I have read somewhere that back in Witcher 1, in Triss's house you can find footprints by her window. In witcher 3 during "never have I ever" game Lambert tells you that he too jumped out of a lover's window to avoid hurting a friend. Also his unique gwent card is Triss.
My favorite easter egg in this game, and maybe even any video game every created, was how Vesemir told Geralt he had to work on his upwards vertical strike in the beginning of the game, when fighting the griffin. And what attack did Geralt use to finish Eredin in the end? An upwards vertical strike.
My favourite Easteregg is when Geralt and Lambert go hiking near Kaer Morhen to refill the box and Geralt tells Lambert that he used to be an adventurer like him until he took a pitchfork to the stomach
There was a letter I found detailing how a man was suffering from a wound to his knee and would soon die so he buried treasure for his son to find on his 18th birthday lol there are alot of arrow to the knee references
Also while you're investigating a barn, you come across a bloody pitch fork, which Geraly comments something about pitchforks being good to defend yourself.
One of the vineyard NPCs sings a slightly more sexualized version of The Book of Love by The Magnetic Fields too! A great song, and it caught me totally off guard.
@@ScarredCore1 im assuming it's from "Beyond Hill and Dale" quest because that quest is the only quest with many reference like Puss in Boots, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, etc and it's based on a fable story
I also found a little girl who says "My brother gave me a sword and I named it needle." "Is it true winter is coming?" "I dreamed I was a wolf" *cough* Arya Stark from Game of Thrones
@@yashveersingh6857 nah man in the books Geralt goes to save Ciri with his gang(Cahir, Milva, Regis, Angouleme and Jaskier) and they take a break in Touissant for continue the journey later on without Jaskier, who stays with Anarietta. Sadly they all die except for the poet. Edit: grammar
"Arrow in the knee" was in more than just Gwent. In the "Hearts of Stone" DLC a guard is straight up mentioned to have taken " an arrow to the knee" during a cutscene.
There was a letter in which a Witcher from the School of Cat writes to another Witcher named Gaetan (who you meet through a Witcher contract). If you manage to find his stash, you will also find a letter that says this: "Dear Gaetan, it's over. They've killed Alex and Cedric. As for Schrodinger, I don't know - might be alive, might be dead..." Didn't read the rest because I was rofl-ing.
katochan In the early 20th century, physicist Erwin Schrödinger criticized the prevelant interpretation of quantum effects by proposing an experiment in which a cat would theoretically be both dead and alive until someone checked on it. It's known as "Schrödinger's cat".
In Skellige when you're exploring Ermion's lab, there's a statue of a thinker looking at his open palm. You have to place objects on it to open a secret door. If you place a skull, it doesn't do the trick and Geralt says "Guess you're no indecisive prince"... Clear nod to Hamlet!
There is another nod to The Lord of the rings in the Blood and Wine DLC where you find a dead body somewhere in the woods and on this body is a fancy spoon and a note calling the spoon "precious"
Another Game of Thrones egg is in Blood and Wine. Secondly quest the knights tournament final duel with a giant knight by the name of Sir Gregor, which is the name of The Mountain.
There two more easter egg I had found. Arya Stark...the little girl, npc (inside the city in Blood and Wine), she say, "My brother gave me a sword! I named it Needle!" and Tomb Raider...Geralt found a skeleton in the ruin (The Great escape quest) and say "Heheh. Tomb Raider. Seems this one liked elven stuff" :)
My favorite reference is the Friedrich Nietzsche one. In the Mission where you have to find the destroyed statues in Velen, the bandits say "God is dead" and talk about Master Friedrich in Novigrad. It's hard to get that.
It's actually very heavily hinted that Ciri did in fact visit the Cyberpunk universe, and it means that The Witcher universe and the CP universe are linked through whatever magic that Avallac'h used to get there.
They're not linked, its more like Ciri can go to any world and timeline in general, cyberpunk universe, fairytails, doctor who, ours... basically if it exists in some way, she can go there.
That’s not a reference, Geralt literally stated that Cinderella is a story that also exist in this world, and in the quest where you romance Keira she talks about it and tries to replicate that
The Witcher series originated as re imagining fables in to dark fantasy setting , so in a way CD project red is paying homage to its roots with many of its fable references .
Or the entire Blood and Wine ending quest if you choose helping Syanna. At least 10 fables "gone wrong" in this quest only, if not more (I didn't really count, was too overjoyed playing that part).
Conrad McGoobs that's not an easter egg. Witcher in general is a remake of old fables in a modern and darker fashion. Read the books. They are the like that as well
Conrad McGoobs I also remember a line Geralt says during The Last Wish which refrences the Brothers Grimm tale/Russian poem about the Fisherman and The Talking Goldfish.
I think Skyrim is way better. I felt much more connected to the world and with my own character. It is a huge thing for me to create a unique character who I can specialize and roleplay. In the witcher 3 you experience a story in skyrim you make your own story. Never really felt home in witcher 3. In skyrim you can just walk through the woods and play like its a regular day in your "second life" if you wanna go this far. In the witcher I was not really that connected to geralt. And I love the fact that Skyrim is first person perspective. That immerses me way more into the world. Same goes for the fact that every item you can pick up is a real physical object you can place somewhere or throw down a cliff. Witcher and Skyrim are both exceptionally great games which focus on different things. I would go as far as to agree that witcher is a better game than skyrim objectively but at the same time I love Skyrim more, much more.
"arrow to the knee" is also referenced in the hearts of stone story when you go itno the oxenfurth academy with shani. a soldier tells shani that his knee has healed well and it is "as if no arrow ever struck it"
There’s a hilarious book in witcher 3 that does a twilight new moon reference. I about died laughing. It was a story about vampires named Edward and Isabella who fall in love and she leaves him for a werewolf named Jacob and gets pregnant. I was like omg it’s twilight lol actually noticed that just the other day while playing
@@suyashbhagwat5615 I think the quest is called "Message from an Old Friend" You get it once you talk to the bookshop owner near the market square in Novigrad, need to find a "book with a red cover". Witcher sense and you get a good few false ones that are funny
One of my favorite Easter Eggs in this game is found in the basement of Crow's Perch, where there are two guards who do a few lines from Pulp Fiction, in which they reference the Gimp and one tells the other to go wake him up.
The fifty shades of gray reference??? When Zoltan is describing one of dandelion's girls during the quest when you have to talk to them, he says something along the lines of "she started calling him Christian and took to calling herself Anastasia, and she called him a stallion in the bedroom and then she pulled out a whip so he left"
blood and wine also has you chasing in the "paperchase" quest after a form A38 though an endless amount of red tape, which is a reference to a famous part of the french animated movie "Astérix's 12 works", where the hero does just that and ends up driven mad by the administration
In the red baron's keep you can listen to a dialoge between two guards: "Bring out the gimp" "The gimp's sleeping" "I guess you'll have to wake him up then won't you?" This is another reference to pulp fiction.
My fav was the mission where you finally find Ciri. Without overt spoilers, they are doing a riff on Snow White and the 7 Dwarves. In fact the narcoleptic dwarf you have to escort would be Sleepy, and the one that bumbles and falls to his down death would probably be dopey.
USB Lynx I was about mention this one and yes it dies if you lob a grenade at it :) there's also a little note on one of the dead bodies referencing that...oh and there was I think Cinderella, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, frog prince, and a red riding hood reference all throughout the game :D
Also a begger in Novigrad who sits there moaning about how some one came up and cured him of his very lucrative leprosy without so much as a "by your leave" ref Life of Brian.
