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Netflix developing The Witcher series.

See, this is where you do the goram dark and gritty.  Please, by all means, make it dark and gritty.  That’s what The Witcher is for.

Netflix has announced that they will be developing a new epic fantasy series based on the hit video game franchise The Witcher. The game itself is based on a series of novels written by polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. There are eight novels and they will serve as the main inspiration for the new series.

But who do you get to play Geralt? Worse: how do you reconcile the voice of the games with the voice of the eventual actor? Because I don’t know if Doug Cockle has the right look.  He’s obviously got the right voice, but the right look?

Bad, Good, and Great Witcher 3 DLC news this week.

Today in your mandatory The Witcher: Wild Hunt news:

  • Bad news: the expected DLC for this week (a new outfit for Ciri*) has been delayed a week.
  • Good news: there’s going to be at least three more free DLC.
  • Great news: the DLC delay is for the 1.07 patch, which will hopefully fix a metric [expletive deleted]-ton of bugs and will DEFINITELY give players a functional inventory system. And places to stash your loot. No more leaving bags on the floor near your master smiths…

Yeah, I know: they shouldn’t have to have needed a 1.07 patch. The game is still mega-awesome, even with the bugs, so we’ve forgiven them for it.  Sorry…

ZOMG THEY MADE PHYSICAL GWENT DECKS.

Gwent, for those wondering, is the game of chance that you play in The Witcher: Wild Hunt – Collector’s Edition – Xbox One (there’s a reason why I put up the Xbox One link: keep reading).  It’s basically a digital CCG that is simultaneously absurdly anachronistic and sweating-blood engrossing.  Which is why Tycho at Penny Arcade is going nuts over it; and why he wrote this:

I was going to say that, unlike many digital card games – ones that play with the mutable data of the cards themselves, or “summon” cards from a superset you don’t own – there’s no reason why this game couldn’t be played on a table.  Except we know it can be, because the Xbox One version I never considered for a fraction of a second includes physical decks in its collector’s edition.

Indeed, there is currently one – one – available on Amazon right now (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt *2 Gwent Card Decks* from Collectors Edition Xbox Version), and if I had eighty bucks to throw at it I would.  They absolutely must sell these decks.  Absolutely.

 

It was and is remarkably quiet today.

Which is fine by me: quiet is, in point of fact, a good thing. Quiet means that nothing bad has happened. I am in favor of nothing bad happening.

Of course, it also means that I have nothing to amuse people with, unless I pull stuff from The Witcher. And, let us be honest: there’s very little that’s less interesting than a second-hand video game story when you’re not playing the game. Well, the glitches can sometimes still be funny, sure – but that’s about it, really.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m beginning to get the impression that they may have overstated just a bit how powerful a machine I’d need to play this game. On the bright side, the frame rate is awesome.

So, yeah, my computer is now officially not computer enough for games.

Specs for The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt are now out:

Minimum System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz
AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660
AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
RAM 6GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GB

Recommended System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz
AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770
AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
RAM 8GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GB

Via Penny Arcade. It… may be time for another pledge drive. Continue reading So, yeah, my computer is now officially not computer enough for games.

New Witcher: Wild Hunt trailer.

As I just explained to my wife – who thought that what she was hearing was this fake movie trailer parody of Moby Dick done all fantasy-like – CD Projekt Red is Central European, which means that their idea of over-the-top is a little bit different than either the American or the Japanese idea of over-the-top. Still gonna buy The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, though:

Via AoSHQ.

Steam, what did you *think* was going to happen?

The Witcher was a popular game. You took the latest version – the one that had the graphics cleaned up, new-to-North America content, all the bugs repaired, the inventory fixed, and two new adventures added – and then offered it for sale for two dollars and forty nine cents.

Of course everybody in the universe bought a copy. Isn’t this kind of impulse buying part of your business model?

GET SOME MORE GORAM CD KEYS.

Geez.

Moe Lane