The Witcher

[HunterSeeker]

Man, I am always pressing alt key in order to see where everything is around me (items, remains, enemies, etc...) so quite often I press tab to sheate my weapon and the game minimizes! A minor gripe in an otherwise very smooth control scheme.

The in-game descisions havent been too difficult more me so far, but choosing where to spend my talents is super hard. Silver talents are uncommon enough for me at this time, but Gold talents are rare to come by, so its hard to create a balanced character.

The choice in question was:

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Whether to deem Abigail guilty or not, there was little emperical evidence either way and both sides where rather terrible in my eyes. I did not want to see a woman that had done little harm (even if she did sell poison) and took an orphan it, yet I did not want to kill all the peasants either.

 

[Wanted Bob]

The choice in question was:

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Whether to deem Abigail guilty or not, there was little emperical evidence either way and both sides where rather terrible in my eyes. I did not want to see a woman that had done little harm (even if she did sell poison) and took an orphan it, yet I did not want to kill all the peasants either.

What did you end up doing?

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I decided to rescue her, cause there seemed to be much more evidence to her innosense than her guilt. As a result, I fought the Beast and killed all four "main" peasants.

 

[Tagaziel]

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I also decided in Abigail's favour, primarily because the Reverend is such a, well, power-tripping hypocrite and because I was after another penal law lecture, concentrating on the "in dubio pro reo" principle.

 

[Kadayi]

Man, I am always pressing alt key in order to see where everything is around me (items, remains, enemies, etc...) so quite often I press tab to sheathe my weapon and the game minimizes! A minor gripe in an otherwise very smooth control scheme.

Under the game settings somewhere you can set it so that it always highlights objects of importance, so you don't have to press Alt all the time. Pretty useful I found.

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I also decided in Abigail's favour, primarily because the Reverend is such a, well, power-tripping hypocrite and because I was after another penal law lecture, concentrating on the "in dubio pro reo" principle.

My reasoning was:-

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That I thought it would be bad form after boning her senseless, plus I might of missed out on some further loving down the line

 

[PimpinPenguin]

I've just gotton past Kaer Morhen after the funeral of leo and so far i don't get what the big deal is should i stick it out and continue?. Does it get better or do you just keep going back and forth during the game?. The reason it's taking me so long is cause i'am playing with 8FPS 7 minute load times and crashes every 15 minutes

 

[Nabobalis]

I've just gotton past Kaer Morhen after the funeral of leo and so far i don't get what the big deal is should i stick it out and continue?. Does it get better or do you just keep going back and forth during the game?. The reason it's taking me so long is cause i'am playing with 8FPS 7 minute load times and crashes every 15 minutes

You updated it? But it does get much better after the first act I think it is.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

You updated it? But it does get much better after the first act I think it is.

Yeah i've updated it. Am i past the first act or still on it?

 

[bbson john]

The reason it's taking me so long is cause i'am playing with 8FPS 7 minute load times and crashes every 15 minutes

Stop playing it until after you upgrade your computer. Since it is no a game with graphics as selling point, it will not get out-dated. Playing it later does no harm.

This is the second time I had to alt-tab out of the game becouse I am faced with a decison with no clear right or wrong answear.

You can alter the Windows hotkey configuration so it won't clash with the game's function.

The choice in question was:

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Whether to deem Abigail guilty or not, there was little emperical evidence either way and both sides where rather terrible in my eyes. I did not want to see a woman that had done little harm (even if she did sell poison) and took an orphan it, yet I did not want to kill all the peasants either.

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I cannot kill a woman who had just had sex with me.

 

[HunterSeeker]

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I initially elected to burn her (and I did not have sex with her!) and after she was burned to death, the beast attacked and despite the help of the peasants I died. My last save was just after I got out of the cave and this time I went with the other option.

 

[Shift]

Hmmm..I might try it out at some point then although my friends told me similar things about oblivion and I didn't like that and I just got annoyed at the enemies levelling with you crap

I despised that features, in WoW at a high level there was a cool sense of satisfaction at knowing you could trampel the low levels, Oblivion destroyed that.