I mean, depends on how much you do and what difficulty you go through on it. I don't know what the world speedrun time is, but one could probably speed through the game's main story in less than 12 hours.
How about that Xenovox conversation referencing cell phones? "Think of them like magic boxes that talk." "Are they hard to build?" "Extremely" "So no chance that all mages will be carrying one? Etc etc etc"
in b&w there's a red hot chili peppers reference, in the land of a thousand fables there's a bridge with a red pepper under it. i got a good kick out of it.
I love the Witcher 3. It's my favorite game. There's reference to Tomb Raider. In a Tomb, you'd find the skeletal remains of a person. I believe Geralt says "Heh. Tomb Raider. Seems this one likes Elven Stuff"
C'mon bruh. Found the body in a location which is set like the recent Tomb Raider Series, obviously the person was collecting (one would say "raiding for") items AND he says "Tomb Raider"? I guess you need more set proof like Laura's head on a stick? I suppose you don't think the Assassin's Creed reference in The Witcher 2 was a reference to Assassin's Creed either 🙄
Di General (Why do people always argue in my reply/comment section) Tomb Raiders have been a thing since before the game series. The fact you find this corpse in a tomb doesn't add evidence because obviously a tomb raider would be in a tomb. It's as much a refrence to Indiana Jones as it is to Lara Croft. The difference between this and the Assassin's Creed reference is that the AC reference was very specific. Yes, assassins have existed since before the games, but we never associated them with white hooded robes and haystacks before the games. The AC reference is an assassin dressed in specifically AC clothing doing a very AC thing. The Tomb Raider reference is just the corpse of a tomb raider. If the corpse was wearing something remniscent of Lara Croft's outfit it would be a reference.
I believe there is also a refference to the 2001 movie "A knight's tale" when you lose a fist fight at the fight club ("You have been weighed. You have been measured"...). Not really a cult movie but always very fun to watch.
He says it before the fight. You can then whoop him. But this is probably one of my favorite eggs. I think Durden The Tailor is the one who says it, too.
ikr i was wondering when someone will actually say it , thats like , one of the easiest to spot , as its almost all over the new part of velen unlocked in each bandit camp.
Another pulp fiction reference is in the barons castle, two guards can be heard saying; “Time to bring out the gimp” “But the gimps asleep” “We’ll wake him up then!”
I'm surprised not to see a mention of the connection between the demonic Gaunter O'Dimm in Hearts of Stone and Walter O'Dim, the - presumably - demonic Man in Black from Stephen Kings Dark Tower series.
what is more interesting the whole main plot of Hearts of Stone is based on a polish legend about Mr Twardowski, and Mr Twardowski himself is often called a polish Faust, because like Faust, he signed a pact with the devil
Olgierd von Everec was based on Andrzej Kmicic from Henryk Sienkiewicz's "Potop" (eng. "The Deluge") and Olgierd is kind of similar to the Polish actor who played Kmicic in the movie - Daniel Olbrychski. The conversation before Olgierd's and Geralt's fight is taken from the book, where Kmicic fights with Wołodyjowski. Although in The Witcher Olgierd says the Wołodyjowski's part and Geralt Kmicic's. Olgierd: "Would you wait, sir, for the dribble to subside?" Geralt: "Makes no difference to me." And then during the fight Olgierd says: "You do not strike, sir! You flail!" Olgierd has also a scar on his head just like Kmicic (he got it in the fight with Wołodyjowski). Also when Geralt fights against Iris' Greatest Fear it says: "A witcher shall soon be buried. The skies weep.", which is also Kmicic's words (There was "colonel" instead of "witcher" though).
In tussaint you can find a fisherman saying "and i say, hey hey hey, whats going on?" and if you have been in the internet for some time, you will get it xD
theres a line in some or one npc (only ever heard it once) in blood and wine that said "my brother gave me a sword, i called it needle" or smth like that. guess where that from, yup Walking dead
Achirag Chirag actually referance from game of throne if that what you asking lol. but yea im sure, i heard it in dock area (lower class area ?) between the post (fast travel) and the brothel which i only go for supply btw
reza falepi I'm colorblind and I see the 16 In your picture lol xD it gives me kind of a rewarding feeling when I recognize the right number on those tests.
There are many more references. There was a body dressed like an assassin beside e haystack. Snow white and seven dwarf reference in isle of mists. Three farting trolls :3, a rabbit in front of the cave that you can only kill with bomb. Schrodinger's cat!! and many more. I can't even recall them all.
Perhaps it was mentioned before, but the dwarf that designs the posters for Dandelion's cabaret is named "Henri Rautlec", obvious reference to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Those are much cooler when you know original witcher story from books. In them there are tons of references to fairytales, slavic mythology and stuff like that. I think CD Red tried to go that way in more modern, "gaming" style.
Szymon Janik True. I’ve haven’t finished the entire series yet but a lot of stories reference other works.Sir Gawain and the green nigh, beauty and the beast, lady of the lake, Aladdin are ones I can think of from the top of my head.
Anybody come across a bunch of bandits in Velen that throws "your mother was a hamster" insults? It's a Monty Python reference, happened once, never did trigger a similar event since. Now I'm wondering if i'd I just imagined the whole thing
I don't know why but am I the only one who can kinda predict what the spells do when they say them? I speak Welsh and a lot of the spells sound like Welsh words for instance Keira Mets casted a spell on some mice and in the spell she said "Caefful". This sounds like "Ceffyl" which means horse in Welsh. Funnily enough the mice turned into horses!
Elder Speech is essentially fantasy Celtic with some minor changes, mostly seen in spells and Nilfgaardian culture, places and names, it's really cool 😁
In HoS after you defeat the Caretaker and enter the house looking for clues about Olgierd's lover, Geralt will say "Happy famillies are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" when he looks at a painting. It's a reference to Tolstoy's Anna Karenina - the first sentence of the book.
I ignored this game for the longest time, from its release in May 2015 until a few months ago. I never was into that sort of "Middle Ages Fantasy RPG" genre (more into the Fallout 3/4 type first person or third person action shooter genre), so never even looked at any Witcher 3 videos on RUclips. But a few months ago, I saw that Witcher 3 with the two expansion packs was on sale for under 30 dollars on the PS4 store, and decided to buy it to see what the hype was about. The first few hours I felt bored and couldn't get into the game, the controls felt wonky and I was wandering around aimlessly. But I decided to stick with it, and then after a few more hours of playing and discovering cool Witcher 3 abilities and intriguing side quests, I started to become hooked. Now, after finishing the main Witcher 3 quest, I can honestly say this is probably the best game I have ever played in my life. I was surprised at how much I loved the storyline and all the main and side quests. In fact, Witcher 3 isn't all that different from Fallout 4 or any other open world game like GTA V, they all have the same gaming mechanics (main mission and side quests, customizable weapons, moral game choices, etc etc). What sets Witcher 3 apart for me is the way the game just involves you with the characters, these are people you really care about and feel a part of. The romance of Triss and Geralt is something I still treasure long after I was done with the game. Can't wait for Witcher 4.
I got this and fallout 4 for Christmas last year. Hated F4 so I gave W3 a shot. Like you I was bored at first, i died easily and eventually quit. I came back to it that spring break and played the shit out of it. Not even skyrim did that to me.
