I think there is another problem with the games (not only TW3) that deeply influences how relationships work in the games and how they feel. The games miss to show Geralt's internal conflict, his weakness, his insecurity. There are two big challenges in the books for Geralt: first, to accept that he is still a human being with all the correspondings feelings and flaws and second, to ackowledge that accepting destiny doesn't mean that you have no influence anymore. Both are deeply connected with both his relationships to Yennefer and Ciri. Getting a deeper knowledge about himself and accepting that he is much more than just what others made him is his true hero's journey. In the books Geralt is full of flaws - just like Ciri, Yennefer or Triss - and most of the time no "badass" at all. He is lonely, vulnerable, cynical and just plain weak. Yes, he is good with swords and he's a mutant. But on an emotional level he is just like a young boy, although he is already that old. Yennefer is the only one who truly knows him and who accepts his weaknesses. Their bond is not only a product of mere destiny but of the deep understanding for each other and willingness to accept the flaws of the other person. It's true love in the deepest sense of the meaning. Maybe this kind of love has become unpopular today but it's the kind of love most of us dream about in dark, lonely nights. Yen and Geralt have both deep internal conflicts with whom they are and whom they should be. They got stronger together by supporting the human and good side of each other. Their relationship is perhaps tragic but they are made for each other. Not just by destiny, but by who they are. Both of them would willingly sacrifice for each othe without hesitation because they truly love each other. There is deep emotional and mental connection between them the games were never able to establish between him and Triss, mostly because they failed to depict Geralt as a flawed human being instead of a badass superhero. People who only play the games naturally can't understand that. They only know the much more simplistic characters of the games. They don't understand their internal conflicts because they games don't show them properly (and after all video games are inherently bad in showing internal conflicts). It's a shame that so many people who only know the games talk badly about Yennefer and their relationship. Geralt wouldn't even nearly be the same man without her (and Ciri).
"The fountain bickered and smelled of wet stone. Flowers smelled and the ivy smelled.
"He suprised me," Lytta repeated. "I didn't expect that from him."
"Because you didn't know him." Yennefer calmly replied. "You didn't know him at all."
Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms
Rant over. It's really hard to formulate all that stuff in English...
"The fountain bickered and smelled of wet stone. Flowers smelled and the ivy smelled.
"He suprised me," Lytta repeated. "I didn't expect that from him."
"Because you didn't know him." Yennefer calmly replied. "You didn't know him at all."
Andrzej Sapkowski, Season of Storms
Rant over. It's really hard to formulate all that stuff in English...
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