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[subversus]

Hell I'll get the first one too for 9 bucks if the OST is this good, it's like buying a soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuhhithTvMI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4yg73uusHo

 

[Foffy]

I have a question. This game is violating me (and I likey) but my question portrays to sidequests. Does anyone know what are the last possible instances to do side side stuff per chapter? Do the last missions instantly commence or is there a dialog option to hold off?

 

[Snuggles]

It's not essential to play TW1 first, but it's a ploughing great RPG that should be required reading for anyone who's into the genre. Knowing Zoltan, Triss and Dandelion will make TW2's story better, though, no question about it.

 

[Helmholtz]

It's not essential to play TW1 first, but it's a ploughing great RPG that should be required reading for anyone who's into the genre. Knowing Zoltan, Triss and Dandelion will make TW2's story better, though, no question about it.

Is it just me, or is Zoltan completely different in TW2? He has a different voice, face, and personality from what I remember. It's probably for the best though. Triss seems really different too, although that's probably just because they changed he face.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

Is it just me, or is Zoltan completely different in TW2? He has a different voice, face, and personality from what I remember. It's probably for the best though. Triss seems really different too, although that's probably just because they changed he face.

Yeah they changed the models quite a bit, way better though. Dandelion is still great

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I wish he played a bigger part in TW2

 

[krzy123]

With the

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Letho

fight in Chapter 1, I found that

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daggers make it quite easy to take him down. Dodge and keep your distance when he activates Quen and when it goes down spam him with daggers. You don't even need to risk getting close.

I ended up using this strat:

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letho is so slow that you can actually set up traps (just the standard claw/bear ones you see in the forest during the fight and they hurt him quite a bit, also you if you side roll after his attack (block or quen), you can basically own him (he has a set pattern attack when close), you'll only get a couple of hits in, but i think you can just follow this pattern

 

[Krauser Kat]

With the

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Letho

fight in Chapter 1, I found that

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daggers make it quite easy to take him down. Dodge and keep your distance when he activates Quen and when it goes down spam him with daggers. You don't even need to risk getting close.

Snares, Lots and lots of snares. They go through Quen and you can lay them down in single spot they will all go off at the same time doing cumulative damage. its really cheap but i used to 1 hit a lot of big baddies.

 

[Vyer]

bleh. I seem to suck at the combat in this game and it feels really clumsy. Getting my ass kicked in the first chapter is killing my motivation to keep playing.

 

[Menelaus]

I completely stopped my playthrough when I heard that patch 1.3 will add in 16:10 support, but now I'm kind of feeling like I should just start over. Stupid wait.

 

[IndieJones]

bleh. I seem to suck at the combat in this game and it feels really clumsy. Getting my ass kicked in the first chapter is killing my motivation to keep playing.

There's no shame in tuning the difficulty down if the alternative is you giving up the game in frustration.

 

[Heysoos]

Not completely on topic, but I'm currently playing The Witcher and I got to Chapter 2 yesterday. Talk about quest overload @_@. At least for me, I have quite a bit of quests in my journal, my friend said I have to be careful because I could end up

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incriminating the wrong suspect

, and I refuse to look at a guide, but I don't want to miss anything or do something wrong! D: ahhh. Any tips?

 

[EatChildren]

bleh. I seem to suck at the combat in this game and it feels really clumsy. Getting my ass kicked in the first chapter is killing my motivation to keep playing.

Combat is shit early on, so you need to exploit its problems and take it slowly. Take into account the awful response time to control and try not to get surrounded. Do lots and lots of blocking, and if you can get it down roll out of the way. Worst comes to worst, lower the difficulty.

Playing this on hard has exposed the game's weaknesses much more than I thought it would. I love it to bit, but christ is there huge room for improvement in nearly every corner of the game. One of the final parts of Chapter 2 where you

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escort Roche through the forest and tunnels

stands out as particularly lazy design. Its so boring.

 

[Red]

I showed this to a friend last night to give him an idea of the visuals he can expect if he builds a new PC. I had him start from a random save in chapter 3. When I handed him the controller, he just stares at the screen without doing anything. After a few seconds he asks, "is it working?" I nudge the stick on the controller, Geralt moves, and my friend says "what the fuck, I thought this was a cutscene." He couldn't believe the graphics were that good, and kept laughing as he played it.

 

[Yurt]

Not completely on topic, but I'm currently playing The Witcher and I got to Chapter 2 yesterday. Talk about quest overload @_@. At least for me, I have quite a bit of quests in my journal, my friend said I have to be careful because I could end up

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incriminating the wrong suspect

, and I refuse to look at a guide, but I don't want to miss anything or do something wrong! D: ahhh. Any tips?

