Let's Play The Witcher (BLIND) |09| Moonlight Rendezvous

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Today on the list of things to do: Get another quest from a random in the inn, slay some drowners by the waterfront and Vesna. Man, what a busy list!
I swear she was gonna turn out to be a monster, promise.
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[@linuxrant]

darn, when this game was to come out, I was buying my first laptop. and I especially made sure The Witcher will run smoothly on it. it was Toshiba satellite a200 with mobility radeon gpu. Game has aged a little, especially the animations feel off. but the game overall is still playable and has great atmosphere and story. I loved the inventive no-button-mash mechanic, timed clicks was a great idea which I missed in next entries.

[@linuxrant]

not to mention the leveling system is very cool, and alchemy is my favourite of all games I ever played that had alchemy.

[@GM_Darius]

@@linuxrant It's certainly been a time playing. I can see the charm, and it's not really been the combat jank that's been pushing me away, so much as how conversations flow and how quests work. Namely how I'll feel like I'm hunting down a person for a quest onlly for either the quest marker for that person to either not exist or for the quest marker to be inaccurate based on what time it is. I may have wasted a lot of time trying to find like 3 different NPs cause of this fact.

[@linuxrant]

​@@GM_DariusAlthough I understand why you might call the combat system jank, it was CDPs attempt at revolutionizing the usual button smashing style of playing. I admired their courage to do so, and while I thought initially the same, but I learned to really enjoy the timing of it and I missed that in later games. Although in W3, they made the timing matter in other ways. Sorry to hear about the quest issues, it was their first game, so maybe they had to learn to make quests better later.

[@linuxrant]

Btw, did you know they used Biowares aurora engine to make Witcher 1? Although it was heavily modified, if you look at Neverwinter Nights game, W1 looks amazing :)