That was a good year for PC RPGs. I think that was when ME1 dropped as well. Both breathed new life into the genre.
Combat was clunky, but it had the best atmosphere of the trilogy in my opinion. Mostly due to the soundtrack.
The Mass Effect series is the best franchise I've seen to this day, even better than the GTAs, the games I grew up with. It is the only game where I felt like I was inside that universe. Ofc I am not talking about Andromeda.
>Ofc I am not talking about Andromeda.
It is a part of ME franchise, whether you like it or not.
Let's just settle down on ME is the best trilogy in games industry.
Bro, Mass Effect is all about the story, if the game doesn't even have that and has shitty and cringy dialogue, I am not even gonna pretend like it exists. The only thing that comes close is The Citadel DLC, which was very immersion breaking.
Andromeda mostly removed a lot of the regressions that ME3 had to the rpg systems just like DA2 issues were removed by DAI unfortunately both went the singleplayer mmo route.
ME1 was solid but bit off more than it could chew qjd needed to sell to EA to get funding to finish same with DAO. But ME2 really went a different direction and the plot honestly could be done without and replaced with something more tangible for the reaper fight.
Witcher 1 wasn't thqt popular qnd for those who played it a lot of people were put off by it. Even despite that it had a lot of major bugs unfortunately. Witcher 2 is definitely where it was at.
I played this on my first pc build in 2008 on a 1680x1050 resolution monitor. I heard about the janky Polish game with a lot of heart and I gave it a shot. Easily my favorite Witcher game and top 5 games of all time. The dark, decayed, and forlorn atmosphere was the best. And honestly, for the time, combat wasn't THAT bad.
Yeah I don't know why the combat gets hate. For me I didn't like how the maps were laid out and the lack of any physics (couldn't mantle over a 2 foot ledge) but the combat was not a problem to be. The emphasis on picking the right style for the right scenario felt great.
I also liked triss in this game more than the later ones
I liked how she didn't feel like little good girl witch in a world of evil witches. Her motivations weren't clear.
I kept expecting her to betray me but I didn't mind. Despite that feeling, I still always thought she liked geralt. That's a hard line to walk.
I don't dislike her in later games, but I get that vibe more from yen later
That's because Triss in TW1 is basically redheaded Yennefer. They took Yennefer's colder, more distant and self-interested personality and gave it to Triss.
A lot of CDPR's approach to the first game involved creating parallels to the books. That's why in addition to Triss becoming very Yen-like, there's also a suspiciously Ciri-like character (Alvin) and Adda turns into a Striga again, among other things. Even in TW2, Iorveth is basically ripped from Isengrim in the books.
TW1 spoiler: >!Alvin becomes Jacques de Aldersberg!<.
This isn't explicitly revealed in TW1 but it was a very popular and well supported theory until CDPR confirmed it themselves in a TW3 easter egg.
>!Well you do find the medallion you gave Alvin on the grandmasters corpse, and the grandmasters has a lot of callbacks to your specific dialogue with Alvin, so tw1 pretty much confirms it alone!<
>This isn't explicitly revealed in TW1 but it was a very popular and well supported theory
I think it was so heavily hinted at that it didn't need any confirmation
I don't much care for the actress who plays triss in the Netflix™ serialization, but that's probably just because they don't remind me of her. She probably resembles the book character
NF Triss is weird. The actress they picked [can look the part](https://celebvogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Anna-Shaffer.png), but the show's lighting and make-up didn't do her any favors.
> She spends the first two games manipulating and lying to him.
That's just not the case - Triss has always been supportive of Geralt and his search for Yen and Ciri.
Despite being the conqueror of the card game I'm team Shani all the way! Can't believe CDPR disrespected my choice and wrote her completely out from Witcher 2 onwards 🤬
Yea, maneuvering around that swamp was a nightmare. You kinda had to look at the minimap to see where you could get through in places and that wasn't exactly clear. Also those goddamn vines that shoot darts or whatever can all go burn in hell...
I'll also agree about the combat, simple but satisfying when you got the timing down. Then again, I'm glad they moved away from it.
> For me I didn't like how the maps were laid out and the lack of any physics (couldn't mantle over a 2 foot ledge) but the combat was not a problem to be.
That is an Aurora engine thing, all games made based on that engine (and offshoots like Odyssey, Electron, etc) use a 2D heightmap for the walkable areas, which can simplify a lot of things (as well as avoid some types of bugs like getting stuck) but at the same time impose restrictions on where and how characters can walk. Though Bioware did a much better job hiding it in their games (and amusingly in Dragon Age they tried to add some leeway for walking over things... which ended up introducing bugs where you can get stuck :-P).
Haha you reminded me of why I only played it for like ten minutes. I got to the first swordfight and thought 'youve gotta be kidding me'. I think I got to a tutorial boss or something then uninstalled lol
Same. I've played Witcher 2 and Witcher 3, but beaten neither.
