10 Choices Geralt Would NEVER Make | Witcher 3

"Gimme those notes", Dumbledore asked calmly.

Ciri: Will you visit his grave with me? I‘d like to ... to say goodbye. Geralt: Sorry Ciri, I hate portals...

I've always made the choices I thought Geralt would make, I can't bring myself to change on each playthrough, have relied on YouTube to see the rest of the game.

I can absolutely relate to the accidentally killing kiera choice. I panicked so hard trying to quit out 😂

I could never betray Roche and Ves since they literally drop everything to go to Kaer Morhen to fight the Wild Hunt with you, even though it's a hopeless situation anyway. Turning on them there just seems monstrous

Dijkstra didn't even need to betray them right then and there. Wait till Geralt is gone, set up a meeting to discuss future plans in private, send assassins or at the very least don't stand there yourself. Geralt could, in a quest after killing Radovid, find out about a betrayal. Depending on choices made during Roche's entire quest line, you can save them or not.

I will never get over how unbelievably stupid Djikstra is in that moment to expect Geralt to walk away and let his friends be murdered. Love the idea of that doppler Djikstra mod though, also saves you from having to kill the thief doppler for the mutagen!

I actually had the same thing happen on my first playthrough with Keira. I was so taken aback when I killed her, seemed like the dialogue was poorly written here and didn't communicate what those options would lead to properly.

When I choose not to let Keira walk away with that scroll I was just super weirded out that this would result in Geralt and her fighting to the death. That just didn’t fit into their characters at all, so I reloaded my last save and choose another option 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I’m currently reading the novels and I can attest that you’re definitely right with what Geralt would do. Honestly he probably wouldn’t kill Dijkstra though, just break his other foot.

My biggest regrets in my first playthrough were killing Keira (didn’t know better at the time) and missing the unique Gwent cards from the party you attend with Triss.

The one where you can betray Roche and Vess and CHADler is absolutely not something Geralt would ever do, especially when Djikstra is standing in front of him. This is the same Djikstra that Geralt crippled when Sigi tried to persuade Geralt to hand Ciri over to him and then tried to slow him down from finding and saving Ciri and Yen during the Coup at Thanedd when attempts at persuasion failed.

The thing about Dijkstra is, that book-Dijkstra never would have acted like that. He's by far the most intelligent person on the continent, only rivaled by Esterad Thyssen, Emhyr and some of the sorceresses and mages. He would have known that Geralt is loyal to Roche, Ves, and Thaler. And he would have known that he is no match to Geralt. He was there when Geralt almost single-handedly destroyed the Scoia'tael group during the massacre of Thanned. Dijkstra is the one character of the books that CDPR totally messed up in the games. And it's a shame. I liked book-Dijkstra a lot. The trolls. You're spot on. That's why I haven't got the "Trollslayer" achievement in TW2. I'd like to spare all trolls in the game but unfortunately some are too rabid in TW3.

The Ciri-related decisions always hit me the hardest. Refusing to let her grieve and especially accepting the money.

The singing troll outside of the city always makes me genuinely laugh in pure amusement for 5 minutes straight, it's the most random thing that amuses me and that I adore beyond words. Not to mention if you let Geralt draw the shield of arms of of Redeinia, it'll be WORSE than if the troll did it, it's hilarious. I swear that quest is a core memory of mine.

There’s no time for visiting the graves, but we always have time to play a round of gwent!

I literally cannot even bring myself to watch the cutscene where Geralt accepts the Emperor's coin in front of Ciri, even when it's put in the video as a joke! 🤣

For that Dijkstra choice, I honestly feel like the devs planned something you and many of us discussed before, namely have Dijskstra silently assassinate Temerians after Geralt's long gone and only show it happening in the epilogue recap... but they probably decided it was too big of a moment to fully take away player's agency. Not knowing Dijkstra's plan to kill them, probably the majority of players would support him and then feel cheated with that conclusion. As such, the devs ended up giving us this last minute weirdness sacrificing character's consistency to maintain player's agency in that moment. And, purely gameplay-wise, it is a good decision. Alas, not so much narratively and in RPGs story is often a more important aspect than pure gameplay. Open betrayal is something as out of character for Dijkstra as killing innocents/friendlies is for Geralt (or, case in point, abandoning them to be killed). He's too smart and too aware of Geralt's morals to ever attempt that so I see the appeal of the doppler mod/theory. As such, sorry Sigi, you're one of my all-time favourites from both books and games, but if you're planning to kill others who are on that list (and all 3 of those Temerians are), it's you going down.

Wasn’t there a quest where you had the option to break Dijkstra‘s leg while he begged you to stop? That always felt super brutal for Geralt.

My favorite part of the Dijkstra's doppler mod is that it also lets you get the doppler mutagen without doing the other out of character decision of killing the doppler you reference earlier in the video