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[The Witcher] [The Witcher II: Assassins of Kings trailer | 2011 release
Aldo
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The Witcher II!
See: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/thewitcher2/news.html?sid=6254071&tag=topslot;thumb;1&mode=previews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JciyoGmnGyo
The Witcher is a role playing game that puts you in the leather boots of one Geralt. Geralt has a few problems:
Luckily, Geralt also has a few good things going for him:
Here is he posing:
Geralt is a witcher, a special sort of being that has been enhanced by all sorts of magic and SCIENCE to be the ultimate monster slayer. His job description states that he is supposed to protect humanity. However, humanity is a bunch of murderous assholes. As with most RPGs you get kicked into this world, have to make moral decisions and gain levels.
What makes this game special is that its moral decisions are - on average - horrible moral dilemmas. You have to make your decisions based on limited information and that often leads to a realization somewhere down the line that you helped torch down an orphanage. Also: there is no clear good/evil scenario, just like real life, there's all sorts of shades of grey.
Combat is more fun than your average RPG: instead of *click* *watch your guy kill other guy* *click* you'll have to time your attacks, pull off combos and switch between fighting styles. To make this easier you can pause the game at any time.
The Witcher is a great game, critics loved it, fans love it and most importantly: the developer, CD Projekt Red, loves the game and its fans. The original version of the game had its problems, so the developer decided to release a huge extended edition and gave it away for free. It contained tons of new dialogue, various bug fixes, slight changes to make the story flow better and the complete soundtrack and a 'music inspired by...' all packed together in one huge patch.
As if this is not enough, they have now also released a new big patch, years after the game went live, to further upgrade their game. They have even removed the DRM on this, because they figured it's pretty damned useless by now. The industry can learn from these guys.
Note to our American friends: the original game was censored to get through the biblehumping/prude/retarded rating systems you folks have in place. However, with this latest version they decided to do away with all the censorship and release the game in all it's soft-porn, profanity spewing, gore-y goodness onto the American countryside.
Note to our console-playing friends: at first there were plans to release a refurbished version of this game to PS3 and Xbox, but the company that was supposed to make this happen cocked some things up and the financial crisis didn't help either, so it got tossed into the freezer indefinitely.
Links to patches. To install you need to register your game on their website:
Finding 1.4 is as easy as going to this page. (this is the version you have when you buy the Enhanced Edition)
Then you go to this page and download 1.5. (this is the version you have when you buy the Director's Cut)
Then, for the boobies, you go to this page.
Alternatively: Fileplanet has all patches available as well.
Enough dwarfshit, screenshots and videos:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40361.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39962.html
See: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/thewitcher2/news.html?sid=6254071&tag=topslot;thumb;1&mode=previews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JciyoGmnGyo
The Witcher is a role playing game that puts you in the leather boots of one Geralt. Geralt has a few problems:
- He lost his memory
- Everyone hates him
- His way of living is being threatened by various forces
- His friends are in trouble
Luckily, Geralt also has a few good things going for him:
- Every woman wants to fuck him
- He can decapitate bitches like it's no one's business
- He can set bitches on fire
- He can diss bitches
- His friends have roughly similar skills.
Here is he posing:
Geralt is a witcher, a special sort of being that has been enhanced by all sorts of magic and SCIENCE to be the ultimate monster slayer. His job description states that he is supposed to protect humanity. However, humanity is a bunch of murderous assholes. As with most RPGs you get kicked into this world, have to make moral decisions and gain levels.
What makes this game special is that its moral decisions are - on average - horrible moral dilemmas. You have to make your decisions based on limited information and that often leads to a realization somewhere down the line that you helped torch down an orphanage. Also: there is no clear good/evil scenario, just like real life, there's all sorts of shades of grey.
Combat is more fun than your average RPG: instead of *click* *watch your guy kill other guy* *click* you'll have to time your attacks, pull off combos and switch between fighting styles. To make this easier you can pause the game at any time.
The Witcher is a great game, critics loved it, fans love it and most importantly: the developer, CD Projekt Red, loves the game and its fans. The original version of the game had its problems, so the developer decided to release a huge extended edition and gave it away for free. It contained tons of new dialogue, various bug fixes, slight changes to make the story flow better and the complete soundtrack and a 'music inspired by...' all packed together in one huge patch.
As if this is not enough, they have now also released a new big patch, years after the game went live, to further upgrade their game. They have even removed the DRM on this, because they figured it's pretty damned useless by now. The industry can learn from these guys.
Note to our American friends: the original game was censored to get through the biblehumping/prude/retarded rating systems you folks have in place. However, with this latest version they decided to do away with all the censorship and release the game in all it's soft-porn, profanity spewing, gore-y goodness onto the American countryside.
Note to our console-playing friends: at first there were plans to release a refurbished version of this game to PS3 and Xbox, but the company that was supposed to make this happen cocked some things up and the financial crisis didn't help either, so it got tossed into the freezer indefinitely.
Links to patches. To install you need to register your game on their website:
Finding 1.4 is as easy as going to this page. (this is the version you have when you buy the Enhanced Edition)
Then you go to this page and download 1.5. (this is the version you have when you buy the Director's Cut)
Then, for the boobies, you go to this page.
Alternatively: Fileplanet has all patches available as well.
Enough dwarfshit, screenshots and videos:
Spoiler:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40361.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39962.html
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I love it already. Great characters and atmosphere.
