A lot of people didn't realize that Geralt's senses could tell she had no heartbeat, that she wasn't breathing, the moment we stepped into the room. Him sitting next to her and turning her over was him trying to deny what his senses were telling him. His reaction to confirming is worst fears was heartbreaking. One of the most emotionally powerful moments in any video game I've ever played.
I'm nearly 50, and every time I see "finding Ciri", I tear up. The first time I played through it, I had to walk away from the game for a couple hours just to get my composure back. For perspective, though, at that point, I had played more than 100 hours of content, leading up to finding my character's lost daughter. The pacing and framing of the scene after all of that lent it a weight beyond the medium. Having watched the series, imagine Marshmallow (unafraid even in the face of his imminent death), so terrified that he looks anywhere but at her. In the scene, he's starring at an overturned table. The floor. eventually, he can acknowledge her boots. He can't accept the truth before his eyes. He even turns to run from reality. Without a doubt, the lead up of the game, plus the player's own personal history can shape the scene's impact exponentially. Even knowing that it'll be "okay" (things get really complicated about 2 minutes after this scene), the impact never goes away completely. Granted, this perspective is deeply subjective. Thank you, as always, for peering into this medium you're unfamiliar with. It's a lot of fun to watch.
The first time, i cried a lot, the second a little less, and the third was just a feeling, the other ones didn't do anything to me. Yeah, i'm not normal, i confirmed it in some ways.
Those are glitches. Roach is glitching. Sometimes glitches are hilarious. Red dead redemption 2 is famous for its glitches. So much so that there are hilarious RUclips compilations of them.
HannaH's Over Invested yes, some Games have realy cool grafical of collision detection issues. Something resident Evil games are know for are wall glitches. If you stand in a certsain angle on a certain Spot you are able to „slide“ through the wall into a room you would normaly able to enter 2 missions (or even more) later. This is the reason why there are 2 types of speed runs. With and without glitches. An extreme example i know is Prey. Dont know how the numbers are today but from what i know the game is ment to be 20-40 hours, speed run without glitches about 1 hour and with glitches about 7 minutes. So glitches are mostly fun bugs, sometimes extreme exploits and sometimes game breaking. Roach is know and love for his glitching but not as broken as the Skyrim horse. PS: yes Gwent is a Cardgame you can play on your phone on PC and i am pretty sure they share an account you play on. There is also a real card version. The collectors edition of witcher 3 has two Card Decks in it. www.playgwent.com/de/join
Didn't actually know this and I've placed Witcher 3 multiple times, my personal head canon is "roach" is named after the type of "roach" you use in joints
I'm the one that got my husband to play Witcher 3. And YES! Gwent is addicting. They have a spin off game Witcher Tales: Thronebreaker starring Queen Meve that's Gwent and decision making. Really great and I wish more people had played it.
Thronebreaker was really great, you're 100% right Anita. It's such a pity it didn't sell as most likely we'll never see a sequel. Queen Meve was badass, I wish she gets some time - even if just a tiny bit - in Witcher 4. And indeed girls do play (although not as much as dudes so I also understand the stereotype). I play with couple girls and it's always fun (it's especially funny when my dudes suddenly become very educated and tame once they realise one of the teammate is a girl).
@@pawelzietek Men and women play games at about the same rate, just different types of games. Queen Meve was great, I didn't think I'd like her at first but she definitely grew on me. Kind of like how I didn't like Yennefer at first but now she's my favorite character. I'm close to the end of Thronebreaker but I've left it alone because one of my right hand men betrayed me and... I'm still really hurt about that lol They do storytelling so well!
Honestly once you learn how to play you never want to stop, took me like 4 games to get the basics in my first playthrough and then after about 20 hours I understand most things except for how scorch worked and kept scorching my own cards
no joke, even after all this years every time i see the "finding ciri" cutseen, i have tears in my eyes... jesus i can even remember that i thought to myself "no no no no no, they cant do this to me"
@@HannaHsOverInvested - it's hard to get the true impact of this moment from cutscenes. As mentioned you could easily be over 100hrs into the game. Not to mention your actions ABSOLUTELY CAN directly lead to ciri's death... Something to think about ;). As far as "knowing" this can't be real... The first time I played the witcher 3. In a single quest my decisions and actions led to me mistakenly freeing a monster which resulted in an entire town dieing of a plague caused by that monster. The town nor their inhabitants come back, if they die they are simply gone forever. Other NPC's don't move in, it's just a ghost town going forward. The women I was sent to find by the husband/father I did manage to find. But the mother died shortly after reuniting them all (again my fuck up) and the father commits suicide immediately after his wife dies). So when I finally found ciri dead like that I'm not thinking, nah the game can't do this the story won't work if that's the case. I'm thinking, "oh God, did I do something wrong that allowed her to die? Am I responsible for this?? This can't be a thing!! Wtf did I do?!?!!!?". This game has an amazing way of making you feel personally responsible for every outcome while maintaining that you are but a single piece of the puzzle with limited (though significant) influence over those outcomes.
@@martinsharrett1872 Couldn't have said it better. I was holding my mouth shut and bawling my eyes out when I first saw it. And I was a 36 year old man who had already watched his own father die in real life. I had seen some shit. This hit me right where all my old pain was buried.
Friends is still one of my favorite series of all time. I guess jokes just hit people differently. Oh, and the reason girlfriend reviews always go "boyfriend this, boyfriend that" is because that's the premise of the channel. She was not a gamer before, so she looks at things through the eyes of someone who's trying to share their S.O.'s gaming hobby. Similar to the way you use "Non-gamer watches...." to qualify that your opinions are based on the fact that you do not play these games you're reacting to, she's qualifying in her review that she is just watching her boyfriend play while occasionally back-seat gaming.
Friends is just as good as it's always been. People's tastes and especially "triggers" have evolved because today's society is obsessed with taking the fun out of everything and making everything clinical and partisan.
Yeah, I cringed at her going "OmG girl, there are girlfriends who play too REEE" like, woman, she NEVER said the co trary wtf. I guess this girl is too far left that she cannot stand a girlfriend adoring her bf.
14:23 Why does one recommend watching one of game's biggest climaxes without even knowing all the context? It's like showing somebody who's never watched LOTR before the last scene where Frodo and Sam have a talk after Frodo thrown the Ring to Mount Doom... It's pretty sad, but you'll feel the scene more, if you know what they went through. Also not saying that it's actually a spoiler.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I just wanted to say, that it's more fun if you go through the game's story by yourself. But we're back at the question probably... to play or not to play? 😁 And I'm one of those, who still hope to see you go for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🤞
I don't think it is much of a problem since a) I think Hannah made it pretty clear she's not going to play the game and b) the plot of the game isn't really all that related to the books other than sharing some of the major characters.
HannaH's Over Invested haha gf reviews saying her bf a lot is also kind of the point of her channel. Just a backseat gamer watching her bf play she’s reviewing from that perspective
@@HannaHsOverInvested Perhaps, but it's just a gathering of all the people/friends you meet in the game and a nod to fans. Not sure if it makes sense if you don't recognize the characters.
The card game Gwent is now a mobile game as well as an actual pc game with a deep story. As for the horse, its a glitch. All of the green posts are towns. You can fast travel when you have been there before at any sign post.
@@DevilsM4rk Thats pretty cool to actually have. I never got the collectors addition. I have a few of the collectors figures/statues which are well done. My favorite is the geralt with the Ursine gear.
@@HannaHsOverInvested not really, it's basically a battle between two armies. Your army has 3 layers (front line, ranged and support), there are card effects that impact these layers (double strength, half strength, etc). It's simple enough to get into but complex enough to develope strategies, none of which requires game lore knowledge. It's really fun and kinda addictive, I used to play it at lunch in my previous job.
Gwent is playable as a standalone game, but it’s different to the one in the Witcher 3. Also, I agree that you don’t have to be a guy to play videogames, we gals can game as well! :)
I seem to be a little late to the party, but the reason that scene is very emotional even for a 24 year old male. Is because you spent about 40-50 in game hours of playing and grinding into FINALLY find Ciri and then be told she is dead. The little flying orb ball had been sorta guiding you to her body before you realize that little orb was her the whole time.
