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[endlessflood]

Honestly despite loving this game and thinking it's one of my all time favorite games, the ending made no sense to me.

Why do Ciri and Avallache decide that in the middle of the fight against the Wild Hunt is the time for them to try to end the White Frost. And how exactly is she supposed to fight the White Frost. She has the ability to jump through space and time, but how does that power allow her to end the White Frost. And why do Geralt's friends such as Eskel and Lambert and Kiera not show for this fight after they all risk their lives for each other at Kaer Morhen.

Seriously when you think about it then entire last quest just makes no sense, it's as if it was tacked on at the last minute.

I think I would have preferred it if they left the White Frost thing out and just made Ciri's survival contingent on how the fight with the Wild Hunt and Eredin goes.

I think Ciri picks that moment (just after Eredin has been defeated, and everyone is dispersed/busy) because she's worried that the others will try to stop her.

As someone who has no knowledge of the books or previous games, I'd guess that, given that the White Frost is something that is gradually creeping through the various worlds, Ciri's powers allow her to shut off or contain that creep across worlds, hence why it can "only be defeated by the Elder Blood".

I'm not sure why Keira, Lambert, and Eskel don't take part. You could argue that, given they already have an army, that Lambert and Eskel aren't as useful, but surely Keira's magic wouldn't hurt given that she was part of the Lodge. Maybe Keira would just refuse, she's not particularly altruistic and might consider her debts paid after Kaer Morhen.

 

[Dmax3901]

I think Ciri picks that moment (just after Eredin has been defeated, and everyone is dispersed/busy) because she's worried that the others will try to stop her.

As someone who has no knowledge of the books or previous games, I'd guess that, given that the White Frost is something that is gradually creeping through the various worlds, Ciri's powers allow her to shut off or contain that creep across worlds, hence why it can "only be defeated by the Elder Blood".

I'm not sure why Keira, Lambert, and Eskel don't take part. You could argue that, given they already have an army, that Lambert and Eskel aren't as useful, but surely Keira's magic wouldn't hurt given that she was part of the Lodge. Maybe Keira would just refuse, she's not particularly altruistic and might consider her debts paid after Kaer Morhen.

Keira can be killed, so I'd guess that's why. Makes sense for Hjalmar and Crach to be there, it's Skellige. Everyone else is on the continent.

Witcher's are simple folk, they'll defend their home fortress, but saving the world is unique to Geralt.

 

[Keihart]

Keira can be killed, so I'd guess that's why. Makes sense for Hjalmar and Crach to be there, it's Skellige. Everyone else is on the continent.

Witcher's are simple folk, they'll defend their home fortress, but saving the world is unique to Geralt.

if you talk with Keira and Lambert after Vesemir's death, you learn that Keira convinced Lambert of going in a trip together, in the ending you learn that they discover the cure for the plague.

Eskel tells you that he is leaving Kaermorhen because without Vesemir it's not much of a home anymore or something like that.

And since there are no plans yet, everybody just scatters and Gearlt and company just have to deal with it ,

 

[endlessflood]

Having just finished the game last night, I love how there are so many endings but there's no one defining 'best' entry. I got the Empress Ciri ending, with Temeria restored, and thought those things went together well. I understand that Ciri wanted to be free of responsibility, but also understood that as Empress she had an opportunity to make the world better. On the other hand, I completely understand that in terms of her own desires, Ciri would much prefer to be a Witcher.

I'm still not sure which of the three Geralt endings (Yen, Triss, or alone) is best - he might be happy in the first two, but the third seems truer to the character somehow. Also if Ciri is not going to be Empress then it seems to me that a free North is preferable, meaning siding with either the madman Radovid (better in the empire in that case), or Dijkstra (which means turning your back on Roche, Thaler, and Ves - better for the North, but very difficult on a personal level).

 

[LostMyNarbles]

I would have been devastated if I had gotten that ending.

The Snowball Fight of Destiny!

I got that ending and was truly devastated to the point I nearly cried. After getting emotionally invested into the characters after playing for so long it was so incredibly depressing to see an ending where Ciri is presumably dead and Geralt is depressed to the point of suicide.

;_;

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Honestly despite loving this game and thinking it's one of my all time favorite games, the ending made no sense to me.

