Now that the Witcher series is over, let me know what games/series you want to see me cover in the future. Here are some timestamps for those that need them: Intro - 0:00 Hearts of Stone: Story - 3:11 Hearts of Stone: Other - 21:21 Blood and Wine: Story - 27:33 Blood and Wine: Other - 44:05 Conclusion - 1:02:53

@jossricketts4452

4 жыл бұрын

Well, it'd be nice to see some love for Gothic series.

@kamil_z91_72

4 жыл бұрын

Fallout or AC games

@ivarisalie8759

4 жыл бұрын

@@jossricketts4452 YES. Boooi, came to the comments to suggest Gothic series myself haha

@really.not.important

4 жыл бұрын

@@jossricketts4452/videos It would be great to see, Gothic 2 is my GOAT, but going beyond that it would just be a bunch of negative stuff.

@KalleVilenius

4 жыл бұрын

I'm going to suggest something a little different from what you usually do and say Lisa: The Painful. It's still an RPG filled with morally questionable actions.

"The difficulty of acquiring a house is probably self explanatory, particularly for millennials" - damn that one hurt mate. Another great vid, thanks for your hard work!

@jazzx251

4 жыл бұрын

We need to appeal to the older generation (and I'm 47) to let the drawbridge back down - maybe a song: "Toss a coin to your Twitcher, oh daddy of plenty, oh daddy of plenty - wo-o-oh ..."

@wilfredwayne7139

Жыл бұрын

That difficult my brother is building his own in the middle of nowhere.

43:37 When the cursed woman tells the story of her curse, the Gaunter O'Dimm theme song plays, so yeah.

4 жыл бұрын

O'Dimm was genius. The stuff he says about Ciri... it really makes you think about the decisions you make toward the end of the main storyline.

@Maharani1991

4 жыл бұрын

+

I'm surprised that you didn't mention the hallucination sidequest in Blood & Wine that has Roach talking to Geralt, which leads to Geralt hilariously breaking the 4th wall & asking questions about Roach's game mechanics. I stumbled across that quest completely by accident.

i feel we should respect CDPR and go by their definitions. these are expansions, everything free they gave us was DLC

@jazzx251

4 жыл бұрын

Everything is DLC these days - even the main game! ("DownLoadable Content") I prefer the old terminology ... An expansion is a paid piece of work that adds significantly to the main game's experience ... and there can be no doubt that CDPR made the best two expansions in the history of computer games. A level that would have proudly been displayed as a main game for nearly every other studio - retailing at $60, gratefully lapped up by millions without complaint. DLC is when they let you give Yennefer a new look, or some golden horse armour ... all for free of course.

@sneaky5141

4 жыл бұрын

@@jazzx251 yes

My favorite expansions of all time, truly the gold standard.

@eyoshinthemaximum

3 жыл бұрын

And they sell both of them for $25 together, they sell them separately as well but its obvious that $25 for 2 dlcs that are usually $15 seperate. Especially since each of them are basically new games

@MrDueltube

2 жыл бұрын

@@eyoshinthemaximum Yes and no. Can't argue with the pricing that's very true. However as awesome as Hearts of Stone is, doesn't have a new map it just uses pre-existing locations from the base game. It's excellent content but not truly big enough to be considered It's own game. Blood and Wine on the other hand, oh yeah definitely! I have seen other open world franchises where the base game is smaller, shorter, and has less overall content than just Blood and Wine.

@donwild50

Жыл бұрын

@@eyoshinthemaximum I got the base game when the Netflix Witcher series first appeared. Steam put the base game on sale for just over 14 dollars and for just 4 dollars more you got all the DLC's...together it cost just over 18 bucks. And it was well timed for another reason...when Witcher 3 came out, my computer just wasn't capable of handling it, but a few years later when the series came out and the sales prices had tumbled, I had a new computer and got the who delicious banquet for a pittance. And CDPR gives out new content for free...Take that, EA.

@colinvoorneveld

11 ай бұрын

My favorite is the shivering isles

I also found the horse time trial in blood and wine difficult until I realised the holding the attack button slows time and allows you to maneuver and time your attacks with much more accuracy.

I was acctually very immersed in Touissant because if the underlying feeling that the prosperity of the region is a facade. The large amount of bandits, and conversations which show multiple failing businesses, and the focus on corruption within the Knights errand all point to a failing economy and destitute people, which we can see if we explore some more isolated areas, added to the hints of wavering support for Anna Henrietta before her death.

@breadan1234

4 жыл бұрын

depends on what you mean by a failing economy. the ducal treasury certainly isn't struggling, and the vineyards are still in full swing. loads of side quests have you clearing out caves for wine merchants, so clearly that's expanding too. so i'm not sure about that

@isaacwilcox3010

3 жыл бұрын

Anna Henrietta can actually die? How?

@MrDueltube

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's deceptive, when you first arrive in Toussaint it's sunny and everything looks beautiful in stark contrast to the base game map which was often dark and had signs of death & destruction all around (because of the war) the more time you spend though the more you see this place isn't the supposed paradise it's made out to be.

@MrDueltube

2 жыл бұрын

@@isaacwilcox3010 If you don't pick the right dialogue options with Sienna, she will hold her grudge against her sister. Later her sister will try to hug her and she will pull out her hair pin, then stab the queen in the neck. Just like that.

The whole wedding quest in Hearts of Stone is one huge reference to the Polish literary classic, The Wedding by Stanisław Wyspiański. Still find it interesting how enjoyable the DLC for you was, considering the amount of in-game references and strong reliance on Polish folklore and (pop)culture there, not recognizable to non-Polish players obviously. That just proves the quality of the expansion itself.

