The Witcher 3 - King Radovid Meeting(Chess Scene)

[@stretfordender321]

It's a shame Radovid and Emhyr didn't get more screentime. Their dialogue and voice acting were both great and it could've really fleshed out the political aspect of the game that was fairly neglected

[@declanjones8888]

Also would've been neat to see the Nilfgaardian soldiers and Redanian soldiers actually fight occasionally. Other than that amazing game!

[@LCTesla]

love how he cheats at chess like "fuck this, I'm the king, I do what I want!"

[@Athils]

he knocks two black pieces down in a row without letting black move between captures, unless i'm misunderstanding what i'm seeing. sounds like cheating to me. Roche: "Something's not right." Radovid: *cheats to beat himself at chess.* yeah, i'd say that some incorrectness is happening here

[@hertungwert2759]

@@Athils It's implied that he is underhanded, a liar, manipulator, someone who would use bribing, assassination, etc. in real life. All those things are "cheating" too; the point is, you can do it, and it grants you victory.

[@redlok3455]

@@Athils "Cheating" is not the point here. The point Radovid wants to tell in playing Chess is "Why should I follow any redundant "rules" someone else made up, which, in a game of survival and death, were not supposed to exist in the first place?" If you accept rules, you are a fool. If you even follow the rules, you are an even bigger fool. This is a KING's superior logic. There is no such thing as cheating. A true King is a realist - only then, you can claim victory when you win the game. Otherwise winning or loosing become delusional. This is basically how real life works, too. He thinks more far and beyond anyone else, up to the point where he suspects his own allies of today as his potential enemies of tomorrow. He does the move before his "allies" come up with such an idea. TL;DR: Radovid invented "Among Us" before it was cool.

[@iknownothing4661]

@@Athils imagine him accusing himself of cheating.

[@kingradovidv4524]

A King makes his own rules

[@elijah_oofoof8891]

Witcher, do you know why I play chess? Geralt: I know chess is fun and all, but I think you would like to play a round of Gwent as well. Radovid: **nods**

[@krisnorge5830]

Gwent theme begins.

[@SpeaksYourWord]

Imagine if you could play gwent with radovid. *Barges in during a war council meeting* "Having a bad day. A few rounds of gwent oughta set me straight" *nods*

[@aaff1910]

there should've been an option to tell radovid about the plan of assassination and a chance to capture phillipa and then give her to him.

[@VinDiesel_452]

I''l make it even darker. There should be an option to give Ciri to Wild Hunt for 1m Crowns. :O

[@VinDiesel_452]

And then pay half of it to fuck Priscilla

[@SPACEHARICE]

@Johnny Silverhand not just the human race but the multiverse

[@Asraeks]

Exchange ciri for overpowered gwent card

[@gusp6612]

Kan Kanenas holy shit that’s unimaginably sickening.

[@jamesraven6766]

i think i know why he is so different from witcher 2, the guy looks like he hasnt slept in a year

[@pwner332]

He was abused as a boy by Philippa, his father was assassinated by her, and then later on she was behind the regicide of Demavend. She’s the reason he became mad.

[@Supermario19001]

@@pwner332 he might have been a good guy if not for her. Even tho he has every right to hate philippa i cant excuse him killing all mages.

[@giorgosgkialpis1394]

Sand in some point it may be true! He is in war with nilfgaard he has a lot in his mind so it's very possible not to sleep very well!

[@Danielsheinkman]

He's waging f****n' war, he probably hasn't slept in year

[@J-BiRTH]

Radovid is actually pretty badass if you ignore his Witch/Nonhuman killing tendencies .

[@ChrisHJohnson93]

I liked him. The way I see it if I have to kill him in order for him to loose the war then he has the right to win lol

[@HolyknightVader999]

You can't. They shove those tendencies of his in your face all the fucking time. At least Ulfric Stormcloak from Skyrim is only implied to be racist towards non-Nords. Radovid is outright evil towards nonhumans.

[@gegensw4500]

HolyknightVader999 radovid only bruns mages not non humans. according to the witch hunters their hierarch give them orders to burn non humans along with mages. what the witch hunters do to non humans is still nothing what emhyr did to them. also in a matter of conscience the nilfs destroyed vergen and killed every dwarf there.