What about the retired armourer in Novigrad who runs a tiny restaurant and is Called Hattori and keeps some of his swords upstairs? :) (Kill Bill reference, anyone?) Or the girl running around Novigrad saying 'This is a material world and I'm a material girl'? :)
My favorite was the "Snatch" reference during the fists of Novigrad quest where you are asked by the bookie Claytop to throw the fight against Georgious George. A nod to a plot line of the movie where the kingpin Bricktop wants a fight thrown by a fighter named Gorgious George
That's not as amazing as this and some other small easter eggs you can find in the world, because the whole fantasy world (that second "dream" dimension that was made for the princess inside the book) is an obvious take on a lot of disney's stories (and other know fairy tales) -snow white -peter pan -Jack and the Beanstalk -Rapunzel -Hansel and Gretel etc Snow white is on the island and not on that book, but it's really obvious
Sebastian Beßler I didn't say they were all Disney's stories, I know who wrote all the original books, but when you think about Snow white or Rapunzel it's Disney that first comes to mind because of the movies, like anyone has ever read the original stories...
@@trixie7340 go on searching for the ursine gear diagrams ( probably on superior ursine gear ) For one of them , you visit a island , full of pirates , you can go through an opening downstairs and find the cell . It's key is with one of the guards , kill him and enjoy
There is also one EASTER egg that many people didn't notice. If you're in the barons castle and keep walking around you'll hear 2 guards talking "BRING OUT THE GIMP." - "BUT THE GIMP IS SLEEPING." - "WELL I GUESS YOU JUST HAVE TO WAKE HIM UP NOW, DON'T YOU?" They are talking about Uma and the reference is from Pulp Fiction
In blood and wine when you take ownership of corvo bianco you speak to your new majordormo and learn his name is barnabas-basil foulty! A reference to John Cleeses character basil fawlty from the bbc tv series faulty towers ❤️
There's a quest on one of the smaller Skellige islands about a tower that just appears near a village overnight. When Geralt gets inside he says something along the lines of "huh... It's bigger on the inside" And the whole tower appearing out of nowhere also looks like a nod to Doctor Who to me. That's debatable but the phrase isn't:)
Could also be howls moving castle now that I think about it. They say something similar when going into it in one of it's locations that it can teleport to.
I say serieses too. Not forming a plural distinct from the singular is dumb. There's less distinction. Part of the problem lies with prescriptivists that demand that language hearken back to what came before (in fact, the nominative singular and plural of series in Latin were the same.) The other part of the problem has to do with the fact that 's' is a sibilant fricative, which requires more breath support than most sounds. As such, many people either can't pronounce consecutive sibilant fricatives or have a mental prohibition for it. I also like 'thesises'
When I first played, I thought that wailing female vocalist in the combat music sounded very similar to Dolores O'Riordan (RIP) from Cranberries. I only found that strange because she had a very unique voice and vocal style. I'm sure it wasn't her, but maybe someone inspired by her. Then later in the game I came across an NPC named "Dolores Reardon" (pronounced the same way without the O) and thought "There's no fucking way that's a coincidence." I wonder if someone on the development team is a Cranberries fan and decided to make an esoteric easter egg. Or maybe I'm overthinking and I'm just crazy. Am I crazy? Somebody tell me I'm not crazy. 😟
I know I'm chiming in 3 years too late, but I still play this masterpiece of a game (since 2017). In Blood and Wine, CDPR's logo is on a sign of a tavern in one of the towns. Can't recall the name of the place or the town it was in, but was south of Beauclair and the image on the hanging sign was the red CDPR bird. :)
You also have the rabbit from Monty python and the quest for the holy grail. A snow hare at a cave entrance that you can't kill that also happens to be surrounded by skeletons.
I can’t believe you missed the snatch movie reference in one of the fights a guy called something similar to bricktop asks you to throw the fight for a reward and you fist a guy called George gorgeous in reference to gorgeous George from the movie a illegal underground fighter
Funny you mention that.. Cause my vacation just started and I realised that I haven't played blood and wine.. So a couple of nights ago I bought the game of the year edition.. Best choice ever.. Period
There's also a reference to the Gladiator movie. A small treasure quest (in Blood and Wine expension) where you search for a treasure in the farm of a certain Maximus whose wife and child have been tortured and murdered. Actually there is a letter explaining the story with the exact same words as in the movie. Very well executed.
I found a reference to Twilight that was hilarious in a book called Morbidia: The Vampire's Final Visage or something like that. I also heard a Madonna reference from a strumpet in Novigrad. Also, not really a reference to anything, but while wandering around I randomly looked and saw a shooting star fly across the sky. It was pretty cool knowing CDR put that much detail into their world building.
I've put about 400 hours into this game. Witcher 3 holds no secrets from me. I held that shit up by its ankles and shook every tid bit right out of it.
There are also many polish references you missed but its fine I don't expect you to know them, just wanted to mention :) For example crane at the docks, it's the only black building in Novigrad. Thic crane actually exists in Gdańsk in Poland and it has 575 years :D
Also some time when your walking past a peasant they say "giz a copper" reference to Michael Palin's street urchin character in Monty Python A Life of Brian! I think it always reminds me that anyway!
Jason Kerr and how he always talks about how he had a ‘profitable case of leprosy’ which was miraculously cured, meaning he has become and ex-leper.. chuckled every time I heard it
There's also the tremendous number of french foods introduced with blood and wine. There's also a quest, I don't remember the name, in wich you have to retrieve some money from a bank. Problem is, you need to get all sorts of permits from multiple windows, nottably permit A-38 from window 1, wich, I think is a reference to an old animated (and excellent) french movie called "Les douzes travaux d'Astérix". Just my toughts :)
One of my favorites is in Vizima, there's a secret door in the castle courtyard where you will find a saddle and a note, referencing the Witcher 1 and the Striga from that story. Super cool!
I have read somewhere that back in Witcher 1, in Triss's house you can find footprints by her window. In witcher 3 during "never have I ever" game Lambert tells you that he too jumped out of a lover's window to avoid hurting a friend. Also his unique gwent card is Triss.
Fuuuuuuckk!!
Zirael Lambert Lambert what a prick
Triss can do so much better than fucking Lambert.
They always want the bad boys even though they say otherwise.. Until they hit the wall
OMG now I'm glad I choose yenn
My favorite easter egg in this game, and maybe even any video game every created, was how Vesemir told Geralt he had to work on his upwards vertical strike in the beginning of the game, when fighting the griffin. And what attack did Geralt use to finish Eredin in the end? An upwards vertical strike.
oh shit now this makes me want to replay the game
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O shit that's true, so the vertical strike was when Geralt "strikes" a blow in Eredin's eye?
Damn I'm impressed that you caught that. That's cool af
Bravo Sir!!! Good spotting
Best lotr reference is in witcher 2 when Geralt tells phillipa he won't get her a ring of power cause he doesn't want to run on top of volcanos later
My favourite Easteregg is when Geralt and Lambert go hiking near Kaer Morhen to refill the box and Geralt tells Lambert that he used to be an adventurer like him until he took a pitchfork to the stomach
😂😂😂😂
In the same scene, lambert takes the piss out of geraldo for his famous "killing monsters" line
Its a Skyrim reference and if you choose the other option,lambert shall mock the "killing monsters" trailer.
