The Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut

Due to some technical problem with my net connection, I just finished downloading The Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut from GoG today. If you remember from my older post, you’ll know about the promo that’s running at GoG from 10^th May till 24^th May. Though I do prefer physical copies, unless there are some irresistible Steam deals, I went out of my way and got the game as soon as I booted up my computer on the 10^th of May. And was I happy that I did purchase the game online. The retail box here still costs about Rs 1500. In addition to the general goodies, I also got the extra GoG goodies, which include the Witcher Story, Soundtrack, Music Inspired by, 18 HD Wallpapers, Witcher Calendar and the likes. Out of all these, the soundtrack alone makes up for the $5 price that GoG is charging. Quite frankly, it's one of the best I've heard so far.

As for the game, when I first played the demo back in 2007, I was very disappointed. Not only were the load times very long, and I mean really long tea-break-length long, but it was missing simple things like an auto-save. Plus the game stuttered and crashed quite a few times, and along with a weird combat system, I eventually gave up on the game. But then I read the review of the EE, and how CD Projeckt fixed many bugs and re-did the dialogues and slashed the loading time by about 80%. But the price was still the deterrent. But thanks to GoG, I can now say that whosoever has not played this game is officially missing a great RPG from their collection. The GoG version of the game is fully patched to patch 1.5. Not only is the game more stable, with better dialogue, but also the load times, my greatest gripe, are pretty quick. The game starts up almost instantaneously and the loads that took well over 15 mins for me in the demo barely take 5 secs. Plus they now have an auto-save feature that saves your progress before every major encounter, a real boon for some players. The inventory is also revamped, with sorting and stacking buttons and separate places for quest, general inventory and alchemy items. I would advise discovering this game by one-self. I don't want to spoil the fun.

Like I’ve already told, I would absolutely recommend it to every and any RPG lover who wants a little mature storyline in the game and doesn’t want to see a Black and White world, rather have a world that's shades of Grey.

You can check out all the extra content that this game comes with for free in addition to the game and the patch features:

I just wish all the games could offer something of such tremendous values!

The Witcher's discount, practically giveaway

I always love a good bargain on the games that I buy. And so Steam sales are one of my favourite times of the year. I even save up just for those times of the year. But yesterday I came across a deal so awesome, that I just had to let everyone know. As you would know, the wonderful game site/store that is GoG.com is a sister site for CD Projeckt the developer who made the wonderful RPG The Witcher. Now the thing is, in celebration of the release of The Witcher 2, Assassins of Kings, GoG is bringing in The Witcher into their catalog for only $9.99 from May 10 onwards (a full $10 less than Steam's list price), with extra exclusive content. And being GoG, the good news just doesn't end their, they are putting a cherry on the icing in the form of a discount of 50% on The Witcher from May 10-24, thus bringing it's price down to $4.99, with all the exclusive deals! Now if that doesn't make you happy, nothing ever will! So be sure to save up your $5 before May 10 and grab the game, I know I will.

Good Old Games that is gog.com

There are times when we feel extremely nostalgic for a game that gave us countless hours of entertainment. You go up to your attic(or down to your basement) and after rummaging through your proud old game’s collection, find your copy and after dusting it off install it on your spanking new high-end computer, expectantly, only to find that it doesn’t run. Or perhaps you find out that a certain someone sold off your cherished games CD along with your other stuff. So, now you’re all stranded without anything to satisfy your nostalgia. Fear not, because this is the age of Internet, and there’s a solution for everything out there.
So, say hello to Good Old Games (Gog.com)! Just like the name, someone came up with the bright idea that people would like to be able to play their old favourites. So, came up the site, which not only sells old games at low price and with extra goodies, but these games also comes prepared to run on modern Windows OSes. No extra software and tweaks needed to run these. Plus most of the games here aren’t really pixilated class DOS era games. Some of the games included are Guilty Gear, Pain Killer and many more games being added. Sure you won’t find Crysis and the latest games, the some of the games of yore were equal to the fun you can have with the present games.
Also, this site happens to be the sister site of CD Projeckt. So you can pre-order/pre-load the DRM free version of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings at a discount of 10% from here. Plus if you sign up with the site, you’ll get 4 complementary free games, just to show their appreciation!