Posted on: July 24, 2020
streetyson
Verified ownerGames: 51 Reviews: 32
Great graphics, bad 3rd-person & cinema
At least as an older gamer on a non-gaming PC (core2duo e8600, gt1030) and 5:4 monitor, I found the graphics absolutely fantastic. But that's where any liking for the game ends. All available player-view options were really badly applied 3rd-person ones. The two isometric ones are at least familiar but done in a tad unwieldy way, and the OTS (over-the-shoulder) view option is not much better as it's only about as good as the really quite unwieldy 3rd-person OTS view option in Fallout 3 (which almost everyone who plays Fallout 3 eschews in favour of that game's superior 1st-person view). But sadly there is no 1st-person option in Witcher, and the game is far poorer for it. Some say a 1st-person wouldn't work, but that's only because of the way the makers added some things (like opponent indicators) around their 3rd-person view, which could easily be moved. And the Witcher's best view option, the OTS one, clips and chops around like Fallout 3 on a very bad day. A game-breaker frankly. Fight mechanics are ok (if basic), and the story-line bearable (if you like awful tweenage dramas like The Twilight Saga). Yet this is made worse by the (very frequent) cinematic cut-scenes. Am I playing a game or watching a B-movie? Even the tutorial was bad and poorly executed - e.g. I could easily get to the required winch but couldn't interact with it as a far off out-of-sight enemy NPC was still alive and the game didn't even bother to mention this - it was just as if the winch was non-interactive, etc, etc.
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