Title says it all really, I've heard some good things about this game. :-)

it is really good.
if you like old school games, it would be wise to try it out, and what better time than when it comes put here, the deal is great.
i am very fond of older rpgs (baldurs gate, planescape, etc...), and this game was the first i bought in a VERY long time (like ten years), and i don't mean i stopped playing games in that time. to me, that says a lot.
it is probably my all time favorite, not because it is perfect (it isn't) but what it is all about, what it stands for, so to speak. it's definitely in my top 5.
oh and after playin it like 2 or 3 times, i read the books.
im a total sapkowski fan know, really lookin forward to the english release of times of contempt.

There are few milestones for RPG games (since I started playing games):

1997 - Fallout 1

1999 - Baldur's Gate

2000 - Planescape Torment

2004 - Vampire Bloodlines

2007 - The Witcher


So yeah, this is an amazing RPG and I will be buying second copy when it comes here.

It is a very good game. Underrated in the time of the release. Back in 2007 the game was released at the same time when Hellgate:London was released, Hellgate got more attention. The Witcher was not known. But it was a sleeperhit. Now the game was buggy in the beginning. Actually the game wasn't finished yet. It became better after patch 1.3. I purchased the game myself a couple of months after the release. Patched it a couple of times. Like said; after 1.3 it got better and with 1..4 aka Enhanced Edition the game finally felt finished. Only those fistfighters were dumbed down. It is based on the books of Andrzej Sapkowski and the story is woven into the game. It plays like a book. There is no right or wrong, only choices. And those choices have consequences. A nice addition is the minigames, like fistfighting, drinking and playing dice. And the sexcards are a nice addition too :P The game is mature rated and that is not without a reason. Expect sex, violence, drugs and the like. The setting is pretty dark and sinister. No bright colours, fairies and the like. And the music; yeah, that's good. I like the maintheme Believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWrE_3viOY0
I played the game 2 times. First the original non-EE version and then the EE version.
For me The Witcher is one of the best RPG's of all time and one of the few good RPG's from this decade, next to Morrowind and Drakensang.

yeah, good list, spot on.

I bought The Witcher from Steam and love it.. However, I can't play it. The game crashes continually (especially in the swamps) and I've spent countless hours/days searching the internet trying every fix I can. Still no joy for me. I'm running Win7 64 bit and I know The Witcher was designed for WinXP, so my problems may be to do with OS compatibility.

I'd like to know if this gog version is maybe tweaked to actually run on Win7 (as listed in the game details section by gog.com

If so, I'd buy this again in a heartbeat.

Does your video card happen to have a factory overclock? I had the same issues when I first played, and after exhausting all other resources, including dual booting to XP, I lowered my core clock and memory clock to stock speeds in MSI afterburner and the crashes almost entirely went away.

buying this day one when it hits on may 10th :)

For the into price of 5 bucks there is no way anyone can go wrong

I am playing Witcher 1.5 EE right now on my Windows 7 64bit Home Premium PC. Sandy Bridge CPU, GTX560TI.

I am in chapter 4, some 30 hours maybe, and had 3 random crashes so far, one of which was caused by some windows update running in the background. So it is definitely not OS compatibility problem.

Thanks a Million... You were spot on with your suggestion :)

I don't know what the stock speeds should have been, but I downloaded MSI afterburner and seen that the core clock and shader clock are linked together. One was at 450, the other at 1040 or something (can't remember off-hand). But I changed the 450 setting down to 420 and tried loading up my Swamps save. Amazingly, it didn't crash... I managed to play for 6 hours (mostly running about the swamps) before saving and quitting for the night (not one single freeze in that time).

Next day, I decided to test increasing the clock speeds back to where they were originally, i.e. 450 and 1040 or so. As soon as I changed them back, I loaded my swamp save file and it froze within 30 seconds.

I suppose I could test notching that 420 setting back towards 450 to find the maximum I can set this at and be stable... But to be honest, the framerate is over 45fps right now with everything set to Max (except AA and small animals)

So, this freezing issue that has been driving me crazy for months is now fixed... My Thanks to you Fayth :o)))

No problem. The issue baffled me as well, and I was very surprised to find that turning my GPU speeds down worked, considering no one had reported it being a fix to similar issues. Glad you were able to get it running.

I'm also looking forward to this, though I won't have a computer capable of running it for a while, I can't pass up the $5 price tag... I've got a couple observations though.

1. I see no mention of the Djinni Adventure Editor or Making-Of-Videos. Though with the installer clocking in at 9GB, 2.5GB more than my estimated 6.5GB for Steam's GCFs of the game, they may be in there as well.

2. The "music inspired by" and the soundtrack are thankfully listed as included, but I'm hoping they include them at a very-good or perfect quality (high bitrate mp3/vorbis/aac, or better yet, FLAC so we can choose the level of quality and format we prefer)

The bandwidth that's gonna be used on this game is already more than 9GB per buyer. If the soundtrack is 160 kbps MP3 it'll be about 85MB... 320kbps would be 170MB... though as far as mp3 goes I prefer mine around 200-256kbps VBR that'd be somewhere under 150MB... If they used FLAC it would prolly range between 300 and 500MB... what's another 300 or so MB over the game and everything else? Really though, I'm prolly being horribly selfish asking for FLAC =P I mean it's only costing me $5 ...and if it does end up being average quality MP3's I can always look elsewhere for a FLAC version

One more thing I'm wondering. Will the installer fit on a DL DVD? or am I gonna have to archive it on an external drive?