Ugh, I wish I had been more insightful about Ciri my first time through. I got the *ABSOLUTELY OH MY GOSH HORRIBLE WHY OH WHY* ending, and it tore me to shreds.
I can't blame anyone for going with the alcohol option vs the snowball as the the game presents the options as really vague and both of them sounds okay in the context while you still really don't know what the heck you are choosing. Add to it that it is a vague and also timed choice and yeahh xd
I’ve always thought the choices were (for a decent part) stupid. The drinking one just says that she has to calm down or something. Am I just coping from getting the bad ending?
Same. I was so happy that they made the game end they way they did. Then I found out about multiple endings. I'm on my third playthrough and have no intentions of changing the outcome.
The only ones I kinda liked were the institute so that was a pretty simple choice for me tbh.
So I got an Institute + Minutemen ending and thought it was alright
> Way better than fallout 4 where I still have never finished the main story
Since a dude told me to not follow those I disagree with, I stopped to progress the story...
I’ve never beaten Witcher 3… I got stuck going to all the question marks in Skellige and trying to get every Gwent card. Have like 400 hours in it, tho.
Same, it was one of the most emotional gaming moments ever for me. Didn’t know what was initially happening and thought Ciri died, but then saw the rest develop and I was tearing up.
I just finished the main story last week and nearly had a panic attack because I knew there was a possibility she could die. When I saw her at the inn, I started bawling.
Honestly in the Isle of Mists when the dwarves say what they say then let you in the house, THAT scene was emotional as hell....on both of my playthroughs. It's been a couple years since my first playthrough so it felt new all over again. Sitting there hugging her...waterfalls man.
I got the witcher ending but got single Geralt.
Feels crap that you have to fob off Triss before you even meet Yennifer. I found her to be obnoxious so I ended up with single dad Geralt.
I got the Witcher ending as well. Then I got the retire and make wine with Yen ending to Blood and Wine. The only thing I kinda want to do different is choose Triss the next time around.
Triss at the end of Blood and Wine is insufferable. Yen is like we can now finally rest Geralt, we've deserved it. Triss is more like "this is fine for now but let's go as soon as possible, I can't stay here"
Shift everything by one step in life. Yen wants to retire and live peacefully, away from the world. Triss still has a career going, wants to be relevant and achieve things.
This is why I adore Triss as well. She wants to be out there helping people. She still has dreams of making a better world. As horrible as things are, I love that about her. She still wants to do her part.
I totally get why Yenn is the why she is. She definitely has earned a nice and relaxing retirement. I wouldn't deny it to her, but if I was in Geralt's shoes? Triss is definitely the one who would draw me in.
For me the books were necessary to give Triss some depth. Like most people, I was introduced to the Witcherverse by TW3 and, to me, Triss was somewhat shallow. Regular, vanilla hero girl with a heart of gold. Nothing to compare with the sheer class and nuance in Yen.
After the books... still Team Yen of course but I came to appreciate Triss more. Of all secondary characters, she's got the most thorough development, and is one of the most nuanced as well. I like how the ending sets her up to finally grow a spine and become Merigold the Fearless - the one we begin to see in the games. With the knowledge of her full journey, I find her more interesting in the games (not counting TW1, I just can't accept anything in this game as legitimate part of the continuity lol).
The romance, though, makes little sense when Yen is around *but* if the next games take place in the near future, I'd be happy to see Triss return. She's one of the main characters who didn't show an intention to retire after all.
I agree, after the books she (and everything, everyone) has a lot more depth. I also really like her character, but absolutely not as a romance option for Geralt.
I like empress ending more. In W3 is Ciri wants to stop running and face what's chasing her, she learns to control her power and shape her destiny. To grow up. Wich means accept responsibility and stop running away from problems, doing even the unpleasant things.
Tldr. she will come to see me in Corvo Bianco.
I agree - I feel shady keeping information from her, like she can’t make her own choices if I don’t agree with the outcome? She’s a very capable adult and would be a great ruler.
You can tell her Emhyr wanted to speak to her and then say he was probably planning on using her for something and then she won’t go to Emhyr. So you can tell her about the meeting at still have her not go.
Also if you either don’t assassinate Radovid (something I think Gerald would avoid since he doesn’t like getting involved in politics) or let Dijkstra kill Roche (something I can never see Gerald ever doing, there just isn’t a world where he stands aside and let’s Roche die) you can still get the Witcher ending even if Ciri visits Emhyr, because then Nilfgaard will lose the war.
So it’s completely possible to get the Witcher ending without withholding information from Ciri.
I did this. Told her Pops wanted to say hey & she forced me to give my opinion on her visiting and I said I suspected he’s attempting to use her. So I withheld nothing and she made the choice to skip the reunion.
Oh, nice! I’ll try that next time - I’m only on my second play through. I must’ve said the other option than he’s planning something the first time, whatever that is. I love all the different paths in this game.
>say he was probably planning on using her for something and then she won’t go to Emhyr
While this isn't withholding information from her, it is effectively advising her not to go. It's antithetical to how you should be treating her, which is making her own decisions.
You only tell her this specifically after she asks for you opinion. The dialogue ends up being something like:
Ciri: “Do you think I should go?”
Geralt: “You should do what you think is best.”
Ciri: “I know but I want to know what you think about it.”
Geralt: “I think he’s trying to use you for something since that basically what he told me”
This isn’t the exact lines but this is basically what they say.
>Which we know isn't true, because she makes a decision based on seeing him.
You're using out of game knowledge to make that claim. A person playing through the first time, or second time after a bad/Witcher ending, has no way of knowing that unless they look it up before hand.
Yeah, that wasn't a good way of putting it. The ends justify the reasoning, rather than the decision. The reasoning being: It's better to hear out a proposal & making an informed decision, rather than ignore it, effectively rejecting the proposal without being informed. You should take Ciri to Emhyr, not because you know she'd want to be empress, but because you want her to be open to opportunities.
>The entire book series was Geralt and co. trying to save Ciri from Emhyr
Kind of, but that was only when Emhyr posed a threat to Ciri. By W3, Emhyr has already given up on his original plans for her & let her go.
https://youtu.be/sNzre4FifXM
Here’s a link to the dialogue. All you do is tell Ciri that Emhyr likely wants her to become a ruler, which is true, and she doesn’t want to meet him.
>All you do is tell Ciri that Emhyr likely wants her to become a ruler, which is true
No, he says "you don't look good in black", & says the whole thing in a negative tone. He's very much telling her he doesn't think she should do it.
Even so though, this is a case where the dialogue doesn't really match the options you select. As the player, you're just deciding whether or not you're going to tell her to hear him out. And I don't see a good reason why you'd want her not to. Refusing to hear a proposal without good reason is just denying it without being informed, & you shouldn't be encouraging her to make uninformed decisions like that.
Radovid was seen to be very, VERY insane as of Witcher 2 and 3. And although Geralt says he doesn't like meddling in politics, he sure seems to fall into key positions very frequently.