[@HolyknightVader999]

Go watch the ending where Radovid wins. Nonhumans are killed.

[@gegensw4500]

HolyknightVader999 they didn't kill every non humans. it is said he continued his crusade which killed some pellars and non humans with mages. you can still meet them after the ending. according to the book the witch hunts killed only hundreds of non humans while the nilfs brought thousands elves to extincion.

[@Kamamura2]

You missed the best Radovid lesson where he explains how king's and pawn's perspectives differ. If you admit you don't understand, he goes on about the topic. I found the scene very strong, while this version only paints him as a simple lunatic.

[@JonatasMonte]

He chose the wrong dialogue both times, first saying yes and then doubling and saying no.

[@tylorryn4163]

He is a lunatic.

[@josephross8373]

This is forshadowing the ending if you choose not to assassinate Radovid, he beats Nilfgaard. Notice he is playing the Nilfgaardian chess pieces.

[@Kurczak00]

And also if you support Dijkstra after assassinating Radovid, Redania wins as well.

[@Gnurkstudios]

@@Kurczak00 im wondering, can ciri still become a witcher even if i do the assassin quest? Or does she become empress if you go that way.

[@lehtokurppa7824]

@@Gnurkstudios Don't go meet the Emperor. That way you can assassinate Radovid and Ciri won't become Empress.

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

I'd still like to hear from a chess expert if this game is accurate. Too many movies just put a chessboard, mix up the pieces and place it there just to tell you that this guy is possibly intelligent

[@prashanthraghavendran2628]

@@simple-commentator-not-rea7345 No. Radovid does an illegal move (move two of his pieces without giving the opposing pieces a chance) but it's completely deliberate - in fact, it's shown so clearly that you're meant to realise it's illegal. The point is that Radovid doesn't believe in following conventional rules of warfare - he does whatever will give him the upper hand.

[@samcostello2861]

It really is incredible. I remember the bright, charming king from the first game and find it very hard to compare him with this lunatic. I guess power really does corrupt.

[@ASillyHistoryBuff]

That and the inbreeding of royal families does tend to make people just abit nuts :))) I'd say the main thing to blame for Radovids madness is Philippa

[@samcostello2861]

True enough. Lol. I remember what a horrible person Philippa was in the books and the second game and how shocked I was hearing Triss defend her in the third game. Triss: Don't turn her in! Radovid will kill her! Me: Is that supposed to make me sad?

[@92Beyo]

Yeah, that's the one thing I hate about Triss, how she conspires with these whores from the Lodge. Luckily, Philippa is doomed by canon, she is eventually going to be tortured to death by the Eternal Fire.

[@bdor2490]

...Becoming a beloved martyr in the process, her crimes erased by history and time. Though that assumes the timeline hasn't been fundamentally altered by Geralt and Ciri's choices in the games. Radovid can't burn any witches from beyond the grave. And in all fairness to Triss, she *did* turn against them when she realized the extent of Sile and Phillipa's plans. Most of the Lodge had been kept in the dark about Letho and their little pet dragon.

[@gegensw4500]

For Radovid and Dijikstra!

[@Turboman-kx7cc]

What if CD Project red added the option to play chess with radovid? That would have been fun.

[@danielblitzke3909]

A king cheerish no one company

[@1Chasg]

The game of chess isn't the point it's the metaphor behind it.

[@asd2640]

You misspelled GWENT

[@Turboman-kx7cc]

@@asd2640 but in this scene it was chess. Not gwent. Although that would have been hilarious if you beat him in gwent and he tries to kill you.

[@HisRoyalMajestyKingofWeedshire]

Geralt: WoAAHH BALD! BALD! BALD! BALD! Nilfgaardians: BALD! BALD! BALD! Philippa: MY EYES!!

[@DeadboltDon]

"Anyone who looks on the world as if it were a game of chess deserves to lose."

[@SimonPetrikov12]

Person of Interest?

[@zoushaomenohu]

"I was not speaking literally." No SHIT, you were speaking crazy.

