The Witcher for PC
 

Wow, will there actually be a PC RPG besides Oblivion to play soon? I sure hope so. Anyone else looking forward to The Witcher? http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/thewi...en;all;title;5

This sounds like a game that may be fairly immersive as far as your actions affecting the game world goes.

Yeah, I've been looking forward to this one for quite some time now. The storyline is definitely the main draw for me, but the game play looks rather impressive at all. Only drawback is that it's using the NWN2 engine, which mean fairly unimpressive graphics backed up by outrageous system requirements.

All in all, it looks to be right up my alley. Can't wait to give this one a spin.

True, I think it's interesting how so many non-FPS games seem to have beefy requirements nowadays (Supreme Commander can utilize 4 cores, etc.) I had always thought one of the draws of RPG's was the low system requirements vs. action games, but Oblivion has seemed to turn that around in the other direction.

ATI and nVidia "endorse" lots of developers in exchange for making sure all modern games have stupidly steep video requirements.

Just played a bit of the demo for The Witcher last night. Somehow the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and I really enjoyed it. Has anyone else picked this up? The only worry I have is combat, which seems needlessly vastly different than other RPG combat schemes (either that or I don't get out much). For example, I really couldn't get my character to attack much at all. Other than that I would not be hesitating to pick this up; it appears to be an instant PC RPG classic.

For the combat, it's mainly time based in the fact that if you are playing on easy, or normal, you have to watch your mouse icon very carefully. When you first click on an enemy, you will see Geralt either start to move towards them (if you're a bit further away) and then start attacking. DO NOT push the mouse button multiple times in a row right away. You have to watch for your mouse icon to become a flaming sword, or have a yellow glow around it before clicking again, and then you will attack again. Just keep doing this until you have to start a new chain.

I've been playing this game for a couple of hours now and it's a fantastic game! of course in order for it to work on my computer (which is a fairly new gaming computer) it has to run on it's lowest settings so it wont be all scratchy. Like I said though, it's an incredible game so far and I already think it'll turn out better than Oblivion.

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Tired the demo and was fairly engrossed with it. Too bad my computer cannot handle it else I would have bought the game already >_<

I noticed that the demo defaulted to 16x AA (which I don't need with my 1280x1024 monitor) so I shut it off and the game seemed to run fine, about 97% smoothly. I have a 2.33Ghz C2D with 2mb RAM, Win XP, and an 8600 GT for a graphics card.

I agree about Oblivion - I think it's a great game, and I have enjoyed it for about 60 hours, but at this point it's growing stale so I'll probably just finish up the main quest and not worry about the side quests just so I can get it done and move on.

I am definitely going to pick up The Witcher; I'm going to hunt for a good deal online for it though. GS never drop their price to match what is reasonably found online, so even when I trade in games for new titles I end up breaking even oh well...