Of course they are - the game gives you many info on that - the aldorman gives them ears. This is symbolism that they hear everything. They can control animals and monsters - so they have eyes on the place. And their influence extends to everyone. Even children. They are very well crafted.
The writing in this quest, from the Baron to Anna and to the Crones, this is CDPR at its best. And accompanied by this soundtrack, that's what makes a masterpiece.
There was so much room for more in Witcher 3,but one can only dream that the next gen maybe brings another DLC to the table,would love that as I'm an old player,we need moar before witcher 4 no doubt ! But yeah these questlines are really peak of story lines in general.
@@sapyr1991 Know what I would like to see, as a DLC for the next gen? One that brings us back to Flotsam. And expanding that region to about the size of what Toussaint was in B&W.
Violin? Which part? I think it is a Rebec(?) or some other instrument...maybe a Gusle? Probably somehow related to a violin but for sure an "older" instrument...
Yeah. Best questline in the entirety of the witcher 3. Amazing story, pretty high difficulty with the fiend especially first time doing the entire quest
This is the moment in the game that you realize the writing is much, much better than most games' uninspired villains. Like witches who eat kids is a silly european folklore kid story usually, but Witcher 3 takes those folk stories and fits them seemlessly into an immersive world and doesnt shy away from the gross and disturbing at all which makes it very captivating and sometimes terrifying. So many games try to be scary and disturbing and utterly fall flat. Gaunter O'Dimm is another example.
Witches were indeed eating children. Those are the echoes of old legends that in Germany have faded into children tales. But this was a historic fact. Also, various other types of cannibalism were once present through Europe. Like eating the heart of the enemy one has killed in battle. It was put to end by gradual rise of religions which banned cannibalism. It is not just Christianity, Greek god Zeus is specifically cited to not allow it.
Конечно, это же славянская мифология, она очень интересная))) нас с детства пугали Бабой Ягой - это персонаж славянской мифологии и фольклора славянских народов, который ест детей))
Gaunter O' Dimm effed me up by the end. I knew the guy was something from the start and was waiting for it all to unveil. He wasn't even as brutal in the game as Olgierd was shown to be, but that spoon in the eye - absolute shivers, then the visit to the professor of occultism and his death so expected yet so sudden. Honestly when that questline started in Olgierd's house I wasn't expecting such a compelling villain (I got way too annoyed with everyone but it makes perfect sense by the end). Literally perfect game
Most interesting part is that.. Even the they arent completely one-sidedly evil. Despite being so obviously evil, they help the villagers immensely. One could easily make the argument that villagers on Velen are alive because of them.
Gaunter o'dimm is the only character that scared me for real its concept is far more superior as a villain to all the other villains of any game because its concept is what a real devil is ...and the character is inspired by the concepts across cultures chosen wisley to create him ladies of the woods are also a phenomenal reitiration of the papa yaga creating a more cohesive storyline
Even Geralt wasn't too keen on taking them on and he knew that their powers were far greater than anything he could throw against them. Ciri took on two, but only because of her insane abilities which make Geralt's signs look like party tricks for children.
Thats the thing for Geralt. Defeating "things" even far more powerful than him. Thats his speciality and he's good at it. He can defeat the crones and he would've taken them on if they wouldn't have ran away. So imo they weren't keen on taking Geralt on.
Some of the pieces from the Witcher games are just perfect for Halloween, which is the Celtic festival of Samhain if you trace it back far enough. The time when the boundaries between our world and the spirit world of the dead are at their weakest, right at the beginning of winter.
Something to note is that several pagan traditions held celebrations to the spirits during that time of the year. The Celts had Samhain, in Poland we had Dziady (or Forefather's Eve), in Japan there are the Ognissanti celebrations... its interesting how different people's have come up with similar concepts.
@@a-stranded-rusalka7534 I find stuff like this super interesting. Makes you wonder if something more was at play back then, the knowledge we have lost today. Or if we are simply missing the point nowadays.