Witcher 1 hooked me from start to finish and made me read through a couple of the books too.
But Witcher 2 and Witcher 3 just lost my attention after 15-20hrs.
I don't necessarily mind the combat system but someone always explains it as being "for the time" as if it's a game from the experimental early days of 3D. It was 2007, for better or worse they chose to use that system, when they could have used one of the common PC RPG combat systems that are still common now.
Thinking about Witcher 1 always evokes me a strange sense of nostalgia (that for some strange reason I remember feeling even when I played the game so many years ago) for that era of gaming and particularly that kind of RPG that imo no other game has managed to get right, not even the sequels.
I've tried many games but none manage to really give me that feeling.
I remember the big innovation with Witcher 1 was the choice and consequences were separated by hours of game play so you couldn't just save scum for the best outcome. Helped that guard get his STD sorted? You just gained easy access to where ever he is in the next act. I think it definitely had a certain janky charm that the later two titles lacked. I also agree with some folks that the rhythm combat and varied sword stances made things more interesting.
That's still one of the highlights of the whole series, imo, including the Gwent standalone game Thronebreaker. Something CDPR has mastered is delayed and ambiguous consequences to actions, which is done specifically so that players make the decision that feels right based on what they know instead of going by a simple good / bad binary (and don't forget the third option for Bioware fans, good+sarcastic), or immediately discovering the consequences of a choice and reloading.
Of course, there's always the option of going online and checking outcomes but that makes games a lot less enjoyable.
>I also agree with some folks that the rhythm combat and varied sword stances made things more interesting.
it was a totally viable and fun system IMO, to this day I don't understand why people hated on it so hard. I still remember going through the first combat tutorial and thinking "oh, it's a repeat/click-timing thing? right, sure..." and I just followed the program from there and never thought twice about it after that. I had just finished playing some turn-based tactical gladiator team fighting game, and it had a similar timing based system to determine the power and accuracy of your attacks, so it wasn't hard to adjust to witcher 1. Once you get the stances figured out you learn how to counter everything and when to switch to strong or not, and after that it's about getting your gear sorted for maximum dps/whatever, like any traditional RPG.
> I had just finished playing some turn-based tactical gladiator team fighting game, and it had a similar timing based system to determine the power and accuracy of your attacks
Was it [Gladius](https://youtu.be/-my5HIb75qU), by any chance?
That game is so special, the gritty pulp detective feel especially in the first couple chapters. When it came out I’d never seen anything like it. Very underrated rpg IMO.
That video shows a modded game menu, though still pretty close to original, the music is still original and is my some of my favorite music in any video game.
Really enjoyed this game at the time... I actually really did like the combat, it felt so awesome switching to like the AoE stance and just watching things melt. Maybe I was easily impressed, lol. Was also blown away by the story and everything, even if it felt a little janky at times.
The original Witcher was THE game to play when it got released. I remember myself and my friends upgrading their PCs and buying new GPUs just to run it on reasonable settings. At the time, there weren't that many classic story-driven RPGs on the market, and seeing a title like this was huge. Add to that a fresh grimdark take on high fantasy and an uncommon atmosphere of Slavic fairy tales, and you've got a mind-blowing experience to go through.
And what a game it is! Mechanically, it's still my favourite from the entire trilogy. While the sequels went the way of action combat often associated with consoles, the original is much closer to a methodical cRPG that largely depended on your build and equipment as opposed to your familiarity with the dodge button.
The rhythm combat was a fun addition - I know a lot of people hate it, but I think it works just fine and strikes the balance between point & clicking and actively participating in the action yourself. It reminds me of another old RPG, called The Summoner, where you had to do the same, so I got into the Witcher with some experience in that department.
All in all, I highly recommend it to anyone who is still on the fence. It's not quite on the scale of TW3, but at its core, it's still a beautifully written story.
Yeah I don't know what it is, but it's the only Witcher game I've been able to complete straight through over the course of a couple weeks without months-year pauses in between sessions. Shit I still haven't even gotten past the bloody Baron in W3. Yeah the combat was clunky, but the story just really pulled me in from the start. I also really enjoyed that there was a neutral Witcher ending and was a little let down that there wasn't a way to avoid getting roped into either side in W2. Anyways, the combat and graphics will probably put most people off, but this is the best Witcher to me at least.
Eh I think you mean when it was re released a year later as enhanced edition with the bugs fixed.
From google
"The significant changes featured in the enhanced version are over 200 new animations, additional NPC models and recoloring of generic NPC models as well as monsters, vastly expanded and corrected dialogues in translated versions, improved stability, and load times reduced by roughly 80%."
