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Well, let's face it, the first Witcher game had more than its fair share of problems...
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The Witcher 1 is a god damn masterpiece and I will die on that hill.
It's got one thing really going for it and that's the story. There's some nice ideas about consequences along the way. There's not really any bad choices to make, but sometimes there aren't any good ones either.
But the gameplay is a hodgepodge of things that don't fit. It's a top down ARPG battered roughly into the shape of a third person brawler. I can see why it's getting a remake.
You think that, but you've fallen for their clever tricks.
Witcher 1 was a CRPG. It was just a heavily modified Neverwinter Nights, aka DND, complete with d20 combat and skill rolls. That's one of the reasons they reached out to Bioware for help making it :)
Sure, they slapped the sword switching and stance stuff on top but ultimately you might as well have been rolling dice to hit.
I said ARPG because apparently it was supposed to be a PC port of Dark Alliance. Is Dark Alliance a CRPG or an ARPG? I remember playing it on the PS2, but it's a long time ago now.
I loved it and I was really excited about the sequel, which I hated. They ruined the combat.
Saying they ruined the combat is an incredibly hottake
It doesn't hold up well at all... Heck, I'm sure it must have felt outdated when it released.
Graphically it was considered top notch IIRC
I'm thinking about the gameplay itself