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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 6752718" data-attributes="member: 710">The games tell a different story than the novels, and you can see what stories they got their inspiration from for many aspects. Basically, the games continue the story after the end of the short stories and novels (at a point where you didn't necessarily expect a sequel to be possible.)The first game felt a bit as if it was retelling elements of the original novels, but kinda as if they didn't happen. There is a bit of retconning going on I think in the game series. But the major character in the 3rd Witcher game, Ciri, was introduced in the novels and was important there, too. The way how Yenefer and Geralt get together in the first place is also concluded in the game. I liked the novels. They're a different kind of fantasy. Like the game, the novels have an interesting mix of light-hearted humour and dramatic (and sometimes grim) stories. A lot of the stories are not about "Big Evil" and dark conspiracies, but also about the more or less everday life of the Witcher. I'll be eager to see if they can do that justice. Will they loose themselves into some grand evil plot that needs to be unraveled, or will they tell it more like one of the shorter stories?There was already a Polish TV movie about the Witcher. It wasn't half-bad, but of course not grand cinema.</blockquote>