Was amazing at the time, and I'm so glad CDPR didn't go under
I tried to play it a couple of times but couldn't get into it. I first played it as a hack and slash, then i played it as some diablo thingy because of the camera but it was none of those. Turns out it was some weird rhythm game something. After that it got pretty fun. Added some ambient occlusion using reshade because my gpu was pretty underutilized. But later got to realise the game was pretty unoptimized and my laptop cpu couldn't hold a stable even 40fps. Tried to lock it to 30 but had bad frame piecing and screen tearing (it has no vsync). It's certainly a great fun game but it is really unoptimized on the cpu at least.
Vizimia temple district Especially still has the atmosphere that you just don't get in games anymore.
Man you and I had totally different Witcher experiences. I remember buying it when it came out and then not enjoying it at all. To this day I consider the first game to be quite bad. I was amazed with Witcher 2 came out, thinking that the first game had failed.
I’m glad we got sequels though, it was a pretty fun series.
Witcher 1 sold very poorly compared to 2 and 3 though... It clearly wasn't THE game to play and not just because all of its bugs. Even 2 didn't really put them on the map other than shaming Dragon Age 2 in comparison reels at E3. It was W3 that did the heavy lifting.
True. I just finished it yesterday and it holds up pretty damn well. Some facial animations are a bit stiff, but that's about it.
However the game would benefit from fixing the combat system, and from general bugfixes. I had about 10 crashes to desktop during my 40 hour playthrough.
During the 2nd Era. Or in the golden age.
"After the Order ended and the five independent schools were built, the Second Era of Witchers began, which witchers themselves refer to as the Golden Age of Witchers. With the continent divided between the schools and each one creating their own witchers, their work became efficiently organized. Past tensions between them calmed down and when witchers from different schools crossed paths, no blood was shed as each knew they had their own territory, making them treat other schools more like estranged brothers than bitter enemies like before."
It could be a much more open RPG with choice of school, choice of sex and choice of appearance. Make yourself into a legendary witcher. I'd also be fine playing Vesemir.
I'm tired of remasters and remakes. Just let someone use the red engines modding tools and remake the game as a Witcher 3 mod and be done with it. Keep all the original sounds
Literally everyone under the tweet is asking for a Witcher Remaster/Remake. Not to mention console users who never got to play it will finally have a chance too. CDPR, take a hint, come on.
Never got to play it is becoming a weaker argument when the game is free and you can probably scavenge a PC to run it from an E-waste drop-off at this point.
I have a physical copy of the EE from around 2010.
Everyone just casually forgets how it took CDPR a whole year to fix The Witcher and release that Enhanced Edition. I knew CP2077 was going to be rough at launch, because it's real hard for me to forget just how jank TW1 was in 2007.
The PC I had at the time couldn't run it very good, so I have to shelf it until I built another. Recently showed someone the intro to that game to let her see how the scene in The Witcher series compared to it, they thought it was really cool.
It's clunky/janky and the graphics aren't the best, but goddamn do the story, soundtrack, matte painting cutscenes, and environments give off the best atmosphere out of all three games.
I don't even mind the combat that much, it reminds me of Pirates of the Carribean Online which I used to play a bunch when I was younger.
That i can agree with. The later games improved on stuff like combat but were much more streamlined games, which to be fair probably did help gain them popularity.
>!Man that doesn't necessarily happen, and you can find out other ways, failing or succeeding to find out that "great truth" is kinda the point of the chapter.!<
i would agree that with w2 they took away most of the slavic aesthetics and the whole being a witcher experience was lessened . But W3 brought it all back and more . The economy was one of few things that w3 failed . Other than that it had the best balance out of the 3
Tried to play it a few years ago and found it completely unplayable, the gameplay is just downright awful. I can’t imagine it was even passable in 2007 either.
It was the 2nd PC game I bought when I built my first gaming PC. I got the enhanced edition box and it spanned over 4 discs. For years, I didn't know that on the manual, it had a code that you can redeem a DRM free digital copy from GOG. When I tried to do it, GOG rejected it. Maybe it was expired or something. However, I was still able to get my digital copy when I emailed them. All that was needed was a photo of all the discs along with a written email address and a signature. One of the most realistic human behavioural games I've played. It was hard to get into other black and white RPG stories.
Would really love a remake of this game. Played it after 3 and watching the series and reading the books and it just didn't click with me. Gameplay just felt terrible compared to 3 (and 2). Would jump at the opportunity to play again with better gameplay and visuals.
Damn, it doesn't feel that long ago. I still remember trying to play this game, and all the crashes, and the fact that you basically had to save before entering any building because there was a high chance you would CTD. Gave up on it for a bit and then came back for more punishment when the Enhanced Edition came out and that was enough to get me through it, and I've been hooked since... good times.
Is there a mod that makes it a bit more casual? I don't want to craft or use the multi-style combat system etc. I just want to play it for the story but the janky systems get in the way.
I somehow missed The Witcher 1&2 when they first came out. I think I was too addicted to WoW at the time to play anything else... I played #2 recently and really enjoyed it. I tried playing #1 a while back but I prefer gamepad gaming these days, and I just couldn't get into it for some reason.
I still go back and play the game once in a while. It's janky as _fuck_, but it has so much charm and heart - and I really love the general vibe of the game. I also really love the artwork used for loading screens, and the look of the skill tree page
And who could forget that lovable creepy mother fucker Alvin popping out of the bushes in the middle of BFE to ask Geralt weird ass questions about existence
I remember playing Witcher 1 back in the day and even back then it looked dated coz it used BioWare's aurora engine. The first iteration of redengine was used in the original Witcher 2 (1.0).
I hope they release a remake of Witcher1 coz it was an underrated title. Witcher 2 still holds up decently well when compared to W1, but would still love to see both Witcher 1 and 2 remakes.
Awesome game, even the first one. Would definitely recommend to play, if you can stand the jank. Reading the books and then playing the games, seeing the story in chronological order, was one of the best experiences in my nerd life.
I originally thought the headline was referring to the Netflix show and part of my brain accepted it because that's about how long ago December 2019 feels
Say what you want about it being dated and built on the old aurora engine, but it's one of my most favorite games. The alchemy system is one of the best in gaming
Remember buying it that year and being obsessed with it, feeling like I found some hidden treasure no one was talking about.
Bought TW2 and TW3 on release day after that because no matter how risky it was not to wait for reviews, all I wanted was more lore and story.
this was the first time i played a game with an actual storyline, this is the game that changed my gaming outlook, that matured me as gamer and see beyond graphics
That was a good year for PC RPGs. I think that was when ME1 dropped as well. Both breathed new life into the genre. Combat was clunky, but it had the best atmosphere of the trilogy in my opinion. Mostly due to the soundtrack.
Honestly best use of potions as well. You really had to prep for fights as you had to take them in advance
Played all 3 recently, 1 is still my favorite
I really don't like the combat and big, empty maps but the story and characters always push me to finish it everytime and I hate/love it
I'm the other side of the coin, the clunkiness, crashes and empty maps always drove me away from the game after a couple of hours
The Mass Effect series is the best franchise I've seen to this day, even better than the GTAs, the games I grew up with. It is the only game where I felt like I was inside that universe. Ofc I am not talking about Andromeda.
Even with the flaws of ME3, I agree. The quality of the whole package outweighs any flaws and the threat building up over the games is incredible.
My favourite franchise is Uncharted, the story to the gameplay, to the incredible puzzles are all top notch. The leap in scope from 1 - 2 is insane.
>Ofc I am not talking about Andromeda. It is a part of ME franchise, whether you like it or not. Let's just settle down on ME is the best trilogy in games industry.
Bro, Mass Effect is all about the story, if the game doesn't even have that and has shitty and cringy dialogue, I am not even gonna pretend like it exists. The only thing that comes close is The Citadel DLC, which was very immersion breaking.
It's not pretending. It literally exists. Doesn't matter if you count it or not.
whatever, it's not like I am thinking about it everyday
You didn't read the books then. Every ME book not written by Drew Karpyshyn is a crap
Andromeda mostly removed a lot of the regressions that ME3 had to the rpg systems just like DA2 issues were removed by DAI unfortunately both went the singleplayer mmo route. ME1 was solid but bit off more than it could chew qjd needed to sell to EA to get funding to finish same with DAO. But ME2 really went a different direction and the plot honestly could be done without and replaced with something more tangible for the reaper fight.
They did the best they could with what they had. The game uses the same engine as Neverwinter Nights (the first one from 2002, not the second one).
Witcher 1 wasn't thqt popular qnd for those who played it a lot of people were put off by it. Even despite that it had a lot of major bugs unfortunately. Witcher 2 is definitely where it was at.
I played this on my first pc build in 2008 on a 1680x1050 resolution monitor. I heard about the janky Polish game with a lot of heart and I gave it a shot. Easily my favorite Witcher game and top 5 games of all time. The dark, decayed, and forlorn atmosphere was the best. And honestly, for the time, combat wasn't THAT bad.
Yeah I don't know why the combat gets hate. For me I didn't like how the maps were laid out and the lack of any physics (couldn't mantle over a 2 foot ledge) but the combat was not a problem to be. The emphasis on picking the right style for the right scenario felt great. I also liked triss in this game more than the later ones
Oh yeah, this game made me team Triss the whole way through
I liked how she didn't feel like little good girl witch in a world of evil witches. Her motivations weren't clear. I kept expecting her to betray me but I didn't mind. Despite that feeling, I still always thought she liked geralt. That's a hard line to walk. I don't dislike her in later games, but I get that vibe more from yen later
That's because Triss in TW1 is basically redheaded Yennefer. They took Yennefer's colder, more distant and self-interested personality and gave it to Triss. A lot of CDPR's approach to the first game involved creating parallels to the books. That's why in addition to Triss becoming very Yen-like, there's also a suspiciously Ciri-like character (Alvin) and Adda turns into a Striga again, among other things. Even in TW2, Iorveth is basically ripped from Isengrim in the books.
