So I played Roche's part. I decided to let Sile die.Hey she deserved it.
The dragon fight was ridiculously easy.
I decided to let Letho go. He is a fellow Witcher and I could not care less what happened to Demevend and Foltest.
OK Henselt deserved to die.
The ending is just Triss and Geralt leaving. Did I miss something or that is it?

Nope, that's it.

What do you expect, though? I know the first Witcher had a more drawn-out and fulfilling ending, but there's no time for fulfilling endings. The two main storylines (Triss and Letho) got tied up, but pretty much everything else began to spiral out of control.

I thought it fit the situation, actually, but I can see where you'd be disappointed. It's setting up Witcher 3 more than it's tying up every loose end, which can irk some people :)

Ending wasnt that bad, cos now we know there'd be TW3. Whats depressing is we'll only see TW3 a few years later... i dunno if i can wait that long =/

I agree that the ending is very disappointing.
TW showed the consequences of your choices, for instance whether Adda lived or not.

TW2 offers absolutely no vision of what the world becomes after our actions.
The whole Wild Hunt storyline is an independant thing that should have been removed imo, as it adds only one thing to the game: You used to know Letho. Great. We don't even get to actually learn something useful or interesting about Yennefer or what the witcher would do next.
There's no information about the fate of Kaedwen after Henselt's death either.
There is, simply, no Denouement.
I wish CDPR had looked at their own game or older gamees like Arcanum to do the ending right.

I don't get what do you expect from endings?
What could possibly happen to Keadwen after his death? Do you think there's a chance it imploded and everyone died? Seriously. Use your imagination or rather your common sense, they don't need to spell out everything for you.

The Wild Hunt is part of Geralt's personal story that is developed during the game, and you want it removed? Hell no.

It doesn't need to give you a vision of what the world becomes after your actions because I imagine TW3 will pick up from exactly the same place, unlike, say Dragon Age: Origins where I thought by the look of the epilogue that no expansion\sequel was already planned by the time of it's release.

In a similar vein TW1 didn't tell you what happened in the outskirts, or what happened to Ramsmeat, or what happened to Murky Waters. This is not leaving loose ends, it just stands to reason to assume things went back to normal.

Really hoping lengthy DLC comes out soon, lol.

Good ending, i did`n expect to get all the answers Return Of The King style,
Just have to wait for next chapter..not easy :-)

You never get a different video, the differences are the state of the world around you after the meeting at the end, and the fight with the dragon and then Letho (and if you didn't question him thoroughly, it's your own fault for missing some things). I don't think you really need a specific video to show you your consequences, when the meeting explained the consequences of your actions pretty well already.

As for the Wild Hunt, it's a thread that will continue through out at least 3 games, that much is clear. It wasn't in there just for the relationship to Letho, it is part of the sequel hook, it's the common thread between all games, the glue that binds them together. The games are like episodes in a TV show, not separate movies. There is the plot of each "episode" which in this case is the assassinations, and the overarching plot of the "season" which is The Wild Hunt, Geralt's lost memories and Yennefer.

Guess I just expected an ending like TW1. And yes I questioned Letho. Ah well 2013 or so we will continue.

@LDiCesare

Lol, you cant expect them to remove the Wild Hunt plot because the entire The Witcher story revolves around the Wild Hunt, not the other way around. The Wild Hunt is the phantom behind the scene that manipulates the events. If you look at the bigger picture, Wild Hunt is probably the Ultimate Boss in future TW sequels...

I'm with deathcoy, I expect CDP planned the relatively open ending for the next witcher game and possibly fill in some answers through DLC or an expansion pack. But I really am impatient for the next game. I want it now :).

Just bought The Last Wish eBook from amazon cause I wanted more witcher stuff. Though now I hear the 2nd book wasn't translated but the 3rd one was WTF!

The Wild Hunt only makes sense, as you all say, as a link between games. This means that in this game, this story, it feels like something that's been thrown in without any relation to the rest of the story. It's an added element with no interest inside the game, just from a metagame point of view. I maintain it's simply very bad writing. It is not linked to anything. Hardly anybody in the world cares about it, it doesn't even provide interesting side quests (I mean, finding a journal, talking to the only mage interested in the subject...).


Be serious yourself. Don't tell me to use my imagination, i.e. how I should think, that's gross.
I would like a denouement, and there is none. The whole reason why Geralt does all this quest is to clean his reputation. Does the denouement tell you whether he managed it? No. A good story tells you of important stuff and lets your imagination fill in gaps. Here, the end of the story is just not shown. I want to know whether Geralt's reputation is cleared or not. I would like to be told what impact my actions had on the world.
I provided examples of games that give a denouement: Arcanum and TW. These have endings. TW2 does not have a real end. It only prepares a sequel.

Letho confessed killing Demoved and Foltest. So Geralts reputation cleared, yes

Well if you kill Letho he can't really confess to everyone that he did it so everyone would still think Geralt is responsible. Unless maybe the new power structure sent out the word that Geralt is innocent.


On the ending..After TW1's epic ending, it's hard to follow that up with a good one. But really, this games ending could have been better especially with the multitude of choices. It does seem to end abruptly. And I never really hated Letho like Javed and the professor, both who pissed me off very much.

I think that was by design, though. They're not supposed to be clear-cut villains, which is what makes those final couple decisions so difficult.