The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Leshma]

Turning Geralt into some emotional twat is something only Americans would do. They do that at every occasion in their shows and it's so fake, forced and disgusting I literally skip those parts whenever I see them. Pls no, not here.

Believe he turned into crybaby because asshole writer is becoming a bit sensitive when people call him names for various (valid) reasons, he is just channeling that through his main protagonist.

[Xant]

It's just not very realistic for someone like Geralt to be, as Leshma so eloquently put it, an emotional twat. Nor is it very fun to play as a pre-teen who thinks nobody loves him. Aaaand Geralt is a fucking superhuman with the hottest girlfriendS ever, several great friends, "daughter", hasn't done real work for a day in his life.... every peasant, and probably a lot of other people, would switch places with him in an instant. What a horrible life he leads.

[Falka]

Turning Geralt into some emotional twat is something only Americans would do.

In reality Geralt is very far from being typical badass, à la Connan the Barbarian or Cayle from Moorcook's novels. He's a swordmaster and monsters hunter, true, but that doesn't mean he's not a "emotional twat". I'm talking about the books ofc.

It's just not very realistic for someone like Geralt to be, as Leshma so eloquently put it, an emotional twat.
Aaaand Geralt is a fucking superhuman with the hottest girlfriendS ever, several great friends, "daughter", hasn't done real work for a day in his life....

In books, both short stories gathered in The last wish and Sword of destiny and the saga, most of the time he has neither daughter nor girlfriends (and I wouldn't call Yennefer his GIRLfriend when she's 90+ ). And how his ordinary day of life looked like he described in the last wish:

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I did my job. I quickly learnt how. I'd ride up to village enclosures or town pickets and wait. If they spat, cursed and threw stones I rode away. If someone came out to give me a commission, I'd carry it out.
'I visited towns and fortresses. I looked for proclamations nailed to posts at the crossroads. I looked for the words "Witcher urgently needed". And then there'd be a sacred site, a dungeon, necropolis or ruins, forest ravine or grotto hidden in the mountains, full of bones and stinking carcasses. Some creature which lived to kill, out of hunger, for pleasure, or invoked by some sick will. A manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, were-wolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper ... so many I've killed. There'd be a
dance in the dark and a slash of the sword, and fear and distaste in the eyes of my employer afterwards.

I think that was the whole point not to make out of him some super hero who wrecks everything on his path and don't give a shit about anything, like some medieval Rambo. Not necessarily emoboy cutting his wrists, but also not a totallly shallow badass.

[Tibe]

I quess it does make a bit sense if its in a videogame. Cause its majority gameplay and some amount of plot and characters, tbf Gerald does kinda work when put in a game.  But the persona he has in the games would totally suck shit if it was in more than one movie, or in a TV show or in a series of books.

[Molly]

Just got myself a copy of "The last wish" which is supposed to be the first book...
I won't get to it in a while cuz I have another book running atm but I'm excited to see how it is.

[Tibe]

Read around 200 pages in the first 3 days I had it, atm dont have time to read it till the end. Quite solid imo.

[Falka]

Just got myself a copy of "The last wish" which is supposed to be the first book...

Actually THe last wish and sword of destiny contains short stories written by author before he wrote the saga. The elves blood is the first novel in Saga.

I doubt books will ever achieve as great success as they did in POland. The strongest point of them is language, Sapkowski is the true master of polish language, and all jokes, archaisms and references can not be translated without loosing theirs spirit.

[Falka]

Yen 

[Prpavi]

[Golem]

So yeah, will there be granny porn this time around?

[SixThumbs]

I'm on chapter 4 in the first game and it only took me 3 years to get there.

[Austrian]

One quick question:
Is it worth to get W3 without playing the first 2? 

[Golem]

Probably. Yeah. 

[Dalhi]

Is it worth to get W3 without playing the first 2? 

No one played W3 yet, so you wan't get the answear. But, in one of the interviews they said that they will introduce the player into the story at the begging of the game, some kind of a prologue, so I guess it's not really necessary to play previous the witcher series games or even read the books to get familiar with the main protagonist Geralt of Rivia.
But I recommend to try out The Witcher 2, damn good story and nice gameplay. Some of the fans of the Witcher books may not agree about the story as it's not really close to what they were expecting, mainly becouse it lacks the spirit of the witcher known for them from the novels, but fuck it. It is still a damn good game.
First game, was really great as well, but at this point the gameplay mechanic and graphics (if you care about it) may seem a bit outdated. Anyway, I highly recommend to play it.

I'm on chapter 4 in the first game and it only took me 3 years to get there.

Chapter 4 is the best part of this game 

[Xant]

One quick question:
Is it worth to get W3 without playing the first 2? 

Probably gonna be something similar for TW2, if there already isn't.