DeadProxy said:
Sleeping most likely. I don't want to buy Witcher 3 until I beat Witcher 2, and I don't want to do that until I replay Witcher 1. And who knows when I'll get around to doing that.
I don't want to do what I did with Dragon Age and just jump into the third game when I was only a few hours into Origins, and not be continuing "my own path" so to speak. I want the whole experience....
DA:O is sort of incompatible with DA:I. If you want the original (and best) feel of the world, play DA:O first. It's comprehensive, evolving, immersive, and tangible. It's an awesome experience.
DA:I foregoes all of that for a senseless manga style where everything is bright neon and magical explosions are more common than breakfast. If anything, start with DA:O, and then do DA2. The second installment has a
lot of problems, but it doesn't vivisect the setting and lore as bad as DA:I. Also, combat mechanics in DA2 are hands down the best in the series.
However, I just looked up online for how Witcher 3 will handle importing your choices from older games, and on the console version, it just gets the option of a "special conversation with a character" where you basically answer "yes/no" to things that happened in the previous games...I was totally prepared to sit at a website and tick off how I handled every event in the games, but to have it all boiled down to a chat at some point in the game is slightly disappointing. At least the PC gets to straight up import Witcher 2 saves, but I don't got one of those >.>
If you are strapped for time you can skip the original Witcher, it doesn't interleave much with the second game. TW2 is now better than ever (CDPR released an enhanced version that everyone can upgrade to for free) and I strongly recommend it.
It's a shame that you can't finetune your history on consoles, though that's just another reason to join the PC master race. You get undeserved ego just for joining!
Here's modern society as reflected by gaming hardware: