Morgoth said:
So, any comments on the quality of the new English dialogs/VOs?
Well IIRC (I switched to the alternate translation in the old version, but I still recall this to be true in th eoriginal trnaslation as well) that the dialog now MATCHES the subtitles (Obviously the other alternate trans it wouldn't match, but like I mentioned IIRC even the original default english trans the spoken dialog didn't always match the sub-titles).
That said, I still don't know that I don't prefer the other old unofficial english translated version, unfortunately I blew away the old version to conserve disk space and have no intentions to re-install it just to compare.
I picked up a de-censor patch from someone on the forums, unfortunately the only caqrd that I'd gotten so far is still censored. Didn't go back to the save just before that scene to check the fix. (I suspect that the data is copied into the save or the tmeporarily unpacked section of the "module" so the de-censor didn't get picked up.) It is a fairly small patch ~50MB, it also replaces the nymph or whatever it was texture with the completely nude one (whoopee green chicks -- Orion Slave Girls?).
The no-DVD crack still faults with a process_id hook fault in win2k, so either they updated their toolset from M$ which now uses that hook for something or the crack doesn't really entirely crack the engine.
So still no win2k happiness for me, hence my decrease in playing.
Also AFAICT it looks like I can already see the new animations in games play and it does seem that there are some more death moves that I don't recall from before, but I can't compare to the Polish or other European version as I don't have them. The US EE still comes with all of the languages that the game was, apparently translated into.
I'm pretty happy with it, but I still wish that the US version had a printed manual (nice to leaf through at odd times to see if there's anything that I missed somehow) and I don't play it as often as I like as I have to specifically re-boot into XP to play, and most of the time it seems like it's not worth it to just play ONE game.
The load times within chapters and when saving the game seem to be GREATLY reduced, while switching chapters is still a rather lengthy process.
Haven't even tried any of the extra mods yet, as I actually wanted to finish a playthrough with EE first then move onto the mods and taking a closer look at the SDK.
Funny thing is that CD Projekt actually manage to produce a fun/complex/RT RPG while Bioware just failed in their unholy RT/"pseudo turnbased" abominations.
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Funny thing is that Geralt seems to have to the opportunity to get laid more often than he does in the books, or at least the only one available in English so far, The Last Wish. That said it could still ALWAYS use MOAR BOOBIES... :D
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