In one awesome word, Yes.
Be prepared to wait a bit on downloading, unless you have a smoking fast connection. IIRC the 1.4 patch + a language pack is 1.4 gigs.
The 2 extra adventures (Price of Neutrality and something else) are about 300 megs a piece, and then the 1.5 patch (removes DRM, puts all the lovely blood and titties back in, also improves load times again and adds 5 more community written adventures) is another 300-400 megs.
All told, you're looking at around 2.5 gigs of patch goodness (tack on another 2 gigs if you download the bonus DVD content), but they are very much worth it.
Also, the patch up to Extended Edition (1.4) can tak a long ass time to install (about 40 minutes on my rig and that's with a 2.8GHz dual core, 4 gigs of RAM, and a 7200rpm HDD).
I've played back up to the start of Act 1 today and it runs like butter now, plus I got a new Triss card.
I didn't have to, of course I bought mine way back in 2007 when it first came out.
Technically you could do it before by downloading files from another source, but now it's officially patched back in (something that required getting re-rated by the ESRB).
Actually the soundtrack is also available online. As is the map, manual and game guide. All that stuff's just a digital download instead of a physical copy. Not sure whether the "making of" DVD stuff is available as well.
The first chapter of the novel they couldn't put online for publisher reasons (likely because that'd be making it available in territories it wasn't already).
Word of warning though, I just went to the site now and tried to download the 1.4 patch and addon stuff, I'm just getting a blank page. I'm guessing the server's just getting hammered or something, but I can't say for certain. Could also be because I'm not logged into the site, so who knows.
Steam version already got 1.5, but didn't get the boobies yet. Soon.
They missed the milestone deadlines and didn't meet the quality guidelines, Project Red stopped paying them, deal was off.
Project for now is frozen, development continues on Witcher 2 (I believe an expansion project was in the works at first but got merged with The Witcher 2 project because of financial difficulties).
It's possible they do something with White Wolf in the future with a new partner, for now they aren't expanding yet. Had to cut a few jobs a while back thanks to mentioned financial difficulties.
By the way, that demo is also old, made when the game ran like ass. CD Projekt optimized performance considerably in the various patches.
Incidentally, is there any way to patch out inventory limits? Because I just found that annoying after a while.
Understatement of the year. What a pain in the ass. I can't believe they don't have a better system. Their website is terrible as far as support goes. The first thing it tells you to is upgrade to 1.5, well you can't do that unless you're at 1.4 already, and finding 1.4 is annoying when you are dealing with a Polish website. This is 2009, I shouldn't have to download 3 different things just to patch the damn game. The game has a "check for updates" button, but all it does is take you to their website.
Jerks like that don't deserve all the free awesome. Were it a normal console game, all those awesome extra things would be in a 15 dollar DLC.
If it's that big of a deal, just do a search for The Witcher at gameupdates.org. You'll find all 3 files you need and the d/l rates are a bit faster.
Sorry for going off-topic, but I find this bit very appropriate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETv3NURwLc
Yeah they're deadly. I remember spamming Igni and running away out of range while high on health regen potions.
I don't remember the plants being a big deal, at least not as much as the ones that explode when you kill them, but the unique plant thing killed me so quickly I didn't even realise I was in trouble until I was dead. If the normal plants are giving you trouble, do NOT explore the swamp too much without a fair bit of save-spamming.
You never played tribes 2 did you? It's like 15 different patches you have to do manually and in order.
Crhist, I can't believe you have all the free time in the world. Christ, I can't believe you read Polish. Christ, I can't believe you'd rather spend your time hunting down patches for patches instead of playing the game. Christ, I can't believe you're such an ignorant fuck that you think this all can't be automated on the back end. Christ, I can't believe you're supporting a company that makes it difficult to patch their game that was originally released quite broken. Christ, I can't believe you have enough money that you don't care how its spent and wouldn't rather spend it on companies that make it easy for their customers to play their games, not harder. Christ, I can't believe you think that just cause a company puts out a patch to fix their fucked up game that that resolves them of all other faults. Hey asshat, were you wanna of those fucktards waiting 2-3 hours just to raid in WoW and then justifying it by saying what a great game WoW is? lolz
No wonder gaming is so fucked up now a days. Too many gamers are willing to blindly take it up the ass just because they think a game is good.
Here's another video for you travathian
why looka youso sad
itsa notso bad
itsa nicea place
Company of Heroes has forced patching. Around ten patches at last count, you can't play the game before it's patched (it'll helpfully check for you). Totalling approximately 2 GB.
After each patch downloads, you need to manually shut down the game to allow it to install the patch. After which you manually re-start the game to have it tell you it wants you to download the next patch. So you have to be with your computer through the process in order to achieve this. The actual patching process for each patch depends on size but lasts anywhere between 10 and 40 minutes. EACH.
travathian, I spent a grand total of maybe three minutes finding the patches for Witcher. I left it to install after that and came back when it was done, and then played the game. This entire process, I find it extremely difficult to complain about.
Finding 1.4 is as easy as going to this page.
Then you go to this page and download 1.5.
Then, for the boobies, you go to this page.
All of which are easily found from the main Witcher website.
Really, was that so hard?
Fixed that for accuracy. It was pretty obscene. Either way, to be on topic:
I still need to finish this game. I've just been having a bunch of save corruption issues (don't ask, I don't know) and I keep having to start over.
Very annoying.