lord_blex;n7414350 said:
yeah, originally you were gonna be able to target specific body parts to exploit the weaknesses of different monsters, but it didn't work as well as they wanted it to. it got axed fairly late in development, they were still talking about it when they were showing trailers.
which is why I was gonna bring it up (before
@Sneky mentioned it) and say that them talking about a "tactical mode" years ago doesn't mean much. but I guess your conclusion works too
Man... depending on how they where implimenting it in the game... that could have been something which would have actually keeped me playing Witcher 1 until the end, and not have been pulled away after only a handfull or so of hours by some other game I felt I just had to try as soon as it came out, which ment I sort of forgot about the Witcher... and suddently it's 9, almost 10, years later and I have still not played through the series, even though I have always intended to.
I still like the idea of the Witcher, and I do still intend to one day play them... but currently there are just way to many games that I want to play befor the Witcher... not to mention that there keeps coming out new games which I feel like playing more then the Witcher... the next big one being Mass Effect: Andromeda. XD
Hmm... now that I think about it... I actually think it was Mass Effect 1 which was the game which put The Witcher 1 on the back burner for me... because I remember that I did not find The Witcher untill maybe 6-6,5 months after it was released, which puts it around roughtly late april to early/mid may 2008 when I found it... and Mass Effect 1 came out on PC in late may 2008. At the time Mass Effect had been litterally the only Xbox exlusive game that I had any interest what so ever in playing (I have never liked Xbox, been a Playstation guy since the moment it came out... also, most of the games on the xbox which I was actually interested in where all multiplatform anyway)... I was actually so interested in playing ME1 that I actually contemplated buying an Xbox, but I decided not to. So as soon as I suddenly happend to encounter information that it had come out on PC only a few days earlier, I instantly jumped on it.
So due to that... I am pretty certain ME1 was the game which put The Witchet on the sidelines for me, ad then I spend the next several weeks in playing ME1, and once I was done with ME1 I had forgoten about Witcher and some other new game had come out which I just had to try... and then another, and another, and another... and soon yet another ME game will come out and push Witcher even further forward. XD
So yeah... if the Withcer games would have had some kind of VATS type of system, with aiming at body parts and what not... then the games might actually have had high enough priority for me to squeeze it's self in between other games. It would still have been surplanted by ME1, but I might have actually remembered and come back to the Witcher once I was done with ME1... XD