After many starts and stops, in 2012-2013, I finally played The Witcher 1 from start to finish and:
- Enjoyed it immensely,
- Marveled constantly at how amazing the world looked in the game, and what an astonishing tech achievement the game was still, in 2013, and
- Found it incredibly playable, the story interesting, and overall the game to be nowhere near as janky as I had expected it to be.