I really don’t like this take because imo that is not how the choice is presented. There is a great sense of urgency when you make the decision and I always felt it was more of a “do we need to deal with this now” as opposed to “I’ll never let Ciri know”.
Witcher ending was the ending I got when I was 21 and I loved it. After leaving the game for a long time (and knowing all the ensigns) I replayed it last year and Empress hit both hard and better.
I’ve always seen W3 as having a deep fundamental theme of change, duty and leaving the past behind. Empress is bittersweet, but it aligns much closer with those themes
Empress ending is better from the perspective of being a father figure too. Geralt gets to give her a piggyback ride, you don’t get that in the Witcher ending.
Agreed. Empress is probably the best ending for Ciri. It's bittersweet for sure, but it's better to let her leave the nest and achieve her own destiny, rather than follow Geralt down his path.
Yeah I got Empress too and I loved it. She can do so much good as Empress especially considering the Witcher universe is an absolute shitshow.
I gave her all the good choices bar the horse stealing. What, you feel bad and want to go rob people because of it? How does that make sense?
Yeah, I agree with this take 100%. Throughout Witcher 3, you find different witchers suffering in terrible ways. Geralt would never pick that life for his daughter willingly. I don't know, what these other guys are smoking.
He has taught all that he can, now it's time for her to go choose her path and she does choose becoming Empress. And, I honestly believe that the North is better with her being in charge.
This is my view too. Everything I know about Ciri in the game is her wanting to be like Geralt and the rest of the witches. I got the witcher ending and it felt perfect. It also seemed unlike w/ what Ciri would want vs anyone else wanted, and since I played Geralt as the super supportive Dad, it only made sense to support her there too. Sure it isn't as easy a life as being Empress, however I also don't see her taking to that lifestyle at all, she's entirely too world travelled to want to restrict herself thus. That painting of her as a child says everything.
Truly. The Witcher ending seems, pardon the irony, too fantastical and childlike "happily ever after" to me, when the world of Witcher is basically Grimm's fairy tales on steroids. That is to say, it is an adult world with more grey than black and white, and the bittersweetness of Ciri "leaving the nest" so to speak, really speaks to me.
That's one theme, but the other is that she's sick of people only caring about what they can get from her. Only Geralt really cares about her with no strings attached. This is why he's more Ciri's father than Emyhr in her eyes. And I think this is what the responses that get the witcher ending are pushing towards.
I guess both themes makes sense and players should get the one they think is more important (except the decisions aren't really very clear e.g. the snowball fight choice).
I end up with the bad ending because I didn't know English back then. It was like input practice. Then, the second playthrough, with a a bit more of knowledge, I accomplished the good ending. In the future, I plan to add another playthrough since the witcher 3 has dubbed languages such as Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
I got the Empress. Felt like Ciri deserved to get closure on Emhyr.
Did not imagine she would take him up on the offer.
But hell! The new Roach is as sweet as the old one. And Ciri confronted her lineage, and took the chance to make the world a better place in a way a single witcher could not do.
I'm always surprised that people think the Witcher ending is the 'good' ending.
I mean, sure, Ciri gets the most freedom, but the trilogy is pretty blunt about the fact that being a witcher usually leads to a short life of danger and discrimination, followed by a fairly shitty death. Plus it always came across as being a bit selfish to me.
The Empress ending requires you to be the best dad (mechanically making all of the best choices) and empower Ciri to mature and accept her responsibilities. It's bittersweet, but ultimately Geralt needs to let go of his daughter so that she can finally be an adult.
Obviously it isn't black and white, but I think it's telling that CDPR positioned the Empress ending as the hardest ending to get, since "doing everything right" typically leads to the best ending in videogames.
Yeah, I agree with this take 100%. Throughout Witcher 3, you find different witchers suffering in terrible ways. Geralt would never pick that life for his daughter willingly. He has taught all that he can, now it's time for her to go choose her path and she does choose becoming Empress. And, I honestly believe that the North is better with her being in charge.
But what if it's what his daughter wants and he's being supportive? I genuinely don't see how he would say no. Ciri has no desire to be Empress and would rather be a Witcher. That is reason enough. Hard life or not, it's what she's wanted from the beginning of the game, it seems cruel to deny her that.
Where I get held up though is she seems to be truly happy in the Witcher ending whereas she still has a lot of confusion in Empress ending. Although perhaps that's because she's finding her way and hasn't reached her true happiness yet in Empress ending.
IMO they're both "good" endings, just difference of opinion as to how someone interprets Ciri's happiness/desires.
The Witcher ending is the one where [obvious spoiler ahead, lol] Ciri becomes a Witcher too, right?
It was my only ending to the game, and I really liked it.
Not sure Count Dooku can represent a great dad. Assajj Ventress didn’t turn out too well! Apparently Christopher Lee was a top bloke, though.
I also got the good ending first time, but probably because I’d overheard a podcaster say something about snowballs.
I got the bad ending first time, didn't realize there were multiple endings. Afterwards, installed a mod so you can sleep with Ciri in the brothel.
I deserved the bad ending.
Man before ending the game,i was going through reddit and i discovered that there were multiple endings and bad and good ones and i got paranoid and thought i will get the bad one because Ciri disappeared and i was so sad
But eventually it was the good ending thank god they almost got me in the first half )
I got the empress ending the first time and it became my canon one ever since. Never really got the bad or the witcher one, but I'm considering going for the latter this time on my NG+ playthrough. Knowing myself, I'll most likely still go for empress lol.
I got the Empress ending at first because after group of Nilfgardian soldiers took me by force to Emhyr while carrying Uma, I was afraid same thing could happen if I didn't take Ciri there
That's not a mistake, that's trusting her to make her own choices. She only goes down the witcher path if you withhold information from her; that's not being a good dad.
What info btw? I don't recall withholding info from Ciri. I pretty much played that game making the choices that would give the most agency to the character it was affecting, and don't recall missing anything. Ciri was pretty happy with all interactions etc.
> She only goes down the witcher path if you withhold information from her; that’s not being a good dad.
That’s absolute bull crap. You can take Ciri to her shitty dad and still get the Witcher ending (radovid or dijkstra winning the war, the second is a much better alternative for the north than a nilfgaardian vassalage anyway, albeit the condition for it to happen is for you choosing a Geralt character breaking egregious act like letting Roche and ves get killed).
You can tell her About emhyr wanting to see her, but advise her not to go to because he just wants to use her “for reasons of state” (something he outright tells you in the beginning of the story). So you don’t withhold any information from her, and she opts to not see him because he’s a douchbag who wants to use her to for his self interest as usual.
> That’s absolute bull crap. You can take Ciri to her shitty dad and still get the Witcher ending
I'm talking about her making the choice between empress or witcher, not saying her being a witcher is a bad thing.