[@TtlGames]

Jacob Behnke That one literally lost his mind

[@frankg2790]

Ttl Games Hope you spare his life if its possible.

[@zoushaomenohu]

Sure! Sure...if you're willing to indulge his witch-burning obsession.

[@frankg2790]

Jacob Behnke I did not know that.

[@TtlGames]

And the hate for mages and elf and dwarves...

[@TaigaXsenpai]

Despite his cruelty Radovid is very tragic character. He was abused by Philipa his whole childhood. She also killed his father. Power doesn't always corrupt. It reveals the character. When all that pain and suffering could go outside, it turned him evil. Though I think he has always been racist. Because his family has always been racist.

[@andreasvd9137]

He's not really racist. Redania was fine when Vizimir was king. Radovid doesn't care about race, he cares about beating Nilfgaard and is prepared to do anything to do that. Even if it means letting Hierarch Hemmelfart and his witch hunters kill hundreds of non humans. If you save Triss in Witcher 2, he will not burn every mage. He has the conclave and keeps them on a short leash like Nilfgaard does. Only the mages who protest will die. Also, according to the book canon, the witch hunts start in 1272 and only hundreds will die. However, if Nilfgaard wins there will be rape, slavery, mass murder of foreigners so their own settlers will go there. In this scenario thousands will die. Also I'd like to make clear that my main choice is not Radovid. It's Dijkstra.

[@michakoniecpolski5677]

​@@andreasvd9137radowid the best

[@Danielsheinkman]

Just imagine what ashameful defeat Nilfgaard suffered. They lost to man they considered insane, who led what they called barbarians, and literally lost all captured territories in north. On top of that, their emperor was killed. To say that this is f$$$ed up is to say nothing.

[@17Haru17]

I think this scene works much better when it's overcast like it was in my game.

[@robnickerson7819]

or a clear night

[@matthew55793]

So chess is the only violent video game he has access to?

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

We must ban it in schools Just to be sure

[@HellDoggyjr]

Isn't that red hair queen piece foltests striga daughter? Redania's queen.

[@tiffles3890]

To both Roche as well as all the people here talking about Radovid being a lunatic, well, simply put, he isn't. Yes he is brutal towards non- humans and even more brutal towards sorceresses (even though that is somewhat understandable given what he has personally experienced and given the copious track record of sorceresses in treason, sowing war and regicide and subverting and undermining royal power, power that is meant by a ruler to use to serve the people's interest, to serve their own interests). But remember that this Radovid, if you don't kill him, goes on to unite the entire North, kick Nilfgaard's ass (despite overwhelming odds). A madman cannot do that. And as he said, the whole bit about Chess men, he didn't mean it literally. That sort of thing happens to the best of us. When we are in too much stress, sometimes we see shapes on fire or in the clouds and our minds meander off into random directions.

[@razielodimm666]

A person can be insane but still be highly intelligent. A person can unite an entire nation under one banner however if that person is a Madman he would be uniting them under a banner of fear. A sane person would not be intentionally killing people just because they can do magic, anyone that was not human, nor would he be killing doctors. There is no doubt about the fact that he is a brilliant military tactician however he is insane.

[@andreasvd9137]

@@razielodimm666 yes, but you do know that Radovid is *NOT* in charge of the witch hunters? That is Hierarch Hemmelfart. Novigrad has always been pro eternal fire. Radovid only allows the witch hunters to do his thing. They work for him, but they follow the orders of Hierarch Hemmelfart. Radovid made an extremely reckless choice by allying himself with them. But he did that to take Novigrad before Nilfgaard would. It was his attempt to repel the Nilfgaardians. And in the year 1276 the witch hunts end and they get disbanded.

[@user_harddrive]

Never did like what they did to Radovid in the Witcher 3 portraying him as a simple mad man. At least in the Witcher 2 he was a brutal yet cunning man.

