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Rahl Windsong · 22nd May 2008, 05:34 PM

The only thing I game on is my PC and lately it has been The Witcher by CDProjectRed a Polish game developer. I have to say this game is very adult in content and not something you would ever see from a mainstream developer like say Blizzard or Bioware.

Even the censored version, that is available in North America, is way more adult in content then any other CRPG I have ever played and I have played most of them.

Anyway having said that this game is absolutely brilliant in terms of story and in how combat works. I recommend playing it through at least on the medium difficulty level because then the potions become something you have to manage much more carefully.

In The Witcher you can make some very powerful potions that give a lot of help in combat, however every potion you drink adds to the level of toxins in your blood and more then 50% toxins starts to give you negative effects in your preformance. This includes potions that heal you, even they have a some negative effect on the toxins in your blood.

There are of course ways to get rid of the toxins but that also negates the positive effects of the potions, so the drinking of potions has to be carefully planned and I found this to be very refreshing. Most CRPG's make it so that potions = God Mode and that gets borring fast.

Also the combat in The Witcher is not just a click fest you must time your clicks correctly or you will not preform the sequence of moves that you can learn. The Witcher is based on a series of novels by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, and is one of the best computer roleplaying games I have played in a while.

22nd May 2008, 05:34 PM	#299 (permalink)
Rahl Windsong Last of the Windsong Clan Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 515	Re: What game are you playing thread The only thing I game on is my PC and lately it has been The Witcher by CDProjectRed a Polish game developer. I have to say this game is very adult in content and not something you would ever see from a mainstream developer like say Blizzard or Bioware. Even the censored version, that is available in North America, is way more adult in content then any other CRPG I have ever played and I have played most of them. Anyway having said that this game is absolutely brilliant in terms of story and in how combat works. I recommend playing it through at least on the medium difficulty level because then the potions become something you have to manage much more carefully. In The Witcher you can make some very powerful potions that give a lot of help in combat, however every potion you drink adds to the level of toxins in your blood and more then 50% toxins starts to give you negative effects in your preformance. This includes potions that heal you, even they have a some negative effect on the toxins in your blood. There are of course ways to get rid of the toxins but that also negates the positive effects of the potions, so the drinking of potions has to be carefully planned and I found this to be very refreshing. Most CRPG's make it so that potions = God Mode and that gets borring fast. Also the combat in The Witcher is not just a click fest you must time your clicks correctly or you will not preform the sequence of moves that you can learn. The Witcher is based on a series of novels by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, and is one of the best computer roleplaying games I have played in a while.