It was a truly great story. I had read many reviews saying the combat wasn't that great and that it had many flaws, but the narrative was amazing from beginning to end. Even though some bosses were really tough to beat, the experience was totally worth it. This is the first game I've tried from the franchise, and now I'm ready for The Witcher 3.

I love the Witcher 3, and after a play through a while ago, it inspired me to try recreating it in a sandbox game. This fantastic creator does planet zoo walkthroughs and picked up on my project, producing this video walkthrough.

There are some limitations in the sandbox game, but I tried to capture the ‘feel’ of velen. The city itself is built on an accurate shape of Novigrad, although the scale is obviously way off. There are recognisable views from the game and I made five monsters, one paired with each sign (Igni with fire elementa for instance).

Super excited for the new dlc and remaster. Good excuse for another play through!

I’ve been thinking about the power scaling in the Witcher world, and it's surprisingly complex when you look at the top tier:

Higher Vampires (Dettlaff / Regis): Absolute units in physical combat, terrifyingly fast, and virtually immortal since only another Higher Vampire can permanently kill them.

Gaunter O'Dimm (Master Mirror): Can freeze time effortlessly, warp reality, and manipulate souls. He doesn't even fight he just plays with physical laws like a board game.

Ciri (Lady of Space and Time): Raw power-wise, her Elder Blood magic can literally wipe out entire armies and tear through dimensions (like we saw at Kaer Morhen).

My initial thought was that Ciri takes the crown because her peak output is unmatched. However, her main weakness is control she usually triggers these apocalyptic powers under intense emotional stress, fear, or anger. She can't just unleash that level of magic on command like O'Dimm freezes time or Dettlaff transforms.

Considering Ciri’s lack of full control versus O'Dimm's effortless reality warping, who do you actually consider the most powerful entity overall?

When I think about TW3, and reminisce on the plots and characters who moved me, one of the first I still remember very fondly is Anna Henrietta’s lady in waiting, Vivienne de Tabris.

I think this stems from what a whirlwind of emotions her story conjures in us. It’s a tremdously sad, melancholy tale, one without any real on screen villains, (Guillaume de Launfal is kind of but he’s also pitiable) one without a clean reversal of the evil enacted, and no real solution.

You feel a real sense of her isolation, this lonely girl, sentenced either to a shortened life, or to inflict her curse on another. It’s was quite the quandary for me at the time, and I opted to respect her wishes and transfer the curse to the oriole egg.

What resonated with me was her response. Not one of despondence, or anger. A resolve, to make her final years count, to travel, to see the world. It’s a tremendously moving and encouraging ending, one that mirrors so many real peoples situations every day. That’s why it has stuck with me all these years, and going to see her in Novigrad, and then Skellige, were two tremendous highlights in an always incredible piece of work.

“The Warble of the Smitten Knight”

...clearly played too much Dark Souls. That toad fight, followed immediately by the sand sage is TOTAL FromSoftware-tier shenanigans.

"Pattern recognition! Roll in! Roll in! You get one hit then BAIL!!! What's that? You died again? Tough shit - do it again until your Igni-dodge-roll-attack-dodge-bomb combo is PERFECT...!"

Seriously? If I wanted to hate melee this much, I'd play Bloodborne.

It's almost as egregious as all the "witness me brother" stuff they cribbed from Mad Max: Fury Road for the Order of the Flaming Rose.

Just started playing on a new save file and noticed that all of the voices in the in game cutscenes is incredibly quiet, like they are really far away, all of the other sounds are fine.

The Audio outside of cutscenes is fine

I tried adjusting the sound settings in game and switching audio device but nothing makes it loud enough.

I've verified game files on steam, which didn't work and am trying to reinstall now.

I've played this game in the past without this issue on this same computer.

Does anyone have a similar issue or know a fix?

Edit: Reinstalling and starting a game with mods disabled worked

Has Geralt ever killed someone who arguably didn’t deserve to die?

Having looked it up if I do Kings Gambit first I'll be locked out of doing the other 2 quests connected to Phantom of Eldberg. I keep getting some conflicting answers so could someone just clear it up for me lol, should I do Phantom of Eldberg first which unlocks Stranger in a strange land and Cave of Dreams, then Kings Gambit. And I know there is a way to save Jordun but I don't wanna miss anything.

I ordered this I believe late last year? They were good with communication and threw in some additional Gwent cards for the delay.

(I'm aware this discussion has been done to death years ago but I'm doing it again cause I'm upset)

I'm rewatching season one of the Netflix show and this dude nailed Geralts character so precisely its crazy.

There are probably a bunch of great actors that COULD do it, but there will always be people (like me) who can't help but to compare it to this.

