The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Enhancements
Popular monster-thumping RPG The Witcher is being overhauled for 2008 with new lines of dialogue and new motion-captured gestures from the NPCs. CD Projekt are showing off these improvements in their latest trailer - and they do seem to be a fairly substantial improvement on the original ham. You can also switch languages in any [...]
Author: Jim Rossignol Category: RockPaperShotgun CD Projekt The-Witcher Publish Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:15:12 +0000
Popular monster-thumping RPG The Witcher is being overhauled for 2008 with new lines of dialogue and new motion-captured gestures from the NPCs. CD Projekt are showing off these improvements in their latest trailer - and they do seem to be a fairly substantial improvement on the original ham. You can also switch languages in any version of the game, so playing with the Polish or German dialogue and English subtitles should be possible, if you fancy that foreign-language videogame experience.
I swept the original and played through to the end of episode 2 I think. Will certainly be buying the Enhanced Edition and giving it a through play through.
I've gotten to nearly the end of the game, but seeing as it should be free for me, I'll quite happily download all the new content and replay it, thankfully on a better faster pc this time.
I enjoyed it. Getting the combat timing right on the harder settings without any indicators was a great challenge. Plus trying to fuck the numerous women to collect the cards was a great mini-game. Not sure I'll bother though, still got other stuff to play!
Dog Pants wrote:I got to the first village and just got bored. Lots of not very interesting dialogue and an unintuitive combat system just sapped my will to play it.
I did thoroughly enjoy what I played. I like that the consequences system actually impacts your game experience, rather than the Lionhead-esque Empty Promises™ systems. The dialogue was poor at times, but it's been pretty drastically overhauled. Also I believe there was going to be new NPC models to replace the 5 and a half they used in the original version. Not sure about this though.
The problem I'll likely have is that I've just started playing Mass Effect which is both epic and awesome, so feel I may have spoiled RPGs for myself again, like when I first played Deus Ex or Twilight Princess. Dialogue wise, Mass Effect is quite special. Also it has such a rich history - really helps with the immersion.
tandino wrote:Also I believe there was going to be new NPC models to replace the 5 and a half they used in the original version. Not sure about this though.
They kinda copped out on that one. It's not new models, rather it's the same models but with random clothes and dirt. The trailer was saying things like "You'll never meet the same person twice!" while twins walked down the street together, one in a green shirt and one in a red shirt.
So...did anyone buy the enhanced edition? I played quite a bit of the original till I had issues and refused to re-install it. I remember some of the dialogue sounding like a 13year old wrote it though...but that was only a few lines here and there. The is like 11gb so not quite sure what to do...
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Enhancements
is like 11gb so not quite sure what to do...