Comments on: The Witcher Done Good?

By: mejobloggs

mejobloggs — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:58:40 +0000

I got nwn2+exp a while ago and played it for a total of 2 minutes. It ran at 15 fps or something terrible and didn’t look that great either

Loaded The Witcher and frames were high and it looked very nice. I find it very hard to believe when people tell me they run the same engine.

By: John

John — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:42:21 +0000

…. And let’s not forget that it is the same CD Projekt that started the fantastic gog.com selling classic retro PC games like Fallout 1 and 2!!!! Surely that also shows, along with the free EE for previous Witcher customers, that the big guys would have charged for, that they really are gamers making games and understand gamers like no other games publisher does outside of the indie market! :)

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:03:38 +0000

By the way, what CD Projekt achieved with the Aurora engine is nothing short of amazing. NWN itself is ugly as sin and I would have assumed that nothing better could be achieved with the engine Bioware developed. Not so!

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:59:52 +0000

Re: Racism. To stress what I meant, at the initial choice to do with terrorists you don’t know that much. When you get in and see the Ghetto, that changes – the Jewish parallels are striking. I was talking strictly about the opening.

(Which does include stuff, of course.)

KG

Brainzapflash! Why don’t we have a game set in a Ghetto? Adventure/RPG stylee?

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:47:51 +0000

The “Babe” is changed to “Child”, I think, in the EE, which is a much better translator.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:12:35 +0000

Paul M. – babe dialogue is changed in EE I think. As far as animations, I liked most of them, especially the combat bad ass ones. But I did not mind horrible animations in Oblivion or Fallout 3, so I definitely would not complain about the Witcher ones.I don’t play RPGs for animations..

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:50:00 +0000

With all the love being shown, I thought I’d play the Witcher demo (I’d previously just played it for a few minutes). I have to admit I find the dialogue a little grating (”babe”?) and Geralt’s animation looks very odd – when he’s holding his sword aloft, he has his arms bent back to the extent that he looks double jointed. But I’m intrigued so will plough ahead; I finally got the hang of the clicky-clicky combat (perhaps they could do a dance version – Parappa the Witcher, anyone?).

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:47:38 +0000

Alex – I liked it also. Definitely better than Oblivion’s, and since even Oblivion’s did not detract from my experience (I read subtitles anyway), I had no problem with Witcher voice acting. But Geralt was indeed awesome – such a bad ass! I hope they will keep this voice actor for sequel(s).

By: Thirith

Thirith — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:38:21 +0000

I’ve had The Witcher for ages now but still haven’t played it. Having heard so much about the rubbishy voice acting might be quite useful – it can’t be as bad as I am expecting it to be right now…

One of my main problems with lots of game voice acting is that it is tremendously stilted – most of it feels very scripted. If you’re trying to go for semi-realistic dialogues you need to be more conversational. It’s mostly fantasy games that suffer from this. That’s where I’m usually glad for the Patrick Stewart type actors – they make even stilted dialogue sound important and real.

For me, one main reason why most game dialogues sound fake is that there’s no overlap – character A says his line, then character B replies. It’s all so polite. That works okay enough if it’s a fairly emotionless conversation, but as soon as people are angry, afraid or otherwise emotionally involved there’s overlap, and there are stops and gaps and interruptions. I can’t remember many games that have done these and it’s a shame.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:15:32 +0000

Am I one of the few to actually like the dialogues/voice acting in EE? Geralt was awesome.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:40:27 +0000

Fallout 3’s voice-acting is certainly something we picked up on in a recent podcast, and I’m sure we’ll mention it when we look at the game again before Christmas.

By: PaulMorel

PaulMorel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:36:17 +0000

2 Things:

1 – I never even noticed the bad voice acting in the original version of The Witcher (I must be the only person).
2 – I still wasn’t compelled enough to play through the entire game. I gave up about 15 hours in.

Still, I am in the same boat as you. I am really looking forward to whatever they do next … I just hope they spend a little more time in QA and pick a more modern engine for their base.