If you watch the intro for witchers 1, you'll see Geralt fighting a stiga vampire monster with extreme ease. He even owns it in hand to hand combat. Now that is what i see a witcher as, a superhuman with super reflexes and strength. The one in witchers 3 however seem to barely even be at peak human level. And he almost die fighting a bruxa vampire in the witchers 3 trailer. And im pretty sure that stiga vampire would own the crap out of that bruxa vampire. Seriously just watch the intro for witchers 1 and see how much stronger he was. I admit i don't think im halfway through the storymode yet in witchers 3 but i don't think he gets any stronger lorewise later.

He wasn't about to die in the trailer, he knew that he could kill the bruxa waiting for the perfect chance to let her suck his blood (after drinking the black blood potion, of course). Not to mention that this is a much older Geralt, even if witchers age slower than normal people.

Well your pretty much at the end of the game for the Striga fight, so by then you should have mastered the skills. you also had the different stances in 1. I miss the European Oliva style cards you would get for "debouchery!" In part 1.

Geralt has always been awesome, I just can't figure out how you go from Geralt being so renowned almost everywhere in 1, like almost like a legend, to 3 where he is just some guy to most the npc's. Lol

Well, it's a game. And as so it needs a progression.

They've been consistent with the progression of signs, for instance. In Witcher 1 you have to learn each sign, in 2 you already have access to all of them, and so on.

But as far as character development, in the sense of rpg progression, in witcher3 Geralt would be fighting gods at this point. And we don't want a witcher Kratos.


or do we?

1. a striga is not a vampire.
2. a bruxa is extremly powerful, he gets almost killed by a bruxa in the books, only survives because somebody saves him, and this was not long after he killed the striga, so he is just as young and powerful as he was when fightning the striga.

Also the striga in the books wounds him badly, he almost dies from his wounds and takes weeks to recover, but to be fair this only happens because he does not kill her to lift the curse.

Now my summary: powerful and smart bruxas are definitly much more dangerous than strigas, only a lesser bruxas would be easier to defeat.
A striga is a mindless beast that can be easily defeated by a witcher due to the witcher's incredibly reflexes and speed.
A bruxa on the other hands can only be defeated by a witcher with wits and strategy, as is seen in the epic witcher 3 trailer.

Progression of signs goes from his amnesia, he forgot how. IIRC in one of books (4th or 5th maybe, sorry, don't remember), he was worrying about being able to cast a sign as he haven't practices them for some time. He had no amnesia back then.

As for "young", he is quite old by human standards, near century old (90 something, I think). Of course, comparing him to Vesemir, he is still young, but he wasn't that much younger in books, Foltest already was there and Adda is not that old.

Geralt supposedly almost died in his encounter with the striga. Same happened with a powerful Bruxa. That's just books however.

Also to re-"free" the striga from the curse in TW1 you have to basically stay alive with her in a room for a whole night. Depending on how good you are as a player and the difficulty selected and opting to cheese the encounter or not, you could say it was very hard the 2nd time around in the games as well.

Nah, thats just tw1 bruxa was low level, almost 8 years have passed - she grinded a lot, and Geralt was like
- Skrew you - you haev no life.

You are wrong in this. The Striga is an unthinking monster. Just attack attack attack. The bruxa vampire in the TW3 trailer is a monster that can cook up strategies because it can use it's brain.

I think that was not a Bruxa...that was an Alp gentlemen. Rural areas, mostly sucks at night, in the form of a young woman.

Could be higher vampire as well.

Alp is a higher vampire.

Bruxa would be transformed into a bat or a bird, though she is present under the shape of a woman most of the time. She might be confused with a driad at times. She would use high pitch screams as attacks or to stun the opponent. She also uses psyhic powers and charms to control her victims.

I say that was an Alp in the trailer.

Geralt doesn't fight the striga at the end in the intro. He fights her mother, so we don't see in-game fighting, only intro, which is before the game starts.

Every 6 months, Geralts regroups with Dandelion and Zoltan and embarks on a drinking binge of horrendous proportions.

In the process he loses all his gear, skills, money and some of his memory

This is what I tell myself to explain why he starts from scratch at the beginning of this game and the last.

At least the first one use the amnesia trope.