The Witcher 2 Commentary - A Grand Experiment 

There he goes again, trying to get past the 10 minute mark

My daughter has been conceived, born, and almost started preschool before this Witcher trilogy is over

Maybe the real The Witcher 3 video is the friends we made along the way.

"who are you? How did you get past the mist?" "I'm a witcher, And I'm a witcher."

5 hours?? That’s it?????

*Video pops up in feed* "I'm a Watcher."

Joseph creating his own Half Life 3 is truly a sight to behold, very impressive.

Not going to lie, Part 3 is starting to have those Half Life 3 and Winds of Winter vibes ...

When the world needed him the most, he came

It's fun to know that everyone who's left a comment already is still watching the video, or at the least hasn't finished it.

For anyone wondering, Joe talked about the Witcher 3 video a little while ago on the stream and why it's taking so long, and all he could say is that the delay has nothing to do with the video itself and hasn't for a long time. He isn't suffering from creative burnout either, he's still just as excited to release it and have people watch it as he was when he first started the project. There's just something else that's been preventing him from releasing it that he can't talk about, which I assume is some IRL or family stuff. He dropped some pretty damn heavy stuff just a little while later like how sometimes he disassociates so hard from either a lack of sleep due to his narcolepsy or if he gets too wrapped up in a project that he legitimately can't recognize his wife and kids. So given just how all consuming this Witcher 3 vid has become... I don't doubt the possibility that it's impacted his life pretty heavily and the delay is an affect of that, though that might be ruled out by the "the delay has nothing to do with the video itself" thing. He did say that it will be out this year no matter what, though. It'll be out even if he has to release it unfinished, I believe. If he doesn't, he's deleting his channel and entire online presence. I don't know if that was a joke or if he was serious about it, but he sounded pretty serious about it, and this isn't the first time he's said that. I think he's remained consistent about that for around 2 months at least. The Witcher 3 video either comes out this year or it's all over. We'll just have to wait and see what happens. EDIT: It's reached the "spectacle" level of wait for me now, like the Winds of Winter or Doors of Stone, lmao.

My dad will come back with milk before Witcher 3 video comes out...

Friends: *recommend movies to me* me: "I don't have time to commit to movies right now" also me: *watching this*

"you'll recall, of course, 4 hours earlier in this video" I hate that you can say this and I go, "ah yes, of course."

Every day I tell myself that today is the day, but it's never the day. I'm like a dog whose master died and so he returns to the same place waiting for him to come back, but instead of a master it's a 10 hour video game analysis that I wish upon. Edit: Joe said the video would come out January 2024 and then he missed the deadline and has been silent ever since. If it doesn't come before the Persona 3 Reload streams then it's probably on hiatus again. And here I thought being a Hunter X Hunter fan was tough...

Back here every 6 months just to check the comments and see if people are still waiting for the 3rd video, hope everyone’s well and that the guys daughter who was conceived born and nearly started play school, is enjoying play school by now 😭

Remember 4 years ago, when Joseph apologised for the length of a 30 minute video?

"This video will contain no lies whatsoever" *Crosses off Jospeh lies on the bingo list immediately*

Can't believe we're gonna get GTA 6 before the Witcher 3 video

My disapointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined by the fact that those romance cards were fake

"I'm not racist against elves, *but*" t. Joseph Anderson

So what I took from this 5 hour delight: Geralt is, according to legends, supposedly, most likely, indeed....a witcher

Well boys, the Witcher 3 got a major update. Video postponed for another year to write a section on all those changes.

I was in 9th Grade when this video dropped, I was 15 I'm 18 now, Grade 12, and contemplating where I'm gonna go for University Today is the day the Witcher 3 video drops, I believe it.

"Roche's blue stripped special unit has murdered enough elves to forever cancel Christmas" oh my god

What no-one has realized is that the Witcher 3 video is already out, it's just taken RU-vid 6 months to download and process it

Remember when he tweeted Part 3 was coming in December-January? Edit: due to the amount of time that has passed, I need to specify December of 2021-January of 2022. See you in 2024.

He posted on Twitter yesterday that the Witcher 3 video is 10-11 hours. This is gonna be awesome.

"I'm a Witcher." Geralt of Rivia, a Witcher.

Your Witcher 3: Wild Hunt video is probably my most anticipated RU-vid video ever

the in-joke where he starts saying "i'm a witcher" but then it cuts off are done so well. cuts at the right exact time. hits me every time lol

So in the time between now and the release of this video not only did CD Projekt Red release there new IP Cyberpunk 2077 (horribly might I add) they put out a plethora of updates which eventually resulted in the game being fixed and then releasing one of the best DLC's with Phantom Liberty and we're still waiting on the Witcher 3 video. Oh and that dude's kid is probably almost finished preschool by now I reckon

The density of jokes here amongst the critique is really impressive.

