Zero Punctuation not bewitched by The Witcher

by Ross Miller on Jan 23rd 2008 4:32PM

In the latest installment of Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee (or rather Retard McSpacky Pants) has set his foul-mouthed sights on The Witcher, a computer RPG in the truest of forms (i.e. a really big manual and familiar medieval fantasy setting) also dubbed a "MUMORPUGER."

If you're wondering what a MUMORPUGER is, McSpacky Pants defines it as follows: "One click combat, endless drudging from place to place, quests involving killing X amount of monster Y for lazy stationary ... NPC 'Z.'" The NSFW video is embedded after the break. Stay tuned for after the credits roll for an adjustment of sorts to the Painkiller intro cinematic.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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Tags: Action, Atari, CD-Projekt, painkiller, PC, RPG, The-Witcher, yahtzee, zero-punctuation

Reader Comments (52)

"One click combat, endless drudging from place to place, quests involving killing X amount of monster Y for lazy stationary ... NPC 'Z.'"

Isn't that World of Warcraft, in a nutshell?

*ducks*

Seriously, though, "The Witcher" DOES suffer pacing problems and the grinding quests (like the above) are mostly side-quests.

What they did with the old NWN engine is unbelievable and Bioware/Obsidian should be licensing it back from them for NWN3 (I thought NWN2 was boring and had awful controls as well). People complained about loading times but, after the 1.2 patch, this game flies.

"The Witcher" handles a lot of fantasy conventions in a unique way and, for a first big title, I think CD Projekt did a kick ass job building a world that I want to spend time playing in.

I must be the only one who gets sick of seeing every single one of these show up in Joystiq news.

But, then again, it also seemed like I was the only one not complaining about the onslaught of Halo 3 news when that was hot.

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