"This little four-minute cinematic was better than the whole Netflix series." Agreed, my man. Very much agreed.

@simonwalker2800

Жыл бұрын

i was like: Daaaaamn he said it, he said IT!!

@nickwarren2146

Жыл бұрын

everything is better than netflix series

@Johnnythefirst

Жыл бұрын

Yup, blows the whole thing out of the water. That slow motion shot with the bruxa getting shot in the back is just poetic.

@Feflar

Жыл бұрын

it was instant thumb up from me.

@crewOFcrew

4 ай бұрын

as Polish agree :)

Showrunners said they do not like oryginal material from books and game. In fact it was said by someone that they were making fun of books all the time. They think they know better, so they did it their way. Game is VERY true to books and its world (mix of slavic and german olf fairytales). Thats main diffrence. Play the game and you will understand it better. Cavil loved the game and books and tried to be true to them. Probably thats why he left.

@danii7584

Жыл бұрын

this exactly... that's how we end up with this anime style swordplay just for effects where geralt holds his sword like a dagger with a downward grip and decapitates a guy standing in a stone doorframe. it's dumb as fck, doesn't make sense, and was just done to be unique. that's also why the butchered the show by splicing sidestories into it that don't make sense, e.g. cahir was the antagonist in the books, but to them he wasn't enough, so they injected a shapeshifter/doppler for dramatic effect. and that's exactly why he left. also I bet he took a huge pay cut so because the 1st season definitely was low budget, and if he didn't they couldn't have had him. it was possibly based on the calculation that if they stay true to the material this show will definitely become a hit, and then when the budget gets inevitably bigger he gets a bigger cut. but seeing that they butchered it he cut his losses and left. that's ofc speculation, cavil is was to classy and professional to badmouth these ppl.

@spectralassassin6030

Жыл бұрын

All you need to do is look at Blood Origin to see what they would have done if they were allowed complete creative freedom with the show.

@danii7584

Жыл бұрын

@@spectralassassin6030 amen... if those ppl were so good at writing stories they would create their own worlds instead of adapting works of other successful ppl while insisting to change them. delusion of the highest order...

@thomaschaumeil3878

Жыл бұрын

@@danii7584 The only good fight in the serie was Geralt vs Renfri, when Henry Cavill used every part of the sword in the fight.

@danii7584

Жыл бұрын

@@thomaschaumeil3878 well, I guess that's a matter of opinion. I'm not a big of anime-esque unrealism such as blocking enemy swords with your sword laying on your back. but imo the butcher of blavakin fight is way worse, the one where geralt grips swords with a downward dagger grip, and where he decapitates a guy standing in a doorframe without damaging the door frame. that's just idiotic swordplay for effect and inattention to details at it's worst. but maybe that's just me. I don't like "every part of the sword" to be used in a fight unless it makes sense.

5:16 - No, actually he drank "Black Blood", a Witcher potion that makes your blood poisonous... and because she was a type of Vampire, she drank his blood. It probably makes him weaker, but drinking his blood is much worse for the vampire than for him, turning the fight to his favor.

@thegreenreaper6660

9 ай бұрын

Exactly! and that is a defining factor for the game: Using KNOWLEDGE to your advantage! Know the enemy, know their weaknesses and strenghts and find an exploit: The Vampire in the video, is a character in the game: Oriana, a very old/powerful Bruxa, aka, higher vampire: one of the more rare, most powerful, and hardest to kill! Geralt starts with a bomb that spreads small shards of silver to create visibility as the Bruxa has the ability to become invisible! But indeed, before he enters the barn, he drinks a vial of Black Blood: a poison that is fár more effective on the vampiric being, weakening them, and giving the Witcher, an edge! After the Bruxa(Orianna) drank blood from Geralt, the poison is in her system, and it prevents her from becoming invisible, but also reduces her speed, agility, strenght and durability: She's barely a match anymore!! This cinematic is probably one of the best-written intros into a game!

You weren’t wrong, the potion he drank is called Black Blood and it makes the witchers blood poisonous to vampires and necrophages. You can notice it affecting her after she bit him. Can’t wait for you to try out w3, it’s my all time favorite game. Take your time with it, explore the side quests, I would recommend sticking to one or two quests at a time so that you can follow their storyline properly. Perfect timing to try it now with the new HD release as well. Enjoy!

@danii7584

Жыл бұрын

black blood was introduced in the games afaik, haven't played yet even though I have them in my lib. really should get to it since they "recently" released the next gen update for it. according to lore from books it'd just be his regular potion. I had this discussion with a different fellow, and he made some good points in regards to the black blood potion, but according to game mechanics vampires are immune to this potion. so I'd say this was done purely for effect :)

@alexkibbe2792

Жыл бұрын

@@danii7584 Exact description of black blood effects: Witcher's blood injures vampires and necrophages when they wound him. 15% Damage returned Explicitly hurts vampires when they hurt him.

@ogtripleg

Жыл бұрын

Even in the books the witchers have several decoctions and potions in wooden boxes they carry with them. For example when ciri was at kaer morhen she drank white gull which made her go into a trance. As well as when geralt gets bit by the necro phage when he saves the merchant and has him go into his Witcher box of elixirs.

@thepersonwhosaid1048

Жыл бұрын

The Last Wish is still my favourite side quest of any RPG.

@itsgonnabeokay9341

Жыл бұрын

@@thepersonwhosaid1048 👊👊

My favourite part of this Trailer was that the scary Children’s Nursery Rhyme she is singing about such fear and Terror is about Witchers, not a monster under the bed.

One video game trailer gave me more emotions than all season 2 netflix series.

@Hikkan693

Жыл бұрын

I feel sorry for those who got to know The Witcher universe through the series, because the series sucks so much compared to the books and the game. In the series, they just turned over half of the ent and now create a separate ent from the witcher universe, which is convenient, because now they will do any crap with the characters, they killed Eskel in the second season, confusing his character with Lambert, after that my patience as a loroveda ran out of course, I turned a blind eye to the extras of people who they didn't suit Laura to change the gender and skin color of the character, but the death of the key heroes of the story, which turns the plot, well, no, sorry.

@donwild50

Жыл бұрын

@@Hikkan693 They freaking killed Eskel?! Glad I stopped watching part way through the first season! Eskel is the only Witcher who could give Geralt a decent fight. Damn!

@Nolimit_Lou

6 ай бұрын

@@Hikkan693 I only watched the first season about three years ago and enjoyed it, and although knowing about them for many years I played the games for the first time 3 years ago. TW1 was clunky and it showed it's age. TW2 I enjoyed a lot. But my favorite is hands down The Witcher 3. It is the greatest open world rpg I have ever played and this is coming from a Morrowind fan. Overall I agree with everyone here that the games are far superior to the series. My favorite friend of Geralt's is Regis and my favorite love for him is Shani. My favorite monster is that awe inspiring patriotic Redanian Troll by Novigrad. So my point is I would have never played the games if not for the show.

@bdleo300

5 ай бұрын

@@Hikkan693 "I feel sorry for those who got to know The Witcher universe through the series, because the series sucks so much compared to the books and the game." Yep. I can say the same for people who got to know Lord of the Rings/Tolkien's universe through Amazon tv show Ring of Power, because the series sucks so much compared to books and the movies... I guess Hollywood, Netflix, Disney, Amazon etc... can't make anything worthy today, they just ruin everything.

I can see a genuine spark in your eyes with this one :D Keep on dwelling on the lore, it will bring you a lot of joy ;) You already see the issues with the Netflix adaptation yourself, so you know both sides of the coin and can make your own honest and independent judgement on whether they tried to push some sort of agenda or tried to be as close to the source material as possible. If it wasn't for CDPR, no one would have heard of The Witcher outside of Central and Eastern Europe! Greetings from Poland!

