First two are collections of short stories so there is no big time invesment with testing it out. You can try the waters and see how you like the style and if you don't like it enough to continue, at least you have a book that works on its own.
Yes, books came out some years before games. I think around late 80s/early 90s. My understanding is in Poland even people not usually into fantasy know of the books. And it is a classic in the surrounding region.
Games are fairly faithful to the books, at least in spirit. There are some problematic things lore wise that they did in games but I can understand why with most. No adaptation can be 1:1 and I understand it. Overall, I'm happy with how the games ended up.
First game, I didn't like that much though. One thing is that the age is showing on the gameplay. I could get over that, but the story also recycled too many things from the books. The main story is its own thing, but there are many story beats that felt copied, with some things changed up to mask it. Pretty sure some sidequests were just stories from books, but with diferent characters. I like a good callback, but this game went a bit too far with them for my taste (also didn't help I read the books just before going into the game - so it was all fresh in my mind).
Story wasn't bad overall, but it broke the immersion and I just couldn't get over it. This in combination with the aged gameplay just made me look for a recap and play the Witcher 2 instead.
Stoked for the announced remake of the Witcher 1 though.
Since they say they will be giving you a quick lesson... might be allright. It will most likely need some time to get used to it but you might be fine. See how the quick lesson goes? They might show you around the neighborhood for you to then drive around yourself and get used to it a bit.
It will be a whole another thing to keep in mind so be extra careful with your driving probably
I mean... technically, yes, we all do good and bad stuff.
But you can't say Hitler was a good person just because he was against animal cruelty. I don't think any person out there is cartoonishly evil to a point they never did anything good - that doesn't make those evil persons not evil.
This. Mu father and grandfather in law are mathematitians. I never liked or enjoyed math but they make it ao damn interesting when talking about it. It's a real shame I never had a teacher with such passion and talent for it.
The point is the legal benefits and publicly declaring your love and commitment, if you care about that.
You can spend as little as you want, if you only care about the legal status. But since you are probably asking about the usual big wedding - it's really just throwing a party to celebrate the act. It's not mandatory. Invite people you want to party with and celebrate life in a way you want.
What can suck about it is the peer pressure from parents and other people to do it the way they want, to do it "properly".
You clearly struck gold