When I first arrived to Skellige on my first play-through and heard this soundtrack I just stopped and looked around amazed at the beauty of the scenery and music. Such an amazing and unforgettable game!
It's more than a simple game.... it's a journey we can never forget. I'm pretty sure there will never be a game like this which makes me feel like witcher 3 did. And if I'm honest, I don't even want that. Witcher 3 is so special to me, no game will ever replace it in my heart. It's the first big game I've ever finished (and played again), hell my friends and I became such big fans of the game and the world (some by reading, others by playing) that we do a witcher pen and paper every week for already 1,5 years. This game touched my heart and soul and there will never be a better game for me - I guess even my children will have to play this game one day 😂
Don't know how many people still come around here. If you want more music like this, the genre is (has become) "dungeon synth". Look that up, and you'll find stuff like this. I'm on my 3rd playthrough of Witcher 3. Just reached Skellige. Wanted to fall asleep to this track. Be well.
Skyrim's main story and quests are about ten times worse, and so is the combat (in my opinion). They both have excellent atmosphere and immersion into the world though :)
koroshiya and while I agree the quests got richer and more complex with Witcher, there's some content in Skyrim that nobody can match, and that's why I still love it so much!
I actually only recently played Skyrim a few weeks ago and I am really loving it. Witcher 3 will always be my favourite game but Skyrim does what it does really well too! :D
From time to time, even after finishing the game, I start the game to roam around the countryside, basking in the memories that, much like a fine Toussaint wine, age gracefully ever after.
Last year i was in Zakopane/Poland and i had night sleigh ride. I put this masterpiece to my earphones and i started to watch sky... No city lights, no fake people, no chaos of world. Whenever i hear this song it makes me sad and happy at the same time. Thanks to witcher 3 for brought this masterpiece to my life.
first song is straight from heaven... i cant explain it, but the emotions it brings out in me, sad and happy, at the same time. and something else i cant explain.. i never feel much, but when i listen to music like this, i feel a lot.
Exactly !!!! I feel the same !!! This game was so perfect I'm sad that it has an end ! But happy because of all the good times during this masterpiece ! One of the best game i EVER played !😍❤
Playing this game without fast travel led to a hugely memorable experience with many moments of piece and travel without immediacy of action. A pleasant way to play. Unfortunately it did eventually become tiresome but thankfully not long before the game ended so that I can preserve the many experiences without a hint of tire. It was after exploring the many paths and routes multiple times and aiming to complete every quest and side quest without help... a lot of back tracking. Eventually it was only the quest on that hidden island with the griffin, the one about the books that was left un-turned. Admittedly after such a long experience I began to get so comfortable that when the ending came I was taken aback for it all happened so suddenly... I was not prepared for that to have been the ending after so many false endings. It was good on reflection but during the time, after so much gentle wandering through Novigrad, Velen and Skellige, it was so fast and eventful!
I felt exactly the same way. Don't get me wrong this game is about as close to perfect as can be but I definitely found the end very sudden, almost so much so that I wished I had taken more time between chapters of the main quest to explore the world, knowing the story was always there to return to. It seemed a shame that I was approx. level 30 when I finished the story and had so much more to do but without Triss, Yennifer and Ciri still in the world, yet at the same time it felt strangely peaceful being able to wander as a lone wolf. The expansion pack is also very good I would recommend it if you haven't played it yet.
***** I will! My internet unfortunately has 250KB/s download and is being upgradedto 32MB/s download soon... so am waiting on that before even updating! so many big files everywhere that take days to install.
+Peter Avastrat i found the post game to be witcher 3's biggest weakness since they made this whole huge world and after all the points and side quests were done it was over and there wasn't much to really do. Been nice to have had old contracts or new "super" monsters in the world to fight that would respawn and get stronger after each defeat. this wouldnt be much of an issue though if we had a good NG+ where it never ended. basically locked to two playthroughs on one file.
Clavitz Rain Ah really? That's a bummer! Hoping to do a no life run now of the game ^^ For youtube sometime, when the DLC is out! Finally got the Fibre Optic (though still on 3MB/s... makes a difference). Yeah still miffed about the ending xD haven't picked it up since!! Will play with both DLC and for TH-cam again. As you say a completely NEAR perfect game. Flaws are not so much in the game itself but in the execution of emotional impact. Because throughout the game I had been so immersed I admittedly was in a conversation over whatsapp when the ending came about... so all tension was lost because I had to send a message like... "Hang on... I think the game is ending"... You know after 18 days and 21 hours of no fast travelling playtime xD
When you reach skellige and see the atmosphere and hear the music you just don't want to leave spent hours there slowly riding and enjoying the bueaty and the hard work that was put in this game really can't remember when the last time I lost time and space and be at the moment of something wonderful.
I'm a realist and quite critcal (as I think you should be) with games and design but was pleastly surpised by the remote and ancient beauty of Skellige.
I want to play this game again but I can't it's so hard repeat everything you do it again, how can you enjoy when you know what happened on every quest ? Please tell me I want to play this game again but how if I finish every thing on it 😔
@@SxBxT Do different builds, try to be more evil or more good Geralt,try to get all endings,or just play it and imagine that The WItcher 3's world is alive and that you are in there and I promise it will feel different
This game is the game of generation. True Masterpiece . Im gonna keep playing this game for years to come. Sadly these kind of masterpieces are very very rare
It's because CD Projekt Red care about their public, not only about the money. Every time there was someone suggesting something, they looked into it and saw what they could do about it.
this game Defined the next generation of RPG titles. and thats the good thing about it . once you play them u know they set the Bar up . and wts gonna come next if not better then no body will dare to step challange CD project in this Genre
+TheDragonSmasher Depends on how you look at it, from a gameplay stand Fallout 4 and Metal Gear Solid V are easily better than The Witcher 3, but what The Witcher 3 has over both those games is an immersive world, much better storyline and the attention to detail. I still enjoyed MGSV the most this year, but I'm crazy about stealth, so that might be why, this is a close second though.