Almost 3 hours in: "and that's the end of chapter one." Joseph Anderson is an international treasure

Any day now. I can feel it.

Place your bets on which will come first, the recently announced witcher 4 or joe's witcher 3 video

“I’m happy this game exists, I never want to play it again.” Felt that

"I'm a spice trader" "a trader?" "In spices" "I'm A wItChEr"

I always assumed Philippa lied about where she was picking Triss' signal from, because I'm 99% sure that if you're hit with artifact compression, you can't be located. In the books, EVERYONE is looking for Yennefer after the Thanedd coup. But no one can find her because Fransesca turned her into an artifact. I don't think she did any additional concealment spells. Therefore, Philippa cannot locate Triss and that's why I assumed she lied, maybe she wanted Geralt on the other side of the mist for some reason. OR, and this is only just now occurring to me, Cynthia was able to send out fake signals that fooled Philippa. Or it's a contrivance and a plot hole.

1:30:00 I believe what Ciaran meant by saying Iorweth is a "true elf" is that he has a *mindset* and *qualities* of the elves that were once a proud and free race. He doesn't let humans repress him, so he is viewed almost as a Nietzschean individualist by his kin Also, have you played the game with polish dub? It's so much better. Like for example in 1:36:25 when asked if he remembers, Geralt answers simply by saying "no". In the polish version, when Letho asks him, you can hear that Geralt is annoyed with such question because of his amnesia, and says "No, I fucking don't".

Zoltan "Totally not a Scoia'tael, Are You Crazy, Have You Lost Your Marbles, Geralt, Thats The Funniest Thing I've Ever Heard And I Hang Out with Dandelion All Day, Me, A Scoia'tael, No Way, Witcher-ay" Chivay is the best nickname i've ever heard

Congrats on getting another section of this project out. I'll let you know if it's any good in a few days.

part 3 is becoming the elder scrolls 6 of youtube videos

GTA VI may actually come out before the Witcher 3 video

"A place so horrible with people so terrible that the moral of the story commits suicide at the end"... what a line!

watching a 90 minute movie: ew no thanks watching a 5 hour long Witcher 2 analysis: yes yes! very epic!

I'm beginning to wonder if this is just a deep, meta Half-Life 2 reference....

every comment is about waiting for the Witcher 3 video, so i wanted to say; this video is great. i wasnt lost at any point despite my only witcher knowledge being from the first video, and i found every hour engaging. it was funny, it was fascinating, it was well-crafted. while i think the Witcher 3 video will be better received, i think that i’ll remember this as a greater accomplishment, purely because of the difficulty of the material you were critiquing and how well you tackled it regardless. well done, joe

Witcher 3 will probably be like 12 hours long, cant wait

Everyone knows Joe doesn't like the 2d cutscenes because they remind him of Darkest Dungeon.

"next one out in two days" oh man

Honestly the way Geralt becomes "sir Geralt of Rivia" in the books is one of the funniest moments in the whole series.

"Someone will have played this game and not known about the secret perks until right now" 👋🏻

This mans at the end apologizing like he hasn't made one of the absolute best video essays ever made. Joe you are far too hard on yourself.

Can't Wait for my Grand children to Watch the Witcher 3 Critique

We might actually get Witcher 4 before Witcher 3 analysis

"Geralt is a gamer" This is the content we've been waiting for.

"They broke in a new engine, Bethesda wonders what that is like." I can hear the aloe being applied to Todd Howard as you speak...

I burnt down the library of Alexandria and recovered all its lost knowledge since this came out and Witcher 3 video isn't out yet!

I know there's rumor of a 12 hour long Witcher 3 video but I think it's actually just a three hour long video with a 9 hour long Zoltan 'I'm Not a Squirrel' Chivay bit.

There's something foreboding about the fact that in every cut to witcher 3, Geralt isn't wearing anything.

"We'll look into it shortly" Ok "In two hours" .... oh

Were gonna have GTA6 before we get the witcher 3 video 😭

I like the idea that the witcher 1 was just a play or stage preformance written by Dandelion. it explains why NPC models are reused so much. It explains the inconsistencies with the newer games, It even explains the romance cards.

I actually had a nightmare last night. Part 3 came out and it was only 3 hours. I awoke in a cold sweat.

In this video: >Black screen of censorship. *" I ' M A W I T C H E R "*

3:08:50 The part about Ves lying wasn't a mistake. In the story she told to Geralt and Roach she mentioned she was let go without anything bad happening to her. Geralt figured out she was lying and that she was actually raped by the king, but Roach wasn't able to pick up on it and only finds out if you tell him when he goes for revenge later.

Finished college before part 3 👍🏻

Video Number 3 will just be Joseph saying "im a witcher" over and over again for 7 hours

Guard: "You'll choke to death on three pounds of steel" Geralt: "I'm a Witcher"

THIS WAS 2 YEARS AGO?!?!?

