Happily ever after?

[KnightofPhoenix]

I am a fan of the bittersweet as well. So maybe Yennefer / Triss dying and Geralt completely leaving the continent and all its shit to go on a Witcher's journey to Zerrakanea would be a good ending in my books.
Geralt would have lost the 2 important women in his life, but also liberated himself from all the politicking of the continent, allowing him to spend his days doing what he does best, killing monsters.

 

[green_abobo]

geralt shouldnt have any regrets. think about it. hes rubbed elbows with royalty, elves, dwarves, sorceresses, scum bags, bards, traitors & theives alike, not to mention all manners of horrid creatures.

furthermore, if he really lived, how i actually played him, hed have quite the armory by now, & ploughed more wenches than he wouldve, had he simply remained human, & worked a booooring 9-5 j. o. b. sure hes made some mistakes, but as we all know, he has an uncanny act for choosing the "lesser of the two evils" even when he does.

not to mention the stories he could tell, if he could have kids.

although i'd be shocked if he doesnt look for someone to train, & pass the tradition on to. forget what the tradition is referred to as, in which the witcher takes an apprentice, something along those lines.

all that & he still hasnt fully regained his memory! cant wait for tw3!!!

 

[Randomdrowner2015]

Do you think it would be possible for the Witcher to walk away and end his days in happiness? Whether alone, with his brothers in the ruins of Kaer Morhen or beside his lady love on Avalon or Murky Waters. Would that be a realistic end to the White Wolfs grim and bloody tale, and what might he have to sacrifice to achieve such personal contentment?

Personally, though I think that Geralts fate will depend upon his actions throughout the games, i'm fairly sure that there is no happy ending for him come the Sagas conclusion. Perhaps there will be glory and a righteous death, perhaps one last throw of the dice and a desperate gamble to save all he knows and cares for or maybe just a simple return to the Witchers path until his sorrows grow too heavy, his wounds too severe and the monsters too fierce.

Would a Carmen and Vincent ending ring true to your Geralt, he has once died just as Yennefer predicted, how will his next ending play out.

The important thing is that it is a satisfying ending reflecting the journey of your Geralt. A "happy" ending that does that is a good thing, but it also seem like the most hard thing to pull of as you have to get the tone right.

 

[Randomdrowner2015]

I am a fan of the bittersweet as well. So maybe Yennefer / Triss dying and Geralt completely leaving the continent and all its shit to go on a Witcher's journey to Zerrakanea would be a good ending in my books.
Geralt would have lost the 2 important women in his life, but also liberated himself from all the politicking of the continent, allowing him to spend his days doing what he does best, killing monsters.

There is nothing sweet or happy about that though. But a "sacrifice of close ones for a certain type of bigger picture" could be a conclusion of a play-through of the trilogy where Geralt have treated his companions in such a way (for example, escorting Phillipa instead of trying to free Triss etc).

 

[Lurtz_Of_Orthanc]

I think Witcher 3 should be the end of Geralt's story, with truly branching endings unlike Mass Effect 3. I doubt we will get a happy-dandy sunset ending, but I'd love to be able truly choose what matters to my Geralt - possible examples being

Romance conclusions: leaving Triss to die for Yennefer vs. letting Yennefer go to embrace Triss vs. deserting both sorceresses to wander alone or save something else more important

Wild Hunt conclusions: sacrificing self/someone/somthing to defeat the Wild Hunt once and for all vs. joining the Wild Hunt once we learn what it's really about vs. destroying everything rather than letting the Wild Hunt win vs. uniting the two dimensions

Political conclusions: siding with the Northern Kingdoms to utterly annihilate Nilfgaard vs. letting Nilfgaard triumph to establish order over all vs. letting both sides bloody each other and remaining truly neutral


or who knows. But The Witcher 1 and especially The Witcher 2 have set up tons of potential loyalties and betrayals, possible conquests and armageddons, and my biggest hope for The Witcher 3 is that we get truly distinct endings based on our choices and personal morality.


