The Witcher 3 - Review After 100% 

Years after playing it and its DLC, I'm still kinda in disbelief just how well this behemoth of game came together. Masterpiece.

Joseph Anderson: No Witcher 3 video for half a decade Mortismal: Fine, I'll do it myself

that Baron quest will always stick with me. SO GOOD.

I get choked up every dang time Geralt meets Ciri on the Isle of Mists. CDPR handled that really, really well.

Almost a decade and still my favorite game. I go back to it all the time as a comfort game. Occasionally load up my 100% file just to walk around Toussaint with retired Geralt 😂⚔️

We let him cook, and he delivered us a feast!

The Bloody Baron quest was so amazing when I first played it. I was literally on the edge of my seat. It felt to real with emotions

You did complete TW3 analysis before Joseph Anderson, congrats...

Can't wait for Joseph Anderson to drop a diss track in response to this.

Joseph Anderson punching the air right now

CDPR really captured lightning in a bottle with this game, it really is a fantastic work of art with a awesome story and an amazing soundtrack !

I unironically got introduced to the universe through the Netflix show which may be the one good thing it's done, because since buying the game in 2021, I've gotten about 400 hours, went back to play 1 and 2, and somehow I loved 1 at a level equal if not greater than 2 or 3 and I'm currently reading the books, the universe is amazing and I'm glad I discovered it.

I'm working on the DLC right now. I understand now why this game is so loved.

Despite whatever 'faults' it may have, its the general experience of it that just floors me still. its atmosphere, its music. i still love just walking around in this world. the immersion and escape of it. hell, the way the wind blows through the trees, the sunsets.... i love the side quests too, theres a lot of rich characters and experiences there to help you level. the game was always a little clunky in spots, but its easily overcome by its immersion.

I forgot how convoluted the plot is. It's been fun experiencing this great game again vicariously. Thanks man.

I preferred the Gaunter O' Dimm content more than the Bloody Baron. But Witcher III is hands down one of my top games

One of my favorite games and had such good memories of playing it all the way back at launch in 2015. I had played the first two games earlier in the year and loved them both so much. I played it for a week straight and got the "best" ending blind, making everything turn out alright😊 when I played the dlc when it came out I had a blast too! One of the best games of all time.

All the Joseph Anderson comments have me rolling xD

After all this years I still love Witcher 3 story and i welcome this lengthy review to help me surivive working ours. Also, as a liitle trivia, Heart of Stone plot is slightly based on a polish legend about Master Twardowski, who tried to trick the devil by escaping to the moon

Thanks for making something I can play in the background while I get work done 👍

Seee, nowwwww..... I love Yennifer. Everything about her.

damn it mort, i have 1400h in this game, finished it 7 times and i now reinstall it to play it one more time

A very comprehensive review. Great work, Motym! 💯

There’s times in games that we all look back and wish we could experience for the first time again. The baron in the Witcher 3 is one of those times

I’ve been waiting for a quality Witcher 3 retrospec, thanks Morty

Man, I love your content. Also Bloody Baron story is peak witcher.

An incredible game, suberp storywriting and together with Fallout New Vegas and Mass Effect 2 in my top 3. Your review is great, always have a blast listening to Mortismal. Have no issues with crashes luckily.

love the way you close off videos, the little outro speech

The Roach mechanic to follow the road absolutely works for me, and always has since 2015, the only thing you have to do is direct her when you come across forks, and sometimes she gets stuck as she is wont to do. I have also always preferred to play this game with controller though, so maybe the difficulty you've always experienced is M&KB related? Idk.

There's also that sweet quest in Skelligue where supernatural spawns of the world judge Geralt upon his actions regarding their kind/kin. Their plan is so naive, yet so heartfelt, it does make that quest truly feel special

Thank you, and have an amazing day

One of my most played games as well. Great video brother. Really enjoyed it !

The best game series I've ever played, Witcher 3 being my favorite game ever. Glad you took the time to give your take on it. Looking forward to new 100%s.

I think that was a very well made review, you clearly thought through the points you made and put in a lot of effort. I am absolutely a fanboy for this game, but I can't deny that the criticisms you made are valid and meaningful. Man, I need to replay this game again...

Witcher 3 and BG3 my best games.

A decade old and despite all the problems, such a blast to play! Excellent video! And, I think I'll start a new game and this again! :)

Lol, I love Yen. Girl is Renegade Sheppard through and through.

Best thing about W3 on pc, is that all the issues you mentioned are already fixed by mod collection and modders. I'm currently in a 3d playthrough with some incredible mod this time and its simply incredible, new items, combat, monsters!

Imagine finishing a Witcher 3 review.

I loved how a lot of side content feels as main content , being invested in the characters and stuff. Also loved getting the petter from Alvin

Joseph Anderson's been real quiet since this dropped. and before this dropped.

Amazing video! Good job! I built my computer initially in 2014 just to run this very game.

