Game News The Witcher demo in English

[onemananadhisdroid]

In short, I do care --- not so much caring going when I play the game of which we do speak.

I've yet to finish the thing, and I agree on the prologue, it's quite a bit meh, to say the least. Feels like they wanted this to be a tutorial and a fast paced introduction all alike, just that the pace with endless boring swordplay goes downhill pretty fast. Yeah, still haven't warmed up to the fighting. It's clumsy. You don't react to visual clues as such, save for the attack icon, and animations occasionally just abruptly end just like that. Almost feels like somebody teaching an engine tricks it was never meant for.

Still, Act1 so far looks solid and pretty interesting, can't see what makes people going nuts over this game so far though. The games that made me do this usually let me know just a couple of minutes in that this_is_special and I'm in save hands here. Awaking in the mortuary in Torment, no idea what's going on and a floating skull trying to get it on with the reanimated ghouls running around. Or the opening to Grim Fandango. Just brill stuff like that.

To me Geralt, however, is just the big hunk with silver hair and a damn big sword, in short: that character I'm supposed to play in this game,.. so?! And his world is a place full of quests to tackle, albeit rather well-designed with a few very nice touches here and there. It's not that I'm not enjoying it, but it jez doesn't have that special something. Recently bargaining over a quest reward with a drunkard and ending up fighting vicious monster plants from God knows where drunk as a monkey made me crack up though. :D

 

[Hümmelgümpf]

Still, Act1 so far looks solid and pretty interesting, can't see what makes people going nuts over this game so far though.

And you won't see it in the demo. Trust the hive mind, the game gets much better after you enter Vizima.

 

[Binary]

Demo didn't run on Wine. Demo didn't even run on Windows due to lacking some d3d dll (NWN2 and GW run fine though).

Back to Eschalon...

 

[aweigh]

upgrade your directx maybe i dunno!?!??? could be D:DDDd

 

[Bloodlust]

google for the d3d_xx.dll that's missing, download the file you're missing.Apply.Load the witcher.

A proccess than normally for a non-mentally chalenged person takes less than 60 seconds.

I think I had to download d3d_35.dll or something.

 

[made]

combat 2 hard

Learn to play. Unless you're deaf or playing with sound turned off you should have noticed that the sword makes a slightly different SWOOSH when the combo is finished and it's time to press the button again. Once you get used to it it's very intuitive and easier than watching out for some obscure visual clue.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Back to Eschalon...

K. Bye.

 

[aries202]

combat 2 hard

Learn to play. Unless you're deaf or playing with sound turned off you should have noticed that the sword makes a slightly different SWOOSH when the combo is finished and it's time to press the button again. Once you get used to it it's very intuitive and easier than watching out for some obscure visual clue.

And so we learn that the designer of the combat has an auditive learning style, while I'm having a visual learning style. I'm not that good at hearing when I should do things, but I'm pretty good at seeing when I should be swinging the sword or clicking the left mouse button. Unlike the combat in Gothic 1 and 2, which I learned along the way, I doubt I can get used to the combat in The Witcher. The story, however, is amazing...