Unfortunately, my original video was taken down .

@maubraymzoma6616

Жыл бұрын

What? Why??

@salsspar2132

Жыл бұрын

that makes no sense. Was great video. I'll watch this one again. cant wait till you play the game. Where you gonna stream it?

i watched it again, because why not ^^ i can't wait till you play the game. i can promise you, that most of the side missions individually, are better written than the whole netflix show. And that are only the side missions, the main ones are gonna blow your mind ♥

The story writers for the TW3 are some of the best I've ever seen for any medium ever.

@assylbekkossov6955

Жыл бұрын

True, except for some hiccups they have greatly expanded the Witcher universe without corrupting source material.

@donwild50

Жыл бұрын

The writers CDPR had producing Witcher 3 and the two DLC's are magnificent. One extended questline in the main game, The Bloody Baron questline alone, could have been an entire game for most other game producers. The ambience of the Northern Realms in the primary game and the first DLC, Heart of Stone, is broody, grim and gothic, especially in the DLC. Then the second DLC, Blood and Wine, completely changes the feel with vast color and warmth, knights in shining armor so different from the grungy fighters in the North...but even with the total change in the visual aspects, CDPR does not leave the lore behind. The grimness of the north is contrasted by the sunny south, but the dangers, horrors and conflict are still within witcher lore.

The fight scene in the early episode of the Netflix series was consistent with the actual books. It took place in the town of Blaviken and based on this incident Geralt got tagged with the Butcher of Blaviken nickname. It encapsulates the Witcher reality...monsters are real, the normals can't handle it so they need Witchers. But Witchers are "different" and almost superhuman, so people fear and eventually hate them. The sad part of the Blaviken incident is that if Geralt had simply walked away and taken neither side, the thugs would have destroyed the village. But the villagers never had to deal with that, so they tarred him as the "Butcher." A lot of the first season of the Netflix series was close to the actual material in the books...but then the "Almighty We The Writers Can Tell It Better" Guild had to start messing with the material and it nosedived...just like Rings of Power.

@itsgonnabeokay9341

Жыл бұрын

Well a lot of in the first season of the witcher was still wrong. Especially Yen.

@gdbalck

Жыл бұрын

I'd say that was the only thing that was done faithfully to the source material in the entire series.

@thegreenreaper6660

9 ай бұрын

If you take the TV-show.... the Woke-cult took over, what could have been an absolutely magnificent show, comparable to Game of Thrones, or Lord of the Rings-quality! Its the forced diversity, woke shit, inclusivity-nonsense that is ruining it! ..to the very core of it all.. And it is such a shame! the Witcher-franchise is an amazing Fantasy-story, comparable to the Star Wars-lore, created by George Lucas. But instead of actually displaying the story as the writer intended and invented it, the Woke-infection, twisted this amazing story into a piece of propaganda and doctrine. And it is a massive waste!

The woman was a Bruxa (A type of vampire) and the potion he drank was called black blood. Which turned his blood acidic. As soon as the bruxa drank his blood, she was already dead. Geralt just sped it along with his sword.

The fact that you knew what black blood does without even playing the game yet is a testament at how good and informative this trailer is to new fans

There is an entire article saying one of the reasons Henry left was because he kept asking about more Fighting scenes and the writers (who were all mostly Women) wanted more romantic scenes with him shirtless lol....

@TNTGamingonline

Жыл бұрын

Lol. I'm tired of them sexualizing us like a piece of meat.

@TheMaxCloud

Жыл бұрын

@@TNTGamingonline "Men are the ones sexualizing women" oh but when they do it is fine right? The NEEEERVE... Seriously in the article it stated the female writers were mad and frustrated he refused to be shirtless and that he didnt want to do romantic scenes wtf, my god.

@TNTGamingonline

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMaxCloud That's incredibly frustrating considering how Dark the actual series seems.

