[Yellow]

Also...

Morgoth, on Jan 13 2009, 06:46 PM, said:

And I agree with Yellow.

You alright, man? That's twice in a month.

This post has been edited by Yellow: 13 January 2009 - 07:07 PM

[Mentalist]

Yellow, on Jan 13 2009, 12:56 PM, said:

Mentalist, on Jan 12 2009, 11:43 AM, said:

Witcher is a series by a Polish Author Andzhei Sapkowski

the books published in English include short story collection "The Last Wish" and a novel "Blood of the Elves", out this year.

I have the entire Series in Russian, so fairly close to the original language (My Polish is too rustyto read it in it, plus I'd have no clue where to get them in polish)

and yes, it's wicked awesome, i've been devouring these novels one by one, 3 out of 5 of them from a computer screen.

Wait, is the Witcher the computer game based on the books by Sapkowski? Cos fuck, I've been putting them books off, but now I think that was a mistake.

It's based in the same world
the authors (who were Polish) did not dare touch the original storyline of the novels, so they made a game that has the same main character, and the events from books are mentioned in the game, but reading the books is not necessary for enjoying the game.
they are different content-wise, but the developers did their best to re-create the ATMOSPHERE and the feel of Sapkowski's world in the game.

[Yellow]

Did they succeed?

[Mentalist]

Yellow, on Jan 13 2009, 02:10 PM, said:

Did they succeed?

my various computers don't have the graphics required to check.
but reviews I've read, by people that read the books say they did.

[Tapper]

Yellow, on Jan 13 2009, 07:10 PM, said:

Five posts in row to be for the winning condition in a contest of number of said posts in a row!!nine!

And, just so that this post is not complete spam... Tapper, baby. Why didn't you enter the writing competition? Some of those scenes (and I'm not talking about the shameless Shakespeare theft) were brilliant. Enter the next one.

Thanks for the compliment, and I may, possibly... but I need to shake a few of my bad habits first and foremost.
I've tried my hand at a couple of stories in the past, also in voting competitions, but I'm way too much of a procastrinator to actually make the effort when I should... instead, it's always a last minute thing and it shows in the plot, tweaking & details. For half a page, I'm fine. For more, I screw myself royally .

[Jump Around]

Was Dibs in there?

We had our own writing competitions back in the day, and his stuff was good.

[drinksinbars]

i actually wrote a piece but when the forum went down i forgot to send it and never got round to it, will save it for next one was about the troubles to, sort of a true story i heard from when i was younger that always stuck with me.

[Morgoth]

I remember the death matches .. that was a lot of fun. Too bad most of the original participants are long gone

[drinksinbars]

they were mad and great craic reading some of the insane stuff people came up with.

[Morgoth]

drinksinbars, on Jan 14 2009, 11:24 AM, said:

they were mad and great craic reading some of the insane stuff people came up with.

Insane? Pah! Mine were all brilliant

[Gem Windcaster]

Hey guys...

I'll try to read through the spoilers, but I'm really tired from a nasty nasty cold (at least I think it's a cold, it feels more like a giant green monster (and I am not sure if that's what it's called in English...)). I got better for a while, but now it has mutated somehow and grown even more nasty. I'm shshshshivering writing this. I hope it was a good game - although I'm having conflicted feelings about missing it. Really sorry for you having to modkill me. I think I'll fade away and get better now...

Oh, and it seems I missed another game too...

- Gem, is not dead...yet.

[Jump Around]

Ah, good to see you're OK

[Hugin & Munin]

Gem Windcaster, on Jan 16 2009, 12:20 AM, said:

Hey guys...

I'll try to read through the spoilers, but I'm really tired from a nasty nasty cold (at least I think it's a cold, it feels more like a giant green monster (and I am not sure if that's what it's called in English...)). I got better for a while, but now it has mutated somehow and grown even more nasty. I'm shshshshivering writing this. I hope it was a good game - although I'm having conflicted feelings about missing it. Really sorry for you having to modkill me. I think I'll fade away and get better now...

Oh, and it seems I missed another game too...

- Gem, is not dead...yet.

i can sympathise, gem, i was in bed for two weeks near enough over the chrimbo period with flu. not pleasant.

[Tapper]

Gem Windcaster, on Jan 16 2009, 01:20 AM, said:

Hey guys...

I'll try to read through the spoilers, but I'm really tired from a nasty nasty cold (at least I think it's a cold, it feels more like a giant green monster (and I am not sure if that's what it's called in English...)). I got better for a while, but now it has mutated somehow and grown even more nasty. I'm shshshshivering writing this. I hope it was a good game - although I'm having conflicted feelings about missing it. Really sorry for you having to modkill me. I think I'll fade away and get better now...

Oh, and it seems I missed another game too...

- Gem, is not dead...yet.

Yeeey, she's back!

Great to see you're not lost
Get well, and games will be games also when you're back