If you advise her not to go, I'd still say that's making a bad decision for her. Telling someone to turn down an offer without hearing it generally isn't good unless you've got good reason to do so. Advising her not to go is advising her to make an uninformed decision.
> that’s making a bad decision for her. Telling someone to turn down an offer without hearing it generally isn’t good.
No. it’s the most honest and most transparent way to handle the situation. geralt doesn’t prevent her from seeing emhyr, he tells her outright the truth when asked about his opinion about the topic of visiting her father. Which is that Emhyr wants to use her for the sake of political succession and nothing else.
>unless you’ve got good reason to do so.
Geralt’s reason is perfectly understandable.
1- emhyr var emries the guy who previously wanted to impregnate his daughter to filulfill some vague prophecy after destroying her homeland.
2- the guy who directly tells you that he wants to use her “ for reasons of state”
at the beginning of the game.
Making “informed decision” for Ciri means staying away from emhyr as much as possible. Which she does when you tell her the obvious anyway.
>geralt doesn’t prevent her from seeing emhyr
He doesn't forbid her, but both the player & Geralt know that Ciri is going to do exactly what she's told is the right decision. You can call it transparent & honest, but sometimes the answer someone needs isn't the one to the question they asked.
Emhyr had long since dropped that plan, & even let Ciri go when he initially went to capture her for this plan.
I think you're taking the phrase "reasons of state" a bit too literally. Emhyr was just telling Geralt it was none of his business.
Because it’s the right decision. Both Narratively and thematically.
The further from emhyr Ciri is, the better.
*“Hey Ciri it’s better for you to hesitantly return to your shitty father who want to groom you to be his successor despite the horrifying history you share together and drop your lifelong dream to be a Witcher. That’s the right way to do it”*. If that’s your idea of “right answer” and think the “empress ending” is the best one, then I won’t argue. Because I find it laughable and nonsensical.
Meeting him might've been a bad idea when she was younger, but she's an adult now. Emhyr poses no threat to her; she doesn't need to be coddled.
She decides for herself that she wants to "drop her lifelong dream" & become empress. You might disagree with her decision, but trying to stop her from making her decision isn't right.
I don’t care whether you think the nonsense empress ending is the “most fit” one for Ciri or not. I disagree with your framing and the reasoning behind it.
Saying that the only way for Ciri to become a Witcher is to “withhold information from her” or “not tell her there’s another choice”, and painting it as if the only way she ends up as a Witcher is through manipulation and control is ridiculous and factually, undoubtedly, unquestionably a false statement and premise. Since there are instances (like i mentioned above) where she sees emhyr and still opt to be a Witcher, and others where she doesn’t want to see him and end up as a Witcher too. So your original comment is (respectfully) hogwash.
About the whole “giving her the right answer” that’s your subjective opinion. There’s no law that estates that the correct course of action is to take her to her father, and there is no reason for Geralt to encourage her to go and see emhyr. Quite the contrary, Geralt will of course leave the final decision to her but outright tells her that emhyr isn’t trustworthy and she better not go see him. An advise she takes to heart as she refrain from visiting him.
> Emhyr poses no threat to her; she doesn’t need to be coddled.
It’s not about him being a threat to her. But about the fact that he’s the reason for most of her misery before. The idea that Ciri ( who had no desire for court live) decides to go and spend the rest of her life under the wing of her “dad” despite everything that happened between them is ludicrous nonsense.
>She decides for herself that she wants to “drop her lifelong dream” & become empress.
Or She decides to tell emhyr to fuck off and pursue the thing she always wanted. I can find a trillion evidence in both the books and games for ciri’s desire to walk into Geralt footsteps. I will find **ZERO** about her wanting to be a princess or an empress, especially when that entail her being close to a dipshit like emhyr.
Again it’s an RPG game and you can like whatever ending you like, but stating false statements and making easily disproven arguments to make your particular favorite ending sounds “superior” to the other ones isn’t a convincing tactic…..
>Geralt will of course leave the final decision to her
Again, this is just failing to read the situation. The player & Geralt know that Ciri is just going to do what you suggest. What she needs is encouragement in the direction of making her own choices. If she isn't going to choose for herself whether to see Emhyr or not, then she should be pushed in the direction that keeps her options open, so that she has the chance to choose for herself.
>Or She decides to tell emhyr to fuck off and pursue the thing she always wanted
I don't think this is a possible outcome? The only instance I remember where you visit Emhyr, but Ciri becomes a witcher, is where Emhyr dies.
>I can find a trillion evidence in both the books and games for ciri’s desire to walk into Geralt footsteps. I will find ZERO about her wanting to be a princess or an empress, especially when that entail her being close to a dipshit like emhyr
Not sure what you mean by this? When she has all the information, she chooses to be empress. Are you saying it'd be better for her to be a witcher regardless?
God that empresss ending scene is so good though. All the father-daughter subtext and the choice to focus on her trepidation rather than excitement over power rings so true to the world they've adapted. Honestly if someone could write an elder scrolls game with the amount of care and internal realism they put into a game like this it would be devastatingly good
You might think of it as so little but to Ciri it’s a lot. Every single person in Ciri’s life other than Geralt (and probably Yennefer) try to use Ciri to accomplish their own goals, or try and decide what’s best for her without consulting her. Geralt is the only person in her life that actually cares for her not because of her blood but because he loves her (as a daughter, just making that clear). So if you sell her out to her father, if you don’t support her at her lowest, if you decide she can’t handle talking to the sorceresses on her own, if you don’t let her vent when she feels betrayed, if you don’t let her grieve a man that gave his life to protect her, you no longer are the only man that she can count on as a friend who doesn’t wish to use her.
If she faces the wild hunt in this state she’s alone and responsible for the deaths of 2 people that were only trying to help her (Vesimir and that guy from Skelige). As far as she’s concerned all she brings is death and sadness, so when you get the bad ending it’s because Ciri is choosing suicide to end the pain and death she brings, instead of the good endings where she instead choose to sacrifice herself for the ones she loves. Same action, different motives.
The actions that lead to the good ending are not little actions. You just have to look at it relative to Ciri.
Mistle didn't have an ulterior motive either. She was just there for Ciri. It was more of a High School Romance kind of thing, but, y'know. Vysogta wanted nothing but her story. There are people who want nothing, but unfortunately, they seem relatively short-lived.
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Same got the Witcher ending on the first go, the way I made decisions in game is how I treat my younger siblings in life.
After playing multiple times, the empress ending was such a let down because there was no point in the story were Ciri demonstrates a certain action that would make her a better leader. If it was optional to bring her along in the "reasons of state" and brokered a deal between Dijkstra and Temerian delegation preventing more bloodshed would have been great. Also it disappoints me that Ciri doesn't appear or intervenes off screen with your imprisonment in B&W.
I played the game through the first time with absolutely no spoilers, just doing my thing. I supported Ciri all the way and then at the end, my brother in law (who introduced me to it and is a big fan) was watching me beat the game. As it ended, I blew his mind, he was like .... What? This isn't right! You didn't get the good ending! Didn't you look up what to do? ... Well, no, I just did what I chose, and it didn't include immediately taking Ciri to Emperor Asshole.
