yeah, right? like, how hard can it be to write a cool female character. although it is kind of a clichée that no fantasy writer writes convincing females, I wonder why

morrowind had so many insanely cool female characters
The Witcher has quite a lot of cool female characters (I mean, I dislike Yennefer, she's a ****, but she certainly is a very interesting and consistent character ; Ciri is top-notch too, and Triss has always had layers, the "typical over-nice girl that is actually always going on with their plans that she doesn't tell you about").
What seems to grate people the wrong way is more the realistic display of medieval society being actually misogynist.
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Regardless, TW1 has cool story but somewhat disjointed events and average writing, it gets better and better each game (with the third being so far above both others as to be in a class of its own).
The sequels are much better in almost every respect, especially the portrayal of female characters.
I think there are only three women (if you don't count prostitutes) Geralt can sleep with in the third game. Two exes and maybe-again-partners and an old acquaintance who's trying to manipulate him.
Add an old flame in the first expansion and the actually most insufferable female character of the serie in the second (I like the ducessa, but gawd the other woman is bad).
I've given up on major studios for good RPGs (didn't like Divinity: Original Sin, good mechanics but awful writing IMO) but still enjoy Bethesda games as action games (with mods ofc)
DOS didn't had "awful" writing, the problem is more that it was too goofy, so it made rather difficult to take the story seriously. I've heard they have rewritten a lot of it in the EE (I'll probably replay it at some point) and toned down somewhat that aspect.
DOS2 is definitely MUCH lighter on the comical aspect (it's more like a quirk now, and doesn't permeate the whole game, which in fact is rather bleak), and the writing is actually very good (I mean, Avelone went there, no surprise

).