To explain a bit about Finding Ciri. A friend of Ciri's, who happens to be an elven mage, somehow I guess took her soul (the bright white ball) and stuffed it in a bottle. Then he hid her away on the isle Geralt and the dwarves are at, so the Wild Hunt wouldn't find her. The elven mage, after being cured, then gives Geralt the bottle with Ciri's soul and Geralt uses it as a guide to her body. Beautiful quest, not ashamed to say I cried there too :)
Roach, the witcher's horse, appears behind the player's back when the player whistles. The engine sometimes has problems finding its place (collision errors etc) so the horse can, for example, appear on the roof. And that weird run-down animation is actually a problem with the animation. Everything is fine when Roach runs on flat ground. But in the case of high mountains, which theoretically should not be terrain that you can move on (but the game does not block it in any way), the horse cannot stand completely level with the surface when it is too steep. The engine makes it silly and the animation can compact the horse in such a strange way. Yes. Geralt collects a lot of flowers, but also herbs, mushrooms, minerals and monster guts. All of this is needed in alchemy.
@@richarddaigle8777 Unlike yourself, people have not forgotten that Trump told every lie he possibly could just to reach his goals if he felt it would help him. So yes, a guy who is a proven malicious liar spoke in favour of gay marriage in order to be elected president so he could erode Lgbt+ rights in the name of bigotry. You got that much right.
I was just watching an old Gab Smolders stream of the videogame Days Gone and Girlfriend Reviews popped up in her chat. They talked about the game and Gab mentioned how she and her partner Jacksepticeye watched GR's videos and GR said they watched their videos. It was very wholesome
Yes. Gwent is available as a stand alone game, but it's quite different from the in-game version. It's far less based in base card powers and abilities, and more based on rank and modifiers.
I re-watched Friends last year and there's definitely jokes that wouldn't be allowed on TV today (there was like 2 that I thought were actually way over the line). But I wouldn't say it was all that bad. Editing out couple minutes would be enough to fix it.
Sometimes....games get released with bugs, lots of them. They are complex pieces of kit, they get ironed out, but that's not before you see roach on a roof or well other funky stuff! :D
Geralt can have several horses in the books, games, shows, etc. He always names them Roach because...easier to remember. And they're all mares (because mares are easier to train, control and ride...stallions go semi nuts a lot over things like blood or other stallions in the area. Really historic...that's why if you couldn't get a mare, you had your stallion gelded. Plus you can actually milk a mare...look it up, the Mongols did it a lot.) And Roach isn't a bug name; in Polish it's a kind of fresh water fish kinda like a perch. All the weird Roach images were early release glitches (except for the time Geralt gets drugged up on a hallucinogenic potion and has some deep and meaningful conversations with his horse.)
It doesn't seem like anyone have explained the story of the ugly baby yet (not that you really asked though), but that side quest actually won an award for its story. It is about a baron that had a pregnant wife and a teenager. The baron regularly got drunk and abusive against his wife, even though he loved her. The wife had come to hate him and didn't want to give him a second child, so she made a deal with some witches (not humans, those ugly ladies you see in the video) called the crones to get rid of the child, but the deal ends up hurting and almost killing her as well, so she seeks help to get protection from them and get it in form of a talisman. One night, the baron is drunk again and beats up his wife, leading her to miscarriage, the wife and daughter escapes that night, but the wife loses her talisman in the process. Without her protection the wife gets captured by the crones to be put into servitude for them, the daughter escapes and joins a group of witch hunters. The dead baby doesn't receive a proper burial and because of that turns into a creature known as a botchling. At this point Geralt comes into the picture, he is looking for Ciri and the baron has information about her. The baron wants Geralt to help find his wife and daughter in exchange for this information. The story can go multiple ways from here on. Geralt can kill the botchling that bothers the town or he can help it become a guardian spirit instead, by giving it a proper burial and name. The wife can be saved from the crones, but depending how, she either turns mad or gets cursed into an ugly creature. Geralt cures her from the curse, but it ends up killing her. If she dies the baron later will hang himself in grief, if she instead goes mad, he will be with her and travel to a place that might be able to heal her. The daughter and the baron also gets reunited briefly, she wants to go help her mother heal, but can't since she has duties with the witch hunters. If her mother dies, she will stay angry at her dad.
I love love love that song that plays in the Witcher 3 launch trailer, "Oats in the Water" by Ben Howard. It hits me right in the feelings every time I hear it. 💜
9:11 I think the reason Shelby says "boyfriend" a lot in her review of the Witcher isn't because she thinks that only dudes play the game, but because that's the format of the review, the perspective of a girlfriend whose boyfriend plays the game.
I don't know if you'd be interested in reviewing fanmade songs based off the Witcher, but there is an artist named Miracleofsound who's done several songs based off both the game and the show (as well as a lot of other games and shows), and uses footage from them in his music videos. If that's something you'd have any interest in, I'd recommend "Wake the White Wolf", and "Lady of Worlds" by him. Lady of Worlds, in particular, was the video that made me actually decide to play Witcher 3 and sparked my love for the series.
Honest trailers are just the best, cuz much like your video you get a lot of Giggles & Smiles. I'm very glad you are enjoying the Witcher and all the media surrounding it. Can't wait for season 2 of the show, Henry T's the little bit in his interviews for Enola Holmes. Have a great week!
Since you like trailers with stories, most of the trailers for The Elder Scrolls Online are episodic. I recommend watching the first four cinematic trailers in this order: The Alliances, The Arrival, The Siege, and The Confrontation. Or, watch The Three Fates, which is these four trailers edited together to make a single 23 minute short.
Glitches, glitches and glitches. =) That is why Roach is on the roof, and why he can fly. (My own personal favourite was when I road off into the sunset, and suddenly found myself level with the tree tops.)
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The reason finding ciri was so slow was because that's after 50-100 hours playing the game where the main goal was to find her. I love that scene of him turning his head away from the door before he opens it as he summons the courage, afraid of what he's going to see. Then, when he slowly pushing the door to the side, you see him look at the table, the bookshelf, then her feet, then the wall, then her back. It does a great job of showing you Geralts thought process and his emotions in that moment.
HAMDIW, I remember when I first hit this scene, and I think it went something like this: 1. Is that really the woman I have been looking for for so very long, 2. IT IS! 3. She can't really be dead, 4. What did I do wrong! 5. How far back am I gonna have to reload to fix this, 6. Will I recognize the critical decision when I get to it? 7. Will I make the right choice this time All in a couple of seconds, followed closely by: OMG, the most dangerous man alive is trying very hard not to cry like a baby. (and then the firefly appeared)
@@servantofmelian9966 yeah! I totally relate! The best part of this scene (and this whole game if you ask me) is Geralts facial expressions. It just makes you believe that Geralt would lose all hope if this girl, Ciri, dies. And it shows in the ending where Ciri DOES die. He loses all of his humanity and hunts down the last crone. He kills her, then waits until all number of monsters come to his location to kill him.
18:22 That scene was in the last third of the main game, Geralt (the player), has been looking for Ciri for a long *long* time, following her trail through forests, villages, and cities in different continents. Fighting monsters and people while slowly learning what happened to her. And after all of that, (after literally days of gameplay), when you finally find her, she is dead. And then you realize that the light that an elven mage gave you to guide you to where she was, was actually her soul (I guess?) that he had took so the bad guys wouldn't be able to find her, and when the light gets to where she is, she comes back to life 17:34. It's a very emotional moment if you have played the game because you have invested a lot into the story, the characters and the challenges, and it pays off. (This isn't the ending of the game, though, there are several huge battles after this and character related side and main quests) PS: 4:52 This isn't even the whole map... 🤣🤣 (and yes, you can travel all over the map, and it's full of side quests, treasures, enemies, and gorgeous landscapes). Also, in the second DLC Geralt travels to a whole new country that is not in that map.
