Dazaster Dellus wrote...
Funny, I made the exact same
comparison a few weeks ago. IMO The witcher definitely does a better
job of environments(10x better), interaction, day to night time cycles,
weather effects. npc scripting(Ncp characters actually doing things with
their lives like washing clothes, gardening, sweeping, etc), skill
trees and a few other things. The story was actually good. Not a
masterpiece, but good none the less. I definitely think the Witcher 2
will take out Dragon Age 2 now. This is from an unbiased point of view.
From everything I have seen it looks to be a lot better then the first
one. It also has massive open environments and is supposedly not
supposed to have many load times. Time will tell.
The Witcher did a better job at making a living city, I agree. Some of that comes from the added realism of a day/night cycle, but even just walking through the streets Vizima felt more like a place people might actually live. NPCs going places, people shouting stuff at you, beggars and animals and prostitutes. This was undone somewhat by the fact that The Witcher only had about one model for every twenty characters, and couldn't even manage to give named NPCs with major plot importance unique faces and clothes... but it still made Kirkwall feel rather empty by comparison.
Also, one other
thing I like about the Witcher over DA is the fact that it is mature
and they aren't afraid to show it. Bioware tries to make DA seem mature
but other than graphic violence, they still really only skirt the M
rating. the Witcher does violence better and more realistically,
language, nudity(not just for shock value or to load it in, but for
actual legitimate reasons). Bioware would never dream of touching some
of those listings. Even though DA is mature they still kind of cater to
the teens.
Don't get me wrong, I like both The Witcher and Dragon
Age. They each do some things better than the other. The Witcher a
little more so. But as it stands now unless TW2 does everything wrong
somehow, DA2 isn't going to be that hard to beat out for RPG of the
year
The sex cards were the defintion of gratutious. I'd probably put The Witcher above both DA2 and Origins in terms how dark its world was, not because of the specific issues with which it dealt, but because of the frankness with which it showed normal people doing ugly things. Hawke, the Warden, and other major characters between the two Bioware games can do a lot of pretty dark stuff, but The Witcher treats all these acts like simple parts of everyday life. Hell, the Outskirts alone is a more mature storyline than you'll find in 95% of RPGs.
88mphSlayer wrote...
Saphara wrote...
ive enjoyed most RPGs Ive played. however, the Witcher was such a piece of crap in my eyes I am never touching it again. I HATE the blasted combat! I dislike i cant move the camera the way I'd like to. The sex cards were silly. It needs to die in a fire! It may have had a great story, but I'll never know. The things i listed made me unable to finish it.
So for me, DAO and DA2 > Witcher
eh the only combat problem i had with the game was the boss of Chapter 1, that fight genuinely pissed me off until i learned aard sign insta-kills it... other than that the rest of the game was smooth sailing and a great experience and one of the more satisfying rpg's i've played in years
Hehe, yeah. That's one of the areas I'll give DA2 the advantage. The Witcher had wider variety in enemies (though you get tired of drowners pretty damn quick), but it didn't have much in the way of actual boss fights. Oblivion had the same problem, while DA2 gives us stuff like the Ancient Rock Wraith where you've got to pay attention to unique mechanics. Too many fights in The Witcher could be solved with Aard -> decapitate, and unique mechanics were nearly nonexistent.
Retour en haut
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