Mango Positive said:I'm knee deep into act 2 of the Witcher: EE. It is on sale on Steam for $39 and it's worth twice that.
Why the hell has GAF not been raving about this game more? Why the hell is this thread only 11 pages long? Seriously... the big Steam sale just happened and I had to bump this thread from November 29th? I had to take the advice of a mild gaming enthusiast to take the plunge fer fuck's sake!
Maybe GAF hasn't really been informed about the best RPG of the last several years? I played through Oblivion and Morrowind... the Witcher is better. I played through Mass Effect and Fallout 3... the Witcher is better. There is so dang much to do in this game. They give you a big world without overwhelming you and losing focus on the importance of the story (take note Bethesda). It has seriously been a LONG time since a game has called to me like this one does. You know... where you know you have to get up at 5:00 AM and it's 11:00 PM, but you just have to get to the end of that quest thread? Next thing you know, it's 1:00 AM, you're only getting 4 hours of sleep and you have no regrets? Seriously... I think I'm getting sick... <cough, cough>. I think I smell a sick day (or two! I could be REALLY sick!).
It truly baffles me that I wasn't GAFed into playing the Witcher MUCH sooner. Console-GAF, hold tight... it's coming. Can-Afford-A-Decent-Computer-GAF has no excuse (except for inferior taste).
It's also really easy to uncensor, even on Steam.
I guess everyone who cared for has played it already, the game is almost two years old.Mango Positive said:I'm knee deep into act 2 of the Witcher: EE. It is on sale on Steam for $39 and it's worth twice that.
Why the hell has GAF not been raving about this game more? Why the hell is this thread only 11 pages long? Seriously... the big Steam sale just happened and I had to bump this thread from November 29th? I had to take the advice of a mild gaming enthusiast to take the plunge fer fuck's sake!
Prime crotch said:I guess everyone who cared for has played it already, the game is almost two years old.
Please do. Also tell your friends.GreenNight said:It might pick up when the console versions drop.
Mango Positive said:That's my point! We didn't know how good it was.
Mango Positive said:Why the hell has GAF not been raving about this game more? Why the hell is this thread only 11 pages long? Seriously... the big Steam sale just happened and I had to bump this thread from November 29th? I had to take the advice of a mild gaming enthusiast to take the plunge fer fuck's sake!
Maybe GAF hasn't really been informed about the best RPG of the last several years? I played through Oblivion and Morrowind... the Witcher is better. I played through Mass Effect and Fallout 3... the Witcher is better.
It truly baffles me that I wasn't GAFed into playing the Witcher MUCH sooner.
I like a wide open world with a ton to do.
This looks far too linear.
bengraven said:Are people seriously saying this is better than Morrowind and Oblivion?
I can't fathom that. I like a wide open world with a ton to do. This looks far too linear.
In other words, I need examples.
bengraven said:Etelmik:
My perfect RPGs are like this:
I get the main quest and it says "go to point A", but I decide to spend 10 hours checking out B, C, D, E, F, etc. And each location gives me a number of quests. I finally decide to find out what's going on with the main quest and I still have about 10 sub-quests in my logbook.
Des0lar said:Picked up The Witcher:EE today.
What do I have to expect GAF?
Des0lar said:Picked up The Witcher:EE today.
What do I have to expect GAF?
bengraven said:Are people seriously saying this is better than Morrowind and Oblivion?
I can't fathom that. I like a wide open world with a ton to do. This looks far too linear.
In other words, I need examples.
Whatever you may expect, the game will crush that ceiling heavily. I fucking love this game to death. Favorite RPG since a very long time. I lost my savefile due to a format (stupid me) and now I'm replaying it. I'm at Chapter 3. Only complaint I have is that characters are duplicated a lot. It's really bugging me. I never been bugged while playing Fable 2 for example (brought it up since I finished it right before this) or other new-ish RPGs. Other than this, it's a gem. In my top 5 of this generation, easily.Des0lar said:Picked up The Witcher:EE today.
What do I have to expect GAF?
Des0lar said:Picked up The Witcher:EE today.
What do I have to expect GAF?
Des0lar said:Picked up The Witcher:EE today.
What do I have to expect GAF?
I think it's normal. I had that same issue and it was somewhat annoying.Brandon F said:I do wish there wasn't a delay when looting corpses. I often have to sit and wait a second or two hovering over a carcass until the lootable context icon appears. Is that normal?
Yes yes! I wasn't feeling it at first, but once I went back into the settings and pushed the draw distance, it was awesome! Well worth the loss in frame rate.kittoo said:BTW, anyone else was picking his/her jaw from the floor as soon as he/she reached the Swamp level for the first time? What an atmosphere, what a feeling, what an absolutely immersive level that was as a whole?
Anyone else remembers and agrees?
bengraven said:Are people seriously saying this is better than Morrowind and Oblivion?
I can't fathom that. I like a wide open world with a ton to do. This looks far too linear.
In other words, I need examples.
Mejilan said:Witcher doesn't have an open-ended in the vein of Elder Scrolls, but it still has TONS of (somewhat) optional side-content to explore in every chapter. Disregarding the very short prologue, the basic setup consists of a new chapter starting along with at least one mainline chapter quest. This number can expand to 2 or more mainline chapter quests going concurrently. During these chapters, you can also open up one or two dozen more sidequests, most of which are optional, and most of which also somehow tie into the mainline quests.
The result is a multi-layered quest-based experience that can be tackled in almost whatever order you want. Sure, the actual experience is very story-driven and reliant upon the completion of the core quests, but the majority of the side-quests are woven so beautifully into the main narrative that progression feels surprisingly open-ended. I basically always leave the main story quests for last, but because I do every single side-quest available (in whatever order I want), I've got most of the chapter's storyline completed before I ever intended to... without skipping over or missing content.
Some quests are mutually exclusive, since decisions you make will inevitably affect later quests and main story drivers, but that's the nature of this kind of RPG. Helps with the replay too, at that.
I love Elder Scrolls, but the Witcher doesn't really sacrifice all that much fun and exploration by dodging the open-ended world layout. The end result is a much more focused experience. Disclaimer: I consider Oblivion to be one of the shittier mainline Elder Scrolls games. Without mods, that game was completely fucking broken.
Some of us like closed worlds with tons of interesting things to do and a narrative that doesn't seem compiled from a random fantasy story generator.
bengraven said:That actually sounds kind of awesome, I must admit. I liked the idea of playing a fantasy game I can get "lost" in, but if it's seriously about 60 hours worth of sometimes optional content, I'm happy to give it a try. I just finished Fable 2 with only 25 hours logged after trying very hard to stay away from the main story and I'm feeling burned for THAT kind of RPG.
Also: I agree with you that Oblivion is the weakest of the series. What I'm looking for in a wrpg is a huge part of Daggerfall and Morrowind, but I'm fiending for a well told, adult story.
Brandon F said:I do wish there wasn't a delay when looting corpses. I often have to sit and wait a second or two hovering over a carcass until the lootable context icon appears. Is that normal?
Mejilan said:Their website, download system, and patch checking are downright fucking horrible. There's really no excuse for it.
The least Atari could do is create a better front-end for US gamers. Blah.
What is your OS version?CTLance said:Man, what is it with this game and crashing... Dang thing crashed yesterday a couple of times, crashing random drivers from time to time. Once it even took out the chipset/IDE drivers. Windows crashed hard (frozen mouse pointer, looping sound and everything) after losing all drives. Hasn't happened to me in a long-ass time. My PC didn't even want to do a warm boot, got stuck when initializing the drives. Had to switch it off and on again. And no, that wasn't overheating. Temps stayed well below anything threatening throughout. Case was open by coincidence, too. Nearly gave me a heart attack, I thought my main HDD had died.
A*
Easy_D said:I love the game but the FPS loss annoys me a lot, the large crowded areas like Vizima Merchant District give me like, sub-30 FPS. Even at the lowest settings the game doesn't run at 60fps in those areas. Which is weird, my computer should more than be able to handle it.
It might be my ram though, while I have an 8800GT and a Intel E8500 I only have 2gigs worth of ram on Vista 64.