[Spoilers] What ending did you get and how did you feel?

[любовь]

So, I pretty much just beat the main story line and it was just purely amazing and full of emotions. Im really sad that this adventure had to end but I think I got a pretty good ending.

Ciri got a new sword and I lived happily together with her and Yen.

So again,
What ending did you get and how did you feel?

[KoalafiedKiller]

Ciri became a witcher.

Moved to Kovir with Triss.

Radovid assassinated, Temeria became a vassal of Nilfgaard.

Cerys as queen of Skellige.

I was pretty much perfectly happy with my ending. I'm glad I got the good ending without trying. I know plenty of people who were angry with the bad ending.

I love the way the witcher ending is done too. It's so somber and you really feel something is wrong, but then it slowly unfolds and you see it's actually a happy ending.

[любовь]

Originally posted by KoalafiedKiller:

Ciri became a witcher.

Moved to Kovir with Triss.

Radovid assassinated, Temeria became a vassal of Nilfgaard.

Cerys as queen of Skellige.

I was pretty much perfectly happy with my ending. I'm glad I got the good ending without trying. I know plenty of people who were angry with the bad ending.

I love the way the witcher ending is done too. It's so somber and you really feel something is wrong, but then it slowly unfolds and you see it's actually a happy ending.

Exactly the same for me :)

[jss1138]

Originally posted by KoalafiedKiller:

Ciri became a witcher.

Moved to Kovir with Triss.

Radovid assassinated, Temeria became a vassal of Nilfgaard.

Cerys as queen of Skellige.

That was my exact ending as well. I was very satisfied that without knowing what the different endings were, or how to achieve them, I got the one I like best on my first play through.

[Ivar]

-My destitute Geralt in a swamp, waiting to die.

-Ciri is gone.

I hated the ending. Geralt wouldn't off himself because Ciri's gone, he has other people to live for. It was too vauge anyway. I also hated the white frost shoehorned in at the last second. I'm playing again and I plan to get a more postive ending, but overall the end is poorly handled, rushed, and slopped together. TW1 and TW2 had far better endings.

[Terra]

Ciri became Empress - Temeria is a vassal of Nilfgaard.

Geralt retires with Yennefer, presumably dies in his own bed at a ripe old age.

Pretty much as canon as can be. Only part that's up for debate is who rules Skellige - I got Cerys, but I could see any of the three doing a decent job.

[Ivar]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by Ivar:

-My destitutre Geralt in a swamp, waiting to die.

-Ciri is gone.

I hated the ending. Geralt wouldn't off himself because Ciri's gone, he has other people to live for. It was too vauge anyway. I also hated the white frost shoehorned in at the last second. I'm playing again and I plan to get a more postive ending, but overall the end is poorly handled, rushed, and slopped together. TW1 and TW2 had far better endings.

He fails he's failed her, utterly, miserably. So he did the only thing he could do -- killed the final Crone and got back Vesemir's/Ciri's medallion. So yeah, I do think he'd blame himself completely for her death and would not be able to accept it.

And the White Frost was not shoehorned in at all. It was at the core of the entire story, and certainly the entire game. It's at the heart of the prophecy. The Wild Hunt is a major threat to be sure but it's the White Frost that would have destroyed their world as it has many others and only one born of the Elder Blood would be able to defeat it.

You have to understand, that even while this ending with Ciri gone and presumed dead, their world has been saved. She did defeat the White Frost, as she manages to do in each of the three endings. It's just her fate that is determined by Geralt's choices, whether she survives because her confidence is strong enough, her will to endure what she must and return or succumb to her wounds and inevitable death because her faith in herself just cannot take anymore.

The White Frost is no longer a threat to their world and that's thanks to Ciri.

No one talks about the White Frost, or it's implications. It's all in the journal - lame. The emphasis is finding Ciri, for like the whole f*cking game...and then all of a sudden, "stop the White Frost!". I hate it with a passion.

Geralt in the books cares about Yen. He cares about Dandy and Zoltan. In the games he has Triss. It's absurd to think he's done just cause he failed Ciri. Don't get me started on the Wild Hunt and Eredin, the worst villians in the entire series.

[jss1138]

Originally posted by Ivar:

No one talks about the White Frost, or it's implications.

That actually started in the first game. The entire final battle deals with the idea.

That's one reason folks shouldn't start with part 3.

[CrUsHeR]

Perhaps i should make an own thread for this, nevertheless....


I got the bad ending, and while i appreciate when gamemakers have the courage to give a tragic ending to their game (think of Mad Max which is 100% linear and can only end bad), i have to rant a little about what exactly decided the bad ending.


1. Radovid still alive, defeating Nazigaard and continuing his genocide

This one baffled me the most, thought it was a bug that the game counts him as alive - i followed the questline for the conspiracy, Geralt said he won't kill a king but would help to prepare things.
That questline ends successfully, i also visited Roche and Djikstra on my own afterwards during Act 2 if they might have follow-ups because i clearly wanted to see that madman dead.