 

[DreamThrall]

Man, I am always pressing alt key in order to see where everything is around me (items, remains, enemies, etc...) so quite often I press tab to sheate my weapon and the game minimizes! A minor gripe in an otherwise very smooth control scheme.

Yeah, I did that a lot too.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

That's it i ****ing give up this game is frustrating and annoying. Just tried to have a fistfight and the tutorial at the beginning was ****ing useless Getting hit while blocking and my punches doing nothing. I hear the story great but the gameplay aspects are just to broken for me to continue. I don't have a clue what act i'am on or what's going on.Shame it wasn't worth the effort to get working.

 

[HunterSeeker]

That's it i ****ing give up this game is frustrating and annoying. Just tried to have a fistfight and the tutorial at the beginning was ****ing useless Getting hit while blocking and my punches doing nothing. I hear the story great but the gameplay aspects are just to broken for me to continue. I don't have a clue what act i'am on or what's going on.Shame it wasn't worth the effort to get working.

The mouse cursor gives a hint as to when you should duck, and also you should not click frenetically when punishing. Chances are you are cancelling a punch just before it connects.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

The mouse cursor gives a hint as to when you should duck, and also you should not click frenetically when punishing. Chances are you are cancelling a punch just before it connects.

Half the time when i clicked to punch he did a taunt which resulted in me getting pummeled.I was playing it on easy and all the cursor shows is a fist it doesn't say anything about ducking.Now to think of a satisfying way to destroy this game before i end up pulling all my hair out in frustration.

 

[bbson john]

Half the time when i clicked to punch he did a taunt which resulted in me getting pummeled.I was playing it on easy and all the cursor shows is a fist it doesn't say anything about ducking.Now to think of a satisfying way to destroy this game before i end up pulling all my hair out in frustration.

I got a trick. In a fist fight, hit punch on the enemy. Remember, hit the key only once. If the punch hit the enemy, click dodge once (the right mouse button) immediately. If you do it right, the opponent should 100% miss you. Then do the punch again, restart this action sequence. If the first punch missed, retreat ( S ) immediately and retry a moment later. You can beat the final boss with ease in this method.

p.s. I did the game on hard so there is no cursor hint.

 

[Wanted Bob]

The manual says that the prompt is to continue a combo...

THE MANUAL LIED TO ME!!! D:

Oh, and these choices and consequences are really crazy. A seemingly harmless sidequest added a twist of sorts in the next act.

Read on if you have compleated chapter 2:

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So I finished the sidequest in the first chapter which involved the weapons shipment. I let the squirrels steal some weapons without talking to the merchant. In chapter 2, I entered the Hairy Bear Inn, only to find one important character shot dead, by the same squirrels I had allowed to steal weapons. He was the only way I could sell the narcottics I was finding in Assassin loot, but now he is gone

 

[bbson john]

The manual says that the prompt is to continue a combo...

I think this only applies on fighting monsters, not in fist fights.

 

[DreamThrall]

You have to unlock talents to get combos in fist fights I believe. There are a couple 2nd tier bronze talents in strength and dexterity and maybe endurance. IMO, its not worth spending points on since you only use it for a side quest which apparently can be completed without them.

 

[ríomhaire]

Lol at the wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher_(video_game)#Story_.2F_Plot

Edit:
This thread has got me so damn interested in this game. How would you guys rate it out of 10?

 

[Kadayi]

This thread has got me so damn interested in this game. How would you guys rate it out of 10?

Personally 9.8/10. I was kind of bummed to have finished it afterwards as it was so compelling, just like good novel. You want to get to the end to find out what happens, but when you do, you realise that the characters you've spent time with are suddenly no more ;( .I really hope there's a sequel in the works.

 

[DreamThrall]

Personally 9.8/10. I was kind of bummed to have finished it afterwards as it was so compelling, just like good novel. You want to get to the end to find out what happens, but when you do, you realise that the characters you've spent time with are suddenly no more ;( .I really hope there's a sequel in the works.

