Gaspard is beyond despicable. My quality of life gets worse every time I'm reminded of that sleepy waste of space. Anyway, I'll have a very special Witcher 3 video for you guys very soon. I truly can't wait to upload it, it's by far the biggest video project I've ever taken on. Been in the works for nearly a year! Also, thanks to Wonder for the sponsor - if interested, you can check them out here: app.adjust.com/eebuld3?campaign=NeonKnight_March2023&adgroup=youtube

I like most of them, the ones that standout as bad are the annoying escort missions. Like when you have to escort that goat for the pellar or that stupid narcoleptic dwarf.

My top 7 quests: Gwent: Playing Innkeeps Gwent: Velen Players Gwent: Big City Players Gwent: Old Pals Gwent: Skellige Style High stakes Collect 'Em All Honorable mentions: Gwent: Playing Thaler A Dangerous Game Gwent: Never Fear, Skellige's Here Gwent: To Everything - Turn, Turn, Tournament!

Admittedly I love the fact you can literally swim past all the pass requirements from oxenfurt to novigrad

I think people don't mention Wine Wars as a bad quest because a lot of people just do the clearing out as they come across them, while traveling to do other quests. The locations were spread out so much over the map that I immediately knew it wouldn't be a main focus for me. I ended up killing some of those plants and things without even realizing they were a part of that particular quest lol. It really doesn't feel tedious and repetitive when done that way.

"The only in character Dijkstra moment during this entire quest happens after he's dead. When you find out he had a chicken sandwich in his pocket the entire time" 😭😭😭

Broken Flowers is also a great tour of Novigrad. It's an early opportunity to get to see nearly every district. I think that's another purpose of the quest, given it's one of the earlier main quests in the city.

I was so shocked to hear that the Kiera quest was so hated. I always enjoyed it

One quest that irks me is Possession, the one where Jarl Udalryk is possessed by a hym. If you throw the baby in the oven, he sets his guards on you, which you have to kill. Then it's revealed that the baby was safe all along and everyone is friends again, but the guards are freaking dead! It doesn't even get acknowledged. Feels awful to just slaughter presumably decent men for no real reason.

I like broken flowers mainly for one reason - when you play second time, you can realise that Dandelion was trying to extract something from each person: -teacher was asked about poisonous fungus -girl from horse races helped him get barge -laundry woman was asked about work hours - she was working for Djikstra -Etihal sawed few pockets which were helpful during robbery Fifth did also something, just don’t fully remember

5:02 Keira: "I cant believe you'd think so poorly of me. Perhaps you do bear a grudge against sorceresses." Geralt : "Mhm can't imagine where that comes from." ... is wearing Order of the Flaming Rose armor lmao

Why didn't anyone mention The Family Blade? You spend a ton of time tracking down this silly sword, only to come back and get 20 coins as a reward.

The quest in the Isle of Mists is obviously inspired by the Snow White fable, you have 1 sleeping princess and 7 dwarves, pretty straight forward. I think that the devs at CDPR couldn't resist adding 7 dwarves when they realized they had a princess sleeping in a hut.

Idk what the name of the quest was but there is that one quest in Skellige where you have to climb that one mountain. It's full of harpies and they often get stuck in the mountain, not allowing you to get out of combat mode which prevents you from climbing and jumping. All you can do when a harpy gets stuck is wait and hope it unstucks itself quickly.

The Morkvarg story at 13:07 had me in stitches

I always hated quests involving fist fights. Particularly when you had to take on more than one at a time, I always found it pretty tough. Nothing like seeing one of the best fighters in the world go down to a couple of street thugs. That goes double for situations where there’s no in-story reason for Geralt not to just pull out his sword.

I actually quite liked broken flowers! I enjoyed having a quest that was about dandelion and learning more about him and his friendship with Geralt. It's also quite funny! Also the scene with Priscilla of course is fantastic. But then again I love anything that's heavy on storytelling so probably why I didn't mind it in comparison to those who mostly enjoy games for combat purposes. Totally agree with you about Wine Wars. Whenever I thought back to that quest I thought of it fondly only because I kept remembering the basic premise and the end of it with getting your own wine named after you. But you reminded me how tedious it was and how uncreative most of the quest actually was. So definitely good call!