I know its a bit too late now, but durring the tourney race you can hold the attack button and it slow down time, making it much easier to hit a target.

@untruewalrus1323

4 жыл бұрын

You can do WHAT

@laanson5389

4 жыл бұрын

UntrueWalrus isn’t there literally a tutorial message on this? Like in the practice of the race it already told you that

@donwild50

4 жыл бұрын

@@laanson5389 Yep...as you approach the dummies, hold down the attack button and you get Geralt's version of "bullet time" more than enough time to line up Roach with the target. Hold the course until you are absolutely level with the dummy to let fly and you hit it every time. The same holds true with the "Duel" with Anseis. Just position yourself to one side, hold down the attack button...you will slow and let fly when you are parallel to Anseis. He can turn around quickly but if you ride a bit further you will have time to turn. You only need to hit him 2 to 4 times to knock him out.

@alluxander1219

4 жыл бұрын

@@laanson5389 He probably skipped the tutorial, so he didn't get the message

the silver sword is not lost when you are arrested in the witcher 2 it's lost when you stuck it in the dragon mouth at the end of the prologue

@moonknightish

4 жыл бұрын

Or at least it's what is supposed to happen "in lore", because in gameplay it's the basic silver sword that is used (and lost) in that cutscene, not Aerondight

@TamaraBloodhoof

4 жыл бұрын

@@moonknightish Actually it is Aerondight if you brought it from Witcher 1, which most people who played through Witcher 1 would do. It's the best silver sword you can get without needing to kill every trophy monster where many people miss one or two. As such not just in lore, but in gameplay you also lose Aerondight as you travel from game 1 to 2.

Blood and Wine puts other games' DLC to shame in terms of dollar to value.

@ivarisalie8759

4 жыл бұрын

Boi it puts to shame most full sized games.

@Charok1

4 жыл бұрын

B and W is better than the base game. I can't think of another game that is like that. Witcher 3 was a boring thumbs down until I played Blood and Wine. It was done right like Witcher 2.

@SaberRexZealot

4 жыл бұрын

@** I wouldn’t go that far. I think the main game was just 15 hours longer than it needed to be, whereas the DLCs cut a lot of the fat and felt more focused.

@G0LD3NF1RE

4 жыл бұрын

@@Charok1 I found some of the story stuff with B&W kinda stupid at some points (Detlaff) but yeah it is some of the best DLC content i have played.

@mariosmatzoros3553

4 жыл бұрын

@@mark.slater I know that everyone has different opinions but I just can't understand how someone would say that hollow knight is objectively better than the witcher.

Been a year or so since I played The witcher 3 but from what I remember about Deadlaff and vampires is that their emotions are more "extreme". They rely on a hierarchy structure and not as much emotional or social structure humans have, also I think they love someone until they die. Regis have had more time socializing with humans and can control his emotions better, Deadlaff is more childlike because he recently started to socialize. I could be wrong and It's from some other story, but I think that's how I didn't see his outbursts as immersion breaking. Anyway keep the critique going, you are the only channel where I actually watch the whole video and not half listen to while I do other stuff. As for games recommendation how about The Talos Principle? It's sort of like Return of the Obra Dinn which is one of my all time favorite games, a "puzzle" game where you try to figure out what happened in the past. But the story is indirectly told compared to Obra Dinn. Another game: Observation, It's more of a point and click game and the story centers around you. It's like "2001: A space odyssey" the game. It's a shorter game too.

The caretaker is in the regular world, not the painted world

You're wrong about Dettlaff. He's old but as Regis says he's very animalistic and driven by instinct and generally stays away from human society and does not understand them. Imagine a man who's primarily driven by his Id, that's what Dettlaff represents. From Regis' description of Dettlaff, his actions make complete sense.

Not sure where you got the idea Anna Henrietta is a queen.

@darthrevan926

4 жыл бұрын

Well it kind of seems like it. Tough the title is mentioned a lot. But it doest really matter does it?

@G0LD3NF1RE

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't really that far of a reach honestly. Yeah if he payed a bit more attention he would know but the huge city and castle and the surrounding landscape is pretty much what you would see a king would rule in many other open world games (Elder Scrolls) guess he just didn't expect The Witchers scale. But ya I agree is kinda a amateur mistake for a video game critic/analyzer.

@Spellweaver5

4 жыл бұрын

Probably not far from the place where he got the idea that Skjall was killed by the Hunt.

@GewalfofWivia

4 жыл бұрын

She's effectively queen in her lands; just that her lands aren't independent.

@Koblizzard

4 жыл бұрын

@@G0LD3NF1RE Not much of a reach, but considering the video is a 1 hour in-depth critique which focuses mainly on the story, it's a little surprising how many small things about the story are inaccurate.

That Bank quest wasn't really meant to satirize tedium, it was more like reference to an Asterix scene.

She's a duchess, not a queen

@Maharani1991

4 жыл бұрын

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@DLibera

4 жыл бұрын

@@Maharani1991 I was about to comment that.

@SaberRexZealot

Жыл бұрын

All women are queens

@FanksCast

Жыл бұрын

@@SaberRexZealot you clearly haven't dated the crazy bitches yet

9:00 There is no way Vesemir was a "youngest" becasue he's well over 200 years old. He is the only Witcher to see the purge of Kaer Morhen which would put him near the 400 years mark. Unless the lady is like 300 years old herself it's impossible for Vesemir to be a youngster during her youth.

@ItsMeStrider

4 жыл бұрын

Vesemir is easily over 300 years old.

