Game:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 51:27

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The Witcher is one of those series, that has been on my "need to play that someday" list for around 2-3 years now. The first game more or less flew under my radar. At the time in 2007 when The Witcher came out, I was more of a console gamer. But a slowly dying PS3, and a new PC (well, Mac Pro) and rumors of Steam coming to OS X conspired to bring me back into the PC gaming fold, and with the help of my PS3 version of Portal 2 coming with a free PC version, it was an easy decision to make. So my first real introduction to The Witcher was the overwhelming praise and acclaimations coming for The Witcher 2 not too long after. I knew I wouldn't want to jump into the story at part 2, so I bought both games but by the time I got around to doing that, Skyrim landed and all plans to jump into The Witcher had flown out the door for a while.

No time better than the present to correct one of my longest standing gaming oversights.

For my first playthrough I thought I'd attempt to get through the story of both The Witcher and The Witcher 2 in preparation for the release of The Witcher 3. I don't know if I'll be able to pull that off, but it's going to be fun trying. I will obviously not be doing an optimal build by today's standards, I don't even know what an optimal build would consist of because this is a game that I'm coming into blind. I've not watched any other let's plays, or looked up any guides or walkthroughs. I want to experience this as if I had actually purchased and played it in 2007, before LPs were a thing and before anyone had managed to play through a half dozen times in order to write up a walkthrough / perfect build FAQ.

What happened to the rest of the playthrough? I had to take an extended leave from my main gaming PC, around 3 months. However I did continue playing to finish out the rest of the game, unfortunately my only available PC during that time was a MacBook from 2008… needless to say recording was out of the question, the thing could only barely handle the game by itself. If you want to see the rest of the story, I highly recommend Gopher’s playthrough, he started playing coincidentally enough a couple of months after I did. You can watch his playthrough here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tdPY9U-zbs&list=PLE7DlYarj-DftNAlzoYNWYfKofD0FHpYk

My episode 35 is roughly where Gopher’s episode 37 is, though there are definitely some differences and it wouldn’t hurt picking up at his 35 as well. Or start from the beginning, it’s pretty great and Gopher is always entertaining.

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