The quest where you have to steal horses for the douchy non-humans with Ciri pissed me off. They refuse your offer to buy the horses for them, and make you out to be some villain if you say “I’m not a thief”. He will fight you if you refuse then the icing on the cake is Ciri gets mad at you and storms away.

my favorite quest is the blood and wine tournament quest. it’s so much fun, super unique, and has a great plot

For me an honorable mention would be the fight against the three crones with Ciri on deathmarch. The fight felt so unreasonably tedious to me because of their healthbars and ciri just dying in only one or two hits, even if overleveled.

I think the Bitter Harvest quest is indeed bugged, because in my playthrough it did take at maximum 20 seconds and nowhere near two minutes for the next wave to spawn

As a stutterer myself, Stuttering Matt is one hilarious gem I never expected to see in this game lol

Really wish they had just scrapped the wrapping up of Dijkstra's questline and even the end of the war in general. It wouldn't even have mattered in terms of Ciri's endings. Instead imagine for a moment a third DLC where the war blows up and you have some sort of antagonist triangle consisting of Emhyr (Empress Ciri), Dijkstra and Ves/Roche/Thaler with Geralt caught somewhere in the middle.

A note on "A Bitter Harvest", if you stand by where the Ghouls spawn, the quest will only take you about 2 minutes and the chance of the brother dying is near to none as he doesn't run up there most of the time.

Can’t believe people didn’t like the mission with keira, its one of the my favorite quests, a solid start to the game in my opinion.

Broken Flowers AND Wandering in the Dark?!?! Nah I’m glad they’re not among your list, but staggered that the community generally dislikes them, Wandering in the Dark one of the best quests in the entire game imo

On Wine Wars: I suspect it comes down to the type of player you are. If you're someone who likes to explore randomly and hit those question marks unprompted, then Wine Wars is great (alongside the hanses and Lebioda statue) at giving some context to the content you were going to see anyway. If you're laser-focused on what's in your quest log, then I suppose you're going to see it as busywork.

I liked six of the seven on the list, but completely agree on the terrible ending to the assassination quest. The two I hated were the peller/ goat quest and not really a quest but collecting all of those floating barrels around Skellige

The conversation with Molly in Broken Flowers cracks me up. She's just so comically lacking in perception of guile. Different mothers, too. The end of the assassination always drove me nuts because of the exact same reasons. I wanted to get the best Ciri ending even after seeing Emhyr and refusing the money and the only way to do that is to throw Roche and Ves under the bus. Allow Emhyr to win and you get Empress Ciri. Letting Radovid win is not an option. Doesn't feel right at all but Ciri deserves to live wild and free.

Damn, I loved Wandering in the Dark in a way I can't quite explain. Being such an in depth quest so early in the game it was one of the more memorable ones for me and really helped the story along. We were introduced to Keira and the 'Mysterious Elf' and it put us on the trail of Ciri and the Wild hunt. Not to mention the introduction to exploring Elven ruins which have a unique and artistic atmosphere, due in no small part to the 'Aen Seidhe' theme.

On my first playtrough I chose to "shove Dijkstra" which to Geralt means breaking his leg apparently, and only later found out that completely locks you out of doing anything about Radovid which made me really mad, and back then I would have probably choose that as the worst quest in the game, though I forgot what it was called.

The play Geralt acts in to lure Dudu out of hiding was a big snoozer for me

Wandering in the dark is a shocker... That's also one of my favourite quests. Certainly the best early(ish) game quest IMO- The first time I played it I went from enjoying the game to loving the game.

Reasons of state could have lead to another quest where Gerald finds out of Dijkstra's betrayal. Depending on the choices you made during all previous quests you are on time or too late to save Roach and the gang.

I hoped CDPR would fix Reason of State in a way that Dikstra wins and all your friends lives. Wondering in the Dark is one of my favorite quests too.

Not sure how people can dislike Wandering in the Dark when both Fencing Lessons and Defender of the Faith exist. At least Wandering in the Dark was its own adventure and showed the player more of the world.

Just out of curiosity...what do people not like about "Wandering in the dark"? I like that questline a lot.

I have to fully agree. Never got why people hate Kiera quest it is so refreshing to have friendly npc with you since Vesemir's on his way to Kehr Morhen. It honestly makes me wonder if CDPR wanted to have more of these quests or the NPCs be more involved. Also I have to say the only thing I like about Reason of State is Philippa, her actions are fully in character and her revenge on Radovid feels like something she would really go out of her way to do. Also also I have to mention scavenger hunt for Manticore gear, running across the B&W map in search of the gear can be fun but bloody hell I know the devs deliberately put the diagrams for manticore always on the other side of the map form the last objective marker. I remember that quest really infuriated me a lot.

