| I fully agree with RainSong on his post.
The Witcher setting is very different from d&d or lord of the rings. In books it touches upon lots of modern days issues, it has quite a few sex scenes and employs strong language at certain points, but this only adds its flavor to an already unique world.
Basically, the game and books are very close to medieval world, although they touch many modern issues. I mean, seriously, you think that all knights and peasants were celibate and never forced someone to have sex with them? Are you kidding, the dark ages was the most gruesome time in regards of violence (if you were strong you could do whatever you wanted basically), disregarding women, etc. These times were very different as portrayed by the Arthurian saga or Tolkien. Ultimately, the question is: should you blame the witcher for using sex, violence, cursing, when others do not; or should you blame the knight novels for being too unrealistic. I think that both genres have the right to live, simply because they are different and at times I prefer one over the other and vice versa, but this doesn't make me stuck with just one thing, utterly hating the other, that's kinda childish.
As for the dialogue. I don't know how much English version got the attention of the buthcer's knife, but over here the Russian version dialogues sound pretty good. Although, I do agree, that a few dialogues are a bit incosistent, but the main storyline is very well written and pretty true to the books. For me this game stands in the same line as BG2 or KOTOR1. I think the guys in Poland really put their souls into this, though some elements could get more polish and thought, but overall this game is much better than anything else there is in the market atm.  |