@K-Nyne

4 жыл бұрын

But he may have looked more like a youngster, it's kind of vague how WItcher aging works, and it differs per Witcher. He may have looked like 40 instead of 60+ years old

@ItsMeStrider

4 жыл бұрын

We only know witchers age very slow, geralt is supposed to look like he's in his late 20s despite being well over 90 in the books (and over 100 in BoW). If that lady is in her 90s then vesemir was around his early-mid 200's when they met. Now, at above 300 he looks like he's in his 60's. He could still look young enough.

to be honest sometimes in my replay through of this game I couldn't wait to finish the main story so I could hop into Blood and wine. I just really enjoy that world next to skellige...

Scenes from a marriage might be the greatest quest I’ve ever played

small thing, it's down to choices you've made through the game as to who will come to the vineyard

When I saw the title screen for blood and wine, I had a had time finding my jaw afterwards. It was absolutely gorgeous. Everything about this DLC was gorgeous and well done.

That professor shakeslock didn't make a deal with the man of glass. Olgierd went to the professor and asked him to find out who o dimm is and how to get rid of him. He went blind from the research and o dimm showed up and says it's due to the professor showing such interest and that o dimm returns that interest. The protection glyph was a "gift" from o dimm.

On my first run-through of Blood and Wine - I didn't find it "incredibly easy" to avoid two dead princesses at Syanna's trial. Maybe it takes gamers understanding eachother's mentality to select the correct dialogue options to achieve this without a bit of luck.

@DiZtheJedi

4 жыл бұрын

Syanna's dialogue options in that conversation were pretty difficult to decipher. I save-scummed and looked up the right choices after I got her and Anna Henrietta killed the first time.

the shakeslock thing is optional but I'm sure everyone did it cuz shani is great

I wasnt allowed to game since young, when im of employment age I started to work part time while studying. Witcher 3 was one of the first game I got and damn, it set a really high bar to my expectations of games after.

@marleyfa845

2 жыл бұрын

Same for me. I wasn't allowed to own a console or something so I never found gaming easy or enjoyable later. Then I tried playing the witcher 3 in the middle of studying and it fascinated me in a way no other game will ever be able to. It set the bar too high. Sure, there are some good games but nothing will beat this magical first gaming experience.

@MrAjking808

Жыл бұрын

@@marleyfa845 little kids 😂

Despite watching hundreds of videos about Witcher 3, still can not stop watching more.

you didn't mention that the wedding quest is inspired by the book by a great polish writer Wyspianski ... "The wedding" i thought it was obvious but then i remembered that not everyone is polish soo ye .

A small thing I always disliked about that old lady at the auction house and Vesemir and I mean it's a small thing, but witchers can live for hundreds of years Geralt himself is 100 or so years old. It's never openly stated how old Vesemir is at least not as far as I know but most people believe he's around 600 years old, he is the oldest living witcher and has trained many generations of witchers so there is no way vesemir was a young man when he met that lady unless she somehow is 600 years old as well.

@SaberRexZealot

4 жыл бұрын

I guess Vesemir’s looks accelerated sometime after taking Geralt in. The stress of having him most likely had an effect.

@TheMysterieRPGguy

4 жыл бұрын

@@SaberRexZealot I guess stress can do that to a man, but still that would mean that at the age of about 500 Vesemir still looked like he was in his 20, that would be some crazy good genetics considering Geralt at 100 looks far beyond his 20.

@TheMysterieRPGguy

4 жыл бұрын

@Eon Shred Really? Can you tell me how you know that.

40:29 Technically she does get killed off. Ribbon is a "good" ending you get only if you complete all quests in fairytale zone. And without the ribbon she dies and you get another ending. p.s. I haven't finished the video yet, so if you mention it later then sorry >.>

I loved hearts of stone. The new characters where fantastic and the story kept me hooked, which was often struggle with in video games

Considering you've read the books and played the games, you make a lot of errors in your narration.

@danieljung5862

3 жыл бұрын

true

Never see a film about slavic culture made in hollywood. But you preach about diversity and representation. And when we got chance to show you some our flavor we are too white. Not very fair for me. And racist.

@carlosjohnson8625

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry,I appreciate Slavic culture. My first wife is Russian,I also was in a relationship with a Polish woman. CD Projekt Red is a Polish game studio,the Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've ever played,and I have played video games since '82.

34:00 I doubt that's the case. You can skip the whole fairytale area when you take one of two possible paths.

The issue with the economy is a pretty easy fix, so long as you are fine with sailing around skellige to loot all the smugglers caches and then sell all of it to the grandmaster armourer. The smugglers cache is the only part of the game I find a little tedious and boring, yet all the money that can be made from selling the stuff really makes them worth looting. The most I ended up with on a normal play through (not new game plus) in the end after upgrading the runewright fully, corvo Bianco and having a couple grandmaster sets, was about 250,000 crowns

40:38 yes they are. Forgiveness isn't flexible. I've never understood the idea of forgiving someone but also punishing them, if anything you should forgive someone after their punishment, or perhaps due to how they changed due to the thing that they did. Forgiving someone and then having them sacrifice themselves just insults my intelligence. They weren't forgiven, they were killed without having the "good guy" do anything morally gray.

39:37 Um, her parents are the ones who ordered her exile. They're dead now. Hence why she isn't going after the people who ordered her exile. Besides, Syanna was more upset about the abuse she suffered than just the fact that the knights participated in taking her away.

Good video. Maybe it's just me, but I played the game using hard-lock on enemies. Combat felt really good this way.

That mage on the beach was one of the most difficult fights I had In the entire game.

She is a Duchess, not a Queen, Henrietta is the ruler of a Duchy that is protectorate of the Nilfgaardian Empire, tecnically it would have been Syanna, because she is the older sister, but because she was banish, Henrietta assumed the role, that is another of spite that Syanna has against her sister, because she blame her because she thinks that she didnt take her side so she could become the duchess.

