It's (it will be ) a RPG from a Polish developer CDProjekt, I really hope it gets your attention. It's based on a series of intriguing fantasy novels about a Witcher who's a genetically modified killing machine with a mission of removing all creatures of evil from this planet (that's what he was planned to be at least). He's special even among other Witchers as he's undergone mutiation to a degree none other has suvived. He's a master of sword combat, extremely fast and can utilize Signs (which are simple spells) More importantly his feelings were not killed which is why he sometimes doubts. And loves. And gets into a lot of trouble like we all do due to that. It seems that the game made a really good impression at E3. I for one can assure you that if this game's story will be half as interesting as the books are you can buy it without a moments thought. My lame summary above should not discourage you. You can visit the home page to learn more about the game and download a trailer presented at E3.
Yeah, I've been hearing stuff about it. Looks alright, but I'll wait and see before rushing out to buy it when it becomes available.
This premise sounds super gay, and is really played out. Seriously, people need to stop ripping off helsing. The whole forces of light harnessing the forces of darkness to then go and fight monsters in really overt ways is pretty boring to me at this point.
Dragoon, have you read the books? Never liked them much, but again, I am not in the heroic fantasy. Hellsing the anime? Your mathematical skills are unsurpassed if you think that a book written in the middle 90's is a ripoff from an anime show from 2001. Congratulations.
Old ideas can be used again aslong as they're used well. How many vapire games are there? This game looks pretty awesome even using boring, old plot stuff.
Yes, I realise there are many fans out there. I am more into heroic Sci-Fi . As the movies go, I just saw Pitch Black and that's the best movie of the genre I saw since Aliens... but that's off-topic.
Death, you strike me as stupid. I just had to get that out of my system. I love the fact that you mocked Dragoon for mis quoting something, when you spoke of heroic sci-fi, and not heroic fantasy. Well, I'm not too sure about you, but last I checked, our library had a section labeled "fantasy" which contained both of the topics above named. I'm going to switch to typing in english backwards, cause it's early, I'm on a caffine high, and bored ffo ym ssa. ouY ,wonk I ma a ylenasin citehtap .nosrep m'I ginog ot deb .won ll'I klat ot uoy .retal
Hey, I am not the one who was banned here. I never did mock Dragoon. I asked him if he read the books because I want to know if he liked them or not. My friend liked all of them but as I said, I am not into Epic (aka Heroic) fantasy. I spoke of heroic sci-fi doesn't exist as a genre. I was talking about this hero-vs-all genre. I spoke of heroic Sci-Fi because I usually prefer Sci-Fi to Fantasy. Are you trying to say that fantasy and sci-fi are the same thing? They are both fiction, but unless you say that dragons and spaceships is two words for the same deity, those genres have certain differences.
Ohh, you mean the Andjey Sapkovsky's (sp?) fantasy books? They are making a game based on them??? Now that would be awesome. I've read his series, its probably the highest quality fantasy ever written in the Eastern Europe. I wonder, though, if they manage to keep Sapkovsky's ironic, cynical style of dialogs and storytelling...
Read them & love them Best fantasy books I've read. Perhaps you read only the ones consisting of sets of short stories. They're very good but you should try his saga about the witcher if you haven't so far. He touches so many aspects of life in it, yet doesn't get lost in all that and keeps the story interesting like hell. What can I say, I'm a fan(atic). The very same one I doubt it, I'm afraid they'll rather go mainstream and although the story will be rich fighting will be dominant, and there probably won't be too many different paths to follow. Then again I'm open for pleasant surprises.
Here are the polish titles of the books I read: "Ostatnie Zyczenie" "Miecz Przeznaczenie" My favorite "serious" fantasy would be A Song of Ice and Fire.
Most "sci-fi" is the same thing as fantasy. Star Wars, Star Trek, the Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Dune series, just to name a few, are labeled Science Fiction, but they are actually fantasy in space. Science fiction involves actual principles of science, ideas that may someday be realized, but often in a fanciful or improbable way. None of those aforementioned media qualify. Both Star Wars and Star Trek completely ignore the Theory of Relativity, just to note one glaring fantasy element, the Mars stories have no scientific basis whatsoever, and even Dune, which is more sci-fi than the rest, leans enough towards fantasy to disqualify it. While I don't know what specific "heroic sci-fi" you are speaking of, the fact that you used the term "heroic" tells me that it isn't real sci-fi. Find me a real, hard science fiction story with an actual hero, and I'll find you a work of fantasy. Read The Word for the World is Forest, or "The Game of Rats and Dragons," or even "Flowers for Algernon," if you want to see what real science fiction is like.
When I said 'Sci-Fi', I meant Heinlein, Azimov, Bradbury. When I said 'Fantasy', I meant LotR, A Song of Ice and Fire, Wheel of Time. Yes, in Russian there are no "fantasy" and both books about space and books about dragons are called 'fantastica'. I believe it is so in other eastern countries. In the western world, 'Sci-Fi' means any book/media featuring something from a mechanized fork to a UFO. I am living 8 years in Canada so I became used to call space fiction "Sci-Fi" even if it's not science at all. Heroic Sci-Fi are those cheap novels-by-a-million who have even less science than Harry Potter, staring a cliche hero. An example would be "Stainless-steel Rat" and "Bill: Hero of the Galaxy" by the same writer. Both are full of chichees but sometimes fun to read.
As in the George RR Martin series? I've still got to track down the third book in that, but yes, it is pretty damn kick ass. I've only read a little of Heinlein, but I would also classify his as sci-fi, not fantasy in space. Stephen Donaldson's Gap series I would also most definitely classify as sci-fi. He goes into heaps of detail about the scientific side of things, how it all works, etc, and it's a total blast to read. Also, are those Witcher books available in English? They sound like a good read.
I heard a couple of times about Donaldson. Never had a chance to read. Will put that on my wish list. Re-reading my 26 Discworld novels at the moment so it won't be tomorrow I'll read Gap .
So you didn't read any of the five books which make up for the saga. Too bad - for you I encourage you to do so. Then again if you didn't like those two - do as you wish.
Not that I didn't like it. It was fun, true, but as I said, it's not exactly my type. I'll see if I can find it arround. I think one of my friends had the others.
