Forced to eat humble pie - The Witcher

Kainz

Kainz

Kainz

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Now some of you will remember me whining on about this damn game because I slated it last year calling it the buggiest title I've played since SiN iirc. However about a month ago I decided to wipe me pc and dual boot between Vista and XP, seeing as my previous Witcher install on Vista was an utter unstable nightmare.

So about a month ago I installed it on XP and much to my surprise it ran perfectly with the odd CTD should I alt+tab back to the desktop. However it no longer CTD's every 5mins. Good stuff.

So can I safely say that hotdamn, I haven't been this hooked on a game since er, well since Mass Effect hit the 360. It took me ages to get past Act 1 thanks to the CTD's, but since then I've slowly progressed through the game absorbing the superb storyline, banging anything with boobehs and generally being a bit of an annoyance as dog killing at night is quite fun. Some areas made me feel like I was back in Lotr Online because they looked and felt that good to roam around in.

In short, I love the game to bits despite the fact that as it stands it could do with a lot more npc models (enhanced patch yes I know) and grammatical errors are quite noticeable. So far I'm upto Act 5 or 4, where the city is up in flames and it just gets better and better.

I'm going to be so depressed when this game ends! :(
 
I too couldn't get on with the combat or the fact that you can't even jump in the game. Act 1 being completely dull and the village you're in being rather closed off didn't help matters either. Luckily it is only Act 1 that feels rather closed off, the other acts are rather open in terms of where you can go.

If anyone is getting slow down in the FMV bits, kill depth of field and grass - apparently those really do hit frame rates on older gpus. They certainly made my 7900GTX cry, until I got a cheap 8800GTS.

The game is quite different from other RPG's. The devs have taken a rather different stance to the way the game works and I feel they've almost pulled it off. The no holds barred attitude to the game also impresses me a lot, so it feels a lot more adult orientated.
 
Agree with you about the A -> B delivery style quests. They get a bit annoying but for some reason I wasn't bothered with them. I guess I'm used to them because I've played so many mmorpgs in the past. I'm on the last level (manor) now and it's getting really epic. Had a good laugh with the striga though :)
 
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