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Other than me, that is? I know some of you are reading the sticky, since it's recieved so many views, and was wondering if anyone here other than myself is planning on picking up a copy as soon as it comes out?

I wouldn't mind getting it, but it depends on whether my pc meets the specs or not as it can be a bit temperamental (sometimes it plays stuff fine below spec and others it won't play stuff its above spec for lol).

christmas card

thinking about it..
ok another question:- i forgot about the witcher,i guess i went to there web site
and i must of registered there because in February i got a christmas card from them so i must admit i had to do a search for "the witcher"
so my question is did anyone else get a card?


and yes i did not look on this site, do i have to say more..

[QUOTE=Witcher News Archives]The Christmas is coming and so is the New Year. We decided to prepare a unique witcher's Christmas card for you. If you want to get one, just fill out this form - and wait for the Santa Claus when Christmas comes! Cards can be ordered until the midnight of 4/5th December 2005 (GMT +1).[/QUOTE]

Thanks
i guess thats how i got it:laugh:

I´ll get this game. OMG I can´t stand till next year

Well im not going to say im going to get it.
Who knows when it will be released.
And things like bugs, duration etc will all play a part in my decision.

Went and take a look at what the Witcher looked like at [url="http://www.gamespot.com/"]Gamespot[/url] and it looks good and plays good, though from the videos I've seen, there seems to be some frame rate issues at certain parts of the game. On another note, this game seems to play out a bit like Fable in terms of the controls and the camera angle.

Anyway, CDProjekt has done a really good job in modifying Bioware's Aurora engine. Almost looks like a completely different engine with no trace of the Aurora looks at all (kind of reminds me of what Lucasarts did to the Unreal Engine implemented in Star Wars: Republic Commando).

Enough said. I will try out this game.

Thanks, Hill-Shatar for bringing this up.

[QUOTE=Hill-Shatar]Other than me, that is? I know some of you are reading the sticky, since it's recieved so many views, and was wondering if anyone here other than myself is planning on picking up a copy as soon as it comes out?[/QUOTE]

Yes, I will definitely get the Witcher as soon as I can

I thought that this thread is almost lifeless at first.....Oh well, I just want to correct what I've mentioned a long time ago. At first, I thought that this game will play like Fable: The Lost Chapters due to the camera angle and the way he fights in that E3 trailer. I was so wrong. When I saw the gameplay footage much later, it plays very much like Neverwinter Nights and some other top-down RPGs that frequently uses the mouse for almost everything except that the view seems to be 3rd person rather than top-down (you know me. I really dislike top-down RPGs).

Personally, I would like to try out the demo of the game when its released but I might have some apprehensions as to whether I'll have the initiative to play through the whole game or not. Only time will tell.

The Aurora engine is the same engine used by Neverwinter Nights so I always expected it to be similar graphics wise. Saying that, they seem to have done an excellent job with the graphics, and hopefully with the storyline and gameplay too. I really like the view used in Neverwinter Nights so if they use the same view in The Witcher then I'd definately buy it

mr_sir wrote:The Aurora engine is the same engine used by Neverwinter Nights so I always expected it to be similar graphics wise. Saying that, they seem to have done an excellent job with the graphics, and hopefully with the storyline and gameplay too. I really like the view used in Neverwinter Nights so if they use the same view in The Witcher then I'd definately buy it

Sorry I didn't comment on this earlier but from the looks of the engine, it looks like a completely different engine even though its the Aurora Engine itself. Must have been heavily modified until there is no trace of Aurora in it. CD Projeckt have done a very good job here.

Anyway, about the view, yeah, I agree with you. It might have the top-down view as well but it makes me wonder how it will work considering that there will be 3 different types of attacks because according to the combat demo, you have to aim at the top part of the enemy to unleash high attacks, centre part for medium attacks and the low part for low attacks. The guy was using a more close up view so I can't tell how it will look like if its in the top-down view.

DesR85 wrote:Sorry I didn't comment on this earlier but from the looks of the engine, it looks like a completely different engine even though its the Aurora Engine itself. Must have been heavily modified until there is no trace of Aurora in it. CD Projeckt have done a very good job here.

Yeah I thought the same thing when I first saw the screenshots. Its looks completely different to how I imagined it would be if they are using the Aurora engine. I just hope they have put as much effort into the storyline and quests as they have modifying the engine.

DesR85 wrote:Anyway, about the view, yeah, I agree with you. It might have the top-down view as well but it makes me wonder how it will work considering that there will be 3 different types of attacks because according to the combat demo, you have to aim at the top part of the enemy to unleash high attacks, centre part for medium attacks and the low part for low attacks. The guy was using a more close up view so I can't tell how it will look like if its in the top-down view.

In Neverwinter Nights you can zoom right in so its a close up view or zoom really far out. It could be a similar system. Although, from what you have said about the combat demo, maybe they have changed it so its just a close up view rather than top-down view. I can't see any other way that they could get that combat system to work

I will certainly buy this game unless I find some reason why I shouldn't around release time. Euros tend to do a great job with these kinds of atmospheric rpgs. The story seems compelling, the graphics engine more than adequate, the effort of the developers appears to be excellent. I don't prefer fixed character games (no female option even), but this may be a keeper.

Naturally I will get "The Witcher"

Only question is, when to play - as I'm playing Vanguard already.

Am waiting for my preorder to arrive any day now.

I preordered the collectors edition. But will have to wait till 2 November for it to be released here . At least I get the uncensored version.

Yep!
As soon as I get my new computer ordered in a few weeks, I'll put in an order for The Witcher too.

Got it now, but still 6 hours until I can get home from work to install and try it out. Looking forward to trying it out.

The Witcher coming to Atari.com/us as a Digital Download October 30th!

Just wanted to let everyone know that Atari will be releasing The Witcher on Atari.com/us on October 30th as a Digital Download. Anyone from the United States, Canada, Mexico, or Puerto Rico will be able to purchase it there.

The download link will be found on this page: Atari - US - The Witcher ® - PC DVD-ROM

Please also feel free to ask any questions you may have about the download and I will do my best to answer them.

Best Regards,
Mattlab