Americans Hate Tingle: In China the game is considered to be the prime reason why gamers in China started to call CD Projekt RED as "The ass of Poland"(波兰蠢驴). This is because the way they handle DLC and their no- DRM policy is considered to be pro-consumer yet financially unwise. Gamers in China considers this as a sort of Insult of Endearment to the developers. It's been said to be the best Game of Thrones game never made, given that it has dark, gritty, mature and sexual themes in a fantasy world much like GoT. In an ironic twist of fate, the Netflix adaptation is often considered the Spiritual Sequel to the Game of Thrones series precisely because of the dark, gritty, mature and sexual themes. Yennefer is either loved or hated, due to the extreme corners of her Sugar-and-Ice Personality. Yennefer acts according to her own wants and needs, not bothering to ask permission or explain her actions. She expects everyone to simply trust her planning and intuition, although she doesn't extend the same courtesy. Many fans feel that her anger with Geralt for being together with Triss when his memories of Yennefer had been taken away was unjustified. What crossed the line for many players was the quest "Nameless", where she ignores the grieving townswomen, ignores the pain of Skjall's corpse as she performs necromancy on him, and destroys a sacred garden all to find Ciri. Yet other fans love her Mama Bear and Ice Queen tendencies, feeling that she did what she had to to protect her daughter and save the world. The continuous stream of In-Universe criticism she gets from everyone also makes her more sympathetic - especially since most of it comes from characters who barely know Yennefer or anything about her relationship with Geralt (Keira, Cerys), canonically have betrayed Yennefer or owe her their lives (Triss, Philippa, Dandelion), or characters being spiteful or unhelpful to her for apparently no reason (Lambert, Vesemir). A contract in Skellige where you have to kill a "big" Ekhidna named Melusine who is supposedly so powerful that she was worshipped by a cult, Melusine is just a re-skinned ordinary Siren/Ekhidna with slightly more health and goes down incredibly easily. Baron Philip and his wife Anna are both considered either monsters or victims, depending on whom you speak to. Philip is an alcoholic wife-beater who caused his wife's own miscarriage, tortured and killed a man, and either allows, or ignorantly enables, the various ways his men Rape, Pillage, and Burn across Velen. His wife Anna cheated on him and planned on running away with her lover (the man Philip tortured and killed), specifically said things she knew would hurt Philip the most, and wished so badly that she'd miscarry her second child by a man she didn't love that the Crones (the supernatural beings which rule the Velen) enticed it to happen. Fans who hate one and not the other tend to have strong personal beliefs about murder, rape, abuse, abortion, infidelity, and many other sensitive issues.

For those who are Gaeilgeoirs (Irish speakers), the game’s usage of Gaelige (Irish)... can be pretty amusing. If you spared Síle in the second game Letho tells you that it was no mercy to leave her to the hands of Redania's witch hunters like that. You will eventually find her in a dungeon in Oxenfurt, brutally tortured to an inch of her life and begging for a Mercy Kill. Imlerith is liked for being a fearsome warrior who provides one of the hardest boss fights in the series. That, combined with how gloriously awful a person he is, makes him all the more satisfying to fight and kill.In the Blood and Wine expansion during a quest, Geralt is under the influence of a potion that allows him to talk to his horse Roach. The banter between Geralt and his mare makes it hilarious from the start.