The frying pan😂😂😂 in that side quest you had to retrieve a frying pan an old woman gave to her new neighbour. He actually needed it to write a letter and so on😂
In The Witcher 3, wherever you whistle for Roach to come, she'll appear out of nowhere about 10 yards away in the opposite direction from which the camera is pointing. Even if you just sailed from one island to another in Skellige, she'll show up. Occasionally, there's a glitch where she'll be floating in the air or be stuck on a fence. The developer actually jokes about some of Roach's antics in a side quest in the expansion Blood and Wine. Here's the abbreviated version of the quest: ruclips.net/video/krf8FgRm3VU/видео.html
In the quest, Geralt agrees to help an old hermit who's being tormented at night by an invisible ghost. To help him on his quest, she brews him a potion, made from rare magic mushrooms, that will allow him to see the ghost. As a side effect, it also lets him talk to animals.
About "knowing anyone better" - that's the thing with the video game trailers. The better the story and characters, the less of it you can show in the trailer for fear of spoiling it. Games like WoW or Overwatch don't really have any story (or, in the case of WoW, it's hidden under hours repeating raids and grinding), but rather "a lore" that can easily be furthered by the means of the trailer, because nobody will feel like they have lost something (since they wouldn't see these scenes in the game anyway). That said, you can still get a lot out of other games through reacting to stuff with actual narration like today :)
@@HannaHsOverInvested it's actually a team work. Iirc it's their full time job now (the girlfriend plays the games too btw). In terms of gaming related content I'd say they are definitely one of the most original and probably best on yt (definitely top 3). There's a lot of great writing too, like "Sony revealed the future of gaming and XBox wasn't in it" (or something along those lines) after PS5 reveal event. She's got incredible delivery. They are the reason tv is losing to yt.
Gwent is a real game outside of Witcher 3, but the standalone card game is very different. Fantastic though, in my opinion, and very actively developed. It took a lot of refinement and downright redesigns to take the core of the gameplay and translate it into a competitive multi-player card game rather than a single-player distraction.
GWENT started out as a way to pass time in game that wasn't slaughtering hordes of monsters and to add depth to NPC's who would otherwise have just been background decoration to the main quests and side missions of the game, it got to be so popular that CDPR took the basics of the game and made it into its own digital collectible card game with it's own sets, it's own set of rules (modelled on the rules from the Witcher games) as well as plenty of awesome little story elements for each set of cards and such. To answer your other question regarding the game world of the Witcher 3, the game is vast in scale, it is broken down into 7 major sub zones and in each of these regions of the game there are dozens (sometimes hundreds) of small objective markers where you will find a bandit camp/monster lair/hidden treasure etc with some of the main plot lines tied to some of these markers but in the main they are optional extra areas to explore to provide lore/crafting materials/rare weapons and armour etc. As a side note CDPR never copyright strike so you can be safe to use any of their media fully in videos (they give their express permission for anyone to use and experience it) so no need to censor yourself when making any content featuring music/gameplay from any of the Witcher/gwent games, however since the video you were watching was a montage of different cinematic sequences from the Witcher 3 with a custom soundtrack (none of that music that was heard for little snippets comes from the games and was something the channel added themselves) i doubt you would get any action taken against you but it's better to be safe than sorry. The horse being in weird places/positions is just when the game glitches and causes unintended behaviour for certain objects in the game, there's some very famous and well known glitches in games over the years and in some instances are better known than the actual games themselves.
By the way...in the part where you're watching the trailer and Geralt rides past the tree with all the guys hanging...when you pan back to Geralt on his horse, look at the fence behind him. You'll see something like a weathervane in the shape of a rooster. This is a recurring Easter Egg...the rooster shape is like the logo for CD Projekt Red and it shows up dozens of times...on top of buildings, on actual weathervanes...I know I've caught it about 2 dozen times but for all I know it might be in a hundred different places. Very subtle...and an indication of how fixated on this game you can get if you play it often enough.
You should totally react to Gwent cinematic trailer. As for the game itself, I believe there is an IRL tabletop version of the game, however, it's gonna require you to do a lot of math and memorization, Gwent is available on mobile or PC, the game has a tutorial for total newbies so you won't feel lost. There is also a Thronebreaker, a standalone Gwent story campaign that uses Gwent as a combat mechanic.
There is a Gwent standalone game that is free to play. It's pretty generous as card games go but it can seem a little complex if you havent played any card games before.
I wanted to write you about all those things you said in video, but when i checked comments the most have beed already said by others so i will only tell that music that was copyrighted in second trailer is "Ben Howard - Oats in The Water". The trailer itself is great but it has the greatest impact if you have played the game and know how much effort it took for desperate father to find his adopted daughter. Great reaction, i laughed a lot. ;P
i don't know if anyone answered your question or not , but yes , Gwent is an online multiplayer game , which you can play with friends or other people from around the world , and it's also free
You could watch a movie version of the game, and enjoy all the story without having to play. Heres a link to one if you want to check it out. Be warned its 7hours long The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Movie: ruclips.net/video/XMG8Sm4YGfM/видео.html Also, bare in mind, some of these "Game Movies" have pieced together the main story points of the game, so sometimes cuts between scenes may seem jarring. But overall you will get all the story you need. These movies also don't include side activities within the game that have their own side stories unrelated to the main plot. I would love to see you watch the whole movie in episodes on your channel! Love you videos! Enjoy! :)
I actually used to/ still play sometimes Gwent outside of witcher. Yes, it exists and is actually a really interesting strategic game. And the artstyle is briloant, every card is sp beautiful to look at, especially if you have the "premium version of it". If you have it then the image is like a mini video with sound and all. Premium cards just cost more, you don't have to pay real money for it. If you are interested in playing the game with someone you can add me.
I never thought too recommend anything other than trailers but if you want a little more witcher stuff try this out ruclips.net/video/tNqaPrD4cgg/видео.html - (The Witcher 3 - Virtual Empathy & Moral Reflection In Video Games) Maybe not a video suitable for reactions but even if its just on your own time its still a very moving video essay. btw it spoils the major plot points/ending for the story and characters so be careful.
Roach is flying in that odd, seated position because CDPR is an awesome development team. When they first hired testers for the Witcher 3 many of them complained that the design of Roach was just too good. They were experiencing nausea, dizziness etc because Geralt's horse was just too realistic. So they organized special mo-cap sessions and opened a bug-development branch just so they could make Roach less perfect6realistic. More about the topic in this video by CDPR ruclips.net/video/KoL1NRh8JOI/видео.html&ab_channel=TheWitcher
Yes there is actually a stand alone game where you play Gwent. (In the first two games, The Witcher and Witcher: Assassin of Kings it was poker dice...and you didn't actually have mini quests to find, buy or win the cards you need to play Gwent... in game...played with cards that represent characters...in game...So Geralt can play Gwent with a deck that has...a Geralt card and a Triss Merigold card, and a Ciri card....and three variant cards for each of the kings...it's umm...complicated.)
don't worry for copy right from cd project red, they don't do that, in fact for the 5th year annyversary of witcher 3 they used fan cover of witcher son to do a mashup
@@HannaHsOverInvested they are so cool they actually took their time to help out the people that illegally downloaded their game with some technical issues. I'm not joking, while every other company combats pirating as hard as possible (sometimes making it actually a worse experience to legal owners), CD Project pays people to answer to gamers that stole their game/s. Reason? The owner of the company says that he believes that most of the people that pirates do it cause they can't afford the original game and not because they're bad people. He admitted that pirating was how he started playing himself. My first original game that I ever bought was actually released by CD Project. It was a major title and - while the original games would cost 30-40$ which was a fortune for most people in Poland back then - CD Project released major titles for like 10-25$, all while hiring best Polish actors to dub the games.
That on top of being a pro ball player, a writer, a RUclipsr, a trainer, a basketball coach, a decent singer, an below average piano player, open to learning new things about gaming and basically anything else, that I also care about making the world better and it scared you because you don't know how you can compare?? Is that what your worst fear is? Don't worry. We can all try new things, even as adults. Practice really does make you better and kindness is free. We can all learn and grow and make this world more beautiful and kind. You don't have to be afraid of that.