Do all the quests before making your final decision and you'll be fine.

 

[Tom Penny]

bleh. I seem to suck at the combat in this game and it feels really clumsy. Getting my ass kicked in the first chapter is killing my motivation to keep playing.

Quen sign and dodging is your friend.

 

[Kerub]

Is there any word on new content? This is one of the rare games where I would love to pay more for extra stuff.

 

[kitch9]

bleh. I seem to suck at the combat in this game and it feels really clumsy. Getting my ass kicked in the first chapter is killing my motivation to keep playing.

By the time you get to chapter 3 that feeling will be long gone, stick with it and it becomes much easier.

 

[Stitch]

I showed this to a friend last night to give him an idea of the visuals he can expect if he builds a new PC. I had him start from a random save in chapter 3. When I handed him the controller, he just stares at the screen without doing anything. After a few seconds he asks, "is it working?" I nudge the stick on the controller, Geralt moves, and my friend says "what the fuck, I thought this was a cutscene." He couldn't believe the graphics were that good, and kept laughing as he played it.

Started yesterday and the graphics are really unbelievable. The cutscenes look like they are rendered but nope, all in-game :O

 

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

So I just started the game and WOW. It's gorgeous. I also love the voice acting, while I love the people Bioware uses, it is nice to hear a new mix (or at least I think it is). Just played a little while and I already love that change in a quest from the normal type of kill this to

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artillery spotting

game mechanic and I can already see the changes my dialogue is making. I really have a good feeling that I'm going to like this game a lot.

 

[Red]

Started yesterday and the graphics are really unbelievable. The cutscenes look like they are rendered but nope, all in-game :O

Yes.

 

[SavagePlanet]

I'm loving this game. I gave it a break for about a month after I got stuck on one of the bosses near the end of act 2, but I picked it up again the other day and finally got past the part (the game auto-saved at a part that it didn't before; was that a patch?) and now I'm sucked back into it. Hope to finish it up here in the next week. About how long is act 3? I really hope CD projekt pumps out some more content for this sucker. Such a great game.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Yeah the auto-save was patched in. Used to be so annoying, you breeze through the champion part, then the standard bearer, only to make one mistake against the boss and have to do it all again.

 

[Vyer]

Combat is shit early on, so you need to exploit its problems and take it slowly. Take into account the awful response time to control and try not to get surrounded. Do lots and lots of blocking, and if you can get it down roll out of the way. Worst comes to worst, lower the difficulty.

Playing this on hard has exposed the game's weaknesses much more than I thought it would. I love it to bit, but christ is there huge room for improvement in nearly every corner of the game. One of the final parts of Chapter 2 where you

Spoiler

escort Roche through the forest and tunnels

stands out as particularly lazy design. Its so boring.

I'm at the

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Letho

fight now. So...yeah.

So many other things about this game are great, but...Jesus. So annoying.

 

[Van Buren]

I'm at the

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Letho

fight now. So...yeah.

So many other things about this game are great, but...Jesus. So annoying.

Are you making use of all available tools ? Aard takes away his Quen shield, like how it does the same to yours, and Yrden is invaluable for getting in a few cheap hits. Make use of Strong attacks when fighting bosses.

Daggers destroy him, and bombs can end the fight in mere moments. Even on Insane, this was the easiest boss fight for me.

 

[Vyer]

Are you making use of all available tools ? Aard takes away his Quen shield, like how it does the same to yours, and Yrden is invaluable for getting in a few cheap hits. Make use of Strong attacks when fighting bosses.

Daggers destroy him, and bombs can end the fight in mere moments. Even on Insane, this was the easiest boss fight for me.

Not sure whats different, maybe i need it leveled because My ard is not taking away his quen. And my bombs are having some effect, but faaaar from ending the fight in 'mere moments'.

 

[Van Buren]

Not sure whats different, maybe i need it leveled because My ard is not taking away his quen. And my bombs are having some effect, but faaaar from ending the fight in 'mere moments'.

The sign and bomb effectiveness depends on the build, but even a typical swordmaster build shouldn't have much trouble once you figure out his attack patterns, assuming you mix in Quen, blocking, riposte, dodging and attacking his backside. If you collected all those traps around Flotsam, you can also litter the entire room with traps in-between dodging his attacks.

 

[Vyer]

The sign and bomb effectiveness depends on the build, but even a typical swordmaster build shouldn't have much trouble once you figure out his attack patterns, assuming you mix in Quen, blocking, riposte, dodging and attacking his backside. If you collected all those traps around Flotsam, you can also litter the entire room with traps in-between dodging his attacks.

So then...aard has to be leveled to cancel quen?