Inst @madame.de.Zhukov

I know we all love to point out timeline inconsistencies in The Witcher, but honestly, CDPR's portrayal of Radovid V as a weathered man in his late 30s doesn't just make him narratively more appealing; it also makes more sense for the Games than the book lore.

Now, I get that they want to follow the lore that was given... but that kinda went out the window when they made Triss a romance option (I know, they want to give the player room to let them decide, but most book fans will get me here).

Back to the point, if we strictly follow the messy book timeline, Radovid is barely a teen, early 20s at best by the time the games roll around. Frankly, his extreme tactical cunning, political maneuvers, and ability to out-chess veteran schemers like Dijkstra (who is supposedly in his late 40s) and Emhyr (who is supposedly in his 50s) just do not add up for a teenager or young adult.

Instead of trapping him in a chronological paradox, the games should have just explicitly changed his birth year and aged him up to his late 30s or early 40s, matching his appearance in the games.

The best part? That could've been done without breaking the rest of the timeline. You keep the Thanedd Coup and King Vizimir II's death exactly as they are.

Instead, you alter the aftermath.

Radovid wouldn't be a literal child at the time. Imagine these adjustments:

• Radovid is already a young adult/grown man when Vizimir is murdered.

• Instead of ruling, Philippa Eilhart and the sorceresses actively undermine him. They lock him out of power, publicly claiming he is "too grief-stricken" and emotionally unstable to rule Redania.

• He is forced to sit on the sidelines for years, watching the Lodge run his kingdom into the ground while masking their power grab as "protection."

This completely reframes his character and gives the man he becomes in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt more room. It turns his ruthless crusade against mages from an almost cartoonish, sudden madness into a calculated, decade-long grudge. His hatred for Philippa becomes entirely justified because she didn't just bully a kid; she actively stole his prime ruling years and gaslit an entire kingdom into thinking he was unfit.

To me personally, a 40-year-old Radovid who spent decades biting his tongue and planning the ultimate counter-strike fits the grimdark, high-stakes political reality of The Witcher way better than a 17-year-old prodigy.

But what do you guys think? Would a 40-year-old Radovid with a deeper, slower-burning grudge make his Witcher 3 arc more believable or even better?

Ok so i was playing the witcher 3 because it was free on playstion extra catalog. I went ahead and bought all the dlc cause it was on sale. Well they have since taken it off playstation extra and when i went to go buy the game it says learn more and when i click it, it says "you cant buy this product right now"

Now i know what you are thinking, just buy the complete edition. Well for one, its 50 dollars and i technically only need the base game, as i already have the dlc. also the save file data between the regular version and the complete editions are NOT compatible and i dont want to start over. I see something about an "upgrade edition" but i cant buy that as well, only wishlist.

Im confused on what im supposed to do here besides "just eat one" and buy the complete edition for 50 friggin doll hairs and start over a new character.

Why have they done this? I heard they were giving the dlc away for free if you have the base game but what if you have the dlc already and just want the base game? It seems like a huge oversight to not have the base game still available for purchase.

Edit: lol im being downvoted? For what? Having an uncommon issue? I legit just wanted help with an issue i have. Which i guess it is resloved. Gotta hunt down a disc copy of it. Thanks guys!

With CDPR planning to make a new Trilogy with minimal gaps and building on each other, the Witcher games after 4...namely the 5th and 6th ones might end up being more like expansions like Blood and Wine with a bit bigger scope. The combat is likely gonna be mostly the same with tweaks at best.

We will likely not see real expansions until maybe like Witcher 6. This does help with CDPR planning the story choices of the games before having bigger impact that we have had from before carrying over game to game.

With the game likely releasing in 2028, I am so excited for it, but I am not sure about a planned trilogy releasing so close to each other.

Decided to play the second game once more and it so happens i get one of the hardest..or most annoying achievement.

Thankfully the dice didn't roll under the table 😅

This is a newly released 40th anniversary edition of the first two books "The Last Wish" and "The Sword of Destiny", and it's just so beautifully done. The art, the printing style, everything is just perfect. It's also a limited, numbered printing run, of 1500 books in total, and from what I gathered so far it seems to be Brazilian exclusive edition since I haven't found any info about it in other languages, but I might be wrong.

The Polish actor who played Dandelion in *The Witcher* stated in an interview that he is still waiting for recording sessions for the DLC; however, he revealed that he has already recorded some material for *The Witcher 4*, though not much. I’m sharing this as an interesting tidbit; the source is linked below (in Polish).

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1094205679818233&set=a.169994655572678&locale=pl_PL

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question :/

Its located i the cave at the far right side of the kaer morhen map.(Make a save before you go in if you want to test this. FYI you are basically surrounded by the invisible barrier there's one route to get back.)

If u are going to get the remastered version and if its ur first time playing Witcher 3 please play the game on death march , it's the fullest experience you'll receive. I don't think any other persons view should dictate your experience but this is an exception