As is tradition for all open-world RPGs these days, the main quest is ignored in favor of the more interesting and more rewarding side quests. Because saving the world is overrated and like regular human beings, we players prefer distractions and personal glory compared to being a hero. The Witcher III: Wild Hunt is no exception from this; in fact, it actually refined the formula.

Well, “jacked up” the formula might have been a more apt term since it has by far the most interesting side quests out of all RPGs. As a result, most players have a hard time taking the Wild Hunt seriously and facing Geralt’s responsibilities as a father. So, the whole Witcher 3 community has unanimously agreed in the form of memes that side quests are the best way to experience the game. Here are 10 of those memes.

10 THOSE QUESTION MARKS BE LOOKIN’ MIGHTY FINE

This has always been an inherent logical problem with any open-world game that had the audacity to include side quests in the progression. The Elder Scrolls games did it, Horizon: Zero Dawn did and normally, The Witcher 3 also did but with a better trigger for short attention spans.

Every single step or horse trot in The Witcher 3 can or might result in a question mark being revealed in the map. In turn, this will derail the players from their true objective and why the game exists in the first place. But hey, they wouldn’t have made those markers question marks if they weren’t more important than the main quest, right?

9 GRAN LIKES IT BLACK WITH SOOT

Barely an hour after the players step into the tutorial area of The Witcher 3, namely White Orchard, they’ll likely come across a taste of how the game is meant to be played. That taste is given by the first needy granny they meet whose urgent task is locating her frying pan.

Geralt, being an everyman and a defender of geriatric (being one himself, technically) is compelled to help the poor old lady locate her frying pan lest she be deprived of cooking capacity and die from starvation. It’s the perfect intro to ADD-inducing side activities.

8 OH THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES EVERY NIGHT…

Just as games like Civilization have their own addiction culture behind them such as the “one more turn” lie and conundrum, The Witcher 3 also has its own in the form of quests. Be it contracts, side quests, or some rounds of Gwent, it’s all addicting and can be hard to stop.

Because just about everything a player does in the first playthrough of The Witcher 3 results in more opportunities for more quests. Before the players know it, the sun has already risen and the bags under their eyes have become bigger than Geralt’s inventory.

7 METHOD ACTING!

It’s a good thing that Netflix’s The Witcher series isn’t based on the games, otherwise, it would have a lot more busywork for Geralt and a lot less urgency, with an otherworldly Roach to boot. As soon as Netflix announced its involvement in the project, out came memes like these.

Other versions of them were even made to look like official publication headlines which bamboozled a lot of the fans. That’s how ridiculous the number of side quests in The Witcher 3 is, they make people believe in fake news.

6 WHEN THE MAIN QUEST REARS ITS UGLY HEAD…

Thank goodness The Witcher 3 is never pushy when it comes to pursuing the main quest even if it paints it as a world-ending emergency. Geralt is free to choose wherever he comes and goes as well as the time he does it.

So when the game starts reminding him that he has a daughter to save and some apocalyptic elves to defeat, it’s like the game is being a buzzkill. Geralt is already on a quest to become the Gwent Champion of the world and the richest witcher to ever live, who cares about destiny?

5 BEST ANALOGY EVER

God bless the millennials, without them, we would never have this level of humor with multiple layers of culture stacked on top of one another. It’s about the game mechanics, Geralt’s love life, and it all came from a real-life hilarious photo.

Turns out, that photo that became a meme in itself would have become the perfect way to represent both Geralt’s turbulent affairs with sorceresses as well as his in-game behavior for quest priorities. Although, Yennefer-shippers might find this a disservice to her character, as side quests are just more fun.

4 TIME TO VISIT THE PASSIFLORA

Oh, but what can be better than a side quest, you ask? Well, how about a side quest about Gwent? It’s only one of the most popular collectible card games on the market right now and to think that it was but a mere mini-game placeholder in The Witcher 3.

There is, however, something a lot better than a side quest involving Gwent and that is a side quest involving Gwent in a high-class brothel! It’s all the best parts of The Witcher 3 combined in a single place! The sex, the Gwent, and the side quests! Why didn’t the developers make more of these?

3 WE’LL CALL IT COLLATERAL, ALRIGHT?

It has become mandatory for all players of The Witcher 3 whenever they see a house or character with a quest marker that they look at the whole pantry first. Geralt definitely needs those Est Est bottles or even the lowly Alcohests a lot more than alcoholic peasants.

While he’s at it, he must also look at all their chests and cupboards to see if there’s any unused gold, linen, wood, or iron ore because witchering isn’t free. It’s not like the peasants get angry at Geralt for stealing as he’s pretty sure their lords have taken a lot more.

2 OH HE’LL ‘FIND’ AND UNLOCK CIRI, ALRIGHT

Gotta admire Geralt’s calmness. This is a guy whose daughter might be in some void realm or is getting chased by some racist elves hell-bent on making her a slave and still manages to be tranquil and collected enough to not rush blindly into trouble.

Geralt knows how and when he needs to save Ciri precisely when she needs it. Until then, he’s rather content on ‘finding’ Ciri in Gwent as she’s more powerful and more useful there compared to her actual character.

1 WILD GWENT

Mr. Bean here might as well be the players as that’s probably what most of us look like while controlling Geralt of Rivia as he postpones every imaginable crucial task for a round of Gwent, an hour with prostitutes, or a tryst with Triss.

Besides, one can’t save Ciri without wearing Grandmaster-level gear and that requires tons of money. Where else could Geralt get that amount of money other than– you guessed it, right, side quests. See, even the game itself it telling the players to ignore Ciri. Ciri’s a big girl, she can take care of herself.

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