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I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. (eviltoast.org)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Steam had the entire Witcher series on sale for a few dollars. I bought everything for the first 3 games.

There was some discussion of it at the time, and folks seem to agree that the first one in the series sucks hard.
As that seemed to be the worst plan, I went with it.

Yes. "It's rough." I guess the engine and content have gotten some backports and extensions. I'm not sure if you could ~~play other characters besides Geralt before, but now you can~~. (EDIT ... Sorry, this seems to be BS. My bad.) They updated the graphics a lot. Its not great, but I think they fixed most of the really bad problems.

I don't know about the story. Seems pretty awful. Awkward acting. Its been fun just trying to play the damn thing.

Um ... I sort of like it. Gonna play some more now ...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

It's been a while since I have disagreed so hard with anyone. With all due respect of course, can't really debate taste.

I disagree with the story being awful or awkward acting. Story is the best one of out the 3 (if you don't count Witcher 3's DLCs, those were superb.) and has the most innovative story quests. Also, not to spoil too much, but your decisions in that game actually affect the entire world and story a lot, what you do in act 2 can change the entire story, my mate and I had completely different stories because of what we decided in act 2, and I have to respect that. Not like that Mass Effect kind of "you were evil or whatever, which colour do you want as your ending?"

I agree, combat is terrible, engine is terrible, everything is unintuitive and clunky. I'd say for the best experience, drop difficulty to the easiest one and play for the story. Also, change voice acting to Polish, I can't stand Geralt in English in any of the games (Sorry Doug, cool guy, doesn't fit as Geralt IMO.) and the Polish really adds to the atmosphere, kinda like playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Russian.

After a dwarf in the slums told me that my mother sucks dwarf cocks in hell, I haven't been the same as a person.

Good for you to give it a go even though it's pretty rough by today's standards. Totally worth it, love the game even with it's massive faults.

[–] howrar 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I didn't expect my decisions to actually affect anything when I played it. Big surprise when I just clicked every dialogue option and things went poorly.

You can also load your save file into the second game and have that affect the story in minor ways, which I thought was pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

And then you can do the same with the third game too. It’s really neat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Yes! I honestly enjoyed it when I tried the last dialog option and NPCs started telling me to 'go plow myself'.

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