Oh, you're reading Dresden Files? Cool :D Have you ever read The Hollows series with Rachel Morgan by Kim Harrison? You probably have a huge list of to read, but I sincerely recommend that series. Its great!
Some tiny roach glitches...but the one where Roach talks is not a glitch. And Roach is female, Geralt only rides mares. (There's a historical reason for non knights using mares..stallions are too hard to control)
There is a standalone Gwent game, but is much more complex and deep than the version on The Witcher 3. If you're into card games you should check it out.
The Gwent mobile game and the version in Witcher 3 aren't 'quite' the same. The one in W3 has three rows, 4 (later 5) factions and once a card is played that's it, it doesn't do anything else. You build your best strength army while trying at the same time to sap or weaken your opponent with scorch cards, spies, and weather. The mobile/computer version has 2 rows, and the cards have actions that do thing like lock other cards, cause damage over time, boost with another card is played, ect. I actually got the collectors edition of the cards from CDPr when they came out, and a boot leg copy from a vendor in Russia who strangely enough makes a more complete set than the official one (has the 5th faction, and some cards not introduced until Blood and Wine). It's fun to play, but takes a little time getting used to the rules.
the story of the witcher 3 is amazing and definetly worth your time... but its also very long - very, very long. i think the game (withut dlc) took me about 100 hours, but i also took it slow and tried not to rush it. the gameplay is easy enough to learn, but the game can get a bit overwhealming especially if you are new to games as the world you're in is huge
Gwent is a card game, yes, and you can play it outside of the Witcher 3 game too. It's free and you can check it out here www.playgwent.com/en . The game is a bit complex, but not that much. You can learn to play it easily. I haven't played it outside of Witcher 3 though so maybe the stand alone version is a bit harder. What happens to Roach with glitches happens often in the game actually hahah the developers of the game thought it was funny so they programmed it that way and left it in the game. You can easily glitch Roach by sliding down a mountain. All of the things you see on the map are fast travel locations and some stuff you can do, but there's so much more to do in the game. The ingame world is really vast and beautiful. There's a ton of main quests and side quests. And this map isn't even the whole world you can play in. Plus there are 2 expansions as well, Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone. I had played Witcher 3 every night for 6+ hours from January to May this year (I'm a grad student so I have a lot of free time) and I've still not 100% completed the game. The next video, the story is about the main quest of the game, Geralt is tracking Ciri. She's come back (I won't spoil from where) and she's fleeing from someone. And Geralt must find her and help her. There's so much story in the game and I think you'd really like it. It would be great if you could play the game, but if you're not into playing it, you can also watch videos of other people. Because the story is pretty linear, and there's more cinematics than gameplay involved in the game, it wouldn't be so boring to watch someone play rather than play it yourself. It's like watching a movie. The next video is the footage from the game. When Geralt finally finds Ciri after travelling half the world to do so. And Geralt names all his horses Roach. He prefers mares to stallions because they're easier to control. So most of his horses have been mares named Roach.
2:40 every game is not Perfect. Some have minor bugs and glitches that werent seen by developers during prosuction. Some people found the roach sliding before the developers and use It to their advantage.
Minor Spoiler for hearts of stone DLC Shortly after starting hearts of stone story line provided the players finished the main story line Geralt encounters a tax collector. he starts asking questions about undeclared income. witchers dont make alot of money killing monsters in general also in game we as players use whatever means nesscesary to get more money, loot villagers homes and sell their things is one of many such methods. The tax collectors starts calling us and Geralt out for how we made money. First, where I live has no tax what so ever, it has been recently implemented on soft drinks, energy drinks and cigarettes. My knowledge of tax is admittedly limited to what I have seen in western and European media and read about online. The tax collector game me anxiety thinking that the game was going to punish me since the developers had made a funny punishment mechanism for abusing the cows in the first area of the game and sell their hide. I thought the same thing was going to happen.
its not girfriends watching boyfriends play it is about a girlfriend watching HER boyfriend play she playes animal crossing and somtimes a game he is a hardcore gamer
If you're interested in some more witcher (and who isn't?) this guy did some outstanding fan videos for The Witcher: ruclips.net/channel/UC4a0g20wFjYsYIUeSPVgA2w They're all great but these two are my favs: ruclips.net/video/nRAJldj4hiU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/OYp7YN1yM6I/видео.html
A lot of people didn't realize that Geralt's senses could tell she had no heartbeat, that she wasn't breathing, the moment we stepped into the room. Him sitting next to her and turning her over was him trying to deny what his senses were telling him. His reaction to confirming is worst fears was heartbreaking. One of the most emotionally powerful moments in any video game I've ever played.
I'm nearly 50, and every time I see "finding Ciri", I tear up. The first time I played through it, I had to walk away from the game for a couple hours just to get my composure back. For perspective, though, at that point, I had played more than 100 hours of content, leading up to finding my character's lost daughter. The pacing and framing of the scene after all of that lent it a weight beyond the medium.
Having watched the series, imagine Marshmallow (unafraid even in the face of his imminent death), so terrified that he looks anywhere but at her. In the scene, he's starring at an overturned table. The floor. eventually, he can acknowledge her boots. He can't accept the truth before his eyes. He even turns to run from reality. Without a doubt, the lead up of the game, plus the player's own personal history can shape the scene's impact exponentially. Even knowing that it'll be "okay" (things get really complicated about 2 minutes after this scene), the impact never goes away completely.
Granted, this perspective is deeply subjective. Thank you, as always, for peering into this medium you're unfamiliar with. It's a lot of fun to watch.
And you're not alone - and i am 48.
@@dacsus 40 years here. Same.
Damn bruh you should've recorded your reactions for us
The first time, i cried a lot, the second a little less, and the third was just a feeling, the other ones didn't do anything to me. Yeah, i'm not normal, i confirmed it in some ways.
Those are glitches. Roach is glitching. Sometimes glitches are hilarious. Red dead redemption 2 is famous for its glitches. So much so that there are hilarious RUclips compilations of them.
Of just glitches?? 🤣🤣
@@HannaHsOverInvested enjoy! ruclips.net/video/dhSEavCa-p8/видео.html
HannaH's Over Invested yes, some Games have realy cool grafical of collision detection issues. Something resident Evil games are know for are wall glitches. If you stand in a certsain angle on a certain Spot you are able to „slide“ through the wall into a room you would normaly able to enter 2 missions (or even more) later. This is the reason why there are 2 types of speed runs. With and without glitches. An extreme example i know is Prey. Dont know how the numbers are today but from what i know the game is ment to be 20-40 hours, speed run without glitches about 1 hour and with glitches about 7 minutes.
So glitches are mostly fun bugs, sometimes extreme exploits and sometimes game breaking.
Roach is know and love for his glitching but not as broken as the Skyrim horse.
PS: yes Gwent is a Cardgame you can play on your phone on PC and i am pretty sure they share an account you play on. There is also a real card version. The collectors edition of witcher 3 has two Card Decks in it.
www.playgwent.com/de/join
Bruh one time my game glitched and Geralt went bald, lost my shit.
@@pinklefoo Will I understand this?
Fun Fact: Roach isn't named after the insect "roach", but the species of fish "Roach"
I've heard this!
Didn't actually know this and I've placed Witcher 3 multiple times, my personal head canon is "roach" is named after the type of "roach" you use in joints
@@user-op6kt8pg9y because you westrens are terrible at naming things. We call that horse Plotva
I'm the one that got my husband to play Witcher 3. And YES! Gwent is addicting. They have a spin off game Witcher Tales: Thronebreaker starring Queen Meve that's Gwent and decision making. Really great and I wish more people had played it.
Thats so cool.
Thronebreaker was really great, you're 100% right Anita. It's such a pity it didn't sell as most likely we'll never see a sequel. Queen Meve was badass, I wish she gets some time - even if just a tiny bit - in Witcher 4.
And indeed girls do play (although not as much as dudes so I also understand the stereotype). I play with couple girls and it's always fun (it's especially funny when my dudes suddenly become very educated and tame once they realise one of the teammate is a girl).
@@pawelzietek Men and women play games at about the same rate, just different types of games.
