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Verican: I think the intent is that he doesn't slay humans for money, only monsters. I want to give the books a read, do they cover his story from Witcher training to being impaled with the pitchfork?
That is true :)

I don't know, I've only read Last Wish and The Sword of Destiny, which are both collections of short prequel-ish stories. Geralt is grow up in all of them. Witcher training is only mentioned in a few stories. I don't know about the rest of the books, I'm still waiting for them to be translated here (which should be soon).
Do you have to go somewhere to download them or are they buyable from say Amazon or iBooks? I see a lot of posts about fan translations.
The Last Wish and Blood of Elves have been released in English, you can get them on Amazon or whatever book store you like.

Thread with links to fan translations is here: click

I recommend reading them in order, TLW -> TSoD -> BoE
Post edited July 05, 2011 by dnna
I'll check those out, maybe can get the read before Book 5 comes out later this month.
Post edited July 05, 2011 by Verican
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Verican: Do you have to go somewhere to download them or are they buyable from say Amazon or iBooks? I see a lot of posts about fan translations.
Only two of the books have been translated into English: The Last Wish and Blood of Elves. Times of Contempt was supposed to be out in English this year, but has been put off to "sometime in 2012" (according to the Wiki). The translator of all three books is Danusia Stok, and her work is good enough to be worth waiting for.

Other than that, you have to read the books in another language (there are excellent translations in Spanish, for example) or rely on fan translations.
Post edited July 05, 2011 by cjrgreen
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SystemShock7: I do understand what you are saying, but think about it this way:
I don't know if you played the first Witcher, but one of best features of Witcher was that a lot of the choices you made didn't have immediate repercussions on the story, nor it was clear how they were going to affect the story, or even if they were going to affect the story at all. If we translate this to the dragon in W2, you do have options with immediate consequences depending which patch you took in game, and you also have options which may or may not affect the story, which in this case, being that the event occurred at the end of the game, we would be talking about the next installment of the franchise.

And even walking away, one could argue that, in fact, one made a clear decision: leaving the dragon to its fate, whatever that fate may be.

W2 not as much as W1, but the game really isn't about black and white, is much more about grey. Personally, I love that aspect of the game.
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link1264: Yes, I do have W1 and beat it. Yes, I realize that both games are about shades of grey and I think that's cool. No, none of that makes the situation with not knowing that a dragon in the witcher universe can survive something like that ok.

This is now dragging on to the point of rediculousness. This is not the topic of the thread. I was just making a small comment with my opinion in it and it has now taken over the thread. Let's try and get this thing back on track.
I wasn't attacking your opinion or anything. Geez... sorry.
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SystemShock7: I wasn't attacking your opinion or anything. Geez... sorry.
Sorry if that post came across that way. I was just getting annoyed at how one comment I made in addition to my thoughts on the topic of the thread ended up hijacking what the OP was talking about. I hate it when threads get hijacked and end up turning into a pages-long debate about something not related or only slightly related to the original post. So I wanted to just try and wrap it up and get back on topic, which came across as a bit curt apparently.

My apologies SystemShock, no ill-will was intended.