Wine wars was originally planned as proper side quest line codenamed sq703_wine_wars which is on par with the knights tournament. For whatever reason they scrapped it and replaced it with lw_wine_wars which indicates its a question mark clearing quest. A very small piece of the original wine wars is still in the game in the form of the Big Game Hunter quest.

The trick with Gaspard I found is just walking slowly and not getting too far away. He only falls asleep a couple times. Also that quest in blood and wine where you gotta deal with the bickering ghosts in the cemetery, no fun replayability

The quests I don't enjoy in replay are the Ciri memories. I get they tell the story, show her power increasing and fill in alot but you spend so long crafting and honing your weapons and armor, setting your mutations, spells and specs and then you have to drop it all to play her parts with very little of the optional pathways and resolutions that kept me replaying this game for so long.

My favourite quest has to be helping Hjalmar with the ice giant. I just love his himbo energy and overall vibe. Aaaand I totally love Skellige, it's my favourite location in Witcher 3. Btw, great video! 💜

Definitely agree on the ones where you pretty much fail if the very fragile npcs you're fighting with die. Luckily I can skip the one in Velen as there's so many other ways to get a pass into Novigrad, and the last time I played the one in Skellige I didn't even bother reloading when the guys died.

Nice work, Neon! I agree with your opinion regarding the first two you'd mentioned - 'Broken Flowers' I don't mind whatsoever, and quite like wandering about Novigrad and its surroundings, and the Keira Metz quest where you have to wander through the caves I quite enjoy doing, but I can understand the latter being a bit more of a chore after you've played through the game a few times, but then again you know where to go and what to do so it's generally quicker and easy to skate through this one. I don't really have issue with many quests in the game. I think that any quest that involves you having to defend someone is usually a pain because they sit there and essentially do nothing, i.e. the quest with the pellar and finding his goat, the one where you have to defend him when he's carrying out his ritual on Fyke Isle and then the one in Skellige where you have to protect that guy whilst he tries to summon rain - all rather annoying. But hands down, my most hated quest is quite easily Morkvarg. Despise everything about that quest and dread playing it on any playthrough of the game. Somehow I manage to forget what you need to do every time I play it and overall, it's just hot garbage. I always lift the curse just to slaughter him afterwards for his historic crimes and his even more criminal questline.

wondering in the dark is one of my favourite quests too , on my first playthrough it felt like a last boss level vibe but from the start , it's like giving players an early taste of how dungeons and boss fights would work and it's enjoyable quest and fairly easy

The quest I hate THE MOST is the one where you need to inspect bodies in a war field to find a person's brother, but then the persons dog finds him anyways. LIKE THE GAME FORCES YOU TO INSPECT A SPECIFIC NUMBER OF TIMES AND FINDING THE THINGS TO INSPECT IS SO DAMN HARD

Even when you are talking about the worst quests, this channel never fails to make me want to play the witcher iii.

Broken flower is great quest. You have fun interactions with a bunch of completely different characters. Almost every meeting adds something from itself or is unique in its own way. But most importantly. Every character gives you a clue that Dandelion was up to something.

My least favorite is the quest where you find the sunstone with Philippa and the reason I don't like it is because I can't find my way out. I had to use fast travel mods to get out of there and I struggle with it on every playthrough. (Seriously how hard would it be to ask Philippa to teleport Geralt too)

The only problem I have with wandering in the dark quest is when you have to protect Kira while she's closing the portals, there isn't much space to fight those wild hunt hounds that try to attack you and her there isn't much room to move around without getting frostbite making fighting those Wild Hunt hounds kind of a pain in that section of the quest.

Broken Flowers is fantastic! Finding out Dandelion was planning a heist and not just being his usual self is great as you put the pieces together. The interactions are funny, seeing repercussions from the La Vallete siege is interesting and varies given your choices. I’d venture to say it’s more of a gamer problem and less of a witcher fan one. If you just wanna do some combat I can see it, but not otherwise.

I agreed with most all of your picks, in particular Keira Metz, I enjoyed the questline and found the banter between the two of them amusing and informative, the dungeon fights could be a bit challenging in Death March mode but they are doable, my least favorite would be Morkvarg, it is definitely bugged, sometimes the fang does not drop, and travel to the garden, now go back to town, now go back to the garden, now go back to town, then back to the garden, even with fast track it breaks immersion.