Queen Meve was great, I didn't think I'd like her at first but she definitely grew on me. Kind of like how I didn't like Yennefer at first but now she's my favorite character.
I'm close to the end of Thronebreaker but I've left it alone because one of my right hand men betrayed me and... I'm still really hurt about that lol They do storytelling so well!
mega respect from the frozen north of sweden!! make MORE husbands realize this objective truth!!!!!
Honestly once you learn how to play you never want to stop, took me like 4 games to get the basics in my first playthrough and then after about 20 hours I understand most things except for how scorch worked and kept scorching my own cards
no joke, even after all this years every time i see the "finding ciri" cutseen, i have tears in my eyes... jesus i can even remember that i thought to myself "no no no no no, they cant do this to me"
hahahah thats the mark of a good story!
Honestly, that's like 100 hours into the game, yet I can honestly say that it only gets better from there.
@@HannaHsOverInvested - it's hard to get the true impact of this moment from cutscenes. As mentioned you could easily be over 100hrs into the game. Not to mention your actions ABSOLUTELY CAN directly lead to ciri's death... Something to think about ;).
As far as "knowing" this can't be real... The first time I played the witcher 3. In a single quest my decisions and actions led to me mistakenly freeing a monster which resulted in an entire town dieing of a plague caused by that monster. The town nor their inhabitants come back, if they die they are simply gone forever. Other NPC's don't move in, it's just a ghost town going forward. The women I was sent to find by the husband/father I did manage to find. But the mother died shortly after reuniting them all (again my fuck up) and the father commits suicide immediately after his wife dies). So when I finally found ciri dead like that I'm not thinking, nah the game can't do this the story won't work if that's the case. I'm thinking, "oh God, did I do something wrong that allowed her to die? Am I responsible for this?? This can't be a thing!! Wtf did I do?!?!!!?".
This game has an amazing way of making you feel personally responsible for every outcome while maintaining that you are but a single piece of the puzzle with limited (though significant) influence over those outcomes.
@@martinsharrett1872 Couldn't have said it better. I was holding my mouth shut and bawling my eyes out when I first saw it. And I was a 36 year old man who had already watched his own father die in real life. I had seen some shit. This hit me right where all my old pain was buried.
Friends is still one of my favorite series of all time. I guess jokes just hit people differently.
Oh, and the reason girlfriend reviews always go "boyfriend this, boyfriend that" is because that's the premise of the channel. She was not a gamer before, so she looks at things through the eyes of someone who's trying to share their S.O.'s gaming hobby. Similar to the way you use "Non-gamer watches...." to qualify that your opinions are based on the fact that you do not play these games you're reacting to, she's qualifying in her review that she is just watching her boyfriend play while occasionally back-seat gaming.
Friends is just as good as it's always been. People's tastes and especially "triggers" have evolved because today's society is obsessed with taking the fun out of everything and making everything clinical and partisan.
Yeah, I cringed at her going "OmG girl, there are girlfriends who play too REEE" like, woman, she NEVER said the co trary wtf.
I guess this girl is too far left that she cannot stand a girlfriend adoring her bf.
@@zolikoff Friends is lost lore from the based times
@@CursedPR Why'd you have to bring politics into this my dude?
Those are seven dwarfs guarding the sleeping ashen haired beauty when Geralt finds Ciri
14:23 Why does one recommend watching one of game's biggest climaxes without even knowing all the context? It's like showing somebody who's never watched LOTR before the last scene where Frodo and Sam have a talk after Frodo thrown the Ring to Mount Doom... It's pretty sad, but you'll feel the scene more, if you know what they went through.
Also not saying that it's actually a spoiler.
I mean I watched the show so the characters aren't strangers. And I'm a non gamer so I'll never know ALL of the context. That's kind of the point.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I just wanted to say, that it's more fun if you go through the game's story by yourself. But we're back at the question probably... to play or not to play? 😁 And I'm one of those, who still hope to see you go for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🤞
I don't think it is much of a problem since a) I think Hannah made it pretty clear she's not going to play the game and b) the plot of the game isn't really all that related to the books other than sharing some of the major characters.
@@MegaGameHunter Alas, not any time soon.
HannaH's Over Invested haha gf reviews saying her bf a lot is also kind of the point of her channel. Just a backseat gamer watching her bf play she’s reviewing from that perspective
You should watch 10th anniversary of witcher
Yes absolutely
Yes.
Noted.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Perhaps, but it's just a gathering of all the people/friends you meet in the game and a nod to fans. Not sure if it makes sense if you don't recognize the characters.
@@kcfacademy2496 bummer.
The card game Gwent is now a mobile game as well as an actual pc game with a deep story. As for the horse, its a glitch. All of the green posts are towns. You can fast travel when you have been there before at any sign post.
If you bought the collector's edition, Gwent is also a physical card game 😁
@@DevilsM4rk Thats pretty cool to actually have. I never got the collectors addition. I have a few of the collectors figures/statues which are well done. My favorite is the geralt with the Ursine gear.
@@creaturecore13 oh yeah, I lived in Ursine armour when I played through, it's an absolute impenetrable bulwark 🛡️
Do you think I need to know a lot of video game stuff to play the card game?
@@HannaHsOverInvested not really, it's basically a battle between two armies. Your army has 3 layers (front line, ranged and support), there are card effects that impact these layers (double strength, half strength, etc). It's simple enough to get into but complex enough to develope strategies, none of which requires game lore knowledge. It's really fun and kinda addictive, I used to play it at lunch in my previous job.
I recommend more girlfriend reviews.
It was pretty great.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I'll be glad to see more reaction on their videos too.
Yes!
@@HannaHsOverInvested God of War Girlfriend review is nice and funny too:
ruclips.net/video/5Chb1k9yA2Y/видео.html
I find girlfriend reviews channel hilarious. They do a very good job with her videos very entertaining even if you don’t like the game
"Am I your destiny?"
"You are more than that, Ciri... much more."
Gwent is playable as a standalone game, but it’s different to the one in the Witcher 3. Also, I agree that you don’t have to be a guy to play videogames, we gals can game as well! :)
When you pass 125 hours of the game searching for her and found this, you're devasted
I seem to be a little late to the party, but the reason that scene is very emotional even for a 24 year old male. Is because you spent about 40-50 in game hours of playing and grinding into FINALLY find Ciri and then be told she is dead. The little flying orb ball had been sorta guiding you to her body before you realize that little orb was her the whole time.
To explain a bit about Finding Ciri. A friend of Ciri's, who happens to be an elven mage, somehow I guess took her soul (the bright white ball) and stuffed it in a bottle. Then he hid her away on the isle Geralt and the dwarves are at, so the Wild Hunt wouldn't find her. The elven mage, after being cured, then gives Geralt the bottle with Ciri's soul and Geralt uses it as a guide to her body. Beautiful quest, not ashamed to say I cried there too :)
"does she have all those things!??" YES lol yes she does. she is very important "the lady of space and time" plus thats his little girl in a way.
Roach, the witcher's horse, appears behind the player's back when the player whistles. The engine sometimes has problems finding its place (collision errors etc) so the horse can, for example, appear on the roof.
And that weird run-down animation is actually a problem with the animation. Everything is fine when Roach runs on flat ground. But in the case of high mountains, which theoretically should not be terrain that you can move on (but the game does not block it in any way), the horse cannot stand completely level with the surface when it is too steep. The engine makes it silly and the animation can compact the horse in such a strange way.
Yes. Geralt collects a lot of flowers, but also herbs, mushrooms, minerals and monster guts. All of this is needed in alchemy.
"Holy Homophobia" You could apply that to most things before social media/justice.
Yes. Yes you could.
People are quick to forget Trump was the first president that was for gay mariage before he ran for office.
@@richarddaigle8777 Unlike yourself, people have not forgotten that Trump told every lie he possibly could just to reach his goals if he felt it would help him. So yes, a guy who is a proven malicious liar spoke in favour of gay marriage in order to be elected president so he could erode Lgbt+ rights in the name of bigotry. You got that much right.
@@jabberwocky9968 what did Trump against lgtb?