@@b1oZARDoh it’s still at play, people are just too full of pride these days to acknowledge it. Anyone who doubts the reality of “spirits,” “demons,” “other dimensions” or whatever you want to call it is a fool. I can tell you right now the elites that run this world (I mean the real elites, not some embarrassing prime minister or something) very much believe and interact with these beings.
@@b1oZARD Wow, I had no idea my comment got so many likes. I really have no idea what may have given rise to so many celebrations around this time of year, only that I have heard when winter comes a lot of things seem like they are dead or dying, many trees lose their leaves. Maybe also, it had something to do with it being harvest time.
Love the Crones as characters and this music captures them perfectly, their eerie mysteriousness combined with the disturbed. If only Netflix had done a Witcher series based on CDProject Red's Witcher material.
Да, круто получилось, 1 из, если не самый мой любимый трек из Ведьмака. Настолько попасть в образ Хозяек Леса, я даже не знаю насколько проникнуться нужно было композитору.
Through your entire stay in Velen, you can kind of sense there is something deeply wrong and disturbing with this place. First you think it is the war or the poverty or even the Bloody Baron, but them you finallly meet the ladies and them you know.
You know, some people complain that the ladies of the woods are basically just reskinned hags, but I think it's incredibly fitting. Witchers are monster hunters who make a science out of studying monster archetypes. If every single monster was that unique, that science wouldn't work. Ultimately, everything you fight, regardless of how menacing it is, regardless of how powerful, is just an upscaled or downscaled version of other monsters of that genome. Similarly to how if you hunt humans, the only thing that'll change is the size and combat experience -- you're not fighting an entirely new species from human to human, you're still hunting the same thing. The fact that the crones are just reskinned hags may be because that's what they are. They're hags with magic and different body types.
After all they were supposed to resemble Baba Yaga from Slavic folklore. That's how they are described and it's smh that a lot of people were complaining about their appearance
@@orshu45 I know it's a late comment, but evolution is not a decisive factor in the witcher's world because of the conjuction of the spheres and creatures teleporting over
Remember vividly playing that story arc. Utterly disturbing and nerve racking...You just known you will not get the ideal solution with these three ladies around...
The first time you meet them in the flesh and this music is going on. That forever burned into my mind as one of the most epic rpg moments of gaming. You just cannot fathom what you see in front of you. The bugs, the clothing, the movement and gestures...Horrifying.
4:25 that is so good :D, props for making it more outstanding than in the original, you have good taste, i'd love to listen to more of just that as a progressive build up!
I wish the vocals at the end were equal to or louder than the instruments at the end there!! I've been HUNGRY for female growl singing that actually hits that primal shout in an aggressively beautiful way and the end of this is pretry much all I could find, but I can't hear it well. Even so, I skip to the end and strain to hear those beautifully haunting screams almost every day just to scratch that itch in my soul 🥰
Great mix, my friend. I remember the day I came across this section of this game. It was the first time a game made me feel unsafe. I just wished to kill them and never return to that place again.
Really too bad they didn't make cameos all throughout the early game in their younger forms. Would've made certain sections pretty interesting, especially Gwent. Assuming they can shapeshift at will.
@@albertwesker6153 Yeah, and I didn't think about it till now, but I think they're bound to their bog. They'd need to mind control someone to act on their behalf in the outside world.
What I found so interesting, is that in PRIVATE they look beautiful, just like their painting. It really makes you think, is the horror actually the illusion? Why only be beautiful in private, most others would do the opposite.
Crones are like a metaphor of modern dating scene. Although their looks is much different than what they show in the picture the real horror begins when you start to unravel mysteries like their eating habits, body count, and their true nature they're desperately trying to hide.
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I love how the song plays even when you're doing random stuff in Velen. Even before you meet them, they are watching you.
😊
Of course they are - the game gives you many info on that - the aldorman gives them ears. This is symbolism that they hear everything. They can control animals and monsters - so they have eyes on the place. And their influence extends to everyone. Even children.
They are very well crafted.
