It's gonna be so painful to not be able to play this game for a while after its release. But I just don't want to play this game on anything less than max.
The Witcher 1 kind of runs like a pig. That laptop will definitely play it, but I'm not quite as learned on mobile GPU/CPU to say it's going to run great on max settings. You're probably fine, and it's not like The Witcher is an expensive game anymore.
Yep. Witcher 1 has performance issues in certain sections no matter your configuration (eg the Trade Quarter), but you'll run it as well as anyone else. Also Crysis. There's a bunch of benchmarks here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html . Most figures are for the 6750, which your 6770 is just a slighty faster version of. The CPU may hold you back in certain CPU heavy games, but you will probably at least be able to run them decently at medium.
Does Geralt have a new, better English VA? Please say yes.
The screenshot with dialog (Stay to get your fuck? really?) already dampens my hopes of a better script translation.
It's probably my biggest problem with The Witcher. Really enjoy the gameplay, but the translation is pretty poor and is exacerbated by the generally terrible voice acting.
Does Geralt have a new, better English VA? Please say yes.
The screenshot with dialog (Stay to get your fuck? really?) already dampens my hopes of a better script translation.
It's probably my biggest problem with The Witcher. Really enjoy the gameplay, but the translation is pretty poor and is exacerbated by the generally terrible voice acting.
It's probably my biggest problem with The Witcher. Really enjoy the gameplay, but the translation is pretty poor and is exacerbated by the generally terrible voice acting.
I'm very sensitive to bad voice acting and I didn't notice any big problems with the first game. It's no Grim Fandango but it's certainly not "generally terrible". I really liked Geralt's voice too.
Maybe you played the original release and not the Enhanced Edition (which contained new voice acting, I think).
Does Geralt have a new, better English VA? Please say yes.
The screenshot with dialog (Stay to get your fuck? really?) already dampens my hopes of a better script translation.
It's probably my biggest problem with The Witcher. Really enjoy the gameplay, but the translation is pretty poor and is exacerbated by the generally terrible voice acting.
I'm still part way into the first book but they take parts and characters from it. I'm don't think it follows the exact story, but the world, characters and certain events happen in both. The beginning of the last wish is the intro cg cut scene of TW1 for example.
dies from a pitchfork of a stupid villager during some chaos
in the last book.
Jeneffer, his girlfriend and the girl "adopted" by them also die trying to save him.
This is told through the game, and the little story of how it happened is told by one of the innkeepers as a legend.
The Witcher starts with Geralt having amnesia some time after this event and not remembering very well what happened.
The intro about the striga at the start of the game, before you play, is an event portrayed in The Last Wish, the first book of the saga that contains small stories about adventures of Geralt, Dandelion and how he met Jeneffer.
Its said that the games are not cannon, but they follow the books perfectly (theres very little invented) and Sapowski helped writting the first game. The first game follow the books so well it needs to be cannon, to erase the stupid ending of the last book.
Also all the characters that appear in the books and the game are exactly the same. If you play before reading the books you will be surprised at how exact Geralt or Dandelion for example were portrayed by CD Projeckt in the game while you are reading the stories and hw they act in them. Is really one of the best adaptations of a work (movies, books...) to a videogame.
Sapkowski needs to be proud.
I'm very sensitive to bad voice acting and I didn't notice any big problems with the first game. It's no Grim Fandango but it's certainly not "generally terrible". I really liked Geralt's voice too.
Maybe you played the original release and not the Enhanced Edition (which contained new voice acting, I think).
I'm playing through it again right now, so Enhanced Edition. His delivery is flat and wooden (I actually remembered it being OK the first time through). It might not be so much the fault of the voice actor, but the director during the VO shoot. Thinking on it, that's probably the case. Lots of cases of strange inflection, trampling over punctuation, etc. Watched some clips of W2 and the dialog seems to have a better flow.
Plus, are you sure it's the same guy? In this clip Geralt sounds very different. Much less brooding and breathy with all his lines. Then again, better voice directing could be the difference.
Plus, are you sure it's the same guy? In this clip Geralt sounds very different. Much less brooding and breathy with all his lines. Then again, better voice directing could be the difference.
Do I really need to play the first game to understand this?
I finally got round to downloading my Steam copy but it runs like shit and the mouse-based combat sucks. I don't know if i'd have time to play it all anyway even if I did like it.
I'm really hoping the sequel is more optimised (the signs pointing to yes), while controller support makes it de facto better for me.
Do I really need to play the first game to understand this?
I finally got round to downloading my Steam copy but it runs like shit and the mouse-based combat sucks. I don't know if i'd have time to play it all anyway even if I did like it.
I'm really hoping the sequel is more optimised (the signs pointing to yes), while controller support makes it de facto better for me.
Witcher uses the Aurora engine... You may remember it from such wonderful, technical masterpieces as Neverwinter Nights(1 and 2). Nice way to say, it's a piece of shit. The game is never going to be optimized properly thanks to it.
Combat has always been the fault to the original. It gets mostly everything else right, but the combat left a lot to be desired. Make sure to select Keyboard+Mouse controls.
Do I really need to play the first game to understand this?
I finally got round to downloading my Steam copy but it runs like shit and the mouse-based combat sucks. I don't know if i'd have time to play it all anyway even if I did like it.
I'm really hoping the sequel is more optimised (the signs pointing to yes), while controller support makes it de facto better for me.
They've said that while it's still a sequel you dont NEED to have played the first game, but you'll get a lot more out of it. There's suppose to be flashbacks and such, not to mention the stuff that carries over from the first game. THe infinity engine sucks yeah and so does the combat, but the atmosphere and story kept me playing the game. The ending is crazy and amazing.
Witcher uses the Aurora engine... You may remember it from such wonderful, technical masterpieces as Neverwinter Nights(1 and 2). Nice way to say, it's a piece of shit. The game is never going to be optimized properly thanks to it.
Combat has always been the fault to the original. It gets mostly everything else right, but the combat left a lot to be desired. Make sure to select Keyboard+Mouse controls.
Not being able to chain different attacks together nor magics without the combo breaking was pretty terrible. Combat imo was just a short QTE event over and over. Did not like it.
I did but I won't lie that I am happy they got rid of "Group style". Most of my troublesome fights were switching between group then to fast/strong on the last guy because the damage plummets into the ground.
I have an i5-750 that I typically run @ 3.6ghz and a 5850, and I get "mostly" 60 FPS with the typical problem areas being typical problem areas (although even those areas don't run awful, just bad in context). That engine just has significant issues, especially with how much they tried to get done with it.
On a side note, I'm glad they have controller support. I'll probably play W2 with a 360 pad.
