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Sapkowski's stance is that he will happily sell the rights to anyone who comes around with a fat sack of money, but ONLY his books are canonical. The games, the upcoming movie, the shitty disaster that was the TV/film adaptation, the comic books, short stories by other authors - they're all...

Couldn't find that in either news or the forum, so let't hope my Google-fu hasn't failed me. Tomasz Bagiński, the guy behind the Witcher series cutscenes and the upcoming Witcher movie, has made an SF short based on a Polish legend of the Wawel Dragon. AFAIK, that's his first venture...

To be fair, in the song from Black Hawk Down, Denez Prigent did most of the heavy lifting. I always had the impression that Lisa kind of joined in mostly because Hans Zimmer likes using her. OT: Eh... I liked the movie for the ending, but otherwise it was a mash of King tropes. I don't really...

That already exists. Has for a few years now. Not to mention the physical resemblance. (although GRRM had already been a successful writer before ASOIAF, I think Rothfuss only had that one story he got a prize for years ago before writing TNOTW...)

Good for them! I'm getting close to finishing the game - played it almost every day since May 18, STILL have a lot of content I haven't touched (a handful of quests, Gwent, races, most question marks). I initially wanted to go full completion, but I'd probably have to devote another month to...

I think the real question is whether Mengele the Hedgehog will join Gareth Gobulcoq and Senor Coqonfaes in the hallowed halls of Nicknames on Steam Because the User Follows Yahtzee.

Wait, what? Aren't consoles the ones which will lock you out of playing until you update? PCs have that problem with some platforms (Steam, Origin), but you still have the option of not playing a game through a platform (or using a different platform, but for example GOG went for a weird...

It's been a while since I've read the books, but there are two main things: 1) School of the Wolf (Kaer Morhen witchers) suffered a mob attack and was wrecked, with the only witcher to survive being Vesemir and the few young and inexperienced who were away from the castle at the time. None of...

I used to think I'm part of the intellectual elite, certain that I possess an understanding of the world other people do not. What can I say, we were all teenagers at some point. Jokes aside, I tend to hold a strong opinion about various newfangled electronic devices, i.e. being convinced...

The first short story collection, The Last Wish, had been released back in 2007, to coincide with the first game, and now it's been re-released for some sweet TW3 bucks (it's made it to the NYT Bestseller list). The first three books of the saga are also out (books 4 and 5 are slated for...

I also want to throw in a few cents about the whole "Witcher is raciss'" thing. We had ethnic conflicts in Poland in the past. We still have ethnic prejudice. We were probably the most ethnically diverse state in pre-modern Europe. But, and this is an important point to make, it was not based...

While other people have addressed in general the "world hates them" part (and believe me, Sapkowski might not be too preachy, but he's way from subtle with social commentary), I wanted to focus specifically on the "emotions" bit. So in the books, witchers are supposed to be stripped of...

Thanks for the help! I'm in Velen now, and the first moments were... overwhelming. You get dropped in the middle of a huge area, with a main quest marker pointing to a place a fair distance away... There is a village close by with little going on except a notice board. As I decided to...

So, patch 1.03 is out. Haven't installed it yet, but judging by the list of fixes, it should eliminate some minor technical issues I've experienced. So I've finished the first chapter (White Orchard & the griffin fight). One question the game failed to address so far: what's up with the...

My total playtime so far is around 4 hours. I'm still in the first area (White Orchard), so take my points for what you will. Nitpicks: 1) The game froze twice during my playtime so far. Both times in fairly un-demanding situations (once walking around an inn, once on the inventory...