Steam had the entire Witcher series on sale for a few dollars. I bought everything for the first 3 games.
There was some discussion of it at the time, and folks seem to agree that the first one in the series sucks hard.
As that seemed to be the worst plan, I went with it.
Yes. “It’s rough.” I guess the engine and content have gotten some backports and extensions. I’m not sure if you could play other characters besides Geralt before, but now you can. (EDIT … Sorry, this seems to be BS. My bad.) They updated the graphics a lot. Its not great, but I think they fixed most of the really bad problems.
I don’t know about the story. Seems pretty awful. Awkward acting. Its been fun just trying to play the damn thing.
Um … I sort of like it. Gonna play some more now …
the first one has a standlone plot thats mostly disconnected witht eh latter two. 1’s gameplay was rough, but its a decent introductory on the world and the Geralt as a form of a mentor.
It’s visually a 3d action game, but plays like a top down ARPG(as it is an ARPG)
That’s because the first one was inspired by a Baldur’s gate game (they were working in localization). But it got canceled because interplay was on the brink of bankruptcy. So CDPR repurposed all the work done thus far, including most of the script, with a new license they had just bought.
Funnily enough, the mild success of the writing convinced CDPR to port the game to consoles and that also almost bankrupted them.
One of my most controversial gaming takes is that I like the first witcher game the most of the trilogy. There is a lot of jank and some cringeworthy parts but overall it feels like a much tighter experience than the later games, notwithstanding some clearly undercooked parts. It takes a lot more cues from older rpgs in how it’s structured and I suppose I might just have a weak spot for that.
To be fair, I’ve never gotten that far in the third witcher so maybe I’d like more it if I played it enough to properly get in to it. I just got kinda bored after a dozen or so hours which is not a problem I had with the first witcher.
I really liked the first one when it was new… Up until I got toward the end and encountered a CTD bug that, if was ever fixed, I didn’t know about it and gave up waiting for.
I will try this. I’m playing one of the extra adventures, and the voices don’t fire for some reason. Its an improvement, so putting the main game on Polish might work well.
I’ve played the first one briefly. I don’t remember being able to play other characters. I remember the worst part being the combat system was an absolute slog. The later Witcher games don’t have great combat systems either, but it’s at least improved with each generation.
I might go back and play the older witchers eventually but I still haven’t finished Witcher 3 despite like 200 hours in it.
I quickly gave up on the first. I really enjoyed the second one though, and also that some of the choices you make carry over in the 3rd one.
If I had one complaint about Witcher 3, it would be the stupid crafting system, even 200 hours in I am missing bits and pieces… I could not stand Gwent at the time and actively avoided it, but some people love it.
I also tried 1 long after release and couldn’t get over the clunkyness and how much studying it requires to play. But I really enjoyed the 2, I even replayed it to see the other side of the story after the big branching, which is something I almost never do with games.
I don’t think it’s bad, more like it just hasn’t aged very well, especially the combat. Which is the same thing I disliked about 3 despite enjoying it overall - clunky combat in a post Dark Souls world just doesn’t cut it for me.
The game is alright, but I’m in no rush to go back and finish it. I hope that with 4 and the focus on Ciri they will work on improving the combat system some more.
Witcher 1 is so bad it kinda goes full circle into having a certain charm.
It’s like the gaming equivalent of a pug: so ugly it’s cute.
…I recommend modding the fuck out of it to basically godmode blitz your way through the story so you can get on to Witcher 2 which is an actually decent game; and Witcher 3 which remains one of the best games on the market to-date.
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I think there’s a remake in the works, haven’t played the original but I might try the new version
the first one has a standlone plot thats mostly disconnected witht eh latter two. 1’s gameplay was rough, but its a decent introductory on the world and the Geralt as a form of a mentor.
It’s visually a 3d action game, but plays like a top down ARPG(as it is an ARPG)
That’s because the first one was inspired by a Baldur’s gate game (they were working in localization). But it got canceled because interplay was on the brink of bankruptcy. So CDPR repurposed all the work done thus far, including most of the script, with a new license they had just bought.
Funnily enough, the mild success of the writing convinced CDPR to port the game to consoles and that also almost bankrupted them.
When I played 1 and 2 in a similar mindset as you, I eased the burden with some mods. But that might be cheating :-)
I love the first one. To anyone saying it sucks, I’ll have to fight you. I’ll meet you at the Hairy Bear
Yes. Geralt on Geralt at the Hairy Bear!
One of my most controversial gaming takes is that I like the first witcher game the most of the trilogy. There is a lot of jank and some cringeworthy parts but overall it feels like a much tighter experience than the later games, notwithstanding some clearly undercooked parts. It takes a lot more cues from older rpgs in how it’s structured and I suppose I might just have a weak spot for that.
To be fair, I’ve never gotten that far in the third witcher so maybe I’d like more it if I played it enough to properly get in to it. I just got kinda bored after a dozen or so hours which is not a problem I had with the first witcher.
I really liked the first one when it was new… Up until I got toward the end and encountered a CTD bug that, if was ever fixed, I didn’t know about it and gave up waiting for.
The re-release probably works fine tho… Right?
Why not just write crash to desktop for us non-technical people?
It took me like two minutes to figure out what that meant.
People can search for it online at your preferred search engine
People aren’t always going to be there to answer questions people have
You haven’t seen “CTD” before? You’re yankin’ my pizzle.
I’ve been online since the time my modern had to scream at my phone line and this is the first time I encountered that particular TLA.
I haven’t seen a pizzle yanked that well in some time.
Maybe I’ve seen it before but I had to search what it meant to refresh my memory.
Something something lucky 10,000
I tried playing the 3rd one and I really couldn’t get past Geralt’s voice and voice acting. I couldn’t stand it. Probably just me though.
Set the voice to Polish.
I will try this. I’m playing one of the extra adventures, and the voices don’t fire for some reason. Its an improvement, so putting the main game on Polish might work well.
That actually sounds like a good idea. As a half Pole I’d probably enjoy that
I’ve played the first one briefly. I don’t remember being able to play other characters. I remember the worst part being the combat system was an absolute slog. The later Witcher games don’t have great combat systems either, but it’s at least improved with each generation.
I might go back and play the older witchers eventually but I still haven’t finished Witcher 3 despite like 200 hours in it.
Heh, I loved the first one and then I tried the second one, hated how they changed the combat, and quit.
I quickly gave up on the first. I really enjoyed the second one though, and also that some of the choices you make carry over in the 3rd one.
If I had one complaint about Witcher 3, it would be the stupid crafting system, even 200 hours in I am missing bits and pieces… I could not stand Gwent at the time and actively avoided it, but some people love it.
There is no bad Witcher (rpg) game.
I also tried 1 long after release and couldn’t get over the clunkyness and how much studying it requires to play. But I really enjoyed the 2, I even replayed it to see the other side of the story after the big branching, which is something I almost never do with games.
The first is fine. The ending is great, some other parts are bad. Some are very questionable. On the whole, I enjoyed it.
I started playing 1, but haven’t finished it.
I don’t think it’s bad, more like it just hasn’t aged very well, especially the combat. Which is the same thing I disliked about 3 despite enjoying it overall - clunky combat in a post Dark Souls world just doesn’t cut it for me.
The game is alright, but I’m in no rush to go back and finish it. I hope that with 4 and the focus on Ciri they will work on improving the combat system some more.
Witcher 1 is so bad it kinda goes full circle into having a certain charm.
It’s like the gaming equivalent of a pug: so ugly it’s cute.
…I recommend modding the fuck out of it to basically godmode blitz your way through the story so you can get on to Witcher 2 which is an actually decent game; and Witcher 3 which remains one of the best games on the market to-date.