If you're not a PC gamer, then you'll probably have missed out on The Witcher, a Polish RPG powered by BioWare's Aurora engine and famous mostly for having prostitutes in it. The critical reception was more or less favorable, although a couple of reviews were pretty brutal.
Good or bad, the world at large will soon be able to sample the fruit of CD Projekt's labor when it is released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 as The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf. Hooray for all!
I must admit I am curious about this game, but up until recently lacked a computer capable of running the thing. I do believe I shall be checking this saucy little number out when it hits the consoles, if only because I still remember the game's awful example of a pick up line: "I know a peach when I see one."
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7:42 PM on 11.29.2008
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Games to play: Dead Space, Gears of War 2, Persona 4, Resistance 2, Valkyria Chronicles and now The Witcher.
Also, this headline is offensive. Whores are made love to, not banged. You should be fired.
Isn't that either redundant or contradictory? "Critical reception" and "reviews" are usually the same thing, aren't they? I don't know. I just know that I know a peach when I see one.
Edited for Sharpless' nitpicking. ;-)
I played The Witcher. I thought it was alright, but banging whores was the best part of the game for me!!!!!
The sex sections are korny and you even feel kind of sorry for both parties involved.
Also, will they include the Polish voice track?
CD Projekt is fast becoming one of my favorite devs, right up there with Bioware, Obsidian, and Valve.
The Witcher was made with PC controls in mind. Even in the newly released enhanced version, there's still about 5 different menus you have to constantly use. This wouldn't be an issue if there weren't dozens and dozens of different keys mapped to specific actions. With enough patience, the depth of it all is really rewarding but this game would give me a splitting headache trying to control on a gamepad.
All things considered, it's actually a good RPG, but the Witcher on consoles is going to take some serious optimization (maybe a radial menu like most games have) or they're going to have to scrap some of the gameplay altogether and come up with something else.
Oh man, what if they decide ALCHEMY was the gameplay they wanted to scrap?!
A must play gentleman.... but lets see how it plays out on the console since it was a game made for the PC controls.
Anyway is great that this game is coming to a greater audience, I just hope they dont screw this one up or they wont be anymore witcher.
So, HOORAY for a console release! I was completely convinced that such a thing would never happen. This has seriously made my night.
actually they did repair the title problems, as I said, the Enchanced Edition is WAY superior than the one from last year.
So I think that if they manage to adapt the controls they have a good title coming to the console.
and if you cant run this game that is sad since it will most likey run on the $499 barbie Pc from the wallmart toy department.
If you are paying $499 for PC that can run The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, you're getting ripped off. For 500 big ones you can get a computer that can run crysis warhead.
Yeah, that FMV intro was sweet. It wasn't quite, say, Blizzard levels of overdone, but it sure as hell raised my opinion of the Polish dev scene.
But if it's coming to the 360, then I might buy it. Hopefully they'll make the game work well on consoles.
...wow
And yeah, with a cheap PC you should be able to run it without any problems.
The Witcher is a good game, and one that deserves to be in more hands. I'm sure CD Projekt will create a control and menu system to suit consoles fine, have some faith. Either way, I'll be glad to see their work on my 360, hopefully without any edits (that's right, keep the sexy time bits in there, as too many rpgs aren't mature enough).
And this is cool, I hate PC gaming so one more PC game I can play on consoles is cool by me.
Now if only Vampire the Masquerade would come out for consoles, then I would be a happy camper.
Perhaps the sex is a little gratuitous and corny at times, but the game makes up for it with a gritty, mature storyline and decisions concerning alliances and karma that make a legitimate difference in the story, something that Fallout 3 and Fable 2 can't say.
The Witcher is the best RPG you've played in the last 5 years, don't worry. Unless you played Mask of the Betrayer. Then it's that one.