The Witcher

[Pop]

Such actions are present in other places of the world other than the US.

 

Remember the zombies in Carmageddon for some European countries?

Magic garbage cans!

[Tigranes]

That said, Rhomal... the graphics on the cards for the Witcher are pretty much porn. In fact, they could go straight into a porn site and live there happily. Maybe not the most 'hard core', but they are explicit, and they will be arousing for certain people, i.e. certain male teenagers.

 

I used to think it was extremely hypocritical to be fine with violence on the screen but not sex - but something occured to me as I was reading your post: sex on the screen isn't just a simulation of sex on the screen, it's also pornographic material (at times) that actually arouses the viewer. I don't think that happens with videogame violence to the same extent, but if a teenager plays the Witcher, and goes around hunting sex and those cards (and you know they will), and is aroused from them - well, isn't that pretty different from just someone enjoying Halo? I mean, it is possible someone really wants to kill people and gets the same kind of satisfaction and enjoyment from playing Counter Strike, and associates that with real killings, but most people don't. But a lot more people who hunt for the 'porn cards' in the Witcher would associate that with real sexual activity and be aroused.

 

I don't know. I sense that it isn't a fundamental difference here but rather the difference in how people treat the two things in games differently, but I can't see the whole logic very clearly at the moment.

 

Will get this game next month probably, around when it gets here in the NZ. I wonder which version we are going to get - and I wonder if I can even run it.

Edited November 10, 2007 by Tigranes

[Pidesco]

What? Did you just go a little crazy?

[Tigranes]

Probably. Not sure.

 

I'll come back in a couple of hours and see if I was.

Edited November 10, 2007 by Tigranes

[jaguars4ever]

The 2D cards are just part of what was censored in the US version.

The Euro version has a few encounters with bare-chested females and also a bit of full frontal nudity.

 

This is what my Google skills have come up with.

Now use your google skillz to find a way to enable teh b00br0x0rz!1

 

No boobies = game breaking experience.

[theslug]

The 2D cards are just part of what was censored in the US version.

The Euro version has a few encounters with bare-chested females and also a bit of full frontal nudity.

 

This is what my Google skills have come up with.

Now use your google skillz to find a way to enable teh b00br0x0rz!1

 

No boobies = game breaking experience.

Actually to me it is. Well only partially, I've decided that I will not buy this game. The script changes and lack of the full original experience is the final straw. Maybe after mass effect if they have a patch with updated lost content I'll consider buying the game but until then they should be ashamed.

[Hell Kitty]

The 2D cards are just part of what was censored in the US version.

The Euro version has a few encounters with bare-chested females and also a bit of full frontal nudity.

 

This is what my Google skills have come up with.

Now use your google skillz to find a way to enable teh b00br0x0rz!1

 

No boobies = game breaking experience.

Actually to me it is. Well only partially, I've decided that I will not buy this game. The script changes and lack of the full original experience is the final straw. Maybe after mass effect if they have a patch with updated lost content I'll consider buying the game but until then they should be ashamed.

 

A simple ini edit will restore the original script.

[jaguars4ever]

The 2D cards are just part of what was censored in the US version.

The Euro version has a few encounters with bare-chested females and also a bit of full frontal nudity.

 

This is what my Google skills have come up with.

Now use your google skillz to find a way to enable teh b00br0x0rz!1

 

No boobies = game breaking experience.

Actually to me it is. Well only partially, I've decided that I will not buy this game. The script changes and lack of the full original experience is the final straw. Maybe after mass effect if they have a patch with updated lost content I'll consider buying the game but until then they should be ashamed.

 

A simple ini edit will restore the original script.

PM me the details.

 

Also: Guys, when I'm combo-ing attacks, and teh flaming sword icon pops up, does it matter if I click on the enemy or can I click anywhere?

[Pidesco]

Actually to me it is. Well only partially, I've decided that I will not buy this game. The script changes and lack of the full original experience is the final straw. Maybe after mass effect if they have a patch with updated lost content I'll consider buying the game but until then they should be ashamed.

 

A simple ini edit will restore the original script.

 

What? How's that?

[Tigranes]

I am very curious as well. If the English version is shorter due to budget issues or Atari's angrypants, ini...?

[Hell Kitty]

The Witcher\System\witcher.ini

 

Change Language=FinalEnglish_Short to Language=FinalEnglish_Long.

 

Haven't tried it myself.

[Pidesco]

The 2D cards are just part of what was censored in the US version.

The Euro version has a few encounters with bare-chested females and also a bit of full frontal nudity.

 

This is what my Google skills have come up with.

Now use your google skillz to find a way to enable teh b00br0x0rz!1

 

No boobies = game breaking experience.

 

 

http://www.shackspace.com/download_large.x...h=ikuu/Data.rar

 

 

Apparently this should work. It's a large download, though.

 

 

The Witcher\System\witcher.ini

 

Change Language=FinalEnglish_Short to Language=FinalEnglish_Long.

 

Haven't tried it myself.

 

It appears that with that ini change and using the original Polish voices is the best way to get the unadulterated experience. I don't know if that's possible, though. Must get game.

Edited November 10, 2007 by Pidesco

[jaguars4ever]

The 2D cards are just part of what was censored in the US version.

The Euro version has a few encounters with bare-chested females and also a bit of full frontal nudity.

 

This is what my Google skills have come up with.

Now use your google skillz to find a way to enable teh b00br0x0rz!1

 

No boobies = game breaking experience.

 

 

http://www.shackspace.com/download_large.x...h=ikuu/Data.rar

 

 

Apparently this should work. It's a large download, though.

It takes me to a shackspace screen but with no linky. :sad:

[Hurlshort]

The game is great. Not buying it because it lacks nudity and a few extra lines of dialogue is your loss. It really makes no difference to the overall experience.

[Big Bottom]

Just buy a pack of porno playing cards and hold one in front of the monitor for each 'conquest'.

[Pop]

The game is great. Not buying it because it lacks nudity and a few extra lines of dialogue is your loss. It really makes no difference to the overall experience.

I wouldn't say that to someone who wanted to get Carmageddon but could only get the german flying-garbage-can version. There's nothing wrong with wanting an unadulterated version of something everybody else has. The edited version of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut removes all the sex and doesn't really change anything else but nobody's going to argue that it doesn't lack the same vision as the unedited (Japanese, of course) version. The only difference between The Witcher and Manhunt 2 is that Manhunt 2 was a game that sucked and wasn't worth defending. If The Witcher is actually good I want a version that hasn't been compromised.

[Hurlshort]

The problem with your argument is that nudie cards and a few lines of dialogue from minor characters do not take away from the central vision of The Witcher. The game is very much intact.

[Pidesco]

Everything is better with nudie cards. Everything.

[Pop]

The problem with your argument is that nudie cards and a few lines of dialogue from minor characters do not take away from the central vision of The Witcher. The game is very much intact.

The "central vision" isn't necessary relevant. When you have two versions of a single product, one of which is more complete even in a minor way, you're going to want the complete version, and you can't be blamed for that. As long as bells and whistles don't interfere with the "central vision" of the game there's no reason why a player shouldn't be dissatisfied when he gets less than what he would otherwise be reasonably entitled to, ie that which players in another part of the world get.

[taks]

it is never good to hear the mention of sex and the japanese in the same paragraph. *shudders*

 

taks

[Tale]

You guys know what The Witcher has that Mask of the Betrayer hasn't? I mean beyond nudity and foul language. Something very important that all games should have.

 

Official wallpaper.

 

I want you Obsidian guys to think that over. Real hard.

[jaguars4ever]

Hawt diggity - every chick that moves is hittable in this game!

 

 

 

Seems I was wrong...

 

 

...movement isn't necessarily a requirement.

Edited November 11, 2007 by jaguars4ever

[Blodhemn]

Could someone be kind enough to give me a little rundown of the combat? I'm too lazy to read through the reviews.

[jaguars4ever]

Could someone be kind enough to give me a little rundown of the combat? I'm too lazy to read through the reviews.

Think Gladius w/ a mouse.

[Musopticon?]

 

"LAST DAYS OF GAIA!"