+TheDragonSmasher I agree, FO4 annoyed me far to much, removal of RPG elements, factions being practically pointless unlike skyrim's, settlements were un-enjoyable, if they were equal in size to sanctuary and not as numerous i think it'd be great, not to mention a voiced protagonist and the dialogue wheel. TW3 to me is one of the best games ever made.
+Arminas86 Fallout 4 taught me the lesson to never pre-order games ever again. That game was such a dissappointment. I WANTED to like it, but it was such a downgrade after playing New Vegas. :(
I really enjoyed it. I played 90 hours of it in the couple weeks after its release as I love the Fallout universe and the gameplay was great. I will almost certainly not play it again, however. And that is for so many reasons, not the least of which being its general replay value in itself. All the elements that made me love the previous Fallout titles was either stripped or missing. Fallout 4 is a fun game, but it is in no way the game I wanted, and that's both disappointing and worrying: worrying in that TES6 may suffer a similar fate, which would truly break my heart. (The Witcher 3, conversely, re-ignited my hope for the future of games. I played all three games for the first time over Christmas time and it was an incredible experience on so many levels.)
There are so many things I loved about the game, and nearly nothing I didn't like. I spent a lot of hours in Novigrad and Velen, since I am one of those guys who explores as much as possible whenever I can. I had already fallen for the game, and I already thought it was a masterpiece. Then it was time to go to Skellige. I honestly never thought I could already see something better in this game. Or listen for that matter. I was dead wrong. I cannot even describe the beauty I felt when I saw Skellige's scenery and listened to its ambient music. Easily the best game of its decade by far.
I feel the same. Skellige is fantastic, I often got lost just roaming around the hills with the sea in the background. Almost thought I actually was a witcher for moments. Many times went to skellige just to walk around and listen to this.
I really do miss Geralt, he was a character I played for 2 months, while in a bad time crippled at home, only seeing my family, and when I finished the game I thought it would be over, but damn to this day I still consider him a bit of a friend
I was enjoying TW3, but only "enjoying" it... I was playing it because I really dig the universe, but so far was on the fence (even after spending a considerable amount of time in Velen/Novigrad). However, once I came to Skellige I was utterly floored by it; it was akin to PR saying "Here, this is what you've been waiting for". This place is just amazing. The music, the scenery, all of it. I've been playing games since I was 8, I'm 25 now, and I thought that I could never have that sense of wonder again, but this is definitely doing it for me :). Addendum: So I managed to learn the guitar melody that usually overlaps this and played along with the ambience, my god. Such epicness.
I am VERY excited for FO4. FO3 stands with some of my fondest memories in gaming. Do you remember the first time you wandered into the DC tunnels, ghouls moaning in the distance, your rifle barely repaired and The Inkspots playing? I sure as hell do :)
+Analagent1 I haven't played FO4 yet but if it's anything like FO3 it doesn't stand a chance against the masterpiece that is W3. Not sure about GOTY though since names like 'Bethesda' and 'Fallout' carry a lot of weight. The stories and characters we see in TES and FO games are just too weak and lack depth. Sure they have a lot more freedom to offer but in my book, story elements trump freedom
+atomic9706 I've played 60 hours of Fallout 4 so far and I can say that is just a better Fallout 3, but New Vegas is better overall. Not saying that it's a bad game, it's still an excellent game but it doesn't bring anything new to it, apart from settlement building which is a lot of fun if you're into that. Otherwise it's more of the same. One big negative is that Fallout 4 doesn't give the player as much freedom from a roleplaying perspective compared to previous games. The story and characters have improved a bit. But, that is all. Graphics are underwhelming for a 2015 game. Especially after playing Witcher 3. Bethesda really needs to make a new engine for the next Elder Scrolls game. More importantly they need to bring new ideas. The Witcher 3 has set the bar really high.
***** Well it does have a good enough atmosphere and variety of unique locations, but as for strong narrative lol. Open World exploration is the best thing about Fallout 4 like all Bethesda games. But, that was about it, which was otherwise a very dumbed down RPG.
The gloomy shores of Skellige is somehow feels warmer to my heart than the blooming slopes of Toussaint. It's, apparently, what's called the magic of the north.
Agreed, not sure about you but being quite a melancholic, introverted & reclusive kind of person myself I find myself much more drawn to the little villages in skellige and those more gloomy types of environments. Why everyone goes on about loving summer & party’s etc.. so much I don’t just don’t understand :)
When I got to this area of the game, and heard the music on my first playthrough, I almost started crying. It got me thinking of death, and my great grandmother who I lost in 2016. It reminded me of a Norwegian song called Eg Ser (I See), which is often played at norwegian funerals. I was just overwhelmed with an overpowering feeling of sadness, and grief. Every time I listen to this, I think of my great grandmother, and that she is hopefully in a better place now. Love this track so much:')
Atmospheres of open world games especially fantasy are perhaps some of the most emotional art pieces I have ever experienced. Such beauty ascends games into instant classic
Feel like crying while listening to this. Just sounds saddening and little hope left. But also sounds beautiful too. I loved this game and it's sound track, and this is my favorite piece in the game.
This music piece has been with me through all my college, graduate school and now work since you uploaded since 2015. To me, this is more than music now, it has sentimental value with it. Every week I at least would come back to this piece to calm my mind to meditate and study. I can't find anything more valuable than this Skellige Village piece, I feel like my soul is attached to it.
I don't play Witcher, but i admire the story line I have been a musician for about 18 years My wife plays this game and when i heard this, my brain exploded This ambient music is amazing!!! This has brought me to tears.
I am a massive fan of both Skyrim and The Witcher 3 games, I've also been a huge fan of heavy metal music, but when i got to the Skellige isles in this great game and heard this woman singing and on this video at 28.16 she simply blew me away, I've never in all my 40+ years of heavy metal have i heard anything so beautiful. When i eventually pass away from this world, i want this music played at my Funeral, Simply beautiful....brings a tear to my eye....
+timewasteland I love the first track too. It goes for about 14 minutes but there's a strange pause at 6:56. I love the track because it does not have the fiddle or lute music. Just the soothing trance.
I found refuge in this track back at the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. I was at my lowest point in life having to deal with a broken heart after coming from a relationship festered with false hopes, lies, racism, and emotional abuse. I had to let go of people who I considered my friends but turned out to be snakes. I had to leave a company that saw interns as disposable and were treated like trash. The Witcher 3 was my only escape from all that pain and loneliness. This track resembles the endless pain and loneliness I used to feel. Now 7 years have passed and I come to this piece to reflect and be grateful that I am living happier days.
This...this piece, most beautiful and relaxing one i've ever heard. Its like a calming and soothing voice saying, "Its alright, you're safe here" in a world otherwise full of monsters...
When I first arrived in Skellige I just stopped doing everything and just stood there for I don't know how long, just listening and watching the waves crash. It was... who knows, maybe 2-3 in the morning and I was THERE, in the game, in that moment - that's how good the atmosphere in this game was. Thank you for isolating this track and taking me back.
This game is just breathtaking. I think i have never experienced a game that is as beautiful as this. The whole Witcher series is perfect honestly. Also, this track is perfect for meditation. :)
There are many games I wish I could forget and play for the first time again, but this is the only game I would ever need in my life if I could do that on repeat.
It’s been years since this game came out and I still return to it. It still makes me cry. It still gives me goosebumps. It still takes me right back to what is spiritually home for me. I’ve gladly accepted that no game will ever compare.
When I hear this music I just want to spend time in a little house after an hard day at work with a snow storm outside just drinking some mead next to the fireplace..
if I had to begin my gaming experience once again, I would not surely do this with Witcher 3...nothing then would feel so deep and entertaining as this masterpiece is...
Why does a dislike button even exist , i think they just flipped their screen around and tried to like te video twice ! Or mate they are deaf rap and rock fans !
+Ali N'cir "deaf rap and rock fans", just because people listen to Rock and Rap doesn't mean they have bad taste. Every genre of music is great in its own way and if you don't except that then you're the deaf one. Childish comment.
Its nearly midnight, i cant sleep and so i return to this first track to just feel peace in body and mind, Its just magical, this game will forever be a part of me.
Five times of playing throug, three times in "Todesmarsch"(german hardmode). For me the best story on a Ps4 game. I cant tell you how much i love this game!
I have never in my life said that I thought a game looked and felt beautiful. I’ve played a lot of games that look nice and the environments feel great but I was never taken aback by an environment until Skellige. There’s just something so beautiful and graceful and reflective about the music that makes the experience more of a journey than a move to point A to point B. This truly is one of the most amazing games of all time.
Great music really enhances and makes the experience memorable. It just so happens that the witcher 3 is great all around... gameplay wise, music wise, story wise. These particular pieces of music are amazing...
Remember playing this game for the first time... I was like ''That's not true, this game is everything I would ever want it to be, great soundtrack, great story and mainly, Geralt..charismatic and good person''. Everytime I get to hear any song from Witcher, I usually drop a tear. And trust me guys, if a person can get so strong bond to the game then this game is THE masterpiece among masterpieces.
The first song was the last song I´ve ever heard in Skellige 🥲 After finishing the Blood and Wine story I was ready to end my Witcher journey, but then Yen came to Corvo Bianco and I got an idea. Firstly I restored the whole Corvo Bianco and got rid of every bandit in Toussaint. Meanwhile Ciri came to say hello and after a while I took Yen and Ciri (used Companion mod) to see Kaer Morhen for the last time. We cleared White Orchard (oh, I missed like 5 places of power back there 😅). Then we visited Velen and moved to Novigrad. I left Yen and Ciri at Dandelion´s Chameleon and went to finish every possible quest in Velen/Novigrad area. Man, how many great side quests I´ve missed back there ! What was even crazier to me that I even started playing gwent for the first time 😁 I even signed up for a tournament in Novigrad and lost in the first round 😄 Then I finally took Yen and Ciri to Kaer Morhen and spend two nights back there 🙂 We traveled back to Novigrad docks and the next destination was Skellige. Again I missed so many great quests back there ! I became a Skellige bare-knuckle champion, the champion in horse races, completed the Path of Warriors and played a lot of gwent there 😁 I even went back to Undvik and discovered a prison on the small island in the middle of the sea. After everything was finished it was time to move on and say farewell to Skellige Isles. That was the time this song was playing and I was standing in the Kaer Trolde docks with Yen and Ciri next to fast travel sign and I did wait for few minutes listening to this song, knowing it will be the last time I will ever see Skellige ... I hit the fast travel button and it was over 😓 Later we visited the Royal Palace in Vizima and traveled back home, to Toussaint. In the first moments we were greeted by the flying monster on the sky, a Basilisk I decided let to live and few minutes later we were finally back at Corvo Bianco after almost 4 weeks 🙂 My last quest was the Gwent tournament in Beauclair, where I lost in semifinals when Nilfgaardian deck used its faction ability and won even though the match was a draw 😁 And that was it, that was my story. Just to think that if Yen didn´t come to Corvo Bianco, all of that would´ve never happened and I would´ve skipped almost four weeks of playing this masterpiece of a game. I am really grateful that it happened after all, but I am also sad that it is over 🥲 I made this last screenshot and now it´s time to move on with my own life ... but Witcher 3 will always stay in my heart ❤ staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/952/155660748-1721837486.png
Me listening to this after completing cyberpunk, and feeling the same way I felt when I completed witcher 3 :( Thanks CDPR for giving us such great games
Velen was beautiful and had good soundtrack but it was so sad Novigrad was ok Skellige is just beautiful to watch and hear and it was not that depressing
If there was a video game landscape that I wished was real, it would have to be Skellige. The mixture of Irish, Scottish, and Polish culture is visually interesting to see. Skellige was easily my favorite part of the main story. Velen and parts of Novigrad’s landscape were off putting for me. Besides Toussaint, Skellige is probably the most beautiful landscape within the game’s extensive world.