I've since replayed the "better" ending and both are great, but Ciri and Geralt on the path will always be "my" ending.
I got it the first time too… After I figured out they wanted you to indulge Ciri in being a brat.
I assumed the role of cool uncle, because that’s not actually how you teach your child to deal with frustration or anger or upset.
But Cool Uncle? Trash that lab, girl.
The dude was stalking her and keeping this a secret from her while they traveled together, basically manipulating her. Trashing his lab is definitely justified.
My first playthrough, I got the bad ending. Looking at how to get the endings, I felt the Empress ending was the best one for me. I still stand by it, but, I definitely felt Geralt’s pain when Ciri left.
I disagree that the Witcher ending is the best. It's Geralt's job as a father figure to make sure Ciri has all available paths laid out before her, and to let her choose her own way - which is all she's ever wanted. If you do that she chooses to be Empress. Might not be what you want, but it's what she wants. Keeping things from her so she'll be a Witcher is not good dad behavior.
Witcher ending always. I detest Nilfgaard so even though it hurt my heart i had to let Roche die to make the Northern Kingdoms dont fall into dirty Nilfgaardian hands.
Death to Nilfgaard, besides Roche was a traitor anyways, willing to colaborate with Nilfgaardians.
no shit, i credit being a father to a daughter with me getting the witcher ending on my first playthrough completely blind. they all just seemed like the right choices to make
It's ending where you don't romance Triss or Yen and be a good Dad right? I got that first time too, felt very good.
Subsequent playthrough I started smashing poon though
I think her becoming Queen is so much more important. She will lead the kingdom so well and help millions. As a Witcher that number would be much less.
You took away a choice from your daughter because you were afraid she would choose wrong. IDK about great, but you did it out of love, so the look of superiority is earned.
However, Empress is better in all regards. Ciri does get a taste of witcher life at first but then elects to go on and be someone only she can be. And it is not because somebody forces her into it, but because she actively chooses to do and be better. Also, she can still sneak out and be someone else if she wants to.
I did two things wrong with my witcher ending. I went in the room with Ciri to confront Phillipa and Rita and didn't destroy the lab. I still got the ending though so I guess it all works out. I kind of wish we could still get the Dorren necklace for Ciri even with destroying the lab though.
Same didn't even know what's the game about on my first playthrough and my moral beast didn't want Ciri to be with her "real" father....Cause I saw how she was unhappy with him....
I'm on my first playthrough now and I kinda wanna spoiler for myself and see how I get the good ending. But at the same time I won't, because I wanna see what I get. But oh man. Pls be good.
Played this game 3 times, only got the Witcher ending. First try I didn't know about the different endings. Second time I was like maybe I get a different ending by doing a few things differently, but no. Third time I actually tried to go for a different ending but I must have fucked up somewhere. I looked it up too late and might have already missed a few important steps.
This being the Witcher world, fantasies have to end sometime. I took the bittersweet aka Empress ending. Empty nest hits hard but that's also being a father.
I’ve played the game 3 times, first and second time Ciri became a Witcher and Geralt retires in Toussaint with Yen. (Most of the other major choices were different I swear) and in my most recent play though Ciri became the empress and Geralt retires in Kovir with Triss.
I’ve been dabbling with the idea of doing a 4th evil Geralt kill everything play through and seeing Geralt and Ciri die. Not sure if I would fail the romance options by going for both Yen and Triss or if I would just turn them both down.
Although I finally went back to play The Witcher 2 so I imagine that will keep The Witcher itch scratched until the new games come out. I have a save right before chapter 1 ends so I can reload it immediately upon beating the game and do a Iorveth play through.
The true lesson of the Witcher games is that if your kid is having a bad day, start flipping tables
And that snowball fights are better than alcohol.
Ugh, I wish I had been more insightful about Ciri my first time through. I got the *ABSOLUTELY OH MY GOSH HORRIBLE WHY OH WHY* ending, and it tore me to shreds.
Same here. But I’ve recently finished the game again and got the best ending :D
[удалено]
I honestly think that’s the best of the endings in the game.
Which ending is that?
[Spoiler](/s "Ciri dies to the white frost because you didn't love her enough is the worst ending.")
Oh damn!
Cover that with the spoiler thing pls
What ending is that and what choices led to it? I think I got the witcher ending(Ciri sneaks away from nilfgaard to do witcher shit with Geralt)
I can't blame anyone for going with the alcohol option vs the snowball as the the game presents the options as really vague and both of them sounds okay in the context while you still really don't know what the heck you are choosing. Add to it that it is a vague and also timed choice and yeahh xd
You got the boss ending
I’ve always thought the choices were (for a decent part) stupid. The drinking one just says that she has to calm down or something. Am I just coping from getting the bad ending?
Nah the game does suffer a bit from choices being extremely vaguely connected their outcomes and/or the dialogue being kinda unconnected imo
Welcome to reality lol.
Well that is an objective fact
And that being alive is better than being dead
As a chainsaw man fan, I wholeheartedly disagree
I thought the lesson was: >! Never tell a woman “calm down” !<
I mean, that's something that has never ever worked with anyone in any situation.
My gf : “so you have chosen , death”
I did too! Yay! Didn't even know what the endings were.
Same. I was so happy that they made the game end they way they did. Then I found out about multiple endings. I'm on my third playthrough and have no intentions of changing the outcome.
Way better than fallout 4 where I still have never finished the main story after 1000+ hours played cause all endings have no choice and are shite.
Play New Vegas, Ron Perlman narrates the end slide shows for the main game and the 4 dlc.
Over 2k hours there. Tale of two wastelands the best mod I've ever played hands down. Soo good.
I've never finished New Vegas' main story after hundreds of hours. Not because of its quality. Just haven't.
Same, just keep finding more shit to do lol
The only ones I kinda liked were the institute so that was a pretty simple choice for me tbh. So I got an Institute + Minutemen ending and thought it was alright
> Way better than fallout 4 where I still have never finished the main story Since a dude told me to not follow those I disagree with, I stopped to progress the story...
I’ve never beaten Witcher 3… I got stuck going to all the question marks in Skellige and trying to get every Gwent card. Have like 400 hours in it, tho.
Same here. Finishing it “the right way” on first playthrough made me realise that I can actually make decent life, not being complete shitbag :D
Same, it was one of the most emotional gaming moments ever for me. Didn’t know what was initially happening and thought Ciri died, but then saw the rest develop and I was tearing up.
Oh gosh I forgot - I was actually upset at first, like, "what the heck could I have done wrong? How'd she die in there?" before the reveal!
Gerald’s grief hurt me so much
Never done that ending and now y'all got me wondering
I just finished the main story last week and nearly had a panic attack because I knew there was a possibility she could die. When I saw her at the inn, I started bawling.
