Popular monster-thumping RPG The Witcher is being overhauled for 2008 with new lines of dialogue and new motion-captured gestures from the NPCs. CD Projekt are showing off these improvements in their latest trailer – and they do seem to be a fairly substantial improvement on the original ham. You can also switch languages in any version of the game, so playing with the Polish or German dialogue and English subtitles should be possible, if you fancy that foreign-language videogame experience.
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“I do know this one cut…”
Rad. It seems like the new dialogue understands how to do over-the-top properly this time around.
Nice quote mine there, Saflo. I did pirate the game first time round, and glad for it, since it was quite buggy. But now that the developers have shown that they listen to the community and improved on it, I’m going to buy it.
Frankly, I rarely download games anymore, mostly thanks to Steam (and somewhat the EA Downloader). I do download movies and series, though, if you needed any reason to sit on your high horse.
@Paul S:
Great story, full of believable political intrigue, wonderful world design, a combat model that is much more involving than the purely stat-based D&D combat, without making it an all-out action game, great art design, monsters, and decisions that aren’t from Bioware’s über-naive school of Mother Teresa/nasty little school-bully game design. I found The Witcher infinitely superior to pretty much anything Bioware have done in years in almost every respect.
Frankly, I have no idea how anyone could not like this game. They mysogynist problem is exaggerated, anyhow. At least the game has some strong female characters, and you don’t need to have sex. The card-collecting is silly, though, alright. The Witcher has made iself a bit of an easy target because of a lack of subtlety in that regard, but to single it out always seemed a bit strange to me.
I will now buy this game.
Devs note: Post-release support not only makes fans love you, but increases sales. Looking at you, Boiling Point, and , to an extent, VTM:BL who could have done with this sort of love…
Yes, even with the bugs (though I never dealt with the ridiculous load times) the Witcher is easily in my top 10 RPGs, maybe even crack the top 5 with this patch.
“VTM:BL who could have done with this sort of love…”
They would have supported it further if they hadn’t run out of money and collapsed. (in fact they would have released it in better shape if they weren’t running very low on cash)
As much as I love Steam, I’m grabbing the collector edition when it comes out, there’s just too many nice nerd trinkets in the (sexy) box.
If we can add the Witcher CD key to Steam, I’ll be absurdly happy.
For me, TOP 5 RPGs are – Fallout, Deus Ex, Vampire Bloodlines, The Witcher.
huh, those are only 4. Okay, hopefully Fallout 3 will join them.
So I can’t buy this on Steam/Impulse like I planned? What’s the point of digital distribution if they just start adding artificial barriers?
I played this game about halfway through the first time; about 1/3 of the way through Act 3 (midway through the next part of the town after the swamp). Anyone know if I can patch the game and continue playing or if I’ll have to restart?
@Saflo:
Taking quotes out of context is very childish. Personally I think it’s great that he will buy the game this time around.
Well, guess I won’t be buying this after all. For some reason the developers have opted not to make this game available to Steam users in, well, almost anywhere but North America and certain parts of Eastern Europe.
Well, I really wanted to buy this game. But if they won’t sell to me, buying won’t be an option, will it?
Idiots. Next time some as… er, developer or publisher comes complaing about how many pirated copies they can see on the Internet, would some kind journalist ask them if they adjusted their numbers for the countries they don’t sell their games at?