This + the scene you find Ciri sent a fuckin' chill down my spine. It burned into my brain for life... Ciri is one the best chars in gaming ever since...
finished the game. Kaer Morhen was empty. Skellige was empty. there was no Crach. No Yennefer in sight to take me away from all the politics. No Ciri to go hunting with me. Only a lonely Geralt. Wandering around on his Roach. No Zoltan. No Dandelion. No Priscilla. Temaria gets on with whatever they were before Geralt intruded. Triss. No where to be found, who knows? In Kovir? No more The Witcher 3. The game. It shouldn’t have ended like this. There is no. Happy. Ending. All endings are sad. No matter what. Blood And Wine DLC will keep you happy for a mere amount of time. Until all you see is either Triss or Yen (i’m not sure there) , Waking up, wandering around. Then going back to sleep. No more sex on the unicorn. I miss tracing her down at the start with Vesimir. Wandering around White Orchard at the start, not having a clue about who any of these main characters were, just pure, fresh, clear mind. I had the belief, that at the end of the game, all will be amazing. yet here i am. Depressed to the worst ending. Any game has ever given me.
Iv'e been driven through some of Scotlands more remote areas and I have to say just walking through Sekllige was enchanting. It reminded me of what Hibernia (is that the right name) must have been like in the time of the romans. A really ancient Ireland combined with some of scotlands HUGE remote mountainous areas. I think Withcer 3 has some really fundemental flaws (like most games and collaborative works) but I think in the design department CD project red crushed it with Skellige it is really different from any other area I've been in, in a game. Even Skyrim doesn't get across the remote and ancient beauty. It was like a really unique combination of ancient scotland, Ireland and wales. Love just exploring and sailing about here.
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When I first arrived to Skellige on my first play-through and heard this soundtrack I just stopped and looked around amazed at the beauty of the scenery and music. Such an amazing and unforgettable game!
thebills_1995 It reminds me so much of Skyrim.
thebills_1995 i did the same
so true mate, this was more than a game, it was a jounrey and an unbelievable experience
It's more than a simple game.... it's a journey we can never forget. I'm pretty sure there will never be a game like this which makes me feel like witcher 3 did. And if I'm honest, I don't even want that. Witcher 3 is so special to me, no game will ever replace it in my heart. It's the first big game I've ever finished (and played again), hell my friends and I became such big fans of the game and the world (some by reading, others by playing) that we do a witcher pen and paper every week for already 1,5 years.
This game touched my heart and soul and there will never be a better game for me - I guess even my children will have to play this game one day 😂
It's Art...
Don't know how many people still come around here. If you want more music like this, the genre is (has become) "dungeon synth". Look that up, and you'll find stuff like this. I'm on my 3rd playthrough of Witcher 3. Just reached Skellige. Wanted to fall asleep to this track. Be well.
You are a legend bro wanted to let you know that your comment is appreciated
The only thing thing I hate about this game is that I can no longer play any other games because it is just too good
Don't hate it :) you just opened your eyes to new level of quality gaming
I feel the same after playing RDR2
exactly what happens to me. I hardly play any games at all after finishing this game 3 times.
just wait about 3 years and you'll get there again.
Try playing Breath of the Wild. It's not as serious or dark, but still an excellent game.
Nothing will ever come remotely close to this games excellence.
I'm not a big witcher fan! But i would agree that the game is really immersive. Soundtrack is a big part of that.
Skyrim was my favorite until Witcher 3 and I thought no game could ever match Skyrim until I started this one. They're easily on par for me.
Skyrim's main story and quests are about ten times worse, and so is the combat (in my opinion). They both have excellent atmosphere and immersion into the world though :)
koroshiya and while I agree the quests got richer and more complex with Witcher, there's some content in Skyrim that nobody can match, and that's why I still love it so much!
I actually only recently played Skyrim a few weeks ago and I am really loving it. Witcher 3 will always be my favourite game but Skyrim does what it does really well too! :D
From time to time,
even after finishing the game,
I start the game to roam around the countryside,
basking in the memories that,
much like a fine Toussaint wine,
age gracefully ever after.
Wasn't expecting to find such a jewel in the comments.
Mooi gesproken
Jesus Christ...
go on!
Flawless
Geralt: "Winds howling."
Druid summons storm with his help: A storm, damn it.
@@theblancmange1265 lol I remember dat.
wolves are near...
Wet clothes.. great
Last year i was in Zakopane/Poland and i had night sleigh ride. I put this masterpiece to my earphones and i started to watch sky... No city lights, no fake people, no chaos of world. Whenever i hear this song it makes me sad and happy at the same time. Thanks to witcher 3 for brought this masterpiece to my life.
first song is straight from heaven... i cant explain it, but the emotions it brings out in me, sad and happy, at the same time. and something else i cant explain.. i never feel much, but when i listen to music like this, i feel a lot.
+Mack Funzy Same here, i love the first song.
Mack Funzy sad because the game ended ... the journey is done . . But happy cause it happened
Exactly !!!! I feel the same !!! This game was so perfect I'm sad that it has an end ! But happy because of all the good times during this masterpiece ! One of the best game i EVER played !😍❤
If you like that first song you should really listen to the Beasts of No Nation soundtrack. Breathtaking...
Do you guys know the name of the first song?
Four drowners disliked this, yeah. Cast Igni on them.
ROASTED
Now they become 35 LMAO 😂
37 whoresons disliked this
47 drowners being Igni by the the beach
It’s now 47 drowners and I know this comment is 4 years old but bruh!! One of the best comments ever 🤣
skellige has the best music in this game by far.
Playing this game without fast travel led to a hugely memorable experience with many moments of piece and travel without immediacy of action. A pleasant way to play. Unfortunately it did eventually become tiresome but thankfully not long before the game ended so that I can preserve the many experiences without a hint of tire. It was after exploring the many paths and routes multiple times and aiming to complete every quest and side quest without help... a lot of back tracking. Eventually it was only the quest on that hidden island with the griffin, the one about the books that was left un-turned.
Admittedly after such a long experience I began to get so comfortable that when the ending came I was taken aback for it all happened so suddenly... I was not prepared for that to have been the ending after so many false endings. It was good on reflection but during the time, after so much gentle wandering through Novigrad, Velen and Skellige, it was so fast and eventful!
I felt exactly the same way. Don't get me wrong this game is about as close to perfect as can be but I definitely found the end very sudden, almost so much so that I wished I had taken more time between chapters of the main quest to explore the world, knowing the story was always there to return to. It seemed a shame that I was approx. level 30 when I finished the story and had so much more to do but without Triss, Yennifer and Ciri still in the world, yet at the same time it felt strangely peaceful being able to wander as a lone wolf. The expansion pack is also very good I would recommend it if you haven't played it yet.
***** I will! My internet unfortunately has 250KB/s download and is being upgradedto 32MB/s download soon... so am waiting on that before even updating! so many big files everywhere that take days to install.
+Peter Avastrat i found the post game to be witcher 3's biggest weakness since they made this whole huge world and after all the points and side quests were done it was over and there wasn't much to really do. Been nice to have had old contracts or new "super" monsters in the world to fight that would respawn and get stronger after each defeat.
this wouldnt be much of an issue though if we had a good NG+ where it never ended. basically locked to two playthroughs on one file.
+Clavitz Rain Agreed, I can't wait for the Blood and Wine DLC because there really is nothing to do on it at the moment.
Clavitz Rain Ah really? That's a bummer! Hoping to do a no life run now of the game ^^ For youtube sometime, when the DLC is out! Finally got the Fibre Optic (though still on 3MB/s... makes a difference).
Yeah still miffed about the ending xD haven't picked it up since!! Will play with both DLC and for TH-cam again.
As you say a completely NEAR perfect game. Flaws are not so much in the game itself but in the execution of emotional impact. Because throughout the game I had been so immersed I admittedly was in a conversation over whatsapp when the ending came about... so all tension was lost because I had to send a message like... "Hang on... I think the game is ending"... You know after 18 days and 21 hours of no fast travelling playtime xD
To this day the soundtrack never gets old. The ship on the top of the mountain overlooking the world was absolute top tier experiences
Bro dropped this 6 years back and dipped
When you reach skellige and see the atmosphere and hear the music you just don't want to leave spent hours there slowly riding and enjoying the bueaty and the hard work that was put in this game really can't remember when the last time I lost time and space and be at the moment of something wonderful.
exactly, after you survive that shipwreck and wake up on the shore and then you begin your journey, such amazing visuals
I'm a realist and quite critcal (as I think you should be) with games and design but was pleastly surpised by the remote and ancient beauty of Skellige.
Game of the generation
Z- Type damn, how many hours did you get?
gotta do the same thing after i can buy a new laptop with powerful gpu xD
I feel this, one of the best games. but make sure you're playing other games too! :)
I want to play this game again but I can't it's so hard repeat everything you do it again, how can you enjoy when you know what happened on every quest ? Please tell me I want to play this game again but how if I finish every thing on it 😔
@@SxBxT Do different builds, try to be more evil or more good Geralt,try to get all endings,or just play it and imagine that The WItcher 3's world is alive and that you are in there and I promise it will feel different
This game is the game of generation.
True Masterpiece .
Im gonna keep playing this game for years to come.
Sadly these kind of masterpieces are very very rare
It's because CD Projekt Red care about their public, not only about the money. Every time there was someone suggesting something, they looked into it and saw what they could do about it.
this game Defined the next generation of RPG titles. and thats the good thing about it . once you play them u know they set the Bar up . and wts gonna come next if not better then no body will dare to step challange CD project in this Genre
you mean b4 EA and Activision invaded Europe market and destroyed companies like westwood and io interactive , eidos . profit first , quality 2nd.
قلت الحق 😭 هل انتي من تونس ؟
are you from tunisia ?
This game restored my faith in humanity.
Funny since it literally displays a genocide
All this awesomeness in ONE GAME. Gives some perspective when the likes of Fallout 4 and MGSV aren't even close to this level.
+TheDragonSmasher Depends on how you look at it, from a gameplay stand Fallout 4 and Metal Gear Solid V are easily better than The Witcher 3, but what The Witcher 3 has over both those games is an immersive world, much better storyline and the attention to detail. I still enjoyed MGSV the most this year, but I'm crazy about stealth, so that might be why, this is a close second though.
+TheDragonSmasher I agree, FO4 annoyed me far to much, removal of RPG elements, factions being practically pointless unlike skyrim's, settlements were un-enjoyable, if they were equal in size to sanctuary and not as numerous i think it'd be great, not to mention a voiced protagonist and the dialogue wheel.
TW3 to me is one of the best games ever made.
+Arminas86 Fallout 4 taught me the lesson to never pre-order games ever again. That game was such a dissappointment. I WANTED to like it, but it was such a downgrade after playing New Vegas. :(
I really enjoyed it. I played 90 hours of it in the couple weeks after its release as I love the Fallout universe and the gameplay was great. I will almost certainly not play it again, however. And that is for so many reasons, not the least of which being its general replay value in itself. All the elements that made me love the previous Fallout titles was either stripped or missing. Fallout 4 is a fun game, but it is in no way the game I wanted, and that's both disappointing and worrying: worrying in that TES6 may suffer a similar fate, which would truly break my heart.
(The Witcher 3, conversely, re-ignited my hope for the future of games. I played all three games for the first time over Christmas time and it was an incredible experience on so many levels.)
Yeah, I also like to randomly compare games and look like an imbecile doing so.
There are so many things I loved about the game, and nearly nothing I didn't like. I spent a lot of hours in Novigrad and Velen, since I am one of those guys who explores as much as possible whenever I can. I had already fallen for the game, and I already thought it was a masterpiece.
Then it was time to go to Skellige.
I honestly never thought I could already see something better in this game. Or listen for that matter. I was dead wrong. I cannot even describe the beauty I felt when I saw Skellige's scenery and listened to its ambient music.
Easily the best game of its decade by far.
It was breathtaking when I first went to skellige. Definitely deserved game of the year.
Agreed.
