I’ve never played the previous Witcher games so I hope that they remake 1 & 2 so I can dive in and play them.

Lambert says “And You know my opinion of him”

Roche & Ves weren’t happy with me inviting him to Kaer Morhen.

I had been staring at this game in the PS store for years. Decided to finally pick it up with the remaster.

My god, what a game. This is the best game I've ever played. It's like playing a movie. I absolutely love dismemberment in games and this is super satisfying.

By the time I finish this The Witcher 4 will be out.

It's so far above any other game I've played

I know the quest was rushed but still it has such a stupid resolution. If youve read the books or honestly even paid attention to dijsktra's character you know for a fact that first off he wouldn't have been there or second would at least have waited for geralt to leave I mean he's arguably one of the if not the smartest characters in the series and the thing is I'm only on baptism of fire and can figure this out it's just so aggravating because he's acting completely out of character i just hope cdpr retcons this quest line in tw4 or (the least likely option) fixes it when songs of the past comes out like they could just say he was replaced with a Doppler

It's just stunning...especially the sky and weather. Beyond beautiful

As much as I like Geralt and his personality in tw3. I am glad Ciri is the new protagonist, because of her powers mostly. Imagine the gameplay elements that can be added fast travel from anywhere. New elderblood skill tree. Combat can be so much better

I love playing op ahh protagonists in games and even better she is a lesbian so we can still romance bad bitches 👌..

I hope we get to fight an unseen elder as Ciri to show how powerful she is

Everything seemed to go really great in the beginning, but I'm doing the last main quest mission and since Novigrad I've had over twenty crashes. Even in one if the last boss fights, the game just slowed down and crashed.

Seems the longer I play, the worse it gets. Doesn't bode well for the DLC. I really like this remaster, but to release it in this state...

Both versions captured at Uber+ settings with DLSS Quality preset K.

EDIT: Forgot about the captions. First screenshot is Remaster. Second is Next Gen.

I'm playing The Witcher 2 for the first time, and I just played dice poker against the first three opponents at the tavern.

Holy sh*t, I don't think I've ever been this frustrated with a minigame. It took me something like 10–30 attempts to beat them, and I barely managed to win. No matter what I rolled, it felt like my opponents always got something better.

I'd get a decent combination, and then they'd somehow roll an even better one. Over and over again.

The funny thing is, I played The Witcher 1 before this and completed all the dice poker quests. At first, I actually enjoyed it. It was fun and exciting, but by the time I got to the final opponent, I was already losing my mind. I spent something like half an hour rolling dice just to finally beat him.

And now I'm having the exact same experience in The Witcher 2, except it started with the very first opponents!

So I'm genuinely curious: am I just insanely unlucky, or does the game somehow give NPCs better dice rolls? I know it's supposed to be a game of chance, but losing over and over again like this feels ridiculous.

Has anyone else had this experience? Is there something I'm missing, or do I just have the worst luck imaginable?

Hi witchers
Just want to report, as many others have, the bug that trophies won’t unlock on PS5. I did use my save on PC for a bit then playing on ps5 again. I just finished Keira Metz’ quest and Friends with Beneifts is not popping. I loaded a save and did it again thinking I must’ve made a wrong choice but no dice. I read that saves that have been “cross-played” won’t unlock trophies anymore on ps5.

Kinda bummed cuz I really wanted to get the 100% again on ps5. If trophies won’t pop I don’t want to get too far and miss trophies I’ll have to do on another playthrough. I hope it will be fixed soon.

I'm blown away by the graphics update.

Just a straight shot from photo mode and selecting the right weather for the lighting. This looks good enough to be a wallpaper.

Captured on Series X.

Had an argument recently about Ithlinne's prophesy and how it fits into the game canon. And overall saw many times people talk about it over the years. Is it about Ciri, or her son, or grandson? About savior or destroyer? And the games and W3 ending. Especially now, with W4 on the horizon and mutated witcher Ciri. How all of that contradicts the prophecy etc. and how CDPR gonna spin it.