They look so much better on their profile pics
Not really
Remember when cirilla sneaked into their cave
They were looking like those dp girls
@@rahulverma8774 What dp girls? They were looking like something I would wanna DP
@@donaldhysa4836 😶
@@donaldhysa4836 😂
@@junetta_aep_breaccglas Hell yeah niga ;)
The writing in this quest, from the Baron to Anna and to the Crones, this is CDPR at its best.
And accompanied by this soundtrack, that's what makes a masterpiece.
There was so much room for more in Witcher 3,but one can only dream that the next gen maybe brings another DLC to the table,would love that as I'm an old player,we need moar before witcher 4 no doubt ! But yeah these questlines are really peak of story lines in general.
@@sapyr1991 Know what I would like to see, as a DLC for the next gen? One that brings us back to Flotsam. And expanding that region to about the size of what Toussaint was in B&W.
until Hearts of Stone comes!! I think that DLC is the peak of CDPR writing.
The uneasy atmosphere this song brings in the cutscene when the Crones are introduced is unique in gaming world.
Oooo
can we all agree that this game had the best OST of any game in decades???
we fucking can
naah its very good but far from best
Yes but HoMaM VI by maestro P.A.Romero
The most atmospheric one for sure. This one, Lullaby of Woe and Gaunter O'Dimm theme give me all goosebumps.
Нет.
Me seeing the tapestry:
"these ladies are hot"
Me meeting the 'ladies':
"kill it with fire!"
Ha! Your erection wasnt powerful enough!
especially the one with the eye....ugh! made my skin crawl.
If you're a weeb you shouldn't complain.
It's a perfect metaphor of evil
Hans get the flammenwerfer !!
that lone violin gives my spine the chills ...one of the best OST of all times
Violin? Which part?
I think it is a Rebec(?) or some other instrument...maybe a Gusle?
Probably somehow related to a violin but for sure an "older" instrument...
This story was incredible, the weight of it all...and on top of all that it was in a creepy swamp. I loved it
Yeah. Best questline in the entirety of the witcher 3. Amazing story, pretty high difficulty with the fiend especially first time doing the entire quest
This is the moment in the game that you realize the writing is much, much better than most games' uninspired villains. Like witches who eat kids is a silly european folklore kid story usually, but Witcher 3 takes those folk stories and fits them seemlessly into an immersive world and doesnt shy away from the gross and disturbing at all which makes it very captivating and sometimes terrifying. So many games try to be scary and disturbing and utterly fall flat. Gaunter O'Dimm is another example.
Witches were indeed eating children. Those are the echoes of old legends that in Germany have faded into children tales. But this was a historic fact. Also, various other types of cannibalism were once present through Europe. Like eating the heart of the enemy one has killed in battle. It was put to end by gradual rise of religions which banned cannibalism. It is not just Christianity, Greek god Zeus is specifically cited to not allow it.
Конечно, это же славянская мифология, она очень интересная))) нас с детства пугали Бабой Ягой - это персонаж славянской мифологии и фольклора славянских народов, который ест детей))
Gaunter O' Dimm effed me up by the end. I knew the guy was something from the start and was waiting for it all to unveil. He wasn't even as brutal in the game as Olgierd was shown to be, but that spoon in the eye - absolute shivers, then the visit to the professor of occultism and his death so expected yet so sudden.
Honestly when that questline started in Olgierd's house I wasn't expecting such a compelling villain (I got way too annoyed with everyone but it makes perfect sense by the end).
Literally perfect game
Most interesting part is that.. Even the they arent completely one-sidedly evil. Despite being so obviously evil, they help the villagers immensely. One could easily make the argument that villagers on Velen are alive because of them.
Gaunter o'dimm is the only character that scared me for real its concept is far more superior as a villain to all the other villains of any game because its concept is what a real devil is ...and the character is inspired by the concepts across cultures chosen wisley to create him
ladies of the woods are also a phenomenal reitiration of the papa yaga creating a more cohesive storyline
Even Geralt wasn't too keen on taking them on and he knew that their powers were far greater than anything he could throw against them. Ciri took on two, but only because of her insane abilities which make Geralt's signs look like party tricks for children.
