Preface.
Recently, my friend and I were having a discussion. He said: “Borderlands has crap graphics, no plot, and the long leveling just kills. Whoever gave it the title “Best Game of 2009” doesn’t understand anything about games.”. I told him: “You don’t understand anything about games, you only need realism, but in games from the very beginning there was an emphasis on gameplay. That’s what we should honor, go ahead and play your Mass Effect.”. Then he called Sid Meier a moron and our discussion lasted for 1 hour and 58 minutes of conversation on Skype. Unfortunately, we did not come to the conclusion that everyone has their own tastes, but came to the conclusion that some of us have no taste at all. So I’m wondering, like in games, whether there can be different tastes or whether there are people with and without taste.
If you have any thoughts please write in the comments.
This time we will do without the “Game Presentation”. Our guest doesn’t need this.
The Witcher – White wolf – loving women.
Title in Russian: The Witcher
Genre: RPG
Developer: CD Project RED
Release date: October 24, 2007
For the first time minutes of the game, we notice how well the cut scenes are staged. Characters move realistically during dialogue and wield swords competently during battle. Geralt also wields a sword competently. The combat system in the game is just as realistic, our ward twists and turns his sword in different directions, beautifully touching the enemy. And sometimes he does finishing fatalities. But you can cut enemies not only with a sword. Signs have been given to help us, which we study as we approach the altars. Which in turn are located in different locations, in different places. Using them we can throw the enemy back, set him on fire and do a lot of other things. What kind of tactics are also present in the game?. Geralt has several stances available, each of them for a specific enemy, for example, a group stance should be used when Geralt is attacked by more than two opponents. And if you use it against large and fat enemies, then you simply will never hit them. The weapons in the game are not very diverse. Geralt can carry a steel sword, which is excellent at cutting down “people”, and a silver sword, which is strong against various kinds of monsters. Well, there are also various kinds of axes and daggers in the game, but there is no point in using them.
Choice also plays a very important role. What to do for Geralt? Give boxes of weapons, food and medicine to “non-humans” whose wounded and sick relatives need them so much. Or don’t give it away, remain neutral to the relationship between people and “non-humans”, thereby protecting yourself. Well, let’s say we chose the first. Everything seemed to end well, only the owner of the boxes scolded us a little. But when we arrive at the city tavern, we find out that the local drug seller was killed with the very arrows that were in the boxes. We’ll have to look for drugs elsewhere to bribe the prison guard with them. And such choices will haunt us throughout the game. They are interesting and their consequences are unpredictable. The social part of the game, or rather the relationships between the characters, also received a lot of attention from the developers. One day our friends will invite us to a tavern, where with them we will discuss the relationship between us, Geralt and Triss, his girlfriend. There are also plenty of girlfriends in the game and we can have a love relationship with each of them. And even for these very relationships we will be given cards like this:
Everything would be fine, but the plot failed. First, our house is attacked, then we look for those who attacked, and we look for them almost throughout the entire game. And why we are doing this will never become clear. Towards the end the plot becomes completely delusional. We come across a madman who did some kind of magic and, having put us to sleep, showed us a dream in which it was as if the whole world had frozen. Not once during the game is nothing said about this. Can’t call it unpredictable. Since the whole game we did one thing, and at the end they give us something completely different. The ending spoils the impression at once. In any tavern we can take part in hand-to-hand combat for money or play poker with dice. Geralt can also learn how to brew various potions that give various buffs, such as increasing life regeneration, night vision and others. There is also leveling up in the game, by raising the level we can, after turning gray by the fire, increase Geralt’s characteristics, strength, agility… in general, see for yourself:
The game from CD Project RED turned out to be the “Best Game of 2007” and even still does not sag in any place. If you haven’t played The Witcher yet, then run for the “Golden Edition”, by the way, it also contains 5 new chapters. But either they are not friendly with Windows 7, or with new video cards, the character models are not displayed there correctly, or rather, only the eyes and tongue are visible.
Author’s rating
My rating for the game: 5 out of 5, the disadvantages are that the plot is “not very good” and we spend a lot of time in one location, but they are small and manage to get boring. All.
What’s your opinion? Write in the comments
Afterword
Friends, I have a request to you, if you have read the material, please write your opinion in the comments. Don’t just downvote. To write, and then see almost no comments, only some disadvantages, this is unpleasant for anyone. If you liked it or want to fairly criticize, then please speak up.
Riddles for filling.
Using the words, determine what games we are talking about. They came out in 2009-2010: