The Witcher 3 - 2024 Impressions 

No! Morty! Don't make me re-install it AGAIN! Too late, ...wind's howling.

For me, Witcher 3 is one of the best games I've ever played.

I've tried to get into The Witcher multiple times. It just didn't click. I started playing again this year and beat the game. I'm glad I tried it again.

To this day i consider the blood and wine DLC to be the best SP RPG dlc ever made.

The side questing in this game is what really sold me on it. The world is very alive, despite the towns being so small and sparse. I love all the blurred lines with choices, how “no good deed goes unpunished” is just a nice change up from typical fantasy.

This game I've only played through once. Because I dropped like 400 hours into that game. Absolute masterpiece best narrative I've ever experienced inside a single video game.

Witcher 3 is a masterpiece. Hopefully Witcher 4 lives up to it's legacy.

Started Witcher 3 last year for the first time right after the next gen update was released (coincidentally) and was completely blown away. Saved the Blood & Wine DLC up until a few weeks ago because I didn't want the game to end ... ever 😄. Was so happy that B&W gave me dozens of hours more 🤩. Now I must say its probably the best game I've ever played. The graphics, the world and character design, the side quest, the exploration, the combat, everything is just great about this game! :-)

Modding tools coming soon for the Witcher 3, could be interesting to revisit in the future

Blood and wine is my favorite videogame experience of all time. It was so fun, so beautiful and the final scene were Geralt smiles at you like saying goodbye, is still one of the fondest memories of my life. What a masterpiece, wanna play some Gwent?

My favorite single player game ever, mostly for its atmosphere. I really disappear into this world. Its such an escape, the music, the environments, the characters. I love it. When the wind blows through the trees i swear i can almost feel it for real. Its glitches and oddities dont bother me at all, im too lost in its world.

First time player in 2024, the hype is real. I've been absolutely hooked. And I fell for Triss, her voice is audible bliss. She's perfect. Absolute masterpiece.

This is still my favorite game of all time. I'm replaying it now with the next gen update and it's amazing. I always get so easily immersed in it. I can't wait for the sequel. My biggest disappointment with TW3(there aren't many) is that a certain someone wasn't in it. I'm talking about Lorveth....whyyyy he is only a gwent card. Btw Gwent is awesome and probably my favorite mini game in any video game. My PC has handled it fine 40 hrs in with no crashing too.

CDProjekt Red is the master in writing dialogues

Doing my first ever playthrough myself; I can see what all the awards were for - it's excellent.

I feel like the filler content adds depth and believability to the world. It helps if you turn off the question marks on the map. That way you organically discover only some of them which are 2 crucial improvements to avoid the feel of “filler”. Seeing and wanting to clear all ?’s makes them a tedious addition.

we have go full circle :3 back to your favorite game back then! it was great seeing you grow as a channel and a game reviewer nowadays

My favorite game of all time, with RDR2 a close second. I loved the story, characters, world, graphics, ambient sound, music, gameplay, side quests, contracts, etc. Between my two playthroughs I've put in over 400 hours. Recently replayed it this year and I saved about a dozen hours of side content for when I finally get a PS5 cuz my PS4 is slowing down, but I played through the vast majority of the main game and both expansions and it held up amazingly well. I love the new way you use signs now, makes the combat even more immersive. Played most of the second playthrough with the map off more often than not and it brought the immersion to another level. An absolute masterpiece that has it's minor flaws absolutely blown out of the water by the consistent highs. Anything with the Red Baron, Dijkstra, Gaunter or Regis was a personal highlight.