I feel the same. Skellige is fantastic, I often got lost just roaming around the hills with the sea in the background. Almost thought I actually was a witcher for moments.
Many times went to skellige just to walk around and listen to this.
Agreed! I was like wow, Velen is gorgeous but Skellige blew me out of the water.
eden210 yup me too
This is perfect music for meditation!
I really do miss Geralt, he was a character I played for 2 months, while in a bad time crippled at home, only seeing my family, and when I finished the game I thought it would be over, but damn to this day I still consider him a bit of a friend
I was enjoying TW3, but only "enjoying" it... I was playing it because I really dig the universe, but so far was on the fence (even after spending a considerable amount of time in Velen/Novigrad). However, once I came to Skellige I was utterly floored by it; it was akin to PR saying "Here, this is what you've been waiting for". This place is just amazing. The music, the scenery, all of it.
I've been playing games since I was 8, I'm 25 now, and I thought that I could never have that sense of wonder again, but this is definitely doing it for me :).
Addendum: So I managed to learn the guitar melody that usually overlaps this and played along with the ambience, my god. Such epicness.
+MrTotallyRad Are you excited for Fallout 4? Most likely going to have a strong narrative and amazing atmospheres/locations
I am VERY excited for FO4. FO3 stands with some of my fondest memories in gaming. Do you remember the first time you wandered into the DC tunnels, ghouls moaning in the distance, your rifle barely repaired and The Inkspots playing? I sure as hell do :)
+Analagent1 I haven't played FO4 yet but if it's anything like FO3 it doesn't stand a chance against the masterpiece that is W3. Not sure about GOTY though since names like 'Bethesda' and 'Fallout' carry a lot of weight.
The stories and characters we see in TES and FO games are just too weak and lack depth. Sure they have a lot more freedom to offer but in my book, story elements trump freedom
+atomic9706 I've played 60 hours of Fallout 4 so far and I can say that is just a better Fallout 3, but New Vegas is better overall.
Not saying that it's a bad game, it's still an excellent game but it doesn't bring anything new to it, apart from settlement building which is a lot of fun if you're into that. Otherwise it's more of the same. One big negative is that Fallout 4 doesn't give the player as much freedom from a roleplaying perspective compared to previous games.
The story and characters have improved a bit. But, that is all. Graphics are underwhelming for a 2015 game. Especially after playing Witcher 3. Bethesda really needs to make a new engine for the next Elder Scrolls game. More importantly they need to bring new ideas.
The Witcher 3 has set the bar really high.
***** Well it does have a good enough atmosphere and variety of unique locations, but as for strong narrative lol. Open World exploration is the best thing about Fallout 4 like all Bethesda games. But, that was about it, which was otherwise a very dumbed down RPG.
The gloomy shores of Skellige is somehow feels warmer to my heart than the blooming slopes of Toussaint. It's, apparently, what's called the magic of the north.
Agreed, not sure about you but being quite a melancholic, introverted & reclusive kind of person myself I find myself much more drawn to the little villages in skellige and those more gloomy types of environments. Why everyone goes on about loving summer & party’s etc.. so much I don’t just don’t understand :)
When I got to this area of the game, and heard the music on my first playthrough, I almost started crying. It got me thinking of death, and my great grandmother who I lost in 2016. It reminded me of a Norwegian song called Eg Ser (I See), which is often played at norwegian funerals. I was just overwhelmed with an overpowering feeling of sadness, and grief. Every time I listen to this, I think of my great grandmother, and that she is hopefully in a better place now. Love this track so much:')
Atmospheres of open world games especially fantasy are perhaps some of the most emotional art pieces I have ever experienced. Such beauty ascends games into instant classic
Almost 2019, I am still listening the greatest soundtrack in video game history.
It is almost 2020 now, and I am listening ...
It’s almost 2022 and I’m still listening and finishing another play through
With this kind of music Geralt shall not be on Skellig but in space among the stars. The soundtrack is so cosmic.
✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
Feel like crying while listening to this. Just sounds saddening and little hope left. But also sounds beautiful too. I loved this game and it's sound track, and this is my favorite piece in the game.
This music piece has been with me through all my college, graduate school and now work since you uploaded since 2015. To me, this is more than music now, it has sentimental value with it. Every week I at least would come back to this piece to calm my mind to meditate and study. I can't find anything more valuable than this Skellige Village piece, I feel like my soul is attached to it.
I don't play Witcher, but i admire the story line
I have been a musician for about 18 years
My wife plays this game and when i heard this, my brain exploded
This ambient music is amazing!!!
This has brought me to tears.
got around playing it?
Give it a try, its marvelous. You are missing out big time
16:53 beautiful guitar comes in
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounded like lute, not guitar.
17:18
@@KaifongChang yea
I am a massive fan of both Skyrim and The Witcher 3 games, I've also been a huge fan of heavy metal music, but when i got to the Skellige isles in this great game and heard this woman singing and on this video at 28.16 she simply blew me away, I've never in all my 40+ years of heavy metal have i heard anything so beautiful.
When i eventually pass away from this world, i want this music played at my Funeral, Simply beautiful....brings a tear to my eye....
This game is the reason i don't listen to metal anymore lol. This music is just on another level
@@thenovicewhispers
Yr Right, it is that.
You don't even know how happy I am with this video. I always make sure I listen to it once a week.
Tjar still do that ? Lol
Not anymore LOL, but ocassionally, yush :)
This track is so powerful. Great music to listen to while just thinking, always makes me feel grateful for everything I have for some reason.
Exactly one year ago today, this classic was released to the world, a masterpiece
Can't believe it's been over two now!
Opus Arise Now it’s been 4 years and counting...
@@misaeltoral508 Almost 5....
6 years, and still going strong 💪
This ambient music is almost as soothing as the the music that plays when you visit the mysterious merchant in Resident Evil 4.
Being on vacation in Italy and listening to this makes everything so peaceful and enjoying life so much more
I love the first track.
+timewasteland I love the first track too. It goes for about 14 minutes but there's a strange pause at 6:56. I love the track because it does not have the fiddle or lute music. Just the soothing trance.
