Time to check if it's just me. I played the first Witcher game recently after hearing in many places I should give it a go. So after sinking an hour or two into the basic campaign here's my findings. The graphics and controls are clearly ported from a console version. As an old school gamer I can live with old graphics and super flash ones aren't something I automatically seek out. I thought the graphics were pretty good certainly for its age. The controls are slightly tricky to get used to but I was running around and looting things quickly enough. Then we come to combat, by all the Dark Gods that was something else. I tried mindless button bashing to see if that worked and mostly missed the target. Then I tried being all strategic and waited for the sword icon to flash before striking. It felt very random as to when this appeared and I did hit the enemy more often with this tactic I just never hit very hard. For a supposed hero to be finding it hard to kill poorly equipped bandits doesn't say much for my chances against a real foe. After getting to the point where I opened a portcullis to let the rest of the team deal with a mage and his nasty beastie I gave up. I didn't feel like my actions had much effect either in terms of moving the plot or that if a fight broke out I had any real sense of how to defeat an opponent. So in the end after battling with my sense of frustration and boredom, I removed it and vowed not bother with the later episodes as it wasn't a style of enjoy playing.
