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Post by Elliot Kane on Oct 28, 2007 1:24:28 GMT
Apparently, the protagonist you play in this game gets tail. A lot of tail. According to another forum, there're nearly twenty women with whom the Witcher can have sex with. I'm hugely amused. Good grief! I wonder if there's a VD stat? ;D
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Post by Winterfox on Oct 28, 2007 19:17:15 GMT
I don't know, but I do know that you er... get collecting cards in-game from having sex (the cards being art of the woman in question. Explicit art, though it's tasteful). But if they want to be as gritty and edgy as they advertise the game to be, they should include STDs, yeah?
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Post by Ubereil on Oct 28, 2007 19:37:50 GMT
Witchers are immune to diseases... ;D
Übereil
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Post by Winterfox on Oct 28, 2007 19:41:29 GMT
Oh, doh!
What about women who want him to pay for child support?
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Post by Alrik on Oct 29, 2007 11:22:09 GMT
At Larian Forums, Buad posted a first impression. He is quite intrigued by the game, but finds the main character a bit "too cool" for his taste. Since he's an - imho - good critique of role playing as such, his "first impression" is quite important for me.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Nov 5, 2007 22:41:18 GMT
Having use of my right hand at least, I made a start. It hates my vid card so my load times are dreadful (Yes, with patch) but... I have to say it's great. The best single character RPG I've ever played.
Granted that's damning with faint praise and my initial impression may be WAY off from my final thoughts, but - so far, so good.
Winterfox - Witchers are sterile. They even thought of child support! ;D
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Post by Ubereil on Nov 6, 2007 12:27:06 GMT
I'm more and more starting to regret my decision to wait for this game until I get a new computer. It will be great once I GET my new computer, but the wait is killing me. Especially since I'm trying to get into MotB for the moment with pretty much no success at all. Not to mention that our new router is preventing me from playing DotA, so I'm stuck with nothing but Football Manager for the moment... Übereil
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Post by mysterd on Nov 8, 2007 22:31:04 GMT
I dunno' if anyone heard this yet... But a fair amount of the original script of The Witcher went to the cutting room floor for ALL of the English translations of the game.Namely, so Atari can save money on English voice-acting. Though, if you play w/ the Witcher.INI file, you might be able to turn on the original written dialogue script for the Subtitles, since the file is said to have came w/ the game on the disc. How do you do it? People have said to change the last line in the INI. The one that reads "Language=FinalEnglish_Short" Change it to "Language=FinalEnglish_Long" I tried it on my existing game, didn't work. You might need to start a new game, to get it to work and all. You will notice a major difference in the audio and written subtitles, if you get it going, it has been said. That's if this INI change works -- I dunno. I'll just have to wait and see, if anything else comes up different...if it does... We do know that some of the conversations, such as the one w/ the dwarf blacksmith about "persecutions" in the Outskirts of Vizima area are a little more detailed in its original Polish language and some w/ Shani in the Inn are a little different and more descriptive -- from Polish people that have translated certain Polish lines to English, when comparing it to how the English version of the game is.
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Post by Winterfox on Nov 15, 2007 19:18:45 GMT
I've heard about that, but also heard that changing that bit in the ini file doesn't do much:
No, changing the ini file does nothing, as the subtitles are manually in the 2da00.bif file, and they are all FinalEnglish_Short. I went into the dialog00.bif file and started to copy the FinalEnglish dialogs in, (interesting tidbit: there is also an "English" script, which is different from the other two scripts) which resulted in the game crashing. As I didn't make a backup, I have to restart the game. Again, waiting for the toolset so I can do this in a stable fashion.
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Post by mysterd on Nov 16, 2007 21:46:47 GMT
Witchers are sterile. They even thought of child support! ;D That's definitely mentioned in your conversation w/ Morenn The Dryad...
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Post by Elliot Kane on Nov 23, 2007 3:05:47 GMT
Witchers are sterile. They even thought of child support! ;D That's definitely mentioned in your conversation w/ Morenn The Dryad... And at the start by the head Witcher in "What are the drawbacks?" convo. *** Gotta say I am loving this game. It's just hard enough without being too hard and a lot of the quests are not just cookie-cutter 'if it moves kill it' or item recovery. There's a real sense that what you are doing affects others and the world you live in, with your decisions really making a huge long term difference in many cases. The loading times are obscene and it still needs a bit of patching in other places here and there but overall - probably my game of the year. Not that I'm done yet. RSI = slowness, as I have to keep taking breaks. But overall it's sheer brilliance, if somewhat bleak. Definitely see why it's 18 rated, though.
