Atari today released six new images of The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf, to be released this fall on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The game has both a new combat and graphics engine with the console release.
Not a fan of the whole medieval setting. Though, I did enjoy Oblivion at the time, so I still might enjoy it.
Wonder what the combat will turn out like, it can't be much worse than the "click on the mouse combat" the original on PC offers. Though ofcourse, it's impossible for a console game to do anything better than it's PC counterpart...that'd be ridiculous.
My close friend Alex is crazy about this Polish game. I watched it at his place and yes, looks like a mature serious RPG game. I hope the console version will NOT be censored!
For some reason I just can't seem to dig most Western RPGs. There are exceptions of course. This, however, isn't one of them sadly. The environments look nice enough, models don't though.
I was avidly following the PC version until I found out the combat was the kind of excel number fighting which I just find tedious, if the 360 version has proper "hack and slash" type combat I'll be well up for that :)
Commented on 2009-02-06 23:08:07 In reply to Grimbarian
Posted by Grimbarian
I was avidly following the PC version until I found out the combat was the kind of excel number fighting which I just find tedious, if the 360 version has proper "hack and slash" type combat I'll be well up for that :)
Excel numbers fighting? What's that even supposed to mean? It's all dice rolls ofc, but if you think that's changing in the console version you'll probably be disappointed.
Commented on 2009-02-06 23:55:14 In reply to Megido
Posted by Megido
Excel numbers fighting? What's that even supposed to mean? It's all dice rolls ofc, but if you think that's changing in the console version you'll probably be disappointed.
Aye, and it's a little more finely tuned than most click-click-click-style dungeon hacks. It at least implements rules of timing and provides you with different styles and combos. It's not horrible at all. It's good to see CD Projekt expand though. They deserve it!
Visually it looks... pretty simular if you ask me. The lighting seems to have been bumped up a bit though, but otherwise it just looks a little softer, which is actually aided by the loss of resolution. It looks good though. The models and other assets look identical though.
Am I the only one who thinks the textures look weird? LIke, they look ok, but they look sorta like old, worn, black and white pictures in some places to me o.o
Grift: no it works well all in all. The only real annoyance is that i sometimes break combo by accidentally clicking just beside the enemy or on another enemy :P
That monster with the bloody mouth looks amazing :)
Agree with skeetskeet though, would be nice to see a Mass Effect clone or even a Too Human clone (done right). A few more sci-fi rpg's :)
Also agree with whatshisname above, the click click click controls were horrible :P
Even if its the same system, it may feel better on a console. Maby its just me but pressing a controller button is sort of softer than mouse-clicking 100 times a minute :P
Commented on 2009-02-07 09:47:49 In reply to pythxvii
Yes, you are the only one. These promo-shots look gorgeous. I was just about to give this game another try on the pc with the enhanced edition. I love rpg's :)
The Witcher, oh boy the game is awesomeness with some greatness added to it. Simply I haven't played this good RPG in a long time. No Oblivion, Fable or ME even combined can reach anywhere near this games greatness. Legendary game!
can't wait. skipped also the pc version due limited pc hardware and i was really surprised after the 360 version has been announced. an rpg for real menfolk :) ...
Commented on 2009-02-07 17:38:00 In reply to Megido
Posted by Megido
Excel numbers fighting? What's that even supposed to mean? It's all dice rolls ofc, but if you think that's changing in the console version you'll probably be disappointed.
Then I guess I'll be disappointed, in my RPG's I want the combat to be directly controlled by me, as in Oblivion and the like, otherwise I'm not interested.
Well oblivion is basically dice rolls as well only there's no roll for hit or miss, as that's handled by collision detection, but everything from damage amount to critical and so forth is pretty much dice rolls.
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Commented on 2009-02-06 18:07:12Wonder what the combat will turn out like, it can't be much worse than the "click on the mouse combat" the original on PC offers. Though ofcourse, it's impossible for a console game to do anything better than it's PC counterpart...that'd be ridiculous.
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Commented on 2009-02-06 23:08:07 In reply to Grimbarian
Commented on 2009-02-06 23:55:14 In reply to MegidoVisually it looks... pretty simular if you ask me. The lighting seems to have been bumped up a bit though, but otherwise it just looks a little softer, which is actually aided by the loss of resolution. It looks good though. The models and other assets look identical though.
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Commented on 2009-02-07 04:58:07the medieval RPG genre is a somewhat over saturated right now
Commented on 2009-02-07 05:14:40Agree with skeetskeet though, would be nice to see a Mass Effect clone or even a Too Human clone (done right). A few more sci-fi rpg's :)
Also agree with whatshisname above, the click click click controls were horrible :P
Even if its the same system, it may feel better on a console. Maby its just me but pressing a controller button is sort of softer than mouse-clicking 100 times a minute :P
Commented on 2009-02-07 09:47:49 In reply to pythxvii
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Commented on 2009-02-07 15:21:40can't wait. skipped also the pc version due limited pc hardware and i was really surprised after the 360 version has been announced. an rpg for real menfolk :) ...
so long, finster.
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