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Slimebeast on 20 April 2012
Acevil said:
Kantor said:
I first played it on PC a year ago, and CD Projekt was nice enough to patch it with all of the Enhanced Edition content (though it's still pretty much identical to what it was a year ago, except there's more content).

Graphics: It looks fantastic on PC, but it's a port to 360 so you can't expect that.

Difficulty: It gets a great deal easier. The difficulty curve is one of the game's biggest problems, and it was worse back when there was no tutorial. Evade a lot. Never block. Steel sword for humans. Use Quen like your life depends upon it (because it does). Don't be ashamed of going down to Easy for some parts.

Story: The storyline is fantastic, though Geralt has no personality whatsoever.

Sound: Again, everyone except Geralt is fantastic.

I'm enjoying getting back into it, but at the same time, I am having to replay the dull trudging parts at the beginning of the game before it really hits its stride in Act Two.


Actually felt the curve was awesome. It was the first game that felt like it really didn't need to hold your hand. I was a bit saddened to see the 360 version play a lot easier, and possibly be botton masher on normal settings. 

Is the Xbox version confirmed to be easier or is it your speculation?



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Acevil on 20 April 2012
Slimebeast said:
Acevil said:
Kantor said:
I first played it on PC a year ago, and CD Projekt was nice enough to patch it with all of the Enhanced Edition content (though it's still pretty much identical to what it was a year ago, except there's more content).

Graphics: It looks fantastic on PC, but it's a port to 360 so you can't expect that.

Difficulty: It gets a great deal easier. The difficulty curve is one of the game's biggest problems, and it was worse back when there was no tutorial. Evade a lot. Never block. Steel sword for humans. Use Quen like your life depends upon it (because it does). Don't be ashamed of going down to Easy for some parts.

Story: The storyline is fantastic, though Geralt has no personality whatsoever.

Sound: Again, everyone except Geralt is fantastic.

I'm enjoying getting back into it, but at the same time, I am having to replay the dull trudging parts at the beginning of the game before it really hits its stride in Act Two.


Actually felt the curve was awesome. It was the first game that felt like it really didn't need to hold your hand. I was a bit saddened to see the 360 version play a lot easier, and possibly be botton masher on normal settings. 

Is the Xbox version confirmed to be easier or is it your speculation?


People have told me, who played both. On top of that watching lets play, just seems easier, maybe it is to fit the new controller, but basically noticed that you don't have to abuse quan and evasion like Kentar said. 



 

bonkers555 on 20 April 2012

Installing this game made a big different. I personally don't like wrpg games but I bought into the hype and fell in love with it when I watch some video on it. Hope it doesn't let me down.



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AndrewWK on 20 April 2012

Witcher 2 is a very good with some mediocre voice acting



Argh_College on 20 April 2012

Well the graphics are pretty damn good, but yeah is not mindblowing, nothing is anymore so late into this gen...

They are great and atmosphere is awesome on the forest, characters are detailed and the game is damn good...

But im doing random quest i never know what are the main quest im literelly lost in the game lol



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smroadkill15 on 20 April 2012

Just finished the prologue and all I can say is, Wow. Can't wait to dive deeper into this game.



Kantor on 20 April 2012
Acevil said:
Slimebeast said:
Acevil said:
Kantor said:
I first played it on PC a year ago, and CD Projekt was nice enough to patch it with all of the Enhanced Edition content (though it's still pretty much identical to what it was a year ago, except there's more content).

Graphics: It looks fantastic on PC, but it's a port to 360 so you can't expect that.

Difficulty: It gets a great deal easier. The difficulty curve is one of the game's biggest problems, and it was worse back when there was no tutorial. Evade a lot. Never block. Steel sword for humans. Use Quen like your life depends upon it (because it does). Don't be ashamed of going down to Easy for some parts.

Story: The storyline is fantastic, though Geralt has no personality whatsoever.

Sound: Again, everyone except Geralt is fantastic.

I'm enjoying getting back into it, but at the same time, I am having to replay the dull trudging parts at the beginning of the game before it really hits its stride in Act Two.


Actually felt the curve was awesome. It was the first game that felt like it really didn't need to hold your hand. I was a bit saddened to see the 360 version play a lot easier, and possibly be botton masher on normal settings. 

Is the Xbox version confirmed to be easier or is it your speculation?


People have told me, who played both. On top of that watching lets play, just seems easier, maybe it is to fit the new controller, but basically noticed that you don't have to abuse quan and evasion like Kentar said. 

Kantor, goddamnit.

Anyway, it could be partly that the game works much better on a gamepad than keyboard and mouse, and has really done so since launch, which is quite peculiar.



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NotStan on 20 April 2012

I've been waiting for it for a long time(around 2-3 months) and so far I haven't been disappointed yet. Literally first 15 minutes in, I get boobs and naked hot women thrown at me, after that decently hard and rewarding combat follows suite(If you get too cocky, you will get raped by like, the easiest mob).

So far great game and great graphics, installing definitely seems to make a difference, although my biggest gripe with the Polish developed games are bugs, in this one they are not as blatant and most major ones seem to be ironed out, although the small ones can still ruin the experience of the game.



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zarx on 20 April 2012
Slimebeast said:
Acevil said:
Kantor said:
I first played it on PC a year ago, and CD Projekt was nice enough to patch it with all of the Enhanced Edition content (though it's still pretty much identical to what it was a year ago, except there's more content).

Graphics: It looks fantastic on PC, but it's a port to 360 so you can't expect that.

Difficulty: It gets a great deal easier. The difficulty curve is one of the game's biggest problems, and it was worse back when there was no tutorial. Evade a lot. Never block. Steel sword for humans. Use Quen like your life depends upon it (because it does). Don't be ashamed of going down to Easy for some parts.

Story: The storyline is fantastic, though Geralt has no personality whatsoever.

Sound: Again, everyone except Geralt is fantastic.

I'm enjoying getting back into it, but at the same time, I am having to replay the dull trudging parts at the beginning of the game before it really hits its stride in Act Two.


Actually felt the curve was awesome. It was the first game that felt like it really didn't need to hold your hand. I was a bit saddened to see the 360 version play a lot easier, and possibly be botton masher on normal settings. 

Is the Xbox version confirmed to be easier or is it your speculation?

They made the game esier with the last couple patches as well as added the tutorial level. But they also added an extra dificulty level for those that wanted a more hardcore experiance. And if you really want you arse kicked there is a permadeath mode. 



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zarx on 20 April 2012
NotStan said:
I've been waiting for it for a long time(around 2-3 months) and so far I haven't been disappointed yet. Literally first 15 minutes in, I get boobs and naked hot women thrown at me, after that decently hard and rewarding combat follows suite(If you get too cocky, you will get raped by like, the easiest mob).

So far great game and great graphics, installing definitely seems to make a difference, although my biggest gripe with the Polish developed games are bugs, in this one they are not as blatant and most major ones seem to be ironed out, although the small ones can still ruin the experience of the game.


even before the enhanced edition patch I found it less buggy than your average Bioware/Bethesda/Obsidian game, and considering the nature of the game with the split and all the choices etc that is quite a feat. Hell I found more bugs in the first half of Mass Effect 2 than the whole of The Witcher 2 but maybe I am just lucky like that.



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