Why do Ciri and Avallache decide that in the middle of the fight against the Wild Hunt is the time for them to try to end the White Frost. And how exactly is she supposed to fight the White Frost. She has the ability to jump through space and time, but how does that power allow her to end the White Frost. And why do Geralt's friends such as Eskel and Lambert and Kiera not show for this fight after they all risk their lives for each other at Kaer Morhen.

Seriously when you think about it then entire last quest just makes no sense, it's as if it was tacked on at the last minute.

I think I would have preferred it if they left the White Frost thing out and just made Ciri's survival contingent on how the fight with the Wild Hunt and Eredin goes.

Yes. That whole ending was poorly put together. I mean, if we go by the logic of the game....how is what you do to summon Eredin at the end different from the fight at Morhen? In both instances, your party knows he is coming. In the second instance, you have sorceresses whose only purpose is to stop him from running...? Why would he run? You knew he was coming the first time, and he rocked your team at Kaer Morhen. In fact, Triss was raining down fireballs at Morhen. You actually have one LESS sorceress helping in the end, as all they do is hold up a shield to block the Wild Hunt from running. Soooo....that was odd?

#2 How much better would it have been if what the gang did to summon Eredin simply opened a gateway that wouldn't close, and the white frost was spreading through it? That would've made much more sense why Ciri would need to go through to stop it AND it wouldn't kill the pace of the ending like running up a stupid mountain to a tower did.

#3 Also---when Ciri finds the center of the white frost...it kinda looked like she did when she lost control at Morhen. That bright, glowing crazy light. Is that supposed to be some twisted mind fuck, and someone of elder blood actually started the white frost? Or is it her in another time? I don't know.

#4 The empress ending felt like the worst ending. I didn't like it at all. Personal opinion and all, but BOTH of the other endings I liked better. They brought up emotion from me. The empress ending was like "Ummm....all right"

 

[Ivory Samoan]

I got that ending and was truly devastated to the point I nearly cried. After getting emotionally invested into the characters after playing for so long it was so incredibly depressing to see an ending where Ciri is presumably dead and Geralt is depressed to the point of suicide.

;_;

If I got that ending after playing blind (didn't want to spoil anything), I think I would also cry IRL tears.

I luckily got the ending I wanted exactly (Empress/Yen/Bittersweet) - but yeah, that ending would leave me with a gaping wound in my heart, it would be like the Red Wedding x 10.

 

[PooBone]

I wish I could go back in time and show my 5-year old Faxanadu-playing self what games were gonna look like 25 years down the road.

 

[IKizzLE]

so I got the ending where you meet the werewolf and kill the last Crone. Then Geralt sits down, weeps while drowners and ghouls surround
him. Wtf? I though Ciri would come back so I let step into the portal. ..

I got the Ciri became a witcher ending and settled with Triss and LOVED it!

I went on YT to watch the other two endings and jesus christ I would of thrown my

controller through the TV if I played 120 hours and got the ending you just got. I. would. be.

LIVID.

 

[Alpende]

I shouldn't have broken Dijkstra's leg That was the only thing I didn't like about my ending. Radovid killed all kinds of non-humans and sorceresses. Other than that I'm happy, Yen and Geralt living together, Ciri a Witcher and Cerys rules Skellige.

 

[Last Hearth]

I guess my main complaint about the ending is that many of the choices that affect it is not at all obvious. I mean I can see why turning down the money from the Emperor (or not going to see him at all) might affect the ending, but why would drinking instead of a snowball fight, or telling her to calm down in the laboratory instead of ransacking it affect the ending? When you're making the choice it was the flip of a coin because there is no way to know which way to go, and in that way it made the ending a flip of a coin too.

And that goes against the choices and consequences mantra, you can't have meaningful choices and consequences when you have no idea what you're choosing.

 

[Gurgelhals]

I guess my main complaint about the ending is that many of the choices that affect it is not at all obvious. I mean I can see why turning down the money from the Emperor (or not going to see him at all) might affect the ending, but why would drinking instead of a snowball fight, or telling her to calm down in the laboratory instead of ransacking it affect the ending? When you're making the choice it was the flip of a coin because there is no way to know which way to go, and in that way it made the ending a flip of a coin too.

And that goes against the choices and consequences mantra, you can't have meaningful choices and consequences when you have no idea what you're choosing.