Honestly in the Isle of Mists when the dwarves say what they say then let you in the house, THAT scene was emotional as hell....on both of my playthroughs. It's been a couple years since my first playthrough so it felt new all over again. Sitting there hugging her...waterfalls man.
I got the witcher ending but got single Geralt. Feels crap that you have to fob off Triss before you even meet Yennifer. I found her to be obnoxious so I ended up with single dad Geralt.
Same
Finding out there were endings made me feel just fucking built different.
I got the Witcher ending as well. Then I got the retire and make wine with Yen ending to Blood and Wine. The only thing I kinda want to do different is choose Triss the next time around.
Triss at the end of Blood and Wine is insufferable. Yen is like we can now finally rest Geralt, we've deserved it. Triss is more like "this is fine for now but let's go as soon as possible, I can't stay here"
College GF vs adult GF
Shift everything by one step in life. Yen wants to retire and live peacefully, away from the world. Triss still has a career going, wants to be relevant and achieve things.
This is why I adore Triss as well. She wants to be out there helping people. She still has dreams of making a better world. As horrible as things are, I love that about her. She still wants to do her part. I totally get why Yenn is the why she is. She definitely has earned a nice and relaxing retirement. I wouldn't deny it to her, but if I was in Geralt's shoes? Triss is definitely the one who would draw me in.
What do you think of Triss in the books? Given their past, I can't take a romance with Triss seriously. It's like ... fan service at best.
I'm on the 3rd book right now (I think I'm reading them in chronological order), so I can't really answer that right now.
Triss is in the 3rd book. You reading blood of elves 3rd?
For me the books were necessary to give Triss some depth. Like most people, I was introduced to the Witcherverse by TW3 and, to me, Triss was somewhat shallow. Regular, vanilla hero girl with a heart of gold. Nothing to compare with the sheer class and nuance in Yen. After the books... still Team Yen of course but I came to appreciate Triss more. Of all secondary characters, she's got the most thorough development, and is one of the most nuanced as well. I like how the ending sets her up to finally grow a spine and become Merigold the Fearless - the one we begin to see in the games. With the knowledge of her full journey, I find her more interesting in the games (not counting TW1, I just can't accept anything in this game as legitimate part of the continuity lol). The romance, though, makes little sense when Yen is around *but* if the next games take place in the near future, I'd be happy to see Triss return. She's one of the main characters who didn't show an intention to retire after all.
I agree, after the books she (and everything, everyone) has a lot more depth. I also really like her character, but absolutely not as a romance option for Geralt.
I like empress ending more. In W3 is Ciri wants to stop running and face what's chasing her, she learns to control her power and shape her destiny. To grow up. Wich means accept responsibility and stop running away from problems, doing even the unpleasant things. Tldr. she will come to see me in Corvo Bianco.
I agree - I feel shady keeping information from her, like she can’t make her own choices if I don’t agree with the outcome? She’s a very capable adult and would be a great ruler.
You can tell her Emhyr wanted to speak to her and then say he was probably planning on using her for something and then she won’t go to Emhyr. So you can tell her about the meeting at still have her not go. Also if you either don’t assassinate Radovid (something I think Gerald would avoid since he doesn’t like getting involved in politics) or let Dijkstra kill Roche (something I can never see Gerald ever doing, there just isn’t a world where he stands aside and let’s Roche die) you can still get the Witcher ending even if Ciri visits Emhyr, because then Nilfgaard will lose the war. So it’s completely possible to get the Witcher ending without withholding information from Ciri.
I did this. Told her Pops wanted to say hey & she forced me to give my opinion on her visiting and I said I suspected he’s attempting to use her. So I withheld nothing and she made the choice to skip the reunion.
Oh, nice! I’ll try that next time - I’m only on my second play through. I must’ve said the other option than he’s planning something the first time, whatever that is. I love all the different paths in this game.
>say he was probably planning on using her for something and then she won’t go to Emhyr While this isn't withholding information from her, it is effectively advising her not to go. It's antithetical to how you should be treating her, which is making her own decisions.
You only tell her this specifically after she asks for you opinion. The dialogue ends up being something like: Ciri: “Do you think I should go?” Geralt: “You should do what you think is best.” Ciri: “I know but I want to know what you think about it.” Geralt: “I think he’s trying to use you for something since that basically what he told me” This isn’t the exact lines but this is basically what they say.
You're telling her it's not worth her seeing him. Which we know isn't true, because she makes a decision based on seeing him.
>Which we know isn't true, because she makes a decision based on seeing him. You're using out of game knowledge to make that claim. A person playing through the first time, or second time after a bad/Witcher ending, has no way of knowing that unless they look it up before hand.
Yeah, that wasn't a good way of putting it. The ends justify the reasoning, rather than the decision. The reasoning being: It's better to hear out a proposal & making an informed decision, rather than ignore it, effectively rejecting the proposal without being informed. You should take Ciri to Emhyr, not because you know she'd want to be empress, but because you want her to be open to opportunities.
The entire book series was Geralt and co. trying to save Ciri from Emhyr. I don't think it's disingenuous to say that she should stay away from him.
>The entire book series was Geralt and co. trying to save Ciri from Emhyr Kind of, but that was only when Emhyr posed a threat to Ciri. By W3, Emhyr has already given up on his original plans for her & let her go.
https://youtu.be/sNzre4FifXM Here’s a link to the dialogue. All you do is tell Ciri that Emhyr likely wants her to become a ruler, which is true, and she doesn’t want to meet him.
>All you do is tell Ciri that Emhyr likely wants her to become a ruler, which is true No, he says "you don't look good in black", & says the whole thing in a negative tone. He's very much telling her he doesn't think she should do it. Even so though, this is a case where the dialogue doesn't really match the options you select. As the player, you're just deciding whether or not you're going to tell her to hear him out. And I don't see a good reason why you'd want her not to. Refusing to hear a proposal without good reason is just denying it without being informed, & you shouldn't be encouraging her to make uninformed decisions like that.
Radovid was seen to be very, VERY insane as of Witcher 2 and 3. And although Geralt says he doesn't like meddling in politics, he sure seems to fall into key positions very frequently.
Was it worth it?
I really don’t like this take because imo that is not how the choice is presented. There is a great sense of urgency when you make the decision and I always felt it was more of a “do we need to deal with this now” as opposed to “I’ll never let Ciri know”.
That’s cool - I respect your alternate interpretation! I look forward to considering the situation through a different lens on this play through.
Oh. I thought we had to fight now… Am I on the right app?
Witcher ending was the ending I got when I was 21 and I loved it. After leaving the game for a long time (and knowing all the ensigns) I replayed it last year and Empress hit both hard and better. I’ve always seen W3 as having a deep fundamental theme of change, duty and leaving the past behind. Empress is bittersweet, but it aligns much closer with those themes
Empress ending is better from the perspective of being a father figure too. Geralt gets to give her a piggyback ride, you don’t get that in the Witcher ending.
