I tried 'The Witcher 3' again with a *character creator*...

Show the modder some love!
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing game developed and published by CD Projekt. It is the sequel to the 2011 game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and the third game in The Witcher video game series, played in an open world with a third-person perspective. The games follow the Witcher series of fantasy novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski. The game takes place in a fictional fantasy world based on Slavic mythology. Players control Geralt of Rivia, a monster slayer for hire known as a Witcher, and search for his adopted daughter, who is on the run from the otherworldly Wild Hunt. Players battle the game's many dangers with weapons and magic, interact with non-player characters, and complete quests to acquire experience points and gold, which are used to increase Geralt's abilities and purchase equipment. The game's story has three possible endings, determined by the player's choices at key points in the narrative.
~ Wikipedia

TIMESTAMPS:
Intro: 0:00
How It Works: 1:52
The Witcher Without Geralt: 4:55
Conclusion: 10:34
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[LukeStephensTV]

To clarify, he's "spent 2.5+ years on making this mod" and this is the big 2.0 release with all of its bells a whistles. The link in the description is to the full release you see in this video. Go show him some love for all the amazing work to get this done!

[banjomir]

Witcher 3: everyone tries to play as either Ciri or a custom character.
Witcher 4: everyone recreates Geralt in the character creator (assuming it will have one).

[claydavis]

"The Fringilla Hour" is a perfect summary of The Witcher show.. lmao what were they thinking??

[nikich]

Good day, Luke, thank you so much for sharing your opinion on the mod :)
You are absolutely right about small issues here and there (and I will keep updating and improving the stuff as possible). Also you may have been noticed that in your video female player kinda quickly "skips" the dialogue, because of speech pack not installed.
Interesting thing related to this: that recently I have received a message from CDPR stuff asking me to remove all AI-generated voices from the mod, which I took from Witcher 3 game. Just to make it clear: they are not against AI, but against abusing voices from their games. It's fully understandable from their side and kinda silly from my side to think that it is allowed. So I had to remove all the AI voices I made (Ciri/Triss/Yennefer) and made a placeholder "muted voice" (lipsync mouth animation with no sound), but also asked the community if someone from female VAs ready to help me with that (record their voice for me to make new AI models which won't break CDPR copyrights) - and I was pleasantly surprised with few suggestions came soon after, so there will be community voices (at least for English).

[Chasm]

Luke, I strongly recommend you locking your fps to 60 when recording and enable Vsync. Basically all videos have unnecessary stuttering, hitching, tearing only because of the variable frame-rate (or the one exceeding 60). Just look at DF how they recommend to record videos for YouTube, and how super smooth their videos are (especially if you also enable motion blur but you have it enabled here and it's helping a bit to mask the tearing/hitching). It's a night and day difference in fluidity and smoothness. You're not alone in this as a YouTuber. I'm just trying to help. 👍

[seancomyn]

It's honestly insane how long we need to wait for AAA games these days. I definitely appreciate quality over quantity but having to wait over a decade for every sequel to every AAA game franchise is just ridiculous.

[tomasvrana]

I never missed character creation in witcher games, i like having established main character who talks in cutscenes

[sintoras]

the fringilla hour actually killed me good
needed that laugh xD

[ralphengland]

Build-a-Witcher is exactly what I want for Witcher 4.

[p.gin]

For me a third person AAA game needs to have a well written main character to succeed at the highest level... that's why I don't think that a custom character would work as good, the reason why the previous Witcher games were so great was because of Geralt of Rivia, his Story, his Personality and all the lore behind it. Of course there are other great single-player titles like Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls titles like Oblivion and Skyrim, or the Fallout games, but for those games it works because they are mainly played in first person mode, and the "lack of a main character" is no problem because it actually feels like you (the player) are the main character...

This is why playing Cyberpunk was so weird to me, we're playing in first person but we are also someone else, aka. V, i never really connected with V... like at all, there was almost no backstory, all of the lore seemed to be about the Night City itself (which was good don't get me wrong).

But yeah, for the Wither 4 i want them to create a completely new character with an already established story and lore, with previously established relationships with other characters in the game, histories ect.. I don't want to play as Ciri because she's just way to OP..., I mean at the end of the game she was basically a demi-god who was able to teleport at will during combat, heck even travel through other dimensions and other worlds... She wont be a good character in my opinion Unless* they NERF her heavily down to the point where she's on a level of a "Master Witcher" like Geralt was... Simply put a Witcher game should be about a "Witcher", a sword for hire that specialises in killing monster, that's trained in the arts of alchemy, tracking, hunting, swordsmanship and magic, that creates potions and oils which he uses to stain his two blades, a steel one for humans and a silver one for monster... that's a Witcher game to me, Ciri couldn't provide that experience if she' not heavily nerfed.

[mohannadbadr]

I never played the Witcher because I bought bloodborne in 2015 and played it for more than 3000 hours in the last 9 years, but I'm going to play The Witcher now, and never had any spoilers on the game. clean slate.

[TheGuitarsquatch]

At least Kingdom Come 2 will fill in some medieval/fantasy blank space.

[firechar]

I would absolutely LOVE a Witcher RPG with a character creator!!! Def need to check out that mod soon

[MeggaMann_theBlueLion]

Actually playing it again now. This games open world and Npc’s are great

[SpecShadow]

Yeah it really sux when "haters and trolls" were right again - this time with Witcher show. This comment might sounds snarky, but I'm feeling kinda disappointed because caring about something means you get flak for it from showrunners, journalists and others...

[AndrewPagel]

Ngl, this would be a dope Witcher game CD Projekt Red could make. I'd definitely play this.

[Empress_Theresa]

Funny enough, I played Witcher 3 in it's intirety once as Morvran Voorhis, Imperor of Nilfgaard. Made possible by a similar mod called "doppelganger...something."

[Ghostwolfdk]

Just finished another playthrough on my ps5 ... this game always manages to blow me away ❤

[martiananomaly]

I still wish we get Geralt in The Witcher 4. Yeah its pretty much confirmed we can't play him but a man can dream.... The characters were the most memorable from The Witcher 3 for me.

[Nynphierno]

When i first heard that Witcher 4 would no longer have Geralt as the main playable character i thought it would be ruined. But after playing through CP2077 multiple times both as male and female V i have no worries at all.
And i did not even like the cyberpunk genre at first i was always a medieval fantasy fan but 2077 ended up being so good that its my most played singleplayer RPG.