The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

Dieser erste Teil - The Witcher - ist einzigartig. Nicht pefekt, aber einzigartig. Gründe: The Witcher 1 erzählt in einer sehr ruhigen Geschwindigkeit die Story. Alle Aktionen, die man vornimmt, um in der Geschichte voranzuschreiten, gehen ineinander ebenso ruhig über. Die Welt ist viel kleiner, als man dies heutzutage gewohnt ist. Mit diesem gedanklichen Rückblick ist das spielen m. E. dichter und hat eine viel größere Immersion, als die "open world"-Exteriors neumoderner "Rollenspiele". Das gesamte Grundgerüst, die Art, wie das Leben (Städte, Landschaft, Bürger, Vertonung, die kurzen, schroffen Dialogantworten) wirken viel "rauer", wie erwachsender, als es in "The Wichter 2" oder gar in "The Witcher 3" der Fall ist. Teil 2 und 3 sind eben viel mehr "cineatischer". Genau das möchte ich in einem PC-Spiel einfach nicht mehr sehen. Ich will spielen - keinen "Film" gucken. Vermutlich liegt es einfach daran, dass der nostalgische Faktor dieses Gefühl im Gesamten bewirkt, wenn man Teil 1 spielt... Schlussendlich vermisse ich genau solch ein Rollenspiel heutzutage. Nehmen wir mal als Vergleich ein Spiel, das fast alle lieben: "Eldenring". *hust...* Dieses Spiel nervt mich absolut. Grund: Ständiges rumgelaufte; Sachen sammeln. Langweilg. Und die Steuerung zu Pferd ist eine Vollkatastrophe! Das immerzu lästige Rumgerenne im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes nervt abartig schlimm. Ich schrieb das als Vergleich, weil ein Rollenspiel heutzutage viel zu bunt ist, viel zu verspielt, viel zu unrealistisch in seiner Aufmachung - ganz gleich, ob es "Fantasy" ist oder nicht. In The Witcher 1 ist die Fantasie so umgesetzt, dass sie "erwachsen" wirkt. Beispiel: Alleine die Einfachheit der Steuerung, alleine die düstere Grafik, das düstere Setting, das tolle Hintergrundbild des Ladebildschirms mit der Natur... Und das ist es, was ich so sehr vermisse heutzutage...

Well. where should I start. I played TW1 when I was 15 years old(yeah I played it on a PS3 slim) I didn't that this IP was mainly a Book saga but i fell in love with the fantasy slavic world, The level design, the graphics, the gameplay mechanics and the story as well. I claimed it when it was free months ago but I will replay it when i have the time to do that. btw i also didn't know that GOG.com has actually a rate/review system but that's kinda cool to know hehe. Cheers CD PROJEKT RED :D

After finally reading the books I decided to play through the game series. I first played The Witcher when it was new, but I didn't get far back then. I was actually surprised how similar it is to the Witcher 3. A lot of ideas have carried through the series and there's some familiar gameplay elements. These ideas and elements have of course been refined (or changed if you like) throughout the trilogy. The Witcher is rough around the edges, but still very much playable and overall I enjoyed my playthrough. The combat is pretty easy on the medium difficulty setting. If you prepare well for combat (drink a few potions and enhance your swords, and make sure you have the right sword equipped!) you wont face any huge challenges. The story is great, but some things seem a little off for a book reader (at least for me). Mainly that Yen and Ciri have been replaced by Triss and Alvin, and no one bothers to tell Geralt about these most important women of his life! Triss certainly seems to be overjoyed for Geralts amnesia.. and a lot of other women too. My main gripe with the game is that there's a lot of just running back and forth and waiting around. There isn't any kind of fast travel (aside from a few portals in one chapter, and even those are pretty useless) or Roach, so you have to run everywhere. A lot of the time you have to meet a person or go to a place at a certain time, so if you have nothing else to do in the meantime you have to wait, and to wait you have to find a spot to meditate. I tried to manage my guests so that theres as little of waiting and running around as possible.

the improvement done to this game is good and it makes the game more immersive and enjoyable

Rewriting my review now that I've finished the game twice. And planning a third playthrough just to complete all possible paths. This is a game that I absolutely hated when I first tried it, but gradually grew to love. Yes, the MMO-like gameplay takes some getting used to. Yes, the Hellhound encounter at the end of Chapter 1 requires strict "metagaming" to beat, the hallmark of awful game design (invest all the talent points you can into Aard and put Specter Oil on your sword BEFORE you leave the cave with the witch). But despite these shortcomings, The Witcher now ranks among my favorite games; and even though I cannot give it a higher rating than 3 stars on account of questionable gameplay design like the previous examples, I consider it a "high 3" with a "Recommended" tag attached to it. The true strength of this game resides in its fascinating writing and world building. It is surprisingly engrossing and keeps you hooked once you get past the acquired taste combat. Hell, between a game like Dark Souls with supposedly outstanding combat (over which I still place a question mark, players have described it as unresponsive) and story/intrigue that nobody really gives a rat's sweet ass about, and a game like The Witcher with average combat at best but riveting intrigue and characters, I'll settle for the latter. The game will force you to make some pretty arduous moral choices, do you insist on remaining the human incarnation of Switzerland or do you choose the lesser of two evils, the results of which are directly visible and do affect the world around you in potentially major ways. Characters aren't one-dimensional medieval fantasy tropes, oftentimes they are quite complex with a wide gamut of motivations. And this all adds to the game's clearly above-average replay value; it takes a special kind of game to make me want to complete it for the very rare third time, two is my benchmark. The Witcher is flawed, takes getting used to and is absolutely worth your time.