On TV Shows and White Wolves...

[beccadg]

...or I have seen The Witcher and it has made me realize things.

I was reluctant to give The Witcher a try at first. I'm not familiar with the fandom. I've never read one of the books or played one of the video games. I've seen people compare it with Game of Thrones which is no way to encourage me to watch something. I gave in out of a

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[orangerful]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've played all the games but I haven't made it through any of the books. I've come to realize that I am not good at reading adult fantasy or sci-fi, I prefer to watch it. But I really enjoyed Witcher as a show. It was a great mix of action and humor but serious enough that I wan invested.

And now I want to play the games again LOL

[beccadg]

Aww. I'm not someone who insists "The book was better" all the time, I find it can vary, but I like to try reading a book if I really like a movie or show based on a book. I'm sorry to hear you're not good at reading adult fantasy or sci-fi. Have you tried reading something after you've watched a film version so you've got the visuals from the film in your head as you read? I know I always say The Hunt For Red October movie is better than the book because it reduces technology Tom Clancy spends pages describing down to a single visual. Sometimes a visual medium simplifies things nicely instead of stupidly. It varies. I've never played any of the video games. Do you need a game system to play any of them, or could I try an older one? This is an older computer. I hate that it's OS needs to be upgraded.

[orangerful]

I just have no patience for world building so most SF/F books tend to not work for me, though I did enjoy a few Jon Scalzi books I read last year and Murderbot but both were short and not "hard sci-fi". But that is pretty much how I feel about a lot of fantasy and why I usually prefer to watch it rather than read it - just show me the tree, don't spend pages describing it

The first Witcher game is pretty old now and it was only on PC, though it regularly drops down to less than $5 on Steam (or, at least, it did before the TV show LOL). The controls are kind of clunky but the story is good. From what I understand, it picks up after the books, or at least where the books left things when the game was made. I think a couple more have been published since then. Witcher 2 and 3 are on PC and the game systems.

[beccadg]

I just have no patience for world-building...

Ah, I might have a higher tolerance threshold than yours, but I have my limits. I don't generally read hard/military sci-fi or high/epic fantasy because they tend to be too technical/detailed in their world-building for me, but I cheerfully read space opera/science-fantasy and sword and sorcery/urban fantasy because those tend to be more focused on the characters and plot than on carefully laying out the world around them in meticulous detail. I mean part of why I really want to give the Witcher books a try is that however much the later novels may get into high/epic fantasy detailed world-building the original stories are just short stories collected together into a book so they must be more sword and sorcery than high/epic fantasy. You have to keep the story moving if it's just a short story.

The first Witcher game is pretty old now and it was only on PC, though it regularly drops down to less than $5 on Steam (or, at least, it did before the TV show LOL).Cool! I'll look for it on