Just finished playing The Witcher

I finally finished playing The Witcher for the first time through. I was REALLY impressed by the story. Easily beat a really good movie for literary value, with all the little allusions, uncertainty and moral dillemmas. I love how no matter what I did, it always seemed to screw something up and whether I minded or not depended entirely on how attached to that thing I had become. This is one of the few games I've played where it being interactive helps drive the mood behind the narrative, because the feeling of "I could have changed that" persists throughout the story and loops back all over the place, whereas with a movie it's obvious that everything is set in stone.
The end had me glued to my seat. Which is a bit of a problem, truth be told, because a game doesn't have that set schedule like a movie does... it can go quite a few hours longer than expected.

Hard to talk about this game without giving spoilers, though, since nothing is written in stone. If I tell someone that I killed a character and it made me sad, I could be destroying that person's version of events! Suffice it to say, the ending made me sad and beat Star Wars for potential (though uncertain) epic twistiness. I loved the "--but that sword is for monsters!!" ... 'You are a monster' *Crrrrrunch* moment. Awesome stuff. I foresaw it and was prepared to do it myself, but it was still a nice touch.
I don't think I'll be able to play another RPG for a while after this one. It really just blows all that role-playing-less dungeon grinding garble into oblivion. (Hah, Oblivion. Get it?).

I have a growing temptation to make my dad play this game, but the whole womanizing portion makes me somewhat uncomfortable to the idea.

...I'm sure many here have played the game, so what did you all think of it?

Here's my take on the enhanced edition (second half of post)

http://www.tankuniversal.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=102

The end was a bit disappointing, it could be said. There was a lot left unanswered, and the epilogue (the one at the end of the game, not the last chapter) sort of made everything I did irrelevent. Chances are I played the game wrong :P

One of the new unanswered questions brought in right at the end really hit me by surprise and was awesome, but what of all those characters I had grown attached to throughout the game?

I am really happy to read that comment :) I need to get better PC to play The Witcher myself... I wouldn't probably upgrade my PC if not for that game.

Just bought it a week ago myself and am loving playing it. First 'real' game (ie non indie demo) I've bought (and played) since probably Doom3 (roughly 3 years ago).

Glad you didn't give anything away above. I'm not too far in, at the start of Act 2.

I think the sex 'cards' are a bit unnecessary.

I'm mainly astonished with how far games have come in the last 10 years - the last RPG I played was Baldur's Gate - not just graphically either, the interactivity and the attention to detail such as the flocks of birds which flutter away when approached, or the movement of the leaves/grass, the rain, the smooth day night cycle...as I said it's been a while since I've played a 'real' game.

There were a handful of scripting errors so far that almost turned me off the game at first (what I thought was a fairly major one in the opening few minutes.)

In the very beginning when you have to open the gate I was stuck for ages trying to work out how to click on the lever to release the winch/gate mechanism when it turned out there was a single 'baddie' I hadn't killed who'd stopped following me on my travels to the gate.

Heh, The witcher is the best game I have played in years. If you like RPG your really missing out. I just wish they would hurry up and release a new game instead of redoing the old one again and again.

I'm one of those people that can't bear to go through the same game twice no matter how good it was the first time, I know too much of the story to waste the time with it a second. Not that I havent been tempted.