I'm absurdly in love with your commentary. I feel it deep inside my veins.
@@christtianwodson I feel it coming inside of me
Thats the thing for Geralt. Defeating "things" even far more powerful than him. Thats his speciality and he's good at it. He can defeat the crones and he would've taken them on if they wouldn't have ran away. So imo they weren't keen on taking Geralt on.
@@Eli-ro6ldyo wut
@@oghuzkhan6136nah geralt is not winning that 3v1
2024 and still comfortably the best game.
"How do you know the Crones arent already here?"
"Because were still alive."
That line gives me chills.
They deserved their own dlc
Eerie and creepy at the same time! This music is simply superb!
Ta muzyka jest przepełniona Polskością która czerpie garściami z mitologii Słowian
Considering that eerie and creepy are synonyms, yes.
"How do you know they're not already here?"
"Because we're still alive"
I think Ladies of the Woods is probably my favorite music in the entire game, but it's such a hard choice. The music in this game is amazing.
Aen seide (spelling?) is great too.
Ladies of the Woods, Lullaby of Woe (Blood and Wine), and Silver for Monsters. Steel for Humans is also good
Along with Priscilla’s song
@@deathrose1599 Priscilla's Song still sometimes brings a tear to my eye despite playing Witcher 3 so many times over!
Im getting chills from this OST
CHILLS
Netflix adaptation: some generic hip-hop...
CDPR Witcher: THIS
hip hop? my g did you even watch the series?
@@wariret8866 investigate harder
@@flajflaj alot of what the show has are folk songs
@@wariret8866 he's talking about the trailers. Plus let's not pretend like the actual series has great fitting songs.
@@rick1901 Well, aside from the jaskier songs, those are brilliant
Some of the pieces from the Witcher games are just perfect for Halloween, which is the Celtic festival of Samhain if you trace it back far enough. The time when the boundaries between our world and the spirit world of the dead are at their weakest, right at the beginning of winter.
In Poland this festival is called "dziady". It is one of the mission in witcher.
Something to note is that several pagan traditions held celebrations to the spirits during that time of the year.
The Celts had Samhain, in Poland we had Dziady (or Forefather's Eve), in Japan there are the Ognissanti celebrations... its interesting how different people's have come up with similar concepts.
@@a-stranded-rusalka7534 I find stuff like this super interesting. Makes you wonder if something more was at play back then, the knowledge we have lost today. Or if we are simply missing the point nowadays.
@@b1oZARDoh it’s still at play, people are just too full of pride these days to acknowledge it. Anyone who doubts the reality of “spirits,” “demons,” “other dimensions” or whatever you want to call it is a fool. I can tell you right now the elites that run this world (I mean the real elites, not some embarrassing prime minister or something) very much believe and interact with these beings.
@@b1oZARD Wow, I had no idea my comment got so many likes.
I really have no idea what may have given rise to so many celebrations around this time of year, only that I have heard when winter comes a lot of things seem like they are dead or dying, many trees lose their leaves.
Maybe also, it had something to do with it being harvest time.
what a wonderful mix you made! enjoyed every second of it
Thank you)
Love the Crones as characters and this music captures them perfectly, their eerie mysteriousness combined with the disturbed. If only Netflix had done a Witcher series based on CDProject Red's Witcher material.
those crones are the perfect embodyment of evil if you think more
Да, круто получилось, 1 из, если не самый мой любимый трек из Ведьмака. Настолько попасть в образ Хозяек Леса, я даже не знаю насколько проникнуться нужно было композитору.
th-cam.com/video/ci1rt147aMw/w-d-xo.html
А что если это Хозяйки сами ему шептали,что писать?!
Second playthrough, 50 hours in, still in Novigrad, admiring everything
They were easily the most creepy part of the game for me until I met Gaunter O’Dimm.
Through your entire stay in Velen, you can kind of sense there is something deeply wrong and disturbing with this place. First you think it is the war or the poverty or even the Bloody Baron, but them you finallly meet the ladies and them you know.