There was a letter I found detailing how a man was suffering from a wound to his knee and would soon die so he buried treasure for his son to find on his 18th birthday lol there are alot of arrow to the knee references
Also while you're investigating a barn, you come across a bloody pitch fork, which Geraly comments something about pitchforks being good to defend yourself.
Some prostitutes in Novigrad often say "it's a material world, and I'm a material girl" as reference to the song
Especially in the Blood an Wine expansion, the peasants sing a lot of different songs from the Beatles, Peter Gabriel etc...
When the girl runs off that he is training in fencing, the twin, he says "ah, the girl just wants to have fun."
One of the vineyard NPCs sings a slightly more sexualized version of The Book of Love by The Magnetic Fields too! A great song, and it caught me totally off guard.
@@ErnestoBrausewind i heard one sing a line from a song 'Girl from Ipanema'. A relaxing bossa nova tune
lol i noticed this. 😅
I liked the Winnie the Pooh in Tussaint. You kill a bear wearing a red shirt and you can loot honey and honeycomb from it
Where was it bro?Its not a contract I assume because I did every contract and mission.
@@ScarredCore1 im assuming it's from "Beyond Hill and Dale" quest because that quest is the only quest with many reference like Puss in Boots, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood, etc
and it's based on a fable story
@@kennethbryan7723 Its not. I found him while riding around in Toussaint for a while until he appeared.
@@benftimaisra8078 cool. could you tell me the specific location? I'd like to see it
China’s mad
If you kill a frozen enemy with a crossbow Geralt says "hasta la vista"
I think its aimed more towards Arnold being Mr.Freeze and one of his favorite sayings was hasta la vista baby in the Terminator movies
You also get an achievement of the same name
@@BMXguy1989 Bruh Mr.Freeze are you kidding me rn? Not the terminator 2 scene where he freezes the t1000 and blows him apart? Cmon boi...
Derek M i smell a troll
And you get a trophy
I also found a little girl who says "My brother gave me a sword and I named it needle." "Is it true winter is coming?" "I dreamed I was a wolf" *cough* Arya Stark from Game of Thrones
Yes in the blood and wine dlc
Arya didn't dream she was a wolf, Bran did. Check and mate. Your empire has been toppled.
@@chaosapiant Arya, Bran and Jon are wargs in the books
@@villam215 oof! Owned
Where can i find her on the map?
in toussaint if you go towards the edge of the map towards the blue mountain geralt says you'll need a fellowship to go any further.
Wow really?
@@edwardlopex9448 what does it mean is it a LOTR reference??
@@yashveersingh6857 yup it is in the first movie fellowship try to cross mountain
Nah man
@@yashveersingh6857 nah man in the books Geralt goes to save Ciri with his gang(Cahir, Milva, Regis, Angouleme and Jaskier) and they take a break in Touissant for continue the journey later on without Jaskier, who stays with Anarietta.
Sadly they all die except for the poet.
Edit: grammar
When you find better Easter eggs in the coment than the video!!!
@joseph rodriguez fuck you for lying on a video that has nothing to do with employment.
When you spell comment without an "m".
True, 100% true.
GamingBolt ist what you get if you order gameplay secrets on wish.
"Arrow in the knee" was in more than just Gwent. In the "Hearts of Stone" DLC a guard is straight up mentioned to have taken " an arrow to the knee" during a cutscene.
I remember this, I had a good chuckle at the time.
Also, while drinking with his witcher friends Geralt says: "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took a pitchfork to the stomach."
this makes me so giddy considering i started playing skyrim like a month ago
Came here looking for this. This was when Shani and Geralt were looking for the dude who knows much about Mr. Mirror
There was a letter in which a Witcher from the School of Cat writes to another Witcher named Gaetan (who you meet through a Witcher contract). If you manage to find his stash, you will also find a letter that says this: "Dear Gaetan, it's over. They've killed Alex and Cedric. As for Schrodinger, I don't know - might be alive, might be dead..." Didn't read the rest because I was rofl-ing.
I found that too lol
What reference is this
Schrodinger the scientist/philosopher google him.
katochan
In the early 20th century, physicist Erwin Schrödinger criticized the prevelant interpretation of quantum effects by proposing an experiment in which a cat would theoretically be both dead and alive until someone checked on it. It's known as "Schrödinger's cat".
katochan Go back to school.
In Skellige when you're exploring Ermion's lab, there's a statue of a thinker looking at his open palm. You have to place objects on it to open a secret door. If you place a skull, it doesn't do the trick and Geralt says "Guess you're no indecisive prince"... Clear nod to Hamlet!
why was hamlet holding a skull in the play?
There is another nod to The Lord of the rings in the Blood and Wine DLC where you find a dead body somewhere in the woods and on this body is a fancy spoon and a note calling the spoon "precious"
Also the name of that dead guy is Smeagul Serkis referencing to gollum and Andy Serkis
Which quest was that i think ive done it before
Trustan Mullins You can stumble across it while doing the main story quest La Cage au Fou because it's near the Wight that collects spoons.
Did Gaunter O'Dimm kill gollum?
Another Game of Thrones egg is in Blood and Wine. Secondly quest the knights tournament final duel with a giant knight by the name of Sir Gregor, which is the name of The Mountain.
John213 I found another Game of Thrones Easter egg. There is a crafting diagram for a sword called Longclaw.It's Jon Snow's sword in GoT
it's Gregoire (not Gregor) de Gorgon, Mount Gorgon being the tallest mountain in Toussaint
And the bear fight on the pit in Skellige
The witcher 3 was the best game ever made and so far nothing is better and I don't think nothing will be except a witcher 4
Sameer gamer 4 life CD Projekt Red told that it would be unfair to kill off the Witcher series. . maybe we may see it
Death 666 man I hope we see one cause I love the witcher series it's my favorite and the 3rd game was a masterpiece
Sameer gamer 4 life I do too.....playing Horizon for now...then idk what to do...maybe I'll replay Fallout NV
Agree, and let me just add that if The Witcher 3 didn't got a 10 no game deserves a 10, ever.
Geralts story is finished. Maybe in the next Witcher we will be able to create our own Witcher and choose the school, that would be awesome.
There two more easter egg I had found. Arya Stark...the little girl, npc (inside the city in Blood and Wine), she say, "My brother gave me a sword! I named it Needle!" and Tomb Raider...Geralt found a skeleton in the ruin (The Great escape quest) and say "Heheh. Tomb Raider. Seems this one liked elven stuff" :)
My favorite reference is the Friedrich Nietzsche one. In the Mission where you have to find the destroyed statues in Velen, the bandits say "God is dead" and talk about Master Friedrich in Novigrad. It's hard to get that.
Marx was referenced in this one too. "Religion is opium for the masses."
"Stare into the abyss, and the abyss shall stare into you" This is also Nietzsche, tough they forgot the full saying
@@Domas04 just played a couple of hours ago.
Got that too during my first place, thought it was super easy to get
hard to get that?? Dude, everyone knows Nietzsche and "God is dead"
In Blood and wine are a bandit named Calvin and his Panther hobbes. Loved it
I thought I was the only one who got that lol, given my age and the fact that Calvin and Hobbes books were a huge part of my childhood
I just found one today, there is a quest to aquire a pass to enter the gate which is called THOU SHALL NOT PASS!
im pretty sure loads of people know that one.
@@razorultra9202 u wot m8
What about Ciri's refernce to cyberpunk BEFORE cyberpunk was even announced? when she describes to Geralt one of the worlds she's been into?
