New Trolłs?

I have been disappointed that they decided to change the model for trolls in The Witcher 3.  Rather than looking like the big, lunkheaded terrors from The Witcher 2, they now look like a squatty pile of rocks (at least the ones I've stumbled across so far).  Bring back the old trolls!

Geralt talks to a troll in The Witcher 2.

I've had a soft spot for the trolls since The Witcher 2.  Yes, they're ugly and will eat human flesh but they seem pretty harmless.  In The Witcher 2, Geralt is called in to intervene on troll related matters a few times.  Players are given the option to talk to the trolls and come to a peaceful agreement or to kill them.  Killing them usually yields the best rewards but seems wrong.  Trolls are sentient beings...albeit really simple ones.  Killing them just seems wrong.  My favorite troll quest came involved an angry female troll who was upset at her husband (another troll) for rescuing Triss Merigold.  She wanted to eat Triss but the husband like Triss way too much to eat her.  Eventually Triss woke up and escaped...that's how Geralt finds things when he arrives in the area around Vergen.  (Possible spoilers ahead.)

.A rock troll in The Witcher 3.

Even though I'm not digging the new troll model in The Witcher 3, last night I finished an enjoyable side quest featuring one of these lovable monsters.  The quest text hints that people have heard singing from an island near Oxenfurt.  Geralt investigates and finds a rock troll living in the ruins of an old fort.  Upon speaking to the singing troll he discovers that the creature met some Redanian soldiers who tasked it with guarding the boats because peasants were stealing them.  So, in all it's troll wisdom, it decided to build a fort out of other boats.  The troll explains how some peasants came and attacked it and the Redanian soldiers it had befriended.  Things didn't turn out so well for the soldiers or for the peasants and the troll ended up being the lone survivor of their tussle.  It is upset at the loss of it's soldier friends but is currently cooking up a stew from the peasants.  This troll really loves the Redanian army and wants Geralt to fetch some paint in Redanian colors so it can show it's loyalty to Redania.  Once Geralt has fetched the paint from a merchant in Oxenfurt, he or the troll can paint something resembling the Redanian coat of arms on the troll's "fort."

It was a goofy quest but I thought it was cute!  I just can't willingly harm a troll.