If a game is good or if it isn't is a matter of belief, it is never a fact. So if you don't like it you don't have to, I think that game is a lot better than NWN or Oblivion or Diablo.
I haven't read that much reviews about the Witcher, but i do keep hearing about it in forums.
Can you describe what it plays like?
Also, its a pretty "adult themed" game, but do the choices you make really affect the game, or is it more superficial in nature? (for example sidequests or how people react to you, and so on)
When you start the game you can pick to play from an over the shoulder camera or from isometric. In OTS mode, you move with the keyboard and in isometric you can click or use the keyboard. I recommend OTS.
It's very very adult oriented. In the first inn you arrive at, there is a group of fighters fist fighting for money. One of them insults the other by telling him his mom sucks dwarf cock. Funny and awesome.
Fighting isnt the same as other games. You can equip 4 weapons at a time. A steel sword (good for humans and animals), a silver sword (magical monsters), a long axe/mace, and a short axe/dagger/torch. Each one is assigned a button to draw it. You fight with one at a time. Both the silver sword and steel sword have three fighting styles. Strong for slow armored foes, fast for quick agile foes and group for fighting more than one enemy.
To initiate an attack, you click the enemy. He then does 3-4 attacks. At the end of the attack the cursor will change to a flaming sword. If you time it right and click while its a flaming sword, he enters another series of more powerful attacks. Depending on how you allocate points, you can string together more and more attacks. (This changes slightly based on the difficulty you choose.)
As far as choices go, they greatly influence gameplay. Without ruining anything, you have a choice presented quite early where you can pick to go help a a woman named Triss prevent some people from stealing from a lab or you can help a group of Witchers slay a monster. This happens in the prologue. In chapter one, after a specific event, it goes into a cutscene where your character realizes that all the things that just happened are directly related to the choice you made in the prologue and how had you chosen the other, it would have never happned. I did not get a chance to see the outcome from the other choice, maybe on a second play through.
It's a great game. It captures the atmoshpere of a dark world better than even Diablo could. It's a very serious, dark fantasy world and plays very well.
Go look it up. Then buy it. Then thank me.
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There is none.
I never even went to the official site.
Evil Islands is a horrible horrible game.
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Making a note.
EDIT: Oh crap, you're a mod now I see.
To Visucius
I don't remember you... you should get an avy.
As per your request.
No, it's really not. Not even a little.
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How long is the gameplay..I need something to play over Thanksgiving break since I have to stay home and company my relatives...
I was gonna get Asassins Creed, but my buddy told me it was like Bioshock.
It was so fun, but he beat it within a few days like BIoshock.
I havnt played a "real" RPG with a "real" story in a long time.
If you have a beefy computer, The Witcher is definitely a great choice. I've played about 4-5 hours and I've just entered Chapter 2 of 7.
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I'm guessing 40-50 hours. Chapter 2 is going to be longer than chapter 1, that's for sure.
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When you start the game you can pick to play from an over the shoulder camera or from isometric. In OTS mode, you move with the keyboard and in isometric you can click or use the keyboard. I recommend OTS.
It's very very adult oriented. In the first inn you arrive at, there is a group of fighters fist fighting for money. One of them insults the other by telling him his mom sucks dwarf cock. Funny and awesome.
Fighting isnt the same as other games. You can equip 4 weapons at a time. A steel sword (good for humans and animals), a silver sword (magical monsters), a long axe/mace, and a short axe/dagger/torch. Each one is assigned a button to draw it. You fight with one at a time. Both the silver sword and steel sword have three fighting styles. Strong for slow armored foes, fast for quick agile foes and group for fighting more than one enemy.
To initiate an attack, you click the enemy. He then does 3-4 attacks. At the end of the attack the cursor will change to a flaming sword. If you time it right and click while its a flaming sword, he enters another series of more powerful attacks. Depending on how you allocate points, you can string together more and more attacks. (This changes slightly based on the difficulty you choose.)
As far as choices go, they greatly influence gameplay. Without ruining anything, you have a choice presented quite early where you can pick to go help a a woman named Triss prevent some people from stealing from a lab or you can help a group of Witchers slay a monster. This happens in the prologue. In chapter one, after a specific event, it goes into a cutscene where your character realizes that all the things that just happened are directly related to the choice you made in the prologue and how had you chosen the other, it would have never happned. I did not get a chance to see the outcome from the other choice, maybe on a second play through.
It's a great game. It captures the atmoshpere of a dark world better than even Diablo could. It's a very serious, dark fantasy world and plays very well.
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