I can't speak for consoles (I hear there was problems), but this is a groundbreaking intelligent thriller, that treats you like an adult (for once!). Yeah, you need a beast rig, deal with it. Play this 50 times, and you'll still find new things. Walking battle tank, or sneak-thief ninja... the choice is yours. Pretenders like Naughty Dog and Bethesda, may as well throw in their cards.
I asked for this, and GOG answered. They went and got it. Bless their hearts. Still the most hilarious game in the whole industry, you haven't played 4th wall breaking insanity 'til you've played Curse of Monkey Island. Once again, the hapless Guybrush Threepwood is saving the world from ghost pirate LeChuck (Although Elaine is more than likely to kill him this time). With pirate barbers, insult sword fighting, duelling banjos and of course The Demonic Talking Skull Murray, this is as fresh and relevent now as it was 20 years ago. _Murray: "I will sride through the gates of hell carrying your severed head!"_ _Guybrush: "Stride?"_ _Murray: "Alright then, ROLL! Do you have to take the fun out of everything?"_ Unbeatable.
I never felt like being treated as an adult in gaming, until I played 'The Witcher'. Sure, there were other mindless escapades into adult territory, such as tasteless trash like GTA, but this game took my senses to a place I'd never been before. Yes, the game was rough here and there, the odd hick-up. broken quest lines and a little backstory brushing up required, but these little nitpicks pale into insignificance at the sheer grandure on offer. It was the first time I felt as though I may vomit at one of my decisions gone wrong. And the game simply bestowed its elegant shade of grey morality mechanic at my humiliated persona and flowed on, with nary a care in the world. This was Witcher land. No good. no evil. Just choice. And consequence. Remarkable in depth, size and scope, this was the game that took PC rpg's to the place they are in today. Where the good guys are bad. And the bad guys are far, far worse....... Cinema fans have not been educated in film until they've watched 'Citizen Kane, 'Seven Samurai', 'L'Atalante' and a hundred others. Well, to expand said point... You have not been educated in gaming until you have walked through the bleak lands of Temeria, as Geralt of Rivia. Or Geralt's two magnificent sequels. So to all who played this originally (As I did), I applaud you. And to those who haven't?! Well? What are you waiting for?