@@adamnesico google this question, please. Educate yourself.
I was just watching an old Gab Smolders stream of the videogame Days Gone and Girlfriend Reviews popped up in her chat. They talked about the game and Gab mentioned how she and her partner Jacksepticeye watched GR's videos and GR said they watched their videos.
It was very wholesome
Totally agree with you. My girlfriend played through the game also. Definitely not just guys.
“I don’t know what Jack in the Box is. Is that food?” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes. Gwent is available as a stand alone game, but it's quite different from the in-game version. It's far less based in base card powers and abilities, and more based on rank and modifiers.
I re-watched Friends last year and there's definitely jokes that wouldn't be allowed on TV today (there was like 2 that I thought were actually way over the line).
But I wouldn't say it was all that bad. Editing out couple minutes would be enough to fix it.
Sometimes....games get released with bugs, lots of them. They are complex pieces of kit, they get ironed out, but that's not before you see roach on a roof or well other funky stuff! :D
Geralt can have several horses in the books, games, shows, etc. He always names them Roach because...easier to remember. And they're all mares (because mares are easier to train, control and ride...stallions go semi nuts a lot over things like blood or other stallions in the area. Really historic...that's why if you couldn't get a mare, you had your stallion gelded. Plus you can actually milk a mare...look it up, the Mongols did it a lot.) And Roach isn't a bug name; in Polish it's a kind of fresh water fish kinda like a perch. All the weird Roach images were early release glitches (except for the time Geralt gets drugged up on a hallucinogenic potion and has some deep and meaningful conversations with his horse.)
What I can safely take away from this video is that I need to subscribe to Girlfriend Reviews as well.
Yes. Gwent is a very fun, nuanced game. You can now play it outside of the Witcher on both desktop and mobile.
"All of them?!" ...and more.
It doesn't seem like anyone have explained the story of the ugly baby yet (not that you really asked though), but that side quest actually won an award for its story. It is about a baron that had a pregnant wife and a teenager. The baron regularly got drunk and abusive against his wife, even though he loved her. The wife had come to hate him and didn't want to give him a second child, so she made a deal with some witches (not humans, those ugly ladies you see in the video) called the crones to get rid of the child, but the deal ends up hurting and almost killing her as well, so she seeks help to get protection from them and get it in form of a talisman.
One night, the baron is drunk again and beats up his wife, leading her to miscarriage, the wife and daughter escapes that night, but the wife loses her talisman in the process. Without her protection the wife gets captured by the crones to be put into servitude for them, the daughter escapes and joins a group of witch hunters. The dead baby doesn't receive a proper burial and because of that turns into a creature known as a botchling.
At this point Geralt comes into the picture, he is looking for Ciri and the baron has information about her. The baron wants Geralt to help find his wife and daughter in exchange for this information. The story can go multiple ways from here on. Geralt can kill the botchling that bothers the town or he can help it become a guardian spirit instead, by giving it a proper burial and name. The wife can be saved from the crones, but depending how, she either turns mad or gets cursed into an ugly creature. Geralt cures her from the curse, but it ends up killing her. If she dies the baron later will hang himself in grief, if she instead goes mad, he will be with her and travel to a place that might be able to heal her. The daughter and the baron also gets reunited briefly, she wants to go help her mother heal, but can't since she has duties with the witch hunters. If her mother dies, she will stay angry at her dad.
I love love love that song that plays in the Witcher 3 launch trailer, "Oats in the Water" by Ben Howard. It hits me right in the feelings every time I hear it. 💜
9:11 I think the reason Shelby says "boyfriend" a lot in her review of the Witcher isn't because she thinks that only dudes play the game, but because that's the format of the review, the perspective of a girlfriend whose boyfriend plays the game.
Yea, and that's all fine. She is funny. I just don't like that aspect.
I don't know if you'd be interested in reviewing fanmade songs based off the Witcher, but there is an artist named Miracleofsound who's done several songs based off both the game and the show (as well as a lot of other games and shows), and uses footage from them in his music videos. If that's something you'd have any interest in, I'd recommend "Wake the White Wolf", and "Lady of Worlds" by him. Lady of Worlds, in particular, was the video that made me actually decide to play Witcher 3 and sparked my love for the series.
Oh yes.
Lady of worlds wss sobfood, it was the first song i bought online.
05:00 Yes, all of them, and all of the space inbetween as well.
Honest trailers are just the best, cuz much like your video you get a lot of Giggles & Smiles. I'm very glad you are enjoying the Witcher and all the media surrounding it. Can't wait for season 2 of the show, Henry T's the little bit in his interviews for Enola Holmes. Have a great week!
I haven't seen that but I did watch Enola Holmes yesterday.
Oooooo, wad it any good?
@@RAWatson1989 I would have really love it in 2005. It's really for kids and I'm kind of over the "I'm not like other girls" trope.
In Czech republic we called Roach as Klepna
actually i enjoyed your reaction, it always amazed me non gamer reacting to gaming culture
Thank you!
Since you like trailers with stories, most of the trailers for The Elder Scrolls Online are episodic. I recommend watching the first four cinematic trailers in this order: The Alliances, The Arrival, The Siege, and The Confrontation. Or, watch The Three Fates, which is these four trailers edited together to make a single 23 minute short.
Elder Scrolls is on my list. I think that will be the next next one.
HannaH's Over Invested yes please!
Glitches, glitches and glitches. =) That is why Roach is on the roof, and why he can fly. (My own personal favourite was when I road off into the sunset, and suddenly found myself level with the tree tops.)
so funny.
You’re almost done with book 3 of The Dresden Files!!! Oh damn, you’re just about to hit the point where the stories go from good to AMAZING!
Dresden 3 and the lesser evil reviews will be up on Friday!
Not only are they all named Roach but they're all mares because mares are calmer and less likely to buck at monsters (apparently).
Oh kayyyy! Thanks!
Roach on a roof, and Jerry of Riverdale floating are bugs, or glitches. I like to think of them as features.
haha right. Thats why the honest trailer called it the glitches I assume.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Look up Skyrim glitches. You’ll be laughing for hours.
plot twist: You'll become a hardcore gamer in a couple of months... lol
some new cyberpunk 2077 trailers came out:
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Cars: ruclips.net/video/6IMO0PaX7Yc/видео.html
Keanu Reeves: ruclips.net/video/SM-7tygacE8/видео.html
The reason finding ciri was so slow was because that's after 50-100 hours playing the game where the main goal was to find her. I love that scene of him turning his head away from the door before he opens it as he summons the courage, afraid of what he's going to see. Then, when he slowly pushing the door to the side, you see him look at the table, the bookshelf, then her feet, then the wall, then her back. It does a great job of showing you Geralts thought process and his emotions in that moment.
HAMDIW, I remember when I first hit this scene, and I think it went something like this:
1. Is that really the woman I have been looking for for so very long,
2. IT IS!
3. She can't really be dead,
4. What did I do wrong!
5. How far back am I gonna have to reload to fix this,
6. Will I recognize the critical decision when I get to it?
7. Will I make the right choice this time
All in a couple of seconds, followed closely by:
OMG, the most dangerous man alive is trying very hard not to cry like a baby.
(and then the firefly appeared)
@@servantofmelian9966 yeah! I totally relate! The best part of this scene (and this whole game if you ask me) is Geralts facial expressions. It just makes you believe that Geralt would lose all hope if this girl, Ciri, dies. And it shows in the ending where Ciri DOES die. He loses all of his humanity and hunts down the last crone. He kills her, then waits until all number of monsters come to his location to kill him.
18:22 That scene was in the last third of the main game, Geralt (the player), has been looking for Ciri for a long *long* time, following her trail through forests, villages, and cities in different continents. Fighting monsters and people while slowly learning what happened to her. And after all of that, (after literally days of gameplay), when you finally find her, she is dead. And then you realize that the light that an elven mage gave you to guide you to where she was, was actually her soul (I guess?) that he had took so the bad guys wouldn't be able to find her, and when the light gets to where she is, she comes back to life 17:34. It's a very emotional moment if you have played the game because you have invested a lot into the story, the characters and the challenges, and it pays off. (This isn't the ending of the game, though, there are several huge battles after this and character related side and main quests)
PS: 4:52 This isn't even the whole map... 🤣🤣 (and yes, you can travel all over the map, and it's full of side quests, treasures, enemies, and gorgeous landscapes). Also, in the second DLC Geralt travels to a whole new country that is not in that map.