Now when liberating Phillipa, you get 2 options when talking to Djikstra:

A) "I can tell you the emperor's plans"
B) [shove him aside forcefully]

So why the hell would i choose A after he abandoned me for the battle in Kaer Morhan?
Selected B, and Geralt doesn't "shove him aside" but punches him in the face and breaks his already crippled leg (haha... woot?).
This decision alone ends the plot against Radovid altogether. Sorry but that's more than just retarded. A logical and precise decision by the player has completely unlogical and random results.



2. Ciri and Geralt are dead

Just gonna go through the parts that decide the bad ending for the 2 protagonists:
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Tedd_Deireadh,_The_Final_Age

A) Drink with Ciri or have a snowball fight:
Yeah i would have chosen the snowball fight, if the dialogue would have mentioned that. Actually it says "i have an idea..." which could be anything from dwarf-tossing to bukkake gangbang with the other witchers. So picking the drinking can be the only reliable choice.

B) I told Ciri we have to visit the emperor and she has to make her own choice, but she insisted on my advice and i said "i wouldn't go if i was you". So, there wasn't even an option to take the coin or not.

C) All the dialogue suggests that the sorceresses aren't up to anything good and want to use Ciri as her tool, so it was an obvious choice to back her up. Apparently the devs think this should be a bad choice.

D) Ciri says "or are you afraid that i'll do again what i did at Kaer Morhan?" - wait, in Kaer Morhan she almost blew up the whole world because she couldn't control her powers. Better calm her down, right?
But Geralt doesn't calm her down, instead he once again decides to do something completely random and puts Lara Dorren's necklace around her neck. In particular in context of the whole "she's my daughter" thing it also doesn't make sense to encourage her to vandalism rather than calming her down.

E) I visited the grave with her, yes.
Although the plotline suggested that we wouldn't have time for that, and the dialogue for Ciri let me pick "he's uuuhm... nice?" because Skjall was obviously a fat dork.




So in my opinion, all the deciding factors for my bad ending were either vague, random or illogical. Not sure if i want to play another 100+ hours just to pick the 3 different dialogue choices as intended by the writers and the rest of the game remains identical.

PS - and if it wasn't obvious after reading my summary above, the ending felt unsatisfying. But doesn't really change how great the game itself is.

[StinkDiver]

Good ending, first try without even knowing how to purposefully get that ending, still dont know how i got it, thought i ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up many times. Guess not. But i can say the ending i got (good one) satisfied me. shame about radovid basically genociding all non humans in the so called "good ending" but other than that.

[Kauldwin]

I got Ciri becoming a Witcher and Geralt & Yenn sticking together, and I was fairly pleased with that. I messed up retrieving Phillipa from Djikstra, though, so Radovid stayed alive, and I wasn't as happy about that one.

[StinkDiver]

Originally posted by Kauldwin:

I got Ciri becoming a Witcher and Geralt & Yenn sticking together, and I was fairly pleased with that. I messed up retrieving Phillipa from Djikstra, though, so Radovid stayed alive, and I wasn't as happy about that one.

i got her yet radovid also was still alive.

[Mr_Faorry]

I got Ciri becoming a witcher,
Geralt continues being a witcher,
Cerys becoming queen,
Nildguard wins.


I was happy with it.

[bukkie661]

Originally posted by KoalafiedKiller:

Ciri became a witcher.

Moved to Kovir with Triss.

Radovid assassinated, Temeria became a vassal of Nilfgaard.

Cerys as queen of Skellige.

I was pretty much perfectly happy with my ending. I'm glad I got the good ending without trying. I know plenty of people who were angry with the bad ending.

I love the way the witcher ending is done too. It's so somber and you really feel something is wrong, but then it slowly unfolds and you see it's actually a happy ending.

Carbon copy of my game. I think it was a good ending too. Was sad for a moment, then started HoS.

[StinkDiver]

Originally posted by Merdakah:

Originally posted by KoalafiedKiller:

Ciri became a witcher.

Moved to Kovir with Triss.

Radovid assassinated, Temeria became a vassal of Nilfgaard.

Cerys as queen of Skellige.

I was pretty much perfectly happy with my ending. I'm glad I got the good ending without trying. I know plenty of people who were angry with the bad ending.

I love the way the witcher ending is done too. It's so somber and you really feel something is wrong, but then it slowly unfolds and you see it's actually a happy ending.

Carbon copy of my game. I think it was a good ending too. Was sad for a moment, then started HoS.

HoS worth it? or just carry on doing NG+?

[bukkie661]

Originally posted by ☠ ℳ ✘ ℒ ☠:

Originally posted by Merdakah:

Carbon copy of my game. I think it was a good ending too. Was sad for a moment, then started HoS.

HoS worth it? or just carry on doing NG+?

HoS is worth it. The runewords are amazing, though geared to the fast-attack melee build Geralts out there, IMO. I believe that as such, I and many other fast-attack melee players got the most worth out of HoS.
With the runewords, the jump to NG+ should be somewhat more managable. Besides that, HoS is a fun story. I'm a huge Olgierd fan and I believe that CDPR should make an Olgierd spin off. I would love to play through his story.