The Witcher 3: 10 Worst Choices You Can Make In The Game
How did The Witcher franchise suddenly get a huge surge in popularity? Probably thanks to Netflix! Frankly, we're just excited tons of new people are exposing themselves to this setting, and it works as a bit of a substitute for Game of Thrones after that "amazing" final season. The show is insanely popular, the original books are selling out on Amazon, and The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt has more concurrent players than it had on release! It's a fantastic time to be a fan of the White Wolf. In the Witcher 3, Geralt is constantly tasked with making hard decisions. Usually, the decisions fall in a sort of moral "gray" area, but a few are just straight-up bad all around. So, let's talk about those.
10 Asking For Too Much Coin
This is a mechanic that's introduced pretty early on, and also the only non-quest-related item on this list, so we wanted to get it out of the way. In The Witcher 3, there are Main Quests, Secondary Quests, and Witcher Contracts. And, for that third category, Geralt can haggle with the client and ask for more money, but, if he goes too far, they'll cancel the contract altogether. It's a neat idea in concept, but in practice, it just led to us save-scumming or not even bothering to ask at all.
9 Not Sending Keira Metz To Kaer Morhen
Keira Metz is probably the first Sorceress players will meet in the game. Keira is a charming and powerful Sorceress, one who toes the line quite well between helping Geralt for selfish reasons and being altruistic. And, after a series of quests involving Keira's rat-obsessed mage friend, we find out that she is attempting to bring notes on a magical plague to King Radovid in order to secure safety for herself. The same Radovid who spends his free time torturing any magic-related citizens. So, if players want to save her life, there's only one correct option, convince her to go to Kaer Morhen instead.
8 Ignoring Skellige's Succession Quests
The Witcher 3 is a ridiculously huge game, like, seriously big. Its gigantic world is broken up into a couple of different maps of varying sizes. But, the two primary ones are Novigrad/Velen and Skellige. And while on the main quest, Geralt makes the trek to Skellige. And as soon as he shows up, people drag him in to help them select their new monarch.
Most players just went along with what the game suggests you do, which is to support Cerys. But, they actually have the option of ignoring this selection process altogether. If they side with either brother, Skellige pointlessly goes against Nilfgaard immediately. You'll want to put the sister in charge, believe us.
7 Keeping The Baby Out Of The Oven
And, speaking of Cerys an Craite, during the series of Quests helping her to become the leader of the Skellige Isles, Cerys has to complete a certain task. One that's worthy of earning her a spot for the throne. Of course, the trial she took upon herself involves saving Jarl Udalryk from a specific curse. There's a long story here but we'll keep it short, Cerys kidnaps the Jarl's kid and tells Geralt to throw it in a hot oven. The normal choice here would obviously be to say no, but trust us, it makes sense with context. We won't spoil too much but choosing not to toss the baby leads Geralt towards a very frustrating boss-fight that can altogether be avoided.
6 Accepting Payment From Emhyr
The Witcher 3's story might follow Geralt, but it's actually all about Ciri. She's just so strong! As anyone who watched the Netflix series probably knows by now, Ciri is kind of important. And, as such, her father Emhyr var Emreis wants her back. His reasons are likely insidious, as it's the power of her Elder Blood that everyone is after. So, most players don't want to take her back to him, especially since Ciri sees Geralt as her real father. But, if they do, and they also choose to take the money Emhyr promised, they'll have to suffer through watching Ciri's face and she comes to terms with Geralt's betrayal. And it hurts to watch, it truly does.
5 Breaking Yennefer's Heart
And speaking of awful betrayal, let's talk about one of the other important people in Geralt's life, Yennefer of Vengerberg. It is revealed that Triss knew of Geralt's lovely wife, and knowingly didn't tell him when he had amnesia during the first two games. The two are bound together either by love or by Geralt's wish from a Djinn.
And, what's extra neat, is that players can take on a sidequest where Geralt and Yen hunt down another Djinn to nullify this "Last Wish" and see if their affection is the real deal. Once it's nullified, Yen asks if there are any feelings for her remaining, and if you're a horrible person, you'll say no. It's real rough.
4 Betraying Roche And Ves
This decision may be one of the heaviest in the game, at least politically. It may not involve the most likable characters, but the moral implications behind either decision can't be understated. Basically, Geralt at one point in the story has the choice between letting Dijkstra kill Roche, or siding with Roche and betraying Djikstra. And, we all know how altruistic the Butcher of Blaviken is. Honestly, anyone who played The Witcher 2 will choose Roche, no matter what. This decision has obvious surface-level ties to the player, but much deeper setting implications in the future. Sure, Dijkstra may have a point, but Roche is our boy, and that isn't how he's going to go out. Not on our watch.
3 Letting Ciri Die
Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon has three potential endings in The Witcher 3. Luckily, although this would have been neat, they aren't based on decisions made throughout the entire game. Rather, they're based on a select few choices in certain mainline quests. Now, we're trying not to spoil too much, so we'll just say that in one ending, things end very badly for the aspiring She-Witcher.
To avoid that, it's pretty simple, just be a good dad! Honestly after looking at the choices players would have to make to get this "bad" ending, we don't know who would voluntarily choose them unless they were trying to get said bad end. The other two endings are bittersweet in their own individual ways but believe us, they're much better than the third option.
2 Not Ending Junior's Reign
Much like his name suggests, Whoreson Junior is not a stand-up guy. He's real twisted. The guy is goal for a series of quests in Novigrad involving Ciri, Dudu the Doppler, Dandelion, and Geralt. We won't go too much into it, but at the end of the questline, Geralt has the choice to spare or slay this half-baked crime-lord. Now, the room where we make this decision is decorated by the tortured bodies of women Junior played with, so it did influence our choice. Still, the guy is pure evil. Sparing him is the wrong choice. Killing Junior leads to Doppler Dudu taking his place and helping out Novigrad quite a bit in the long run. But, if we spare him, Junior becomes a beggar and faces endless humiliation. Which, is satisfying, but does much less good for everyone than the first option.
1 Romancing Everyone
And lastly, we know Geralt likes to sleep around, but try and get him to keep it in his pants just a bit. Throughout the game, Geralt has the choice to lay with a fair share of women, Keira, courtesans at multiple brothels across the game like the Passiflora, Triss Merigold, Shanni from the first game, and of course Yennefer. Now, most of these options actually benefit Geralt to pursue, except for one Triss Merigold. Choosing only her is fine, but if players try and court both of these insanely powerful Sorceresses, they'll be in for a world of hurt. The ending involving both of them is odd to see as the finale to such a long adventure, so we don't recommend it.
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