You can find a book about the mother of the ladies of the forest enchanted in a tree, an interesting thing.
You know, some people complain that the ladies of the woods are basically just reskinned hags, but I think it's incredibly fitting.
Witchers are monster hunters who make a science out of studying monster archetypes. If every single monster was that unique, that science wouldn't work. Ultimately, everything you fight, regardless of how menacing it is, regardless of how powerful, is just an upscaled or downscaled version of other monsters of that genome. Similarly to how if you hunt humans, the only thing that'll change is the size and combat experience -- you're not fighting an entirely new species from human to human, you're still hunting the same thing. The fact that the crones are just reskinned hags may be because that's what they are. They're hags with magic and different body types.
Oxenfurts professors theorize that every creature is related to one another. They called it evolution
After all they were supposed to resemble Baba Yaga from Slavic folklore. That's how they are described and it's smh that a lot of people were complaining about their appearance
@@orshu45 I know it's a late comment, but evolution is not a decisive factor in the witcher's world because of the conjuction of the spheres and creatures teleporting over
@@nevyanplamenov5409there's a sharp divide between post and pre conjunction creatures
Hags that can f-up your day Lambert!
Remember vividly playing that story arc. Utterly disturbing and nerve racking...You just known you will not get the ideal solution with these three ladies around...
The first time you meet them in the flesh and this music is going on. That forever burned into my mind as one of the most epic rpg moments of gaming. You just cannot fathom what you see in front of you. The bugs, the clothing, the movement and gestures...Horrifying.
Also when they speak through the tapestry , I was just like okay this is THE Witcher game.
This needs a 1 hour version
loop
You know that you can just loop the video right?
The weyward Sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the Sea and Land...
("Macbeth". W.Shakespeare)
This gives me goosebumps everytime.
Beautiful song
This is a really clever mix
Many thanks)
Core memories for everyone
I think there is no game with better music. I never listened to any other game soundtracks as religously as this one.
These 3 are most accurate video game portrayal of witches in medieval folklore.
This song still gives me goosebumps, lol.
4:25 that
is so good :D, props for making it more outstanding than in the original, you have good taste, i'd love to listen to more of just that as a progressive build up!
The ladies are hands down the best portrayal of witches I have ever witnessed
yeah. Witch hunters have never actually dealt with _real_ witches.
It really adds up to the slavic pagan vibe, 3 witchers in a swamp and the music
Witcher 3: best RPG game ever created, I hardly believe any game will be able to ever beat this one
some idiots will claim it is god of war .....no the witcher is beyond anything
This is some well made thing man 👍
Omg even after all this time this game still never fails to move me... No wonder it won game of the year! It's a masterpiece!
This game is the first in the decad games list, the second ones are RDR2 and GTA5 :D
You can just feel something fcked up is in that woods
This is my favorite soundtrack of all!❤❤❤❤❤
Holt fucking shit I have been searching for a track including 2:57 for YEARS!! Finally someone included the entire thing!!
I'm glad this is what you were looking for)
Their instagram filters are quite powerful
I wish the vocals at the end were equal to or louder than the instruments at the end there!! I've been HUNGRY for female growl singing that actually hits that primal shout in an aggressively beautiful way and the end of this is pretry much all I could find, but I can't hear it well. Even so, I skip to the end and strain to hear those beautifully haunting screams almost every day just to scratch that itch in my soul 🥰
Here's her full voice:
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Sinead o Connor
....duh lol ❤
Check out Percival, they have a lot of that and they're the ones who did a lot of this soundtrack.
@slay ay ay ay 😁😁😁
@slay ay ay ay No I'm really glad I could help 😁 They're a fantastic group.
It is 2024 and still enjoy this game as enjoed in 2015.
WOAH THIS IS AWESOME 🎉
Thanks :3
One of the best music in the game
Damn this is definitely the definitive edition of this song
this is awesome, love it!
Even Ivan Dorin got a cameo in this piece. Awesome
Great mix, my friend. I remember the day I came across this section of this game. It was the first time a game made me feel unsafe. I just wished to kill them and never return to that place again.
