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Mass Effect or The Witcher Enhanced Edition

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depends, i havent played witcher but mass effect is "La Fisura" for me. I mean, i have finished it like three times and i dont get bored and the other i love are the sex scenes :D:D:D:D:D:D
 
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Both are great imo. Mass Effect was my favorite, solid gameplay w/ a very well-woven story. It can get a tad repetitive though, and for its scope can sometimes feel rather empty, but it can involve you well and offer a decent challenge if you crank up the difficulty. The Witcher had some very intriguing pieces to it (certain story elements, certain gameplay mechanics, I found myself enjoying the side stuff more than the main event), but as a whole doesn't quite offer the sum of those pieces.

Both are somewhat buggy sometimes but nothing crippling in my experience, I was able to play both easily w/ my system, and that's w/o the enhanced version of the Witcher. Both are also somewhat linear w/o a big game-world to explore, they are mostly story-driven and the stories are really the main reason to go for both. And I believe both begin trilogys (I'm hoping Mass Effect can continue w/ the same character, seeing as you can replay the game after beating it w/ all your equipment, plus decisions are critical to the outcome). I'd say if you must pick one go for Mass Effect, but I think they both deserve a play through.
 

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Second, I hate the combat modes. I have never been one to enjoy having to perfectly time my attacks just to win a battle.

this is also the reason why i hated the witcher.
 
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The Witcher has plenty of needless running around. The original version (unlocked scenes, blood, dialogue, etc.) is all in some other language. Never could get the English patch to work. The combat timings are not difficult, they're on the border of easy, but just far enough away to be irritating about it. You can almost combo in your sleep, but miss a step and someone will put a sword in your face.

Playing as a character that doesn't remember a damn thing is a horrible cliche that's been beaten to death for the past umpteen years. You're a badass when you start, but you forget how to be a badass and have to figure it out all over again. In the meantime you have your badass rivals that wouldn't mind killing you twice and giving you a skull-job afterwards.

Magic is kinda lame, off-weapons (anything besides the sword) are under-powered, character customization is absent, and the pretend leveling scheme leaves much to be desired. It's very much reminiscent of the FFX style, but without the depth.

I enjoyed about 10 hours of the game. Then I hit the wall and put it down.
 
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I liked The Witcher:), but I lived MassEffect:rockout: for one reason! Its the BEST SCI-FI RPG I 've ever had the pleasure of playing!

btw If you like action-RPGs aswell, then you could try Rise of the Argonauts:rockout:
 
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I liked The Witcher:), but I lived MassEffect:rockout: for one reason! Its the BEST SCI-FI RPG I 've ever had the pleasure of playing!

btw If you like action-RPGs aswell, then you could try Rise of the Argonauts:rockout:

+ infinite to that
 
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If i had to say which was a better game..
Hands down, no question what so ever, in any way, shape, or form..
Mass effect is better..

Witcher is tons of fun though. and is definitely worth getting.. no question..
witcher is like an 8.5..
Mass effect is like a 9.5..

If your not using an 8800 gt or 8800gtx you likely won't even have the problems i am though.
and if you do.. use the driver 175.16 or 175.19 whichever works best for you on XP.
IDK vista drivers but there is a mass effect forum.. np to google it..

It's just gorgeous.. and emerging..
Top of the line RPG with voice overs by Seth Green and the Black guy from Ghost busters..
sorry idk his name.. but he's a great actor anyway.
I'm sure there's more in there I'm unaware of.

It's a very deep game..
Even though it crashes me constantly I keep going back lol..
It's just that good..
 

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i got the witcher for free a few days after it came out and i thought it was a complete to disgrace to todays video/computer game standards
 

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I finished The Witcher the other day, and some nitpicking aside, holy crap, that was enjoyable. It's been quite awhile since I've played a 30-60 hour game and upon finishing it immediately considered starting over at the beginning again.

I regret not paying more attention to my Signs other than Igni, or using alchemy more. I started using them a bit more towards the end and wished I had done so sooner. Not just for power, but because it's fun. If anyone is new to The Witcher, I recommend reading a how-to on how all the Signs work and look for example videos on youtube. I played a long time before realizing I could throw a freakin' fireball(!).

As for it vs. Mass Effect, eh, they're both games of the year depending on what publication you read.
 
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The Witcher.

Didn't like Mass Effect at all. I can't quite put my finger on why though .... because I don't have enough fingers. I can't think of anything I liked about it. But then, it's personal preference, and I'm sure some people loved it!
 

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Played Mass Effect. Well, tried to. When I first got into some fights in The Witcher, coming off two or three FPSs, I thought combat was kind of goofy, but it was different and it grew on me and turned out to be a lot of fun. Mass Effect is like a third-person shooter, but one I don't find much fun. It's ok, but, just, eh. For comparison, a third-person shooter I had lots of fun with is Lost Planet.

I thought the story would suck me in, but there's just so much dialogue and cutscenes and it gets watered down. Wasn't sure if I was playing a video game or reading a novel. The giant walls of text were just too much.

Does choosing different dialogues do much of anything? In The Witcher, for instance, if you choose early on to let a group of "nice" outcasts steal some supplies and weapons from the people who are supposedly mean to them, later in the game they use those weapons to kill innocents. So the blame is a bit on you. (just one example.) I don't know if your dialogue choices in ME have that kind of effect or not. I was getting the "feeling" not a whole lot you say really matters.

Since the story is supposedly so good, but I was forcing myself to play, I wound up watching someone else's full playthrough video of it. Well, tried to. Still too much dialogue. You walk up to a stranger and they babble off their entire life story. And the SUV scenes looked harder to pilot than that damn hover plane thing in Crysis.

Other people like it. Wasn't for me. So far, the first hour or two of Fallout 3 has been far more entertaining. But, only played the first hour or two.
 
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