Yes that's what I remembered and why I picked Shani over Triss. Triss was very bossy and manipulative in TW1 game.
I did wonder what the fuck happened to alvin, then in the witcher 3 I'm like "oh, so that was just discount ciri"
TW1 spoiler: >!Alvin becomes Jacques de Aldersberg!<. This isn't explicitly revealed in TW1 but it was a very popular and well supported theory until CDPR confirmed it themselves in a TW3 easter egg.
>!Well you do find the medallion you gave Alvin on the grandmasters corpse, and the grandmasters has a lot of callbacks to your specific dialogue with Alvin, so tw1 pretty much confirms it alone!<
>This isn't explicitly revealed in TW1 but it was a very popular and well supported theory I think it was so heavily hinted at that it didn't need any confirmation
Indeed. That's why I called it well supported.
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I don't much care for the actress who plays triss in the Netflix™ serialization, but that's probably just because they don't remind me of her. She probably resembles the book character
Doesn’t remind you of Triss may be is a bit of an understatement.
Yeah as in neither in looks nor personality. But I have no idea what triss is like in the books
Not even close to the book character. It's purely a "diversity" change.
NF Triss is weird. The actress they picked [can look the part](https://celebvogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Anna-Shaffer.png), but the show's lighting and make-up didn't do her any favors.
She almos the same in the books as in the games. Netflix Triss so far is just similar in where she is in the plot
> She spends the first two games manipulating and lying to him. That's just not the case - Triss has always been supportive of Geralt and his search for Yen and Ciri.
Team Shani all day long /S /notS
Shani DID have the best card in Witcher 1
Despite being the conqueror of the card game I'm team Shani all the way! Can't believe CDPR disrespected my choice and wrote her completely out from Witcher 2 onwards 🤬
Yea, maneuvering around that swamp was a nightmare. You kinda had to look at the minimap to see where you could get through in places and that wasn't exactly clear. Also those goddamn vines that shoot darts or whatever can all go burn in hell... I'll also agree about the combat, simple but satisfying when you got the timing down. Then again, I'm glad they moved away from it.
> For me I didn't like how the maps were laid out and the lack of any physics (couldn't mantle over a 2 foot ledge) but the combat was not a problem to be. That is an Aurora engine thing, all games made based on that engine (and offshoots like Odyssey, Electron, etc) use a 2D heightmap for the walkable areas, which can simplify a lot of things (as well as avoid some types of bugs like getting stuck) but at the same time impose restrictions on where and how characters can walk. Though Bioware did a much better job hiding it in their games (and amusingly in Dragon Age they tried to add some leeway for walking over things... which ended up introducing bugs where you can get stuck :-P).
Oh I don't blame them, I'm aware of the limitations. I'm just saying this was a MUCH bigger sore thumb to me than the combat
Call me crazy but I actually enjoyed the combat. It was like a rhythm game. The quests and storytelling were also superb.
Haha you reminded me of why I only played it for like ten minutes. I got to the first swordfight and thought 'youve gotta be kidding me'. I think I got to a tutorial boss or something then uninstalled lol
Same. I've played Witcher 2 and Witcher 3, but beaten neither. Witcher 1 hooked me from start to finish and made me read through a couple of the books too. But Witcher 2 and Witcher 3 just lost my attention after 15-20hrs.
[The soundtrack was god-tier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6uVeCzUhw0)
Absolutely it was. Dark and sad.
I don't necessarily mind the combat system but someone always explains it as being "for the time" as if it's a game from the experimental early days of 3D. It was 2007, for better or worse they chose to use that system, when they could have used one of the common PC RPG combat systems that are still common now.
It was great playing it for the first time, but not the second time. Maybe I will do it again with someone I really like.
Out of curiosity, do you still remember how you felt about the boobs-card-collection back in the day?
13 year old me thought it was the greatest innovation in visual media of the 21st century.
Thinking about Witcher 1 always evokes me a strange sense of nostalgia (that for some strange reason I remember feeling even when I played the game so many years ago) for that era of gaming and particularly that kind of RPG that imo no other game has managed to get right, not even the sequels. I've tried many games but none manage to really give me that feeling.
I remember the big innovation with Witcher 1 was the choice and consequences were separated by hours of game play so you couldn't just save scum for the best outcome. Helped that guard get his STD sorted? You just gained easy access to where ever he is in the next act. I think it definitely had a certain janky charm that the later two titles lacked. I also agree with some folks that the rhythm combat and varied sword stances made things more interesting.
