"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Mortiousing:
This.It's a brand new game with excellent graphics, anything other than a good computer is going to suck ass at running it.
Inferno: My craptastic cable modem won't even download that video. So I couldn't say. But this youtube video seems pretty accurate.
His laptop meets the minimum system requirements, and it almost meets the recommended...
* Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2, Vista (Operating System must be up to date with the latest fixes)
* Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
* 1 GB RAM for Microsoft® Windows® XP / 1536 MB for Microsoft® Windows® Vista
* 128 MB Video RAM or greater with DirectX9 Vertex Shader/ Pixel Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better)
* 8.5 GB available hard drive space
* DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
* DVD-Rom
Recommended requirements:
* Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista (Operating System must be up to date with the latest fixes)
* Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz or AMD X2 5600+
* 2 GB RAM
* NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
* 8.5 GB available hard drive space
* DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
* DVD-Rom
So I wait for my desktop's 3rd memory RMA instead. Taking bets on the odds of it being a DOA. Asha'man fucked around with this message on 11-04-2007 at 12:18 PM.
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Trent had this to say about Punky Brewster:
Minimum requirements:* Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2, Vista (Operating System must be up to date with the latest fixes)
* Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
* 1 GB RAM for Microsoft® Windows® XP / 1536 MB for Microsoft® Windows® Vista
* 128 MB Video RAM or greater with DirectX9 Vertex Shader/ Pixel Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better)
* 8.5 GB available hard drive space
* DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
* DVD-RomRecommended requirements:
* Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Vista (Operating System must be up to date with the latest fixes)
* Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz or AMD X2 5600+
* 2 GB RAM
* NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
* 8.5 GB available hard drive space
* DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
* DVD-Rom
So basically, if you can run HL2 or Bioshock, you could easily run this game, yes?
I have to admit, I haven't seen Mortious this excited about a game since.. well, since he learned he could be a Sith Lord in SW:G, but before sony crushed his spirit.
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Delphi Aegis said:
I have to admit, I haven't seen Mortious this excited about a game since.. well, since he learned he could be a Sith Lord in SW:G, but before sony crushed his spirit.
There have only been two games I've been this passionate about:
I did pick up the Witcher today, and will try it tonight. Mainly because of this thread and liamMort's recommendation. Though I do agree with Tarquinn. I enjoyed Stalker and C&C3.
so far, it's a freaking awesome game.
i need to run it on mostly med settings, but it's still amazingly pretty to look at, and everything moves very well.
and walking up the fight club ring and hearing an insult about my mother involving dwarf cock was freaking funny.
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Khyron said:
The only thing that bugs me so far is the way he holds his sword seems... weird and awkwards.
He's a specially bred alchemical mutant, with dexterity/strength/reflexes far surpassing that of a human, he can hold his sword however the heck he wants to.
I personally like how the game gets political half way through, you start killing humans, then people question why a monster slayer is killing humans. You reply with saying not all monsters are monstrous on the outside. There are more than a few "friendly" monsters you can spare too and this also molds who you are, if you chose to spare them or not.
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This one time, at Mortious camp:
He's a specially bred alchemical mutant, with dexterity/strength/reflexes far surpassing that of a human, he can hold his sword however the heck he wants to.I personally like how the game gets political half way through, you start killing humans, then people question why a monster slayer is killing humans. You reply with saying not all monsters are monstrous on the outside. There are more than a few "friendly" monsters you can spare too and this also molds who you are, if you chose to spare them or not.
I was browsing through the site and they mentioned some vampire-like thing that you can do battle with all night to redeem it or something. I thought that was a neat concept, but how did you find that it played out in-game?
Or you can be an ass and just kill it.
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about Captain Planet:
someone play like 31 games with meand actually win oh christ halo pubbies suck ass
Get YOTC and Alaan in on it and we can do some Social Slayer.
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Skaw postedGet YOTC and Alaan in on it and we can do some Social Slayer.
I've taken to just playing a lot of Lone Wolves because I hate playing team without an actual team.
aka: invite me sometime. 
PEENORIZER.
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Skaw spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Social Slayer.
FUCK.
YOU.
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about Cuba:
FUCK.YOU.
well we can't do ranked. I'm a 32 in ranked Team Slayer. We'd never find another party seeking with that kind of spread.
Just set your microphone settings to Team & Party and mop up some faggots.
Pretty much the only ranked game type we could do is Doubles. And I hate Doubles.
But I loves me some Multiteam.
We could just get a party of 6 and do Rumble Pit. But I'm not going to just let you win every game. Skaw fucked around with this message on 11-07-2007 at 01:22 AM.
I did just hit 10k total GS, though. Mr. Gainsborough fucked around with this message on 11-07-2007 at 01:19 AM.
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Mr. Gainsborough painfully thought these words up:
I figure I'll just get the last achievement when I get it, if I get it. It's not a big deal for me.I did just hit 10k total GS, though.
