She greets you in her underwear at night. That makes it up big time.
so true! :winky:
I've almost finishes the main story arc and I consistently chose +love Shani options and +help nonhumans. I'm kinda tempted to start fresh when I finish it and go the exact opposite route. Witcher is so sweet. WTB Witcher expansions/mods!
Neutrality actually makes for the most interesting story progression, just fyi :P
Speaking of expansions/mods. What are the extra adventures like, are they worth playing through?
price of neutrality is pretty good, haven't played much of side effects so i dont know about that.
I was all about helping the Squirrels right up until
they used the supplies I gave them to murder Coleman.
Now they're going to pay.
Think I'm almost done with the swamp - that was a hell of an experience. I discovered the awesomeness of upgraded Igni and killed slews of drowners and bloedzuigers. I appeased the fishy gods and got freaky with a naked plant lady. I even killed a cannibal and his army of magically-appearing plant avengers. Good times had by all.
Now if I only I could find that last stupid sephira, the one I'm supposed to come upon "by chance."
Well, I finally played the demo for this last night, at roughly 12 AM. :P
Surprisingly not as horror oriented as it was marketed--the isometric perspective helps me quite a bit in that department. I'm normally very affected by anything with the slightest bit of eerie atmosphere, but I was ambushed by a ghoul and barely blinked. Also, the sorcerer girl has DOA levels of jiggle.
I think the long hours of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic have helped me on this--I'm not only a huge wimp in the face of the supernatural, but also with spiders.
Roughly 2/3 of my playtime on DMMM was being attacked by spiders.
Well, I finally played the demo for this last night, at roughly 12 AM. :P
Surprisingly not as horror oriented as it was marketed--the isometric perspective helps me quite a bit in that department. I'm normally very affected by anything with the slightest bit of eerie atmosphere, but I was ambushed by a ghoul and barely blinked. Also, the sorcerer girl has DOA levels of jiggle.
I think the long hours of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic have helped me on this--I'm not only a huge wimp in the face of the supernatural, but also with spiders.
Roughly 2/3 of my playtime on DMMM was being attacked by spiders.
Wait until you get to the swamp. Especially at night.
Luckily I have the books from chapter 1 already. I think I'll go hunt the two trophies and the ghouls and build up cash, then take all mine back from that bastard dwarf.
Playing it as an isometric game kinda sucked the life out of it for me, though. 3rd person mode all the way!
Same here. I started the game in iso and quickly switched to 3rd person. Works way better for me.
I'm going to have to go on a dice run here soon. I've been mostly broke-ish ever since buying all the books I needed in Chapter 2, and that armor looks nooooice. Also, forging swords from meteorites of different colors - yes or no? I have 2 reds and a blue, trying to decide if I should wait for a third red or a better sword to reforge or whatnot.
Is it possible to get three runes for my silver sword in Chapter 2? I have two and can't seem to find anymore.
This round I'm going to forge a new steel sword as soon as I get three meteorites. The bonuses from 3 of one color aren't too fantastic, and you get much better unique swords as quest rewards in chapters 3 and 4.
Silver I'm going to do the same, there's a badass silver sword for helping the lady of the lake in chapter 4.
I sure wish fear didn't make the Beast so stupid. He was so scared he kept accidentally mauling me to death on his hideously sharp fangs that are also on fire.
Man, I just finished my second playthrough where I sided with
the Order. Fuck you Siegfried, I bust my ass to help you and you are even doubting the command of the order and then you decide to go on a non-human pogrome after the game is over? I'm fucking happy that I went neutral the first time since that gave me an opportunity to kill both you and Yaevinn in various spectacular and gory ways. Shame that the Order version of the final armor looks kickass though.
I sure wish fear didn't make the Beast so stupid. He was so scared he kept accidentally mauling me to death on his hideously sharp fangs that are also on fire.
It's all about the Specter Oil, baby. Buy some from Abigail before all the business goes down. It makes that fight cake.
I sure wish fear didn't make the Beast so stupid. He was so scared he kept accidentally mauling me to death on his hideously sharp fangs that are also on fire.
It's all about the Specter Oil, baby. Buy some from Abigail before all the business goes down. It makes that fight cake.
Bah, I made my own spectre oil, thanks.
I was playing on hard though, his paralysing attack always nails you unless you manage to cheese him first with Aard.
I sure wish fear didn't make the Beast so stupid. He was so scared he kept accidentally mauling me to death on his hideously sharp fangs that are also on fire.
It's all about the Specter Oil, baby. Buy some from Abigail before all the business goes down. It makes that fight cake.
Bah, I made my own spectre oil, thanks.
I was playing on hard though, his paralysing attack always nails you unless you manage to cheese him first with Aard.
Ah, hard mode, haven't tried that yet. Maybe for my next playthrough. Where'd you get the specter oil recipe? I'm near the end of Chapter 2 and still haven't seen it.
So... been reading this thread a bit and I'm kind of curious. How much would I want to shoot myself trying to play this on a computer with 512 RAM and a video card that has even less RAM than that?
