No it definitely means it's shit if the fluidity of the gameplay (and ACTION RPG, not tactical opne like Dragon Age) has to be broken up due to a deficiency, which wouldn't have been had it been made properly for a keyboard.

Right, so every RPG that has ever had you pause to make tatical decisions is shit?  LOL 

I find the game play extremely fluid.  I also don't want a keyboard sitting on my lap while I play on the couch.  The mechanics are awesome.  In my opinion of course.  Obviously your opinion is different.

man the last few pages have been just STUPID arguing.  My quick 2 cents

1. the PC made mad profits for the witcher 2 already, and to even come close to it, the consoles would have to sell nearly 3x as many units

2. the graphics would take a big hit to be put on the consoles

3. porting it DOES cost money you know, it doesn't magically just get ported for free.  and we have seen companies have big trouble porting.  so they spend X amount of dollars porting it and need to sell 3x amount of units.  Not to mention, porting witcher 2 means taking away team members, money and time from the witcher 3.

4. the game plays great with a controller, we aren't arguing against that. but if programmed right it would play way better with a keyboard and mouse.  I'm waiting for a mod to come out that lets us use hotkeys how we want.

5. Difficulty.  sorry but the game is too hard for console gamers.  its a sad day when i have to say that

Why do you have to hack the config?  They keyboard commands for casting signs are already there - 5 casts Aard, 6 casts Yrden, 7 casts Igni and so on.

Just the action ones where the action has to be stopped. Furthermore that is not an opionin, since you can objectively measure how much the game is broken up. Had I specialized in magic instead of swordsman I would probably be bitching a lot more about this game.

The tactical rpgs are a WHOLE different animal where the gameplay is more about your smarts and less about how fast you do things, so a pause isn't even close to being as detrimental. Though to be fair, I never pause in games like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter nights, and Dragon Age either because I find it annoying as hell.

Because I need the same exact to be true for all the different bombs/knives/traps I have in my pockets. I am hoping to press F1 to throw my stun grenade and F2 to be my super awesome knife and F3 to be my less awesome knife, etc.

Earlier you were complaining that you had to pause to switch signs, when that is not true.  You can map the signs to whichever key you want.  You already have a hotkey to either throw a dagger or a bomb.  So basically one hotkey is the difference between great mechanics or shit mechanics.  Got it.

If you're required 2 kinds of knives, multiple bombs and multiple signs in the same fight then I suggest you're doing something fundamentally wrong.  Sounds like a learn2play issue to me.

I am playing at the hardest setting, which is kind of difficult when you are fighting in certain situations, you should try it. Honestly I should probably be using oils and potions more than I am.

Edit: My argument is that a controller is unfit to play this game as well as it can be played. Did you have the ability to access any sign as you wish on the spot on the controller?

I hope those students fail, then, because even a basic understanding of the current tech in The Witcher 2 will tell you that it cannot run on PS360 in its current form at all. Even the low settings push gaming rigs far more powerful. Now with consoles they are much better optimized, and can run things which otherwise wouldn't run on them at all, but the downgrade will still be absolutely massive.

Do you know why Crysis 2 is in a city? It's got nothing to do with making the game feel more "personal" than the first. It's because in a city you only need your draw distance to be 100 yards or so in any direction, especially when you're putting up massive obstacles and craters to block view and force less long-distance rendering. Throw in some pre-rendered cutscenes for the impressive distance shots and you've got Crysis 2.

Now you can't do that for The Witcher 2. It's already made. It's already full of sprawling vistas, huge landscapes, battles with dozens of enemies on screen, and enormous detailed cities. This does not run on consoles, not like it is. It can probably be made to run on consoles, and it probably will be made to run on consoles, but the PC version is an entire generation apart, and I absolutely mean that.

i hope so, my comp is no were near ready for games like witcher 2....i can barely run minecraft.  the game totally looks like my kinda thing so i very much want this to be true