As the title states, I've just beaten "The Witcher: Enhanced Edition".
I think I could have done without the EE part of the game. The fighting became dull and boring after about halfway through the game. Especially at the end of the game when it didn't seem to matter how much I was pounded upon by the enemy, I hardly took any damage - this was on the hard setting, too.
The story was pretty good and told well, but the gameplay was too....not linear....repetitive (that's the word I was looking for). Click on bad guy, click when the sword flames, repeat, repeat, repeat....then if you're really board, toss out a spell.
For any mediocre to hardcore RPG fan, I'd suggest they play the game. The story keeps you wanting to see how thing progress and your choices throughout the game tell of how the story plays out. In retrospec, if you can endure playing through the game and spending another 20+ hours on it, you can get a different story built up by the time you make to the end.
I don't have that kind of patients. It was hard enough playing through and spending over 30 hours. I probably only completed 1/2 of the side quests and probably only about 2/3 - 3/4 of the main quests (not all main quests are required to move the story).
I can honestly say that I got my money's worth out of this game (only spent $15 on it) and it was nice to finally play an RPG that wasn't toned down for the children.
I haven't posted in a long while and figured I'd put something remotely useful in my blog - though I'm not sure how many folk will actually find this useful.
Oh well. On to the next game! - maybe I'll finish Drakensang (too bad the graphics glitch out on me - things artifact and the game locks up randomly. I could play for hours and nothing and then 2 minutes into the game sometimes the screen artifacts and things lock up. Only game that I own that gives me issues....though maybe it's because of SLI....) and if I don't play that game I might just finally actually look into playing Crysis or Far Cry 2. Too many games and not enough time to play them all.
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The game story was pretty good though, the choices, conversations and the like,
Same with a good book, that is why I like long books and trilogies
I wished there was more to the combat. Half the time an enemy wouldn't even take a swing at me and I'd see the words "Dodge" or "Parry" flash by on the screen. Yeah you could double-tap a direction key and you'd dodge off to the side, but that was only for flash. Perhaps a second game or another game made by the same company will integrate some of The Witcher combat and expand upon it so it's not so repetitive.
@Yuna7780
Last RPG that I actually spent a lot of time on was NWN2 - only reason I spent so much time on it was because I'd grow bored of the character I built and I would start over with a different build and pretty soon I've played through 3/4 of the game countless times. I have yet to beat the game....maybe I'll look into finally beating it - assuming I still have my saved game files...
@iowastate
I've never been big on reading. Most books tend to bore me. I can create better stories in my own head....too bad I can't write, else I'd put some of them down on paper.
Odd that you experienced a lot of damage. I found that once I maxed out my Strength stat and I obtained the extra +5 to my DF (one of the gold skills, I do believe), I was taking much less damage then I was before it. I never did the Raven's Armor quest, but I did purchase the quality leather armor (which is a lot better then the basic leather armor you start with) for 5000g. The hardest battle I faced was with that powerful Sorcerer towards the end of the game in his laboratory (I don't remember the name, but he's the sorcerer that stole the Witcher's secrets at the start of the game). I had to run so many times and get some distance to use my mutagens (potions). It was actually a breath of fresh air for once to be running for my life instead of slaughtering everything that was in my path. I felt almost God like most of the game.
Yuna7780
I'm so glad you had a bunch of fun.
Currently, I'm replaying Persona 3 on and off and I haven't really had any new games to play... Because school is starting up, I need to continue my "I can't fall asleep so I'll just play my PSP until I get tired because I think I need to go to the doctor about sleeping disorders and I don't" rituals during the school year.
I think that is the most effective way for me to be able to play video games nowadays. That's the only time I can game-- when I can't sleep on school nights. lol