[QUOTE="Planeforger"][QUOTE="PBSnipes"]Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw hit the nail on the head, it plays just like a mumorpuger with its annoying "collect X of Y" quests.
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Sure, there are a handful of fetch quests in the game, but many of the other quests actually have some serious role-playing and consequences - which is rare in the RPG genre, and totally absent from MMORPGs.
Yahtzee's negative opinion of the game is based upon two factors:
1 - he doesn't seem to like any RPGs (for example, he barely touched Torment).
and 2 - he only played through the first few quests of the first chapter, which are probably the worst and most basic in the game.
*Edit* I'll admit that it's slow paced, and is somewhat flawed...but it's still better than most of the RPGs that we've seen in the last seven or eight years.
*Edit* Now that I think about it, Yahtzee's main complaint about most choices in gaming is that you're usually stuck with a generic good/evil mechanic - so if Yahtzee ever got around to actually playing the game, he'd probably praise it for its decision making.
Yahtzee is actually a good reviewer who often makes salient points, but it's pretty much been confirmed that you can't take his RPG reviews even remotely seriously. This is a man who fully admitted in the Mass Effect review that he utterly hates JRPGs and that he hates WRPGs with "too much dialogue", and dialogue has always been one of the most critical parts of any good WRPG.
He seems hypocritical, too. In his Bioshock review, Yahtzee complains that Bioshock is a dumbed down version of System Shock 2 for the "consoletards" (his word), but in the Witcher review he complains that it's too complex and meant to scare away console players while appeasing PC gamers. He complains about that. You can't have it both ways.
The Witcher does start off slow. That's about the worst thing anybody can truly say about it if they're a big fan of RPGs. It does almost everything else really well. The item screen itself can be cumbersome since there's no auto-organize, but the entire menu screen in general is fantastic and easy to navigate, and The Witcher easily has the best in-game journal I've ever seen in any game. Simply fantastic. It has everything. It's incredibly detailed, well-organized and easy-to-read.
It's not the type of game you're supposed to rush with in an effort to write a witty review, especially not a game like The Witcher that gets progressively better the more you get into it. At least Yahtzee amended his review by calling it "first impressions", and emphasized that, since he'd only played the game for 2 hours. He played an 60-80 hour RPG for only 2 hours and people are taking his "first impressions" review seriously. Sad stuff. Make up your own opinions, people.
Agreed. The journal is awesome. Usially when game has one I never read it, but Geralt's journal is actually helpful and interesting to read.As for Yahtzee's "review", It's amazing how putting "first impressions" in the opening completely got past people..Goes to show you how much attention people pay to things. I thought it was funny and it was almost the exact same thing I felt when I first started..I don't know why people are making a big deal about it.
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