@TheMaxCloud

Жыл бұрын

@@TNTGamingonline yup, this is why the netflix series is a disssapointed in general, there are many other mistakes that can be pointed out too.

@usernamealreadytaken9330

Жыл бұрын

The sad thing is if he have shirtless scene he basically have to dehydrated for 3 days, and men are the one who have unrealistic beauty standard while male actor is an hour away from dying of dehydration.

I’ll watch it again just to see your pure reaction again. my favorite game

No vampire can withstand the soothing, calm taste of black blood. Which is potion that turns your blood into poison for vampires. Although I find Witcher 3's fighting mechanics too reliant to potion imbibing, it's better than anything that show showed us. Also, Geralt always takes concoctions before a fight in the books. But their effects are quite long lasting and they turn him exhausted, unable to be functional for a few hours when they wear off. Yennefer was against Geralt taking those elixirs because they're deadly, though even she never truly understood how Geralt's metabolism works. Witchers are mutated so that they can tolerate the deadly effects of those elixirs, and the enhancing effects make them even more inhumanly fast, strong and tolerant towards pain. Some decoctions literally make them insensitive to pain so when a monster slashes their flesh, they just don't feel it and keep fighting

Essentials: The potion was Black Blood that turns his blood toxic to vampires. That’s why she was doomed after biting Gerald. Also this powder was a bomb named Moon Dust creating silver dust thus preventing transformation and making her visible. Nice details enriching the experience. The girl was a vampire type called bruxa.

I‘m sorry ur vid was taken down, but well, seems like imma watch it again

Forgot how many times I played the Witcher 3. Played it at least 5 times.

@danii7584

Жыл бұрын

they released a next gen update a few weeks ago :) time for another run maybe

@DamnDaimen

Жыл бұрын

I only did a full play through once, but I gave it a full run through, all the dlcs, as many side quests as I could find, the works. Probably going to do a new game + run if I ever play it again.

Another game you can check out that's full of lore is the Dragon Age series. The 4th game is actually in post-production right now.

You are right that fight scene is only thing getting close to the game or books. Whole first series was based on the short stories you should read or listen to them they are awesome and they did very bad work portraing them even though calvill tried very hard to put them on right path. They cut off the meanings of the stories and in the end the witcher made some decisions and you dont know why he did it. Just give it a try and read or listen to them ;)

@hanakarnikova6950

Жыл бұрын

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@danii7584

Жыл бұрын

I doubt that the fight scene is coming close to it, even though it does exist, and it's the reason why he is labeled the butcher of blaviken if I remember correctly. but they took a lot of artistic liberty with the swordplay, nobody with half a brain would ever use a sword that way.

This cinematic has to be one of best Witcher cinematics ever. It has everything. The potion he took was "Black Blood" which is harmful to Vampires (The Bruxa in the cinematic is a lesser Vampire) and also Necrophages. Not many gamers know that Black Blood is beneficial with Necrophages.

The Potion Geralt Drunk in this Video was called Black Blood,it turns your blood into acid hence if a vampire bit you,the blood she drunk from geralt tasted and acted like an acid against the bruxia

Interesting thing about this prelaunch video for the main game, Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt is that you will meet this lady. Not in the basic game, not in the first DLC but in the third and last DLC. And when that DLC ends, this person is alive...and you know she's a vampire. Then you get this trailer where she obviously ends up permanantly dead...and Geralt is riding toward the city of Beauclair, the capital of the Duchy of Toussaint. Which is amazing because it means CD Projekt Red produced this trailer with a character from the LAST DLC before they released the main game. That's how far in advance they plotted these games out.

Geralt is such a badass and he's almost died a few times before the pitchfork

Yes it's true. I really don't know how they did it that a 5 minute trailer has a better script, direction and even better DIALOGUE than a series that has 30 episodes.

Shout out to Digic Pictures, who did these kinds of cinematic trailers for the Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed, Halo and many more!

henry did fight like that in the tv show, the fight vs the striga and then renfri's men he used signs and swordplay.

TNT Gaming This show should be done by HBO because it presented Game of Thrones as the book was. The witcher books are the realities prevailing in these times, i.e. racism, sexism, sadism, etc. I recommend you read the books. The netflix series is based only on the cover.

"This 4 minute was better than the whole netflix series!" Yup now you understand how a Witcher fan feels like. The only thing good with the series are Henry Cavill and maybe Vesemir. The show woke show however cant even begin to compare tyo the game. :) you just gotta make Witcher 3 gameplay reaction

The striga fight was pretty good.

the potion is black blood and she is Orianna, it is debatable if she is a Bruxa Vampire or a true higher vampire she is from the blood and wine dlc

Seeing this trailer and remembering this amazing work of art really bums me out they went the route they did ultimately causing Cavill to leave who was by far the best part of the show let alone it’s main character 😅

The potion is called Black blood. It makes it so that your blood becomes poisonous for vampires. this lady was a higher tier vampire.

@itsgonnabeokay9341

Жыл бұрын

more specifically a "bruxa."

The reason the first season of Witcher was so good is because they stuck to the books and because Henry Cavill was such a fan of the books and games he was like on set saying this is how Gary would do this is not what he would do with this is what's happening right now in the world and season 2 and season 3 they just kept trying to divert it and that's why he ultimately decided to leave he was a great Gerald and he truly is a nerd or whatever you want to call it if we have a king of nerds it's Henry Cavill cuz he actually understands the characters he plays and he actually loves the characters

I envy you so much that you are just discovering these games. I would like to forget that I played the Witcher and rediscover it

love your react

Geralt knew she would bite him why he drank the potion that would "kill" her and him , wich is the Witchers powers to ressurect!!

React to - The sword of destiny trailer. Its a gameplay trailer but still very good!

To answer your question "Why they didn't fight like this in the TV show?". Simply because someone in the process didn't care. Either the runners, the directors or Netflix. I don't know who, but someone didn't care at all. This video is 10 months old, maybe you played the games. But if you haven't, do so.

She was a bruxa, a form of lesser vampire. He drank the potion Black Blood, which is poison to vampires. The difference between the show and the games is the show is based on the books. The games take place after the events of the books, The Witcher III being years after the books.

@justinwinn01

Жыл бұрын

I Thought Orianna was a higher vampire because i though bruxas cant look like normal people

@itsgonnabeokay9341

Жыл бұрын

@@justinwinn01 Bruxas, Katakans and Alps can look and act like normal people and they are higher tier vampires compared to fleders or Ekimmas but they are still lower on the food chain than the actual higher vampires like Regis.

@justinwinn01

Жыл бұрын

@@itsgonnabeokay9341 ah ok

When monsters and beasts have a song for you, you a badass mofo!

For me, the Witcher 3 is the best game ever made! But you must watch Witcher 2 openning intro (absolutely in 4K😎) Take care Man🙂

The fight was there: ep1 season 2

This is one of the greatest games, I love it

Unfortunately pretty much everyone behind the scenes didn’t really give a shit about the show, this is where you gotta give max props to Henry cavill though, he did pretty much everything he could to keep the show as on track as possible, there are stories about him running around trying to make sure everything was perfect, rolling on the ground and throwing dirt around when he though everything looked too pristine for the setting, the guys a g

The potion he drink is black bood it works agains vampires

If only parallel universes existed... notably one in which HBO would have adapted the novels..

My favorite game of all time.

sword of destiny trailer next

Henry CAVILL uses his English accent with a gravel voice.

Games & Books 10/10

taken down by netflix i guess? maybe dont include that scene with cavill? watched it again for support keep it up man, how bout the witcher 3 official gameplay trailer?