[@JarmamStuff]

@@user_harddrive His portrayal here is nothing like that of a simple madman. He is arrogant and ruthless, but everything he does makes sense from the perspective of a king turning emperor. He is using everyone as pawns, and unless you get in the way he wins it all

[@sandercohen9712]

@@razielodimm666 You can be cruel and ruthless while being highly intelligent. That is what Radovid is, not insane. Let's not pretend that him going after mages came out of absolutely nowhere, it had everything to do with the failed conclave of mages. Also nonhumans aided the Nilfgaardian invasion.

[@dmangoman1]

How's this lunatic managing to stop the White Flame from dancing on his grave?

[@occasional_doomer]

+Dante of Merv Lunatics can still be very intelligent.

[@Philweasel]

+Dante of Merv Radovid is still a genius, so long as he's focused on some legitimate problem. The problem is when his mind allows to wander, which is when the paranoid crazy bullshit starts coming out. ...and he's still a genius then, which is why he's so scary.

[@twilightzoneseinfeld]

+Philweasel So what he has like ADHD?

[@Philweasel]

I would diagnose him more with paranoid schizophrenia. As John Forbes Nash Jr can testify to, it can certainly exist alongside genius.

[@rulezz264]

Dude reminds me of Bobby Fischer

[@stachel3000]

A checkmate against HIMSELF, followed by an apt observation about the null parallelism between chess and real life, in front of a witcher and a Temerian partisan. Radovid oscillates between surrealism and brilliance.

[@Poisonedblade]

Radovid doesn't like how Chess is evenly balanced. Perhaps he should play GWENT!

[@RDA000]

Even a pawn can become a queen. Represents how Geralt can cause Radovids checkmate even though he views Geralt as a pawn.

[@SiddharthSinghFiery69]

Radovid was the most fascinating King 👑 in The Witcher 3 videogame. Period.

[@ASillyHistoryBuff]

I can certainly see why he earned the moniker Radovid the Stern- I'd like to see him crack a smile or laugh ;)))

[@jyotirmayamohanty5723]

Looks like a Polish hero

[@SpookyMarine]

Jyotirmaya Mohanty the irony that The Witcher was made in Poland lol

[@jyotirmayamohanty5723]

Ultimate epitome of Slavic HEROISM.

[@dimasprayoga9745]

this is my only imagination of radovid. i declare netflix witcher is non cannon

[@asahel980]

you did not chose the importance of the scene which is Radovids own explanation of Chess which is sacrificing your own soldier/people to win.

[@arseniysuslov9]

Radovid did nothing wrong

[@thedarkmaster4747]

XD

[@oz8937]

He's mad and kills sorcererss and mages.

[@gilgamesh8334]

Ned no because radovid is a twat

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

What is the good of the realm compared to pussy?

[@michakoniecpolski5677]

​@@oz8937yes very based actions

[@jordanbauman-putnam9524]

I was on board with radovid until I realized he was just maddox

[@Luca___00]

I love radovid!

[@Rubyofthedead]

People who are pissed about Radovid's personality in this game clearly didn't pay attention in the first two. Even in the first game, Radovid only helped you for his own selfish purposes. He was always manipulative and amoral. He was brought up spoiled and in nobility, thus he had little grip on the impacts of his decisions, since he only commanded from afar and let his troops die for him, unlike Foltest, who not only walked along the siege tower and helped his soldiers against the La Valettes, but he even joined them in battle on the front lines. Witcher 2 was when his breakdown occurred, not 3. After the conspiracy by the Council of Mages was uncovered, lead by Phillippa Eilhart, the woman who practically raised him, he went full Stalin and became paranoid of everyone, blaming all mages for the crimes of the Council by staging mass executions, including all of his former mage advisors. So this is really just the aftermath of those events. He even says in this scene that in chess, a king can even be put in check by his own pieces, and chess is the art of "sacrificing your own pieces", a pretty thinly veiled metaphor for the mass executions of mages he ordered. tl;dr: He is called Radovid the Stern for a very good reason, even it is an understatement.