@jazzx251

4 жыл бұрын

she was a Queen in all but name. She didn't like it at all when I told her the truth in that crypt.

I disagree slightly with you when it comes to your disappointment with how the gameplay of HoS takes you out of the game. I'd probably not enjoy the expansion as much if they had segments like the wedding and the auction be basically elongated cutscenes. Because that's something I absolutely hated in, for example, Death Stranding, which had multiple longer cutscenes where I basically just put down my controller. I feel like the game then takes too many cues from a movie or a show. The great thing about video games is that you are in control of a character involved in the story. You get to make choices. To sit back and just let the game show you what a character will do lessens the impact of having the player be directly involved. I can agree that, especially during the painting quest, the "game" elements do ruin the immersion slightly. But I would not want it to lack more gameplay than it already does. I can understand your frustration though.

I wouldn't exactly say that you're getting to know Vesimir as a "youngster". He's still 300 years old or possibly even older. His romance with Magnela was around 40 years ago, 50 if you really push it. Vesimir still wasn't a youngster, there's not that much difference between 250 and 300.

When you buy materials from merchants you can save the game. Then load that same save and merchant will have his materials again.

Hearts of Stone does take place in the realms of the base game, but it actually expands the map and adds new areas, so it is not really true to say it only takes place on the old map.

Another detail is that Orianna appeared about a year or so before Blood and Wine came out. In the "A Night to Remember" cinematic trailer as the vampire Geralt kills, and on the main menu screen as well (which is where the cinematic takes place).

Deat Chris More than one hour about these fantastic expansions of an already masterpiece of a game. And I agree with almost everything, you mentioned in your video. But I have to mention some things knowing I may be nitpicking there. DLCs in CDPR's terminology are small additional pieces of content one does not have to pay for. HoS and BaW are add-ons or expansions with lots of new content and for which you have to pay an adequate sum of money. HoS brings a new area to the game, you just don't recognize it as it connects seamlessly to the Novigrad map. I never had problems with financing the rune-smith and/or the master-smith in Toussaint. I know, how much money I'm probably going to need in advance. So if I'm in the danger of being a little short, I collect some pirate's stashes in Skellige. Anna Henrietta (or for short Anarietta) is a duchess, not a queen. I really love the bank / bureaucracy quest as it is an homage to "Asterix and Obelix conquer Rome" one of my favourite childhood cartoons (yes, I'm that old). You didn't mention the bonding quest between Geralt and Roach, so I guess you didn't find it. You have to load an old safe-file and look for it. TW3 with both expansions is a world I don't want to leave, ever. So whenever I've had my little chat with Yen in Corvo Bianco, I have the urge to start reading the books again - and most of the time I do, squishing in half a chapter whenever I can. But then when I've finished the books I want to play again. But I know, it will take months of time I don't have to complete the third game. So I most of the time I decide against it. Yet, once every year I must play TW3. I'm coming back to the game as I only do it with Dragon Age Origins, once a year at minimum. Thank you for this video, it couldn't have come at a better date, btw. Happy anniversary and CU twinmama

@OmegaEnvych

4 жыл бұрын

Someone else remembers Asterix and Obelix cartoons? O_O

@twinmama42

4 жыл бұрын

@@OmegaEnvych Of course, the cartoon books were our way of learning a foreign language before there were DVDs with multiple languages, KZread, or streaming services.

Geralt can take the house, contents and all. I tricked Olgried initially, but every subsequent playthrough I've let him have the will

48:26 holding the button before attacking sliws down the time and when letting it go its very easy to hit, i figured that put when training. You can also do that in normal fight on horse back.

"Anna Henrietta Queen of Toussaint" Milton de Peyrac Peyran And Palmerin de Launfal: FOR THE DUCHESS.

As far as I could understand, The Three Wishes done with a proxy, were unrelated to the main wish. Those and meeting on the moon were the "Rome" to get his soul. Kind of a loophole.

48:20 I am not sure if you not know this but you can hold down your mouse when riding a horse to slow down a time so it is easier to hit those target dummies. I never know this in main game so i hated horse combat but with this is much more enjoyable.

I would happily purchase Blood and Wine as its own completely separate game. $30 for a game this good when most games are... what? Anywhere between $40-$60 these days? Those EA expansion packs selling at $40 just for more empty sims gameplay could never, I'll use that money on the Witcher games instead. Thank you CD Projeckt Red

I love that, even when fighting a man that you have worked with and gotten to know, Geralt will still lead with the old reliable "Damn you're ugly." Works on everyone and everything.

I saw zero reason to rescue Olgierd too. I tried to once, out of curiosity, but then I reloaded and let Gaunter take him.

@stanislasvillard2795

4 жыл бұрын

I did it because I wanted the unique silver sword you get while looking for the reflection.

@kurt9395

4 жыл бұрын

Agree. Olgierd has done nothing that would make him worthy of redemption. Yet the game does a good job explaining his motivations which makes him a great character. I think the original plan was to let O'Dimm collect his due and the unique Witcher sword was meant to be one of the rewards offered by O'Dimm. He earlier says "As a Witcher, you might desire weapons supreme. I can give you those you've dreamt of." My feeling is that the choice to save Olgierd was added later in the process. Also, the whole optional quest with Professor Shakeslock kind of ruins the mystery of what O'Dimm is ultimately after.

@smokingone

3 жыл бұрын

i saved him, just to play into geralt's chaotic nature, theres no reason you should save him, and theres no reward. I really enjoyed when the game presented these type of options. like killing keira metz was totally avoidable, but based on how i felt geralt would act it became inevitable.

@MrAjking808

Жыл бұрын

@@smokingone y’all are horrible at decision making

They weren't *spits* DLC. They were expansion packs.

