I've just started playing this game and I'm enjoying the fantasy world quite a lot. It seems coarse, unpleasant and very medieval, but still spiced up with some exotic monsters and arcane magics. I'm just not impressed with the countless cutscenes filled with mediocre acting (though this the Enhanced Edition and is considered better in that regard). Love the high isometric mode, though, it's just like a 1990s CRPG should be.
Has anyone here completed the game? Worth playing to the end? How does it stack up against Baldur's Gate, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights, etc.?
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Well damn... I just looked this up and it sounds sweet! Too bad I don't have a powerful enough computer... :(Don't worry they are porting Witcher over to X-Box 360.
I am still a little confused on this fully...But it is not a port... All new engine, better graphics *which is pissing off PC gamers* Even the developers insist it is not a port.
I am still unsure how much of the story will be the same.. but I think most of it will be
better graphics *which is pissing off PC gamers* Even the developers insist it is not a port.
Extremely unlikely that a 3-year-old xbox360 would have better graphics than a modern videocard on a PC system.
While I do have the game I haven't got around to playing it yet. However, I am reading The Last Wish, the first of the source material books to be published in english. Not bad so far.
Is The Last Wish comparable to Forgotten Realms novels or something better like George Martin or Fritz Leiber?
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better graphics *which is pissing off PC gamers* Even the developers insist it is not a port.Extremely unlikely that a 3-year-old xbox360 would have better graphics than a modern videocard on a PC system.
Well it does...
Don't forget.. Witcher is using a very old Engine... It is tweeked.. but still old.. The new Engine they are making for the 360 has better graphics... they could do more with the new engine on a PC, but it will be Console only.
The engine can only be as good as how many polygons and textures the GPU can pump out, and the 360 GPU is very old by modern video card standards. I guess it depends on how many limits the Aurora engine placed on hardware and whether it still limits newer GPUs.
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The engine can only be as good as how many polygons and textures the GPU can pump out, and the 360 GPU is very old by modern video card standards. I guess it depends on how many limits the Aurora engine placed on hardware and whether it still limits newer GPUs.
Aurora engine is a 7 year old Engine, it was originally made for the GPU standards of that time, It can not do the things Newer Engines can do, for example the Steam Engine, which does work on on the Xbox 360. Now the Engine has been tweaked since then to give it greater capability and it was last updated by Bioware in 2006, but even then it can't compare to what Newer engines can do.
The new engine they are making for the Witcher Console version is a much stronger engine made specifically to take advantage of the console.
The Console version will have better graphics.
The Devs even admit to that.. Though to give them credit they did amazing things with the Aurora engine, with their own tweaks, they can still only go so far with it.
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Let me make something clear..
I am not saying a PC can't have better graphics then the Xbox 360, I know it can.. What I am saying is that because The Withcer was made with Old tech it did not take advantage of what a PC can do and the graphics where not as great as it could have been with a better engine..
The Newer Engine can, and does.
Fair enough, I didn't realize the Aurora engine was that old. In that case you're right, it becomes the limiting factor, not the hardware.
So what did you think of the game?
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Fair enough, I didn't realize the Aurora engine was that old. In that case you're right, it becomes the limiting factor, not the hardware.
So what did you think of the game?
Good Question...
Loved it!!!!... But once I got to the Swamp I was geting sick and tired of the respawning...
I might get back into the Game when they come out with the 360 version..
Oh there will be Downloadable Content for the 360 version.
Is The Last Wish comparable to Forgotten Realms novels or something better like George Martin or Fritz Leiber?
Somewhere between, I think. Although, now that you mention it, something about the book does remind me of Leiber. Can't quite put my finger on what, though.
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Is The Last Wish comparable to Forgotten Realms novels or something better like George Martin or Fritz Leiber?Somewhere between, I think. Although, now that you mention it, something about the book does remind me of Leiber. Can't quite put my finger on what, though.
Maybe it's the alcohol and drug use, the prodigious amounts of prostitutes and the overall gloominess of the world in general.
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Maybe it's the alcohol and drug use, the prodigious amounts of prostitutes and the overall gloominess of the world in general.Is The Last Wish comparable to Forgotten Realms novels or something better like George Martin or Fritz Leiber?Somewhere between, I think. Although, now that you mention it, something about the book does remind me of Leiber. Can't quite put my finger on what, though.
Wow... Sounds like my life!!..
Wait...no... that is not true! ;-)
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Has anyone here completed the game? Worth playing to the end? How does it stack up against Baldur's Gate, Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights, etc.?
I have completed the game, and it is just excellent to the end. long, consistent, action-packed, fun, Just perfect.
I think it is better than Oblivion on some aspects as it it more punchy, and the main plot is always relevant.
It is comparable in enjoyment for me to Baldur's Gate, though it's me.
The novels are good. They remind me of the Grimm's Tales : definitely sinister.
Love it.
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Fair enough, I didn't realize the Aurora engine was that old. In that case you're right, it becomes the limiting factor, not the hardware.
So what did you think of the game?
Good Question...
Loved it!!!!... But once I got to the Swamp I was geting sick and tired of the respawning...
Same Here, I didn;t even finish it. I got real bored with it. Even the storyline was pretty straightforward. I think a big thing that made it hard for me to keep going was the long load times. I played most of it before the first patch came out and got tired of waiting over a min everytime I walked into a building. Especially since all the quest were mailmen quest. That and everything starts to look the same after a bit. All the building, the trees, etc..
There's an article over at Gamespot that this console version has been cancelled, and the remaining developers are instead working on the sequel. Not official news yet, but the sources cited seem pretty credible.
That's bad news for me as I don't have a PC, so now I'll likely never play the 1st game.