The frying pan😂😂😂 in that side quest you had to retrieve a frying pan an old woman gave to her new neighbour. He actually needed it to write a letter and so on😂
In The Witcher 3, wherever you whistle for Roach to come, she'll appear out of nowhere about 10 yards away in the opposite direction from which the camera is pointing. Even if you just sailed from one island to another in Skellige, she'll show up. Occasionally, there's a glitch where she'll be floating in the air or be stuck on a fence. The developer actually jokes about some of Roach's antics in a side quest in the expansion Blood and Wine. Here's the abbreviated version of the quest:
ruclips.net/video/krf8FgRm3VU/видео.html
In the quest, Geralt agrees to help an old hermit who's being tormented at night by an invisible ghost. To help him on his quest, she brews him a potion, made from rare magic mushrooms, that will allow him to see the ghost. As a side effect, it also lets him talk to animals.
6:15 Just realized Matt LeBlanc from Friends could be a good Letho look-a-like if he bulked up and shaved his head. Their mouths look similar I think.
Hannah: *Mutes Oats on the Water*
Me: That’s illegal.
😬😬😬
Yes you can play GWENT on your iPhone , you can download from app store
About "knowing anyone better" - that's the thing with the video game trailers. The better the story and characters, the less of it you can show in the trailer for fear of spoiling it.
Games like WoW or Overwatch don't really have any story (or, in the case of WoW, it's hidden under hours repeating raids and grinding), but rather "a lore" that can easily be furthered by the means of the trailer, because nobody will feel like they have lost something (since they wouldn't see these scenes in the game anyway).
That said, you can still get a lot out of other games through reacting to stuff with actual narration like today :)
Yea this one was fun.
😄GF review is great
Came here to say this... carry on...
I am very impressed by that video. That must have been. So hard to make and she's so funny.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Shelby and Matt are so nice as well 😊 can highly recommend their channel.
@@HannaHsOverInvested it's actually a team work. Iirc it's their full time job now (the girlfriend plays the games too btw).
In terms of gaming related content I'd say they are definitely one of the most original and probably best on yt (definitely top 3). There's a lot of great writing too, like "Sony revealed the future of gaming and XBox wasn't in it" (or something along those lines) after PS5 reveal event.
She's got incredible delivery. They are the reason tv is losing to yt.
@@pawelzietek Like a team of people do this? WOW must be nice! haha I am jealous.
She is very funny.
am sure someone told you already but Gwent is an app now. so you can download n play that if you like
Gwent is a real game outside of Witcher 3, but the standalone card game is very different. Fantastic though, in my opinion, and very actively developed.
It took a lot of refinement and downright redesigns to take the core of the gameplay and translate it into a competitive multi-player card game rather than a single-player distraction.
Even if you can't show it on your channel, I highly recommend Miracle of Sound's Witcher songs. They are beautiful and fit perfectly with the games.
GWENT started out as a way to pass time in game that wasn't slaughtering hordes of monsters and to add depth to NPC's who would otherwise have just been background decoration to the main quests and side missions of the game, it got to be so popular that CDPR took the basics of the game and made it into its own digital collectible card game with it's own sets, it's own set of rules (modelled on the rules from the Witcher games) as well as plenty of awesome little story elements for each set of cards and such.
To answer your other question regarding the game world of the Witcher 3, the game is vast in scale, it is broken down into 7 major sub zones and in each of these regions of the game there are dozens (sometimes hundreds) of small objective markers where you will find a bandit camp/monster lair/hidden treasure etc with some of the main plot lines tied to some of these markers but in the main they are optional extra areas to explore to provide lore/crafting materials/rare weapons and armour etc.
As a side note CDPR never copyright strike so you can be safe to use any of their media fully in videos (they give their express permission for anyone to use and experience it) so no need to censor yourself when making any content featuring music/gameplay from any of the Witcher/gwent games, however since the video you were watching was a montage of different cinematic sequences from the Witcher 3 with a custom soundtrack (none of that music that was heard for little snippets comes from the games and was something the channel added themselves) i doubt you would get any action taken against you but it's better to be safe than sorry.
The horse being in weird places/positions is just when the game glitches and causes unintended behaviour for certain objects in the game, there's some very famous and well known glitches in games over the years and in some instances are better known than the actual games themselves.
The cardgame is called gwent and you can download it (for example) to play it on your phone for free :)
ALL of them indeed...it's a 200 hour game easy if you are a completionist and do everything.
Awesome video! I love when people watch vids to help them ease into the world of games hahaha. Keep it up.
Thank youuu!!
By the way...in the part where you're watching the trailer and Geralt rides past the tree with all the guys hanging...when you pan back to Geralt on his horse, look at the fence behind him. You'll see something like a weathervane in the shape of a rooster. This is a recurring Easter Egg...the rooster shape is like the logo for CD Projekt Red and it shows up dozens of times...on top of buildings, on actual weathervanes...I know I've caught it about 2 dozen times but for all I know it might be in a hundred different places. Very subtle...and an indication of how fixated on this game you can get if you play it often enough.
Thats so cool!
fun fact the game took me 2 YEARS to fully finish and i STILL think i missed something
I'm a Witcher player and I would like to confess my sins I've only ever played four games of gwent
You should totally react to Gwent cinematic trailer. As for the game itself, I believe there is an IRL tabletop version of the game, however, it's gonna require you to do a lot of math and memorization, Gwent is available on mobile or PC, the game has a tutorial for total newbies so you won't feel lost. There is also a Thronebreaker, a standalone Gwent story campaign that uses Gwent as a combat mechanic.
Thronebreaker is such an underappreciated game. I thought it was really good.
Someone sent me the link for that I think!
There is a Gwent standalone game that is free to play. It's pretty generous as card games go but it can seem a little complex if you havent played any card games before.
interesting...
I wanted to write you about all those things you said in video, but when i checked comments the most have beed already said by others so i will only tell that music that was copyrighted in second trailer is "Ben Howard - Oats in The Water". The trailer itself is great but it has the greatest impact if you have played the game and know how much effort it took for desperate father to find his adopted daughter. Great reaction, i laughed a lot. ;P
Thank you! My goal is laughter.
i don't know if anyone answered your question or not , but yes , Gwent is an online multiplayer game , which you can play with friends or other people from around the world , and it's also free
Yes thank you!
You could watch a movie version of the game, and enjoy all the story without having to play.
Heres a link to one if you want to check it out. Be warned its 7hours long
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Movie: ruclips.net/video/XMG8Sm4YGfM/видео.html
Also, bare in mind, some of these "Game Movies" have pieced together the main story points of the game, so sometimes cuts between scenes may seem jarring. But overall you will get all the story you need. These movies also don't include side activities within the game that have their own side stories unrelated to the main plot.
I would love to see you watch the whole movie in episodes on your channel!
Love you videos!
Enjoy!
:)
I actually used to/ still play sometimes Gwent outside of witcher. Yes, it exists and is actually a really interesting strategic game. And the artstyle is briloant, every card is sp beautiful to look at, especially if you have the "premium version of it". If you have it then the image is like a mini video with sound and all. Premium cards just cost more, you don't have to pay real money for it.
If you are interested in playing the game with someone you can add me.
5:00 those are place you can go and do but its 1 of many locations XD there are a lot more
I never thought too recommend anything other than trailers but if you want a little more witcher stuff try this out
ruclips.net/video/tNqaPrD4cgg/видео.html - (The Witcher 3 - Virtual Empathy & Moral Reflection In Video Games)
Maybe not a video suitable for reactions but even if its just on your own time its still a very moving video essay. btw it spoils the major plot points/ending for the story and characters so be careful.
Ben Howard - Oats In The Water
is the song
yea... problematic.
