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naa, more lie abab
And uphill both ways?
And in snowstorm. Without shoes.
And carrying a sack of bricks
Lead bricks.
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Thror
I have finished playing the Witcher (1 if anyone wondered, 2 didnt release yet) yesterday! GOD was the ending good as hell. I couldnt fall asleep for about an hour cause i kept thinking about the plot.
Speaking of falling asleep, i wanted to check in what position i wake up today and forgot to. Snap! Anyway...
Gosh Witcher is such a perplexing game. The story was really good and well written, the world was also pretty good, buuuuut the game mechanics were
SO
clunky... i really loved the Alchemy system for example (like REEEAAALLY loved, i dig alchemy and i dig well done alchemy systems even more), but there could be a few tiny bits where the interface could be improved a little and some things that were tedious about alchemy would magically become fine. Also about 100% of the time while i was out there fighting, i
had
to worry about my inventory space. It just kept filling up with crap, and if i didn't fill it with crap, i had the entire view littered with annoying container notifications like "Remains" or "Barrel" (which would disappear if i emptied them). Yeah the Witcher has taught me that i do not really leave the world clean as i pass, but it also made me curse myself for picking up a honey i might have eaten later when i wanted to pick up a new type of alcohol for potions, or an interesting rune for sword enchanting.
Also the Czech dubbing made me want to mix holy water with acid and pour it into my ears, and then set Czech republic on fire. It felt like it was dubbed by six people. What's even worse, they picked Czech actors with voices that really
aren't
generic, and that i know well from other Czech-voiced things (movies, cartoons), so every time it just hit me straight in the face if that was the actor one, two or three. And to make the Geralt sound different, they made him sound like Batman (random throat cancer). Also what was EXTREMELY blatantly obvious from the dubbing... the actors just got a whole lot of lines to voice, AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW THE CONTEXT. Whats even worse... they were GUESSING it! So yeah, you have Geralt being all smooth and wanting to bed a gurl and when he says (something like) "Why? Tell me!" the actor says it in the "SPILL IT OUT IMMEDIATELY OR I CUT YOU WITH MY SWORD" voice! ARGH.
What else was bad
COMBAT
. Yeah that was a totally bad idea from the start, you just whip out yer blaed and click on something. Then Geralt does a combo. Then you click again in about 1,5 seconds (when you sword cursor flashes), and then Geralt does another combo. And so on. So the combat from the players side looks like: Click.... click.... click... click.... /scratchballs... click. WITH ONE HAND. Nooooooooo. You can also do spells like <invulnerability> and <kill everything>. Yeah, what is considered cheats in other games is spells in the Witcher. Oh okay maybe i just accidentally bumped into a character build that is completely undefeatable and beats the difficulty to a pulp.
What was also quite tedious was the day/night system, and the travel system, related to quests. Some quests can only be completed at night, some can only be completed during the day. You can only fast-forward time in a few select locations. There are TONS of quests that work in the "fetch quest" way. I am not simply calling them fetch quests, because frankly, the quests storylines and stuff are quite
good
and i don't think they deserve such a demeaning name, but let me tell you... it often took a minimum of 3 loading screens plus a LOT of running around to go from place A to place B. Now if you can only complete the quest when it is midnight by the time you reach place B, and it is day while you are in place A, you have to go to a sleep place. That easilly doubles the amount of loading screens you have to go through. Now if the person at B tells you to go back to A, guess what, all the loading screens and walking again. I do not think i am making !@#$ up when i say that i think i spent 40% of the game doing dialogues, combat, and alchemy, while 60% of the game time were dedicated to running between places, trying to find the place where i was supposed to run, running to a place where i can fast-forward time, being disappointed when i found out that i found the right place, but am there at the wrong time and either have to wait a lifetime or run aaallllll the way back to a rest place... you get the point.
