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The Witcher

post #1 of 13
12/29/07 at 6:17am
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Haven't seen anybody mention this game.

Reminds me a lot of Oblivion,but much more interesting,I find it a bit cryptic in some bits and get a bit lost with which quest I should be doing first etc but thats probably my lack of RPG experience.

It has some pretty different character interaction like sex and getting drunk which is pretty funny.

Anybody else had a go at it ? I reckon its pretty good for a change.
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post #2 of 13
12/30/07 at 8:25am
ye man this game looks wicked , its got very respectable reviews all around the board , i have it but havnt had the chance to play it ..i know i would need to burn alot of hours on the game so will get into it soon ..

a polish fella was behind the game , i like the look of the main character ..like an older dante
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post #3 of 13
12/30/07 at 4:47pm
Witcher got the RPG game of the year award in gamespy and a few mor well known sites...pretty good game if u're into RPG...nice combat mode too but drags a lot dont you think?
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post #4 of 13
12/30/07 at 11:01pm
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Originally Posted by Semtex-Projectz View Post
ye man this game looks wicked , its got very respectable reviews all around the board , i have it but havnt had the chance to play it ..i know i would need to burn alot of hours on the game so will get into it soon ..

a polish fella was behind the game , i like the look of the main character ..like an older dante

I've burned a fair few hours on it already.....good value for money compared to the FPS I usually play....and yeah,Geralt's da man

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Witcher got the RPG game of the year award in gamespy and a few mor well known sites...pretty good game if u're into RPG...nice combat mode too but drags a lot dont you think?
Well,I'm not into RPG's at all really,and I'm really getting into it....so far

I found the combat pretty different to start with,but once I read the instructions it became more effective,I suppose they were trying to make differences to the normal hack n slash type of gameplay,although I liked the combat system in dark messiah more.
Are you saying the sword fights drag on too long?
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post #5 of 13
12/31/07 at 8:23am
NO,no.....not the swordfights....theyre fun to play.I was talking about the game as such ...its got too many cinematics within too small a time frame....and loading takes a bit too long...just enough to irritate me at times...
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post #6 of 13
12/31/07 at 11:03am
how well does it run for you gerry on the 8600gt ? i havnt started it mainly due to me having lack of confidence in my current 7600gt..very soon ill either have the cards/machine my sig up and running and will hopefully get to enjoy this and many games
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post #7 of 13
12/31/07 at 9:55pm
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NO,no.....not the swordfights....theyre fun to play.I was talking about the game as such ...its got too many cinematics within too small a time frame....and loading takes a bit too long...just enough to irritate me at times...
I definitely agree with what your saying at the start of the game,there was a huge amount of cinematics early on but not soo many later on or where I am now [swamp].....I have no idea how far through the game I am,but if you've finished it,you would have a better idea than me on the overall picture

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how well does it run for you gerry on the 8600gt ? i havnt started it mainly due to me having lack of confidence in my current 7600gt..very soon ill either have the cards/machine my sig up and running and will hopefully get to enjoy this and many games
When I first installed the game it defaulted to WSXGA and everything maxed......it wasn't playable LOL

I find it playable with no AA/AF on either native res mixed with mostly low settings or 1440x900 with medium settings or 1280x800 with mainly high quality.
I would think your desktop 7600GT would do better than that,I say just play it on what you have now,then be impressed with your new hardware when its sorted out...hehe

It seems a pretty good looking game,even on mediocre hardware......it might not be as shadertastic as oblivion,but the textures and character models are light years ahead IMHO
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post #8 of 13
1/4/08 at 7:00pm
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Mmmm,getting on in the game [chapter 3 trade district]am finding frame rates are forcing me to reduce to 1024x768 and lower settings

must try some different drivers....friggin loading times are getting longer and longer too?
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post #9 of 13
1/5/08 at 3:02am
ill give feedback on how it works on mine soon .. i installed oblivion the other day .. heard alot of hype never really played it before..but it looks pretty cool and it plays pretty cool on medium gfx cards ..you shud check it out gerry if you havnt played it before ..elder scrolls oblivion !! when i noticed theres 3rd person view option i gave it a go and it does look v nice
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post #10 of 13
1/5/08 at 9:39pm
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Have had a couple of goes at Oblivion,personally found it very boring,and after playing the witcher,probably even more so....will probably install it again when I have nothing to play.

Look forward to your comments on the witcher when you install it.

Tried a couple of different drivers 169.09 & 169.04 and it didn't improve framerates at all,had a few crashes to desktop though,only seems to be bad in the outdoors of the the trade district,almost seems like I don't have enough ram or something because lowering or raising resolution and settings doesn't really make a huge difference and it doesn't act like normal graphics jerkiness,more like a type of hard drive paging stuttering.
I did read somewhere that they had problems with memory leaks in this game.
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post #11 of 13
1/8/08 at 8:56pm
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Using 167.26 now and has improved performance quite a bit....no crashes yet.
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post #12 of 13
1/9/08 at 5:57am
Yeh i think memory is important with games like these , if your 8600gt has 512mb i think you could play it maxed out ..the res i got is 1070x768 or something ..get 30 fps ..textures on medium .everything else maxed.. very good looking game..like the custom character option at the start..was going for the long silver hair look but changed it to crop last second ..heard so much about this game and reviews ..never played anything like it before i dont kno what to expect !! i can remember buying a copy for the x360 but it was a scammer on ebay who scammed 50 other pple and never got round to playing it and also never got my money back fully = (

Drivers are extremly important and also background programs that cud be running .. i always turn off objectdock plus and winfx before i play a game or else it stutters ..cant wait to get a dual core system asap
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post #13 of 13
1/10/08 at 1:26am
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Ya,it is a great looking game,I can't believe how much I've been playing it,and I've only started level 5,sort of reminds me of the old tomb raider games for PS1 in length......luckily been on holiday for a few weeks,otherwise I don't think I would have had the time to get into a game like this.

Bad luck with the scammer man
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