To be fair, it is a janky ass mess, just not an unplayable one. I don't regret playing it through to completion but it definitely had some rough edges to it. Good game, but definitely has some flaws from what I recall.
That's what I was going to say. He's wearing rose-colored glasses if he doesn't think the controls are confusing at first. Nowhere near as bad as Gothic though, and I adore that game.
The Witcher was a slight step up in complexity from the mindless auto-attack systems that are common in RPGs, and especially in MMORPGs. The only thing it added in was a rhythm game mechanic where you clicked the mouse once the cursor prompt appeared, and a dodge you would occasionally use to avoid getting mobbed. The only way to get confused by the controls was to not bother reading the tutorial messages in the prologue.
To be fair, it is a janky ass mess, just not an unplayable one. I don't regret playing it through to completion but it definitely had some rough edges to it. Good game, but definitely has some flaws from what I recall.
That's what I was going to say. He's wearing rose-colored glasses if he doesn't think the controls are confusing at first. Nowhere near as bad as Gothic though, and I adore that game.
The Witcher was a slight step up in complexity from the mindless auto-attack systems that are common in RPGs, and especially in MMORPGs. The only thing it added in was a rhythm game mechanic where you clicked the mouse once the cursor prompt appeared, and a dodge you would occasionally use to avoid getting mobbed. The only way to get confused by the controls was to not bother reading the tutorial messages in the prologue.