Just finished my third play through and went heavy alchemy it was a blast and a damn curse finding the ingredients for White Gull

@sambarrett871

2 жыл бұрын

Also blood and wine is the beat dlc I've ever played

"I'm pretty sure Pan Twardowski never met Persian people" well as a nobleman he might met some on the battlefield, Poland was bordering the Ottoman Empire from the south and had multiple wars with it (many inhabitants of Rzeczpospolita were also sold into muslim slavery so called "jasyr"), because of this contacts traditional polish nobleman (szlachta) costumes looked pretty oriental. Also claiming that people vehemently oppose any non white characters in the Witcher is a strawman, what fans opposed was SJWs turning it into some sort of political issue that most Poles including CDPR devs wouldn't even understand. There was also this whole debacle with the Netflix show that actually racebends quite a few characters in ways that are not really compatible with the lore (black Fringilla Vigo might be the most egregious example) and added multiple non-white characters to populate medieval villages as a result it looks pretty generic, American rather than Polish or Slavic. Even Tomasz Bagiński when asked about the controversy didn't try to deny it but would rather deflect by saying that "slavicness" of Witcher is exaggerated or something along those lines but even if he's right (the series is pretty eclectic in it's inspirations (Sapkowski is not the most original author) it beggs a questions how many fantasy shows explore slavic theme, wouldn't that make it more unique, interesting and actually diverse rather than skin tones?

@Princeps2

4 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right. It’s not about racism anymore. It is diversity for diversity’s sake and it makes the whole show look generic and cowardly. I’ve seen black people complain about Triss or aformentioned Fringilla Vigo being so different from the books. Putting diversity over quality and an actual template set by the books at all cost diminishes a lot of care that went to the show.

@TheMilhouseExperience

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve never read the books and I’ve only taken glimpses at the games through reviews and such, never really playing the games, but I thought the diversity in the show was garish/distracting compared to everything else in the show looking “lived in.” Certain things I assume were done well, the 2 ?sisters? who fell in love with the gold dragon, but other characters, named or otherwise just seemed to be off, Triss being the worst of it for me.

@Spellweaver5

4 жыл бұрын

​@@TheMilhouseExperience the two Zerrikanian girls are the ones who, in my opinion, suffered the most from this kind of inclusivity. They were no longer special, they no longer looked exotic and distinctly foregn to the North.

@ohhoimork6844

4 жыл бұрын

The issue with the show is a bit more complicated than most people here are giving it credit. It’s not about having diversity for the sake of diversity, it’s about not putting out a casting call that states “non-whites need not apply.”

i'll leave this here: i was a little confused by your seemingly orgasm levels of praise for hearts of stone in regards to the storyline while simultaneously complaining about it being set in the same 'zones' as the 'base game', yes the subzone is the same on the world map, but the areas you go to and complete the tasks in (not counting the city hubs here) are entirely new and different as you will never go there during the wild hunt plotline, furthermore while Gaunter o'dimm is based on a folk tale within the witcher universe it is believed he is actually THE god, not the same thing as the judeo-christian version but a hybridisation of that god+devil to create a being that is all powerful while being sadistic and evil which is why he states that people who found out his true nature were either dead, or suffering a fate worse than death (aka gone insane). Not gonna touch your racial rant with a barge pole because i genuinely have no idea where that comes from so crack on. In regards to blood and wine i don't understand your confusion about the storyline at all, it's stated multiple times by Regis as well as in the bestiary/lore books for the characters that the higher vampires are all unique and have their own powers AS WELL AS their own character quirks that make them who they are, in the case of detlaff he is very much an anti social being who struggles to understand social interactions which is why he acts the way he does, relying more on his 'animal instinct' than what we would rely on in those circumstances and it's due to this that regis alongside his blood debt that he wants to help/protect detlaff because he knows that he is incapable of rational thought in some of these regards as seen by the fact he murders the people on the flash cards without question where most people would question it. Ignoring your blatant mistakes regarding characters and places, (DUCHESS Anna Henrietta etc), it's very clear to see that you don't give the time needed to see the full story and by that i mean playing through from an alternate POV, in your first (and seemingling only) playthrough you romanced yennifer and that's why she showed up at the vineyard for the epilogue, there's 4 potential endings for people who visit and 5 total where ciri has 2 outcomes depending on your choices previously at the end of the wild hunt story, you give a shoutout to some memorable quests yet fail to recognise that the bank quest is a direct parody of Asterix the gaul from the animated film 'the twelve tasks of Asterix' where one of the 'modern' tasks set for him is to go into a building and get a specific form but most people go insane from all the back and forth and eventually they must trick the owner of the building into giving them what they need (permit #838). Lastly you complain about the combat and while i can agree the combat mechanics in this game are clunky and could use a lot of work, the ways in which i dislike them are from a mechanical perspective, you're issues come down to you either playing the game in a way that makes it substantially harder for yourself and as a result having a harder time than normal, or you flat out ignore mechanics and get punished as a result, this is nothing wrong with the game in this sense and this is purely on you as the player, you complain about the fight with detlaff and his bat swarm ability, it's very clearly telegraphed with the 'windup' being him summoning the bats to him, and it's always in a frontal 'line' and you can see where he is at all times if you were to use the 'lock on' feature during single target encounters which will always make sure that the camera angle is set to a way so you can see your target clearly regardless of what you are doing with geralt at the time, furthermore there are plenty of 'builds' you can play that make you nigh indestructible in the 'normal' game and are just bonkers in terms of power level during NG+, which again is something you clearly haven't devoted any time to, you talk about spending '100 hours' on something, a full playthrough assuming you don't get a bugged instance of the game going for a full 100% completion (where possible) should take even an experienced player of this game 300-400 hours and that doesn't include a NG+. this is already long but suffice to say if you're going to critique something like this, you should at least have enough of an idea of what you're talking about ahead of time before trying to pass off your opinions as fact as you have done numerous times in this video, while you make some valid points the majority of your qualms are down to you as the player and nothing the game has done (or not done as the case may be), and if something is unfamiliar research it so you understand it because it was painful to sit through you talk about some aspects that i knew were the complete opposite of what you were banging on about.

@Maharani1991

4 жыл бұрын

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@antoniobrown247

4 жыл бұрын

Your comment is just mind blowing and the truth be it's sad your comment don't have so many likes.

@asendimchev1996

4 жыл бұрын

God gives you 5k crowns when you do his bidding? You can win more from Gwent. To me, Gaunter doesn't seem to do anything all that powerful except to outwit a few mortals and potentially be outwitted by them. He doesn't even know where Ciri is, so he's not omnipotent. He acts like a low-level demon or like a petty pagan deity such as Loki. The "Judeo-Christian" God is in fact very capable of deeds that seem worse than Gaunter's (such as flooding the entire world due to human wickedness). But in the end, a being of endless power also has a capacity for endless love and forgiveness (which is why I think giving Olgierd a chance in the end is the good ending). There's also an afterlife in the Witcher world and Geralt was even there with Yenefer, so I think Geralt was a bit nasty in not telling Iris that.

@rogoth01themasterwizard11

4 жыл бұрын

@@asendimchev1996 you completely missed the point, the character of Gaunter O'Dimm is BASED ON the judeo-christian version of God and the Devil combined into one being, but in the witcher universe that being isn't an all powerful deity and his main 'power' is that of words and how they are used, with regards to 'not knowing where ciri is' it's possible he does and that information is worth more to him than what geralt 'payed for' so he kept it to himself plus for gameplay it makes no difference to the story or the gameplay itself if he told you outright anyway as you have no way to getting there until you reach that part in the quest line anyway. in regards to him giving you 5k, while for seasoned players that's not a lot of money, in relation to the amount of money you get from a SINGLE payment for a contract/quest or from betting on anything it's a kingly sum of money by comparison which is also the same for the money offered to you by Emhyr in story terms it's a sum of money that is obscene for most things but in gameplay terms it's a drop in the ocean, it seems like you can't disconnect the two.

@asendimchev1996

4 жыл бұрын

​@@rogoth01themasterwizard11 But what Godly thing does he do? He seems exclusively focused on being deceptively evil (even the Crones in Witcher 3 proper do some good) and he's based on the Faustian version of Satan. God does good things in the Christian interpretation, while we only see O'Dim fulfill wishes with a catch, Needful Things style.

My favourite game of all time and I’ve been around since the Atari days haha. Enjoyed the video! It’s a yearly tradition for me to play through this game at this point. I can’t see that changing any time soon.

You still seem to continue your self-fellating over "muh diversity" and it's sad that you feel the need to point out this as a failing because it doesn't tick certain arbitrary checkboxes. Yet you fail to explain how this diminishes the story in any way. You fail because, rationally, you can't beyond just a conditioned emotional reflex and a misguided guilt complex. This was never an issue until certain busybody types strove to make it one. Case in point: Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, a 2007 Japanese anime masterpiece set in an analogue of an amalgam of ancient Japan and China. In the world built by the story, every person is obviously oriental and this seems normal and natural. There are (shudder) no black people or white people either and it doesn't detract from a great story at all. On the contrary, shoehorning "muh diversity" into that world would detract because it would create anachronisms and ruin the believability of the world that the creators strove for. White and black people dressed like Japanese peasants? Like having an ice cream truck parked outside the Colosseum in ancient Rome during gladiator matches. It seems the "muh diversity" types would rather see everyplace reduced to bland homogeneity rather than different places with their own unique cultures. And in case you haven't realized, people typically find those who preen their virtue to an audience annoying.

@Koblizzard

4 жыл бұрын

The problem I have with the diversity idea is that diversity in my opinion doesn't inherently make games better or worse, it just makes them different. This can be a good or bad thing depending on the execution, but there's nothing that would inherently make a game better or worse based on how diverse it is. Notice how nobody had a problem with the Ofieri story in HoS - because it made sense. The world that was envisioned by the developers was much like the one we have - with distinct kinds of people originating from various regions. The story of the Ofieri prince was believable and well executed, and I haven't seen a single person going "muh realism" about the inclusion of those people in W3. The problem is that diversity for the sake of diversity often (not always) produces characters and storylines which feel out of place and forced. If CDPR made people from Ofier white - it wouldn't have made the game better or worse, it would have made it different. Just like if everyone in Skyrim was black, it wouldn't have made it better or worse - it would have been different. Whether the product is a good and believable story is then a question of execution. TL;DR: diversity isn't inherently better or worse, it's just different

@johnathanera5863

4 жыл бұрын

True. But at least the rest of it is fair.

@darthshaniqua8197

4 жыл бұрын

Forced diversity is a shit idea. There's nothing to add to that. Kind of ruined the show.

@TheLovescream

4 жыл бұрын

Logical arguments are pretty rare to come by in these pseudo-progressive circles. Oftentimes it strikes me as an anti-white circlejerk (white of course being a unidimensional label based of the ethnical makeup of the US), which leads to people like Davis branding Witcher 3, a medival polish fantasy, as racist for being "too white" and therefor not diverse enough, while something like Black Panther is not seen as "too black" and not diverse enough. Fundamentally people like Davis adopt the same ethos as actual racists and nationalists, namely that skin color itself possesses some kind of inherent merit, and draw their differing behavior towards different skin colors from some confused concept of power as the deciding factor in the makeup of society, which is an incredibly broad thesis that is basically unfalsifiable by scientific means and certainly not solid enough to derive the absolute morale authority they seem to believe to be in possession of. It always comes down to what is essentially a morale argument, which of course means that its always highly subjective and heavily influenced by the sociocultural influences any one individual grew up in. Even if there is merit to any of the associated ideas, the nearly absolute US- and anglocentric worldview that seems to basically always be part of people arguing for this agenda makes it virtually useless a general global theory of social justice. Or whatever exactly it is supposed to be.

