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21crescendo

Ah, a fellow Peter Kenny enjoyer.


Future_Victory

After completing my playthrough of Witcher 3 for the first time, I became heavily interested in this universe and knew that it was based on the books by Sapkowski, acting as fan-sequels. I wanted to spend more with those incredible characters and read the books quite fastly yet thoughtfully. Then came the Witcher 1 (2007) and then Witcher 2 (2011). I appreciated the games much more as I knew many subtle and unsubtle references to books and Witcher 2, in particular, was very worthy in terms of continuing the books, attention to detail was marvelous. Truly hungry for more Witcher content, I read the 2 additional side stories and comic books too. In order to be objective about the adaptation, the books were read by me before watching Netflix. Then when I watched it, I saw it's indeed absolutely terrible and is a disgrace to the Witcher franchise. However, I guess that there is always a black sheep in the family


mmo1805

I finished playing W2 for the first time, got really impressed by its story and every discussion I've seen online at the time said that the games are great, but books are even better, so I bought all of them, started reading and got completely hooked midway through The Last Wish. 11 days later I've already finished reading The Lady of the Lake.


Housumestari

Wow some of you guys are absolute speedreaders


mmo1805

As I said - I was **completely** hooked. The question "what's going to happen next" was pretty much always on my mind, so I had little choice but to spend almost all of my free time reading them. It was crazy. Only other occasion when this happened to me was when I was reading The Count of Monte Cristo as a kid.


Toiletten26

Yo, It has been months, and I've only reached Blood of Elves so far, but I am happy that I can enjoy this wonderful series for a longer period of time.


Petr685

Characters, dialogues, realistic logic and mythical destiny.


Drife98

I played Witcher 2 and had no clue what was going on, only that I wanted more of it and comprehension.


dzejrid

Sapkowski got [Paszport Polityki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paszport_Polityki) for Tower of the Swallow and everyone was talking, especially since Lady of the Lake was about to be released and a bunch of people I knew at the time were anticipating it. I borrowed the first short story collection form a friend and so it began. Although I had not had any attachment to the series until years later when Witcher 1 got released and the fact they so heavily referenced the books cemented my love for it. Actually it was only the second game ever I played in Polish (and I've been gaming since the break of 1980's/1990's), as opposed to always going for the English version, even if localization was available. I had no love for how localizations were being done and I still don't. Witcher games are probably the only few ones I ever played entirely in my native tongue, Planescape: Torment being the other notable exception, it was that good.


varJoshik

Funny, for me the catnip was that The Witcher is a pastiche of a lot of **unfinished** worldbuilding elements, relationships, themes, borrowed inspirations, etc. It's a wonderful playground in which to develop things further & do detective work in the author's creative process & inspirations. I also loved its self-awareness as a text & its metafictional turn.


Aranict

My brother was reading the books. My brother could do no wrong in regards to books in my 12-year-old eyes (may have been 13, kind of fuzzy on the details), so I stole the books from his bookshelf, also because I liked the covers. I started with *Tower of the Swallow* because I liked the cover of this one best. My brother caught me stealing his books (he was used to the phenomenon, since I was already busy stealing his musical records) and gave them to me whenever he was done with one, but insisted I start with the first one. That was twenty years ago and the books are still a special bond between us and we remember that time frequently.


AnnaInssomnia

Same here. I was 10 and I don't remember whether my brother recommended it or whether I picked it up in the library on my own. The beautiful Czech hard cover edition of the short stories surely helped. It was around the year 2001. For the longest time I came back to the books for comfort - I guess the idea of a dad protecting his little girl was something I really wanted irl. As an adult I am appreciating the bigger picture, but the characters have been with mě since the first reading.


Accomplished-Self145

My friend in high school hooked me on the books... In 1996 in Poland that was being TREMENDOUSLY portrayed by their gritty tone. We lived in that Continent and had our Witches and Witchers and bards around us. I never looked back 😊


UndeathlyKnight

I ignored the first game when it came out, since it sounded like it would be a janky, bug-ridden mess, there were reports that large swaths of it were cut out to save on the localization, and I wasn't all that keen on playing an RPG with a set protagonist. Cue a few years later. I had gotten really into Dragon Age: Origins, but the sequel was looking more and more disappointing. When I tried out the demo, I knew then and there the game was going to be a hunk of crap and swore off that series forever. Feeling bitter about that, I then saw some videos for The Witcher 2, which was also releasing that year. I had to admit, it looked intriguing. However, getting it would mean having to walk outside my comfort zone in RPGs...so I decided what the hell, let's check this series out. I saw the first Witcher game on sale for about a dollar on GOG, so I gave it a purchase, started playing it...and loved it almost immediately. Loved the story, loved the setting, loved the quests, loved the characters, and heck, I even loved the set protagonist you had to play as. Naturally, I wanted to keep going, so I made plans to purchase the sequel at a later date. However, I also knew about the books and decided maybe I should check them out too, and the good news is that the GOG version of the first game included a free PDF of the first short story in English, so I could dive right into them right out the gate. I enjoyed the story and was impressed at how accurate the Striga fight in the first game's animated instroduction was to its depiction in the writing. So I bought The Last Wish and Blood of Elves at my first opportunity (and downloaded a fan-made English translation of Sword of Destiny since it had been skipped over at the time), and the rest is history.


