the controls for Witcher 2 were super wonky until I bought an Xbox controller for my pc. Then I was able to plat Witcher 2.
I didn't know anyone else had a problem with the Eldberg bridge! That bridge was my nemesis during my first playthrough. As soon as you said it was too specific and the video was showing the Eldberg bridge, I got so excited and started laughing immediately.
One of my minor complaints with The Crones is that I think they got killed rather anti-climatically. There's a ton of build-up to them in Velen and a slow-roll reveal of what they are and what they want. And Ciri and Geralt just go, "Wanna go gank 'em?" And they do. I found them interesting villains, but I was hoping for a more involved quest-line besides just showing up and boss fighting them.
For those who did not find it out, or have not played the game since the next gen update. In the very middle of crows perch. Right next to the blacksmitsh, the devs put a fast travel point. Now the game is trully the GOAT
Definitely agree with the diving bridge.
A lot of the story cuts you bring up make me think that the problems in development of Cyberpunk started way way earlier with Witcher 3. Potentially the duct tape and staples that held the final Witcher game’s team together started to fray to the point where it wasn’t able to be worked around.
What I really hate is that you have to kill the Doppler and one of the succubi in order to get their mutagens for the concoctions. Would have been great if you could get them through some other means. And I don't mean by opening up console commands.
Hard agree
Re Fringilla in Blood and Wine:
There is an unaccessible item of interest hidden behind the wall behind the cashier in the wine shop... the same shop were you find Fringilla's letters (if I remember right). I always thought that shop had some deletered content behind it.
I had to come back to this cuz I just had a revelation that there’s actually a reason they can reuse the same model for that merchant. He’s the traveling merchant that when you first meet you can talk to, asking about whether it’s dangerous to travel. So you’re meeting the same guy in different spots lol. Might not be true but it helps from being distracting
" *AND HE GETS TO BE A LAWYER?* 8:32 "
Glad to find a video on this topic! I actually just finished playing for the first time, and found lots of the game really irritating. Not enough to stop me playing, but often you get to the end of a story, having tried to do everything right, only to get a terrible ending. The snippets of conversation choices often don't really let you know how the conversation will go, and sometimes veer off the opposite way from how it seems (eg Dushy died thanks to that). Ciri was gone at the end of my play, again from trying to do all the right things.
And what about that quest with the woman who's turning into a bird? You have to betray her trust in order to get the best ending, ugh. Another time I was forced into playing a game of Gwent even though I have no interest in that part of the game, and then lost 5% of all my savings. I also would have gone with Triss over Yennifer, but choosing "Let's try again" was apparently a rejection.
Then there's little things like regular crashing, though maybe that's just me. And things glowing after you've looted them. Some things glow until you get to them and then they stop and there's nothing to loot. The UI is super slow and tedious. There's no easy way to see where the nearest quest is or how far each quest is. You have to select each one in turn, go to world map, see where it is, then back to the quest view, then scroll to find the next one you want to test etc. The big update didn't fix any of these things, although at first it did make it impossible to save a game and made it almost unplayable.
For the candles being (non)strategically placed, the reverse also holds true. Say you're just goofing around and want to ignite/extinguish all of the candles in a room. Several will be placed in just such a way that you can't do so without accidentally re-hitting the candles you just finished with, or there's only 1 pixel of the screen where Geralt HAS TO BE to get to them. Or, worse, you're trying to avoid looting a container because it has another copy of the same damn book you already have 50 copies of and it won't let you extinguish that last candle without looting the bookshelf first!
I used Igni when that happen.
Crow's Perch courtyard actually has a fast travel marker! it unlocks after you win against the fists of fury Velen champion, the Sargent (iirc)
One thing I was annoyed at, since I finished Hearts of stone before the main quest, was that when I gathered friends for the battle, I couldn't ask Olgierd von Everec. He would have been a great person to have there, throwing himself into battle without fear. His personality would have made it great, combining his flippant attitude with a desire to redeem himself.
Could definitely see it working. The only issue of him not being in any cutscenes could probably be solved by placing him near the entrance and having him die almost instantly during gameplay. It would be tragic, wasteful, but ultimately a plausible end for a man too accustomed to immortality and a good redemption for him as he gets to return the favour for Geralt while dying heroically in defence of Kaer Morhen
at first i thought you meant asking gaunter o dimm and i was thinking of how hed destroy the wild hunt
I can't help but agree with all your points. First of all, it is sooo sad that there is nothing on Iorveth. He was such an amazing chatacter. Then how things end in Reason of State is really disappointing, it starts of so promising and ends in total disaster.
And also the lodge so sad that you can't really interact with the sorceresses more.
Yes, a Weavess quest would have been amazing.
Loved the video;)
As a person with Narcolepsy, Gaspard is just another example of laughing at a person with Narcolepsy and not laughing with. It's a trope that not only has been done to death, but furthers the notion that Narcoleptics should be the butt of the joke. It's punching down and it encourages the player to punch down as well.