@@Nineteen1900Hundred is trance, remember arty music
Do you guys know the name of the first song?
@@Anshpelagiczone yeah I still want to know it
I found refuge in this track back at the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. I was at my lowest point in life having to deal with a broken heart after coming from a relationship festered with false hopes, lies, racism, and emotional abuse. I had to let go of people who I considered my friends but turned out to be snakes. I had to leave a company that saw interns as disposable and were treated like trash. The Witcher 3 was my only escape from all that pain and loneliness. This track resembles the endless pain and loneliness I used to feel. Now 7 years have passed and I come to this piece to reflect and be grateful that I am living happier days.
I literally just stopped to listen to this music while in Skellige many times, so peaceful
This...this piece, most beautiful and relaxing one i've ever heard. Its like a calming and soothing voice saying, "Its alright, you're safe here" in a world otherwise full of monsters...
Cant believe this video is 7 years old ...
When I first arrived in Skellige I just stopped doing everything and just stood there for I don't know how long, just listening and watching the waves crash. It was... who knows, maybe 2-3 in the morning and I was THERE, in the game, in that moment - that's how good the atmosphere in this game was.
Thank you for isolating this track and taking me back.
My reaction exactly. The music really drags you in. Stood there for a bit and just cantered my horse listening.
Yes!!! Finally I found it! This piece of music is like the most beautiful, sad, optimistic and wondrous thing I’ve ever heard.
We all left something behind in Skellige at some point.
This game is just breathtaking. I think i have never experienced a game that is as beautiful as this. The whole Witcher series is perfect honestly. Also, this track is perfect for meditation. :)
Who also spend hours trying to climb every mountain on Skellige?
meeeee!
liiindseyyy Did you ever reach the mountain peak that has a ship on it?
You will get there on the side quest "the last wish"
i did lol. im really happy geralt can slide and not just fall and die...😂
(still playing)Not yet,but plan to doing it after finnish war in kaer morhen xD
How beautiful! 🥰
I love this game so much. Skellige is definitely my favourite part of the game, breath-taking scenery and music!
Skyrim and Witcher 3, sharing the view at the top of RPG mountain.
The entire soundtrack is simply an overwhelming piece of art
This game is an overwhelming piece of art
There are many games I wish I could forget and play for the first time again, but this is the only game I would ever need in my life if I could do that on repeat.
The first track puts me into a complete out-of-body situation and I feel like I'm in another dimension altogether.
It’s been years since this game came out and I still return to it. It still makes me cry. It still gives me goosebumps. It still takes me right back to what is spiritually home for me. I’ve gladly accepted that no game will ever compare.
It hasn't been long but the witcher 3 is already nostalgic to me. Best game I've ever played.
When I hear this music I just want to spend time in a little house after an hard day at work with a snow storm outside just drinking some mead next to the fireplace..
This is so soothing and relaxing! Just take a deep breath and listen to this masterpiece.
Hope there will be... a Witcher 4.
I don't think I'll ever hear anything in another video game that'll reach this level of soothing. I could listen to it all day.
This is the best game ever created with the best video game OST I've ever heard. Words can't describe how special it is.
When i heard this masterpiece for the firstime in the best game ever i got goosebumps witcher netflix im ready
This music reminds me of my last trip to Scotland days that landscape I would never forget.
A one of a kind game can play for hours on end without getting bored still to this day, will never see a game this good again
if I had to begin my gaming experience once again, I would not surely do this with Witcher 3...nothing then would feel so deep and entertaining as this masterpiece is...
Damn this has got me feeling a certain way.. I'm delving deep into a meditative state and reflecting on where I am in life... It's rather beautiful
There are two dislikes. There should be no dislikes.
+timewasteland must be caranthir and eredin lol
+qxwong1
3 already, Imlerith joined them, what a prick :D
+timewasteland There are no likes without a dislikes, it's the simple law of ying and yang
Why does a dislike button even exist , i think they just flipped their screen around and tried to like te video twice ! Or mate they are deaf rap and rock fans !
+Ali N'cir "deaf rap and rock fans", just because people listen to Rock and Rap doesn't mean they have bad taste. Every genre of music is great in its own way and if you don't except that then you're the deaf one.
Childish comment.
Its nearly midnight, i cant sleep and so i return to this first track to just feel peace in body and mind, Its just magical, this game will forever be a part of me.
Best soundtrack of any RPG ever.
This music piece just fits this zone so perfectly. you can feel the emotion through the ambientness
Five times of playing throug, three times in "Todesmarsch"(german hardmode).
For me the best story on a Ps4 game. I cant tell you how much i love this game!
The right music can make a game ten times more compelling! This is one my favorite rpgs of all time!!
I have never in my life said that I thought a game looked and felt beautiful. I’ve played a lot of games that look nice and the environments feel great but I was never taken aback by an environment until Skellige. There’s just something so beautiful and graceful and reflective about the music that makes the experience more of a journey than a move to point A to point B. This truly is one of the most amazing games of all time.
the music that starts near the end, around 29 min in is the music I love most in Skellige. Just record that last bit and loop it lol.
Deanna Wemitt The Fields of Ard Skellig
loop it. play it. relax and sleep to to it.
Close your eyes and just listen to this. It's like you are in another World! So beautiful.
To me, this is the greatest rpg game ever made, favorite game on ps4 and my 3rd game in my top 5 of all time
What's 1 and 2 out of curiosity?
whats 4 and 5? also out of curiosity
Actually I take that back, this game is my favorite game of all time. 2nd would be Bioshock Infinite
3rd is Skyrim, 4th is diablo 3, and 5th is batman Arkham city
Great music really enhances and makes the experience memorable. It just so happens that the witcher 3 is great all around... gameplay wise, music wise, story wise. These particular pieces of music are amazing...
wow............i love this sound long live to the witcher forever
best game ever i have played, i swear to the god
i sleep , relaxing my body and my souls, with music.