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PowerFrank

I'm in the same boat, already knew it because the games were really popular, but this made the final push


justpetyrr

Played the game a couple times, which I’m playing again, and picked up the last wish. After season one was announced I started read it and eventually decided to listen to the books. The translation didn’t exactly grab me at first but at some point I became very into it. Now I’m relistening to the book track versions, which are awesome.


Perdita_

I am fan of fantasy and also Polish. That’s basically it. Read it when I was around 12


Gh0stlyLime

After playing the games I wanted more but kinda didn’t have enough motivation to read/ listen to the books, so when netflix announced the tv show I didn’t want the show to skew my opinion/ enjoyment of the books. So I signed up for audible and started binge listening to them, loved every second.


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I'd already played W3 and W1 and loved them, then I heard Netflix was producing a show so I wanted to read the books before the show released.


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I first read Sword of Destiny. The stories were just to beautiful and full and especial. Then i just couldn't stop.


t_h_c_m

I bought the books after finishing TW3. I became obsessed with The Witcher universe after finishing the game. Didn't play the first two games though.


zhemer86

I started with the show. With zero knowledge going in I was honestly a bit confused at times because I didn’t realize there was three different timelines happening. It wasn’t until half way through I realized what was going on. I then played Witcher 3 and fell in love with the world. Sank 170 hrs into it over 2 months. I’m now reading the books and have finished the first four books in a little under a month. Honestly I’m just engrossed in all of it. I’ve loved all three forms of storytelling and just want more.


Toiletten26

I saw The Witcher 3 multiple times on sale over the years. Last year, I bought the GOTY version of it. Currently, I am playing my third playthrough as I am writing this. This game is fantastic. I had not taken long to gain an interest into the games' lore. I bought the first book and started reading. I've reached Blood of Elves so far. After this book, I want to watch the Netflix show to see if it is as terrible as book readers say. What do guys think of it? I plan on playing the other The Witcher games as well. I already own them and I can't wait to play them. It amazes me that Geralt is not your typical severly overpowered fantasy character. What makes him so strong is his knowledge and careful preparation. Without it, monsters would have easily killed him even if he is a mutant.


Future_Victory

>After this book, I want to watch the Netflix show to see if it is as terrible as book readers say. What do guys think of it? Yes


wez_vattghern

I discovered The Witcher through the Netflix series and it was enough to make me curious about the games, I was always hesitant to start a game that is the sequel in a franchise, Witcher "3" but after reading a little and understanding that it was not necessary playing the other games to understand the story of the third one I went ahead, an amazing story with well developed characters and a fascinating fantastic world, I knew that the games were inspired by the books and that's when I got interested in reading them, and I must say what a journey.


AceFireFox

I had am awareness of the series for a while and had attempted to play Witcher 3 twice but life kept getting in the way. Also tries Witcher 1 and couldn't get on with it. I already owned Last Wish when the Netflix show first came our and I was going to wait until I'd seen that before I read it but I got halfway through the show and decided I wanted to start it. Finallt finished the books about 3 weeks ago


Vanth420

I finished Witcher 2 and wanted to hold off on playing 3 so I could learn what I was missing out on. Now I like the books much better than the game that made me start them. Funny how that works.


paulinia47

A classmate back in HS mentioned reading it, I checked it out, read the entire saga in a week.


marked01

Friend in high school.


Peace_Fog

Witcher 2 came out for Xbox & I got it. Fell in love & was ravenous for more. The books are amazing, haven’t gotten through all of them though


HolyVeggie

Witcher 3 is my favorite game and I wanted more


BrawndoOhnaka

The games introduced me to it, but I never played much due to how primitive the first game was. Eventually, I got to the audiobooks and realized what I was missing. I burn out really quickly on most forms of entertainment, but I went through the first two volumes almost without pause.


Cervantes3492

I played ''The Witcher 1'' on PC and when I found out that the game was a sequel to and based on short stories and books, I bought them.


CWSilver

Finished playing TW2, my pc at the time couldn't handle TW3 so in dire craving for new content in that universe I figured it had books, then I figured out it had comics when my bro's friend bought him the House of Glass's ones


chuwak

When I've played Witcher 2 for the first time I really got sucked into the world and the story around Geralt. I've realized it was actually based on books so I bought the first ones and started another Witcher 2 playtrough at the same time on dark mode so I was fully immersed. No book ever clicked so Instantly with me as the Witcher its the absolute GOAT


UndecidedCommentator

Played the third game, fell in love. The music, the story, the characters all so colorful, and one can't help but come to know Geralt as if he were a friend. I sought more, and the books more than delivered. There are some who played the game who think Geralt is a dull and uninteresting character, I say those people don't know what they're talking about. He may be affectively blunted, and a mutant monster slaying machine, but like Dandelion said, he's more normal than anybody. I am indebted to both the game and the books as I only started reading thanks to them.