According the ending, I felt the same way as the thread opener.
I also got the ending, Ciri is alive becoming a witcher, Nilfgaard winning the war.
In general it really was the best part of the trilogy, and one of the best, or the best "new style" role playing game of all time! (for me) But i really think the ending, not the ending by itself, but the "presentation" of the ending does measure up with this really awesome game.
Sure, while the main story you get enough informations about the main charakters to figure out what happens after, but i really dont think that the ending is a proper closure for the Geralt saga.
I dont know how to explain. I´m a player feeling with the charakters, the decisions, going all the hard way with them and creating an emotional binding to the characters. During the whole gameplay it was a well detailed, high quality gameplay, you know the name of every little blade of grass, walked around every tree, licked off :) every gwent card... i think you know what i mean.
After the end i felt ripped out of this awesome journy, like a back tooth knocked out of my face with a rusty nail.
In one moment you fighting your way through an epic battle to the tower with Yen, in the next moment you see a - by far too short - ending "video" consisting of a few drawed pictures with less or completly missing informations about some main charakters, what happend to Ciri in the Portal, or Phillipa, and Yen/Triss will be mentioned by the way with one picture in 5 seconds.
Doesn't matter if you choosen a romance or not, for a "live changing" incident in Geralt's live, it's not enough.
For me, its far too little informations, no "epicness", hello? It´s the ending of an trilogy!
I missed an cinematic like rendering video, showing the main charakters, seeing the trainig of Ciri with Geralt for example, the chance talking to the main characters one last time after the fight, or a last meeting with all of them in Kear Morhan, like the "party" :) before breaking the curse of Uma, you know?
The hand drawed pictures will be fine for the loading screen yes, but for sure not for the main ending of this epic adventure!
It's an agreement of tastes, yes, but this was my feeling after the playthrough.
The next thing is. In general im the type of player who don't like the the chance to playing any further after the main story, for me it's done, when it's done! That's my tast yes. But for a game you can play after the main storyline, it's no-go that some main charakters "cut out" of the world and you can't see, can't talk to any furhter. (Ciri, Yen, Triss...).
However, the ending isn't enough for a game that is finished after the main story, although for a game you can play further, especially if some main charakters was cutted out.
I really really hope, that CD Project will be going the way like Bioware did with the ending of Mass Effect 3, patching and epic ending, which can measure up with the really terrific story, the wonderful characters and the awesome eagerness we've seen till this point of the game.
At the moment, it doesnt.
just my two cent's
Post edited June 01, 2015 by gogadi