Roach is flying in that odd, seated position because CDPR is an awesome development team. When they first hired testers for the Witcher 3 many of them complained that the design of Roach was just too good. They were experiencing nausea, dizziness etc because Geralt's horse was just too realistic. So they organized special mo-cap sessions and opened a bug-development branch just so they could make Roach less perfect6realistic. More about the topic in this video by CDPR ruclips.net/video/KoL1NRh8JOI/видео.html&ab_channel=TheWitcher
Ummm wut??? Hahahaha
@@HannaHsOverInvested It's an april fools statement/video CDPR did after folk have been trolling with Roach bugs for a time
Yes there is actually a stand alone game where you play Gwent. (In the first two games, The Witcher and Witcher: Assassin of Kings it was poker dice...and you didn't actually have mini quests to find, buy or win the cards you need to play Gwent... in game...played with cards that represent characters...in game...So Geralt can play Gwent with a deck that has...a Geralt card and a Triss Merigold card, and a Ciri card....and three variant cards for each of the kings...it's umm...complicated.)
hahah thats funny.
don't worry for copy right from cd project red, they don't do that, in fact for the 5th year annyversary of witcher 3 they used fan cover of witcher son to do a mashup
thats so cool.
@@HannaHsOverInvested they are so cool they actually took their time to help out the people that illegally downloaded their game with some technical issues. I'm not joking, while every other company combats pirating as hard as possible (sometimes making it actually a worse experience to legal owners), CD Project pays people to answer to gamers that stole their game/s.
Reason? The owner of the company says that he believes that most of the people that pirates do it cause they can't afford the original game and not because they're bad people. He admitted that pirating was how he started playing himself.
My first original game that I ever bought was actually released by CD Project. It was a major title and - while the original games would cost 30-40$ which was a fortune for most people in Poland back then - CD Project released major titles for like 10-25$, all while hiring best Polish actors to dub the games.
@@pawelzietek Thats sooooo great!
Man I kinda wonder how'd she react to Geralt and Ciri watching what happened to Vesemir after the wild hunt attacks them.
My worst fears were confirmed when I saw your T-shirt.
That on top of being a pro ball player, a writer, a RUclipsr, a trainer, a basketball coach, a decent singer, an below average piano player, open to learning new things about gaming and basically anything else, that I also care about making the world better and it scared you because you don't know how you can compare?? Is that what your worst fear is?
Don't worry. We can all try new things, even as adults. Practice really does make you better and kindness is free. We can all learn and grow and make this world more beautiful and kind.
You don't have to be afraid of that.
Oh, you're reading Dresden Files? Cool :D Have you ever read The Hollows series with Rachel Morgan by Kim Harrison? You probably have a huge list of to read, but I sincerely recommend that series. Its great!
I read one or two Kim Harrison. I just finished the third Dresden.
Some tiny roach glitches...but the one where Roach talks is not a glitch. And Roach is female, Geralt only rides mares. (There's a historical reason for non knights using mares..stallions are too hard to control)
huh... interesting. Well. Derek is a boy.
Really cool hairstyle !
Triss
Hahahaha THANK YOU! no one else has commented about my Triss joke and I was SO proud of myself. 🤣🤣🤣
Watch "Roach Speaks"
ruclips.net/video/krf8FgRm3VU/видео.html
Out of curiosity, did you get DMCA'd for the song in that trailer? Just wondering why you had it muted
Yes. Yes I did.
AWESOME T-SHIIIIRT!!!
*ehem*
Sorry, got a bit excited there.
There is a standalone Gwent game, but is much more complex and deep than the version on The Witcher 3. If you're into card games you should check it out.
Just never watch the Vesemir death scene video/reaction video, you will not understand it and we will all begin to cry :(
I think you should watch scene where witchers get drunk in Kaer Morhen
The Gwent mobile game and the version in Witcher 3 aren't 'quite' the same. The one in W3 has three rows, 4 (later 5) factions and once a card is played that's it, it doesn't do anything else. You build your best strength army while trying at the same time to sap or weaken your opponent with scorch cards, spies, and weather. The mobile/computer version has 2 rows, and the cards have actions that do thing like lock other cards, cause damage over time, boost with another card is played, ect.
I actually got the collectors edition of the cards from CDPr when they came out, and a boot leg copy from a vendor in Russia who strangely enough makes a more complete set than the official one (has the 5th faction, and some cards not introduced until Blood and Wine). It's fun to play, but takes a little time getting used to the rules.
Keep in mind the games are 10 years after the end of the book series
the story of the witcher 3 is amazing and definetly worth your time... but its also very long - very, very long. i think the game (withut dlc) took me about 100 hours, but i also took it slow and tried not to rush it. the gameplay is easy enough to learn, but the game can get a bit overwhealming especially if you are new to games as the world you're in is huge
Gwent is a card game, yes, and you can play it outside of the Witcher 3 game too. It's free and you can check it out here www.playgwent.com/en . The game is a bit complex, but not that much. You can learn to play it easily. I haven't played it outside of Witcher 3 though so maybe the stand alone version is a bit harder.
What happens to Roach with glitches happens often in the game actually hahah the developers of the game thought it was funny so they programmed it that way and left it in the game. You can easily glitch Roach by sliding down a mountain.
All of the things you see on the map are fast travel locations and some stuff you can do, but there's so much more to do in the game. The ingame world is really vast and beautiful. There's a ton of main quests and side quests. And this map isn't even the whole world you can play in. Plus there are 2 expansions as well, Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone. I had played Witcher 3 every night for 6+ hours from January to May this year (I'm a grad student so I have a lot of free time) and I've still not 100% completed the game.
The next video, the story is about the main quest of the game, Geralt is tracking Ciri. She's come back (I won't spoil from where) and she's fleeing from someone. And Geralt must find her and help her. There's so much story in the game and I think you'd really like it. It would be great if you could play the game, but if you're not into playing it, you can also watch videos of other people. Because the story is pretty linear, and there's more cinematics than gameplay involved in the game, it wouldn't be so boring to watch someone play rather than play it yourself. It's like watching a movie.
The next video is the footage from the game. When Geralt finally finds Ciri after travelling half the world to do so.
And Geralt names all his horses Roach. He prefers mares to stallions because they're easier to control. So most of his horses have been mares named Roach.
I am just here for the clap on the start of every video :)
This is my favourite comment on this video so far 😍🤣😍🤣
You're such a great person I really wish you nothing but the best 😊🤗
2:40 every game is not Perfect. Some have minor bugs and glitches that werent seen by developers during prosuction. Some people found the roach sliding before the developers and use It to their advantage.
You can get Gwent on your phone.
Minor Spoiler for hearts of stone DLC
Shortly after starting hearts of stone story line provided the players finished the main story line Geralt encounters a tax collector. he starts asking questions about undeclared income. witchers dont make alot of money killing monsters in general also in game we as players use whatever means nesscesary to get more money, loot villagers homes and sell their things is one of many such methods.
The tax collectors starts calling us and Geralt out for how we made money. First, where I live has no tax what so ever, it has been recently implemented on soft drinks, energy drinks and cigarettes. My knowledge of tax is admittedly limited to what I have seen in western and European media and read about online.
The tax collector game me anxiety thinking that the game was going to punish me since the developers had made a funny punishment mechanism for abusing the cows in the first area of the game and sell their hide. I thought the same thing was going to happen.
Witcher stuff ... can't get enough ;) And YES, you have watched some parts from Witcher 3 ^^
I feel the same.
its not girfriends watching boyfriends play
it is about a girlfriend watching HER boyfriend play
she playes animal crossing and somtimes a game
he is a hardcore gamer
Except where she talks about other girlfriends watching their boyfriends play...
Question: Is gwent a good game?
Answer: Check your Google playstore 😉
If you're interested in some more witcher (and who isn't?) this guy did some outstanding fan videos for The Witcher: ruclips.net/channel/UC4a0g20wFjYsYIUeSPVgA2w
They're all great but these two are my favs:
ruclips.net/video/nRAJldj4hiU/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/OYp7YN1yM6I/видео.html