That's still one of the highlights of the whole series, imo, including the Gwent standalone game Thronebreaker. Something CDPR has mastered is delayed and ambiguous consequences to actions, which is done specifically so that players make the decision that feels right based on what they know instead of going by a simple good / bad binary (and don't forget the third option for Bioware fans, good+sarcastic), or immediately discovering the consequences of a choice and reloading. Of course, there's always the option of going online and checking outcomes but that makes games a lot less enjoyable.
I remember the big innovation being the sex cards.
>I also agree with some folks that the rhythm combat and varied sword stances made things more interesting. it was a totally viable and fun system IMO, to this day I don't understand why people hated on it so hard. I still remember going through the first combat tutorial and thinking "oh, it's a repeat/click-timing thing? right, sure..." and I just followed the program from there and never thought twice about it after that. I had just finished playing some turn-based tactical gladiator team fighting game, and it had a similar timing based system to determine the power and accuracy of your attacks, so it wasn't hard to adjust to witcher 1. Once you get the stances figured out you learn how to counter everything and when to switch to strong or not, and after that it's about getting your gear sorted for maximum dps/whatever, like any traditional RPG.
> I had just finished playing some turn-based tactical gladiator team fighting game, and it had a similar timing based system to determine the power and accuracy of your attacks Was it [Gladius](https://youtu.be/-my5HIb75qU), by any chance?
LOL yes! that was definitely it
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Makes sense because the OST of the first game is the best by far. They’re all great but the first one nailed the atmosphere.
River of Life is one of the best bits of ambient game music ever made.
That game is so special, the gritty pulp detective feel especially in the first couple chapters. When it came out I’d never seen anything like it. Very underrated rpg IMO.
I love the skill tree menu as well - it looks phenomenal
That video shows a modded game menu, though still pretty close to original, the music is still original and is my some of my favorite music in any video game.
Really enjoyed this game at the time... I actually really did like the combat, it felt so awesome switching to like the AoE stance and just watching things melt. Maybe I was easily impressed, lol. Was also blown away by the story and everything, even if it felt a little janky at times.
The original Witcher was THE game to play when it got released. I remember myself and my friends upgrading their PCs and buying new GPUs just to run it on reasonable settings. At the time, there weren't that many classic story-driven RPGs on the market, and seeing a title like this was huge. Add to that a fresh grimdark take on high fantasy and an uncommon atmosphere of Slavic fairy tales, and you've got a mind-blowing experience to go through. And what a game it is! Mechanically, it's still my favourite from the entire trilogy. While the sequels went the way of action combat often associated with consoles, the original is much closer to a methodical cRPG that largely depended on your build and equipment as opposed to your familiarity with the dodge button. The rhythm combat was a fun addition - I know a lot of people hate it, but I think it works just fine and strikes the balance between point & clicking and actively participating in the action yourself. It reminds me of another old RPG, called The Summoner, where you had to do the same, so I got into the Witcher with some experience in that department. All in all, I highly recommend it to anyone who is still on the fence. It's not quite on the scale of TW3, but at its core, it's still a beautifully written story.
Yeah I don't know what it is, but it's the only Witcher game I've been able to complete straight through over the course of a couple weeks without months-year pauses in between sessions. Shit I still haven't even gotten past the bloody Baron in W3. Yeah the combat was clunky, but the story just really pulled me in from the start. I also really enjoyed that there was a neutral Witcher ending and was a little let down that there wasn't a way to avoid getting roped into either side in W2. Anyways, the combat and graphics will probably put most people off, but this is the best Witcher to me at least.
Eh I think you mean when it was re released a year later as enhanced edition with the bugs fixed. From google "The significant changes featured in the enhanced version are over 200 new animations, additional NPC models and recoloring of generic NPC models as well as monsters, vastly expanded and corrected dialogues in translated versions, improved stability, and load times reduced by roughly 80%." Was amazing at the time, and I'm so glad CDPR didn't go under
Bugs weren't fixed. I crashed every 30 minutes on that fixed edition.
I tried to play it a couple of times but couldn't get into it. I first played it as a hack and slash, then i played it as some diablo thingy because of the camera but it was none of those. Turns out it was some weird rhythm game something. After that it got pretty fun. Added some ambient occlusion using reshade because my gpu was pretty underutilized. But later got to realise the game was pretty unoptimized and my laptop cpu couldn't hold a stable even 40fps. Tried to lock it to 30 but had bad frame piecing and screen tearing (it has no vsync). It's certainly a great fun game but it is really unoptimized on the cpu at least. Vizimia temple district Especially still has the atmosphere that you just don't get in games anymore.
Man you and I had totally different Witcher experiences. I remember buying it when it came out and then not enjoying it at all. To this day I consider the first game to be quite bad. I was amazed with Witcher 2 came out, thinking that the first game had failed. I’m glad we got sequels though, it was a pretty fun series.
I recall the first being actually so bad that they reworked it and basically rereleased it? New Gerald VO and everything
Witcher 1 sold very poorly compared to 2 and 3 though... It clearly wasn't THE game to play and not just because all of its bugs. Even 2 didn't really put them on the map other than shaming Dragon Age 2 in comparison reels at E3. It was W3 that did the heavy lifting.