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Post by Ubereil on Nov 23, 2007 8:18:04 GMT
Because those under 18 needs something to look forward do lest they'll commit suicide?
BTW, I'm REALLY looking forward to buying my new computer. ;D
Übereil
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Post by mysterd on Nov 26, 2007 2:57:04 GMT
I'm in Chap 5 of Witcher -- yes, it's outstanding.
Load times are nasty, Inventory needs some sorting option -- which they plan to address w/ Patch 1.2, thankfully.
Sometimes, for me, game's framerate take a dive when too much is happening on-screen -- namely, Chapter 5 in Old Vizima.
Minor complaints for an other-wise amazing game.
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Post by Winterfox on Dec 20, 2007 18:16:13 GMT
The game so far looks pretty cool, it's a good way of passing time when my internet fails again ;D Reminds me a bit of Divine Divinity Now that I've played the game--oh hell no. TW is a lot more mature, more complex, and offers far more in ways of roleplaying. It's a really good game, and has kept my attention for much longer than any other recent titles, which is saying something. However, I can't help but constantly feel that it's such an appeal to testosterone in a nutshell: Geralt is a white-haired morally ambiguous badass (hihi, Russian author who wrote the books? I think Moorcock may want a word with you) who likely gets more sex than most players will ever get in their entire lives. He is a man's man in every way, rugged looks, stubbles, deep voice and all. Yes, thoroughly heterosexual, of course, of course; such a masculine manly man could not possibly be bi. While I enjoy playing it, I can't help but snicker a little at all the "buy me, pimple-faced fifteen-year-old (and older!) males who would like to play a wish-fulfillment fantasy writ large!" vibes that practically ooze from the game's every pore. Granted, most RPGs are about wish fulfillment, giving the player the role of some all-important heroic chosen one or suchlike surrounded by faithful minions followers, but this takes it to a new height with the sheer frequency of sex. (By the time you leave the outskirts of Vizima, you may have already banged three women raw. All redheads with perfectly pert breasts and perfectly pale-pink aerolae, naturally.)
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Post by Elliot Kane on Dec 20, 2007 18:25:14 GMT
I gotta admit I found the blatant male fantasy fulfillment amusing. It's almost to the point of parody, after all. At one point I thought the hair was colour coding for gamer convenience: if it's red haired you can sleep with it; if not you can't ;D
Doesn't really detract from the gameplay or the story, though. I did get the feeling it's not a game designed with any expectation that women would ever play it, however.
And yeah, the obvious Elric rip was utterly blatant.
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Post by Winterfox on Dec 20, 2007 18:51:29 GMT
Doesn't really detract from the gameplay or the story, though. I did get the feeling it's not a game designed with any expectation that women would ever play it, however. Yeah. While Bioware may have spat out a few crappy titles and may be entirely too politically correct, they do actually acknowledge the fact that not all women play Barbie games and The Sims exclusively. It's not even the fact that Geralt is male; TNO from PS:T is male--and heterosexual, in this incarnation anyway--too, but I never got the feeling that PS:T sets out to appeal to hormonally charged teenagers with a hankering for badassery, vaginas and breasts. Even if TNO is quite manly (though I do recall an instance where he sheds tears, omg wut a[Censored]amirite). The Witcher is mature in that it deals with interesting, gray moral choices, but when it comes to the whole wish fulfillment thing, it's absolutely puerile.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Dec 20, 2007 19:02:58 GMT
It's rather like I would expect a James Bond game to be if they ever made one that truly reflected the films. The women seem to form an orderly queue when the main character enters the room - but only the hot ones, obviously! To me as a guy it's incredibly amusing. If I were a woman, I may well find it less so - or more so. Could go either way
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Post by Winterfox on Dec 20, 2007 19:19:04 GMT
I'm halfway between amused and exasperated, in an eye-rolling kind of way. I imagine some female gamers may even find the whole thing somewhat offensive.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Dec 20, 2007 19:23:40 GMT
Highly likely.
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Post by Winterfox on Dec 20, 2007 19:33:52 GMT
I'm not offended, but only because I've given up caring about sexism/misogyny in videogames--or any other entertainment industry--a very long time ago. That and some male gamers do find the whole sex card thing quite tacky and juvenile, though of course they're the minority.
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