3 years I’ve been waiting for 3 years and I’ll wait 3 more if that’s what it takes

"There will be spoilers" loool I laughed so hard, cuz I just can't begin to imagine, what spoiler free 5 hour long witcher 2 video would be

Yeah, i could see how this took a whole day to render.

Its the contrast between Philippa getting two gratuitous love making scenes with Cynthia (who is a really cool dancer) filtered through a voyeuristic and a bdsm kink len. Obviously for titillation but not wrong in of itself. In comparison, Detmold and his lover and on the set up like a punchline to a joke. Like a pair of ugly clowns. 'The ugly wizard is an effeminate queer too~' despite not exhibiting any of these traits prior. Nevermind how easy it was for Roach to overpower him despite him not being bound like she was. There's a tangible disdain leveled at one gay wizard over the other despite them both being unscrupulous people. So no Joseph, it wasn’t just you. It was weirdly contemptuous

If started and stopped watching several youtube channels since this video launched, yet I still come back here. I don't understand why I keep coming, but I just want to see that third video. I wonder If I'll ever be able to forget.

don't you dare remove the jokes they really break up the seriousness and length of the video. I don't think you need more or less, this was the perfect amount, but also I'm sure I missed so many because of how subtle they can be sometimes, so idk. what a great video

The “I’m a Witcher” line at the end of every dialogue scene is just beautiful

When Ciaran he calls Iorveth a real Aen Seidhe, he is talking about him being free and not a slave to humans. This is implied in the Iorveth quest when Iorveth says that the Elves in Flotsam are more dhoine than Geralt.

If the Witcher 3 video is at least 10 hours I'm gonna be so happy. It's amazing to me how Joseph Anderson can make videos 6 hours long and people are like "wait that's it? Is this part one?" I want to know how many viewers watch the whole video.

Me at the start of today: "5 HOURS! It will take me DAYS to finish this!" Me at the end of that same day; "...I wish it was not over."

Joe: I'm 99.8% straight Yusuke: Very well, I will go along with this!

Sorry guys. JA is personally waiting for me to catch up before he uploads the next vid. I should only be another week or two.

Half Life 3 will probably come before The end of this trilogy.

The fact that I don’t have to pay to watch this masterpiece is absurd

This series is becoming a Valve meme...

"I'm happy this game exists. I never want to play it again." This sums up my gut reaction after doing both endings for it. I can kinda understand why you said you didn't liked this video, but I think it's a perfect analysis of what the game is and thorough enough that even I that have 200+ hours in each of these games am still surprised by details I've missed. 5 hours really is succinct for all that can be said about these games, and I'm sad that this ambition grew so large that it burst the balloon in flames with Cyberpunk 2077... I've revisited these videos to refresh my memory and they're incredible, I first binged them podcast-style and now have watched in bits and it's even better this way. Hope things are okay and when the third one is out it can be something you're comfortable with.

Its been over 2 years now. I dont know how long I can wait for it no more fellas. Update me if it ever comes out

I will never get tired of the Zoltan "Totally Not A Scoiatel" jokes

The "I'm a witcher" gags consistently make me laugh, & I don't know how you managed that.

The Witcher 3 video will never come. It’s an enigma

Blue Stripes die and Ves is raped only if Geralt works for Henselt and uncovers the conspiracy. If Geralt is with Iorveth, conspiracy succeeds, the majority of Henselt's troops betray him, and do not go to Vergen. That's why Henselt looses to Saskia on Iorveth's path and not because Geralt kills couple of soulders on the wall. Roche is real BRO, "BRoche" as you metioned) But for the sake of good, it would be better if you betray him and go with Iorveth, after which you can save Triss. That minimizes casualties overall. Also, the assassins fail to kill Henselt because of Sile, as Letho tells Geralt later. Auckes and second one will die in attempt to save Letho.

When other youtubers upload a 20min video. Me: "Ain't nobody got time fo dat" Joseph Anderson uploads a 5h video. Me: "Looks like my plans for today are cancelled"

"It's no wonder Iorveth is such an accomplished fighter since every hit he lands is a hypo-crite." Subscribed

I believe the "I know his weakness" line from Letho has to do with a pirouette move in the witcher moveset, which Letho believes Geralt cannot do because he had injured one of his legs in the past. Thats why in the final fight with Letho, Geralt pulls off a move that catches Letho off guard and disarms him, because somehow Geralt was healed from that injury and performed a move Letho did not think he could do. Then again, last I played TW2 was years ago, so this might be mistaken.

Remember when he said in the first video that all three are already done

"Shove Dijkstra aside forcefully" *Flashbacks intensify*

Those random *"I'm a Witcher"* additions are pure gold. They get me laughing every time. Edit: Also, I'd buy a *"Greetings from Drakenborg"* t-shirt.

Ay bro I know The Witcher 3 vid is gonna be long and everything, but It's been three years homie

Now I went through 4 different jobs and started a fifth and still no Part 3.