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I can't stand it anymore. "Your sister! lolololol" Every single time I see this thread listed on the front forums page, I just want to post that. It's good to get it out of my system. I've been holding that in for a year!

Is it a bad idea to start W2 before finishing W1? Not really. The Witcher 1 seems to do a good job of introducing characters and some factions that are also relevant in The Witcher 2, but the plots aren't directly connected. The bad guys of The Witcher 2 have no relation to the bad guys of The Witcher 1, except for like one guy in a sidequest. The Witcher 1 does have a teaser scene that leads into The Witcher 2, however.

I've never played an Assassin's Creed game on the PS3 that didn't freeze my system up at least once. It's sort of a tradition for me. I'd hate to see it go. And then there's that Dead Space 2 problem I had that caused me to have to delete all the data I had for the game.

I still don't see how people can get on the Obsidian hatewagon over bugs. New Vegas wasn't any more less bug filled than pretty much every other game on the PC. This is a problem of our platform, not this singular developer. Dragon Age 2 had quests that completed for no one, not simply a few. Bethesda doesn't seem to have patched any of the Fallout 3 DLC ever. And who here never had The Witcher 2 crash on them?

Health does regenerate.

what about that interview with F.Urquhart? he did mention Atari and Icewind Dale 3 EDIT: oh, and isn't there another co-op D&D game in development? Neverwinter. The game I can't find consensus on whether it's an MMO or simply co-op.

There's two possibilities. Atari is doing the bare minimum to keep the license. Or nobody wants to develop games off it. Given the niche nature of RPGs at the moment (we have what, three developers focusing on it?), I'm leaning towards the latter. Bioware supposedly doesn't want to do them anymore. Bethesda has its own publisher, so they can't use Atari's license. And there's Obsidian, who knows if they're interested. So Atari is left with less prominent developers and smaller projects. Then again, that's kind of what Atari's business model is at the moment anyway. They'll occasionally drag something across the seas, but all they're funding is downloadables. So third possibility. Atari isn't interested in doing what's necessary to make something we would consider ideal.

*points at you and laughs*

That's generally how those things work. F2P games gate off content behind pay methods, either subscription or microtrans. Stormreach does the same thing.

I still need to finish Peace Walker. I finally get what I think are all the parts to my own Metal Gear and I spend all my time trying to figure out how to use it. I never did. Then I find out that they do hidden 'true ending' bull****.

I looked briefly into it. It lost me at being a dungeon crawler. I noticed it also has set class/race combos. Now I'm waffling on Gabriel Knight. Briefly loaded up Syberia, then briefly loaded up Gray Matter. Never did anything other than quit the menu on either. arrrrgh Edit 2: Or New Vegas for the two DLC I haven't touched.

I don't know what to play next! Just finished Witcher 2. Still waiting for PSN store before I really hit LA Noire. I could do Gray Matter or 999, but I think I'll do one of my GoG Games. Gabriel Knight should be a good choice.

Vaccination implies a vaccine has been developed. We haven't even created a vaccination for all the diseases we have, why would you expect them to? Or the resources and willingness to apply it. Vizima only seemed to have two mages, period. One was a politician, the other a genocidal madman. Which one do you think would be a capable medical researcher? Might it be the one who secretly went on about how the plague was "going exactly according to plan MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA." They certainly have magical vaccination available for some diseases. W-HAT I got cover before I ever used intimidation. I had no idea how I got it. Anyway, just finished it. Loved it. Want to do another playthrough, but will let the memory of up through Act 1 fade first.

4 years, not 6 1/2, my bad.

Remember when Microsoft expected people to upgrade to Vista and start paying for online just to play an already outdated Halo 2 PC? And then when that flopped, they abandoned PC game publishing for 4 years. That was fun.

What's wrong with brothels? We still have brothels today. I don't think I've seen anyone in the Witcher espousing bleedings. At least nobody with an education. They simply managed to achieve scientific insights with magic prior to industrialization.

An updated biological understanding is intrinsic to The Witcher. Geralt himself is genetically modified. I find it less jarring than those settings that have highly advanced magics and education systems, but still refuse to advance their knowledge base. Any time mages organize into schools, they should make some pretty significant progress in the sciences.

I'm not entirely sure. I think that they did a pretty poor PC version considering the console ones aren't even announced yet. The UI is simply indefensible. Auto-scrolling, ugh.

LA Noir looks nowhere near as good as The Witcher 2. Maybe The Witcher 1.

I'LL CHILL YOUR FACE

They never managed it for The Witcher 1 because there were disputes with the French company they had doing the port. CD Projekt claimed they weren't meeting standards and stopped paying them.

I was being sarcastic. People see sex in EVERYTHING. Even if dark elves being linked to bondage sex wasn't blatant in media, people would still see it. It goes without saying at this point. Like airline peanuts and "hey, why do games get rated worse for sex than violence? Talk about double standards, LOL."

Yes, you are the only one to think that.

Die in a fire or something. 4 is one of the only times I will ever refer to a game as "self-indulgent." It's one of those words that seems absolutely meaningless to apply to this kind of context, but there's literally nothing else to describe it. Metal Gear Solid 4 spent as much time in cutscenes as gameplay. If not more. And never gave you enough of any particular gameplay segment to appreciate it.

I don't consider that win-win. 4 was ugh, though Peace Walker was good.