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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3933893" data-attributes="member: 20741">If you dig a little deeper - you'll find that this "reviewer" you have linked to has never reviewed a game before in his life. This was his first.  He never finished the game and didn't even come close.  His blog also indicates he is overwhelmingly predisposed to an Oblivion style RPG experience, and story based games are pooh-poohed by him.Which is a nice way of saying this guy is a total game review virgin and does not know what the hell he is talking about.There was a huge thread in late October/early November on this issue on the <a href="http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/index.php" target="_blank">Quarter to Three Forums</a>  , a gaming site where many (most, probably) of the posters are gaming journalists and developers. Reviewers who stumbled in their "reviews" and gave away, unknowingly, that  they had not actually played the game past Act 1 or 2 were torn apart and savaged. Because of the nature of the game, it was unusually easy to tell where a reviewer stopped playing when it came to the Witcher.  The push to "be first"  with a web review of the Witcher showed that those who claim to have played it through were not likely to have had the time to have ever done so.  But the early reviews still came out, just the same.Desslock, the main RPG reviewer from PC Gamer along with Jeff Green, editor at Games for Windows (nee Computer Gaming World) chimed in and did some savaging of their own over this issue at the time. The main reason for the disparity in reviews of The Witcher is simple: game reviewers have been conditioned to review short PC games and console titles with game lengths between 8 and 20 hours. They get paid on this assumption. They don't finish 40 hour games - let alone 80 hour games. They tell you they do - or leave you to infer that they do - when in fact, they don't. They lie. In fact, they lie a LOT.The Witcher is a game you need to advance well past the first 5-10 hours to get a true feel for the game. Especially as the end game is so strong, in reality, you need to finish  the game to review it. Most of the reviewers who didn't like it much didn't come even close to finishing it - and their reviews showed it.</blockquote>

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