In mid-June 2015, I happened to start my first playthrough of The Witcher 3 using nothing more than an AMD HD 6670, 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM, and a Pentium G2030 dual-core CPU, all the while running the game itself on a hard drive.
That never stopped me, and neither did the 12 fps cutscenes where the dialogue sped ahead of the animations and forced me to skip a lot of them once conversations concluded. What followed were hundreds of hours of mindless fun and enjoyment, which only got better once I had a stronger PC. But having discovered that love for The Witcher‘s third entry, I had to go back, and thankfully, GOG was selling copies of The Witcher 1 for pennies.
I remember vaguely playing through that first area where you fight the spectral green dogs, the Barghest, as well as reaching either the late stage of that level or somewhere up in the swamps. I had no idea what I was doing or where I was going, and using any proper mods to make my experience better never seemed to cross my mind.
