"Good Ending" actually bad? Weigh in on your W3 ending(s) [spoilers]
I intentionally went for a "Good Ending" or what I was thinking would be a "good" ending given the sheer amount of time invested I view it like a long novel akin to "Choose Your Own Adventure" (if people reading this are even old enough to even remember that reference) for you want the best for each character so it wraps up perfectly to your own views or philosophies.
So I went out of my way to make sure all the +1 choices went to Ciri so she'd become a good and fair ruler and bring "peace" to the land while using everything taught to her vs. giving up altogether a "loser", or having a scar riddled body and dying in a fight after a long life as a lonely Witcher whoring around with abusive dick heads. I saved Letho, had him at Kaer Morhen. Brought everyone else to Kaer Morhen except Djykstra so Keira was there there to save Lambert (who I thought was into guys up until that point as they seemed to allude to it with his "friend" he was avenging and seemingly hidden jokes between Geralt and him) and they apparently fell for each other. Also saved Nolan 1st then Vigi, so they were present before and during the battle, at one point I ran over and killed the Wild Hunt guys swarming them. And Zoltan, Emirion, etc. were there. Everyone was there that should be.
My biggest gripe is there was this huge build-up of all his friends culminating in one place to repay a huge favor or two, and immediately after the battle during the impromptu funeral, Nolan and Vigi were missing with no mention what happened to them. You obviously see Zoltan, Emirion, and Hjalmar later, but Keira and Lambert disappear altogether in a rather abrupt "later" response. Letho despite being told to stay at Kaer Morhen disappears too. And Eskel is gone?
Fast-forward to after the final fight we at least learn what happens to Hjalmar's dad during the battle, but again where the hell did everyone go? What happened to everyone? They show us what happens ultimately to Ciri, and what happens to Geralt (I chose Triss but don't get me started on her lack of dialogue and very cold response when she returns later in the game and how everything centers around Yennefer from random NPC to fellow Witchers to Cerys) in a brief comicbook-esque rendering of them apparently in the middle of foreplay and know Triss ended up an adviser and Geralt settled down, but what happened to Yennefer, Zoltan, Eskel, Letho, Keira and Lambert, Dandelion and Priscilla (other than inferring Dandelion wrote a book as his older-self narrated most of the story I don't remember seeing anything else), Phillipa (did she regrow eyes or just use magic ones? And if she can polymorph into an owl with eyes, why can't she polymorph into a copy of herself with eyes? or at very least another human?), Rita, Dudu, etc. etc. How about letting us know what happened to everyone else? And how about the plot hole of the missing Crone that escaped? Where the fuck did she go and why didn't Geralt and/or Ciri go after her? Why was there no mention of this in the ending? And what happened to the Baron and his wife ultimately? (mine went off to find a cure) Whatever happened to the Baron's daughter? Where'd Avallac'h go? WHAT HAPPENED TO EVERYONE ELSE?
SO MANY unanswered questions after 170+ hours of doing everything in-game (except all the Skellige water " ? " that give you stupid items like linen, Steel sword, 5 crowns; seriously, stop putting JUNK filler in games, that should have died with the 1st Assassin's Creed where you had to 500 flags or the equally tedious GTA games finding balloons and the like. Would rather forgo ALL the JUNK filler to have 4-5 more LONG quests with engaging NPC instead) I was very disappointed in the ending. If I didn't know from reading online my ending was a "good" ending, I'd have thought it a was a bad ending. Why was Ciri acting like she'd never see Geralt or Triss again? She's a queen now, right? Why didn't Ciri hire Triss as an adviser instead? Maybe she could have hired Yennefer?
I feel like they were making the game, and were getting close to wrapping it up but some stupid imaginary deadline appeared and they were like "Let's wrap this up, it appears good enough and no one will noticed they were short changed a decent ending as we need to ship 4 million units by June (that's roughly $220,000,000- makes you angry they haven't polished it yet with that kind of income, doesn't it?).
