The Witcher 3 may have one of the best quests in RPG history, but it drove Geralt actor Doug Cockle completely "bonkers": "I hated running up and down that hill"

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If he only could, he'd make a deal with the Bloody Baron

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Many The Witcher 3 fans consider its Bloody Baron quest to be not only one of the most narratively astounding of the whole fantasy franchise, but also one of the most satisfying quests in general across all RPGs. But Geralt's veteran voice actor Doug Cockle is not one of those fans.

"The Bloody Baron, that quest drove me bonkers at the beginning," Cockle tells YouTuber GoatedSynro, in a new video where he ranks The Witcher 3 locations and romance options. The Bloody Baron's home in the Velen province sits at an unremarkable number five spot out of seven for Cockle, and it likely doesn't help that Velen's Baron made Geralt do so much legwork.

Where's Kate Bush with an assist when you need her? "It was just up and down, up and down, up and down. It drove me crazy," Cockle says. "I hated running up and down that hill."

Really internalizing the challenge of the hill, discarding all metaphor, Cockle reflects and decides that Velen actually does only rank at number five because it was a bad place for Geralt's feet.

"His pedometer was just, like, off the charts," he says. "His legs are sore."

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Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
Senior Writer

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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