Revolting things. Felt good putting them down in the game.
Don't disrespect the crones, mate! They served Velen long
When I first saw the tapestry I immediately knew there was something severely wrong with the place beyond my first doubts.
it immidiately scared the hell out of me when the lone violin started as soon as it apeared ....perfect experience
4 words: game of the year...
najlepsza misja
Need to learn to play this style of music, nothing else compares.
when I came across them I was sure they were the big boss and didn't expect they can be kiIIed
Was kinda disappointed that the ladies of the woods don't looks like their painting.
there was a moment they did when you play as Ciri to fight them
@@timolanlau7454 Yea…just that. I was hoping a sage. But I don’t know why I was hoping for that.
i think it's because geralt can see through their illusion or smth
I dont, it was suprising and good plot twist. One of best scenes in witcher 3.
I think it’s fitting because evil represents itself as pleasing, but in reality it’s disgusting.
This is the perfect music for meditation in the woods at night.
Ooooh hard times are upon us white haired one ... :S
Brathdr has turned against Brathdr
Marvelous
I'm glad you liked it)
Baron quest is ahead of the main game, no question.
it broke my heart when he hanged himself
The sound track (but also watch Zanny play this game) made me want to experience the Witcher 3
Ścieżka dźwiękowa na najwyższym poziomie
bruh this game was so good
Niezły pomysł Redzi mieli z tymi wiedzmami.
Tak
Slavic mythology is the best
Really too bad they didn't make cameos all throughout the early game in their younger forms. Would've made certain sections pretty interesting, especially Gwent.
Assuming they can shapeshift at will.
They can remember when Ciri fights them, I think they need to have eaten enough people to do but that’s just my speculation
@@albertwesker6153 Yeah, and I didn't think about it till now, but I think they're bound to their bog. They'd need to mind control someone to act on their behalf in the outside world.
Loved the music in this game (:
Happy Halloween!
So when do we get Vesemir's medallion
If this is a serious question you get the medallion only If you get the ending where Ciri dies to the white frost
what im asking myself was why the last conewas so focused on vesimirs medallion after she got defeated by ciri
What I found so interesting, is that in PRIVATE they look beautiful, just like their painting.
It really makes you think, is the horror actually the illusion?
Why only be beautiful in private, most others would do the opposite.
I love this music though
ткачиха, повариха, слухачка и сзади их заточённая мамаша :), красотище.
Truly haunting!
The best and last good qest in W3
Vasilisa going to visit Baba Yaga.
When she said she used a little bit of filter
Two down and the other one flees. If we set the heart free, would it kill that remaining witch?
you mean that thintg in the tree?
Witcher 4 can’t come soon enough
Oh my God!
Good music
Seeing a Tinderprofile vs. seeing it in real.
Las 3 Moiras....
Aahhhhh shit, here we go again. Thanks CD Project RED
Where can i get this version? I'd like to add it to some playlists for offline listening but don't see this particular one anywhere. Its great.
Xi-ro, Aurash and Sathona the hive sisters: You shall drift. You shall drown in the Deep.
Acho incrível como hoje em dia ainda jogam the witcher
Очень плотная вещь. Я на гитаре сыграл
чётко музыка заиграла когда я их нашол
Crones are like a metaphor of modern dating scene. Although their looks is much different than what they show in the picture the real horror begins when you start to unravel mysteries like their eating habits, body count, and their true nature they're desperately trying to hide.
Nice vid ! Where did you get this high resolution picture ? Cannot find it anywhere...
How dare you disturb our rest woman
After baldur’s gate i had to listen to some more bangers
Believe it or not, the rightmost one looks just like my ex
the real form or in the picture?
@@historyfactsshorts22 The tapestry. She is 14 btw
@@olgierdvoneverec ok didnt know why i need the information about her age
This one's even more handsome in real life
Wonder why he’s waiting for that specific year
If i become ruler of a nation,this would be the national anthem
Am i the only one who works out listening to this masterpiece?😂
it seems
Bro
That makes us two.....💪🏻🐺