I agree with you by having no issue with broken flowers or wandering in dark. But in my 3 play throughs I don't remember having any issue with keeping the brother alive in Bitter Harvest, or the two Skellige warriors at the cave entrance, although by then I'll have the spinney fast attack which takes care of pretty much any non boss mob in seconds anyway 😂

Okay, so I'm also very surprised about Wandering in the Dark. The only thing I can imagine is that it might be a slightly difficult to find Keira after the failed teleport at the start. However after that the quest is pretty straightforward. Broken Flowers is also a strange pick, probably its about the lot of speaking compared to no action involved. Now here comes your list... With the first one (Bitter Harvest) I totally agree that its an annoying quest. The guy dies so easily, and you are probably underleveled at this point. Even one single ghoul can be a bit challenging, and you face here 3-4 at once, and also you have to defend someone, who actively seeks death... however that two minute wait between the waves is unknown to me. For me the whole quest is two minutes long if I don't count the reloads. Maybe its about how you position yourself...? The waves always come from the woods, so I always try to position myself between the woods and Albin, and I almost immediately get the new wave of enemies. Wine Wars is just boring, but not annoying to me. Also you can do it with your other quests instead of doing it in one go. The same goes for the Knight for Hire quest. I think the idea behind these two is just to encourage the players a bit to clean some more "random" question marks on the map. In Toussaint a lot of the question marks are tied to some quest, much more than in the other two main maps. Okay, third one. Now this is something I absolutely don't get, I never had a problem with this quest. Usually when I get here, I am able to kill every enemy in that cave before those two warriors could get close to them. I'm confused on the same level as about the two minute waits in Bitter Harvest. I would happily swap this to the Morkvarg quest from your honourable mentions, mainly because of those Morkvarg noises... Next one, Isle of Mists. For me Gaspard is a lesser problem. What I really hate, is there are tons of loot around the island, and I can't leave them there... and it takes a lot of time. Gaspard is just a minor inconvenience :D And yep, the last one Reason of State, fully agree with that again. I don't have anything to say here. The quests I would probably add to the list are the two where you unlock the master armorer/blacksmith shops. The quests are okay, but the rewards are so underwhelming, that I think they can ruin everything at the end. Others might also mention the runewright here, but personally I find his wares useful.

Broken flowers is a great quest, I can't believe people don't like it. Quests that aren't just "go here and fight this person" are great from time to time to break things up. Same with Paperchase at the bank in blood and wine

Geralt as Vic Rattlehead on the Rust in Peace album cover is just something I never thought I would see but I'm very happy I did

I quite like wine wars, but that's because I don't play it where I have it active and running from marker to marker, I clear the question marks when I am running around exploring anyways and only return to the quest givers once I've cleared them all

The ones I hate are all the "Ciri's story" quests where you play as Ciri. Yeah great idea for telling the story of what happened but I hate having temporary character changes where all the skills are different. BaW has 4 side quests that have you go all over the place and I get those as soon as the introductory quest ends allowing free reign. First thing to do is visit the Carmelengo(spelling?), then get the Grandmaster armor quest, go home and do that quest, followed by starting Wine Wars, then straight to the quarry to get Big feet to fill. After getting those I do other side quests and contracts as normal with those 4 scattered quests progressing in the background.. Carmelengo really in the background because it's a hidden quest of saving knights errant and clearing Hanses that you come across when doing other quests or exploring. None of those quests are tedious when doing them that way. I completed Wine Wars and Big feet to fill without them being active in the journal unless talking to the quest givers. Deus ex Machina and finding proof for wine wars was made active and that one location cleared on purpose but it wasnt wandering all over the place for every plant infested sight, those were done when passing by just like finding a nekker nest in the wild's of Velen or a random bandit camp. I actually liked that about Wine Wars, you can do the majority of it without doing it as a priority. Just put a custom marker on a question mark between you and your quest location and visit it along the way and the majority is done

Wandering in the dark is one of my favourite quests! I agree also with your 5 picks, especially Wine Wars!

I love how one of the worst quests in the Witcher 3 is literally the majority of content in Ubisoft games (AC and Far Cry in particular)

I didn't have any problems completing bitter harvest on my second play through but it was the first quest I failed on my first play through. I walked away after accepting it thinking I could just come back to it later but its one of very few quests that if you walk away at any point after triggering it, it will fail. Taught me an important lesson early on and I always made sure I was prepared to commit before saying yes to anything after that.