Emily Cyberpunk? The game was announced like 5 years ago :D
When the game releases.. There has to be a reference to Ciri and Avallac'h .. Or an easter egg.. Would be a great nod to how far cd pr have come
Emily YES YES
It's actually very heavily hinted that Ciri did in fact visit the Cyberpunk universe, and it means that The Witcher universe and the CP universe are linked through whatever magic that Avallac'h used to get there.
They're not linked, its more like Ciri can go to any world and timeline in general, cyberpunk universe, fairytails, doctor who, ours... basically if it exists in some way, she can go there.
Is no one going to mention the notice in skellige that captain Ahab put up about the great white whale?
Yep, saw that and laughed like mad.
Whats it about?
@@stefangermanski2668 Achab from Moby Dick ;)
I'm afraid to start playing it again because I feel like I'm not gonna stop and spend another 100 hours on the game
Nothing wrong in doing that.
I've got 210 on my first play.
Omg my thoughts exactly!
now we have the dlcs to add another numerous amount of hours lmao
Weakness disgusts me
Hearts of Stone: Shani treated a patient who took an arrow to the knee
Aw shit
Here I go playing again
There was also a reference to Cinderella, except this time she was eaten by a monster and all that was left was her glass slipper.
Zeuguls, right?
That’s not a reference, Geralt literally stated that Cinderella is a story that also exist in this world, and in the quest where you romance Keira she talks about it and tries to replicate that
@@nivek9165 whooosh
@@cancavcav2308 no
@@nivek9165 yeah, “base on a real story” also
There's also a lot of references to fables. When you find Ciri it makes references to Snowhite and the seven dwarfs.
The Witcher series originated as re imagining fables in to dark fantasy setting , so in a way CD project red is paying homage to its roots with many of its fable references .
Or the entire Blood and Wine ending quest if you choose helping Syanna. At least 10 fables "gone wrong" in this quest only, if not more (I didn't really count, was too overjoyed playing that part).
Conrad McGoobs that's not an easter egg. Witcher in general is a remake of old fables in a modern and darker fashion. Read the books. They are the like that as well
Conrad McGoobs I also remember a line Geralt says during The Last Wish which refrences the Brothers Grimm tale/Russian poem about the Fisherman and The Talking Goldfish.
Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys*
The witcher is better than skyrim.
They're both good for different reasons. No use in comparing them.
Oh, not even a debate
That is pretty much established fact now.
Fuck Skyrim, that game is a piece of shit
I think Skyrim is way better. I felt much more connected to the world and with my own character. It is a huge thing for me to create a unique character who I can specialize and roleplay. In the witcher 3 you experience a story in skyrim you make your own story. Never really felt home in witcher 3. In skyrim you can just walk through the woods and play like its a regular day in your "second life" if you wanna go this far. In the witcher I was not really that connected to geralt. And I love the fact that Skyrim is first person perspective. That immerses me way more into the world. Same goes for the fact that every item you can pick up is a real physical object you can place somewhere or throw down a cliff. Witcher and Skyrim are both exceptionally great games which focus on different things. I would go as far as to agree that witcher is a better game than skyrim objectively but at the same time I love Skyrim more, much more.
"arrow to the knee" is also referenced in the hearts of stone story when you go itno the oxenfurth academy with shani. a soldier tells shani that his knee has healed well and it is "as if no arrow ever struck it"
There’s a hilarious book in witcher 3 that does a twilight new moon reference. I about died laughing. It was a story about vampires named Edward and Isabella who fall in love and she leaves him for a werewolf named Jacob and gets pregnant. I was like omg it’s twilight lol actually noticed that just the other day while playing
I encountered it recently while playing the game. I really liked its ending.
@@hydron5693 what quest is that LOL ?
I found it in a bookshop in Novigrad.
@@hydron5693 damn...
@@suyashbhagwat5615 I think the quest is called "Message from an Old Friend" You get it once you talk to the bookshop owner near the market square in Novigrad, need to find a "book with a red cover". Witcher sense and you get a good few false ones that are funny
De La Croix (blood and wine character) = DLC.
One of my favorite Easter Eggs in this game is found in the basement of Crow's Perch, where there are two guards who do a few lines from Pulp Fiction, in which they reference the Gimp and one tells the other to go wake him up.
i was just about to write about this :D
SLOmotaro me too! Its a great easter egg. I was so happy that CD Projekt Red put it in the game
The fifty shades of gray reference??? When Zoltan is describing one of dandelion's girls during the quest when you have to talk to them, he says something along the lines of "she started calling him Christian and took to calling herself Anastasia, and she called him a stallion in the bedroom and then she pulled out a whip so he left"
Lol wicked.
And the other one was gay hahahahahaha
ohh my bad. the way he dress makes me cringe though
they also referenced Kill Bill in that mission for a guy named Hattori
bharatendu singh yes! Hanzo Hattori. The legendary swordsmith. I thought I was the only one who noticed that too.
blood and wine also has you chasing in the "paperchase" quest after a form A38 though an endless amount of red tape, which is a reference to a famous part of the french animated movie "Astérix's 12 works", where the hero does just that and ends up driven mad by the administration
And the old Sage in Velen fell into the cauldron with the magic potion as a child like Obelix
That was by far my Favourite Easter egg
In the red baron's keep you can listen to a dialoge between two guards:
"Bring out the gimp"
"The gimp's sleeping"
"I guess you'll have to wake him up then won't you?"
This is another reference to pulp fiction.
My fav was the mission where you finally find Ciri. Without overt spoilers, they are doing a riff on Snow White and the 7 Dwarves. In fact the narcoleptic dwarf you have to escort would be Sleepy, and the one that bumbles and falls to his down death would probably be dopey.
Gg. Ciri full of dwarven cum
there is a reference to Monty Python quest for the holy Grail in Velen. A white rabbit in front of a cave that has blood and bones.
and you can't kill that sucker no matter how much you try
Use the Holy Hand Grenade God damnit! It works!
Did you try throwing some explosives? :)
USB Lynx I was about mention this one and yes it dies if you lob a grenade at it :) there's also a little note on one of the dead bodies referencing that...oh and there was I think Cinderella, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, frog prince, and a red riding hood reference all throughout the game :D
I just wanted to mention it because no one would really get it when they find it.
Also a begger in Novigrad who sits there moaning about how some one came up and cured him of his very lucrative leprosy without so much as a "by your leave" ref Life of Brian.
I'd just like to point out, that the "weeping statues" are called "Weeping Angels"
Lol, just hearing the word "witcher" makes me want to replay witcher 3 for the tenth time.
tenth? dman how many hours is that
@@illuminategaming4804 2000 or so...
ᛞᛟᛟᛗᛁᚾ cos game and geralt that good
I mean, depends on how much you do and what difficulty you go through on it.
I don't know what the world speedrun time is, but one could probably speed through the game's main story in less than 12 hours.
How about that Xenovox conversation referencing cell phones? "Think of them like magic boxes that talk." "Are they hard to build?" "Extremely" "So no chance that all mages will be carrying one? Etc etc etc"
in b&w there's a red hot chili peppers reference, in the land of a thousand fables there's a bridge with a red pepper under it. i got a good kick out of it.
No way here I go playing Witcher again
Under the bridge downtown ...
The Jango Fett quest is also a reference to Django unchained, one of the 3 brothers even shouts "i like the way you die boy" during combat.