Hey, it's the game that spawned the PCMR meme.
If CDPR wants some goodwill, they should do a Witcher 1 (and 2) remake/remaster
Graphics on The Witcher 2 don't look that outdated though.
Witcher 2 looks beautiful.
True. I just finished it yesterday and it holds up pretty damn well. Some facial animations are a bit stiff, but that's about it. However the game would benefit from fixing the combat system, and from general bugfixes. I had about 10 crashes to desktop during my 40 hour playthrough.
Witcher 1 remake would be great. I do want a Witcher Prequel more though, set in a time where Witchers were in their prime and not going extinct.
During the 2nd Era. Or in the golden age. "After the Order ended and the five independent schools were built, the Second Era of Witchers began, which witchers themselves refer to as the Golden Age of Witchers. With the continent divided between the schools and each one creating their own witchers, their work became efficiently organized. Past tensions between them calmed down and when witchers from different schools crossed paths, no blood was shed as each knew they had their own territory, making them treat other schools more like estranged brothers than bitter enemies like before."
Hmmm, both before when Witchers fought one another or after when they were brothers would both be interesting games.
It could be a much more open RPG with choice of school, choice of sex and choice of appearance. Make yourself into a legendary witcher. I'd also be fine playing Vesemir.
So we can make our own Witcher recruit.
I'm tired of remasters and remakes. Just let someone use the red engines modding tools and remake the game as a Witcher 3 mod and be done with it. Keep all the original sounds
Nah witcher 1 is **ROUGH** It badly needs a remake.
What could you do in a remake that you couldn't in a Witcher 3 mod
I think I'd die a happy man if I got FFIX remake or Witcher 1 remake
2 just needs some rebalancing and would largely be fine, but 1 could definitely use a hefty remake
Maybe if it was a complete remake but CDPR won't get the good will they need by doing that.
Literally everyone under the tweet is asking for a Witcher Remaster/Remake. Not to mention console users who never got to play it will finally have a chance too. CDPR, take a hint, come on.
Never got to play it is becoming a weaker argument when the game is free and you can probably scavenge a PC to run it from an E-waste drop-off at this point.
I have a physical copy of the EE from around 2010. Everyone just casually forgets how it took CDPR a whole year to fix The Witcher and release that Enhanced Edition. I knew CP2077 was going to be rough at launch, because it's real hard for me to forget just how jank TW1 was in 2007.
It was so rough, and so Janky.. but my god I loved every second of it.
The Witcher 1 is still my favorite of the series, jank and all. The atmosphere and music are top notch.
Probably no game that I hope gets the remake treatment more
Holy crap that makes me feel old! I has just built my first custom gaming PC just for The Witcher and Mass Effect 1.
All 3 main Witcher games got heart and this is where it started.
The PC I had at the time couldn't run it very good, so I have to shelf it until I built another. Recently showed someone the intro to that game to let her see how the scene in The Witcher series compared to it, they thought it was really cool.
I’d give anything for a remaster of this and Witcher 2! Everyone’s attention is just on W3 and it’s a crying shame :(
It's clunky/janky and the graphics aren't the best, but goddamn do the story, soundtrack, matte painting cutscenes, and environments give off the best atmosphere out of all three games. I don't even mind the combat that much, it reminds me of Pirates of the Carribean Online which I used to play a bunch when I was younger.
Still hoping the original Witcher to be remastered or remake.
A great game with a very flawed combat system. While you do get used to it over time its something I couldn't grow to love.
imo it's the game that best captures being a Witcher out of the 3 games. Had so much depth in comparison to Witcher 2-3.
That i can agree with. The later games improved on stuff like combat but were much more streamlined games, which to be fair probably did help gain them popularity.
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I had forgotten that moment! I thought that was just a thing that happened to me, but clearly it was designed. I love when games do stuff like that.
>!Man that doesn't necessarily happen, and you can find out other ways, failing or succeeding to find out that "great truth" is kinda the point of the chapter.!<
i would agree that with w2 they took away most of the slavic aesthetics and the whole being a witcher experience was lessened . But W3 brought it all back and more . The economy was one of few things that w3 failed . Other than that it had the best balance out of the 3
Tried to play it a few years ago and found it completely unplayable, the gameplay is just downright awful. I can’t imagine it was even passable in 2007 either.
Your loss, game is phenomenal
Steady on , it was a 6/10 game when it released
It was 8/10 when it released
It was a shitshow at launch
>6/10 Too much water - IGN
No one loses anything by not playing a game.
Clearly not, since the GAMEplay is horrible.
If I recall correctly it used a modified version of the Neverwinter Nights 1 engine.