What a coincidence that you happened to review this, because I just started playing this again a couple of weeks ago. I have maxed out RT options on my PC but lowered some of the other graphical settings to maintain a steady 60 FPS. It looks absolutely beautiful and in combination with its art direction and music it is one of if not the most aesthetically pleasing games to simply wander in. Sunrises and sunsets across valleys and illuminating the silhouettes of trees are stunning. Its RPG elements, combat and gameplay, on the other hand are pretty shallow and dated and perhaps have always been somewhat lacklustre. Removing as many HUD elements as possible and the point of interest markers makes exploration feel much better. However, in comparison to a game like Elden Ring, The Witcher 3 was not really designed for you to avoid using quest routes on the compass and so it's very easy to get lost in the dense amount of vegetation present across the map. As a result, points of interest are quite difficult to stumble upon, but I still prefer playing this way.

lol, you release this right as I buy Witcher 3 to finally see what the hype is about. Everything is within the flows of causality

Funnily enough I am currently playing Blood and Wine 6 years after I last played Witcher 3. Back then I had sunk so many hours into the game that I decided to save Blood and Wine for "later" and I am enjoying it a lot even though the game does indeed show its age

This game slaps so hard, i Have over 300 hours on this and 3 playthoughs with one with hardest diffuculty, selfpoison blade build op af

It’s always interesting what either new or returning players think of a game as time passes. It would be great to see more of these kinds of videos from you in the future!

My personal choice for best Video Game of all time

9y since W3 came out You can feal old now

This game is a game i fell in love with and still play it on my main save file quite a bit (currently level 53) and this game is easily up there with sekiro and ghosts of tsushima for me.

My favorite Witcher content is probably Baptism of Fire (book). That entry in the series really feels like Wild Hunt whenever I read it. Plus its the first appearance of Regis

I cant play the witcher 3 anymore without the "witcher 3 enhanced edition" mod full alchemy overhaul that will make it like it was in the first game, you need to re-craft potions and a bunch of these things that makes the game less streamlined but much more enjoyable for me

Currently 112 hours in my 3d playthrough, pretty cool that Il be able to compare my opinion of it with yours :D

Great vid! I've been ashamed to say that I never did finish the game. Just couldn't get into it even though I played 1 and 2, but when 3 released, I just couldn't get the motivation to play it. A few months ago, I finally "forced" myself to play, and I'm glad that I did. Such a great game with so many things to do

God, it's almost been nine years since this was released. I remember being so hyped for its release, like it was going to be the next "step" for open world games. And that commercial where Geralt is just killing a bunch of guards. Jeez, what a trip.

Looks like rain.

The follow up to the poll was immediate lol

Everyone on RU-vid will have a Witcher 3 video before Joseph Anderson gets to his...

I remember playing this game for a whole week straight at launch. Really good times. What an adventure it was. Nothing like playing an RPG completely blind and getting the best ending too! ❤❤❤❤

I haven’t done a playthrough since the current-gen update released but I did play a few hours to try it out and it makes an amazing game even better. Visually it’s beautiful and the close camera, the quick casts and the new default map filter are absolute game changers. 2023 was packed with releases and up until now this year has been busy as well, but when the time comes when the busy release schedule takes a pause I definitely am planning to do a new playthrough again

One of my fav games of all time. The music, characters, story just give me such a fuzzy feeling whenever I play it.

After playing through 1 and 2 for the first time starting last Fall, I am now in the final stretch of my third Witcher 3 playthrough. The context of the previous games, combined with my own story and mechanics knowledge, are adding up to make this the most fun run yet. Excited to hear your full take! I agree the game does have its flaws, but since first playing 3 a few years ago, it has skyrocketed towards the top of the list of favorite franchises for me.

For me the witcher 3 is my all time favorite, its one of the first games i was REALLY immersed in the world,music,character,story i could just walk threw skellige admiring the world feeling at peace. The only other game ive felt like that was cyberpunk 2077. Cd project red kills it.

The Witcher 3 is a game from an era when the industry was still exploring the limits of the open world formula, the seamlessness that it promised, and whether a great and complex story can be combined with the inherently non-linear game structure of open world. The game still holds up extremely well in the story, side quests, choice and consequence department, and mostly in the combat, but some of the content filling and padding and grind (although only a concern for completionists) is now more apparent than ever and has been disliked in recent years. But in any case there is no such thing as a perfect game, but at it's time it truly did feel to me like the best game made up to that point.

I've started playing on PC after having it on xbox. With mods and the enemy combat enhanced, I'm absolutely hooked. The graphics are ridiculously beautiful, the cloak mod adds so much to the roleplay and scenes. I never loot or allow my build to become OP... I find the game much more interesting and challenging when I'm always needing coin and need the potions and prep before a contract. On xbox its age was showing, on the Legion Go, on Ultra and modded, its like a story book come alive.