I love the Witcher 3. It's my favorite game. There's reference to Tomb Raider. In a Tomb, you'd find the skeletal remains of a person. I believe Geralt says "Heh. Tomb Raider. Seems this one likes Elven Stuff"
Just because he says "tomb raider," it doesn't mean it's a reference to Tomb Raider, though.
C'mon bruh. Found the body in a location which is set like the recent Tomb Raider Series, obviously the person was collecting (one would say "raiding for") items AND he says "Tomb Raider"? I guess you need more set proof like Laura's head on a stick? I suppose you don't think the Assassin's Creed reference in The Witcher 2 was a reference to Assassin's Creed either 🙄
C'mon bruh. It's Lara, not Laura. ;P
Di General (Why do people always argue in my reply/comment section) Tomb Raiders have been a thing since before the game series. The fact you find this corpse in a tomb doesn't add evidence because obviously a tomb raider would be in a tomb. It's as much a refrence to Indiana Jones as it is to Lara Croft. The difference between this and the Assassin's Creed reference is that the AC reference was very specific. Yes, assassins have existed since before the games, but we never associated them with white hooded robes and haystacks before the games. The AC reference is an assassin dressed in specifically AC clothing doing a very AC thing. The Tomb Raider reference is just the corpse of a tomb raider. If the corpse was wearing something remniscent of Lara Croft's outfit it would be a reference.
As you proceed further into this ruin, you‘ll find a rope across a rift and a climbing hook(like Lara‘s) next to it. That should be proof enough.
In the book store in Novigrad there's a book talking about Bella and Edward. XD
Venom LeStrange Also a book of the Necronomicon and other one named "The last wish"
CrimsonBunny The last wish one was my favourite, because it's actually one of the books the Witcher is based on.
Mia Robson I know, I'm glad that you noticed.
Venom LeStrange in blood and wine same for batman
There's more than once reference to Twilight, another one is a on a random notice board.
I believe there is also a refference to the 2001 movie "A knight's tale" when you lose a fist fight at the fight club ("You have been weighed. You have been measured"...). Not really a cult movie but always very fun to watch.
Ducky That s one of the best movies to watch when you wanna relax. Love it. Highly recommend it.
How do you lose a fist fight?
He says it before the fight. You can then whoop him. But this is probably one of my favorite eggs. I think Durden The Tailor is the one who says it, too.
Also there is a quest named "A knight's tale"
what about mad Max references? " what a day, what a lovely day" and "witness me, brothers" when you're recovering the ofir diagrams
I can' t believe I had to scroll this far down to find someone who recognised this too!
ikr i was wondering when someone will actually say it , thats like , one of the easiest to spot , as its almost all over the new part of velen unlocked in each bandit camp.
OMG i've missed this?! =(
ROTHFLMFAO! I saw that!
What about the Pulp Fiction reference? When Geralt kills a twat named Zed and later speaks to Zoltan and says: "Zed's dead".
Gerard Ferrer yesss, this one was my favorite.
Thank you for posting that... I kept reading thinking "how is no one posting about the pulp fiction reference?' It makes me smile eveeytime
@@sctvfan1313 c;
Another pulp fiction reference is in the barons castle, two guards can be heard saying;
“Time to bring out the gimp”
“But the gimps asleep”
“We’ll wake him up then!”
If only you could have ridden off on Zed's horse, named Chopper, of course.
I'm surprised not to see a mention of the connection between the demonic Gaunter O'Dimm in Hearts of Stone and Walter O'Dim, the - presumably - demonic Man in Black from Stephen Kings Dark Tower series.
what is more interesting the whole main plot of Hearts of Stone is based on a polish legend about Mr Twardowski, and Mr Twardowski himself is often called a polish Faust, because like Faust, he signed a pact with the devil
Yes, and Mr Twardowski tricked the devil and escaped to the moon so he couldnt get caught. The moon is highlighted in the game, too
hearts of Stone- David Beckham as the lead character - weird but fun
yeah...totally agreed, Olgierd von Everec looks just like Beckham, that caught my attention the moment I saw him...
Olgierd von Everec was based on Andrzej Kmicic from Henryk Sienkiewicz's "Potop" (eng. "The Deluge") and Olgierd is kind of similar to the Polish actor who played Kmicic in the movie - Daniel Olbrychski. The conversation before Olgierd's and Geralt's fight is taken from the book, where Kmicic fights with Wołodyjowski. Although in The Witcher Olgierd says the Wołodyjowski's part and Geralt Kmicic's.
Olgierd: "Would you wait, sir, for the dribble to subside?"
Geralt: "Makes no difference to me."
And then during the fight Olgierd says: "You do not strike, sir! You flail!"
Olgierd has also a scar on his head just like Kmicic (he got it in the fight with Wołodyjowski).
Also when Geralt fights against Iris' Greatest Fear it says: "A witcher shall soon be buried. The skies weep.", which is also Kmicic's words (There was "colonel" instead of "witcher" though).
I remember that movie!!! I also read the books!! Thank you for this, I completely forgotten them :)
Exactly ,lead character was based on Andrzej Kmicic
In Novingrad a poor man was singing: “Singing in the rain” off course in the rain 😂😂
In tussaint you can find a fisherman saying "and i say, hey hey hey, whats going on?" and if you have been in the internet for some time, you will get it xD
It's a 4 Non Blondes song. Not everything is about internet humor.
@@RabbitOfNazaeth111 but its a really populat meme lool
Obviously I am old now since I don't need the internet to get this... 🙄
theres a line in some or one npc (only ever heard it once) in blood and wine that said "my brother gave me a sword, i called it needle" or smth like that. guess where that from, yup Walking dead
what ? are you serious ?
Achirag Chirag actually referance from game of throne if that what you asking lol. but yea im sure, i heard it in dock area (lower class area ?) between the post (fast travel) and the brothel which i only go for supply btw
reza falepi yep , i remember hearing that too. it came from a peasant girl.
I heard it near the palace. If you follow her around she asks you also if winter is truly coming.
reza falepi I'm colorblind and I see the 16 In your picture lol xD it gives me kind of a rewarding feeling when I recognize the right number on those tests.
"Bring out the gimp." "The gimp's sleeping." HOW DID THIS NOT MAKE THE LIST?!?
xThrottleGeek I was searching through the comments to see if anyone else got that one. "Guess you'll have to go wake him up now won't cha"
I did the same before posting. Couldn't believe it. Maybe I'm just too old... :)
Geralt, after a mission & killing "Zed", is asked "where's Zed?" & replies "Zed's Dead." too. #PULPFICTION
There are many more references. There was a body dressed like an assassin beside e haystack. Snow white and seven dwarf reference in isle of mists. Three farting trolls :3, a rabbit in front of the cave that you can only kill with bomb. Schrodinger's cat!! and many more. I can't even recall them all.
Shayan Shahriar Assassin was Witcher 2
Shayan Shahriar Yes I loved the reference of not knowing whether the one man was alive or dead- the man named Schrodinger!
What is three farting trolls a reference to?
Kendall Stilgenbauer the hobbit
There’s also a jeepers creepers reference. I’ve heard one of the kids say “Jeepers creepers- look at those peepers!”
Perhaps it was mentioned before, but the dwarf that designs the posters for Dandelion's cabaret is named "Henri Rautlec", obvious reference to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
such a shame that only a few get this reference, I love it
Those are much cooler when you know original witcher story from books. In them there are tons of references to fairytales, slavic mythology and stuff like that. I think CD Red tried to go that way in more modern, "gaming" style.