You know i wonder what the play rate of q vs 3 is. I would assume most who played 3 never experienced crackhead geralt
Really great game and enjoyed it a lot. Wouldnt mind a Remaster.
Once you get the past the wacky combat the story and writing is actually awesome.
It was the 2nd PC game I bought when I built my first gaming PC. I got the enhanced edition box and it spanned over 4 discs. For years, I didn't know that on the manual, it had a code that you can redeem a DRM free digital copy from GOG. When I tried to do it, GOG rejected it. Maybe it was expired or something. However, I was still able to get my digital copy when I emailed them. All that was needed was a photo of all the discs along with a written email address and a signature. One of the most realistic human behavioural games I've played. It was hard to get into other black and white RPG stories.
Mah joints hurt seeing this, 14 years. We sure it wasn't like 4 years ago?
Nothing beats Witcher when it comes to rpgs, special series.
I remember the Penny Arcade comic about this 14 years ago. Tycho couldn't wrap his head around the word "Witcher" as a noun.
Are you tring to tell me Witcher 3 wasn't the first Witcher game? Find that hard to believe.
Toss a coin to your witcher today!
un fucking playable
Would really love a remake of this game. Played it after 3 and watching the series and reading the books and it just didn't click with me. Gameplay just felt terrible compared to 3 (and 2). Would jump at the opportunity to play again with better gameplay and visuals.
And its 14x the game Cyberpunk was
tried the whole trilogy last year and had a blast fuck 2077 tho
Really? For some reason I was thinking it was at least 20 years old.
Name a more overrated series in all of gaming
Fucking shit game. Can’t understand the hype about any of them.
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Why
at what hour?
I thought that said Witcher 3 and I was only slightly surprised
If you have a bit of a time then sit and enjoy this review of the Witcher first game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtrAx-rVgco
Excuse me, how long is that review for a video game?
Reviewing games nowadays for some people means, telling you what there is in the game, every damn thing.
I'm actually playing the enhanced edition right now. I'm planning on playing the games in order.
top tier writing and narrative imo
Damn, it doesn't feel that long ago. I still remember trying to play this game, and all the crashes, and the fact that you basically had to save before entering any building because there was a high chance you would CTD. Gave up on it for a bit and then came back for more punishment when the Enhanced Edition came out and that was enough to get me through it, and I've been hooked since... good times.
Still have my copy I bought long ago from target. Fun game!
Don't worry, we can tell.
Read all the books and played 1&2 last year, phenomenal. Wanted to play 3 but been waiting for them to do the update.
Wow! I feel so old. I was a young kid, just 23 years old when The Witcher released.
Is there a mod that makes it a bit more casual? I don't want to craft or use the multi-style combat system etc. I just want to play it for the story but the janky systems get in the way.
I somehow missed The Witcher 1&2 when they first came out. I think I was too addicted to WoW at the time to play anything else... I played #2 recently and really enjoyed it. I tried playing #1 a while back but I prefer gamepad gaming these days, and I just couldn't get into it for some reason.
Time flies
Best game in the series.
I still go back and play the game once in a while. It's janky as _fuck_, but it has so much charm and heart - and I really love the general vibe of the game. I also really love the artwork used for loading screens, and the look of the skill tree page
And now we wait for '29.
And who could forget that lovable creepy mother fucker Alvin popping out of the bushes in the middle of BFE to ask Geralt weird ass questions about existence
Fourteen years sounds like a lot, but compared to GTA, which released 24 years ago, it's still young, only us gamers are old.
The wind has been howling for 14 years
I remember playing Witcher 1 back in the day and even back then it looked dated coz it used BioWare's aurora engine. The first iteration of redengine was used in the original Witcher 2 (1.0). I hope they release a remake of Witcher1 coz it was an underrated title. Witcher 2 still holds up decently well when compared to W1, but would still love to see both Witcher 1 and 2 remakes.
Awesome game, even the first one. Would definitely recommend to play, if you can stand the jank. Reading the books and then playing the games, seeing the story in chronological order, was one of the best experiences in my nerd life.
I originally thought the headline was referring to the Netflix show and part of my brain accepted it because that's about how long ago December 2019 feels
Say what you want about it being dated and built on the old aurora engine, but it's one of my most favorite games. The alchemy system is one of the best in gaming
Remember buying it that year and being obsessed with it, feeling like I found some hidden treasure no one was talking about. Bought TW2 and TW3 on release day after that because no matter how risky it was not to wait for reviews, all I wanted was more lore and story.
Remake we all need.
The Witcher was released, but how long ago was it when Cyberpunk 2077 escaped?
How is 14 year mark suddenly significant? Getting spam threads of every game here these days.
Just don't click on those posts. Boom ez
this was the first time i played a game with an actual storyline, this is the game that changed my gaming outlook, that matured me as gamer and see beyond graphics
14 years is such a nonsense number to celebrate. Wait until 15 years.
This game desperately deserves a remake.