Never get sick of that intro 😎😎🔥🔥

I don't want to spark anything with the whole Triss and Yen thing. But, I don't think the first game really counts for story stuff. When people say Triss manipulated Geralt in the first game by not telling him about Yen or Ciri I always think "well , neither did any of the Witcher who knew about them. " I think with a remake on the horizon we'll get a clearer idea about what CDPR had in mind for Geralt's resurrection

This is the Witcher 3 commentary we were waiting for

Good show sir 🥳

Joseph Anderson got some competition! (Joking ofc, you’re both fantastic critics)

still looks better and feels better than 90% of the games that come out today

I cant add you on steam ;( hehe I am glad you are popular ma man ♥ amazing review and great watch, I am preparing to reply witcher 3 for some time now, only game I only played once, but so many friends did reply and I partake in conversations, I know so much, I had to forget "everything" to go back to it again ^_^ thank you for inspiring me

TW3 will probably always be my all time fave game. I first played it during covid lockdown and my god it helped me get through it. The characters, the story, the music. Like you mentioned I never minded the combat and game mechanics too much even when they were annoying. It just made me laugh briefly and added to the games charm of being imperfect. I can’t wait for the Witcher 1 remake and then Witcher 4. I hope the corporate takeover of CDPR doesn’t harm the franchise however. We’ll just have to wait and see.

As a witcher book fan, it's always Yennifer and Geralt. not Triss.

Hey Mortim just started kingdom come due to your review and man its awsome. God bless you and your family brother.

Wow I saw your last Witcher 3 2024 impressions video and thought to myself ‘aw I wish he did a full review’ and BOOM there it is!

The mechanic for Roach to stay on the road works well for me on controller. Most of the time.

It’s funny since as someone who enjoys the books more than the games, I always preferred the Novigrad and Skellige portions to the Velen one. The way book elements are tied in is great for me. Awesome video regardless.

I had to read the title twice as I thought I imagined it :)

The instant sign casting on controllers with the next gen update was a game changer for fluidity in combat. Needs to be default for the next witcher game

I always play death march, so fun. Great video Mort👍

I wonder what Joseph Anderson is doing right now?

One serious video essay man, must have taken ages to make this one 💪

Looking forward to soon play this for the first time. I'm researching mods to iron the wrinkles.

Babe wake up, new mortismal upload

Can you tell me what you mean at 1:51:00 when you say to use the steam deck graphics configuration that comes with the game. I have a steam deck, and booted up the game last night, and I didn't see any specific steam deck graphics configuration. In fact, the game ran at 10 fps until I switched it to the "low" in game graphics setting, which boosted it to just above 30fps.

Here is a question to anyone ive been wondering. At certain crossroads in the game(including where you meet gaunter) there are paintings setup on easel, they will be gone after some time if you return. Is there anything going on with these or just set dressing, all the paintings from what ive found are different.

Seems like just last week i was watching the trailer for this game and i was so excited. Man, 9 years.

Banger!

This is equal parts ridiculous in both how impressive and good it is. Thank you. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.

2 hours, gonna get a popcorn and a coke for this! :D

Nice video, Witcher 3 is one of my favourite games and I appreciate that you took your time to review it thoroughly 👍 Btw, I would love to hear your thoughts on Dread Delusion. It's kind of a Morrowind-like which I heard some pretty good things about and has also recently came out of Early Access.

So are the opinions of movement based of the game before next gen updates ? Or after ? Cuz I want to play this but not if the moment feels super dated still

The DLCs for this game continue to be some of the greatest stories, not just in gaming but in general. I will never forget the first time I went into the fairytale land in Blood & Wine, or the scene where Gaunter O'Dimm comes walking out of the sky to come claim the debt owed to him. Chills. So good.