***Oh, and above all, I think the plot armor of all characters needs to be removed. There should be possible deaths for any of the main crew - Geralt, Triss, Yennefer, Zoltan, Dandelion, Roche, Iorveth, Radovid...and not all of them should be noble. We've been buddy-buddy with Triss, Zoltan and Dandelion in particular, and I think there needs to be a chance in at least some path where we can leave them to die 'for a higher cause' - or just because something more important to our individual Geralt is at stake. Despite the love triangle telegraphed between Triss and Yen in Witcher 3, I think Witcher 2 would have been brilliantly strong if choosing Bros Before Hos truly resulted in Triss' bloody death at the hands of Nilfgaard, Letho, Radovoid or whoever.

 

[wichat]

A final image with lone hero moving away toward the horizon ... not for a fourth game, OC, but to keep our alter ego, which we all recognize in Geralt, live in our imagination... (OK, too much romantic!)

 

[Randomdrowner2015]

A final image with lone hero moving away toward the horizon ... not for a fourth game, OC, but to keep our alter ego, which we all recognize in Geralt, live in our imagination... (OK, too much romantic!)

Well, Geralt retiring from the troubles of the to the Isle of Avallach with his friends and loved ones would be a good ending. You know, Geralt being done with the world, its political intrigues and madness after doing what he could to make it better. The world and its people will just have to make it on their own from now on.
Kinda in tone like how Theif (1) ended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZA-KDy87Q

 

[queenslayer]

No cliffhangers, and I'm good.

 

[minotaurwarrior]

I think / hope the ending of the trilogy will really be all about choice and sacrifices. You can live a life of peace and love in a remote island, while Nilfgaard rules over the North and the Wild Hunt ravages the world. Or you can sacrifice your friends, watching them die so you can bring something like peace to the world. Or you can run off, pursuing the Wild Hunt in their sphere of origin, leaving the North and your friends in a precarious, but potentially manageable situation, while you spend the remainder of your life doing what you do best: hunting monsters.

Or something like that. I'd like a lot of variety in the endings.

 

[FoggyFishburne]

Personally, I'd love a happy ending. There's too much fucking emphasis on "bitter sweet" and "tragic" and "heroic but brave" endings. Enough! Be a little original. I mean fuck, what's up with all this sadness. I get enough shit in my life. Can't games be a form of happy escapism for once? Didn't ME3 prove that killing the protagonist wasn't edgy, radical or original? It was just stupid and meh. But then again that was the worst ending in the history of all creative works so I guess it's hard to judge that one.

Honestly, I want the ending to be like the one in TW2. Hopefully the choices we've made dictates what ending we get (as it should be since it's a fucking RPG) but if that's asking too much, then let us have a nice discussion with someone. Let us have a silent moment, give a us a chance to enjoy it, and then let us decide what ending we want. I don't know. I trust CDPR but I hope they do something a little more lighthearted and fun for an ending. It would be an awesome juxtaposition to the rest of the series.

Actually, let me rephrase it. I hope they do an honest ending. The Witcher games are true to their European developers roots. Us Europeans have always had a culture where everything is grounded in earth. Humble and real. I hope the ending will be something like that. Just real. Let us have a real moment to end the trilogy. No big bullshit bang ala Hollywood style. Just something soft, silent and real. That'd be awesome.

PS. I do hope that it won't just be a trilogy. I'd love to play as Geralt again. Doug Cockle does an amazing job and I can't get enough of his subtle acting. He does really do a phenomenal job.

 

[dragonbird]

I don't want Geralt to have to consciously choose a "lesser evil", like sacrificing the North vs sacrificing his friends. If the game leads to that naturally because of decisions that he made earlier, fine, but the moral relativity stuff has become far too cliched in games, and is a really, really weak cop-out for the developers.

CDPR have managed to avoid this in the first two games and I hope they avoid it in the final one too. If Geralt makes a decision that leads to Something Bad happening, he shouldn't know this in advance, and neither should the player unless you've chosen to look it up on a walkthrough.

If he DOES have to make such a decision, then he should be wrong about the consequences, and something unexpected should happen.