For me it is probably Gangs of Novigrad. Only did it to avoid a failed quest in my log. The dwarves just run in and wreck everything. It doesn't bother me in the case of Junior's House and the casino. But at the arena you lose the opportunity to pretend yourself to be Zdenek, talk to Igor and meet Junior. And as a bonus, the little f*ckers run ahead of you to be killed off one by one. At least you won't fail even if only one of them survives, but that's hard enough to pull off too.

Another thing with the Morkvarg quest is that if you only do it later on with Yen she gives you a hint to feed him his own flesh and she says it in a funny and cheeky way as a stupid remark trying to tell geralt to think of something proper himself, yet it actually does solve the problem. I only learned about this in videos myself, because I usually do all the side questing first before I proceeded with the main story.

The quests I hate the most are the few bugged ones. Like the tournament where you have to ride roach and hit dummy targets with you sword and any quest involving rats. they're very annoying to kill on death march

I dont really agree on Wine Wars. I really like the unique Wine named after Geralt and when i was doing the quest once i found out that there is a way that you won't find out who was sabotaging the Wineyards which suprised me a lot. For me personally i hate the Isle of Mists quest as a long time player. If i could i would throw Gaspard from this sea lantern straightaway, kill all of the dwarfs hiding with Ciri and go away. But it's not possible unfortunetely so waking up this guy over and over is the most annoying thing in the Witcher 3 i've stumbled upon

I agree with your take on broken flowers, I would also add that I believe the intention is for it to be tedious (on a fist play through, until you know who you can skip). It’s a perfect introduction on how Dandelion gets himself into trouble, which Geralt then has to tediously solve. Also, wandering in the dark is a good quest. However, if you don’t listen or read the hints I can imagine just guessing the puzzles and having to fight the consequences (especially if you’re a low level) would make it a bit boring.

I also don't like Wandering in the Dark. The reason why is because of the nature of the quest: a slow trod through a dark, linear cave. It's also mandatory and very early in the playthrough, so it's an inconvenience that you must experience and keep experiencing every time you start the game over. The one moment that stands out as the worst is the part where you have to just stand there and wait ages for Keira to close snow portals. Also an overabundance of effing Foglets.

Dude, you have to admit the Morkvarg voice acting was a straight 10/10!!

I have to say I actually really enjoy Wine Wars, since it, like Knight for Hire, gives me a reason to wander the area (besides my own curiosity). A Blood and Wine quest that actually annoyed me on my most recent playthrough was Warbles of a Smitten Knight. I had to reload that tourney so many times...

Saw this due to Google news thinking I would like it. I will say this, this is the first time I've heard about hating the Keira Metz mission. To me that's the turning point. The loot and experience and buffs you get performing this mission make the world livable. Also sure her end dialog and abandoning the team after Kaer Morhen sucks but agreed with you her questline is really fun.

I really liked Broken Flowers. Priscilla is a reference to the minor character of Essie Daven aka Little Eye from the books. Not a total one to one reference, but it's a fun surprise especially since the tweaks, like being with Dandelion and not dying, are nice modifications that enhance the world instead of adding another potential love interest for Gerralt.

The last main quest is always a little disappointing to me. Eredin felt really anti-clumactic - as someone who hasn't read the books anyway. Caranthir and Imlerith got better fights than he did too. I also felt they should have done a little more with the crones - they really set them up so well to just kinda throw them away. Geralt seemed to recognise their power, then consider them a lesser threat when the time came. My favourite quests might be some of the Heart of Stone ones - particularly with Olgierd's brother. They don't get talked about enough imo. And anything gwent. Because gwent.

With Reason of State, my two favorite characters are Roche AND Dijkstra, so it kinda sucks I can only pick one to survive. However, I still like that it feels Witchery to not have any perfect good ending as an option. I do wish there would be some game effects after the quest is finished, like if Radovid is defeated then his soldiers are no longer standing around in the town. But I forgive as it's an older game at this point --hopefully the new games include these types of details.