Anyway, the game overall was still pretty badass, and i would recommend it. The leveling system was really good and i kept looking forwards to getting levels, and i just fell in love with all the alchemy. Plus you could run around, give women candy and they would give you... themselves... in trade, and each time you bedded a woman you got a "card" with a nude pic on it. (Sexistic? Incorrect? Shallow? Fun too.) The Witcher also has the grimmest and darkest fantasy setting ever. It is so dark it makes Dragon Age look like My Little Pony. Planescape Torment could beg to differ, but hey, while Planescape could be the darkest setting ever, it was all super-high-fantasy. So Witcher still could take the cake as the grimmest and darkest "realistic" fantasy setting.
FUN FACT: I have had the Witcher on my pc for about 7 ages, and lately i have been chatting with one new girl, and she told me she played the Witcher. As in, completed it. And by the time, i didn't. So i was like
HELL NAW GURL
and played through it in three days.
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Thror
THROR
Interrupting quote pyramids with walls'o'text since 2008.
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LookOut
THROR
Interrupting quote pyramids with walls'o'text since 2008.
Ooooooooooh you're no fun anymore!
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THROR
Interrupting quote pyramids with walls'o'text since 2008.
Ooooooooooh you're no fun anymore!
The pyramid! It rises again! All hail the dark lord Pyramidzorz!
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Thror
Eh, you know what Nnoutaja, i have come to a conclusion that the plot twist at the very end of the Witcher is
so good
, that the entire game is worth playing just to see that. Even if it was all agony and pain for you. Because the twist at the end is really awesome. I am talking Bioshock awesome here, high stakes. You are like... oh okay i guess its endgame time now, let's see, huh what is this... wait... could it be... OH CRAP... NO WAY!... IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!...
I CAN SEE FOREVER
! And then you try to sleep, but you can't!
Ha.
And srsly, the alchemy was soooo good. Also being a spellcasting-specced Geralt was so much more fun than just a sword user. Even though the spells ended up being superpowerful. At the end of the game, before every large fight, i drank an Albedo Maribor Forest, Nigredo Pethri's Philter, Rubedo Swallow, Tawny Owl and by the end-game when i ran out of ingredients for rubedo swallows i used a rubedo Wolf with a normal Swallow. Also smeared Argentia over my silver sword and used diamond dust or rune of Perun on my steel sword. The buffing and preparation for fights was easilly one of my most favorite. With all the potions i have listed, my energy regenerated flash-fast, i had tons of it, and my fire and shield signs were buffed into obscene levels. I also tended to seek sources of power to do the ritual that boosts signs even more.
Also what you say about decisions... um. There were no bad decisions? Never had an urge to go back in time and change anything. You can not make a decision that will make you unable to finish the game, and i assure you that you can not make a decision that you would not regret later in the game. That is how the game is built, to lead you into decisions, and to make you carry the burden of consequences, whichever decision you picked. That is the beauty of a world that is morally gray. You never picked between
good
and
evil
. You picked between two evils, and you chose which one you see as the lesser evil.
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LookOut
Magicka finished in co-op! *highfives Thror*
Some fights make me shiver though when I think how I'd have to handle them solo. *thinks of the oneshotting yetis*
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Thror
And yeah we totally completed Magicka with Lookout yesterday. Fun game, definitely made me chuckle a few times.
The difficulty of common fights went sharply down once i learned to summon an elemental every second though.
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LookOut
The difficulty of common fights went sharply down once i learned to summon an elemental every second though.
Haha yeah that was awesome xD Fire lizards? Just summon a few elementals and give them the cold element! wtfpwnage!
The one thing that is sad about co-op though is losing your weapons when you die. There's loads of occasions where you can't retrieve them, like falling down a pit or dying right before a cutscene that brings you to the next stage ...
I do love my M60 machine gun in the solo adventure ^_^ I totally have to try out adding an element to it tonight :D
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Odd, Call to arms didn't show up in my dungeon finder on patch day ...
... Oh well, haven't even attempted the new dungeons yet (almost did it last night, but my guildies needed a tank for the timed run, and I don't know the tactics yet so ... yeah :p).
Tomorrow's the day!
Also, drooling all over the 4.2 announcement :D
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