So... been reading this thread a bit and I'm kind of curious. How much would I want to shoot myself trying to play this on a computer with 512 RAM and a video card that has even less RAM than that?
min sys reqs:
windows xp/vista
pentium 4 2.4ghz/athlon 64 +2800
1024mb ram
128mb video RAM or greater with dx9 vertex shader/pixel shader 2.0 support (nvidia geforce 6600 or ati radeon 9800 or better)
8.5gb free hdd space.
So... been reading this thread a bit and I'm kind of curious. How much would I want to shoot myself trying to play this on a computer with 512 RAM and a video card that has even less RAM than that?
I would not recommend it. The game seems very poorly optimised, with lots of framerate stuttering and such. I just finished Crysis and Crysis: Warhead, I played both of them with everything set to max, and I generally got a smoother framerate than with this.
I'm not saying that you need a Quad Core or an i7 to play this, because you don't. Not even nearly. But I wouldn't even try to run the game with less than system requirements. I doubt I'd bother with less than the recommended hardware.
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So I just bought this on Steam, and maybe I'm missing it, but is there an option to change the spoken language from English in the Steam version? I'm not very far into the game and the voice acting is making my head hurt. None of the VA's have any kind of inflection or emotion...
So I just bought this on Steam, and maybe I'm missing it, but is there an option to change the spoken language from English in the Steam version? I'm not very far into the game and the voice acting is making my head hurt. None of the VA's have any kind of inflection or emotion...
I'm almost certain that the steam version you have is the Enhanced Edition - if not, not only is the woice acting considerably worse, there's no official support for mulitple languages. If you do have the EE, it should have been one of the options at install - you check the boxes for the languages you want, although they might all be selected by default.
Then you simply go into the sound options from the menu screen, and drag the slider for 'language' across to another language - Polish would obviously be preferred if you want the 'classic' VA.
For what it's worth, I'd persist with the voice acting until at least partway into Chapter 1 - the VA in the prologue is emotionless because it's almost exclusively between serious, serious people. Things perk up dramatically with the various NPCs in the following chapters, but is obviously up to you.
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Yeah, I got the Enhanced version. But given that it was through Steam, there was no traditional "install" process, and I wasn't given the option to decide what languages to include. I checked the Audio options, but didn't see anywhere to change the dialogue.
I guess I'll stick with it. These people are terrible, though. It's like they don't know the meaning or context of the words they're reading and no one bothered explaining it to them. The dude who plays Geralt actually has a cool voice, but he's so utterly deadpan, it ruins it.
I sure wish fear didn't make the Beast so stupid. He was so scared he kept accidentally mauling me to death on his hideously sharp fangs that are also on fire.
It's all about the Specter Oil, baby. Buy some from Abigail before all the business goes down. It makes that fight cake.
Bah, I made my own spectre oil, thanks.
I was playing on hard though, his paralysing attack always nails you unless you manage to cheese him first with Aard.
Ah, hard mode, haven't tried that yet. Maybe for my next playthrough. Where'd you get the specter oil recipe? I'm near the end of Chapter 2 and still haven't seen it.
Couldn't remember so I looked it up. Apparently Abigail will sell you the recipe so that must be where I got it from.
In chapter 2, don't know. Abigail isn't around so who knows. There might be a book or scroll with one of the vendors.
I haven't played it in a while but I'm sure somewhere in options you can change the language.
You actually download separate language packs from their website - there're so many lines in witcher that to include every language they have would be like fourish gigs IIRC, so they have you pick and choose. I have been told that they work on the steam version.
When I first downloaded the game off of steam, I set it to Polish with English subs and played it for a few hours. When I came back to it later, it was back in English.
I think the steam version comes with at least English and Polish VA (possibly more), but the game likely automatically sets the language based on whatever steam or Windows is set to.
This is the most annoying game to even approach running. Even downloading the demo was awful. Having done a bit of the demo, though, I think I want to get this when I get a new computer. It's interesting, but it runs like lead and looks like crap on my current one.
How is the Enhanced Edition different from the Unenhanced one?
The significant changes featured in the enhanced version are over 200 new animations, additional NPC models and recoloring of generic NPC models as well as monsters, vastly expanded and corrected dialogues in translated versions, improved stability, redesigned inventory system and load times reduced by roughly 80%. In addition all bugs are said to be fixed and the game manual completely overhauled. There are also two new adventures available to play through: Side Effects and The Price of Neutrality. A new option is to mix and match ten different languages of voice and subtitles. For instance, players can now choose to play the game with Polish voices and English subtitles. Other featured languages are Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Czech, Hungarian and Chinese.
This is the most annoying game to even approach running. Even downloading the demo was awful. Having done a bit of the demo, though, I think I want to get this when I get a new computer. It's interesting, but it runs like lead and looks like crap on my current one.
How is the Enhanced Edition different from the Unenhanced one?
I won't disagree about it running poorly, because it sometimes struggles on my brand new computer which is pretty damn good. However, if/when you get a computer that can handle it, I definitely recommend it. Once I got it running, I had so much fun with it, and the moral system is exactly what I want a lot more games to use.