Anyone else angry with the plot holes and bare minimum ending?
I intentionally went for a "Good Ending" or what I was thinking would be a "good" ending given the sheer amount of time invested I view it like a long novel akin to "Choose Your Own Adventure" (if people reading this are even old enough to even remember that reference) for you want the best for each character so it wraps up perfectly to your own views or philosophies.
So I went out of my way to make sure all the +1 choices went to Ciri so she'd become a good and fair ruler and bring "peace" to the land while using everything taught to her vs. giving up altogether a "loser", or having a scar riddled body and dying in a fight after a long life as a lonely Witcher whoring around with abusive dick heads. I saved Letho, had him at Kaer Morhen. Brought everyone else to Kaer Morhen except Djykstra so Keira was there there to save Lambert (who I thought was into guys up until that point as they seemed to allude to it with his "friend" he was avenging and seemingly hidden jokes between Geralt and him) and they apparently fell for each other. Also saved Nolan 1st then Vigi, so they were present before and during the battle, at one point I ran over and killed the Wild Hunt guys swarming them. And Zoltan, Emirion, etc. were there. Everyone was there that should be.
My biggest gripe is there was this huge build-up of all his friends culminating in one place to repay a huge favor or two, and immediately after the battle during the impromptu funeral, Nolan and Vigi were missing with no mention what happened to them. You obviously see Zoltan, Emirion, and Hjalmar later, but Keira and Lambert disappear altogether in a rather abrupt "later" response. Letho despite being told to stay at Kaer Morhen disappears too. And Eskel is gone?
Fast-forward to after the final fight we at least learn what happens to Hjalmar's dad during the battle, but again where the hell did everyone go? What happened to everyone? They show us what happens ultimately to Ciri, and what happens to Geralt (I chose Triss but don't get me started on her lack of dialogue and very cold response when she returns later in the game and how everything centers around Yennefer from random NPC to fellow Witchers to Cerys) in a brief comicbook-esque rendering of them apparently in the middle of foreplay and know Triss ended up an adviser and Geralt settled down, but what happened to Yennefer, Zoltan, Eskel, Letho, Keira and Lambert, Dandelion and Priscilla (other than inferring Dandelion wrote a book as his older-self narrated most of the story I don't remember seeing anything else), Phillipa (did she regrow eyes or just use magic ones? And if she can polymorph into an owl with eyes, why can't she polymorph into a copy of herself with eyes? or at very least another human?), Rita, Dudu, etc. etc. How about letting us know what happened to everyone else? And how about the plot hole of the missing Crone that escaped? Where the fuck did she go and why didn't Geralt and/or Ciri go after her? Why was there no mention of this in the ending? And what happened to the Baron and his wife ultimately? (mine went off to find a cure) Whatever happened to the Baron's daughter? Where'd Avallac'h go? WHAT HAPPENED TO EVERYONE ELSE?
SO MANY unanswered questions after 170+ hours of doing everything in-game (except all the Skellige water " ? " that give you stupid items like linen, Steel sword, 5 crowns; seriously, stop putting JUNK filler in games, that should have died with the 1st Assassin's Creed where you had to 500 flags or the equally tedious GTA games finding balloons and the like. Would rather forgo ALL the JUNK filler to have 4-5 more LONG quests with engaging NPC instead) I was very disappointed in the ending. If I didn't know from reading online my ending was a "good" ending, I'd have thought it a was a bad ending. Why was Ciri acting like she'd never see Geralt or Triss again? She's a queen now, right? Why didn't Ciri hire Triss as an adviser instead? Maybe she could have hired Yennefer?
I feel like they were making the game, and were getting close to wrapping it up but some stupid imaginary deadline appeared and they were like "Let's wrap this up, it appears good enough and no one will noticed they were short changed a decent ending as we need to ship 4 million units by June (that's roughly $220,000,000- makes you angry they haven't polished it yet with that kind of income, doesn't it?).
Anyone else angry with the plot holes and bare minimum ending?
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