I've had my xbox since launch and I only have 8000... you sick sick man.
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This insanity brought to you by Y.O.T.C:
I've had my xbox since launch and I only have 8000... you sick sick man.
And yet I'm still being too lazy to grind out the last 40G in Viva Pinata. 
Master Romancing stuff is so boring and repetitive.
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Verily, Y.O.T.C doth proclaim:
I've had my xbox since launch and I only have 8000... you sick sick man.
I agree with what he said.
Gains, you crazy person you.
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Falaanla Marr enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
I agree with what he said.Gains, you crazy person you.
Haha, I still won't ever be the top person on my friends list though.
My buddy's brother is a fucking freak. He just hit 88k the other day. Mr. Gainsborough fucked around with this message on 11-07-2007 at 12:55 PM.
Creatures are easier after that, although still difficult if you level up oddly or are a retard.
Haha holy shit.
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Mortious wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
You drank the oil?Haha holy shit.
No, I made the oil with a potion base instead of an oil base 
It's still fun. I've got three, I think, quests left in the first area - get the guy from the cave under the city with all the evil vines (First time I went there I got my ass handed to me, now I have the 'deflect arrows' ability so I hope I do better), the ghoul blood which I actually did but then died to the ghoul boss, and slaying the beast.
There's a unique one in the swamp in act 2 that's one of the hardest bosses in the game. It appears randomly all over the swamp, but there's only one. Mortious fucked around with this message on 11-09-2007 at 09:05 AM.
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Mortious thought about the meaning of life:
Those living plants can be very difficult since your character won't always automatically approach them and they show no target ring. You have to do it manually, the old fashioned way.There's a unique one in the swamp in act 2 that's one of the hardest bosses in the game. It appears randomly all over the swamp, but there's only one.
I found that out the hard way, after I realised the messages that were being spammed are 'Too Far' =/
There are a lot of them in the swamp in act 2, up at the top-right of the map. A -lot- of them. Even I had to retreat a few times from that wall of them.
They hide underground, are extremely fast, are hard to hit, and bite you for one third of your total health.
I especially love the fistfighters in the Hairy Bear exclaiming "Your mama sucks dwarf cock".
Though Shani's grandmother catching you drunk and your response kept me laughing for a good while.
Speaking of those fucking plants: I can kill the Echinopse, but the cocci-whatevers just rape me for some reason. I can barely even get in to melee range without having half my health gone from their spit attack, and the talent to resist poison helped, but it still seems retarded since I one and two-shot anything else in the swamp (Including Alghouls, woot Argentia oil) but get assraped by this thing.
But indeed it is good fun so far. ONly into the start of chapter one.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Alaan booooze lime pole over bench lick:
The Witcher: Where the legends are big and the breasts are bigger.
You sold me.
I just bought this and I haven't even played it yet, but something that annoys the hell out of me already is that there seems to be a lot of backstory that they just don't give you. I understand that it's based on a series of books that haven't been translated to english yet but is there a place where you can get the meat and potatos of this guy's past, why he has cat eyes, etc?
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Maradon! said:
You sold me.I just bought this and I haven't even played it yet, but something that annoys the hell out of me already is that there seems to be a lot of backstory that they just don't give you. I understand that it's based on a series of books that haven't been translated to english yet but is there a place where you can get the meat and potatos of this guy's past, why he has cat eyes, etc?
I'll try to explain it the best I can.
The Witchers are an order that was created by rogue sorcerors who were dabbling with advanced alchemy and genetics, combining their magical talent with science. In those times there were a lot more monsters, so they discovered how to mutate humans into Witchers and thus set up the order. This order doesn't care about politics, they will kill monsters in any kingdom or empire that pays them.
There used to be hundreds of Witchers in their hidden fortress (which they only stay at during the winter, they're loners fighting monsters for gold all other times) but semi-recent events such as increasing racism culminated in a huge mob attack on the fortress. The mob was killed, the secret of the Witchers saved, but only about 4 Witchers survived.
At some point in Geralt's adventures he appeared to die (bled to death in a friends arms, you meet this friend in the game) and then 5 years later he mysteriously re-appeared with no memory. The game doesn't explain why or how, it will likely be covered in a future expansion or sequel to the game, or a new set of books.
Geralt has strange eyes and white hair because he's a Witcher, the procedure that creates a Witcher is alchemical in nature and rewrites a humans base genetic code from the ground up. It gives them enhanced reflexes, better vision than humans, stronger muscles, the ability to survive otherwise mortal wounds, and most importantly the ability to process special alchemical brews that the Witchers make themselves. The potions would kill anyone else who took it. Only a few ever survive the transformation and it leaves them with different changes depending on who they are.
Most of the changes are to do with mood, internal organs (new ones appearing), or personality. Geralt is rare in that his eyes changed and his hair went white. This possibly may be because he's the only Witcher to hail from the kingdom of Riva.