The Witcher 3 is the best game I've ever played, for me it's the best game ever made. I have around 300hrs into the game with 1 Platinum. Planning on getting the Plat for PS5 sometime in later future.

Nvr really got into the vame series, but I'm glad to see it's still going ❤

Thanks for reminding me about this game, I tried W3 on release but got motion sickness after a short time, I see there are now fixes and mods for this issue so it's back on the backlog 😎🤙

I remember playing this game and turning over all the Huds except for health.

This game is in my Mount Rushmore of games. Flawless masterpiece.

Dude! Ive been having the itch to play this game again, I never replay games usually but I just really have been wanting to play this lately. And With the next gen update its a perfect game to re-play. That being said - your review couldnt come at a better time. I cant wait to watch it to see what your experience is and if it is a positive one you're prob gonna convince me to re-install sooner rather than later

I loved the story through and through. No other game ever has had me so engrossed within almost all of the quests. Only BG3 recently kept my attention as much as the Witcher 3. Currently playing Hogwarts and Cyberpunk. May take a look at the Witcher 3 again once I review all the mods available.

I've been thinking about getting into Witchers 3 after BG3 for a while now. Thanks for this!

I love this game, probably spent around 300 hours in it. That being said, I don't know if I would be able to get through all of it again. Kudos and good luck.

My body is a machine that turns money into unplayed steam games. The Witcher, Elder Scrolls, and Divinity catalogues, Rogue Trader, CP2077, Hogwart’s Legacy, Frostpunk, Wasteland 3, X-Com Enemy Unknown, Diablo 2 Resurrected, and several more. I did finish BG3 lol.

Would be good content to highlight major mods that result from the upcoming Red Kit! Unprecedented creativity will be available to the PC modding community.

Like many people, I tried it 3 times (on ps4) and I just didn’t enjoy it. Bought it again on steam this year for €5. After 8 hours I stopped playing because I got so HOOKED I’m gonna wait for a sale and play the Witcher 1 and 2 before it. Gosh what an amazingly crafted game.

I am actually doing a play through now, so looking forward to your review and perspective on it.

I still play skyrim. 800 hrs till date

I’ve been replaying it right now, I’m going slow and I don’t have a lot of time anymore so its been the best after work chill game for the spring, it takes place in spring / summer too

I am totally ashamed to admit, I never actually played the DLCs for this, I heard they were pretty solid and I think I got the first one day one with every intent to play it but that never happened! I think a revist to the Witcher games might be in order now

I guess that the lack of variable endings is disappointing…. But dawg. This game’s location-based storytelling will likely never be topped in all of video games. I dunno. I love it so, so much. So much. Velen is depressing, but reaching novigrad after many hours felt like a breath of fresh air! And what a fantastic series of quests that city has - who doesn’t love that city? It’s my fav city in all of gaming. And oxenfurt during the sunset trying to find Whoreson Junior… love it. Skellige is also phenomenal. I love Cerys’s quests. So good. And the ending… is fine. The main villain is lame but the draw of the game was always reuniting with Ciri. And what a phenomenal reunion that was. The battle at kaer morhen, returning to Novigrad and Velen to kill the crones and imlerith, the avallach quests across the universe… unforgettable. And the DLC! Jesus Christ the DLC! Hearts of stone is front-to-back amazing. No question. And blood and wine? The best video game dlc of all time. Amazing video game that I’ve replayed in full 3 times or so. I cannot wait to get back into it at some point.

Shows how difficult it is to make a game to suit everybody. I returned the Witcher 2 because it didn't play like a Oblivion or Skyrim, I just didn't get it at all, that you were kind of fixed in your role. After playing the Witcher 3 that's after watching clips and adverts of it. I went back and managed to rebuy to Witcher 2 (days before GoG) with a now deeper understanding of the story. Although I enjoyed my playthroughs, I found the potion side in Witcher 3 preferable to Witcher 2.