Actually, I think this is a point that the game constantly emphasises: In many cases, it simply is impossible to anticipate the consequences of your actions. When you send Keira to Kaer Morhen, you cannot anticipate, at this stage of the game, that this might decide whether another major character lives or dies; when you decide to either kill or free the spirit beneath the tree, you cannot know that this will affect the outcome of the Bloody Baron questline; etc. There are also minor examples used to drive this point home: Save a tied up deserter from some drowners? Might seem the right thing to do at that point, but much later on you will find him and a bunch of bandits having just slaughtered entire camp of refugees.

So, yes, while I understand that this can be frustrating from a metagaming perspective when you're aiming for a specific ending, I think it's precisely the point of the game that it doesn't telegraph the ultimate consequences to the player when he/she is presented with a choice. After all, the Witcher series has always been not just about "choices and consequences" but also about being confronted with difficult choices that are difficult precisely because you cannot accurately predict the outcome. This has already been the case in the first and the second game.

 

[Last Hearth]

Actually, I think this is a point that the game constantly emphasises: In many cases, it simply is impossible to anticipate the consequences of your actions. When you send Keira to Kaer Morhen, you cannot anticipate, at this stage of the game, that this might decide whether another major character lives or dies; when you decide to either kill or free the spirit beneath the tree, you cannot know that this will affect the outcome of the Bloody Baron questline; etc. There are also minor examples used to drive this point home: Save a tied up deserter from some drowners? Might seem the right thing to do at that point, but much later on you will find him and a bunch of bandits having just slaughtered entire camp of refugees.

So, yes, while I understand that this can be frustrating from a metagaming perspective when you're aiming for a specific ending, I think it's precisely the point of the game that it doesn't telegraph the ultimate consequences to the player when he/she is presented with a choice. After all, the Witcher series has always been not just about "choices and consequences" but also about being confronted with difficult choices that are difficult precisely because you cannot accurately predict the outcome. This has already been the case in the first and the second game.

I can see this to some degree, but in the end it's a game and if a game offers your character choices it's not fun when the choices have no indication of how they affect the outcome. Like I said it amounted to a coin flip and that's not ultimately fun. In the big choices that affected the ending of 120 hours I spent in the game where I make a lot of choices, I'd have preferred if I knew what I was choosing.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

Best non-story quest in the game was Skellige's Most Wanted. What a cool twist.

 

[endlessflood]

I shouldn't have broken Dijkstra's leg

When do you get the opportunity to do that?

 

[ScepticMatt]

When do you get the opportunity to do that?

Final preparations in Novigrad, when freeing Phillipa in the Bathhouse

 

[Keihart]

I can see this to some degree, but in the end it's a game and if a game offers your character choices it's not fun when the choices have no indication of how they affect the outcome. Like I said it amounted to a coin flip and that's not ultimately fun. In the big choices that affected the ending of 120 hours I spent in the game where I make a lot of choices, I'd have preferred if I knew what I was choosing.

The way your decision when dealing with Ciri's problems affect the final escene was brilliant and it isn't a coin toss if you think about it. You are not choosing what she will do, because that doesn't make sense, you are choosing how to influence her behavior, like a parent does with his kid. I chose to encourage her free spirit when posible and the game reward me for this acordingly, every ending regarding Ciri reacts to your "parenting"
Ciri becomes a opressed teenager running from home, someone who fills the espectations put in her or a more liberal person pursuing her dreams.

Most other decisions are usually a choose the lesser evil kinda thing, just like IRL, future consecuenses are unknown which make the decisions more fun to me.

I really loved Ciri's related choices and how they afected the ending, i knew what they were going for the second time the same kind of question was made.

 

[endlessflood]

I never understood defacing Avalla'ch's laboratory. Ciri is mad because Avalla'ch has studied the Elder Blood extensively? Or is it about his mistress? Either way it seems kind of petty. If Avalla'ch had actually done something wrong I could understand it.

 

[tallbroski]

I think i got the worst ending, Geralt is all alone in the three witches`s hut and the monsters are closing in on him, think he dies. Ciri sacrificed herself, think she is dead. Radovid enslaves non humans. Tris and Yen are not even mentioned wtf

The only positive thing is Cerys being queen.

