Lostconfused
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I linked the witcher wiki article which has summaries of the short stories. That short story is in the "Sword of destiny" book which is a follow up to "The Last Wish" but it hasn't been translated.ColonialRaptor said:
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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Lostconfused said:
Spoilering just in case -
I loaded a save where I killed the dragon, and Geralt said that the dragon could very well have been the last one in the world. The way how it was worded made it seem that it certainly was. Needless to say, the guilt-trip worked, and I reloaded the save.
So do yours if you've been keeping up with your bomb making. I don't recall him using a bomb when I was up close to him. Once I figured out a strategy, it was a really easy fight.Jintor said:
Back off and throw bombs when he has Quen up. When his Quen is down, roll towards him quickly, use Aard to throw him off, swing until he starts blocking, then use Aard again, and keep swinging.
jim-jam bongs
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Lostconfused said:
That makes sense too, particularly given that the best items in the game are made from Dragon Scales so you could imagine them being hunted pretty aggressively. Man I can't wait for the books to turn up, really want to dive headfirst into this universe.
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Besides that dragon hoards are apparently real in the witcher universe. So they tend do have a whole pile of expensive golden things lying around the places they live.jim-jam bongs said:
Just finished up and thoroughly enjoyed it, even if the end has a bit of pacing issues. Definitely the best RPG I've played in the last few years, since The Witcher 1 in fact! Can't wait to see what CD Projekt is up to now, TW1 and 2 have made them easily my favorite modern RPG studio.
So, things I would change, mechanic-wise anyway:
Mutagens - Decent idea, needs a better approach. Personally, I would have loved it if all skills had 1~3 slots and they were balanced (and replaceable) accordingly.
Upgrade Paths - Should have been one massive board with abilities logically linked based on what they enabled you to do in battle. Ex: Quen would be a skill for more physical Witchers.
Potion Drinking - More like the first game. While I understand what they were trying to do, the game seemed poorly built for it. Perhaps a penalty could have been introduced when drinking potions during battle.
Brewing/Crafting - Should exclude quest items.
Mutagens - Decent idea, needs a better approach. Personally, I would have loved it if all skills had 1~3 slots and they were balanced (and replaceable) accordingly.
Upgrade Paths - Should have been one massive board with abilities logically linked based on what they enabled you to do in battle. Ex: Quen would be a skill for more physical Witchers.
Potion Drinking - More like the first game. While I understand what they were trying to do, the game seemed poorly built for it. Perhaps a penalty could have been introduced when drinking potions during battle.
Brewing/Crafting - Should exclude quest items.
To add on, combat is really good but could use a lot of changes/improvements.
First and foremost, hit detection needs to be changed. If you don't get the whirl talent then you cannot hit an enemy without said enemy being targeted. Hitting multiple enemies imo should be there from the start, just make side enemies barely take damage.
Targeting needs some work too. There are times when enemies will be behind others and the targeting system won't switch to the enemy in front. Lock on targeting feels like a tacked on thing. I would had liked always facing animation ala Zelda. That's not really an improvement/complaint but a suggestion.
I find rolling to be too "powerful" compared to blocking. They need to be balanced out.
There are various animation attacks you can perform and in my opinion they either need to be cut down or each should have a specific event in which they can trigger. The rolling attacks should be part of "rolling then attacking" instead of being a far distance attack. The jump attacks should trigger depending on the distance away from the enemy. Other animations like the reverse stab work well. Overall I want to know what kind/type of attack I'll perform so I can have more control of fights.
First and foremost, hit detection needs to be changed. If you don't get the whirl talent then you cannot hit an enemy without said enemy being targeted. Hitting multiple enemies imo should be there from the start, just make side enemies barely take damage.
Targeting needs some work too. There are times when enemies will be behind others and the targeting system won't switch to the enemy in front. Lock on targeting feels like a tacked on thing. I would had liked always facing animation ala Zelda. That's not really an improvement/complaint but a suggestion.
I find rolling to be too "powerful" compared to blocking. They need to be balanced out.
There are various animation attacks you can perform and in my opinion they either need to be cut down or each should have a specific event in which they can trigger. The rolling attacks should be part of "rolling then attacking" instead of being a far distance attack. The jump attacks should trigger depending on the distance away from the enemy. Other animations like the reverse stab work well. Overall I want to know what kind/type of attack I'll perform so I can have more control of fights.
