The Witcher

[PiP]

emotionally charged adventure

yea I lolled a bit too

[Kashluk]

new details

• emotionally charged adventure
  three independent plots
  several alternative events depending on the player’s actions.
  Sex and eroticism will also be key (...) in a much more realistic, involving and mature way
  no FedEx missions
  more story-connected quests.
  extensive non-linearity
  advanced gameplay mechanics,� meaning any allies you meet during the main plot will show “new and diverse possibilities and threads�.
  enhanced character development, with customisation decisions affecting the different types of gameplay experiences,
  battle enemies that have “a fixed difficulty level�.
  “unique, intuitive combat system� which brings together a massive list of “tactical elements�

Plenty of promises, but will Witcher 2 deliver? I doubt it, I doubt it very much. Being charged emotionally reads like Notebook in my eyes. Extensive non-linearity sounds an awful lot like Oblivion. Enhanced character developement means Sims 4.

[Blargh]

The Sims ? I was hoping for a system more closely resembling that of Fable . . .

How disappointing.

[PiP]

cheap talk is cheap talk but there is at least one promising thing - with the first Witcher they proved that they can make a pure-PC RPG and make pretty big money, so this time devs can be more daring and have more freedom, as the pressure to appeal to general public by making a run-off-the-mill product won't be so big.

[Cimmerian Nights]

Yeah, I wouldn't call The Witcher a hardcore RPG or anything, but it's not nearly as compromised as say Bethesda or Bioware fare. The Whitcher actually had a pair of balls on it.

I like the dark, low fantasy setting, as opposed to that high fantasy TES shit with white knights on horseback and all that tired, cliche shit. It has an edge to it, something that can't be said about anything done by Bioware or Todd Howard could make.

Todd Howard is about as edgy as milk and cookies.