Need to replay it

 

[endlessflood]

I think i got the worst ending, Geralt is all alone in the three witches`s hut and the monsters are closing in on him, think he dies. Ciri sacrificed herself, think she is dead. Radovid enslaves non humans. Tris and Yen are not even mentioned wtf

The only positive thing is Cerys being queen.

Need to replay it

I didn't get that ending, but are we certain that Ciri dies? I know Geralt says so, but I can't help but wonder if Ciri defeats the White Frost but just chooses not to return to Geralt's world, based on the stuff that's happened to her in the flashback (i.e. thinking that whatever ties she once had to this world no longer matter to her).

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

The way your decision when dealing with Ciri's problems affect the final escene was brilliant and it isn't a coin toss if you think about it. You are not choosing what she will do, because that doesn't make sense, you are choosing how to influence her behavior, like a parent does with his kid. I chose to encourage her free spirit when posible and the game reward me for this acordingly, every ending regarding Ciri reacts to your "parenting"
Ciri becomes a opressed teenager running from home, someone who fills the espectations put in her or a more liberal person pursuing her dreams.

Most other decisions are usually a choose the lesser evil kinda thing, just like IRL, future consecuenses are unknown which make the decisions more fun to me.

I really loved Ciri's related choices and how they afected the ending, i knew what they were going for the second time the same kind of question was made.

Yeah I was going to say something to this effect. On my blind playthrough, I pretty much encouraged Ciri to do her own thing because I trusted her. The random interludes with Ciri throughout the game illustrate that she's a good person with good judgement for the most part so I didn't feel the need to helicopter parent.

Should also be mentioned that no one decision has is the deciding factor but rather a cumulative effect. On my play through, I did not trash Avallach's lab and Ciri still survived. If you played through the game as an overbearing helicopter parent, imagine what it would be like to live under that Geralt for 10+ years. What you're left with is a Ciri that's unsure of herself and has no self esteem who is suddenly tasked with literally saving the multiverse. If you listen to Ciri throughout the game she drops hints that she does not like to be controlled and wants to determine her own path.

 

[Gurgelhals]

If you listen to Ciri throughout the game she drops hints that she does not like to be controlled and wants to determine her own path.

It's not just hints. Right after the battle for Kaer Morhen (= before the final sequence of the game where the scenes that determine your ending happen) there's a scene where she bluntly tells everybody that she neither wants nor need to be controlled and excluded from the decision making. Regarding the actual decisions, I think three of them are fairly obvious (rejecting Emhyr's money, not accompanying her to the meeting with the Lodge and visiting Skjall's grave) and this already nets you the good ending.

You could argue that some of the choices and consequences are indeed rather obscure, but, again, I think that this is part of the point the game is making. If you do not like this approach, you can always use a walkthrough (or one of these spoiler-free checklists) if you do not want to go in blind.

And finally, it's not that you have to replay the entire game to get a different ending. Restarting from Vesemir's funeral (or, if you also want to affect the outcome of the war and didn't do the Thaler quest: before the Isle of Mist) is enough to get every possible ending world state (bar romances).

 

[Alpende]

When do you get the opportunity to do that?

The option says; shove/push/whatever him out of the way (forcefully). If I had known I'd break his leg I wouldn't have done it. It's when you save Philippa from his bathhouse.

 

[Moff]

I never understood defacing Avalla'ch's laboratory. Ciri is mad because Avalla'ch has studied the Elder Blood extensively? Or is it about his mistress? Either way it seems kind of petty. If Avalla'ch had actually done something wrong I could understand it.

the mistress tells you that avallach despises humans including ciri

 

[ShooterMcGavin]

"In the Heart of the Woods" may have been one of my favorite secondary quests so far.

Spoiler

Rebellious youth can sure be assholes sometimes, eh?

 

[endlessflood]

the mistress tells you that avallach despises humans including ciri

Why on Earth would they believe her?

 

[tallbroski]

I didn't get that ending, but are we certain that Ciri dies? I know Geralt says so, but I can't help but wonder if Ciri defeats the White Frost but just chooses not to return to Geralt's world, based on the stuff that's happened to her in the flashback (i.e. thinking that whatever ties she once had to this world no longer matter to her).

I am 99% sure that she dies in my ending. I mean in other endings they make it clear if she lives i.e she comes back and becomes a witcher. It does not make sense for her to not to return to Geralt. Also i am guessing Triss and Yen are either enslaved or dead too.

