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The Witcher is an excellent series of games and novels.
[QUOTE=Karmah;46642082]The Witcher is an excellent series of games and novels.[/QUOTE]
I've always wanted to read the books. How are the novels story-wise in regards to the games? Like is the first Witcher based off of The Last Wish and so on? Or are they kind of their own separate thing?
[QUOTE=Amez;46642597]I've always wanted to read the books. How are the novels story-wise in regards to the games? Like is the first Witcher based off of The Last Wish and so on? Or are they kind of their own separate thing?[/QUOTE]
I started reading the books ever since I beat the first Witcher at the end of last summer.
I've been told that the game series continues [B][I]after[/I][/B] the end of the books. However, the first game borrows and reuses many elements of [I]The Last wish[/I] as well as the entire series (Not rewriting the past, but simply copying and rehashing plot elements).
If you liked the story of the games and like fantasy environments, I'd recommend reading the books. There is so much conflict going on in the series between differing factions, scenes of war, lots of sorcery, I enjoy it.
The first of the series is more of an introduction to the primary characters, the environment, the general politics. These books focus more on the stories of Geralt fighting things and solving problems.
The second half is about the Nilfgaardian war that was developing, as well as expanding [B]heavily[/B] on the character development of Ciri as well as all the misfortunes surrounding her.
Story wise, they involve the same major factions, the same kingdoms, same cities, and include the same types of monsters (and then some). When combat occurs, it is described and detailed really well.
It can even get very grim at times. More than once when something positive happens for a character, their death later on in the future would be mentioned and detailed afterwards, even if that scene were to never even be written.
Each book averages only 300 pages, but the size increases generally further into the series.
But that sword's for monsters *ack*
Great article! I recently played this again on an RPG bender that's still ongoing (playing FFIV now), absolutely brilliant game with an incredible story (may vary if you've read the books as Karmah says), and playing Dragon Age Origins immediately afterwards only cemented my opinion of it.
Oh, and from the article: "The world moves on regardless of Geralt. He barely makes a mark on it. But you get to choose what marks it makes on him."
Glad someone finally understands the nature of choices in video games.
On a side note I prefer Witcher 1's combat over Witcher 2 any day, not only does it surprisingly enough feel more responsive, it's also far more tactically flexible (surrounded? group style. 3 or 4 armored enemies? strong style. a mage or two? fast style + bleeding upgrades, hit them twice then attack someone else) and it fits in visually and functionally with the lore of the series.
[quote]There’s no denying that it's hard to recommend The Witcher anymore.[/quote]
No it ain't. It's definitely noticably aged, but that doesn't mean you can't recommend. It all plays and works well enough, and the story and execution are nothing short of fantastic.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;46643125]No it ain't. It's definitely noticably aged, but that doesn't mean you can't recommend. It all plays and works well enough, and the story and execution are nothing short of fantastic.[/QUOTE]
He means in terms of the graphics.
The rest of the article he explains why he thought it was a great game.
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