The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

In The Witcher, you are a sterile killer with pale skin, cat eyes, throat cancer and get all the women. It is a wet boy’s dream. You drink wives tears to get rid of Vodka intoxication, gamble, fight in bars, converse or kill a werewolf, stay neutral amid political intrigue and sorcerers, read a book on how to dissect a wyvern, discuss the atom with an alchemist and slay swarms of drowned dead. The world is well build and beautiful for a game of 2007. The story is a combination of The Game of Thrones and Dracula, where you choices are gray and dark gray: choose the lesser evil. The game is not without problems. Back in the days, The Witcher played as watching American television: Every minute an endless loading screen. Add constant desktop crashes and I simply gave up. Today in 2021, loading times are reduced to a few flashes that give me headaches and epileptic seizures. Crashes are still present, as well as many graphical glitches and broken AI. NPCs have multiple voices. CD projekt Red quality issues did not start with Cyberpunk 2077. The world is filled with copy-paste. Clones of plot characters can be found everywhere, and a mere handful of voice actors cast all characters. Cities and caves are reused over and over, and filled with new monster types each chapter. You walk trenches while doing hundreds of errand quests in the same city section. The story and lore of each quest is interesting, but they all involve fetch and deliver. The later chapters swap the open world for a scripted story. Combat is not much better. It starts with an interesting crafting system of potions that reminds me of memorizing spells in DnD. You select one of your many swords and a fighting style. Then it is clicking the left mouse button at the right moment till the fight is over. Geralt makes somersaults and finishing moves, but you as player do little more than spam the mouse button. The Witcher brings an interesting story with gameplay that is boring before halfway through.

I just bought this a few weeks ago, never having played any of the games from The Witcher series. I'm really enjoying the game. What really matters to me is having an immersive game and this game is delivering. The voice acting is good and occasionally somewhat amusing. And there are plenty of characters and quests to keep me busy. There is a fair amount of shuttling back and forth between non-player characters to get information or items from them, then heading off to pick something else up before heading back to so-and-so for yet more information. So there is a little more quest solving than I had expected and not quite enough combat. But I'm enjoying the game overall. I've probably been playing for about 30 hours and I'm into chapter 3 of the 9 chapters within the game. When The Witcher 2 is on sale, I'll probably buy that as well.

This game was an eye opener for me. What an introduction to an amazing world. Yeah it was a bit buggy. Yeah it ran poorly, but my, my, my did it make up for it with everything else. Obviously this has spawned a universe that I don't think anyone could quite imagine at the time. CDPR really struck gold with this. As with most older games, if you choose to play it, just know what you're getting into. It's not going to look that great; it'll probably have some weird bugs; It'll probably feel slightly clunky, but if you can get past that, you'll be in for a real treat. Buckle in and experience the game that launched one of the greatest RPG series of all time.

If you are used to today's games graphics, you'll probably be uncomfortable at the beginning, but I advise you to ignore it, 'cause its story it's great! The gameplay is very much the same as those RPG Games like Diablo, Divine Divinity, etc... You click on your enemies to attack though your camera is over your shoulders — it's a combat a bit strange for this sort of camera, but it's easy to get used to. My only problem with this game is the performance. A very recurrent drop frame though I've got a PC powerful enough to play this game without worries. I used DXVK and it stabilized the unstable performance a bit.

Good