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5 months ago
Feature: Still never got round to calling it "Twitcher"
I almost forgot how much everyone raved about The Witcher 2. RPS founder-turned-fugitive Jim Rossignol said in his The Witcher 2 review that "This is one of the most significant games of 2011. Right now it looks like most significant PC-only game of 2011". It's a series that has since become a juggernat, helped made a billionaire, and even overcome the traditionally murderous adaptation to…
5 years ago
Feature: We all get things wrong sometimes.
I’ve playing MGSV obsessively at the moment. You might have noticed. This is a statement which would make 2005 me punch 2015 me in the nose. A decade ago I was so much more forceful and intolerant in my opinions about videogames, and one of the recipients of that unyielding ire was Metal Gear Solid. I played some of 2, felt as though it was…
6 years ago
Feature: Even now, villains wait, checking their watches. "Where are the heroes?" they wonder.
It's a great time for RPGs at the moment, with just about every name, flavour and celebrity from the old days finding a new lease of life through Kickstarter and a freshly hungry audience. Most series and creators though have had at least one game fall prey to development hell - sometimes with their ideas resurfacing in later titles, sometimes with everything simply lost to…
9 years ago
You couldn't wish for a vaguer statement, but when it comes to what may well prove to be the year's best RPG, talk of a 'new and improved PC version 2.0' is EXCITING TALK. This news comes from the end of a noodly, AOR music video featuring some silly rocker put out by CD Projekt RED late last week. Most of the video is Geralt…
10 years ago
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With The Witcher 2 looming like a dark juggernaut of RPG-based distraction, we thought it might be a good time to go back and poke around in the original game. Just what was it that really made it sing? (There may be some mild spoilers ahead.)Forget about the sex cards, forget about the five hour slog through the Outskirts, ignore the occasionally shoddy writing and…
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Richard has a brand new T-Shirt that says 'One Of The World's First Players Of The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings'. They don't give those to just anybody. He'd probably better tell you about what he saw while questing for the right to wear it...
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It took me eight straight hours to crawl through the sewers, beneath Cologne's conference centre and then up through an impossibly tight U-bend into a disused toilet somewhere in the North Hall, but finally I was back at GamesCom. The guards had turned me away when I'd tried to enter through the main doors - disgusted by the foul breath that had resulted from eating…
11 years ago
After yesterday's video, UberJumper on the SA forums noticed it includes on a one-frame message to the devoted (i.e. Those heroically mental enough to advance it frame by frame). Click through the image above to see the whole thing. Paraphrase: we sold 1.5 million! Awesome! Unlike people who say PC RPG is dead. Witcher was awesome, but we've learned a load since then. Next one…
EDIT: Now with trailer, below.There's a big number '2' on the front page of TheWitcher.com. I think it might mean something. But what? I'm pretty sure it's related to the number of eggs the CEO of CD Projekt RED likes in his ham and mushroom omlettes, but then I've been know to be wrong before. I mean, some people think could be something to do…
12 years ago
Polish role-playing epic The Witcher: Enhanced Edition has a muscular new patch. It flexes its 369mb torso to remove DRM, the CD check, to fix a couple of tech issues and to add in five of the best community-made scenarios into the game, for more fantastical adventures. You can download it here, but I can't find any confirmation of whether it updates automagically on Steam,…
And the award for Most Prosaic-Ever RPS Headline goes to...All's been a bit quiet around well-received, dodgily-translated blood'n'boobs'n'moral deliberation RPG The Witcher for a while, with its fans hoping E3 might offer news of a follow-up. No such luck, unfortunately, but there is more Witcher inbound - the 1.5 patch, which promises two rather exciting changes. Also, CD Projekt RED's cavalier mention of a "Director's…
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You probably spotted this from last week, but I wanted to reprise the story to lead into some other thoughts about The Witcher. Polish fantasy RPG The Witcher has sold 1 million copies. That's a fair amount for a game on any format. Developers CD Projekt are rightly pleased with this, and I'm glad that this unexpected success has allowed them scope to continue and…
That's right, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition patch is now available for those of you who bought the game the first time around. It's a beefy 1.2gb and there's a mirror here.I'm grinding my way through the Enhanced Edition at the moment and finding The Witcher to be an uneven experience. There's plenty to like about it - especially with Polish voice-acting and English subtitles glossing…
Eurogamer get me to review the Enhanced Edition of the Witcher. Wherein I start like this...Not having read a film mag in years, I don't know if they still do this, but... I always despised the dual-mark DVD review section where they give separate marks for films and add-ons, with a similar sort of split shown in the actual reviews in terms of what they…
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…
13 years ago
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When I made my appointment to go and see Atari the only PC game they’d announced they were going to show was Deer Hunter Tournament. I thought I’d go along anyway as it might be kind of interesting – I’ve never played a Deer Hunter game, but I’ve heard they kind of have a naturiffic ambience, if you forget all that huntin’ and killin’ –…
The Witcher website reveals that CD Projekt have released the 1.3 patch, which is stuffed to the gills with the adventure editor, and a new quest-o-thing, The Price Of Neutrality. Apparently the new adventure is about two hours long, with multiple endings. It explores the activities of others Witchers, as glimpsed only briefly in the original game.The D'jinni editor, meanwhile, is the tool that CD…
While our own feelings about The Witcher hover around worthy-but-flawed, other folks felt it was easily last year's best RPG. And, honestly, that's more than enough to make it worth talking about here. Especially in light of the upcoming Enhanced Edition, which promises to redress the major complaints about the original.I'm happily stunned that the new version's happening, both because it proves that I'm not…
A video discussing the new features and improvements in the enhanced version of The Witcher has appeared. Except, well, rather unfortunately the sound and syncing means it has an awful lot in common with the original game. If you can cope with the muddle of trying to read subtitles with the sound in all the wrong places, there's information to be gleaned. (Working version below…
Crivens, this is unprecedented. Last year's most divisive RPG, The Witcher, is to be re-released. But not just re-released in a shiny box and with extra smutty collector's cards - re-made, almost. Loading times are to be cut by up to 80%, stability's in for a-fixin' and there are to be improvements in "interactivity and precision in combat." Most fascinatingly for me - as it…
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