"Killing monsters" game trailer is also awesome! And as for Netflix garbage... That's a crime what they did to the Witcher!

something wrong with title

The show is highly flawed compared to the books or games, which is a shame cause they made a great casting pick with Henry Cavil. He was quite passionate about the role which is a shame cause the show writers failed him big time about his request for them to stay respectful to the source material. Regardless he carried the show while he was there and brought an interesting take to Geralt with his final form, bodybuilder Geralt lol

If the Netflix show was your introduction to The Witcher, I suggest you forget everything about it and play the games, they are way more loyal to the novels lore wise

If only the whole show was half as good as that fight scene... I was so dissapointed.

I have no complaints about Henry, he really enjoyed this role and tried hard. But the scenario and directing are extremely bad.

Why didn't they put this in the series? Quite simple, backlash. Instead of sticking to the lore or creating a whole new series, the writers will piss off a lot of fans. They know this and do it with full intention. The more backlash they get, the more views they get. Any publicity is good publicity when you claim to be the victim.

He drink Black Blood. Potion make witchers blood turn into poison for vampires. They know even skilled witcher cant win against high vampire so they turn themself into bait.

Read the Sapkowski books, please.

Screw live action. The Witcher needs to be in this animated form.

Could never convince myself to watch the Netflix crap, my sister's have and can't stand what they did with the characters or story kept asking me what was supposed to happen and such.

the game come befor the tv show

This is what "The Witcher" really is. The show can't touch the books and games. The Witches has different potions, oils and methods for fighting every kind of monster and demon (and their are tons of them.) Do a react to the "Hearts of stone" storyline, I think you'd like it. 💪😎👍

By the way, the original short story "the lesser evil" which this episode is based on is SO MUCH BETTER than this. They removed the hilarious dialog between Geralt and Stegobor, that sets sup the theme of "lesser evil" and then proceeded to remove the plot twist of the entire story, which by the way also tied up story's plot, moral theme and title together and focused them all in one single point. While reading you literally have "holy f*ck" moment, in the series it's more like WTF has just happened moment. Every single short story is butchered this way in the series, and when they finally proceed to the first novel - they decide to abandon the source material and just f*ck around with the plot.

complete game on polish

Why they had no such fighting in the tv show? Because that show is extremely badly written and staged. Read the books and play the games. They are both masterpieces.

That little 4 min cinematic captures what the books are like, especially if you really listen to the song. There are seven books, full of moments as memorable as this. If Netflix had sticked to the source material the entire show would be much better than this cinematic. Now you should understand why fans are pissed off by this terrible waste of potential.

game is 100X better than netfliks and books are 10X better than game.

Tray pling the game

the Netflix series as pretty bad, you should play "The Witcher 3", it will blow your mind

if anyone is a fan of Netflix Witcher u can shame of u, u dont understand real universe of the witcher…

netflix suck so much generally

The Witcher books and games >>>>>>>> the witcher netflix. FACT.

Even old 2001 series made in Poland much better than Netflix Henry is the only reason I've watched that wokebomination.

Its a disgrace what them woke arrogant folk did to this saga in the Netflix series ...

Tv show? its absolute crap and have barely anything to do with the witcher...

Polish Witcher dubbing is much better.

"dat is badass, why did they even fight like that in the tv show"... maybe because they are too much focussed on woke shit and make a family friendly show xD

The show is bad even that scene was...

Bcs netflix witcher is thrash

because TV show sucks. I like Cavill but show is so bad

You didn''t even play the game or read the books and you immediately pointed out the main things making the show a pile of sh?t. It was doomed from the beginning, as they announced they gonna "do their own thing". Well now they have "their own audience". I hope you are going to play TW3 on console with home theater style speakers, because the story and cinematics INGAME are just epic. Make sure to play the Hearts of Stone DLC, it will give you nightmares :D

@donwild50

Жыл бұрын

Ain't that the truth. Gunter O'Dimm...spookiest monster since Pennywise.