Szymon Janik True. I’ve haven’t finished the entire series yet but a lot of stories reference other works.Sir Gawain and the green nigh, beauty and the beast, lady of the lake, Aladdin are ones I can think of from the top of my head.
Anybody come across a bunch of bandits in Velen that throws "your mother was a hamster" insults? It's a Monty Python reference, happened once, never did trigger a similar event since. Now I'm wondering if i'd I just imagined the whole thing
i am gonna spend every waking moment trying to get that to trigger. if i die, it is your fault
+kawaii hitler it's true, so hopefully you won't waste too much of your life
It wasn't imagination :) ruclips.net/video/pU-l1jVaZEs/видео.html
Ram'ses Gorthon, The Famed Cook?
I don't know why but am I the only one who can kinda predict what the spells do when they say them? I speak Welsh and a lot of the spells sound like Welsh words for instance Keira Mets casted a spell on some mice and in the spell she said "Caefful". This sounds like "Ceffyl" which means horse in Welsh. Funnily enough the mice turned into horses!
Elder Speech is essentially fantasy Celtic with some minor changes, mostly seen in spells and Nilfgaardian culture, places and names, it's really cool 😁
Well sapkowski took a lot of Welsh words as a base for the elder speech
Welsh is the basis for almost all the elven speech. Gwynbledd literally translates to "fair-colored wolf" in the real world. White Wolf. You get it.
In HoS after you defeat the Caretaker and enter the house looking for clues about Olgierd's lover, Geralt will say "Happy famillies are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" when he looks at a painting. It's a reference to Tolstoy's Anna Karenina - the first sentence of the book.
You missed Winee the Pooh in Blood and Wine. There is a bear that has red fur on his middle body and when you kill him he drops a jar of honey.
What about Hattori in Novigrad?? He is a reference to Kill Bill
zed is dead in tw3 too
I don't know much about Kill Bill, never like it, but for it's a clear reference to Hattori Hanzo...
Not really because the real one wasn't a sword crafter but the Kill bill's one was, just like the one in the game
don't forget the 'bring out the gimp...the gimp is sleeping' pulp fiction reference in the basement in the bloody barons keep!
Hattori Hanzo was a real person, and I'm pretty sure the character in Kill Bill, the children's cartoon AND Witcher 3 are referencing him.
I ignored this game for the longest time, from its release in May 2015 until a few months ago. I never was into that sort of "Middle Ages Fantasy RPG" genre (more into the Fallout 3/4 type first person or third person action shooter genre), so never even looked at any Witcher 3 videos on RUclips. But a few months ago, I saw that Witcher 3 with the two expansion packs was on sale for under 30 dollars on the PS4 store, and decided to buy it to see what the hype was about.
The first few hours I felt bored and couldn't get into the game, the controls felt wonky and I was wandering around aimlessly. But I decided to stick with it, and then after a few more hours of playing and discovering cool Witcher 3 abilities and intriguing side quests, I started to become hooked.
Now, after finishing the main Witcher 3 quest, I can honestly say this is probably the best game I have ever played in my life. I was surprised at how much I loved the storyline and all the main and side quests. In fact, Witcher 3 isn't all that different from Fallout 4 or any other open world game like GTA V, they all have the same gaming mechanics (main mission and side quests, customizable weapons, moral game choices, etc etc). What sets Witcher 3 apart for me is the way the game just involves you with the characters, these are people you really care about and feel a part of. The romance of Triss and Geralt is something I still treasure long after I was done with the game.
Can't wait for Witcher 4.
I got this and fallout 4 for Christmas last year. Hated F4 so I gave W3 a shot. Like you I was bored at first, i died easily and eventually quit. I came back to it that spring break and played the shit out of it. Not even skyrim did that to me.
Ehm... it's a trilogy. There will not be a 4... :(
Yeah unfortunately there won't be a fourth game. It's based off the trilogy book series. And if they do continue it, Geralt's story ends here.
What about the retired armourer in Novigrad who runs a tiny restaurant and is Called Hattori and keeps some of his swords upstairs? :) (Kill Bill reference, anyone?)
Or the girl running around Novigrad saying 'This is a material world and I'm a material girl'? :)
Hattori is a reference to a samurai legend. It's a nod to ancient swordplay for both the game and the movie. Don't think they were nodding KB.
and the name Hattori doesnt suit as a name of an elf... wait is hattori really an elf? now time to replay the game i guess
DAYMN I knew something was up with Hattori!!!
@@venzonsales5481 yeah, he was an elf
@@RabbitOfNazaeth111 yeah, the game took inspiration from Japanese culture. You can liken Geralt to a Ronin even, even his tied up hair
The game is such a beautiful masterpiece! I just can’t say it enough.
My favorite was the "Snatch" reference during the fists of Novigrad quest where you are asked by the bookie Claytop to throw the fight against Georgious George. A nod to a plot line of the movie where the kingpin Bricktop wants a fight thrown by a fighter named Gorgious George
Hey what about the three farting trolls
The Hobbit reference. It was a bit more intense slash action in the movie, while in the book it was...
Well, half fart joke, half gallows' humor.
Mattias Svensson and three major youtubers angry how being one of them
joe*
Joe, Dodger, and Jesse!
Fun Fact: If you play it with german language, two of the three trolls have been voiced by germanys most popular Lets Players (Gronkh and Sarazar)
The mist isle- 7 small people? lol enchanted women in a hut. Most obv one lol
you can find the reference to snow white even in The Last Wish book, in the "The Lesser Evil" short story
That's not as amazing as this and some other small easter eggs you can find in the world, because the whole fantasy world (that second "dream" dimension that was made for the princess inside the book) is an obvious take on a lot of disney's stories (and other know fairy tales)
-snow white
-peter pan
-Jack and the Beanstalk
-Rapunzel
-Hansel and Gretel
etc
Snow white is on the island and not on that book, but it's really obvious
the fact you just credited Disney with authoring most of European Folklore makes me cringe. not a single Story you named is a Disney Original.
Sebastian Beßler I didn't say they were all Disney's stories, I know who wrote all the original books, but when you think about Snow white or Rapunzel it's Disney that first comes to mind because of the movies, like anyone has ever read the original stories...
People all over the world read those books AND saw the films. Only illiterates watched just the Disney movies and didn't touch the books.
Wow that Tyrion Easter egg really dropped my jaw
Where do I find it?
@@trixie7340 go on searching for the ursine gear diagrams ( probably on superior ursine gear )
For one of them , you visit a island , full of pirates , you can go through an opening downstairs and find the cell . It's key is with one of the guards , kill him and enjoy
@@sannidhyabalkote9536 thank you, I found it.
There is also one EASTER egg that many people didn't notice. If you're in the barons castle and keep walking around you'll hear 2 guards talking "BRING OUT THE GIMP."
- "BUT THE GIMP IS SLEEPING."
- "WELL I GUESS YOU JUST HAVE TO WAKE HIM UP NOW, DON'T YOU?"
They are talking about Uma and the reference is from Pulp Fiction
In blood and wine when you take ownership of corvo bianco you speak to your new majordormo and learn his name is barnabas-basil foulty! A reference to John Cleeses character basil fawlty from the bbc tv series faulty towers ❤️
they didn't mention the Schrodinger's cat reference
which is that?
oh right riiight that one
LOL, I died at that
..but also not.
