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04/29/09
04/29/09
I totally agree...this is a very bad sign. I doubt this title will come out.
04/28/09
My guess is that Atari is looking at their overall financials and deciding which games to keep and which games to drop from their publishing lineup. Teasing a cancellation rumor offers them direct feedback regarding console gamers interest in the IP before they make an official decision
RPG's are never cheap to make, and very few console RPGs have sold well this generation, Bethesda games notwithstanding. It's not unreasonable for Atari to have fears about pushing a hard-sell genre title if it doesn't sell. They're barely back from the dead as it is, and a big budget flop could be potentially ruinous.
Even if this winds up being true, I'd be shocked to see a nearly complete build of the game never see the light of day. Even if Atari drops it I could see the game going to Square/Eidos or Ubisoft instead.
04/28/09
If it is indeed a litmus test, then let me color the paper for the Pro-Witcher side.
We so rarely get solid, interesting RPG's on consoles, and this and Dragon Age were my two most anticipated titles of the year.
I think it's quite clear that there's a significant portion of gamers excited about this title, and Atari is smoking rocks if they let it fall by the wayside.
04/28/09
Agreed. I'm very hopeful that this is all BS. I'm so RPG starved I've stomached garbage like Star Ocean and Infinite Undiscovery for longer than I should have.
I think a game that breaks the mold of classic genre convention, like The Witcher, will sell phenomenally well for a two year old PC port, and that it'd be shortsighted for any publisher to dismiss it's potential.
What publishers forget is that there are a lot of actual mature gamers out here dying for M rated content that isn't dick-and-fart joke driven.
Here's hoping...
04/28/09
Maybe it's Atari dropping the game? It's not canceled per se but they're shopping the game around to different publishers?
Glad to see I'm not the only one who's eagerly awaiting this game. I admit my PC can't run the game. Plus, they also said they'd be adding a bunch of new stuff and correcting some of the problems from the original for the console release.
Say it ain't so Atari!
04/28/09
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04/28/09
Did they show any real-time footage of the console version?
04/28/09
04/28/09
[www.gametrailers.com]
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04/28/09
- XP Service Pack 2, Vista
- Pentium 4 2.4GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +2800
- 1 GB RAM for Microsoft® Windows® XP / 1536 MB for Microsoft® Windows® Vista
- 128 MB Video RAM or greater with DirectX9 Vertex Shader/ Pixel Shader 2.0 support (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 or better)
- 8.5 GB available hard drive space
- DirectX 9.0c compliant soundcard, plus speakers or headphones
- DVD-Rom
If you don't have that PC, you don't deserve to play the game anyway.
04/28/09
Guess us Mac owners are just supposed to suck it then?
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03/22/09
So no, this is not a nipple slippage. It's an idle animation (she's a whore seductively playing her hands over her body), coupled with a poorly-timed screen grab.
Ignore it and move on. Better yet, ignore it and buy this fucking game, because The Witcher was fantastic.
03/22/09
God help us all.
(Sidenote: I recall reading of atrocious loading times for that game, on here, but the skyglow in that last picture makes me think it might be worth it. What is that? Specular lighting? Some sort of ___glow effect?)
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03/22/09
Nice article :|
*waits for console witcher*
03/22/09
And the fact that we keep reading means he's doing a kick-ass job.
Three screenshots? Not much to go on, and yet, enough to thrust us deep in meditation about phantom nipples and ripples on the primordial sea and anaerobia and leotard-clad aerobics instructors and the contribution of oxygen to masturbatory fantasies and... oh, how my head spins...