#don't get me wrong i love witcher 3. it just doesn't explore physical limitations in the same way

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Another thing I love in the books is that more often than not Geralt seems to lose the major fights we hear about, or is at least injured, sometimes severely.

I just think it's interesting, because on the surface he's this experienced powerful warrior guy, and yeah he's a famous witcher for a reason--like he's not a bad fighter! Yet still the story will go "and then Geralt got his ass kicked" basically. He's the main character and he doesn't always win. And that's fascinating.

Which I think is an aspect you don't get to see as much when he becomes y'know a video game protagonist. Because even when you get hurt or die in a game, it's temporary, not canon to the story, and usually consequence-free.

People expect a bit of a power fantasy in video games, though. Probably why the games barely if ever acknowledge that, in the books, Geralt's canonically disabled.