Review Moron Daily reviews The Witcher

[Claw]

I'm partial to

Excellent (Gold)
Great (Silver)
Good (Green)
Mediocre (Yellow)
Flawed (Orange)
Bad (Red)
Awful (Black)

Words, not numbers. No debate about the meaning. Good means good.
And then we have to get reviewers to be careful with those Excellent ratings. If every "AAA" game gets an Excellent score, the scale is meaningless.

 

[Jasede]

Yeah. That's the trouble. Claw, look at your scale: to me, it means that Orange and Yellow games are still worth trying if you like the genre or just want to pass some time, but reviews as they are now only give out Gold and Silver and every that's under that is automatically meant to be crap. It's dumb. People actually complaimed about that Amiga mag using the rating system I posted!

 

[Anaglyph]

Regardless of what sort of scale is used they all seem pretty pointless to me. If the review doesn't tell you what you need to know, some semi-arbitrary quantification at the end of it isn't going to be any more informative. If the reviewer is enthusiastic and the game is the sort of thing you're interested in what difference does it make if it's assigned 91% or 95%, or "great" instead of "excellent"? At best a number (or star or word) can tell you what you'll find out by reading the review; at worst it'll just be misleading.

 

[Jasede]

That's why the best and most famous German computer magazine, c't, does not, in fact, use any scores at all. just a huge blurb of text, spanning countless pages.

 

[slamelov]

May be those bad reviews for The Witcher come from very young and brainless people, or may be the reason is that The Witcher is not a game from Microsoft, Sony, EA, nintendo, etc. I can't beileve how stupid the media are



This game is great, and the books are great, I recommend you read all of them.

Regards.

 

[Texas Red]

This game is great, and the books are great, I recommend you read all of them.

Regards.

I dunno, mang. The whole deal with outcasted superpeople smells of alter-ego self-praise emoing. I checked the wiki for TW and it turns out that Geralt is the best of the lot. Not surprising, really. Im tired and I dislike books where the main character is a handsome and introverted, melancholic guy.

 

[slamelov]

Geralt is not handsome and melancolic.

Try the books (7). The first 3 is something like an introduction to the characters, the "big" story begins in the 3. There is not "cliches" in the books, there is not "good and evil"...

Test the first one and of you like it, continue with the rest.

 

[Texas Red]

How is he not handsome? There are plenty of hot women, that are from the books, that want Geralt. The faint memory of the series that I watched a long, long time ago suggested that Geralt was as expressive and extroverted as a rock, though the game seems to contradict this.

The stories or the setting may not be cliche but the problem lies with the characters. Every other fantasy/sci fi novel I pick up has that overdone protagonist thing going on. Authors cant stop writing about themselves and whining.

 

[aweigh]

The problem is that TWD is so utterly devoid of charisma and his life so completely empty of excitement that he has trouble understanding any male character whose activities don't consist of sitting in front of a computer for 18 hours a day.

"What is this shit? He's talking to people and doing stuff? I CAN'T FUCKING RELATE OMG WHAT A SHITTY AUTHOR".

 

[Volourn]

My VERY Early Review of the Witcher: I forget as I suffer from amnesia. the end. HAHAHA!

 

[aweigh]

TWD why did you remove your post?

 

[Texas Red]

TWD why did you remove your post?

I dont like no conflicts or arguments

 

[aweigh]

You know we'll always be buttbuddies 4 lyfe.

 

[Texas Red]

You know we'll always be buttbuddies 4 lyfe.

<3

 

[slamelov]

How is he not handsome? There are plenty of hot women, that are from the books, that want Geralt. The faint memory of the series that I watched a long, long time ago suggested that Geralt was as expressive and extroverted as a rock, though the game seems to contradict this.

The stories or the setting may not be cliche but the problem lies with the characters. Every other fantasy/sci fi novel I pick up has that overdone protagonist thing going on. Authors cant stop writing about themselves and whining.

Some girls are interested in him because is strange and misterious, a mutant. But he's not a sex symbol. If you refer to the TV series and the film, I can't tell you, but Sapkowski say that it sucks. Books are not the same.

I assure you that the books are not the usual in this kind of literature. There is a well defined characters, far from the typical heroe... believe me, is a very worth reading. Geralt is not always the starring, there is a great history around hime and a well defined world, characters...

Give the books a try.

 

[Morbus]

It's "Coruña", not "Coruña"... And don't put the "La" first. It sounds stupid, it's like I live in THE Portugal or something. It's stupid.

Also, wasn't it "lyph3" instead of just "lyfe"?

Anyway, I'm lovin' it.

 

[slamelov]

It's "Coruña", not "Coruña"... And don't put the "La" first. It sounds stupid, it's like I live in THE Portugal or something. It's stupid.

Also, wasn't it "lyph3" instead of just "lyfe"?

Anyway, I'm lovin' it.

The name is La Coruña, in spanish, or A Coruña, in galician. It's the official name. With article.

 

[Morbus]

It's "Coruña", not "Coruña"... And don't put the "La" first. It sounds stupid, it's like I live in THE Portugal or something. It's stupid.

Also, wasn't it "lyph3" instead of just "lyfe"?

Anyway, I'm lovin' it.

The name is La Coruña, in spanish, or A Coruña, in galician. It's the official name. With article.

I know it from the street signs, but it stills sounds strange. BTW, it's "Corunha" in Portuguese.

 

[Elwro]

Everyone knows that it's "Deportivo La Coruña", not "Deportivo Coruña" :D so I guess this settles it :wink:

 

[slamelov]

It's "Coruña", not "Coruña"... And don't put the "La" first. It sounds stupid, it's like I live in THE Portugal or something. It's stupid.

Also, wasn't it "lyph3" instead of just "lyfe"?

Anyway, I'm lovin' it.

The name is La Coruña, in spanish, or A Coruña, in galician. It's the official name. With article.

I know it from the street signs, but it stills sounds strange. BTW, it's "Corunha" in Portuguese.

Strange off topic...

I don't know if it sounds strange for you, but the name is La Coruña or A Coruña, as you want. I'm not portuguese, so, I don't use the portuguese name. In english is Corunna and the football team is "Deportivo de La Coruña", as Elwro says. Or simply "Depor".

But you said that it sounds stupid...

 

[DraQ]

This off-topic is uninteresting. Fix plz.

 

[doctor_kaz]

This guy apparently didn't realize that the game was made by CD Projekt and it wasn't "made" by Atari. All they do is market it and put it in a box.

 

[kris]

How is he not handsome? There are plenty of hot women, that are from the books, that want Geralt.

You don't need to be handsome to get hot girls hanging after you. but it helps.