The Witcher

[FactionHeir]

Sure you can loot caves, but after your nth cave, don't you get bored going in, sneaking up, killing, looting, going to next cave?
When I used to play Morrowing/Oblivion, I just had to use the coc cheat constantly because of the ridiculously long trips through the countryside being attacked by effortless creatures.

In that respect I find the Witcher to be a lot more refreshing, where you can fight a lot, but not to the extent where you get bored of it.

[Thermal]

Sure you can loot caves, but after your nth cave, don't you get bored going in, sneaking up, killing, looting, going to next cave?
When I used to play Morrowing/Oblivion, I just had to use the coc cheat constantly because of the ridiculously long trips through the countryside being attacked by effortless creatures.

In that respect I find the Witcher to be a lot more refreshing, where you can fight a lot, but not to the extent where you get bored of it.

yes, anything can get borin after a while, but its still quite varied i think, every game has a certain theme, dunno i just love the eerie atmosphere in oblivion and morrowind, cleverly made, anyways yes witchers very refreshing, but its very bk and forth, re following tracks, buts so is oblivion etc

i loved tht storyline on witcher where the detective guy turned out to be the evil one after he was killed and made an illusion of, as soon as my badge thing was beeting i became very suspicious...

[FactionHeir]

On my first playthrough I never paid attention to my badge

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and only in my conversation with Shani did it start making sense. Each time I found the corpse before the autopsy too, so I never actually played the Ramstein/Kalstein guilty paths. Should do that once the EE comes out

I think the fun is that you can play the game quite differently each time. The major choices are Order vs Rebels, but there are many subtle things too which added a nice flair to the game.

[TinCow]

Sure you can loot caves, but after your nth cave, don't you get bored going in, sneaking up, killing, looting, going to next cave?
When I used to play Morrowing/Oblivion, I just had to use the coc cheat constantly because of the ridiculously long trips through the countryside being attacked by effortless creatures.

In that respect I find the Witcher to be a lot more refreshing, where you can fight a lot, but not to the extent where you get bored of it.

I agree, though Morrowind and Oblivion had boring dungeons for different reasons. Except at low levels, the Morrowind dungeons (and almost the entire game) was too easy. Oblivion wasn't too easy, but because the creatures and loot were scaled, they were generic and there were no opportunities to find cool loot. Both of these problems in both games can be fixed with mods, but they are definitely major flaws with the vanilla game.

[FactionHeir]

I just got some new info that might be of some interest:

EE Patch:
TWEE_Upgrade.exe 930 MB

Adventures:
TWEE_adventure_Side_Effect.exe 301 MB
TWEE_adventure_The_Price_of_Neutrality.exe 320 MB

Language packs: (~400-600MB)

TWEE_Czech_language_pack.exe 523 MB
TWEE_English_language_pack.exe 472 MB
TWEE_France_language_pack.exe 461 MB
TWEE_German_language_pack.exe 573 MB
TWEE_Hungarian_language_pack.exe 563 MB
TWEE_Italian_language_pack.exe 542 MB
TWEE_Polish_language_pack.exe 605 MB
TWEE_Russian_language_pack.exe 674 MB
TWEE_Spanish_language_pack.exe 446 MB

No word on exact sizes of the extra content yet, but from what is known, the overall maximum download (i.e. if you download everything) will be 9GB, minimum recommended will be 2 GB (Patch, Main language version, 2 adventures).

Oh, and old saves can be continued in the EE contrary to previous reports.

[rajpoot]

No word on exact sizes of the extra content yet, but from what is known, the overall maximum download (i.e. if you download everything) will be 9GB, minimum recommended will be 2 GB (Patch, Main language version, 2 adventures).

2 GB!!! That'll take days for me!!

[FactionHeir]

The absolute minimum would be 1.5 GB (Patch + Language). However, there'll be special servers set up that will cope with the stress and give a fast downlaod speed I've been told

[FactionHeir]

A new contest just started, anyone (even those who are just forum users) are welcome to participate (and you can send in multiple submissions):
Link

How far would you go to get something you really want? What would you do to possess something so awesome that others will crumble at your feet and beg for your friendship?
Do you remember how irritating it was when you asked your friend at school to lend you a pen and he’d reply, “What’s in it for me?”! Let’s go back to that lovely immature time and play the same game:

Head over to the forum and tell us what you’re going to give us in return for The Witcher Ultimate Swag Pack!

• The Witcher Figurine
  The Witcher Medallion
  Book – “The Last Wish” by Andrzej Sapkowski
  The Witcher Dice Game

We'll choose the most creative one to win!

[FactionHeir]

Release date has now been confirmed as the 16th of September for North America and 19th of September for the rest of the world