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EDIT: With 10 votes we have a 4.0 avarage. Not bad.
Some days have passed. The joy of playing a game that didn't treat you like an idiot is vaning off. The reality is kicking in. So: is The Witcher really a masterpiece or is it just a step in the right direction. Or is it perhaps even bad?
I've got the impression that people loved it at first but as time went on they started to, not think it was bad, but perhaps not as good as their first impression.
Personally I got a lot of problems with it, but at the same time I think it takes the genre - the action RPG one - a lot of small steps in the right direction. There's way to many fetch&kill-quests, but there's a lot of of quests that span several hours of playing. The loading times are a killer, but the areas are bigger than say in NWN2. The choices have two options at most, but they have consequences and some of them actually makes you stop and think. The combat quickly becomes nothing more than a timed click-fest, but especially during chapter one, when you're not overpowered, you can see that it holds a lot of potential for a sequel. You get way too many skillpoints, but there's a shitload of skills to distribute them on. The wilderness maps aren't very fun, but Vizima is very well made. The dialogue is refreshingly non-PG 13, but a lot seem to have been lost in translation. And so on and so forth.
I'll grade it 3. It could've been a four but then I think I'd be grading it in the light of the other true crap-fests infesting the market.
Fake edit: I'll probably screw up the poll.
Some days have passed. The joy of playing a game that didn't treat you like an idiot is vaning off. The reality is kicking in. So: is The Witcher really a masterpiece or is it just a step in the right direction. Or is it perhaps even bad?
I've got the impression that people loved it at first but as time went on they started to, not think it was bad, but perhaps not as good as their first impression.
Personally I got a lot of problems with it, but at the same time I think it takes the genre - the action RPG one - a lot of small steps in the right direction. There's way to many fetch&kill-quests, but there's a lot of of quests that span several hours of playing. The loading times are a killer, but the areas are bigger than say in NWN2. The choices have two options at most, but they have consequences and some of them actually makes you stop and think. The combat quickly becomes nothing more than a timed click-fest, but especially during chapter one, when you're not overpowered, you can see that it holds a lot of potential for a sequel. You get way too many skillpoints, but there's a shitload of skills to distribute them on. The wilderness maps aren't very fun, but Vizima is very well made. The dialogue is refreshingly non-PG 13, but a lot seem to have been lost in translation. And so on and so forth.
I'll grade it 3. It could've been a four but then I think I'd be grading it in the light of the other true crap-fests infesting the market.
Fake edit: I'll probably screw up the poll.
