Preview IGN previews The Witcher

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: CD Projekt; Witcher, The

<a href=http://www.ign.com>IGN</a> has posted a short, but interesting <a href=http://pc.ign.com/articles/708/708097p1.html>preview</a> of <a href=http://www.thewitcher.com/>The Witcher</a>:
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<blockquote>The focus of the presentation was actually three-pronged: combat, role-playing, and visuals.</blockquote>The fact that the role-playing was on the list is very promising.
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<blockquote>After a guided tour through a fight with some bandits, the Witcher captured of the enemies and took him back to a remote castle that his fellow witchers call home. Here begins the first of many ambiguous moral choices that our protagonist must make; does he set the prisoner free, on the condition that his captive gives him information (at the risk of the prisoner revealing where the castle is)? Or does he give the prisoner a truth serum that will drive him mad? The Witcher can also torture the information out his prisoner, or kill him outright.
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<b>What makes this situation different from the norm is that each choice has consequences that might not appear until many hours further into the game.</b> Go one way, and one companion lives while another dies. Go another way, and their ends are swapped. And the death of one of them has a consequence of its own. And whichever way the Witcher decides to treat the prisoner, he must do it himself. The CD Projekt team is big on personal responsibility and direct interaction with the story.</blockquote>Sweet. It does get better and better.
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.rpgdot.com">RPG Dot</A>

 

[GhanBuriGhan]

Right, looks better and better. Action RPG, but one with ambiotion on the RPG side, love it. Do we know anything about the size of the gameworld? How does it compare to G3's?

 

[TalesfromtheCrypt]

This sounds promising.
Best luck to CD Project, maybe next to Gothic 3 this will be another good action-rpg with strong emphasize on the roleplay.

 

[tarkin]

I read somewhere the devs saying that The Witcher's world will be around 50% bigger than Gothic 2+NotR.

 

[Mr.Rocco]

I can't believe how great this game looks and wonder how the hell did they revamp crappy NWN engine to theirs? I wish us market would give little bit more attention to euro rpg movement and stop messing around with cheesyass anime/ff console games from Japan.

 

[GhanBuriGhan]

I read somewhere the devs saying that The Witcher's world will be around 50% bigger than Gothic 2+NotR.

Not huge but pretty good. Thanks.

 

[Hamster]

kazz: How big the game world will be? Will it be as huge as in Morrowind or more like in Gothic?

Michał Madej, (Chief Designer): In its construction and size it will be similar to Gothic (expansion to be exact) with the difference that we give the player a very huge city, to be honest I haven’t seen such in any other RPG game, a capitol of Temeria – Wizim.

 

[Dagon]

This game is so promising, I love the art direction, look at the architecture etc. it all looks so pretty, and not because of 100000+ graphic effects, but artists working for Cd Projekt are so fucking talented, i just love their concept arts etc. And now even the game looks like a piece of art, just take a look at these screeshots :

http://www.gry-online.pl/S026.asp?ID=1551
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[spacemoose]

Holy shit consequences. Maybe the twitcher won't be so bad after all.

 

[Fresh]

<blockquote>After a guided tour through a fight with some bandits, the Witcher captured of the enemies and took him back to a remote castle that his fellow witchers call home. Here begins the first of many ambiguous moral choices that our protagonist must make; does he set the prisoner free, on the condition that his captive gives him information (at the risk of the prisoner revealing where the castle is)? Or does he give the prisoner a truth serum that will drive him mad? The Witcher can also torture the information out his prisoner, or kill him outright.

That sounds almost too good to be true. I've been craving a gritty game like this ever since FO.

This game is so promising, I love the art direction, look at the architecture etc. it all looks so pretty, and not because of 100000+ graphic effects, but artists working for Cd Projekt are so fucking talented, i just love their concept arts etc. And now even the game looks like a piece of art, just take a look at these screeshots :

http://www.gry-online.pl/S026.asp?ID=1551
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Thx for the link. They do have some of the best concept artists in the industry. This guy is outstanding:

 

[suibhne]

Still skeptical about the swordplay, but overall eager to play the game. Release the damn thing already. :wink:

 

[Dagon]

If you are interested here you can find two new-translated short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski about Geralt. They've been posted on Witcher forum's by Macell .
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http://rapidshare.de/files/20257444/The_Witcher.pdf.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/20257547/A_Grain_of_Truth.PDF.html

"The Witcher" is the first ever story of Geralt So i suggest you to start from here

 

[suibhne]

If you are interested here you can find two new-translated short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski about Geralt. They've been posted on Witcher forum's by Macell .
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http://rapidshare.de/files/20257444/The_Witcher.pdf.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/20257547/A_Grain_of_Truth.PDF.html

"The Witcher" is the first ever story of Geralt So i suggest you to start from here

Thanks! It's good to finally have a real translation of some of this stuff. I hope the game will facilitate the translation of more Sapkowski into English.

 

[sheek]

I think I might get a new computer to play this (I'd need one).

 

[Excalibur]

I think I might get a new computer to play this (I'd need one).

I dont know, itsnt it a modified aruora engine? from NWN?
it might be a little better but im sure u can handle it, maybe im worng

 

[Jon]

I dont know, itsnt it a modified aruora engine? from NWN?

NWN2 is also a modified aurora engine. I think both games have rewritten renderers though . So the requirements will be very different to NWN1.

 

[Atrokkus]

Graphics-wise, looks totally awesome, both conceptually and technically. Characters are much better than, say, in Gothic 3 or Oblivion for that matter, though the core engine is clearly less advanced.