The only competition for Skyrim : Othor Games

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:54 pm

I must say, recent footage has been nudging me towards getting this game once I have a PC capable of handling it. I absolutely love the art direction and the combat looks like good visceral fun.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:15 pm

I have my preference for the Witcher 2. Oblivion was a huge disappointment.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:28 pm

Apples and oranges.

At least in a world where RPGs are anologous to fruit.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 2:08 am

[...] the Witcher is only barely an RPG.

Wrong. So, so wrong.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:57 pm

The Witcher 1 was just shy of awful and the Witcher 2 looks very pretty but just as limiting and unimaginative. Pass.

I also seriously doubt the Witcher 2 will have 50 hours of gameplay, or that you'll be able to do everything in Skyrim in 50 hours or less. If the Witcher 1 is any indication, it'll be little more than a linear Action game like the first one. Also, combat looks terrible, like DA2 terrible.

Well aware that it's based on a series of novels, not an excuse for making it highly wooden, linear and boring.

I would agree they are very different, and not really good compared to each other, the Witcher is only barely an RPG.

You have such poor taste and such a skewed definition of what makes an RPG that I just don't quite know how to reply, except with this: :facepalm:

The witcher wishes it could be as good as Elder Scrolls. Trouble with Witcher is that its a MMORPG. A single player MMORPG. All the best traits of a MMORPG clumped into one single player gelatinous mass that svcks out your brains and forces you to stop calling people Gerald in favour of Geralt. Lol.

Skyrim wins.

Yeah as in all the fetch quests you do in MMORPG's, you have in Witcher. Bring X amount of items to Generic person A, but you can only get said item once you defeated X amount of creatures to get item. And it goes on and on. Not for me. I lost track of what I was supposed to be doing after the first part of the game. I prefer having quests that have stories in themselves. Something that keeps you riveted, not just something that levels you up for the sake of progression. That's why Skyrim's a winner for me.

All of those quests were totally optional if you hated them so much, and all of them could be completed by just killing stuff you encountered on story quests. And at the implication that TES games have better storylines than The Witcher... :sadvaultboy:

I am looking forward to both games, but if Oblivion and The Witcher 1 are anything to go by I am certain that I will enjoy The Witcher 2 much more.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:11 pm

lol, the ES series has TONS of fetch quests and the storyline of The Witcher is much more dark and mature (Except for the boobie cards, but, we all like boobies). One of the things the ES games suffer from are a very mediocre main quest, except for Daggerfall's.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:50 am

I bought The Witcher when it was on offer on Steam. Was okay but certainly didn't have the 'addiction factor' that Oblivion (and hopefully Skyrim) had. So unless I suddenly play Witcher in a couple of years and love it (might happen - happened with Mass Effect) I probably won't buy the sequel.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:33 pm

I bought The Witcher when it was on offer on Steam. Was okay but certainly didn't have the 'addiction factor' that Oblivion (and hopefully Skyrim) had. So unless I suddenly play Witcher in a couple of years and love it (might happen - happened with Mass Effect) I probably won't buy the sequel.

I'll probably get the sequel in the same circumstances I got the original. Steam sale for like 80% off.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:38 pm

Wow. Some of the responses are really making me headdesk so hard.
Did anyone here actually tried to look up the WItcher 2 before doing the usual "bandwagon hate" ala Bioware Social?
I think the most laughable remark was by someone who claimed that Witcher is not an RPG. :rolleyes:

Witcher 2 is definetly more mature(and don't [censored] your pants, I am not talking about the six cards which were completely OPTIONAL and now are absent from the second game anyway), with the backstabbing politics resembling our ages, the racial tension, mostly grey characters, whole lore from the books etc,.
And a plot that actually doesn't svck.

Plus they seem to be a totally different kind of RPGs.

Witcher - More focused on the story and the main character
TES - Exploration, Open world

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:05 am

I never really liked the Witcher. It wasn't bad, but played more like an interactive book than a videogame. I can see how some people would like that, but it's just not for me. Spending the majority of an hour clicking dialogue boxes just doesn't do it for me :shrug:

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:31 pm

I take it this was thread moved out of the Skyrim section? The first few pages are painful reading.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:55 am

I'll be getting both, The Witcher 2 eventually though I just got Mortal Kombat and Portal 2 is next on my list, might just get that today actually. Anyway, getting them both, though there are other games I want more than both.

ME3, LA Noire and Portal 2 are all games I'm more excited about than both the Witcher and Skyrim. 2011 is an amazing year for games, less so for my finances.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 5:58 am

"The only competition for Skyrim?"
:rofl:

The Witcher 2 is not competition for Skyrim haha. If Skyrim and the Witcher 2 came out on the SAME day, Skyrims sales would not be effected whatsoever. Because TES fans are obviously going to buy Skyrim.

Not to mention the first Witcher was awful.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:37 pm

"The only competition for Skyrim?"
:rofl:

The Witcher 2 is not competition for Skyrim haha. If Skyrim and the Witcher 2 came out on the SAME day, Skyrims sales would not be effected whatsoever. Because TES fans are obviously going to buy Skyrim.

Not to mention the first Witcher was awful.

"TES fans"?

Sorry I'm an RPG fan first, I judge on the quality of the game, not it's pedigree. We haven't even seen much of Skyrim yet.

You can be a fan of something without being blind to all else.

» Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:31 pm

I bought the Witcher and was rather disappointed in it. The gameplay was kinda fun, but it was the voice acting that did it in for me. But I only played it for about 2 hours, maybe I didn't give it a shot.

I don't think that Witcher 2 is any competition to Skyrim. I will probably end up buying both games. Skyrim on release and Witcher 2 whenever I see it on sale.

» Sat Oct 30, 2010 1:38 am

"The only competition for Skyrim?"
:rofl:

The Witcher 2 is not competition for Skyrim haha. If Skyrim and the Witcher 2 came out on the SAME day, Skyrims sales would not be effected whatsoever. Because TES fans are obviously going to buy Skyrim.

You may be surprised to find that many TES fans are RPG fans, probably coming to TES through things like Icewind Dale, Baldurs Gate et al. The Witcher feels (from what I have played of it) much closer to these than TES does).