Except I don't pretend to only be interested in RPGs, hating all other genres and not having any non-video game hobbies. I can deal with not playing a new RPG every year when I can replay old ones, get mods and spend my money on much better games from other genres than what's on offer under the 'AR-PEE-GEE' marketting label.
For your info I'm currently playing IL-2, that and the joystick for it put me back ~$100, but I'll probably get MotB eventually (have NWN2, didn't like the OC).
Look, stop being an idiot. On the one hand you're saying that you're not narrowly focused on RPGs, on the other hand you keep saying how TW is a shitty game because of its lack of RPG elements.
You're right, its not a fully-fledged RPG like Fallout or Arcanum. Its not any replacement for the past goodness of these games. I absolutly think that on the "true RPG" front MotB is the clear winner here. (Yet we have enough hypocrites here at the codex who won't buy MotB because *whine* NWN 2 sucked...)
Its an Action-RPG in the sense that its character system limits itself to combat abilities in the broader meening of the term and having a twitchy combat system. Despite being clearly an A-Rpg in this regard, its very dialogue and story heavy, it has a rich and detailed world and interesting quests which surpass some of the stuff we know from "traditional" RPGs. It has the C&C feature thrown in, although Ive already stated that it is a bit too gimmicky and "cinematic" for my tastes. It offers alternative quest solutions to a reasonable extent.
It has a coherent dark, rather low-fantasy world, which is a nice change compared to Disneyland games like Oblivion or D&D cliche overkills like NWN 2.
In the polish version, dialogues (and VOs) are ok, nothing special, nothing terrible. I can't comment on the english version, but translating from slavic languages to english is much more difficult than lets say from german to english.I haven't heard "your mother sucks dwarven cook" in the polish version for example. Instead, they some something like "Your mother does it with dwarves" in a pretty harmless way. Just one example how the english version is propably sillifieng the game a bit.
They apperantly screwed up at times, but judgind from other posters its not as bad as one could thing having seen those videos.
Its appearently good enough for a shitload of people to have a blast with it, including such trustworthy posters like Trash, who is a better poster than you could ever hope to be (no attack, im just stating facts. You on the other and are contributing much more good stuff to this forum than me for example).
Of course you're perfectly right not to like the game because all those flaws you mentioned, like the combat system or the lack of stats affecting your non-combat behaviour. Fine.
But don't tell people they are idiots for liking a game or that they only pretend to like it because theyre starved for RPGs.
The codex was starved for RPGs before NWN 2 was released, and the game was smacked the majority of users.
Like it or not, the Witcher is a very good, fun game. If you want to call it so, its Oblivion done right. (Because Oblivion was a terrible game, not just a terrible RPG). Its easily better than the first two Gothics, better executed than the 3rd Gothic but less ambitious in its goals.
Its a very good game on its own, and to a lot of people here its propably better than what they can find in other genres right now. To be honest, I don't see how RPGs are supposed to be the only genre which suffers from trivialization and dumbing down. There's a general lack of good games these days, the Witcher is one. Full stop.
Yes, IL-2 is nice, I have played it to death a long time ago. I don't want to play it again. I don't see any other interesting games I haven't played to death right now That's why I am playing TW and I'm having great fun with it.
