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LTK:
The Witcher 2 came out today. Is anyone else playing it? This is the PC-exclusive medieval fantasy RPG by Czech developer CD Projekt, sister company to gog.com, who are offering the game entirely DRM free.

I spent the last few hours playing it, and I'm getting the impression of it being old-school in the way of throwing you into the action without any hand-holding. Well, 'throwing' might be a bit of an overstatement as there are several minutes of expositional cutscenes before that, but that's beside the point. The only training you're gonna get is the one you make for yourself; the tutorials that explain what most of the buttons do are 'unlocked' only after you press one of them by chance or experiment. You only get one chance to practice swordfighting before facing actual enemy soldiers, and that's on a training dummy you have to seek out in the camp.

It really is quite unforgiving in its combat, and the first fight I went into without backup got me killed consistently until I figured out how to use a protection sign and throw bombs, even on Normal difficulty. This is actually a refreshing change of pace since there hasn't been one game that gave me difficulty on the second-to-highest setting in the last few years. But experimentation is rewarding, and putting new skills to the use (your skills, not the ones in the game) quickly pays off. I still have to see if the plot is going to make any sense, but from here I think I'll be enjoying this game.

Scandanavian War Machine:
i really want to get it, now that i have a decent computer, but i really can't afford it right now. Haven't even looked at the reqs, I might not even be able to run it, I dunno.

this is pretty funny though

satsugaikaze:
I got kicked in the nutsack by the Australian ESRB.

But GOG.com has my back!  :mrgreen:

I'll go through the game later this week and come back with my impressions.

look out! Ninjas!:
i pre-ordered a retail copy in between the gog pricerise and the gog region setting

Really looking forward to this though. I played through The Witcher over the last few weeks, and it really is the best of the modern, fully 3D and voiced, RPGs.

Tom:
Urrgh, wish I had a system to run this on. Oh well, I guess I know what I'm doing with my tax return.

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