I actually always used legendary swords, over set swords. They had more interesting mechanics. Like the sword that passively levels up its power after performing the 10 hit combo without taking damage.

One of the best Western rpgs I've played along with Baldur gate , Icewind Dale, Deadfire, DAO, and Neverwinter Nights 2.

As others have commented, I highly recommend the W3EE mod (current iteration is W3EE Redux). Addresses many of the gameplay issues from the vanilla game. I wont play this game without it

CDred is releasing official mode tools which should allowe creating quest. I really hope that someone will use it to better integrade choice from W2 and generally make "Nilfgaardian invasion" better plot line what there should be >Henselt is in power if you let him live and he had defeated Nilfgardian invasion into Aerden, so now it's about Redenia vs Nilfgaard fighting over Temeria >Roche plot around Annaise, either Radovid loyalist or he is still hiding her (quet to either give her Radovi, to Nilfgaard or let Roche rise her up as normal girl) >Skeliga king ellection have influence on the result of the war (joins war, stays out of war, total Nilfgardian destruction) > Radovi keeps his ssanity if you save Triss in W2, witchunts are only on Phillipa and Lodge for kingslaying, if you give him Philipa he will stops witchhunts > more end results (basically, if you didnt saved enought sorceress, Yen will die there are some things I would like to see with Ciri, where instead pf "did you buy me an ice cream;" her choice to stay depends on how you had treated people who had helped her

Finished last week or so after 155hrs on my first play through and it was only the main story. Basically did all side quests just because but it took me like 7 years on and off because of burnout. Good game.

in my opinion witcher 3 is the best game of all time . Is the gameplay perfect? No , not even close . But besides gameplay the whole package is incredible , story is just incredible, graphics especially with the next gen patch are amazing , the cities are also interesting and huge and the setting and world is just incredible and i highly recommend to anyone to read the books . Also the monsters are so good.

Def on my replay list once I get through a never ending backlog of games I've yet to play. Just so many...

Witcher 3 is a great game, but it still falls short of the expectations seeded from witcher 2. I find it a fair bit less dark and less grounded and also the lack of any iorveth-saskia routes or characters altogether was extremely disappointing. That radenia in a winter managed to invade, conquer and absorb an entire country while the empire did absolutely nothing cause "winter" but radenia could do all that despite "winter" if you sit and think about it, it is a bit immersion breaking and its evident it was done for the story writters' sake.

I’d like your thoughts on the game with the mod “W3EE Redux” installed. It addresses most of my issues with the base game, including making combat and alchemy much more involved for the player, and removing character levels so that even common monsters and bandits have a chance of killing you.

Bro says 2 weeks all humble and casual 💀

I just finished Blood & Wine after starting my game 9 years ago.

Hi Mortym! Here we are in 2024, and still haven't beaten TW3. I have 116+ hours in it and still feel like I am not even half done...

Got it on sale today hyped to play it

Hell yeah, The Witcher 2 is also my favorite! To make Thr Witcher 3's combat and mechanics deeper and more in line with The Witcher 2, I highly recommend using the mod "The Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition Redux" (the original is sadly unavailable)

Instal autoloot bro) and infinity weight. Its make game better)

I got so used to lock-on being a standard in these games so it got a little bit difficult to go back to a game where you are fighting multiple enemies at the same time that didn't have this

The best thing about this video is finding out he already covered witcher 1 and 2

Looking forward to this review. Witcher 3 is one of my favourite RPGs ever, perhaps even my favourite RPG if I were to pick one.

You speak wisdom, I am still under impression from W2, years after and having multiple playthrough and endings. I got burned out on w3 and I still have to fully finish the game. After 100h the sword cant take you so far gameplay wise. Not gonna lie, I find cyberpunk easier to replay, its me tho, not the w3 :3 (fillers In w3 did burn me out the most)

I beat this game for the first time 3 months ago on the next gen update and the only time I could get the game to crash consistently was in Skellige when exploring on sea. Turning off raytracing fixed that for me and once I had my fill I turned it back on and continued my playthrough.

Ciri's expression in her painting always makes me lol.

Witcher 3 and Skyrim are those type of games you can play over and over again

you now instantly pick up herbs, awesome. that was the only thing standing in my way for return. time to find the copy or buy a new one.

