I then realized I was contrasting my aesthetic sensitivity to that of some teenagers about a game that concerns itself with shooting as many zombies as possible. It is moments like this that can make it so dispritingly difficult to care about video games. ~author Tom Bissell I’ve been an adventure game addict since I bought my first computer back in the Dark Ages of 1982-the game that hooked me was Infocom’s Zork. My latest video game love is The Witcher 2, an adventure game with a lot more fighting and running than puzzling and thinking. I still find myself…
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The Witcher 2 Oh, Dead Again
I really loved The Witcher. It was a fun game, even though it had the nasty habit of killing you every few minutes. The new Witcher follows along in that tradition, and I am growing to love it. I bought the Witcher 2 the day it came out-and found that it was all but impossible for me to play. This was due to a couple of factors, a computer that may be a bit below the minimum requirements and a certain laziness on my part when it comes to having to learn how to do a couple of dozen different…
The Witcher- Save Early, Save Often
The Witcher is not a very forgiving game. It kills your onscreen persona, Geralt of Rivia, at the drop of a hat, often without warning and usually long after one of the games semi-random autosaves. So it is a good idea to save after any major battles or even just every once in a while when you think of it. Of course, that may be just me, I have never been that good at role playing games with a lot of battles. But there is more to The Witcher than whipping out your sword, not much more, but enough for…