Thread:ChrisN34/@comment-5818471-20180901193944/@comment-5818471-20180902012712

Oh that's great to hear, I didn't realise they had already translated Sezon burz to English! I liked it quite a bit too. I'm really glad how much international interest for the books was boosted after the games got popular in the West (especially the third one), and sped up the translation process. I mean, the books were always quite big in Poland, Czechia, Russia, even Germany iirc. But they did not really get as widespread in Anglophone countries until relatively recently in their history (Sapkowski started it all by writing the first short story in the 1980s, after all).

As for the decisions, you are absolutely right about how much is carried on from one instalment to another. In Wiedźmin it's more just a gimmick; I believe BioWare are the masters of that, Dragon Age does it pretty well too but Mass Effect is easily the real showstopper here. However, as for what matters in each game and how varied outcomes can be - as well as how non two-dimensional and complex the morality is - I'd say CD Projekt have become the masters of that, alongside Obsidian with Fallout 2 and New Vegas (can't speak for Pillars of Eternity since I haven't played it myself). Only Obsidian games unfortunately tend to be plagued by more technical issues than their BioWare and Bethesda predecessors (e.g. KotOR II and New Vegas).

Funny you mention the Wiedźmin TV series, back in the old country people like to forget it even exists. I think I'm softer on them than most Poles are, coz I still find them nostalgic and don't think they're quite as bad as we make them out to be (they aren't good either though). Plus Żebrowski is pretty damn good as Geralt. The film, on the other hand, I'm not a fan of as iirc it is just made up of content from the series stitched together, but with a lot of themes missing due to the shorter length requirements heh.

I actually used to upload these gaming-related videos to my YouTube channel, plenty about Metro and some about Witcher if you're interested. I took it really seriously at one point - made my own Patreon and all - but had to postpone due to lack of success and increasing pressure from studies along with other irl duties. Anyway, I actually started off with a video about the folklore and history behind W3, so if you'd ever wanna check it out here is the link:

My production values and skills got better over time and with each new video (with the exception of some of my few attempts at podcasts), as I put more money and time into them and learned from my mistakes. I would love to hear your thoughts about anything that interests you. In fact, on a side note, I was thinking of actually going back to making these at some point and you are the first person I've told about this online heh.

However, I have no idea if there would be enough people into it to keep me going and with my last year of studies coming up I might be too busy to do it frequently. My biggest success, I believe, was when the official Metro profile on Facebook shared some of my videos heh. This reply got much longer than I thought it was going to be, sorry about that haha.