@dani3po

4 жыл бұрын

Ok racist.

I found out that although you can't use potions during the fist fights, if you drink them before the fight starts, the effects are still active during the fight.

I truly love the quest Design of the dlcs i cant think of any repetitive quest at all

Good job, Chris.

its painfull to me seeing you not using the food regen lasts 20 minutes and you not having food in 1 of your 4 slots on the bottom right, also you're almost always on low health in these clips also anna henrietta is the dutches not the queen

41:43 I have one question Chris. Will Oldboy 2003 be a bit better if not everyone was asian?

@cashnelson2306

3 жыл бұрын

Oldboy takes place in a real place (and covers a LOT more ground, literally. Countries vs. a city) The witcher does not.

I'm pretty sure you missed the 'crime and punishment quest in the base game , there's no way you wouldn't talk about it if you hadn't

@tychovanvugt5531

4 жыл бұрын

It's rather insignificant

@bhagwatisinghrajawat1020

4 жыл бұрын

@@tychovanvugt5531 Agreed , but majority of them are. Its a good example of classic CDprojekt storytelling and also references the book of same name

Geralt does know oriana is a vampire because Regis says “you know she do is a” and geralts response is “I know”

The mysterious fella in black who talks to you outside borsodis can actually be found in the auction, but he's wearing glasses, great disguise

I don't know about anyone else, but I totally understand needing three days to calm down when I'm incensed 😂 if I took Syanna with me, it'd just likely make my emotional state worse. I think what Detlaff did makes sense. Sometimes people just need a complete and total escape from it all before they can think calmly and be level-headed 🤷‍♀️

Talk about the most pleasant surprise of the day, another Chris Davis video and on another great topic.

22:05 - 22:22 Why does it always have to be so black and white when it comes to this argument? is there no room for differentiated opinions on the matter? Look, the way the Ofieri are included in HoS is totally fine because it is explained in there backstory that they are undertaking dangerous travels to learn more about the world and since the story of HoS is only based on Pan Tvardovsky and not an adaption of it so their appearence in this context makes sense and has an explenation. Including people of color randomly in the base game would have made much less sense than it does here and thats why the sjw whining about no pocs in witcher 3 is so assanine. Sure they could'e included a few of them and maybe even made a small quest with them to explain their appearance but sjws would've nagged anyway and it wouldn't have added much to the game. I don't appreciate your attitude on this mater and disagree with your opinion on it. I would've expected a more intelligent take from you.

@VaNDaIUKR

4 жыл бұрын

People who don't understand why making northerners black is stupid, are really dense or just assume it's racist without even listen what other side is saying. Stupidity or ignorance. I hope Chris's case - second one.

4 жыл бұрын

I don't care about the colour of my game characters. However there is a vocal group of people with influence over these games who think I should care very much - and I find this troublesome.

@Killerbee_McTitties

4 жыл бұрын

@@VaNDaIUKR I don't know about Chris, but generally playing identity politics by complaining about a lack of inclusion of minorities is a strong tool to further a "progressive" political agenda, because if you don't have experience with arguing against that position, its easy having your entire argument discredited by being associated with an unflaterring ideology or group of people. shit like nazis, racists, mysoginists or just (entitled) children as chris does in this video. I noticed it in his base game review as well and hoped it was just a one off thing but it apparently wasn't and I lost a lot of respect for him and it hurt his credibility in my eyes since I'll have to take everything he says in the future with a grain of salt. add to that that I find this review to be generally lackluster and well.. I might be done with chris as a game's reviewer.

Excellent Work here...

When the game told the tasks to complete in Hearts of Stone, I was flabbergasted and had to take a few minutes to digest it.

At 1:04:38, how do you get the map icons to appear on the edges of the screen like that? Is that a mod?

What's the fastest way to level up to the proper level to start the DLC? because I'm on the island mist quest and I'm still 10 levels behind what I'm supposed to be to start and hearts of stone

aerondight is such a good silver sword, I was able to use it for the entirety of my new game plus adventure up until I replaced it with the new game plus version of aerondight

Actually if you choose the second option the curse is weakened The knight and Vivian then fall In love

Am I the only one who didn't realize you could actually convince Syanna not to kill Anarietta? She just felt so completely lost as a character to me, that I decided that the "better" ending was Syanna dying and Geralt going to jail.

I disagree javelin about the narrative side with dettlaf and syanna, it’s stated how vampires are extremely Emotionally unstable so dettkafs reaction was really well handled for a man madly in love with a woman to only be used, so that’s just generally wrong, and as for syanna it’s stated how all the people who ordered her exile are dead, because their her parents, and her sister was responsible for syannas exile, so it as good as HoS bit or the main quest but still great

For NG+ I saved ALL the Witcher contracts for the very end. After B&W I set out on the path, clearing all the contracts in Tousaint. Got bored and went to Skellige. From there I went back to Tousaint for a bit. Got some armor and then set back out on the path to Vellen. Finally I landed in Novigrad ending with the Hearts of Stone. It was a great time.