These are references not secrets.
They didn't call them secrets, they called them Easter eggs. Unless they changed the title.
They're allusions not references. References are more overt and involve indicating where they come from
It's in the thumbnail. Either way I'm being pedantic.
TheMightyPipe Woops, you're right - that's my bad.
I guess Mass Effect didn't learn from The Witcher 3. The Witcher 1-3 are masterpieces.
Have you played Witcher 1? It is quite flawed. Good Story but gameplay and voice acting were bad.
BloodShank the Witcher 1 was a masterpiece compared to other games that were coming out at the time
Jamez Bandz the witcher 1 came out in 2007.......
mass effect didn't even learn from mass effect 1-3
Jamez Bandz you said it wasn't a masterpiece when it came out and then compared it to games that came out near a decade later.
There is a reference to "what does the fox say" song when you try to sneak in on Ermion's lab in the wake when you arrive in Skellige..
There's a quest on one of the smaller Skellige islands about a tower that just appears near a village overnight. When Geralt gets inside he says something along the lines of "huh... It's bigger on the inside"
And the whole tower appearing out of nowhere also looks like a nod to Doctor Who to me. That's debatable but the phrase isn't:)
Could also be howls moving castle now that I think about it. They say something similar when going into it in one of it's locations that it can teleport to.
Serieses? :)
This was bugging me too!
Mikhail Kropotov "it's already plural! You wouldn't say chineses..."
Tropic thunder
Mikhail Kropotov Englishish is hard
I say serieses too. Not forming a plural distinct from the singular is dumb. There's less distinction.
Part of the problem lies with prescriptivists that demand that language hearken back to what came before (in fact, the nominative singular and plural of series in Latin were the same.)
The other part of the problem has to do with the fact that 's' is a sibilant fricative, which requires more breath support than most sounds. As such, many people either can't pronounce consecutive sibilant fricatives or have a mental prohibition for it.
I also like 'thesises'
The plural of thesis is theses.
"War never changes " has nothing to do with Bethesda. It was first (and since) used in 1997 Fallout developed by Interplay.
HoneyBadger1184 a franchise that they ruined before Bethesda revived it
Will J And Bethesda proceeded to ruin it even more.
Will J no Bethesda had made the worst fallouts. 1,2, tactics and new Vegas will always be the true fallouts.
Also quoted by solid snake in MGS 4 a whole monologue to it also
The origin of the quote, "War never changes"', goes back to the 19th century.
When I first played, I thought that wailing female vocalist in the combat music sounded very similar to Dolores O'Riordan (RIP) from Cranberries. I only found that strange because she had a very unique voice and vocal style. I'm sure it wasn't her, but maybe someone inspired by her.
Then later in the game I came across an NPC named "Dolores Reardon" (pronounced the same way without the O) and thought "There's no fucking way that's a coincidence." I wonder if someone on the development team is a Cranberries fan and decided to make an esoteric easter egg. Or maybe I'm overthinking and I'm just crazy. Am I crazy? Somebody tell me I'm not crazy. 😟
Your not crazy
I know I'm chiming in 3 years too late, but I still play this masterpiece of a game (since 2017). In Blood and Wine, CDPR's logo is on a sign of a tavern in one of the towns. Can't recall the name of the place or the town it was in, but was south of Beauclair and the image on the hanging sign was the red CDPR bird. :)
You also have the rabbit from Monty python and the quest for the holy grail. A snow hare at a cave entrance that you can't kill that also happens to be surrounded by skeletons.
I can’t believe you missed the snatch movie reference in one of the fights a guy called something similar to bricktop asks you to throw the fight for a reward and you fist a guy called George gorgeous in reference to gorgeous George from the movie a illegal underground fighter
wtf coincidence this video came out just as i restarted to play witcher 3 yesterday
Thibaut Kentgens Same here man.. Weird
I finished my second playthrough minutes ago.
Funny you mention that.. Cause my vacation just started and I realised that I haven't played blood and wine.. So a couple of nights ago I bought the game of the year edition.. Best choice ever.. Period
funny you mention that cuz I just got the game and it rocks
Wow that's crazy dude...seriously guy; shut the fuck up.
In the Tyrion Cell Dungeon, a pirate have a letter with the Cthulhu frase Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Sean Maxhell what s it mean though?
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming
There's also a reference to the Gladiator movie. A small treasure quest (in Blood and Wine expension) where you search for a treasure in the farm of a certain Maximus whose wife and child have been tortured and murdered. Actually there is a letter explaining the story with the exact same words as in the movie. Very well executed.
I found a reference to Twilight that was hilarious in a book called Morbidia: The Vampire's Final Visage or something like that. I also heard a Madonna reference from a strumpet in Novigrad. Also, not really a reference to anything, but while wandering around I randomly looked and saw a shooting star fly across the sky. It was pretty cool knowing CDR put that much detail into their world building.
I've put about 400 hours into this game. Witcher 3 holds no secrets from me. I held that shit up by its ankles and shook every tid bit right out of it.
SandBox H3ro same here lol
SandBox H3ro there are many things you have missed
There is also the 50 Shades reference when Zoltan is telling Geralt of all the Lovers in Dandelion Book.
I don't remember what he said. What exactly is the reference?
My favorite easter egg is a cave with 3 farting trolls whose names are Jesse, Dodger and Joe because of Jesse Cox, Dodger and Angry Joe.
In the room with the cake, there is also a box on a table with hearts on each side in the centre of the room, to represent the companion cube
The fact that one gwent card has a funny line in it totally makes me wanna replay the entire game...
Also, the titles of various quest are often references to popular music. Artists as David Bowie and Prodigy are just a couple of examples.
The is another Skyrim reference in Heats Of Stone. Shani asks how a guards knee is doing, and he replies that it’s as if a arrow never hit it...
What about the Falling Whale in Syanna's fantasy land (Blood and Wine) Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy anyone?
The entire things a refference to old tales
Even the easter eggs are complex and require some knowledge. This game is like a heaven for geeks
There are also many polish references you missed but its fine I don't expect you to know them, just wanted to mention :) For example crane at the docks, it's the only black building in Novigrad. Thic crane actually exists in Gdańsk in Poland and it has 575 years :D
Also some time when your walking past a peasant they say "giz a copper" reference to Michael Palin's street urchin character in Monty Python A Life of Brian! I think it always reminds me that anyway!
Jason Kerr and how he always talks about how he had a ‘profitable case of leprosy’ which was miraculously cured, meaning he has become and ex-leper.. chuckled every time I heard it
There's also the tremendous number of french foods introduced with blood and wine.
There's also a quest, I don't remember the name, in wich you have to retrieve some money from a bank. Problem is, you need to get all sorts of permits from multiple windows, nottably permit A-38 from window 1, wich, I think is a reference to an old animated (and excellent) french movie called "Les douzes travaux d'Astérix".
Just my toughts :)
Amecareth Qc asterix and obelix, popular in Poland
Indeed you're right. I'm French and I loved that part ;D
You forgot the trophy "Fist of The North Star". It's a refrence to Kenshiro.
Actually the trophy name is "Fist of the South Star" but still a reference
One of my favorites is in Vizima, there's a secret door in the castle courtyard where you will find a saddle and a note, referencing the Witcher 1 and the Striga from that story. Super cool!
In the hearts of stone expansion a guard will talk about an arrow that struck him in the knee and how shani helped him , it gave me a chuckle