I don't know if I got lucky or something but when I did the Isle Of Mists Garpard only fell asleep twice and wasn't that annoying at all. Also the mission with the two Skelligers they didn't rush in which allowed me to quickly run in and kill all the monsters before the Skelligers could get killed so that was easy too. And for Bitter Harvest I found out you can actually save between waves and that helped a ton

A very specific one for me would be "Breakneck speed" the Cire flashback where you have to run away from Junior's thugs and redanian soldiers, its supposed to be very easy since you only have to outrun them but in New Game+ you´re forced to fight the enemies for the final door to open

EASY GASPARD TRICK. If he is on the dirt road, he will fall asleep, but if you go off road, he will follow and as long as he too is off the road, he won't trigger the sleeping. So you can get it down to like 2-4 times max. He will always fall asleep next to the light tower and on the path Infront of the house. But all In all, you shave off a lot of time and anger

Before I watch the video off the top of my head: Keira’s Quest, Princess the Goat, Gaspard, Reasons of State and Hattori’s Quest

Most of novigrad’s side quests and dandelions quests bothers me a lot. It’s so painful to run around finding placards, doing the play, etc..

In my first play through, I sold my silver sword right before the Kiera quest. Suffice it to say, I was stuck and that quest took me several hours to beat. Tears were almost shed. Yes, selling the silver sword was stupid

I actually like the "broken flowers" quest, but have a problem with my favorite part of the quest: the Rosa Var Attre part and the quest specifically about her if you accept to train her. I really enjoyed having to sneak in her luxurious house, the dialogue, especially training her. But I was imagining it would be a romance... I was hoping for it when i trained her, and chosing the dialogue options having that in mind. I was frustrated when the quest ended abruptally and we'd never even see her again. I would've liked if it was similar to the "iron maiden" quest in Skellige, which is one of my favorites side quests, not because you can be intimate, that's not it, but because it's bittersweet at the same time. She says that was hoping to get married to the man that beated her in a duel, but is now disappointed because the man happened to be Geralt, a witcher. And then you have the option to be with her for one night or refuse doing so, while she clearly wanted you to stay despite being sad about destiny's irony and her promise to Freya. It really warmed my heart, this quest. I was sad for her. Image if you had more story with Rosa, if she asked you for a date in some pretty place in the rich neighbourhood of Novigrad, you have a good conversation... It didn't need to end with you in bed, of course not. It could've end with her admitting that she liked you but dont want to go any further for some reason, leaving the player kind of sad. Anyway, those are my thoughts about this quest, I think it had a lot more potential.

the keira metz quest is great, dunno what people dislike about it

I feel like wine wars was at the right time for a large quest. I always finished it when I was polishing off the map. 100% agree with you on the other ones. There was a quest in novigrad, so small I can't remember it where you gotta look for a body or something near the docks. It always bugged for me, I never was able to finish it. It destroyed my 100% playthrough

The quests I hate the most are anything that involves swimming. For starters, in Velen where you find the dead whale on the beach, there’s a quest where you have search for some treasure. Meanwhile there’s about 20 respawning drowners waiting to slap you around. Funny thing is I killed a few thinking I cleared the area… nope. 😂

Some valid points, but saying these are the worst Witcher 3 quests are like saying they're the least tasty donuts in a giant box of Krispy Kreme. I really liked Reasons of State despite its flaws just for getting any closure on the W2 plot points. What could have perhaps been a good immersive fix to that is if Geralt automatically turns down Dijkstra at the docks, heads to Skellige in his hunt for Ciri, but you then have the option to be put in control of Roche, Ves and/or Phillipa for the rest of this questline. Nevermind what a cool switch up in gameplay, abilities, and main story pacing that would be. It's much more important to them than to Geralt at the time. It fits their vengeful scheming/special forces cloak and dagger style well, and then it would make sense why Dijkstra felt he could win the final attack. Cut back to Geralt who has been several days at sea in the meantime and everyone (left alive) is happy.

Did people played in different language or something? I loved Kiera Metz quest wtf?

at first, i was like Reason of State isn't that bad, why is it number 1? After watching, I completely agree. They butchered the shit out of Djikstra's character.

There's this one side quest near Larvik, Skellege where two men standing infront of a cave wanting to take down some monsters. This quest was so awful. I had to protect them, but they just go barging first and die. Dude literally says Lead the way and Runs faster than Geralt and goes to kill monsters and gets hit badly..

in the Broken Flowers quest if you exhaust dialogue options with each of the people (except the elven tailor, I can't figure that one out) it hints at his plan for the heist. He was talking to Molly in order to get a barge to get all of the gold on, he was talking to Vespula (the washerwoman) to try and get some info on the bath house staff to plant the bomb, Marabella to possibly learn more about the moulds that would be growing in the sewer and the Var Attres to learn more about the dead person he had Dudu impersonate to get into the bath house and used their house as a station to plan the heist. While it is tedious, if you pay attention and delve into it, you can begin to get a good picture of the plan even before entering the bath house and meeting with Dijkstra and doing that whole questline, which I find pretty nice.

