Question Regarding the Witcher Series

[Ragemage]

Hello all! So back around Christmas I started looking into the Witcher series and, since it was on sale for cheap on Steam, I picked up all 3 of the games. Unfortunately FO4 fractured my soul and sent me into a 3 month-long binge of Fallout New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity. But now I've started playing it.

I've reached about Chapter 2 of the game and I'm really enjoying it so far. The mechanics are fun, the story is interesting, and I'm invested. There's just one thing that takes me out of it, and that's Geralt's amnesia causing him to have to relearn literally everything. "What's this flower?" "Oh well, can't pick it up until I have this random book on herbs." Gold isn't hard to come by, but it's still an annoying mechanic to have to buy these books just to learn basic potion making. I can't even get the INGREDIENTS until I have a certain book.

So my question is, do the other games have anything like this, where you have to relearn everything again via thousands of books? Normally I don't mind doing this as sort of character progression but The Witcher 1 just does it poorly.

Thanks for any response.

 

[Vergil]

I've never played Witcher 1 but from what I remember of the second game you can start doing alchemy stuff from the get go. Never got that far into it though. Not much of a point when all the sex scenes are on youtube.

 

[AlbertCole]

In Witcher 2 und 3 you can pick up ingredients right from the beginning and Geralt starts with a certain amount of basic formulae. You have to buy/find more advanced recipes later on though. But rest assured: While Witcher 1's a bit rough around the edges, the sequels get more and more polished and manage to improve a lot of aspects.

 

[Illuminati Confirmed!]

Witcher 2 has a simpler alchemy, but it's also far more useless.

The game itself makes you feel far less an actual witcher than the first game does. And the lack of sex cards made Geralt's romantic conquests meaningless.