Comments on: The Witcher: No Sequel Yet, But More Stuff

By: James T

James T — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:46:19 +0000

TeeJay — buy the normal one and you’ll have to d/l the Enhanced Edition and associated bonus material yourself — quite big, but free. The difference between Enhanced Edition retail is that you get the (very nice) soundtrack, the (half-good-half-terrible) Sapkowski tribute album and the making-of docos in CD/DVD form rather than mp3/wmv form, and the book-y stuff (some game-guide material) in print form rather than PDF form; oh, and I think the retail version might come with some maps (ornamental, we’re not talkin’ GTA here) that you just get as big JPGs with the patch version. So you’re paying 20 quid to get the extra stuff in solid form; personally I didn’t feel the need, so d/led it (I was tempted to buy the retail EE out of sheer CDPR-philia, buuuut I’m just too frugal.)

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:13:44 +0000

Its a fairly large couple of downloads that you need to register for, but nothing too tricky. Other than that you miss out on bits and bobs that come with the game, not missing anything actually in the game.

By: TeeJay

TeeJay — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:32:53 +0000

On play.com the original version sells for £9.99 and the enhanced edition for £29.99. Can anyone give me some advice about how hard it is to upgrade the original game up to the Enhanced Edition and what else I might be missing out on ifI go for the cheap version?

£9.99 version

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/3358122/The-Witcher/Product.html

£29.99 version

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/6408632/The-Witcher-Enhanced-Edition/Product.html

By: Serondal

Serondal — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:03:16 +0000

I broke down and got it. I Have to say it’s F@#$@# awesome dunno why I put it off so long, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for.

By: James T

James T — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:36:23 +0000

And I could swear I’ve seen the Alghouls’ tiny David-esque cash-and-prizes dangling about after I’ve sent them sprawling…

(I read somewhere that the Ancient Greeks aesthetically prized having a smaller unit; that’d certainly scythe a lot of nonsense out of male intrasexual politics!)

By: Anonononomous

Anonononomous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:45:34 +0000

Clovis: The first GTA IV DLC has a penis. It’s rated M.

By: James T

James T — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:53:01 +0000

Do you think the Witcher demo is a good representation of the game? I have been meaning to try the game and I am looking for the demo now.

It’s kind of a ‘muted’ preview — at most stages of the game, you have more maps to visit, they’re somewhat busier, and you’ll be fighting better due to the accrued level-up unlocks and new swords/armour. Plus you’ll be starting to see the fallout from your decisions kicking in. But it shows the basic mechanics pretty representatively.

Strictly speaking, probably all the cards are optional, but you have to play a very particular variety of creep not to get some of the story-related ones (ie Triss and Shani, and… hang on, is there any way of skipping Adda?), so, whether you get them or not, they’re an aspect you have to contend with, an embarrassing one that The Witcher would be better off without; that said, I’d probably put it second only to Deus Ex as my game of the decade (oo, 6 months to go though), so I’m not saying anyone shouldn’t play it.

edit: Oh, I see they’ve put ‘Rise of the White Wolf’ on hold. Couldn’t give a shit about the game itself — haven’t got a console — but I want these guys making money off their good work, so that’s a shame.
…Although that news report does also tell me that “Rise of the White Wolf” was NOT their as-yet-unrevealed ’secret project’, so… hooray!

By: Guhndahb

Guhndahb — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:03:58 +0000

I can’t say that’s a terribly exciting announcement, really, but I love the gang at CD Project Red so I’m still happy. I hope they keep doing what they do best!

By: NegativeZero

NegativeZero — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:53:23 +0000

@Clovis: since you name-dropped Australia I must point out that the game was released here with the smut cards uncensored. It’s got an MA15+ rating (the highest possible in Australia) with content descriptors of “Strong violence, sex scene and drug references”.

By: DSX

DSX — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:26:16 +0000

Last I read (couple months ago?) a bunch of guys got fired and others transplanted off of DLC work to begin Witcher 2. My guess is that these expanda-patches are the remains of that work rolled up into a friendly “please keep us in mind” type of update during the long wait for v2.

By: sebmojo

sebmojo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:43:09 +0000

Joel, the demo is pretty thorough – if you don’t like it at all then you slmost certainly won’t enjoy the full version.

By: Stabby

Stabby — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:02:24 +0000

MORE boobies.

And apparently, this will be a digital download only version, seeing as it won’t make the rating cut to be sold in stores.