Well done review! I like your way of reviewing games. It's very thorough and objective enough for people to know if the should purchase the game or not. Subscribed! I love medieval fantasy in general, I liked the Netflix Witcher series, read the books in the past, but found the books sometimes long winding and even boring at some parts, although I do LOVE the world building of the Witcher. The wold building, the lore is where this game and the books shine IMHO! It's of high, no, very high standards! The game too feels like it has a world that is lived it. It feels alive, not like a CTRL+C and CTRL + V Ubisoft movie set for you to play in. I bought this game on PC, about a year after launch and on PS4 Pro at a sale, years after launch, to give it another go. In total I have about 60-70 hours in this game over both systems, but never finished it once. I think I have tried to finish it 6 or 7 times by now, but the game just doesn't click with me. I had the same with The Witcher 1 and 2 before, but after everybody saying "Best game evvah!" I though let's give it a spin. The game has clunky feeling and stiff animations in combat, even taking it's age into account. The walking feels off at best. It feels kinda laggy or so. Don't really know what it is, but it feels off. In combat Geralt is more like a pirouetting ballerina and his hits don't feel like hits. I really dislike the sword combat (but combat was also the main problem with The Witcher 1 and more or less 2.) The potions, oils and Witcher's magic on the other hand is what I do enjoy of the combat. That makes it a bit more tactical and connects with the lore of the Witchers. Another factor that I don't like, is the music of this game. You can turn it off, but one of the main driving factors for me finishing a game, is a good musical score! Good music pulls you into the story, pushes you forward, wants you to finish the game. Well, the ever repeating, dreary White Orchard area music wants to make me pull my hear out, bang my head against a wall repeatedly and quit the game the instant I hear it! It's like an invite to quit the game. The yelling and screaming in the (combat) music feels very, very, very cheesy to me. Yes, I really dislike the music and this could be the main reason for me not finishing the game. The main story, told mostly via long cut scenes, wasn't very interesting to me either, at least not interesting enough to keep me playing and forget the other cons. I don't like long cut scenes in general, I like to play my games, not watch them, but if the story is really interesting, I can see past this one con. I can absolutely see why other people think this games a classic! Like a lot of things in life, most of the points I mention here concerns personal taste. Nevertheless, I would love to see a proper RPG in the world of The Wicher! One where I can create my own character, choose a class and skills and perks that go with that class and then venture off in the world of The Witcher to create my own stories instead of one story being forced upon you. The world of The Witcher is a really fascinating and interesting one to explore and discover.

About the gear sets in Blood & Wine, actually my favourite sets are the Vampire sets (forgot the name, sorry!) There’s a black version and a red version. The red version is my preferred, with the mask on. Then I have 6 pieces of the set equipped, and can still also equip Aerondight without foregoing the set-bonuses.

I agree with many points, I disagree with some. But all in all I absolutely love this video and can't believe the work you must've put into such a long and well-done thorough review of such a behemoth of a game!

One of my few gripes is that many of the quests conclusions fell flat imo...many times I found myself going '' is that it?'' the actual wrap up would not meet my imagination or hopes/expectation...especially w/ the queen's sister, I thought she'd like jump out the window and to her demise or be banished to the fairy tale land forever...anything but just actually accepting her sentencing

Hell yeah this is what I’m talking about. My fav rpg RU-vidr making a vid about my fav rpg

One of my favorite games ever. Been interested in going back to this for next gen and dlc for years, too many new games keep coming out though ~

A 2 hour long feast. I’ll be watching this during work.

Since i started making content, i can appreciate the work you put into your videos.

This is my favourite game of all time. I am doing the 5 run for now, enjoying it like the first time. This game its really special to me, its part of me life

My favourite thing about the next-gen update is simply that you can now pause the game during cutscenes. That's a very welcome feature

For the steam deck section. You can force the game to use dx11 and you.gain quite a few frames and no need to go to the original version. I like to keep dx12 and I can get 40 fps locked with a few graphical compromises that on the deck's screen do little to impact visual quality. You can also lock it to 30 fps and drop tdp way low. The deck settings are not well optimized imho. They have certain effects that tax the cpu and GPU too high that provide little image quality improvement and other settings lower that can be raised which makes image quality that much better.

Last weekend I started my second playthrough of the game. I haven't played it since 2016 and I feel the same taste of awesomeness as the first time. I was shocked that this game hasn't aged at all.

I just finished a playthrough of Witcher 3 as well!

Nice video! Have you considered reviewing Kenshi?

When he thought Ciri was dead...I felt that sinking feeling as he approached. What a great game.

The Witcher 3 is my all time favorite game... I have finished it 4 times... I simply love it so so much. Thanks for this awesome review. Greetings from Germany

On paper I feel like I should love this game, I just wish I actually did

Great summary of the overall experience. Likewise enjoyed the game and its DLCs a lot, but it's absolutely not without faults in the storytelling or design.

Here I am after 400+ hours in the game watching a review again… great video!

Nice!

Re movement are you playing on keyboard or controller?

You have truely become my favourite creator. You put so much effort into all of your videos. And hearing your personal stories makes me appreciate everything you do even more. I hope you know you make so many people happy :)

regards the crashing, i can relate Morty 😅

Already?! God bless you lol

I love this game, and is one of my most played too. But after playing again this year, the only thing bad I can say about it is the combat. But you change with mods, and today we have really good ones.

Funny part is that Novigrad is my favorite area of Witcher 3. No other game city has come close for me when it comes to its feeling . Plus we meet a lot of our former books and previous games characters. Plus it reminded me of the first games City but far.more detailed

Re: combat, there are some great mods that add extra slots for abilities. I also like another one which adds magic tomes, allowing your signs to do special effects when you use the alternate cast mode, like curses and stuff. Makes the combat more interesting

Wow, i'm so used to hearing a calm voice giving as close to objective insight as possible. But they Yennifer segment was something else. This is why its such a long standing debate XD

The funniest bit in the game is where Geralt and the boys got drunk and they "prank called" someone. Makes me laugh all the time😆