The Witcher is a nominee for the first Videogame Writer's ..

External Since: Jan 20, 2005 Posts: 1137

Considering the competition, it should be a shoo-in.....

See:-

http://news.filefront.com/the-witcher-up-for-writers-guild-award/

A movie based on The Witcher and the book from which it was derived
would be so much better than movies based on Resident Evil, Doom3, AvP
etc. and all that drek.... imho, of course.

BTW, the game intro sequence is a classic. Terrific production values,
stellar graphics and animation. Beautifully-voiced, relevant and
suitably sinister narrator voice-over ( at least on the English PC
version ) and directly relevant to the theme(s) of the game itself.
Top of my personal list of video-game intros.

John Lewis

External Since: Apr 23, 2007 Posts: 8114

On Jan 16, 11:38 am, john.....RemoveThis@verizon.net (John Lewis) wrote:
> Considering the competition, it should be a shoo-in.....
>
> See:-
>
> http://news.filefront.com/the-witcher-up-for-writers-guild-award/
>
> A movie based on The Witcher and the book from which it was derived
> would be so much better than movies based on Resident Evil, Doom3, AvP
> etc. and all that drek.... imho, of course.
>
> BTW, the game intro sequence is a classic. Terrific production values,
> stellar graphics and animation. Beautifully-voiced, relevant and
> suitably sinister narrator voice-over ( at least on the English PC
> version ) and directly relevant to the theme(s) of the game itself.
> Top of my personal list of video-game intros.

The world must be coming to the end, I actually agree with Lewis and
am playing the game right now, about 20 hours in. It is a RPG with
some action elements but it really excels as an RPG. For me, it is
loads better than Oblivion. The story is a little odd and while set in
a mythical 13th century, the dialogue is like 1980's hipster. Somehow,
the combination is amusing and entertaining. I could just never get
into Oblivion, it seemed like so much was disconnected and the side
missions ended up just being boring. Witcher has quite a story going
on and the side quests are varied but still tie in well with the main
story line. The real time dynamic environments are really well done,
day into night, sunny to rainy, people out in the middle of the day,
in their beds at night, monsters and assassins as creatures of the
night. Witcher didn't get a lot of hype but it is being recognized on
its own, which is the way good video games should be. This is a really
good direction for action RPG's to take.