The Witcher

[frogbeastegg]

Any of the resident RPG lovers playing this?

[Fragony]

Is it out then? I have heard massive amounts of love for this one??

[frogbeastegg]

Out yesterday in most of Europe, out a bit earlier in other parts AFAIK. The US has to wait until later this year.

[Fragony]

owwwwwww hihihi, now THAT is great news.

[FactionHeir]

Read about it a year or two ago on nwvault and it sounded promising. Haven't heard anything about it recently though (which may be partly due to me not frequenting nwvault anymore).

Probably not going to get it for now though. They already got a patch out on day 1, so there's bound to be more bugs abound.

[AggonyDuck]

Bought it and will install it once I get home.

[alman7272]

I have about 50 hours to devoted to it...I'm fighting Azar Javed

[Bob the Insane]

On the subject of censorship The Witcher wiki has the following to say:

Localization variations
All the female portrait cards shown after Geralt's "conquests" were retouched to a more modest standard for the US release version. The in-game Dryad was also reskinned so her hair covered more of her body in this release.[citation needed]

Some dialogue between characters is shortened in the non-Polish language versions. Lead Designer Michal Madej has disputed claims by fans that this was due to the sometimes crude language, but that the decision to edit down dialogue occurred because of production-related concerns in game development. Proof reader Martin Pagan noticed this shortened version during his work and writer Sande Chen confirmed that it was not due to censorship. Fans have theorized that it may have been done for voice acting cost savings, especially since much of the vulgar language has been retained. Such cost savings would normally occur during any shortening of dialogue, even in cases where no major crudity was involved.

So while I applaud you moral stand, if you do chose to get the US version you are really not missing out on much. In fact if you really want to see the european version of the collectable cards you can go to the witcher wiki site and search on "sex cards"...

I obviously can't provide a link due to forum rules...

[Sarmatian]

The whole sex thing about Witcher was blown out of proportions. It's just a small part of the game. It adds flavour, sure, but even you play censored version, you're not missing much. I don'r really see the need to censor cards, as they are more artful than sexy, except one or two maybe...

I finished the game recently and I can tell you that it is fantastic. A must have for any fan of the genre...

[Kekvit Irae]

When I got the Witcher-on-Witch action in Chapter 1, I was expecting... I don't know... something sexy for the card. What I got was a cannibal DO NOT WANT.

[Bob the Insane]

When I got the Witcher-on-Witch action in Chapter 1, I was expecting... I don't know... something sexy for the card. What I got was a cannibal DO NOT WANT.

Yeah, given the way the NPC had acted and how they appeared, the card was a bit of a shock...

You could be all, ummm, I suddenly got this really intense headache and there are kids hanging around down here somewhere, so I am going to have to say no...

[Spartan198]

Used to be into RPGs...

But that was back in the old school Phantasy Star days. I used to be soooo in love with Alys Brangwin. Ah, memories...

Anyway, back to slaughtering arrogant Romans in RTW...

[FactionHeir]

I've been reading up on it some and the expansion (or rather the Enhanced Edition) is available for free for those who already have registered their game on their website. You'll be notified when its available and can then download it from there directly.
A list of things that will be included in the EE in addition to bugfixes and longer, more fleshed out dialogue:

Extra music/soundtracks
Improved inventory:
o Filtering of alchemy ingredients by content,
o Auto-sorting of items in satchel,
o Special slot area for sorting alchemy ingredients in satchel
Auto-save option (on/off).
Character differentiation mechanism (effectively generating
approximately 50 new character appearances).
Look-at feature (characters look at Geralt, deepening player
immersion).
Auto-looting of containers (player may collect all contents of a
container without opening the container panel).

Oh, and it'll be released 1st half of September.

Source: EE Fact sheet (slightly outdated, but all relevant)

[rajpoot]

Err......the new features will be implemented in the old game and it's savegames too or it'll be like whole new expantion pack?

[FactionHeir]

Its the same game, just a better version. It does mean that your old savegames won't work as the modules are different, but I think those changes and bugfixes will be worth it (look at my collection of bugs on the witcher wiki site )

[FactionHeir]

So, anyone else looking forward to the imminent release of the Enhanced Edition?