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Even though I'm not done with this yet and still in Chapter 2, this is definitely the best RPG I've played. It's got the right mix of things to please my RPG itch.
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ukas said:
I was really upset that I didn't hear anyone say "yer mother sucks dwarf cock!"
Yurt said:
Playing TW1 again this is very true. I liked that in the first game you really felt like there was a "witching hour", and it helped to explain how humans managed to build civilisations in monster infested regions.
Rolling is purely avoidance, but blocking gives you a free hit (or more if you take riposte). If you're one on one, blocking is usually better. If two or more are chasing you, avoidance makes more sense.Exuro said:
It's annoying when the game throws you into a fight without warning. It instantly cuts off the use of potions. I wouldn't mind not being able to drink potions in battle if this didn't happen at all.Jerk said:
You could choose want you wanted to do during chapter 1. It was no more or less linear than the first game.Mercutio said:
Only thing I don't like about the combat is how clunky the radial menu is when selecting swords. One fight later in the game makes you switch between your silver and steel swords multiple times while trying not to get stunlocked by multiple baddies. When I tried to quickly switch swords with the radial, %50 of the time Geralt would just stand there and not switch swords at all. I ended up having to run to a corner, pop a fresh Quen, come to a complete stop, fumble with the radial until he actually decided to switch weapons, then pop a new Quen b/c by that point the enemies had depleted my previous one.
All of that just to switch weapons mid-fight. (using KB/M if that makes a difference) At least the reward from that fight is super awesome.
Now I just press 1 and 2 to switch weapons because it works much more consistently than the radial.
..yet I still fucking love this game. Chap. 3 is super intense story-wise.
All of that just to switch weapons mid-fight. (using KB/M if that makes a difference) At least the reward from that fight is super awesome.
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Now I just press 1 and 2 to switch weapons because it works much more consistently than the radial.
..yet I still fucking love this game. Chap. 3 is super intense story-wise.
Did you read my whole post? I eventually did start using the hotkeys. That said, they give you the option to switch swords in the radial so it should work better than it does.Exuro said:
Van Buren said:
You didn't read the rest of my post either?
It's 1&2 that switches swords.Fredescu said:
I suppose I just wanted something different. I've found the story to be rather... lacking so far, and was hoping at some point things would really open up. I don't truly feel like I've ever really been able to go out and do what I want, but I think part of me was hoping for an Oblivion style connected world. Serves me right for not looking into it before buying.
Just finished the game on Iorveth path and sat through the lengthy credit sequence. A very special game. It's a game that will be talked about for years. You know, one of those games. I don't get why some people think the game is too short and that chapter 3 isn't as good. I thought it was pretty damn awesome. It got easy..true but I didn't mind it too much. The best gear at that point did make it easy but since you have to put in a little effort to obtain them I thought it was fitting. If they make an enhanced edition, I hope they make some improvements to item manager and store interface.
Yeah, this definitely isn't an open world RPG. You don't need to approach it in a linear fashion though. Personally I hang around in town and talk to everyone I can and eventually widen my search radius until I find myself outside of town and kill what I come across and do whatever for a while, until my inventory is full, and just sort of accidently complete the side quests as I go. This is my preferred play style even for open world games, so I guess I don't see much difference (it's also why I hated Mass Effect for a while).Mercutio said:
Fredescu said:
I actually dearly, dearly love Mass Effect 1 and 2. I'm not sure what's sticking in my craw so much about this game though; everyone else (including my friends) seem to dearly love it. I've just found it to be a clunky action RPG with often pretty graphics but a downright lousy story. Some of the design decisions just puzzle me... why can't I move the camera back a little bit? Why did the default control scheme not use the middle mouse button at all? There's just been a lot of stuff that's left me scratching my head from a design standpoint.
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Van Buren said:
Geralt asked Saskia where her father was and Saskia said he disappeared after teaching her everything she needed to know.. im pretty sure he might still be alive
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It is a PC game so you can change all the controls to what you prefer.Mercutio said:
To be honest I was lazy and used nothing but Aard and fast attack for the majority of the game. Easy to just go in, Aard blast a guy out of the battle, strike another guy, spin around and attack another or Aard them, etc. Gets very easy once you upgrade Aard to max and have 4 bars of stamina (not to meantion the stamina regen stuff like potions).Jintor said:
The radial menu was mainly put in because of the optional controller use. If you play M+KB you really only need to use it for secondary weapon changes. Not sure why give more options is a negative.Hulud said:
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