I REALLY like Broken Flowers. You get so much amazing dialogue, including such glorious lines as "Fuck off, Geralt", "Not Gerald, Geralt" and his adorable fumbling with Elihal. Also the quest takes you all around Novigrad and gets you oriented with the city, making you pass by all sorts of side quests in the process.

wandering in the dark in great imo, you get to explore geralt's relationship with a new (from the perspective of most tw3 players) character, and it includes a great entry-level bossfight to ease into the combat mechanics. was also a great feeling a satisfaction when, on my second playthrough, I remembered you could close wild hunt portals with Yrden

Stopped almost 2 years ago but I remember that "Witcher Waiting Simulator Quest" is bs, I mean i was low on gold and don't wanna finish the main storyline immediately to get the novigrad pass so i resulted in this particular quest, I had to spam aard where it's on the point that it generates a shockwave to stagger enemies and ghoul potion, Luckily i had a very great equipment, potions and bombs despite playing on Blood and Broken Bones, Only like a few tries i finally beat all of them without letting that npc die, All you had to do is to ambush them in the forest ahead before they get to the bandits

Yeah, I have to agree with your take on broken flowers. I can see how the quest could be annoying... and have sometimes been hesitant to start it myself, but I don't really think it's a "bad quest." I also enjoyed Wandering in the Dark and tend to look forward to both of Kiera's quests. Bitter harvest: I didn't even know the guy could die. I may have just forgotten my first playthrough, or been too annoyed by the ghouls to do that quest until I'm over-leveled for it. I also don't notice that big a gap between waves, but that might be because I'm just unskilled and it takes me a long time to beat the ghouls? Not sure how the wave mechanics are set up

Lol, Bitter Harvest was the first and only quest in my 300 hour playrhrough (also my very first playthrough) that I failed 😄 and I didn't even notice. Only later when I scrolled through the menu and saw the red "X" I was like "oopsie" 😂

Bro the heart of stone dlc quest where you attend a wedding with Shani while being possessed annoyed the absolute piss out of me

I'd say The Nithing belongs on the list, as it forces you in a false dillema that has a very obvious and realistic 3rd choice that the game doesn't let you do for some reason yet is something that majority of people would choose realistically even in-world - just tell the damn woman that either she removes the curse or she'll die, no need to actually get her killed then.

They made my mate Bro Roche into a depressed mild life crisis instead of the Clint Eastwood of medieval-fantasy Blue Stripes commandos leader

Absolutely agree with "Bitter Harvest". Really minor side quest but I immediately remembered it when you mentioned it. Pure frustration :P

Nothing wrong with Broken Flowers. Agreed, great intro to Dandelion's character/reputation. Wandering in the Dark, mid at worst, not bad. Can't say I've done Bitter Harvest. Wine Wars was a cool concept. I must have missed Fame and Glory too. Oh, that's Gaspard! Yeah, Reason of State is bunk. Suddenly making Radovid insane in the third game was stupid and it really negatively impacts other parts of the story. Phillipa being allowed the kill and not getting punished for the things she did last game is very aggravating (I'd sooner kill her than Radovid). Dijsta is a smart guy and would not put himself in a situation where he would have to fight Geralt- typical cartoonish video game logic.

This may not be the case anymore, but before the next gen update, Last Wish was so horribly broken in terms of scaling if you played on death march with enemy scaling enabled, the djinn took around 30min or more to kill, and if he hit you with ANY attack, you were 1 shot, so a way to not lose all fight progress was to go downstairs into the ship and save every few min. Totally killed the immersion. There was a similar problem with certain enemies (especially rats) which would be one good reason to not like the Keira quest, but I agree that it is overall an excellent one.

Whispering Hillock - one with the tree spirit connected to the Witches quest. I have spent hours trying to find a third option apart from releasing or killing it, but there was none. It made me lose my suspension of disbelief in the world as you had to finish the quest to go on with the main quest, but none of these two solutions seemed like something Geralt would do - as the tree was obviously up to no good, but also not evil in itself, just wishing for vengeance on the villagers. My Geralt would at least try to negotiate a different outcome - it might be doomed to fail, and it would be fine, but the way it got handled made me unhappy.