 

[Showaddy]

Why on Earth would they believe her?

I figured that as wrecking the place contributes towards the 'good' ending she was probably telling the truth. I always felt that Avallac'h is doing this shit because he has to, not because he wants to, probably sick of shepherding the family tree round the place over hundreds of years.

 

[tallbroski]

I figured that as wrecking the place contributes towards the 'good' ending she was probably telling the truth. I always felt that Avallac'h is doing this shit because he has to, not because he wants to, probably sick of shepherding the family tree round the place over hundreds of years.

Yeah she was telling the truth, you can ask Avallach and he does not no deny it, its not that that he hates humans, he just feels like they are inferior to his race. I never doubted Avallach he risked his his life for Ciri and he seems to be always straight with you if you ask him something.

 

[neojubei]

This has been the only one announced this week. Looks like it might be good though.

Anyone kill the witcher at the end? not me, thought about it and Geralt has been there before. So i let him go and in return got a cool school of cat sword

CD Projekt made Yennifer the most annoying woman in gaming history. Seriously...... a bitch on wheels.

Thats an understatement. I sided with Yen because i always thought they should be together, but meeting Yen and hearing about her are two very different things.

 

[Auctopus]

Anyone kill the witcher at the end? not me, thought about it and Geralt has been there before. So i let him go and in return got a cool school of cat sword.

Spoiler

I chose to fight him and there's a conversation path that makes him blind you with a bomb before the fight. The blindness lasts for 1 minute, it's very annoying. You still get the sword.

 

[neojubei]

Spoiler

I chose to fight him and there's a conversation path that makes him blind you with a bomb before the fight. The blindness lasts for 1 minute, it's very annoying. You still get the sword.

Well I felt sorry for him since Geralt could very well be in that same situation and for the fact there are so few witchers left. It's the same reason I let Letho live. I could imagine Eskel or even Lambert go off the rails being led into a barn for an ambush.

 

[TheChundertaker]

I loved my ending even though it seemed to be almost too happy.

Cerys is queen and Skellige Prospers under her rule.
Temeria is made a vassal state under the Empire but retains some semblance of its former self
Ciri leaves to become to most likely become a good empress since she learned "general human decency" from Geralt, (I love this line).
Geralt goes to live a happy boring life with Yennefer. (Team Yen always since I've read the books. Triss is way too basic. I love Triss to though).

I wish I would have destroyed that data so I wouldn't have to have made that decision to kill Keira. Next play through I will remember because I want Lambert to be happy. Also I'm kinda glad I didn't kill Whoreson after seeing how far he falls. Moving on is always the best revenge.

One question. Are new saves random with who lives and dies in the previous game? I really wanted Letho to be there but I suppose he was dead in my game.

 

[endlessflood]

Well I felt sorry for him since Geralt could very well be in that same situation and for the fact there are so few witchers left. It's the same reason I let Letho live. I could imagine Eskel or even Lambert go off the rails being led into a barn for an ambush.

It was the women and children I couldn't forgive him for. If he'd killed the men, taken all of the villagers' money, and then burned every shack to the ground, I still could have lived with that. But not the women and kids.

Also I'm kinda glad I didn't kill Whoreson after seeing how far he falls. Moving on is always the best revenge.

I just couldn't bring myself to let him go, no matter how far he was going to fall. He was a monster, and Witchers kill monsters

 

[R1CHO]

It was the women and children I couldn't forgive him for. If he'd killed the men, taken all of the villagers' money, and then burned every shack to the ground, I still could have lived with that. But not the women and kids

This.

That woman killed in her house striked in the back.

 

[Moff]

Why on Earth would they believe her?

she is avallachs mistress, why would she lie to turn them against him? it hurts him.

 

[endlessflood]

she is avallachs mistress, why would she lie to turn them against him? it hurts him.

I read it as jealousy over the attention that Avalla'ch was paying Ciri. I didn't see it as intended to turn them against Avalla'ch, just as a putdown intended to hurt Ciri.

 

[foxtrot3d]

It was the women and children I couldn't forgive him for. If he'd killed the men, taken all of the villagers' money, and then burned every shack to the ground, I still could have lived with that. But not the women and kids.