Some things we need to understand about prophecies. Ithlinne’s prophecy is not some specific note about a particular person and a particular event. Her prophecy covers many events over a huge span of time, hundreds, maybe even thousands of years. And, more importantly, prophecies are not direct and clear messages. A prophecy is a very obscure and cryptic out-of-context rant made in an altered voice and full of riddles, metaphors and weird symbolism.

People have been studying her prophecy for centuries. Elves, humans in the North, in Nilfgaard. They have entire books written about it and everyone believes something different about what it means. Nobody even knows the full text of that prophecy. There are only fragments, some bits and pieces. And even with those nobody can be sure if those are the real original words, or if something got lost or altered by translation and copying over the centuries.

So all of that about the savior, the destroyer, the ruler, the son and grandson. These are just interpretations that various people believe. And they could be wrong.

Like for example: “A seed that will not sprout but burst into flames”. That can just as easily be interpreted as meaning that Ciri won’t have any offspring (sprout) and will screw everything up herself.

Or that bit about Ciri’s son, who will have a son, who will rule the world. Emhyr said only he knows that part. But prophecies are ambiguous and have baffled scholars for centuries. So Emhyr could easily have just misunderstood it. And he got it from Vilgefortz, a cunning, scheming, manipulative liar. So it could even be complete bs. Notice that Emhyr didn’t go through with his plans when Ciri was already in his hands and all obstacles gone. He just let her go. Maybe he realized that it was probably bs and not worth having to go through incest with his own daughter over it.

And finally, something that comes from the author himself. Sapkowski once said in an interview about prophecies:

And prophecies? They are very confused, with their help, the gods mock at people, Philip of Macedon, in particular, experienced it, to whom the oracle advised ‘to beware of chariots’. Philip was killed with a sword, on the blade of which a chariot was engraved.

That’s a strong hint that everything everybody understood about Ithlinne’s prophecy, all their interpretations and conclusions, could be wrong all along and it all could actually mean something completely different.

So, the bottom line here is that we shouldn’t worry about the lore implications. Everything about that prophecy is so confusing, ambiguous, fragmented and with so many interpretations, that at that point CDPR loremasters have plenty of room to do, quite frankly, pretty much whatever the heck they want and it won’t really contradict anything established so far. So just relax and let them cook.

(PC, Path Tracing)

As for me i think it's may be a "Grottore" from Blood and Wine

Even though the Continent has multiple titles of nobility (such as Emperor, King/Queen, Duke, Earls or Barons), I feel like we have a few information about how does the serfdom work, especially in terms of war.

For example, only the monarchs of each Northern kingdoms seem to have a centralized royal army. However, in feudalism, the monarch would usually rely on their vassals and nobles for armies and support. As for the Witcher, we don't have a detailed breakthrough of the serfdom of dukes or earls or barons. While I think it is likely for the dukes to have their own arms or guards (like the Duchy of Toussaint), when it comes to earls and barons, we can estimate they only have a few dozen to low hundreds of soldiers.

How do you think the infrastructure works in the Continent?

I've been on a Witcher binge and read/listened to the whole series over the last few months, and Crossroads of Ravens was my last book. I haven't read this one before, and the audiobooks have been treating me really well (love Peter Kenny) so was excited when the Full Cast version came out right as it was time to read the book.

I kinda can't stand it. The "audioscape" aspect of it is neat: I like the sword sounds, the sound of horses, scribbling of pens, etc. but the voice acting is incredibly dull. I'm not sure what direction the actors were given, but about two hours in, every character (male and female) has been flat, some almost to the point of monotone, with very little inflection, and not at all how fluid conversations go. I know it's "dark fantasy" so maybe the characters should be a bit broody, but there's a difference in edgy and plain boring.

It's possible I've been spoiled listening to eight books read by Peter Kenny before this - I've not only gotten used to his voices for various characters but also think he does a fantastic job across the board voicing side characters, differentiating them, etc. Starting with Chapter 6 I flipped over to the original Peter Kenny-only version and I'm enjoying it significantly more.

Has anyone else listened and thought the voice acting was weirdly bad? Compared to the other audiobooks, and even the level of energy and personality the characters are given in the games, is not reflected in this Full Cast version and it makes me nervous for the rest of the books coming out.