I'm playing the witcher 3 next gen on PS5. No crashes at all yet here. Seems very stable on console. Love the auto oil application feature and quick cast that they added. In some ways this game feels like a game that came out this year and still better than some AAA offerings. I 100% velen and novrigrad. Not sure if I want to do that for skellige. Kind of got burnt out a bit on how many guarded and hidden treasures I did (so might just skip those). The abandoned areas that you liberate are always fun to me. Never got tired of those and the hidden side quests you find by exploration are really interesting. They are not mmo fetch quests. The lore and writing around them are usually quite good. I'm having a great time with it, can't wait to see Mort pass me up in progress in what feels like seconds lol

One of my top three games. I haven’t even played Blood and Wine.

My favorite Action RPG of all time!

Loved Blood & Wine but it feels like a museum. I bought it but ended up just watching the cut scenes on Let's Plays. Contrasting that to BG3 where everything is about me or my hot goth/vampire/whatever bonkbuddy they are both great but one involves me, one should be a movie. Would love to see what you think of Withering Rooms - the reviews on Steam are glowing.

Everyone loves this game…I’ll be interested in your thoughts

My first playthrough lasted 650 hours, including DLCs. I am thorough as you can see. And yet, I didn't 100% it 😂

Happy to know there's one game I have more hours in than Mortim 😂

This my goat game, just in front of elden ring. Truly amazing experience playing this for the first time.

Could never get into it. Maybe one day.

I had been playing Witcher 3 when I was in the middle high school (13-15 years old) and I finished this game at 250 hours of gameplay It was wonderful especially I was playing it from time to time in christmas, vacations and so on, so I had time to rest before next chunk of game Now I am in college and I can't see in foreseeable future any possiblity to play such extensive game - its biggest advantage for me had become its biggest drawback Maybe one day i will try it again

Thanks for the video. My biggest complaint was the fall damage. It's fine that it's an insta-kill, but the height to get there just seemed way too low. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.

It's been years already and I still need to tackle Heart and Wine sidequests to fulfill "Geralts retirement".

The best game ever made. The writing, direction, dialogues, the story, characters, the score, choices algorithm (everything changes depenging of what you do even 50 hours earlier), pacing. Everything here is gorgeous. Only boss fights and character customization should be better imo.

Great game full of bugs and certain nitpicky flaws that although are tedious and annoying they dont ultimately take away from the overall quality of the game. It is still inferior in terms of immersion and freedom in comparison to a game such as new vegas but that is the highest bar one can set for an open world RPG. Its a bit sloggish to get into and definitely becomes a bit convoluted towards the end but that is expected when so many narratives and storylines are trying to be incorporated and balanced all at once. It definitely explores the complexity and depths of opposing ideals and ideolgies unlike any other game I have played to say the least though. Like all great RPGs every single choice that is made has an effect on the story and narrative so nothing is ever done for no reason. Definitely worth it to anyone looking for a really immersive RPG that is a rewarding time sink!

the junk stuffs & over-bloated item management is definitely a problem that many RPG games suffered, not just Witcher 3. Probably also why I love Nioh & Borderland games but couldn't stand the diablo esque item stuffs. It's just way too much a lot of times. It's a bit concerning how much time I've spent on inventory screen alone.

80 hours in and you were still stumbling through Skellige 🥵I thought I was the only one.

Open question , with some Some context first - I've started the Witcher about 6 Years ago , played about half way to three quarters through it and eventually just gave up and moved on to whatever else caught my attention at the time. I didn't touch the expansions , which IIRC were too high level for my character anyway. Now I'm interested to go back to it. The question is : Would you recommend a fresh start or picking up from where I left off? Id like to rediscover it but the reason I gave up is cause it was so daunting with so many things to do and a never ending list of boxes to tick and loot to collect that it just stopped being fun but feel like a chore instead. Like I said i really haven't touched it for about 6 years now, but i guess i could get a recap of the story on YT up to the point I stopped. Blood and Wine in particular I regret not trying, as I hear its awesome. Open to suggestions :)

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