I just couldn't bring myself to let him go, no matter how far he was going to fall. He was a monster, and Witchers kill monsters

Well, as far as I know he didn't kill any children. The only child there was the little girl and he spared her. I made sure to take extra care looking at all the bodies that were slain and I'm sure it was all adult women and men. The only body that made me really want to kill him was the women whose spine he severed so she couldn't move and thus died bleeding out. Anyway, I let him go. I would have killed him but for the fact that they tried to murder him first and I have a policy of not killing other Witchers unless it's absolutely necessary. It's kind of amazing how the game is able to flip all my notions on its head like that. I thought about the so called "innocents" but I really didn't have enough facts to decide whether they were "innocent." I could just as well believe that all the women were in on the plot and if not initially would have been completely fine with allowing the murder of a Witcher once their spouses told them.

As we all know, Geralt has been in this situation many times.

EDIT:

Forgot this was the spoiler thread, why are people tagging stuff?

CD Projekt made Yennifer the most annoying woman in gaming history. Seriously...... a bitch on wheels.

That's exactly how she is in the books so job well done. I still love my Yen, she don't take no shit. Now, if she would only learn to quell that immense pride of hers from time to time.

 

[Purkake4]

Man, Lambert has some issues. Poor Keira.

Any special reason the Wild Hunt look like extras from a cheap 80s sci-fi movie?

 

[endlessflood]

Well, as far as I know he didn't kill any children. The only child there was the little girl and he spared her.

Yeah they don't show any children bodies, but we know that the little girl's brother was killed, and I believe Geralt mentions dead children in one of the dialogue options.

 

[foxtrot3d]

Yeah they don't show any children bodies, but we know that the little girl's brother was killed, and I believe Geralt mentions dead children in one of the dialogue options.

I dunno about that. I also don't remember the girl mentioning any brother but he could have been an adult.

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

So I just heard that if you let Radovid live, he will defeat Emhyr and take the whole north? How would he even accomplish that? Imo the game leaves out so many details and events, and leaves out the story of a little too many characters in the ending. I like the ending I got and a lot of it was done alright, but I just can't help but think that a lot of it could've been improved, especially after such an incredibly long game with so many quests.

I loved my ending even though it seemed to be almost too happy.

Cerys is queen and Skellige Prospers under her rule.
Temeria is made a vassal state under the Empire but retains some semblance of its former self
Ciri leaves to become to most likely become a good empress since she learned "general human decency" from Geralt, (I love this line).
Geralt goes to live a happy boring life with Yennefer. (Team Yen always since I've read the books. Triss is way too basic. I love Triss to though).

I wish I would have destroyed that data so I wouldn't have to have made that decision to kill Keira. Next play through I will remember because I want Lambert to be happy. Also I'm kinda glad I didn't kill Whoreson after seeing how far he falls. Moving on is always the best revenge.

One question. Are new saves random with who lives and dies in the previous game? I really wanted Letho to be there but I suppose he was dead in my game.

My Ciri lived free instead. Didn't seem like she wanted to be an empress. Going to watch some different endings though.

And if you kill whoreson (which he seriously deserves imo, not only because of what he did to Ciri but because you find dead women all around his room), Dudu will take his place and turn Whoresons gang into doing legitimate business, making lots of money and reducing criminal activity in the progress.

 

[Gurgelhals]

So I just heard that if you let Radovid live, he will defeat Emhyr and take the whole north? How would he even accomplish that?

Iirc, there are two reasons for Emhyr to lose the war if Radovid lives:
- Radovid manages to take Novigrad, thus giving his side a significant economic boost. Radovid's connections to Novigrad are definitely closer than Nilfgaard's (mainly through the Church of the Eternal Fire), so this has always been the most likely outcome.
- Emhyr is facing opposition and various conspiracies at home, mainly from the trade guilds and a faction of the nobility that opposes his constant and expensive warfare. He needs a quick and decisive victory against the North in order to secure his position as Emperor. Otherwise the opposition gains ground and Emhyr is assassinated.

The way I understand it, all Radovid has to do is to take Novigrad (which he is already doing in Act 3) and hold out until the next winter and then the Nilfgaardian campaign will basically collapse under its own weight (similar to Napoleon's Russian campagin, I guess). I guess that in the ensuing chaos, Radovid is more or less free to push back the leaderless Nilfgaardian armies beyond the Yaruga and take over the North.