I find the movement and responsiveness to sluggish for the trap method to help. Particularly since if the enemy's blade so much as swings in your general direction it cuts the shit out of you.

Edit: think I'm just gonna give it a rest tonight. Just can't seem to get the hang of it I guess. Maybe I'll come back to this game some time down the road.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

It's the first challenging 1v1 fight in the game. Once you get the hang of it you'll ace it and the rest.

 

[kitch9]

So then...aard has to be leveled to cancel quen?

I find the movement and responsiveness to sluggish for the trap method to help. Particularly since if the enemy's blade so much as swings in your general direction it cuts the shit out of you.

Edit: think I'm just gonna give it a rest tonight. Just can't seem to get the hang of it I guess. Maybe I'll come back to this game some time down the road.

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He really doesn't like grapeshot bombs.

 

[MMaRsu]

Why did they change geralds voice in the second game?

 

[zlatko]

So any news on DLC yet for Witcher 2?

 

[Foffy]

So any news on DLC yet for Witcher 2?

DLC will be patches that add minor elements to the game.

They've hinted at an expansion pack, citing something of that caliber will be the only thing they'd charge for. That very likely won't be out until the 360 port has been out for a while.

 

[Gvaz]

The only DLC will be free, expansion packs will be money.

The Way it Should Be (tm)

 

[EatChildren]

So having now finished the game mutliple times (latest on hard) to see the various plot angles, I've decided The Witcher 2 is about a 7 or 8 out of 10 for me, if we wanted to use a numerical scale.

Amazing game but way too many flaws I cant overlook, with the combat and the fact the game is really only 2.5 chapters the biggest standouts. Thankfully a lot of the flaws are still quite functional and rarely degrade the overall quality. Its not so much a bad game as a great game with plenty of room for improvement, improvement that is unfortunately needed in too many areas.

Much like The Witcher, The Witcher 2 is a flawed masterpiece, though closer to perfection than the former. Fingers crossed third time is the charm, should we be fortunate enough to be graced with a third game, as perhaps then perfection will be attained.

 

[Coldsnap]

Does Witcher 1 deal with Yennifer? I'm curious after playing Witcher 2 twice.

 

[EatChildren]

Does Witcher 1 deal with Yennifer? I'm curious after playing Witcher 2 twice.

No. I dont believe she's ever mentioned.

 

[Varna]

Does Witcher 1 deal with Yennifer? I'm curious after playing Witcher 2 twice.

She is never directly mentioned, but you do hear a few things about her.. I can remember at least once in Chapter IV

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someone will tell you about Yennifer, Geralt and their adopted daughter

.

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Yennefer

It mentions all the little tid bits about her.

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Aw yeah:

 

[Snuggles]

that inspired me to look up some Witcher cosplay

interesting...his socks are probably my favorite part

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Hahaha that's almost as good as those tragic Final Fantasy group shots.

 

[Coldsnap]

lol please lets stop right there. Unless there are more pretty ladies.

 

[Forkball]

 

[Kyaw]

There is always this...

NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqxccAa2qQ&feature=player_embedded

 

[jim-jam bongs]

Geralt? You look so... Pretty.

Seriously though, I would plough that Yennefer with the force of a thousand Aards.

 

[Snuggles]

^ She actually looks pretty good!

 

[Coldsnap]

There is always this...

NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqxccAa2qQ&feature=player_embedded

That girl has a crazy body

 

[jim-jam bongs]

There is always this...

NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqxccAa2qQ&feature=player_embedded

My favourite part about this video is the Geralt model trying to look angry while sporting a rager. I mean, I assume he had one because that Triss model is niiiiiiiice.

 

[Exuro]

Why did they change geralds voice in the second game?

Geralt is still voiced by Doug Cockle. He's the only character that has the same voice actor I believe.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

There is always this...

NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqxccAa2qQ&feature=player_embedded

Damn, no mo-cap?

 

[Foffy]

So having now finished the game mutliple times (latest on hard) to see the various plot angles, I've decided The Witcher 2 is about a 7 or 8 out of 10 for me, if we wanted to use a numerical scale.

Amazing game but way too many flaws I cant overlook, with the combat and the fact the game is really only 2.5 chapters the biggest standouts. Thankfully a lot of the flaws are still quite functional and rarely degrade the overall quality. Its not so much a bad game as a great game with plenty of room for improvement, improvement that is unfortunately needed in too many areas.

Much like The Witcher, The Witcher 2 is a flawed masterpiece, though closer to perfection than the former. Fingers crossed third time is the charm, should we be fortunate enough to be graced with a third game, as perhaps then perfection will be attained.

Doesn't the ending of Witcher 2 pretty much hint at a third game?