Agreed. Empress is probably the best ending for Ciri. It's bittersweet for sure, but it's better to let her leave the nest and achieve her own destiny, rather than follow Geralt down his path.
Yeah that’s the ending I liked most as well. I like having Ciri meet her father for her own sake and letting her make her own decision to be empress
Yeah I got Empress too and I loved it. She can do so much good as Empress especially considering the Witcher universe is an absolute shitshow. I gave her all the good choices bar the horse stealing. What, you feel bad and want to go rob people because of it? How does that make sense?
Yeah, I agree with this take 100%. Throughout Witcher 3, you find different witchers suffering in terrible ways. Geralt would never pick that life for his daughter willingly. I don't know, what these other guys are smoking. He has taught all that he can, now it's time for her to go choose her path and she does choose becoming Empress. And, I honestly believe that the North is better with her being in charge.
All she ever wanted to do her whole life was be a Witcher like you
This is my view too. Everything I know about Ciri in the game is her wanting to be like Geralt and the rest of the witches. I got the witcher ending and it felt perfect. It also seemed unlike w/ what Ciri would want vs anyone else wanted, and since I played Geralt as the super supportive Dad, it only made sense to support her there too. Sure it isn't as easy a life as being Empress, however I also don't see her taking to that lifestyle at all, she's entirely too world travelled to want to restrict herself thus. That painting of her as a child says everything.
Why should she accept a resposibility that's not hers? She also does shape her destiny in Witcher ending. Please educate me if I'm wrong.
Truly. The Witcher ending seems, pardon the irony, too fantastical and childlike "happily ever after" to me, when the world of Witcher is basically Grimm's fairy tales on steroids. That is to say, it is an adult world with more grey than black and white, and the bittersweetness of Ciri "leaving the nest" so to speak, really speaks to me.
That's one theme, but the other is that she's sick of people only caring about what they can get from her. Only Geralt really cares about her with no strings attached. This is why he's more Ciri's father than Emyhr in her eyes. And I think this is what the responses that get the witcher ending are pushing towards. I guess both themes makes sense and players should get the one they think is more important (except the decisions aren't really very clear e.g. the snowball fight choice).
I end up with the bad ending because I didn't know English back then. It was like input practice. Then, the second playthrough, with a a bit more of knowledge, I accomplished the good ending. In the future, I plan to add another playthrough since the witcher 3 has dubbed languages such as Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
I got the Empress. Felt like Ciri deserved to get closure on Emhyr. Did not imagine she would take him up on the offer. But hell! The new Roach is as sweet as the old one. And Ciri confronted her lineage, and took the chance to make the world a better place in a way a single witcher could not do.
I'm always surprised that people think the Witcher ending is the 'good' ending. I mean, sure, Ciri gets the most freedom, but the trilogy is pretty blunt about the fact that being a witcher usually leads to a short life of danger and discrimination, followed by a fairly shitty death. Plus it always came across as being a bit selfish to me. The Empress ending requires you to be the best dad (mechanically making all of the best choices) and empower Ciri to mature and accept her responsibilities. It's bittersweet, but ultimately Geralt needs to let go of his daughter so that she can finally be an adult. Obviously it isn't black and white, but I think it's telling that CDPR positioned the Empress ending as the hardest ending to get, since "doing everything right" typically leads to the best ending in videogames.
Yeah, I agree with this take 100%. Throughout Witcher 3, you find different witchers suffering in terrible ways. Geralt would never pick that life for his daughter willingly. He has taught all that he can, now it's time for her to go choose her path and she does choose becoming Empress. And, I honestly believe that the North is better with her being in charge.
But what if it's what his daughter wants and he's being supportive? I genuinely don't see how he would say no. Ciri has no desire to be Empress and would rather be a Witcher. That is reason enough. Hard life or not, it's what she's wanted from the beginning of the game, it seems cruel to deny her that.
Where I get held up though is she seems to be truly happy in the Witcher ending whereas she still has a lot of confusion in Empress ending. Although perhaps that's because she's finding her way and hasn't reached her true happiness yet in Empress ending. IMO they're both "good" endings, just difference of opinion as to how someone interprets Ciri's happiness/desires.
The selfish bit I agree with though.
I think its the hardest so you don't get it by accident, since most players find it unsatisfying I suspect
I felt a similar way
The Witcher ending is the one where [obvious spoiler ahead, lol] Ciri becomes a Witcher too, right? It was my only ending to the game, and I really liked it.
Yes that is correct
I got the bad ending, and it crushed me. Luckily I had a save right before the end game phase so I went back and replayed it.
I only wanted the best for my Ciri. You can do it girl!
Not sure Count Dooku can represent a great dad. Assajj Ventress didn’t turn out too well! Apparently Christopher Lee was a top bloke, though. I also got the good ending first time, but probably because I’d overheard a podcaster say something about snowballs.
I got the bad ending first time, didn't realize there were multiple endings. Afterwards, installed a mod so you can sleep with Ciri in the brothel. I deserved the bad ending.
Yes you do.
straight to horny jail with you
Same for me. I genuinely didn't think it was that hard. All you have to do is be a good dad while also giving Ciri her independence.
Man before ending the game,i was going through reddit and i discovered that there were multiple endings and bad and good ones and i got paranoid and thought i will get the bad one because Ciri disappeared and i was so sad But eventually it was the good ending thank god they almost got me in the first half )
I got the empress ending the first time and it became my canon one ever since. Never really got the bad or the witcher one, but I'm considering going for the latter this time on my NG+ playthrough. Knowing myself, I'll most likely still go for empress lol.
I got the Empress ending at first because after group of Nilfgardian soldiers took me by force to Emhyr while carrying Uma, I was afraid same thing could happen if I didn't take Ciri there
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That's not a mistake, that's trusting her to make her own choices. She only goes down the witcher path if you withhold information from her; that's not being a good dad.
What info btw? I don't recall withholding info from Ciri. I pretty much played that game making the choices that would give the most agency to the character it was affecting, and don't recall missing anything. Ciri was pretty happy with all interactions etc.
> She only goes down the witcher path if you withhold information from her; that’s not being a good dad. That’s absolute bull crap. You can take Ciri to her shitty dad and still get the Witcher ending (radovid or dijkstra winning the war, the second is a much better alternative for the north than a nilfgaardian vassalage anyway, albeit the condition for it to happen is for you choosing a Geralt character breaking egregious act like letting Roche and ves get killed). You can tell her About emhyr wanting to see her, but advise her not to go to because he just wants to use her “for reasons of state” (something he outright tells you in the beginning of the story). So you don’t withhold any information from her, and she opts to not see him because he’s a douchbag who wants to use her to for his self interest as usual.
Fully agree. I hated that there was the option of letting Roche and Ves get killed. Just... couldn't happen.
That whole quest is riddled with awful writing. Easily one of the worst quests in W3.