The Blood and Wine DLC so beautifully adds to the whole world of Witcher 3. A beautiful sunny fairytale kingdom the main game lacked a bit. Hearts of Stone also a great story quest. Great value for money and we really need to appreciated what CDpr did there for us gamers…

The person that show up at your vineyard i dependent on your choices. Either triss or yennefer depending on romance. or Ciri if she is a witcher and you romanced no one

@stanislasvillard2795

4 жыл бұрын

Or Dandelion if Ciri disappeared at the end of the main game. Also Ciri shows up as a soon to be empress as well.

Good dlcs no doubt not oblivion lvl horse armor but good

I am playing it for the first time and yesterday i started blood and wine before hearts of stone, is that bad???

lol! Wtf? Siana manipulated his feelings and made him kill people and one of them he considered a friend and you're saying he's immature and can't understand his reasons for doing what he did? Something is clearly wrong with you.

@zupremo9141

4 жыл бұрын

@Aleksa Petrovic I don't know what planet you are on but I live on Earth so I know that people kill for a much smaller reason like looking at them the wrong way.

@zupremo9141

4 жыл бұрын

@Aleksa Petrovic my point is. you're only saying that because it didn't happened to you. the guy killed his friend for Siana so it's totally understandable that he can do anything to anyone who betrayed him this way.

@fbritannia

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but you don-t decvlare war to a nation and murder multiple innocents just -cause you want some of the booty, that-s just not normal behaviour. Unless you are Thanos of course.

@zupremo9141

3 жыл бұрын

@@fbritannia 1st he is a vampire not a human and in the story they see human as food not an equal. 2nd you only say that because you don't have the power to do it but if you have I'm pretty sure you will probably do the same thing. what do you do when a ant bit you? do you find the specific ant who bitten you or you just stomp all of them?.

@fbritannia

3 жыл бұрын

@@zupremo9141 dude, you need help if you think that's normal, healthy behavior

In the previous video you said your opinion, I listened carefully and wrote a non-aggressive short response disagreeing with you and you come back with this 40:07. Your argument in the previous video was dumb and you yourself pointed out most of the reasons why without even realizing it. If you don´t want to rethink it, at least stop passive-aggressive coping please and rather focus on the game. Let´s pretend it never happened. Anyway I like your channel and your content.

@Spellweaver5

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine being a critic that is so afraid of growing as a person that you'd actually devote some parts of your video not to addressing the points you were given but portraying all who disagrees as angry racist. Wouldn't that be miserable?

@HNav-qb3we

4 жыл бұрын

Same dude, same lol

Finished blood and wine for the first time today what timing

Witcher is my passion nice video :) can you please make more such reviews where you compare the parts?

Did you really have to take a petty jab at the well-justified criticism about race from your last video? Couldn't you have just accepted it and moved on, and kept politics out of your videos? You're only hurting yourself and turning off potential fans of your content, which is otherwise great critique.

@dani3po

4 жыл бұрын

No, he is not hurting their real fans. Maybe you should look other channels more in line with your politics.

@AdityaKumar-xu6ug

4 жыл бұрын

Dani3po Note how I said he is turning off *potential fans* of his content because of his decision to not only bring in politics to his video, but a horribly bad stance as well.

@Ravi9A

4 жыл бұрын

@@dani3po enjoy your echo chamber then.

@Spellweaver5

4 жыл бұрын

​@@dani3po yeah, "real" fans, because people didn't come here for game criticism, they came here for confirmation bias on their political views.

@zoisantonopoulos7999

4 жыл бұрын

@@dani3po excuse me but this video is advertised as a review of the witcher 3 dlcs not a review of the wither 3 dlcs with my political views included. I got no problem with him saying that hilarious stuff but don't bait and switch the audience.

I think the choice for saving olgierd might be a sign a “new Geralt”, sort of because Geralt in the games is not book Geralt, due to his amnesia he is a different yet similar man, you can even see this some of his choices in the Witcher 3 base game (like the romances and killing radovid)

I felt the same way about the hearts of stone quests, as you did. However I felt that same way during the main game quest line as well. I started the game playing it like an RPG, but very early on I realized that this game was story driven. I ended up playing a lot of the main quests in order one after another because I wanted to know what happened next. I just couldn’t get enough of the characters, their backgrounds, and the story in general. I felt like I literally could just watch the cut scenes and not get bored at all. I felt like I was watching a movie almost. This for me applied for both the main game and hearts of stone. I loved those main game characters so much that I was actually kind of sad that none of the other characters that you meet during the base game really show up during the quests of the dlcs. I even ordered the Witcher books because of my love for this game 😅😅

41:03 You're right. Your salty dig at people offering legitimate criticism is an incredibly mature act. I mean isn't that why you speak in a nihilistic monotone, because you're so mature and not a pretentious, edgy pseudointellectual at all. At least Dettlaff looks good while being edgy (he's a vampire).

@zoisantonopoulos7999

4 жыл бұрын

At this point it's well know Chris is a leftist. Nothing wrong with thus but taking shots like that is very immature.

Do you not know that you can hold down the swing button on horseback to get slowmotion and make hitting the dummies super easy?

Just pointing it out but you actually lose your silver sword in Witcher 2 just before being arrested "cos a dragon ate it"

I also LOVE Regis!

The wedding was also inspired by a polish classic- Stanislaw Wsypianski’s drama “the wedding” whose plot revolves around a traditional folk wedding of a peasant girl with a poet. And- Olgierd himself was based off a character called Kmicic from another polish tale- the deluge. It is an archetypal haughty polish nobleman, who is extremely skilled in any form of combat, arrogant, very self confident, often wild and violent and whose overconfidence ultimately dooms them.

The knight side quest actually has a better solution in case you didn't know

I should really replay these expansions.

You can fly from the USA to Japan by heading west. You can also reach Japan by heading East. This is surely, undeniable, irrefutable, concrete proof.... that there are 2 Japans.