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I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one.
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It's been a while since I have disagreed so hard with anyone. With all due respect of course, can't really debate taste.
I disagree with the story being awful or awkward acting. Story is the best one of out the 3 (if you don't count Witcher 3's DLCs, those were superb.) and has the most innovative story quests. Also, not to spoil too much, but your decisions in that game actually affect the entire world and story a lot, what you do in act 2 can change the entire story, my mate and I had completely different stories because of what we decided in act 2, and I have to respect that. Not like that Mass Effect kind of "you were evil or whatever, which colour do you want as your ending?"
I agree, combat is terrible, engine is terrible, everything is unintuitive and clunky. I'd say for the best experience, drop difficulty to the easiest one and play for the story. Also, change voice acting to Polish, I can't stand Geralt in English in any of the games (Sorry Doug, cool guy, doesn't fit as Geralt IMO.) and the Polish really adds to the atmosphere, kinda like playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Russian.
After a dwarf in the slums told me that my mother sucks dwarf cocks in hell, I haven't been the same as a person.
Good for you to give it a go even though it's pretty rough by today's standards. Totally worth it, love the game even with it's massive faults.
The story is not terrible by itself by any means, the problem is it rehashes some important aspects of the story from the books and does so in a way just doesn't make much sense in context.
Yeah when they made witcher 1 they didnt think it would be part of a series and realy didnt see it as a canon addition to the books story.
It makes the most sense to view the story on its own without the existence of Ciri.
I didn't expect my decisions to actually affect anything when I played it. Big surprise when I just clicked every dialogue option and things went poorly.
You can also load your save file into the second game and have that affect the story in minor ways, which I thought was pretty cool.
And then you can do the same with the third game too. It’s really neat
Yes! I honestly enjoyed it when I tried the last dialog option and NPCs started telling me to 'go plow myself'.
My friend, the witcher clan were dumbshits that let their hold fall and all their toys get stolen. I don't know the story as a whole yet, but there's some weird stuff going on. Since when do supermen get ostracized from society? They don't. Supermen run things and own all the stuff. Its hard to suspend disbelief when its so unbelievable.
Combat ... I like the timed combo click thing. Maybe its an old or outdated style, but so am I. Honestly, I think its kinda fun. Rewarding when you get it right.
So, you disagree that the acting is awkward, but you can't stand Geralt in English? Lol. That makes zero sense.
Do you speak English? Was that English? :]
Oh whatever. I'll try it in Polish. Can't be any worse.
About that dwarf cock ... Is your mother short?
Ever seen The Incredibles?
Yup. ;)