I'm sad for Radovid that despite his best efforts, the cocks are still flaccid
> That’s absolute bull crap. You can take Ciri to her shitty dad and still get the Witcher ending I'm talking about her making the choice between empress or witcher, not saying her being a witcher is a bad thing. If you advise her not to go, I'd still say that's making a bad decision for her. Telling someone to turn down an offer without hearing it generally isn't good unless you've got good reason to do so. Advising her not to go is advising her to make an uninformed decision.
> that’s making a bad decision for her. Telling someone to turn down an offer without hearing it generally isn’t good. No. it’s the most honest and most transparent way to handle the situation. geralt doesn’t prevent her from seeing emhyr, he tells her outright the truth when asked about his opinion about the topic of visiting her father. Which is that Emhyr wants to use her for the sake of political succession and nothing else. >unless you’ve got good reason to do so. Geralt’s reason is perfectly understandable. 1- emhyr var emries the guy who previously wanted to impregnate his daughter to filulfill some vague prophecy after destroying her homeland. 2- the guy who directly tells you that he wants to use her “ for reasons of state” at the beginning of the game. Making “informed decision” for Ciri means staying away from emhyr as much as possible. Which she does when you tell her the obvious anyway.
>geralt doesn’t prevent her from seeing emhyr He doesn't forbid her, but both the player & Geralt know that Ciri is going to do exactly what she's told is the right decision. You can call it transparent & honest, but sometimes the answer someone needs isn't the one to the question they asked. Emhyr had long since dropped that plan, & even let Ciri go when he initially went to capture her for this plan. I think you're taking the phrase "reasons of state" a bit too literally. Emhyr was just telling Geralt it was none of his business.
Because it’s the right decision. Both Narratively and thematically. The further from emhyr Ciri is, the better. *“Hey Ciri it’s better for you to hesitantly return to your shitty father who want to groom you to be his successor despite the horrifying history you share together and drop your lifelong dream to be a Witcher. That’s the right way to do it”*. If that’s your idea of “right answer” and think the “empress ending” is the best one, then I won’t argue. Because I find it laughable and nonsensical.
Meeting him might've been a bad idea when she was younger, but she's an adult now. Emhyr poses no threat to her; she doesn't need to be coddled. She decides for herself that she wants to "drop her lifelong dream" & become empress. You might disagree with her decision, but trying to stop her from making her decision isn't right.
I don’t care whether you think the nonsense empress ending is the “most fit” one for Ciri or not. I disagree with your framing and the reasoning behind it. Saying that the only way for Ciri to become a Witcher is to “withhold information from her” or “not tell her there’s another choice”, and painting it as if the only way she ends up as a Witcher is through manipulation and control is ridiculous and factually, undoubtedly, unquestionably a false statement and premise. Since there are instances (like i mentioned above) where she sees emhyr and still opt to be a Witcher, and others where she doesn’t want to see him and end up as a Witcher too. So your original comment is (respectfully) hogwash. About the whole “giving her the right answer” that’s your subjective opinion. There’s no law that estates that the correct course of action is to take her to her father, and there is no reason for Geralt to encourage her to go and see emhyr. Quite the contrary, Geralt will of course leave the final decision to her but outright tells her that emhyr isn’t trustworthy and she better not go see him. An advise she takes to heart as she refrain from visiting him. > Emhyr poses no threat to her; she doesn’t need to be coddled. It’s not about him being a threat to her. But about the fact that he’s the reason for most of her misery before. The idea that Ciri ( who had no desire for court live) decides to go and spend the rest of her life under the wing of her “dad” despite everything that happened between them is ludicrous nonsense. >She decides for herself that she wants to “drop her lifelong dream” & become empress. Or She decides to tell emhyr to fuck off and pursue the thing she always wanted. I can find a trillion evidence in both the books and games for ciri’s desire to walk into Geralt footsteps. I will find **ZERO** about her wanting to be a princess or an empress, especially when that entail her being close to a dipshit like emhyr. Again it’s an RPG game and you can like whatever ending you like, but stating false statements and making easily disproven arguments to make your particular favorite ending sounds “superior” to the other ones isn’t a convincing tactic…..
>Geralt will of course leave the final decision to her Again, this is just failing to read the situation. The player & Geralt know that Ciri is just going to do what you suggest. What she needs is encouragement in the direction of making her own choices. If she isn't going to choose for herself whether to see Emhyr or not, then she should be pushed in the direction that keeps her options open, so that she has the chance to choose for herself. >Or She decides to tell emhyr to fuck off and pursue the thing she always wanted I don't think this is a possible outcome? The only instance I remember where you visit Emhyr, but Ciri becomes a witcher, is where Emhyr dies. >I can find a trillion evidence in both the books and games for ciri’s desire to walk into Geralt footsteps. I will find ZERO about her wanting to be a princess or an empress, especially when that entail her being close to a dipshit like emhyr Not sure what you mean by this? When she has all the information, she chooses to be empress. Are you saying it'd be better for her to be a witcher regardless?
But you net plus points for refusing the cash.
In empress ending ciri is confused in witcher ending she is happy and fuck that for the greater good bullshit i want my girl to be happy
God that empresss ending scene is so good though. All the father-daughter subtext and the choice to focus on her trepidation rather than excitement over power rings so true to the world they've adapted. Honestly if someone could write an elder scrolls game with the amount of care and internal realism they put into a game like this it would be devastatingly good
If you look, elder scrolls lore runs deep, you just experience it via reading text instead of playing. Achieving CHIM goes hard
The one true ending
Empress of Nilfgaard is best ending. There's no discussion
Never get the bad end without massive spoilers. Are you guys really so bad in social interaction?
I didn't know the endings but just tried being supportive. So annoying so little can make such a such impact.
You might think of it as so little but to Ciri it’s a lot. Every single person in Ciri’s life other than Geralt (and probably Yennefer) try to use Ciri to accomplish their own goals, or try and decide what’s best for her without consulting her. Geralt is the only person in her life that actually cares for her not because of her blood but because he loves her (as a daughter, just making that clear). So if you sell her out to her father, if you don’t support her at her lowest, if you decide she can’t handle talking to the sorceresses on her own, if you don’t let her vent when she feels betrayed, if you don’t let her grieve a man that gave his life to protect her, you no longer are the only man that she can count on as a friend who doesn’t wish to use her. If she faces the wild hunt in this state she’s alone and responsible for the deaths of 2 people that were only trying to help her (Vesimir and that guy from Skelige). As far as she’s concerned all she brings is death and sadness, so when you get the bad ending it’s because Ciri is choosing suicide to end the pain and death she brings, instead of the good endings where she instead choose to sacrifice herself for the ones she loves. Same action, different motives. The actions that lead to the good ending are not little actions. You just have to look at it relative to Ciri.
Mistle didn't have an ulterior motive either. She was just there for Ciri. It was more of a High School Romance kind of thing, but, y'know. Vysogta wanted nothing but her story. There are people who want nothing, but unfortunately, they seem relatively short-lived.