[@gegensw4500]

what a bunch of bullshit. in the first game some temerian plebs say that they wanna move to redania from their temerian shithole cuz non humans and humans live peacefully in redania because of radovid. if you side with yaevinn radovid will accept his demands. he tried to make an alliance and help that piece of shit foltest. in witcher 2 in my playthrough he created the conclave of mages and henselt with radovid divided their temerian shithole. these new writers of witcher 3 are just retarded. it is said in the books tah rad becomes the best king of redania. foltest let his striga kill tons of people and does nothing to solve his political problems of his country. in the game he even started wars with his own people because of his penis.

[@HolyknightVader999]

He was manipulative and amoral, but at least he possessed some common sense and didn't kill all mages or nonhumans. He even cooperates with the Mages in Witcher 2 if you helped him ID Sile de Tansarville as the bad guy. The mages and knights work together to trap the conspirators and purge the city at the end.

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

Book Radovid was handsome young naive boy embroiled in a poltical dangerous redania with philippa as an abusive tutor.

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

"He was brought up spoiled and in nobility" Phillippa says hi

[@charleskilleen2141]

Shame radovid is portrayed as a fool in the show. What a waste

[@gewalfofwoofia8263]

Nico Lennon did an excellent job of voicing this guy.

[@JonatasMonte]

And they call this man mad? He's surrounded by fools alright.

[@fightme3360]

“Witcher, do you know why I play chess?”

[@danielblitzke3909]

No

[@augustin5611]

Radovid's not mad. He's saying himself that he's talking here metaphorically if Geralt makes fun of him. His point is that real life is different from chess, with different rules and more inequalities between the "player", but he's also saying that the status of king is similar. You have a different view of the wide picture, but are surrounded by other that can block your way and lead the enemy to checkmate you. That explains his character as he's persecuting mages only to gain support from the north and making the city weaker (it's stated that when he wins the war, persecutions stop a few years later), and show the future of Emhyr who's killed by his follower in the timeline when Radovid is still alive and winning the war.

[@SneedEnjoyer]

I don't get it, how is he insane exactly? Don't people understand the chess metaphor or something?

[@hertungwert2759]

People are saying he's crazy, not that he's dumb. He comes across as a psychopath.

[@stephen8805]

The Netflix Radovid was truly atrocious.

[@sl9wdive]

I just realized radovid is fucking younger than ciri WTF he look older than my father lmfao

[@toddlogg]

I wish you could play gwent with radovid

[@goomymaster6417]

why did strategical tactical genius radovid spend like 5 seconds looking for an easy back rank mate in 1 a beginner would spot in seconds lol

[@CookiePower197]

because it was only back rank mate after he just decides to fling one of the pieces off the board

[@thomasschneider2874]

Roche don't listen to his grand Commander? No surprise why Emhyr get it all.

[@cb2291]

how could they bring back Roche but not Iorveth

[@danielblitzke3909]

Broche

[@dragonowiczkrawczenko4816]

they've ignored player's choices and made roche's path the correct one, and that's unforgivable

[@matro2]

They were going to but had to cut it as time was short.

[@dmitrykhvostik5975]

0:08 A Chess club Tood Howard came from?

[@Ignisan_66]

It's shame what the dumb writers did to Radovid. He is a completely different in W3 than in previous games. They basically did the same thing to him D&D in Game of Thrones did to Stannis the Mannis in Season 5. Total character assasination.

[@volts400]

Radovid‘s descent into madness in Witcher 3 made him more interesting than in any of the previous games in my opinion.

[@KD--sj8eo]

@@volts400 but it wasn’t a well structured character arc unfortunately. Too abrupt, though I agree in isolation the character is good.

[@maki49574]

I share his opinion on chess.

[@peanutbutter2226]

Like a scene from the godfather

[@1zeldalover]

Its just catering but all the time i half expect to see fetus covered in shit at every new bar i shit at.

[@antont4974]

It's a little bit of a shame that this became more of a meme than the main life-motive of Radovid

[@Chanelle208]

2:20 ''You see what I mean?'' Me: Yeah sure dude, can you give me the fucking quest or not mate?

[@zenicehero9154]

Id wish there was a real Life chess 2 buy like that of The Witcher 3 LOL

[@anzasa]

Шу-шу звучит лучше.

[@whydid666]

Ya he didn't fell like the Radovid from the first 2 games.

