Views : 255,798
Genre: Gaming
Date of upload: Jan 14, 2024 ^^
Rating : 4.992 (5/2,593 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-05T21:39:21.027845Z
See in json
Top Comments of this video!! :3
As someone who read the books after playing the trilogy, I think whatever the game spoils in the books, the average gamer won't have enough context to understand just how earthshaking those spoilers are until they actually read the books. Playing the games and then seeing major names like Philipa Eilhart and Vilgefort fully fleshed out in the books only made the reading more entertaining, especially since the games showed immense respect to the continuity of the books (as opposed to the Netflix series).
207 |
As I said under the last video, I can never resist a lengthy Witcher video, and your previous one made me reinstall the first game when others did not give me that desire. Also can’t resist a comment, being so early! In three hours, I’ll let you know whether I’m reinstalling Witcher 2. It’s gonna be some great three hours! (Wish you uploaded yesterday when I was deep cleaning my place…)
51 |
i have some clarificacion about that change of Shaela's name you mentioned in 58:00 - the english version is just a different spelling in order to achive the same pronunciation as the polish one, while being red by a native english speaker.
I hope it helps.
12 |
Some notes I made while watching the video -- just stuff that came to mind (some of it is just general information that the channel's owner most likely already knows and just didn't mention in the video):
- (13:45) By importing the previous game save, you also get the swords and a very small percentage of the money you had in it in addition to the Raven Armor, but only if the swords you finished the game with are importable. The craftable and generic ones aren't, but others like Aerondight and Moonblade or Gwalhir or G'valchir are (we can see Geralt using G'valchir and Aerondight in the video, so YourFavoriteSon imported a save with them). All of this equipment unfortunately gets outclassed fairly quickly, which is understandable from a gameplay perspective, but really dumb considering they're supposed to be extremely good or even legendary. I wish they just made it all as good as it should be, but had Geralt lose them when escaping La Valette Castle (the best silver sword could be necessarily lost when fighting the dragon).
- (13:53) Crinfrid Reavers, not Cintran Reavers. They're from Crinfrid, not Cintra.
- (25:45) Not really, that's an exaggeration. The only sign that to not use basically means handicapping yourself is quen -- the rest can be completely ignored and you'll do very fine without them by using a build focused on combat and/or alchemy (I know because I've beaten the game by barely investing on signs multiple times, including on harder difficulties, and didn't miss them at all). In any case, if you're a very good player that mastered the combat and patient enough in your fighting style, then you won't even need quen, but again, that's when you'll just be handicapping yourself and it'll always be good to use it as a fail safe for when you mess up a dodge or decide to get greedy with the hits.
- (35:00) There's a fun easter egg in this section where you find a dead assassin from the AC games in a pile of hay in a corner. You get a good ability that enhances your damage when attacking from behind by doing so, so it's worth searching for it. There are many other abilities that you get by discovering stuff or completing quests in a certain way, like not being seen when escaping La Valette Castle, never leaving Triss' shield when getting to Flotsam, destroying 10 training dummies, finding a special shrine in an area of the forest that surrounds Flotsam, etc.
- (1:08:33) Here we also learn that his group has ties to Salamandra, which is a nice throwback to the first game.
- (1:08:55) No, you don't have to kill the troll to complete this quest. You can get a troll tongue by acquiring the female troll head from the merchant that bought it after playing dice poker with him. Also, I wouldn't put it as the other ingredients involving "making specific choices", just facing certain enemies and looting them. You can get essence of death by killing and looting wraiths, so you don't even need to finish In The Claws of Madness; endregas and their cocoons drop endrega embryos and you don't even need to summon their queen or do their contract; and the arachas eyes you can get by just advancing on the main story until the monster shows up, then killing and looting it. Cedric also sells most if not all of those ingredients, but I think they're expensive.
- (1:22:25) Maybe YourFavoriteSon was being sarcastic here, but it's pretty clear that we get the ability because Geralt resists Triss' charms hahaha (although the initiative comes more from Geralt/the player). I also think that this almost certainly is also a nod to how Triss is said to have used magic in the books to make Geralt sleep with her for the first time during one of his breakups with Yennefer -- some people interpret it as the magic used being more of an enhancement to her beauty and whatnot (which all sorceresses do all the time), while others interpret it as Triss influencing Geralt's mind directly and basically raping him, but yeah -- in any case she was a POS for taking advantage of Geralt's sorry state and betraying her friend Yen.
- (2:24:45) Here is also where you can get the best steel sword in the game damage-wise -- Dancer (we can see Geralt with it in the video, so YourFavoriteSon didn't miss it). Unfortunately it isn't available for the Iorveth path, but Caerme is behind it by only a little and some runes can bridge the gap.
In any case, this video was pretty good overall. I almost did a similar comment in the video of the first game, but ultimately decided not to bother. Maybe I'll watch it again in the future and do it.
5 |
I loved The Witcher when I played it, and I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited for a game than The Witcher 2 because of it. And honestly it didn’t disappoint!
There were a few things I missed from 1 (like the different fighting styles) but overall I think it’s a phenomenal game. Despite the flaws of 2 and the improvements 3 brought, 2 is probably still my favourite
4 |
I played TW1 back when it was released--a love-hate relationship with that game. A clunky masterpiece! TW2 was an upgrade, and two entirely different paths made me run to play it again! I'm looking forward to the remake of TW1 and playing all three again! My hubby will be a Witcher widower again. lol
Thanks for the great commentary! Back to the video!
5 |
@YourFavoriteSon1
3 months ago
Click this link sponsr.is/YourFavoriteSon and use my code YOURFAVORITESON to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev/. That’s 25% your first month or your first year, depending on the subscription you choose.
11 |