The Witcher coming to consoles!

[블라스]

Hell yeah, this is supposed to be one of the best RPGs ever

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Video Interview about console: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/292934.html

Link: http://www.ps3center.net/news/1959/acclaimed-pc-title-the-witcher-going-next-gen

Atari announced earlier that they would be porting their PC smash hit "The Witcher" to next gen consoles. The console version, subtitled "Rise Of The White Wolf", will feature even more gameplay enhancements over the PC rerelease, including a new combat engine, improved backdrops, textures and animations, dynamic lightinging, trophies for PS3 owners, SixaiS motion controls, and enhanced enemy AI.

The Witcher was originally released on PC last year, with an "Enhanced Edition" rerelease earlier this year. The Witcher, based on the book series of the same name, is an RPG about a traveling witch for higher. The game was well recieved critically and commercially, selling over one million copies. It gained recognition for its inclusion of moral choices as part of the storyline that were not often just black and white choices and had ramifications much later on in the game.
No release date was mentioned by Atari.

 

[Havok83]

Will this game translate well to the consoles? I dont have it but did play a very short bit of it and it seemed like a very PCish type game

 

[블라스]

Hopefully it will.
They do mention they're doing a bunch of console specific enhacements, so I'm guessing it will be good.

 

[SatEL]

WTF its already on the ps3.

 

[블라스]

Are you sure?

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Will this game translate well to the consoles? I dont have it but did play a very short bit of it and it seemed like a very PCish type game

I bought the Enhanced Editon, although they touted it as a old-school rpg, it actually controls more like a console rpg, basically multple timed clicks in concession to set of a sequence of moves with the second mouse button shooting off special ability X. I still need to finish the game.

WTF its already on the ps3.

No.

 

[Soapy]

Excellent news. I can't wait to finally play it.

 

[SatEL]

No.

Yeah I just checked my mistake, this whole time I always assumed it was on the ps3.

 

[블라스]

Trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43291.html?type=

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I wonder if they will keep the sex cards in.

Cool, one of the dev's commented.

What they done with the Enhanced Edition was pretty good, they went over the entire game again, re-diong the vioce work, adding a origin story, new quests, gestures cut the load times down by 80%, if you already owned the game it came as a patch upgrade completly free, If this was certain other companys they probably would do just a straight up port.

 

[블라스]

I seriously can't wait for this game.

 

[Raiden]

Sounds like a pretty cool game. If it doesn't come out for 360 I may pick it up for my PC.

 

[블라스]

This one is already out for PC. The thread is for the port that's coming for 360 and Ps3.

 

[블라스]

Ps3 screens!

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

The lighting looks more vibrant than the pc version.
The last two screenshots look like the same areas early in the game. The soldiers look slightly different, the fat fellow and the wench are the same models I think.

 

[Soapy]

New interview.
http://www.gamecyte.com/the-witcher-rise-of-the-white-wolf-qa-dlc-confirmed

We spent a lot of time making The Witcher – four years or more, plus nearly a year spent on the Enhanced Edition. The end result was a PC game that we’re very proud of, and that has helped us gain a bit of exposure in the industry. But there are a lot of gamers out there who’ve either never heard of the game or have heard good things but can’t play it because they don’t have a gaming-capable PC. We want as many people as possible to experience The Witcher, and that’s probably the leading factor in our decision to make Rise of the White Wolf. Now it’s up to us to prove that we’re not just slapping together a port and are actually making a game built from the ground up to be an amazing console RPG.

We’ve completely redesigned the combat system to be more in-line with players’ expectations on consoles. We’ve gone back and motion-captured a lot more combat animations for the new combat actions, like parries, counter-attacks, enhanced evasion, special attacks, etc. We’re also enhancing the enemy AI to make them more aggressive and perform a wide range of offensive and defensive actions to make the combat a bit more action-oriented.

We wanted to meet console users’ expectations, so we’re giving them full control of Geralt during combat. They’ll determine how and when Geralt parries enemy blows, ripostes, evades them, makes lunging attacks, and which foes he attacks. In general, combat will be more dynamic and will give players more potential for combat mastery through practice.

I just a quoted a couple of things. Theres more at the link about DLC, piracy, and sex cards as well as other interesting bits.

 

[Soapy]

Double post.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I started getting into this again the other the other day. Some of the vioce acting is abit wonky even after the re-recording for the enhanced version, they should probably re-record them again. I don't know if it's translation problems but some of the dialogue is hilarious.

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The sex cards aren't that bad at all really, they look more like works of art than pornographic.

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[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Just finished this, the story is pretty dam good for a video-game.
The ending pretty much guarentee's there will be a sequal I think.