play it, that is all.

" @mylifeforAiur: Let me ask you a question, does donkey kong, or pac man, or tetris needs a good story line to have good gameplay or to be considered a good game? "

" @mylifeforAiur: For me it's like 70% gameplay 30% story. Watch this youtube video, it reflects my views. Even shows how the story of the witcher doesn't mean anything if the gameplay isn't good. I mean sure the story might be good to you, well not to me. That 30% of the score needs to have better gameplay. Having three stances and clicking the mouse at an enemy is really not what I call great gameplay.
 

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" @Jeust: I don't know, maybe it might have fun gameplay. You can create your own characters and choose your own orgins story. I mean even oblivion had a medicore story, some guy sees some vision, you open a few portals and get the king to a specific spot to finish the game. Is that a great story? No, however the gameplay is fun. Maybe some of you casual games doesn't really care about gameplay anymore, over story and motivations because the witcher if you skip all the cutscenes can't stand on it's own. 
 
You still haven't answered my question yet. Did you play the pc version of dragon age orgins or the console version? The console version's score is lowered and the experience is lowered overall for gameplay. There are no tactics.
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 Maybe for me, i'm the guy who doesn't like cutscenes and won't view them a second time if I can skip it during a second playthough going right into the gameplay.    

 It goes against everything you believe in for a good score and highly rated game.      

I played trough dragon age origins on the pc on Normal difficulty and I beat it in 40 hours (done everything including 2 dlcs). The only replay value for the game as I see it is to play other beginning stories, (noble etc) and after that maybe start a new class. But I can't get myself to play this game again because I thought it was boring (especially the mage arc). Bioware said this game would be on par with baldurs gate 2...they lied. 

I'm thinking about testing the witcher to see if it's as good as they say. But that will have to wait till christmas because of finals. Maybe I'll write a review with my crappy english...

Yo, The Witcher is the absolute shit. Like someone said a few pages back, wait for it to go on sale for a ridiculously low price sometime in the next two months, play it, and have the time of your life. 
 
It absolutely does start slow--no doubt about it--but once it revs up it does not let you down at all.

Witcher's a fun character. Side quests suck, just collecting animal eyeballs and shit. Main quest is alright, though. Fire magic is broken. Has some of the better ambience I've seen in a game. And there are like 5 NPC models, its ridiculous. That's the Witcher.

You have to let it grow on you. The first couple hours I thought were kinda lame, but then it got epic. Easily one of my favorite PC games.

I played the Witcher and loved it, but be advised the game has some issues, i played it for 42 hours (according to Steam) and in that time the game must have crashed back to desktop about 8 to 10 times on me, other than that its a really great game

I definitely think you should play it, if only because you have enjoyed western RPGs and this is an interesting example of one.
I ended up really liking it, but it was a slow burn. The first chapter is easily the worst in the game and I never got along with the combat system, but I ended up loving the world and the characters you meet.