How much of the games or the book does this story follow in the show. Do I need to play the games to get it...

>Its literally generic end of the world event and 1 girl with super special no one else has powers who can stop it. Thats it. Thats the whole story.
It's almost funny how not a single thing of what you just wrote is even remotely true.

>made with the author’s permission
>fanfiction
He might still be salty that he made a bad deal with the developers but he still authorized this continuation of the story. And the quality of writing is nowhere near fanfic levels.

It was made for people too dumb to play the games or read the books, so yeah. Literally just a dumbed down version of the character and story for the low IQ crowd.

Yes, but the games are still non-canon fanfiction. It very much reads like the kind of shit you'd see as a 3000 word Final Fantasy VII or Buffy fan fiction circa 1999 where they magically bring everyone back to life to have more adventures, complete with seemingly random sex scene between characters that have no business having sex.

>ma generic white light!
>geralt only I can do this!
>story ends
Its funny how butthurt Polishcucks are when you point out the only thing other than alcoholism and high divorce rates poland has exported is a C- ripoff of Tolkien.

I mean that is a very broad summary of the core plot. It’s leaving a lot of detail out but he’s right, the central narrative is ultimately nothing new.

What the fuck are you even talking about.
If you actually read the books then I admire your selective reading comprehension skills.

its no secret that the ending of the witcher 3 was rushed as fuck

Geralt did not canonically die in the books dude. The quality of writing is pretty good, they didn’t bring anyone back to life, and the sex scenes between Geralt and random women aren’t really out of character for him. If you’re referring to the relationship with Triss, the memory thing literally explains this so I honestly have no idea what you even mean.

Ciri is a Mary Sue who holds the blood of Elders and stops the White Frost for utterly no justified reason other than her being the Mary Sue of the story. Hes not wrong at all.

>Geralt did not canonically die in the books dude
What?

The characters and dialogue are great, but the actual main story is irredeemably bad no matter how you look at it.

Why though? They had time to pump out two huge DLC and nothing else in the game felt rushed. Why the ending?

The author himself said in interviews that Geralt is not dead. He controls the canon. Ergo, Geralt lives.

It's crazy how the first 2 games are completely independent of the books that anyone could realistically pick them up and have some clue as to what is going on. Then along comes Wild Hunt and goes so full on bookfag I honestly have no idea how anyone who hadn't read the books (90% of people playing it) could even follow most of the story beyond just leaving their brain at the door and doing what the objective screen tells them to.
My brother still had no clue what the relationship between Ciri and Geralt and Ciri and Emhyr even was.

I'm guessing that they just spent way too much time fleshing out 2/3 of the game and then realised they only had a couple months left until the release date and didn't want to delay it for another year

>The author himself said in interviews that Geralt is not dead.
You're nuts, Geralt dies at the end.

If you’re not a fucking idiot then you can pick up the backstory in conversations and text and such. I never read the books and was able to figure stuff out with context clues and just listening to the damn dialogue.

>How much of the games or the book does this story follow in the show
It's doesn't. It's 90% bady written fanfiction.

thats because your brother is a retard
and by genetic bonds so are you most likely.

Again, the author himself says he didn’t. He might die in the books but that doesn’t mean he stayed dead.

The crazy part is Witcher 3 was the main jumping on point for most people by far. Witcher 2 sold 4 times better than Witcher 1, and Witcher 3 sold 15 times better than Witcher 2. For every person that played Witcher 1 or Witcher 2 first 14 other people jumped on with Witcher 3.

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He stayed dead for 21 years so far and hasn't come back yet. Again you're fucking nuts.

I played witcher 2 and 3 and I can't believe this terrible franchise could get a serie on netflix. It's just fucking bad. I don't get why people are hyped by such a bad product.

Are Dragon Age fans really this mad that got dunked on? It's been years dude, get over it already.

What part of “the author says otherwise” do you not get? He could be writing another book. He could just have it in his mind that there was more going on there and we’re meant to think he’s alive. Either way he ain’t dead.

>broad summary
It's not a summary at all though. It's interpreting particular elements in a silly way and claiming the books focus on them, when 90% of the books that aren't short story collections are dialogues between Geralt and literally some guy debating what is or is not evil. The rest of the book is Ciri running away from Nilfguard and Geralt running after Ciri and the friends they make along the way.

If you say "Witcher is a generic story about an evil empire expanding their reach and a hero standing against them" then that's retarded summary of what actually happens in the books.

And if someone says "Witcher is about a generic end of world event and a girl with super powers who cannot be stopped" then it's simply wrong, because there is no end of world event, no girl with powers out of the ordinary and who most certainly is stopped again and again.

>What part of “the author says otherwise” do you not get?
The part where the Author never published this fanfiction you've concocted in your head. Geralt is fucking dead, he too a pitchfork to the guts and died. Yen died too. Ciri jumped out of that reality is off with Galahad in Camelot. That's where it ends. If he writes another book maybe that's not how it ends but so far final canonical word is they're fucking dead.

He factually shows up again a century later after his supposed death in one of the short stories of Seasons of Storms.
The author doesn't even have to confirm anything, it's literally in the books.

He's literally dead.

Imagine being too dense to understand this ending. Christ, go read Harry Potter or something kid.

>If he writes another book

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See

>‘Illusion,’ ‘All an illusion.’

Watch netflix show first, after that books and games at the end. You will enjoy show more and it wont ruin books or games for you.

>Imagine being too dense to understand this ending.
What the fuck are you talking about, Ciri makes up a happy fairytale version for Galahad because she can't bare the fact they died. They died user, she made the happy ending where they got married up.

You're coming at it from a bias view because you probably had people on Yas Forums filling in blanks for you. I don't remember it ever being said once how Geralt and Ciri were tied together through destiny. Emhyr refers to her as his daughter but the Devs made the dumb decision to have Geralt also call her his daughter and give her matching super special unique white hair instead of her being grey blonde.
The very basics needed to have an understanding is there but nothing more.

Each episode covers te surface level premise of all the books. It has no relation to games other than one monologue from Geralt about evil. The games take place an extremely long time after the books.

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The tie between them and her origin as his adopted daughter from him using the Law is very clearly laid out. Play it again or something.

So between
>taking what the book and author says as factual canon and accepting Geralt survived
and
>interpreting and doing mental gymnastics to create your own 'twas all a dream :^)' and 'what she ACTUALLY meant' headcanon that Geralt is dead
you choose the second option?

So I'm really arguing with an honest to goodness retard here. We first hand see Geralt and Yen die and Ciri teleports away. Then in the epilogue we catch up with Ciri and she's with Galahad telling a happy version of the story here Geralt and Yen get married and live happily ever after a few pages after they were brutally slaughtered by an angry mob and she does so while sobbing. And you're telling me they lived and that's what actually happened? Like holy fuck you really are a retard.

>I know more about what's in the books than the author who wrote it, YOU'RE the retard.
Ok.

He's dead to Ciri, his friends and to the witcher world
He "survived" the same way as King Arthur "survived".

>Shit he's completely backed me into a corner now what should I do
>I know I'll strawman, that always works
You already outed yourself as a retard who argues in bad faith, you're not going to get anywhere with this shit now.

>I know more about what's in the books than the author who wrote it, YOU'RE the retard. I also don't know what a strawman is btw
Ok.

>I also don't know what a strawman is btw
Here you go buddy, educate yourself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Master Witcher I'm midge

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Why did they get Halflings to play the Dwarves?

>dwarves with extreme strength and endurance

Because Netflix diversity