The Witcher - worth playing?

Excellent game. Very story driven, and as someone else said the 'choices' you have to make are awesome. You basically have to investigate something, and go around collecting information or evidence via quests, but you can easily miss a quest, or do a different one first which cancels it etc and you end up with different information to base your descision on.
 
smeaney said:
Did I not see something everyone else did? I just couldnt get into it. I dont even know why really. I loved Dragon Age, WoW, Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, Fable and Diablo...but The Witcher just did nothing for me. Should I give it another shot?
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Witcher starts off utterly pants, but then improves a lot beyond Act One. The first boss you come across virtually puts off most players because it is so finicky. Patience has it's rewards because the game is very deep, despite having a pointless armour/weapons setup.
 
I found it a hundred times better using the over the shoulder camera too. Its one of my favourite ever games and didnt really get into it until the second time round. It is such an amazing game, starts slowly and can be fiddly but it deserves some time to get a good feel and begin the story for it to really grab hold.
 
The greases and oils are very useful in the Witcher but I'd say definitely give it a go. In terms of Mass Effect vs The Witcher probably M.E. it miffs me that they took out the sword timing in Assassin of Kings you could get high damage with it.
 
My initial install of TW was hugely buggy. I just couldn't get the thing to run on my rig without CTD's every 10mins. Eventually after two months, they patched it and a while after the enhanced version improved the game hugely. Damn those large triffid like plants in the swamp!
 
ic1male said:
What makes the Witcher different to Dragon Age, WoW, Dungeon Siege 1 and 2, Fable and Diablo then? If it's got trillions of stats and inventory items I'm not sure I'll like it either.
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Different because it has....

Choices & consequences, real ones. Moral ambiguity. No straightforward good or evil. It is not stat/loot heavy. Proper adult themes/dialogue. Very witty too. The sex cards are lame though. Gritty, almost dark fantasy as opposed to the done to death high fantasy......and that's just off the top of my head.

The Witcher is unique in many ways.

Of course, people with a broad taste in games can like The Witcher and the others too. But it doesn't surprise me some people will find the game a shock to their system if they've been weaned on your typical fantasy rpg.
 
Tried witcher demo ages ago. Tutorial got boring as it was so long i.e defend the castle.

What id like to know is how realistic the towns and people are. Is it a rpg where you can talk to ppl and do odd jobs for em or is it just hack and slash rpg which i hate and i loath skills and leveling up tbh.

I remember a vid ages before it came out about a realistic weather system. Did that get into the game or not?

And is their mods for the game to make ur character diff looking as i hated the person u played he looked naff with the white hair and crap.

edit - btw its £5.50 at tesco with a code.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/the-witcher-pc-game-5-50-with-code-/697614#comments
 
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Yes its heavily story driven. Towns are fully populated and filled with side missions and places to explore/loot. You can wander off from the main story and get lost for hours (in a good way) in peoples back stories and little personal squabbles. For me the game started off slow but good, was engrossed by the world by the end of the 1st act and every act just kepts adding to my love of the game.

The weather/day cycles did make it into the game I believe with people running for cover when a rain shower starts or heading to a camp fire in the evening.

The Witcher looks pro. shame on you.
 
that deal from tesco is brilliant, I recently bought the Enhanced Edition from the rain forrest for £9 .. had no glitches or problems so far and it runs superbly.
 
Get the retail version if you can, it's cheap enough and with patch 1.5 has zero DRM, you don't even need the disc in your drive to play. Well I'd rather have that than have it locked to a steam account but what ever you prefer :)
 
Managed to get a copy. Not too far in to it but seems good the combat and stuff. The way the character moves and stuff is a bit gash but I'll try and live with it.
 
I never really got on with the Witcher. Story really didn't interest me, combat was painful and the additional systems where more tedious than most.
 
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