Remember playing this game for the first time... I was like ''That's not true, this game is everything I would ever want it to be, great soundtrack, great story and mainly, Geralt..charismatic and good person''. Everytime I get to hear any song from Witcher, I usually drop a tear. And trust me guys, if a person can get so strong bond to the game then this game is THE masterpiece among masterpieces.
Why does this make me nostalgic and sad at the same time
This game made me feel like a kid again. daydreaming somewhere far in the sky about the place I've never found...
This music is warming my frozen soul.
The first song was the last song I´ve ever heard in Skellige 🥲
After finishing the Blood and Wine story I was ready to end my Witcher journey, but then Yen came to Corvo Bianco and I got an idea. Firstly I restored the whole Corvo Bianco and got rid of every bandit in Toussaint.
Meanwhile Ciri came to say hello and after a while I took Yen and Ciri (used Companion mod) to see Kaer Morhen for the last time. We cleared White Orchard (oh, I missed like 5 places of power back there 😅). Then we visited Velen and moved to Novigrad.
I left Yen and Ciri at Dandelion´s Chameleon and went to finish every possible quest in Velen/Novigrad area. Man, how many great side quests I´ve missed back there !
What was even crazier to me that I even started playing gwent for the first time 😁 I even signed up for a tournament in Novigrad and lost in the first round 😄
Then I finally took Yen and Ciri to Kaer Morhen and spend two nights back there 🙂 We traveled back to Novigrad docks and the next destination was Skellige.
Again I missed so many great quests back there ! I became a Skellige bare-knuckle champion, the champion in horse races, completed the Path of Warriors and played a lot of gwent there 😁
I even went back to Undvik and discovered a prison on the small island in the middle of the sea.
After everything was finished it was time to move on and say farewell to Skellige Isles. That was the time this song was playing and I was standing in the Kaer Trolde docks with Yen and Ciri next to fast travel sign and I did wait for few minutes listening to this song, knowing it will be the last time I will ever see Skellige ... I hit the fast travel button and it was over 😓
Later we visited the Royal Palace in Vizima and traveled back home, to Toussaint. In the first moments we were greeted by the flying monster on the sky, a Basilisk I decided let to live and few minutes later we were finally back at Corvo Bianco after almost 4 weeks 🙂 My last quest was the Gwent tournament in Beauclair, where I lost in semifinals when Nilfgaardian deck used its faction ability and won even though the match was a draw 😁
And that was it, that was my story. Just to think that if Yen didn´t come to Corvo Bianco, all of that would´ve never happened and I would´ve skipped almost four weeks of playing this masterpiece of a game. I am really grateful that it happened after all, but I am also sad that it is over 🥲
I made this last screenshot and now it´s time to move on with my own life ... but Witcher 3 will always stay in my heart ❤ staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/952/155660748-1721837486.png
Me listening to this after completing cyberpunk, and feeling the same way I felt when I completed witcher 3 :( Thanks CDPR for giving us such great games
That 29 ghouls must be terminated by Igni what a masterpiece game and soundtrack like Hans Zimmer movies soundtracks. This is THE game of decade.
When i hear that sound every time. i felt like am so empty 😢😢😢
Why are there 50 dislikes? on a masterpiece like this?! There should be 0 dislikes.
exactly
@@csabafajd4375 probably some drowners, or other whoresons
Probably the people who got their asses kicked by Geralt
I love this ambient music, i could listen to it for hours
Velen was beautiful and had good soundtrack but it was so sad
Novigrad was ok
Skellige is just beautiful to watch and hear and it was not that depressing
If there was a video game landscape that I wished was real, it would have to be Skellige. The mixture of Irish, Scottish, and Polish culture is visually interesting to see. Skellige was easily my favorite part of the main story. Velen and parts of Novigrad’s landscape were off putting for me. Besides Toussaint, Skellige is probably the most beautiful landscape within the game’s extensive world.
The chilllls i got man hearing this AGAIN man in the new Monster hunter world collaboration!. Beautiful music.
I think i’m gonna play this game over and over again till i die
when I listen, I associate album of Burzum - Hlidskjalf
This + the scene you find Ciri sent a fuckin' chill down my spine. It burned into my brain for life... Ciri is one the best chars in gaming ever since...
I think I've played 600 hours of this game lol
Bro dropped this 6 years back and dipped
finished the game. Kaer Morhen was empty. Skellige was empty. there was no Crach. No Yennefer in sight to take me away from all the politics. No Ciri to go hunting with me. Only a lonely Geralt. Wandering around on his Roach. No Zoltan. No Dandelion. No Priscilla. Temaria gets on with whatever they were before Geralt intruded. Triss. No where to be found, who knows? In Kovir? No more The Witcher 3. The game. It shouldn’t have ended like this. There is no. Happy. Ending. All endings are sad. No matter what. Blood And Wine DLC will keep you happy for a mere amount of time. Until all you see is either Triss or Yen (i’m not sure there) , Waking up, wandering around. Then going back to sleep. No more sex on the unicorn.
I miss tracing her down at the start with Vesimir. Wandering around White Orchard at the start, not having a clue about who any of these main characters were, just pure, fresh, clear mind. I had the belief, that at the end of the game, all will be amazing. yet here i am. Depressed to the worst ending. Any game has ever given me.
You forgot No more Eskel , No more Lambert me too i felt so lonely in the end that was so sad
Definitely reminds me of Skyrim
First one is godlike
Do u know name this sound?
@@erbolatabdulla1548 kaer trolde music
I cant even do my work while having this on, its so beautiful..
Iv'e been driven through some of Scotlands more remote areas and I have to say just walking through Sekllige was enchanting. It reminded me of what Hibernia (is that the right name) must have been like in the time of the romans. A really ancient Ireland combined with some of scotlands HUGE remote mountainous areas. I think Withcer 3 has some really fundemental flaws (like most games and collaborative works) but I think in the design department CD project red crushed it with Skellige it is really different from any other area I've been in, in a game. Even Skyrim doesn't get across the remote and ancient beauty. It was like a really unique combination of ancient scotland, Ireland and wales. Love just exploring and sailing about here.
I listen to this to help me go sleep and it works great!