[@JarmamStuff]

He feels very much like Radovid from Witcher 2, esp if you go the Scoia'tael route and follow the Eilhart quest path. And even in 1, he was already practicing the use of proxy factions to fight his battles. Having the pupil of Phillippa Eilhart become a paranoid, cynical egomaniac once everything goes his way - that makes a lot of sense tbh

[@aaff1910]

bullshit he refuses to work with salamandra because of their methods and in w2 he just tortures phillipa nothing more.

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

Jarmam this is BS, he refused to work with salamandra, worked to establish an alliance with temeria instead. In witcher 2, he removed philippa's eyes for murdering Vizimir but still sent for a trial of law against her regicide. This is also extended to sile, who was accused of the regicide of demavend. In witcher 3, they made him out to be mad. Total character assasination.

[@Chronically_ChiII]

He becomes crazy.

[@Furahri]

Who's he actually playing chess against though?

[@150qwertyu]

He plays with Emgyr

[@Furahri]

@@150qwertyu How can you tell?

[@someguy8805]

1:59 lmao

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

Any chess experts here? Please confirm, did this game place the chess pieces accurately, or like most movies just put a chessboard, randomized the position of pieces, and left it there because chess is confusing?

[@dragonknightleader1]

I'm no expert, but I'll explain what Black was doing. Black had castled, which means that the King went to a corner of the board for protection. With two rooks guarding each other, there is no legal way to take one of the rooks without the other one counterattacking. So, Radovid cheated and knocked one of the rooks out of the way so he could take the other one. Because the King couldn't move out of the way (because the pawns happen to be blocking the King's path), it was checkmate. I'll also add that with that many pieces off of the board, the game was near its endpoint. The only strong piece that Radovid had was the Queen, which was also under threat by that rook. If he didn't move it, he would have lost it.

[@yidingliu8663]

The Emperor who invades and kills and burns as part of a mad plan to be delivered to a promised ruler in prophecy. The King who grows mad and extreme that he misplaces his talence in war as if it is nothing but a game to be won. And there is also the Witchers who face the Wild Hunt bravely while the kings and emperors doing the pointless killing.

[@andrewvincent7299]

I did not like this radical change of character for Radovid from Witcher 2 to 3. It's like a completely different guy.

[@kushchronic697]

I'm impressed with him from 5sc earlier I was think wtf play chest by him self n cheating

[@arthurrubents]

1:14 Radovid actually makes a very intriguing and revealing observation. Chess represents a very limited environment if one actually seeks to engage with true warfare and governance strategy concepts. Chess appears to be a more logical and mathematical exercise rather than anything resembling the chaotic, uncertain and nuanced nature of warfare. Just in military terms, Chess simply doesn't approach aspects such as logistics, espionage, sabotage, equipment, morale, topography, technology, weather and so on. His observations are, from my point of view, criminally underrated. Shame he's considered somewhat out of his mind in those scenes.

[@kokroughtoss1257]

Lub - dub, lub - dub, lub - dub.

[@yens1609]

He's so cringe in this game, I miss the old Radovid

[@sonicusr]

it's funny because most people who play chess are people in poverty on the streets it's a commoner's game, not a king or smart man's game

[@eau4184]

Literally Andrew Tate

[@matro2]

If only Tate was this based.

[@жэкжэк-ж4ю]

Шу шу шу шу

[@dutchministryofdefence604]

Radovid is a sad man that I do Sympathies too. I understand why he wants Mages ( especialy the fucking lodge ) gone. they are to influencial They almost remind me of the Preatorians of the Roman empire, supose to be the Emperors but they sheme and kill who ever they dont like and crown the one they do like. But Radovid does go to far way to far. He became a lunatic ( which is also Philppa's fault ) and just destroys everything that isnt human. Thats why I am doing the Vassal route with Roche. and then try and make Ciri empres. so that Niflgaard has a good ruler

[@michakoniecpolski5677]

Simp

[@nissanalfaazzis7413]

dub dub? xDDDDDDD what translation is that, in polish version is by far better

[@Harkness78]

gross, is this on Xboxone or something/ quality is awful.