Agreed 100%.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Yeah, I'd give it a 9.5 out of 10. I occasionally get lost in the amount of sidequests, and the inventory gets very cluttered at times, but the story and setting are so good thats it would be a very hard game to pass up.

 

[DreamThrall]

Yeah, I'd give it a 9.5 out of 10. I occasionally get lost in the amount of sidequests, and the inventory gets very cluttered at times, but the story and setting are so good thats it would be a very hard game to pass up.

Yeah, the number of sidequests was at times a bit much, but the quest management system was very good imo - it was very easy to see which quests need something done, and which ones you just had to wait for something to happen, etc.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Yeah, true enough it was very easy to see where you were at certain quests.

Man, I must be a saddist, but I can't stop laughing at the old brickmaker, who speaks in the weird accent.

"Dropd a brik on my 'ead when I's 6"

 

[Zarzak]

Awesome game. I gotta say i'm pretty proud of it because it's probably the first so well done polish game of all times. It's nice to read all those positive comments. Anyway I've found the background interesting and suprisingly I spent money on books (to extend bestiary and glosary) rather than anything else. Now I'm on my second playthrough (3 act)

 

[HunterSeeker]

9.0/10. I had some technical issues with it, but nothing game breaking.

 

[ríomhaire]

Yeah, I'd give it a 9.5 out of 10. I occasionally get lost in the amount of sidequests, and the inventory gets very cluttered at times, but the story and setting are so good thats it would be a very hard game to pass up.

Surly the point of sidequests is that they're optional so that it if there is too many you just don't do them all?

 

[Kadayi]

Surly the point of sidequests is that they're optional so that it if there is too many you just don't do them all?

But the thing is, you'll really want to do them, because they aren't tedious at all

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Do you get to keep the cards you get after have sexy time with the ladies.

 

[bbson john]

Do you get to keep the cards you get after have sexy time with the ladies.

Ya. The cards are kept in the character's diary, but unfortunately, not in the game menu .

 

[HunterSeeker]

If you go into the journal and select the character you did it with and click on the heart symbol you will see the card.

 

[Steven]

Is this a sandbox game, what's the size of the "world" like, will it run at at least 20fps on lowest settings on my pc (250mb gfx card, 1.75gb ram, 2.8ghz P4 cpu)?

Thanks if you can answer.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Yeah, this game is not that much of a sandbox, not even to Fables standards. Probably closer to KOTOR (you can access different areas, but not really roam wherever you want).

And for me the game runs fine, cept if it runs decently while playing, be prepared for some EXTREMELY laggy cutscenes.

 

[Kadayi]

I just noticed that a demo is available now... but it's 2 GB. Is it worth the bandwidth?

just go buy it, you won't want to copy your saves across from the Demo because it misses out some of the good stuff apparently.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Yeah, the demo missed out on quite a big and important part of the prologue.

 

[bbson john]

Yeah, the demo missed out on quite a big and important part of the prologue.

What is it? I already played the game through, so give me a hit.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

It seems this game hates me. After playing the game successfully for a few days and starting to enjoy it, today when i started the game it gave a missing overlay error and told me to reinstall. I have reinstalled updated to 1.2 but when i click launch game nothing happens no process in task manager no spinning disc icon. How can i be so unlucky ;(

 

[HunterSeeker]

Yet another difficult choice.

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Who to lead alvin to? Shani or Triss?

 

[DreamThrall]

Yet another difficult choice.

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Who to lead alvin to? Shani or Triss?

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I picked Triss, since she'd be better equipped to defend Alvin if needed.

The result:

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Shani obviously gets pissed off and stops talking to you. I don't recall Alvin ever getting attacked though. You also get the chance to get more emotionally/romantically involved with Triss.

More info:

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Shani comes back later in the story, and while she's still a little steamed about your choice, she still works with you.

 

[ríomhaire]

PC Gamer UK really panned this game: 67%

They said the combat sucks and there's too much walking. Annoyingly, they barely commented on gameplay more than that. I'll still get this game, I don't trust that review at all.