Pogo
1861
They should match up in English, I thought. I played most of it with Polish voices so not matching up is expected for me.
Hum, playing the 1.5 version I do not remember any particularly glaring differences between voice and subtitles (in English) … not 100% certain but think I would have noticed significant discrepancies
Not sure either. I’m still in the tutorial. But, for instance, after the fight with Savolla, the other witcher has a totally different subtitled conversation for a few lines than what is being discussed by voice.
I was wondering if it was a sign of the rewriting and rerecording they had done for the EE. On the other hand, would that not have been applied to the subtitles too?
Makes me wonder if I’m missing part of a patch.
Wendelius
Pogo
1864
It may be occasional, but if you have the rest of the stuff like uncensored sex cards and the extra violent coup de grace animations, I wouldn’t worry about it.
I’ll check when I get farther. Being in Europe, I always had the uncensored sex cards, AFAIK. But thanks for the tip. The game is running fine anyway.
I probably should switch off the subtitles to eliminate the feeling of 2 different realities stacking up. :)
Wendelius
Mystery solved. Looks like the EE english pack had been slightly truncated at download. The patch seemed to install fine but didn’t install the voice over pack. I redownloaded and installed it manually and now voices and subtitles match. Much better.
Wendelius
So, I reinstalled this, having bought it years ago and never having played past Act 1. Few questions:
I installed the base game, patched it up to 1.4, then 1.5. I’m using a Win7 64-bit machine. At some point I started getting an error message saying that the Tages driver was incompatible with my system and would be disabled. As I recall, tages was the system that made your game degrade if it wasn’t legit. On the other hand, I thought 1.5 was supposed to remove DRM. Will this mess up my game?
What’s all this I hear about a director’s cut? I know I’ve installed the enhanced edition (1.4). Should I be looking for yet another patch?
And on the subject of patches, what’s this about a blood patch? I’m fairly sure I bought the import edition. I don’t care so much about the boobiez, but what I’ve played through so far (and it’s not much) has been pretty bloodless.
Thanks,
Ike
I ran into this annoying problem last year when I installed Witcher.
When you installed Witcher from the original disk it, it installed the Tages drivers on your computer. The process of updating Witcher to 1.5 removed the need for Tages to run Witcher, but not the Tages drivers from your system.
You may be able to remove the Tages drivers with software from the Tages company:
http://ww*w.tagesprotection.com/main.htm?page=minimum.htm
(Please remove the 3* for the link to work)
The past weeks i have been playing the game with the same version in the same OS (Win 7 64bits) without problems with TAGES / DRM.
TAGES is the DRM used, but from what i know, it doesn’t degrade over time (that was the one used in Op. Flashpoint / Arma). As Aquafish has explained, it surely was installed on your machine with the initial installation of the game, even if now with the 1.5 is not used, it’s still on your system.
I have been reading the novels of Geralt of Rivia (spanish edition, good translation) and they are not merely decent/good, they are very good! It was a nice surprise, pity that you americans still can’t enjoy them fully.
Obviously it has given me a new perspective about the videogame, the world and the characters, but also it has served to point the weak areas of the videogame, in comparison. Short version, i think the game would have been even better with a more focused, narrower experience, instead of trying to make a big game painted in broad strokes, because the RPG conventions say that you have to make dozens of little quests around. How many quests did have the game? Like… 60? A better compromise would be to have 40 quests, but with better quality in these 40, with longer dialogue, better character interaction, etc.
Another thing i noticed is how harsh is the world. Some people has complained of the game being too misoginist, and the world is pretty bleak. The books are in some parts even worse, the videogame is the neutered down version in comparison. The little polemic of the preview video of The Witcher 2 because there was a woman showing her tits (she was a prisoner chained and with her top dress broken) is laughable now, in the books it would have been clearly stated that yeah, she was raped by the guards. It’s a harsh, brutal, bleak world .
Another question! I had thought that the EE came with a pdf game guide, but I can’t find it. Do I have to download it, or is it somewhere on my hard drive?
Lake
1872
The EE does come with a 100+ page pdf guide.
So how far into the books are you Naeblis? Do you have all 7 of them?
Nope, i just started the fourth one. The first two books were a good collection of short stories, and i like how the big plot begins not in the first novel (third book) but in the short stories already. The third book is very interesting but i almost wished to be longer, it’s told in “cuts”, there are a few harsh transitions in it. I want the “extended edition” :P (of course i am a wheel of time and song of ice and fire fan, so i don’t problem with long books XD).
It’s very easy to do the parallel of Triss => Yennefer and Alvin => Ciri, but in that regard i am loving so much Ciri than in comparison Alvin is just a plot element, that’s it. I suppose good games are one thing, but good books will always be another different world. And i hope the relationship with Triss is made more complex/problematic in The Witcher 2, of course is not needed to have a masochist relation like with Yennefer but a bit of “spice” and drama could improve the dynamics of both (i was always a “there is no story without conflict” kind of guy).
Yeah relationship with Yennefer was…turbulent. And Ciri is my favourite character, even more so then Geralt tbh. I really hope there will be something about her in TW2.
Also in one russian interview I read, interviewer asked Tom Gop if he heard that Sapkowski might write more Geralt stuff - damn I hope if that will become true, it will not invalidate stories of the games canon-wise.
I found the first two books really enjoyable. I truly liked the gritty tone, specially the secondary characters with their very believable (to me) medieval attitudes.
Sadly, I think the main saga from book 3 onwards is a total letdown. Geralt becomes a weak puppet of everybody else instead of the true loner it’s supposed to be. And the story degenerates fast into generic D&D fantasy, soap opera drama included.
I remember being pissed at the author after reading an interview in a spanish magazine with him saying how ‘european’ and different from americanized medieval fantasy his books were. Total BS after the first 2 books.
The game was a nice surprise to me, because while it has no way to ditch the elves, dwarves and other D&D elements, I think it keeps the tone of the story much closer to the early tales of Geralt.
Completely disagree, I love whole saga and if I had to pick favourites, I would say last book is my favourite, Nimue/Condwiramurs notwithstanding. I only read two fantasy sagas, Witcher and LOTR…and preferred Witcher.
The game have dwarves, elves and gnomes, but the context of how they are used is pretty different from your average D&D story…
