Well, the gaming „journalists” did it again.
The Witcher has nothing to do with “old school” RPG’s, it’s as next-gen as it gets. The game was based on the novels of Sapkowski, which were intended as post-modern anti-fantasy and ridiculed almost every fantasy cliché in existence. The same way, the games took a deconstructive approach with their design, that went against most of the classical RPG mechanics. If you look past the fedex quests from the first game, you clearly see, that CDP tried to stray as far as possible from typical D&D’esque character progression, turn based tactical combat and goody-two-shoes vs. renegade binary choices. In the second game the differences are even stronger. It definitely is a breath of fresh air in the somewhat stale genre. Or it would have been, had the whole industry not been going down the simplified action adventure way.
At least the plot of Witcher stands out from the see of mediocrity that is modern game writing. And the gameplay, while not tactical, is still pure fun. Seriously, if only some other developers (may they remain nameless) took notes and delivered at least 1/10 th of CDP’s level.
This is what potato landers
actually believe.
Exalted leader, are you by any chance implying that TWicher is an old school RPG classic on par with Ultima or Eye of the Beholder? Does not compute - somebody must have slipped something into my coffee again.
On a serious note, I actually do believe, that TWicher has better writing than most modern games (i.e. post 2002/3). The English version may be very bland in comparison to the original - a lot gets lost in translation, as Slavic languages are highly synthetic and have a different structure so some content cannot be transferred into English. Still the dialogs feel fresh, the plot is okayish and the character presentation is deeper than in your garden variety dating sim.
And what do we get in other modern games? Bethesda – Morowind, Oblivion, Skyrim – Boooring! Same old story in almost the same setting. No, wait, now we get dragons. And I took an arrow to the knee. Wow that’s deep.
Bioware – their last game I acquired (no piracy - DA was a gift) was NWN2 (epic ragequit after the murder trial quest), but apparently I haven’t lost much. If I’ll ever want a dating sim I’ll just get the real thing, preferably with a lolicon Adolf, hot pigeon action or something along the line. At least I’ll avoid getting sexually harassed by same-sex mercenaries.
As for gameplay in TWicher - it's not as
as turn based party combat - but still fun, in the same way that Contra was back in the day.
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