The blatant example is Eredin’s last name Bréacc Glas, which means “green trout” in English. Not the name you’d want to give to the intimidating Big Bad of your video game. On that note, the 'Collect 'Em All' quest, which requires you to collect all non-DLC Gwent cards. It's made difficult by the fact that there are several easily missable cards and the majority of the others are randomly earned from merchants and vendors throughout the world. What makes it worse however is that you can only earn one card per person and it's highly possible to win a card you already have. Players reactions to Dijkstra's behavior during "Reason of State" thought it was very out-of-character, to the point some theorized it wasn't the real Dijkstra but a doppler. Do the free DLCs demonstrate CD Projekt Red's dedication to their players, or are they a patronizing attempt to look like good guys for extremely small bits of content? Most of the DLCs are purely cosmetic, and even the ones with actual quests are extremely short and shallow even by the game's standard. Critics have pointed out that Witcher 3's DLCs amount to far less than what had already been released for Dragon Age: Inquisition before the 16 DLCs were even announced, without any self-indulgent promotion from BioWare. This was mitigated somewhat when later DLC included well received quests like "Skellige's Most Wanted" and "Fool's Gold." Further mitigated by the first major DLC, Hearts of Stone, being longer and more fleshed out than nearly any other game's DLC, including its direct competitor, Fallout 4. A lot of quest objectives are "Use your Witcher Senses to search for clues/follow the trail/etc." This is reasonable, as a Witcher's senses are far sharper than a human's and can reveal things a human would miss. But during "Ghosts of the Past", one objective is "Use your Witcher Senses to find a ladder", as if searching a barn for a big, bulky object is something no human could do. To make matters worse, the ladder is out in the open and incredibly easy to find without the aid of Witcher Senses.Self-Imposed Challenge: Ciri's levels on the hardest difficulty, which turns the Crones from Anti-Climax Boss into That One Boss. Unlike Geralt, Ciri can't use customised gear or use signs/potions, while turning her from a Lightning Bruiser into a Fragile Speedster doing Scratch Damage. The only reason to do this is to get the two hardest difficulty achievements, as there's no in-game reward for playing on a harder difficulty. The Bloody Baron is a spouse abuser, a traitor to Temeria, a drunkard, and a man who exerts no control over his thuggish army. I dare you, however, not to feel at least a little bit sorry for him during "The Family Matters" quest. During the quest "Ghosts of the Past," Nilfgaardian agent Arnout Vester says he will buy an estate in Kovir where he will "lie about, eating fruit." Except with the actor's stilted delivery, Vester states this as if his retirement plan is to falsely claim that he's eating fruit. Geralt, of all people, gets one from fans in Reasons of State for his uncharacteristic choice of leaving Roche to die if he chooses that option. Since Geralt is not a blank slate, that means it's in character for him to choose to do so. Is it because fans are meta-gaming, because he wants to preserve his neutrality, because it's not his fight, because he hates Nilfgaard, because he believes Dijkstra would make a good ruler (since he already told Geralt what he roughly wants to do once in power and Roche's reasoning basically stops at My Country, Right or Wrong and never once saying anything resembling a policy), or because of other reasons? Fans have debated many reasons why Geralt would do such and come up with numerous answers. A popular one is that Geralt believes that Emhyr is a threat to Ciri and the only way to make sure he doesn't become a threat to her in the future is if Nilfgaard loses the war. Given Emhyr gets assassinated in such an event, it's a case of The Extremist Was Right. Others also point out, that Temerian independence and autonomy is a cause that Geralt has no interest in. He only helped Sigi to assassinate Radovid because Radovid was a threat to Yennefer and Triss. Likewise, Roche is a little hypocritical in browbeating Letho when he arrives at Kaer Morhen while at the same time he was planning to screw over fellow Northern states in exchange for Temerian autonomy under Nilfgaard.

Nekkers. The most common and scrappy of the ogroids, there's never just one. If you can count the number you just killed on one hand... you're in all likelihood not done yet. Lucius Gwynn, 'The recensions of the saga Togail Bruidne Dá Derga', Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 10 (1914) 209–22.

Vlodimir von Everec from Heart of Stone has a lot of fans due to his boisterous, fun-loving personality and his surprisingly touching attempts to woo Shani. He is the source of some of the most humorous moments in the expansion. Máire West, 'Leabhar na hUidre's position in the manuscript history of Togail Bruidne Da Derga and Orgain Brudne Uí Dergae', Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 20 (1990) 61–98. The Cat Witcher Gaetan and whether to spare him or not has caused much debate in forums like Reddit. His defenders point to his absolutely miserable lot in life, the fact that the village elders and his goons did try to cheat him, his soft spot for the little girl and the fact that you may have also spare Letho, another Witcher antagonist as reasons to spare him. While his detractors counter that while his motive is understandable he did not stop at just those who wronged him but defenseless villagers as well note Geralt noted that he went out of his way to kill the villagers, even kill the dog to get to their owners; only spared the little girl because of a passing resemblance to his sister and operated on a Violence is the Only Option mindset note Geralt can and has used Take a Third Option or Axii to get out of similar situations.