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price of neutrality is pretty good, haven't played much of side effects so i dont know about that.
I was all about helping the Squirrels right up until
Think I'm almost done with the swamp - that was a hell of an experience. I discovered the awesomeness of upgraded Igni and killed slews of drowners and bloedzuigers. I appeased the fishy gods and got freaky with a naked plant lady. I even killed a cannibal and his army of magically-appearing plant avengers. Good times had by all.
Now if I only I could find that last stupid sephira, the one I'm supposed to come upon "by chance."
Surprisingly not as horror oriented as it was marketed--the isometric perspective helps me quite a bit in that department. I'm normally very affected by anything with the slightest bit of eerie atmosphere, but I was ambushed by a ghoul and barely blinked. Also, the sorcerer girl has DOA levels of jiggle.
I think the long hours of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic have helped me on this--I'm not only a huge wimp in the face of the supernatural, but also with spiders.
Roughly 2/3 of my playtime on DMMM was being attacked by spiders.
Wait until you get to the swamp. Especially at night.
Playing it as an isometric game kinda sucked the life out of it for me, though. 3rd person mode all the way!
Time to hunt up trophies.
Quickload spam over here.
Yes it's cheap, but man those freaking books are expensive.
Luckily I have the books from chapter 1 already. I think I'll go hunt the two trophies and the ghouls and build up cash, then take all mine back from that bastard dwarf.
Same here. I started the game in iso and quickly switched to 3rd person. Works way better for me.
I'm going to have to go on a dice run here soon. I've been mostly broke-ish ever since buying all the books I needed in Chapter 2, and that armor looks nooooice. Also, forging swords from meteorites of different colors - yes or no? I have 2 reds and a blue, trying to decide if I should wait for a third red or a better sword to reforge or whatnot.
Is it possible to get three runes for my silver sword in Chapter 2? I have two and can't seem to find anymore.
Silver I'm going to do the same, there's a badass silver sword for helping the lady of the lake in chapter 4.
I couldn't find any runes for silver swords until much later.
Then why don't they leave me alone?
:P
It's all about the Specter Oil, baby. Buy some from Abigail before all the business goes down. It makes that fight cake.
Bah, I made my own spectre oil, thanks.
I was playing on hard though, his paralysing attack always nails you unless you manage to cheese him first with Aard.
It's so wonderfully... off.
The whole idea of everything, so great.
Ah, hard mode, haven't tried that yet. Maybe for my next playthrough. Where'd you get the specter oil recipe? I'm near the end of Chapter 2 and still haven't seen it.
windows xp/vista
pentium 4 2.4ghz/athlon 64 +2800
1024mb ram
128mb video RAM or greater with dx9 vertex shader/pixel shader 2.0 support (nvidia geforce 6600 or ati radeon 9800 or better)
8.5gb free hdd space.
I would not recommend it. The game seems very poorly optimised, with lots of framerate stuttering and such. I just finished Crysis and Crysis: Warhead, I played both of them with everything set to max, and I generally got a smoother framerate than with this.
I'm not saying that you need a Quad Core or an i7 to play this, because you don't. Not even nearly. But I wouldn't even try to run the game with less than system requirements. I doubt I'd bother with less than the recommended hardware.
sketchyblargh / Steam! / Tumblr Prime
I'm almost certain that the steam version you have is the Enhanced Edition - if not, not only is the woice acting considerably worse, there's no official support for mulitple languages. If you do have the EE, it should have been one of the options at install - you check the boxes for the languages you want, although they might all be selected by default.
Then you simply go into the sound options from the menu screen, and drag the slider for 'language' across to another language - Polish would obviously be preferred if you want the 'classic' VA.
For what it's worth, I'd persist with the voice acting until at least partway into Chapter 1 - the VA in the prologue is emotionless because it's almost exclusively between serious, serious people. Things perk up dramatically with the various NPCs in the following chapters, but is obviously up to you.
I guess I'll stick with it. These people are terrible, though. It's like they don't know the meaning or context of the words they're reading and no one bothered explaining it to them. The dude who plays Geralt actually has a cool voice, but he's so utterly deadpan, it ruins it.
sketchyblargh / Steam! / Tumblr Prime
Couldn't remember so I looked it up. Apparently Abigail will sell you the recipe so that must be where I got it from.
In chapter 2, don't know. Abigail isn't around so who knows. There might be a book or scroll with one of the vendors.
You actually download separate language packs from their website - there're so many lines in witcher that to include every language they have would be like fourish gigs IIRC, so they have you pick and choose. I have been told that they work on the steam version.
I think the steam version comes with at least English and Polish VA (possibly more), but the game likely automatically sets the language based on whatever steam or Windows is set to.
You need to register your game on their website first, and then you should see the links to download it all: http://www.thewitcher.com/registration/
How is the Enhanced Edition different from the Unenhanced one?
I won't disagree about it running poorly, because it sometimes struggles on my brand new computer which is pretty damn good. However, if/when you get a computer that can handle it, I definitely recommend it. Once I got it running, I had so much fun with it, and the moral system is exactly what I want a lot more games to use.