melbournemartin
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I generally quite picky with games. It's rare for me to find one that I simply can't put down. Some games like Oblivion offer apparently enormous depth due to a sheer quantity of missions but the generic nature of them makes the game grow quite weary. Will an RPG ever fight its way out of this boring, delivery as many packages as you can until you level up way of gaming?
Into the ring steps The Witcher.
This game boasts arguably one of the most adult games ever made (excluding filth such as Custer's Revenge
Google it if you want a laugh). This isn't just due to large amounts of blood and gore, although it does suffice in that regard, its concepts are based on those more mature than the usual dungeons and dragons clones. While it still has many family medieval RPG elements, such as elves, dwarfs, kings in high castles and special magic powers, it incorperates them in a world were the characters have more goals than just keeping you busy with tedious side quests. You run into religious fanatics, rapists, drunkards, whores, traitors, terrorists, illegal arms dealers, undercover organisations. These NPCs compliment the bad-ass Geralt of Rivia, aka the White Wolf, whom you play as and he simply kicks some serious ass. Whether it be slaying monsters, bedding beauties or letting rip another witty one liner, the guy has it all.
Not only are the characters awesome but the world compliments it beautifully. Unlike Oblivion, the entire world isn't opened up to you at the start. You have to work your way through certain passages of it. This makes it a bit more linear but results in better designed worlds that go for quality over quantity.
The game is infact far from linear. Unlike most games, where there might be some loose cover of choice in your actions, you are ultimately following the only available path. Some games that do give you real choice tend to lump them into the extremes of good vs evil. Here it's not that clear as the game strays into the grey area often. My recent major choice was to either help a mob kill a witch (whom I had ****ed earlier...yeah sex in video games is still a tad weird but I thought it might make me more powerful or something lol) or help the witch kill the mob. These are the kind of choices that make you choose which will help you the most, not which is right or wrong.
There are lots of other cool things, such as the mini games dice poker, drinking and fistfights which are all actually fun to play unlike some minigames just thrown in at the last minute to give games the illusion of depth. These games actually need to be played at points eg. get a guy drunk so he will tell you important information but be careful because you might get too drunk yourself and wind up stumbling around outside, perhaps minus some money, which looks very cool.
Man, I could go on and on about this game and this really sounds more like a review than a discussion thread but I honestly think that no role playing fan should be without this game. It's a bit of a departure from the usual fairies and wizards, pink and purple themed worlds but that's really what gives it an edge.
Does anyone else here have the game and any thoughts on it? Or is looking to purchase it and wants me to ramble on some more until they decide to buy?
Into the ring steps The Witcher.
This game boasts arguably one of the most adult games ever made (excluding filth such as Custer's Revenge
Google it if you want a laugh). This isn't just due to large amounts of blood and gore, although it does suffice in that regard, its concepts are based on those more mature than the usual dungeons and dragons clones. While it still has many family medieval RPG elements, such as elves, dwarfs, kings in high castles and special magic powers, it incorperates them in a world were the characters have more goals than just keeping you busy with tedious side quests. You run into religious fanatics, rapists, drunkards, whores, traitors, terrorists, illegal arms dealers, undercover organisations. These NPCs compliment the bad-ass Geralt of Rivia, aka the White Wolf, whom you play as and he simply kicks some serious ass. Whether it be slaying monsters, bedding beauties or letting rip another witty one liner, the guy has it all.Not only are the characters awesome but the world compliments it beautifully. Unlike Oblivion, the entire world isn't opened up to you at the start. You have to work your way through certain passages of it. This makes it a bit more linear but results in better designed worlds that go for quality over quantity.
The game is infact far from linear. Unlike most games, where there might be some loose cover of choice in your actions, you are ultimately following the only available path. Some games that do give you real choice tend to lump them into the extremes of good vs evil. Here it's not that clear as the game strays into the grey area often. My recent major choice was to either help a mob kill a witch (whom I had ****ed earlier...yeah sex in video games is still a tad weird but I thought it might make me more powerful or something lol) or help the witch kill the mob. These are the kind of choices that make you choose which will help you the most, not which is right or wrong.
There are lots of other cool things, such as the mini games dice poker, drinking and fistfights which are all actually fun to play unlike some minigames just thrown in at the last minute to give games the illusion of depth. These games actually need to be played at points eg. get a guy drunk so he will tell you important information but be careful because you might get too drunk yourself and wind up stumbling around outside, perhaps minus some money, which looks very cool.
Man, I could go on and on about this game and this really sounds more like a review than a discussion thread but I honestly think that no role playing fan should be without this game. It's a bit of a departure from the usual fairies and wizards, pink and purple themed worlds but that's really what gives it an edge.
Does anyone else here have the game and any thoughts on it? Or is looking to purchase it and wants me to ramble on some more until they decide to buy?
) And it is simply still buggy for me... Crashed on a large percentile of the movies and it just doesn't run well... But as we know, different performance for a different computer... Shits me too... As I said, doesn't even run through movies with SLI on, and then it runs so so with SLI off... PIsses me off to...
