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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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FJ0372 said:
I'm think that at the beginning the game even in normal is certainly hard, it requires patience to learn how to fight. But when you upgrade your equipment, it's not that hard. I'm currently playing in Hard (currently at the beginning of chapter two) and I haven't encountered any impossible fight, but certainly I've died a lot (some deaths in bosses, the worse getting surrounded by mobs, I don't pay attention for a second and I got killed lol). If you prepare the fights (alchemy, bombs, traps) and use hit and run tactics combined with the signs and some patience, you won't have any problems.
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Lostconfused
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Its great. You should be cursing your fate for not being able to play it right this minute.
3chopl0x said:
The troll tongue needed for the quest can supposedly be obtained from the living troll or from the stuffed head of his wife. By defeating the poker player who is in possession of the head, Geralt can ask for the head instead of a normal reward. Killing the living troll seemed a waste to me, since the quest mentions that Geralt should figure out whether the troll is truly evil, and it turns out that it is not. At the end of taking care of its wife's killer, the troll goes back to repairing and safeguarding the bridge at dirt-cheap prices, and the people of Lobinden are happy too.
Deciding to kill the troll anyway seems cruel since it is doing its job, and all this does is net a small pay from Loredo's lackey.
Deciding to kill the troll anyway seems cruel since it is doing its job, and all this does is net a small pay from Loredo's lackey.
DennisK4 said:
Any screenshots of this alien planet? Would love to see it with your glorious downsampling.
The game is good. Very good. However a bit shorter than many expected it to be. (compared to the first game's 60 hours or so but then it depends on what and how you did in terms of side quests really plus the first game had a lot of running back and forth)
I wondered about something in chapter 1
After the Kayren fight you can take Triss to the Elven Bath and have sex. After that you can tell her to stay with him or go. If you ask Triss to stay with you she asks if they should leave Roche and all those problems behind. You can say yes or no. I said no, I have to fix them but if you said yes would the game actually take a change at that point or when Roche shows up would it just be one of those "nah, you gotta do this no matter what you said" kind of things? It's hard to tell if the choices you make are actually making a difference or if it's like Dragon Age 2 where no matter what you do, it ends up the same. Don't fully spoil it though, just say if it does change much or not because I only just got to that part!
DennisK4 said:
Since exploration and the world building are your thing, it's more of a Risen kind of a game, with a few lovingly hand-crafted environments, rather than the copy-paste of the Elder Scrolls. Easily the most believable settlements I've seen in 3D.
The narrative is politically charged with the trademark morally ambiguous and unpredictable scenarios that characterized Witcher. The writing feels believable, is often hilarious, and the combat is probably the best among those found in Western ARPGs.
Darklord said:I wondered about something in chapter 1
After the Kayren fight you can take Triss to the Elven Bath and have sex. After that you can tell her to stay with him or go. If you ask Triss to stay with you she asks if they should leave Roche and all those problems behind. You can say yes or no. I said no, I have to fix them but if you said yes would the game actually take a change at that point or when Roche shows up would it just be one of those "nah, you gotta do this no matter what you said" kind of things? It's hard to tell if the choices you make are actually making a difference or if it's like Dragon Age 2 where no matter what you do, it ends up the same. Don't fully spoil it though, just say if it does change much or not because I only just got to that part!
Can't answer specifically to that event but I'll just say choices made generally offer widely diverse strands of story so I wouldn't be surprised.
God damn this game... amazing. Had intentions to do the main story quests in Flotsam but got caught up playing games with Roche's men, got in a fist fight with Roche, started drinking, had a friendly competition of arm wrestling, continue drinking, and now I've woken up naked on the beach and now on a quest trying to find out what happened when I blacked out....
Darklord said:I wondered about something in chapter 1
After the Kayren fight you can take Triss to the Elven Bath and have sex. After that you can tell her to stay with him or go. If you ask Triss to stay with you she asks if they should leave Roche and all those problems behind. You can say yes or no. I said no, I have to fix them but if you said yes would the game actually take a change at that point or when Roche shows up would it just be one of those "nah, you gotta do this no matter what you said" kind of things? It's hard to tell if the choices you make are actually making a difference or if it's like Dragon Age 2 where no matter what you do, it ends up the same. Don't fully spoil it though, just say if it does change much or not because I only just got to that part!
I'm curious about this too - going to explore that in the required second playthrough - since it is explicitly mentioned in the journal about the choice you take there.
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Darklord said:I wondered about something in chapter 1
After the Kayren fight you can take Triss to the Elven Bath and have sex. After that you can tell her to stay with him or go. If you ask Triss to stay with you she asks if they should leave Roche and all those problems behind. You can say yes or no. I said no, I have to fix them but if you said yes would the game actually take a change at that point or when Roche shows up would it just be one of those "nah, you gotta do this no matter what you said" kind of things? It's hard to tell if the choices you make are actually making a difference or if it's like Dragon Age 2 where no matter what you do, it ends up the same. Don't fully spoil it though, just say if it does change much or not because I only just got to that part!
This is right where I'm at as well and I haven't made the choice yet so I really don't know what I'm going to choose either.
So far I've been playing this game and making choices based on what I would do in those situations rather than doing the right or wrong things so I think I will just continue to do that for my first play through. Damn its good that there is no clear good or bad in this game, so perfectly executed too. I really wanna know what the outcome of my choices will be because that would probably affect my choice, but you don't get to know so you can't and thus... you have to choose blindy with the information you have at the time.
SOO good.
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Coldsnap said:
That is awesome.
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Ermmm how come Gametrailers.com didn't review this yet??
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Ether_Snake said:
Too busy trying to cram as many spoilers in as possible.
ColonialRaptor
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Van Buren said:
So So SO So SOOOO funny.
I didn't realise that you could get the tattoo removed! I must organise that pronto!
thelurkinghorror
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how you drink guys? I'm in the chapter1, in the tavern nobody seem to sell alcohol...
So I guess The Scent of Incense quest in chapter 1 is bugged if you follow a certain path?
I got the real formula, but refused to give it to the guy. Later on, him and several others jumped me in the forest. I killed them, and got the mission complete notice and all but it never completed in the journal. After checking the game guide, it seems if you refuse that they should knock you out and drag you to their hideout. I reloaded my save right before the fight, but all that happened was death and game over.
Figured killing them completed it, and moved along but now that I've got to the end of chapter 1 it suddenly displayed that the quest failed. Annoys me to no end to see a failed quest in my quest log.
Figured killing them completed it, and moved along but now that I've got to the end of chapter 1 it suddenly displayed that the quest failed. Annoys me to no end to see a failed quest in my quest log.
toastyToast
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ColonialRaptor said:
You'll have to do it pronto because the ingredients required aren't available after chapter one.
I'm actually regretting getting drunk in a game
Gully State
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So I've done quite a few sidequests in chapter 1, yet I'm only level 8 (probably have gained two levels in Chapter 1). Are you guys grinding mobs by any chance or is the level progression just that slow?
EternalGamer
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In using the controller, I found that changing the d-pad left and right to "next" or "previous" sign really helps a lot.
By default it is set to "silver sword or steel sword" but you change swords a lot less often and you can always do that with your radial menu (left trigger by default).
I also swapped left trigger and left bumper since it feels a lot more naturally to me to use the left trigger as lock on and use the left bumper as the radial.
It is way faster to change signs now and I can do without ever pausing combat or even without pausing my combos.
By default it is set to "silver sword or steel sword" but you change swords a lot less often and you can always do that with your radial menu (left trigger by default).
I also swapped left trigger and left bumper since it feels a lot more naturally to me to use the left trigger as lock on and use the left bumper as the radial.
It is way faster to change signs now and I can do without ever pausing combat or even without pausing my combos.
Castor Krieg
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What is the difference between "Damage from Signs" and "Sign Intensity"? Does the first affect Igni only, and the second things like Quen, Axi, etc.?
Barberetti
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Finally got around to having a couple of fist fights in the Flotsam inn. Fliparse :lol
I have been playing this for the past few hours, and before getting back to it I just had to stop by this this thread and praise it a bit. It's absolutely fantastic. The atmosphere, the characters, the locations, the gameplay, the wealth of content, and of course the graphics. Regarding the latter, this is probably the best looking game overall I've ever played -- and it is an RPG with no loading times.
On the whole it seems like a marvelous technical and artistic achievement. If it even remotely keeps this up to the end I can't think of any game that could displace it as my GotY.
On the whole it seems like a marvelous technical and artistic achievement. If it even remotely keeps this up to the end I can't think of any game that could displace it as my GotY.
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