Actually, thinking back to the events in Assassin of Kings, there's a certain poetic justice to Radovid being able to retake the North due to Emhyr being assassinated. That is, it would, if Radvoid wasn't such a massive dick in The Witcher 3.

 

[tbd]

CD Projekt made Yennifer the most annoying woman in gaming history. Seriously...... a bitch on wheels.

I think they captured her almost perfectly and I see her as the obvious and logical choice. Never thought she was annoying. She had her own head and acted vigorously, added a lot of depth and injected some life into her character and the game itself, especially the argument between her and other important characters you like.

Triss was too uncontroversial and indifferent in this game, kinda boring. She needed alcohol to feel alive to me. I think I even felt more connected with Keira until she went crazy. Pretty sure most people are team Triss because they simply finished her quest line before they even met Yennefer again and could feel anything for her.

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

Iirc, there are two reasons for Emhyr to lose the war if Radovid lives:
- Radovid manages to take Novigrad, thus giving his side a significant economic boost. Radovid's connections to Novigrad are definitely closer than Nilfgaard's (mainly through the Church of the Eternal Fire), so this has always been the most likely outcome.
- Emhyr is facing opposition and various conspiracies at home, mainly from the trade guilds and a faction of the nobility that opposes his constant and expensive warfare. He needs a quick and decisive victory against the North in order to secure his position as Emperor. Otherwise the opposition gains ground and Emhyr is assassinated.

The way I understand it, all Radovid has to do is to take Novigrad (which he is already doing in Act 3) and hold out until the next winter and then the Nilfgaardian campaign will basically collapse under its own weight (similar to Napoleon's Russian campagin, I guess). I guess that in the ensuing chaos, Radovid is more or less free to push back the leaderless Nilfgaardian armies beyond the Yaruga and take over the North.

Actually, thinking back to the events in Assassin of Kings, there's a certain poetic justice to Radovid being able to retake the North due to Emhyr being assassinated. That is, it would, if Radvoid wasn't such a massive dick in The Witcher 3.

This make sense, I agree. I just wish CDPR would've made a few minutes long cut-scene to show summaries of these events! Even in the non-in-game form of cut-scene they do at a few points.

I think I even felt more connected with Keira until she went crazy.

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She didn't go crazy in my playthrough. What did you do?

 

[tbd]

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She didn't go crazy in my playthrough. What did you do?

Trusting Radovid is pretty crazy, especially when you're a sorceress. Trying to kill Geralt is also pretty naive and frustrating after it seemed like she likes him.

 

[Majukun]

Yes. That whole ending was poorly put together. I mean, if we go by the logic of the game....how is what you do to summon Eredin at the end different from the fight at Morhen? In both instances, your party knows he is coming. In the second instance, you have sorceresses whose only purpose is to stop him from running...? Why would he run? You knew he was coming the first time, and he rocked your team at Kaer Morhen. In fact, Triss was raining down fireballs at Morhen. You actually have one LESS sorceress helping in the end, as all they do is hold up a shield to block the Wild Hunt from running. Soooo....that was odd?

well you kill his two right hand men beofre the battle,so there's that.
also you have an entire army with you,not a couple of witchers and some friends.

 

[PuppetMaster]

Finally finished the game!!

I played the whole thing on Death March so some parts took a while.

I got the ending where he has to tell the emperor Ciri is dead sacrificing herself. And I was pretty bummed out. But then turned out she was alive! And to me I thought that was the best ending possible! It put a big smile on my face!

Anyway fantastic game. One of the best I have ever played. And I have never played the first 2 games.

 

[Majukun]

Finally finished the game!!

I played the whole thing on Death March so some parts took a while.

I got the ending where he has to tell the emperor Ciri is dead sacrificing herself. And I was pretty bummed out. But then turned out she was alive! And to me I thought that was the best ending possible! It put a big smile on my face!

Anyway fantastic game. One of the best I have ever played. And I have never played the first 2 games.

that's the best ending for ciri and geralt,not so much for the world.

edit:i was wondering..i choose the name oof the sword as "swallow"..but can you actually choose the other strange name,or it's always swallow no matter what?

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

Trusting Radovid is pretty crazy, especially when you're a sorceress. Trying to kill Geralt is also pretty naive and frustrating after it seemed like she likes him.

She tried to kill you? The fuck did you do to the poor girl?