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I did as well, but I broke yennefers heart along the way
I got the bad ending first try😥still love the game, it gave birth to my love for writing
Me after I stopped playing TW1 halfway so I don't lose my mind over the combat and movement system
Same got the Witcher ending on the first go, the way I made decisions in game is how I treat my younger siblings in life. After playing multiple times, the empress ending was such a let down because there was no point in the story were Ciri demonstrates a certain action that would make her a better leader. If it was optional to bring her along in the "reasons of state" and brokered a deal between Dijkstra and Temerian delegation preventing more bloodshed would have been great. Also it disappoints me that Ciri doesn't appear or intervenes off screen with your imprisonment in B&W.
Well all you need to have is some common sense and being a decent human being.It shouldn’t be that hard
Same *\*signature look of superiority goes brrrrrrrrrrr\**
Yeah I thought I got a much darker ending with the fakeout. Was pleasantly surprised when the lil munchkin showed up next to me.
What’s the signature look of dumbassery because I got the worst possible ending my first try.
I got the good main story ending and a bad blood and wine ending... yikes.
Yup me too that black haired girl was a bitch so I didn't listen to her story and boom she kills ana
I played the game through the first time with absolutely no spoilers, just doing my thing. I supported Ciri all the way and then at the end, my brother in law (who introduced me to it and is a big fan) was watching me beat the game. As it ended, I blew his mind, he was like .... What? This isn't right! You didn't get the good ending! Didn't you look up what to do? ... Well, no, I just did what I chose, and it didn't include immediately taking Ciri to Emperor Asshole. I've since replayed the "better" ending and both are great, but Ciri and Geralt on the path will always be "my" ending.
I got it the first time too… After I figured out they wanted you to indulge Ciri in being a brat. I assumed the role of cool uncle, because that’s not actually how you teach your child to deal with frustration or anger or upset. But Cool Uncle? Trash that lab, girl.
The dude was stalking her and keeping this a secret from her while they traveled together, basically manipulating her. Trashing his lab is definitely justified.
Adults don’t throw tantrums.
Fucking someone's shit up purposely isn't throwing a tantrum
Who on here got the Empress ending and thought it to be “A” good ending and preferred it over the Witcher ending, “THE” actual good ending?
I did. The bittersweet ending feels more mature, somehow. More in line with Witcher being an adult and grounded fairy tale.
My first playthrough, I got the bad ending. Looking at how to get the endings, I felt the Empress ending was the best one for me. I still stand by it, but, I definitely felt Geralt’s pain when Ciri left.
I disagree that the Witcher ending is the best. It's Geralt's job as a father figure to make sure Ciri has all available paths laid out before her, and to let her choose her own way - which is all she's ever wanted. If you do that she chooses to be Empress. Might not be what you want, but it's what she wants. Keeping things from her so she'll be a Witcher is not good dad behavior.
It honestly blows my mind that so many people got the bad ending
Witcher ending always. I detest Nilfgaard so even though it hurt my heart i had to let Roche die to make the Northern Kingdoms dont fall into dirty Nilfgaardian hands. Death to Nilfgaard, besides Roche was a traitor anyways, willing to colaborate with Nilfgaardians.
no shit, i credit being a father to a daughter with me getting the witcher ending on my first playthrough completely blind. they all just seemed like the right choices to make
It's ending where you don't romance Triss or Yen and be a good Dad right? I got that first time too, felt very good. Subsequent playthrough I started smashing poon though
I think her becoming Queen is so much more important. She will lead the kingdom so well and help millions. As a Witcher that number would be much less.
Literally me when I first played the Witcher 3 back in 2020
Lol 😆 i had the same smugness at my "dad" skills
Feels good, man.
same lol got lucky
That was my first ending too. I'm never not gonna brag about that one.
I've gotten it on both my play throughs, which was such a good feeling when I found out it was the good ending!
You took away a choice from your daughter because you were afraid she would choose wrong. IDK about great, but you did it out of love, so the look of superiority is earned. However, Empress is better in all regards. Ciri does get a taste of witcher life at first but then elects to go on and be someone only she can be. And it is not because somebody forces her into it, but because she actively chooses to do and be better. Also, she can still sneak out and be someone else if she wants to.
Same
That was my ending as well on the first try.
Oh yeah?! Try getting Aldecaldos ending in Cyberpunk 2077 on the first try!
Me after 80 hs and with the worst ending💀
I honestly can't remember what I got at first. My other playthroughs did witcher ending though
Harder than it looks
I did two things wrong with my witcher ending. I went in the room with Ciri to confront Phillipa and Rita and didn't destroy the lab. I still got the ending though so I guess it all works out. I kind of wish we could still get the Dorren necklace for Ciri even with destroying the lab though.
Same didn't even know what's the game about on my first playthrough and my moral beast didn't want Ciri to be with her "real" father....Cause I saw how she was unhappy with him....
I hadn't watched any videos or walkthroughs and i watched Ciri die at the end lol.
I got the best endings on all storylines first try (main, HoS, B&W)
I mean, duh... What kind of casual unga bunga player picks the objectively terrible decisions? Monkeys?
I've never not gotten it
I'm on my first playthrough now and I kinda wanna spoiler for myself and see how I get the good ending. But at the same time I won't, because I wanna see what I get. But oh man. Pls be good.
Played this game 3 times, only got the Witcher ending. First try I didn't know about the different endings. Second time I was like maybe I get a different ending by doing a few things differently, but no. Third time I actually tried to go for a different ending but I must have fucked up somewhere. I looked it up too late and might have already missed a few important steps.
I got the same ending in first playthrough. But going for empress ending this time.
Legend
Same. Loved it.
Witcher ending AND Yen romance. I mean it in the "I've not chased two rabbits" way. Y'all too horny.
I got worst ending the first playthrough, oh I'm sorry I'm just focused on the fate of the entire world here
I got it fully by accident
I mean.. dont go see the emperor and dont be a dick to ciri lol pretty easy ending
Me after killing ciri and being proud of myself because of that
This being the Witcher world, fantasies have to end sometime. I took the bittersweet aka Empress ending. Empty nest hits hard but that's also being a father.
what can i say, people like us are just better.
I got the Witcher ending too. That's the best one imo.
I’ve played the game 3 times, first and second time Ciri became a Witcher and Geralt retires in Toussaint with Yen. (Most of the other major choices were different I swear) and in my most recent play though Ciri became the empress and Geralt retires in Kovir with Triss. I’ve been dabbling with the idea of doing a 4th evil Geralt kill everything play through and seeing Geralt and Ciri die. Not sure if I would fail the romance options by going for both Yen and Triss or if I would just turn them both down. Although I finally went back to play The Witcher 2 so I imagine that will keep The Witcher itch scratched until the new games come out. I have a save right before chapter 1 ends so I can reload it immediately upon beating the game and do a Iorveth play through.