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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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I seriously do not understand CDProjekt's reasoning:
What good does buying digital do? I get my game 9 hours later than people who bought it from retail, while I'm already supporting CDProjekt the most financially *and* it is the only service offering a pre-load. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to cripple the digital release.
- Pre-order at GOG.com and support CDProjekt to the fullest economically
- Pre-load only available on GOG
- And yet we end up with retail being available at 00:01 hour at the night between 15th and 16th May for the Collector's Edition; at 00:01 hour on 17th May for the Premium Edition - at 09:01 hour on 17th May for the digital editions
What good does buying digital do? I get my game 9 hours later than people who bought it from retail, while I'm already supporting CDProjekt the most financially *and* it is the only service offering a pre-load. It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to cripple the digital release.
Fallout-NL
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FoxSpirit said:
Yeah, I'm hoping it's better this time round as well.
Minsc
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iNvidious01 said:
Even still, this particular retail release is locked digitally, wouldn't matter if you had it weeks ago. They still picked to have retail unlock first.
I think I read retail has a much bigger PC presence in Poland though, so it makes sense (hence all the retailer specific DLC).
I won't be waiting up at 2am and getting upset it's 10 minutes late and counting, tuesday night for me.
pahamrick said:
Probably retailers strong-arming them again. Remember, they said only 40% of the pre-orders were digital (that's Steam + GOG + D2D combined, still less than half).
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
If I had the game gifted to me on GOG, can I still get one of the free preorder titles?
Typographenia
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I'm going to say it's highly unlikely. Go check your email inbox and see if you maybe got something sent to you. I believe when I purchased it came up with a new page saying that I could choose a free gift.MrOogieBoogie said:
If you can't, just wait a while because I'm sure they'll all be on sale at some point.
AppleSmack
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pahamrick said:
I bought the game and recieved the email. Where do I claim my games?
AppleSmack
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Enduin said:
All I got sent was a CD key I don't see any link lol.
AppleSmack
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Orgun said:Oh wow, guy on the stream said that this one is a lot harder than the first one. Good stuff
Lol, wasn't expecting that. Normal mode here I come =D
Typographenia
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Why is that?LiK said:
EternalGamer
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Typographenia said:
Because it stands for Good OLD Games.
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BULArmy said: Hey Polish people, explain save imports, pretty please.
You simply put your old saves into ...\My Documents\The Witcher\saves and the game let's you choose one of them at the beginning.
I noticed it transfered for me:
- some money (I don't remember how much I had so I don't know if all money is transfered)
- jacket (Raven) - it's better that the default starting one but worse than the DLC code Blue Jacket.
- best steel sword - a bit better that the default starting one
- best silver sword - a bit better that the default starting one
I did not play long enough to see other consequences of the previous game (like attitude of other people towards Geralt).
And carry overs from the previous thread:
Mariusmssj said: so you would advise to stat on normal?
Yes, I suggest you start on Normal and then learn how to fight before progressing to Hard.
Normal gives you a challenge before you know all the tricks.
Dsync said: What card are you using?
I have a low-end system now: GeForce 9600 GT, Athlon 64 X2 6000 , 4 GB RAM
so I run the Witcher on low settings with around 30 FPS. It's sort of a blasphemy but it shows that the game is pretty flexible. I still consider it playable and actually have not decided if I will upgrade soon or in several months time for another playthrough when prices drop even further I want to see some other parts of the game first.
Also when rolling dice watch out not to roll outside the board ... that's a bit ridiculous but it's possible to do it and then you are almost guaranteed to loose. I don't know if that's how it was supposed to work.
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BULArmy said: Hey Polish people, explain save imports, pretty please.
You simply put your old saves into ...\My Documents\The Witcher\saves and the game let's you choose one of them at the beginning.
I noticed it transfered for me:
- some money (I don't remember how much I had so I don't know if all money is transfered)
- jacket (Raven) - it's better that the default starting one but worse than the DLC code Blue Jacket.
- best steel sword - a bit better that the default starting one
- best silver sword - a bit better that the default starting one
I did not play long enough to see other consequences of the previous game (like attitude of other people towards Geralt).
And carry overs from the previous thread:
Mariusmssj said: so you would advise to stat on normal?
Yes, I suggest you start on Normal and then learn how to fight before progressing to Hard.
Normal gives you a challenge before you know all the tricks.
Dsync said: What card are you using?
I have a low-end system now: GeForce 9600 GT, Athlon 64 X2 6000 , 4 GB RAM
so I run the Witcher on low settings with around 30 FPS. It's sort of a blasphemy but it shows that the game is pretty flexible. I still consider it playable and actually have not decided if I will upgrade soon or in several months time for another playthrough when prices drop even further
I want to see some other parts of the game first.Also when rolling dice watch out not to roll outside the board ... that's a bit ridiculous but it's possible to do it and then you are almost guaranteed to loose. I don't know if that's how it was supposed to work.
Link
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LiK said:
Gog and cdprojekt work out of the same building. They're sister companies.
AppleSmack
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Enduin said:It should be directly under the Cd-key. A big yellow button saying "choose your free game".
Yeah..LOL not there. I just emailed their customer support. I pre-ordered the game a few days ago as well, just thought I was missing something. They should fix the issue for me.
WarMacheen
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Any streams going on?
Minsc
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Shouldn't be much longer now until we see if choosing Shani to watch Alvin is addressed at all, even by a few lines of dialog for those importing.
Just the major alliance decisions, weapons/armor and some money it seems. Possibly choosing Shani might make Triss act a bit colder to you in the game, not sure.
LiK said:
Just the major alliance decisions, weapons/armor and some money it seems. Possibly choosing Shani might make Triss act a bit colder to you in the game, not sure.
VisanidethDM
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blackmamba707 said:
This is one of those games that sort of show how "maxing" out graphics leads to diminishing returns if not proper backlash.
This screenshot for example:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3360/witcher2201105161414018.jpg
The faded out/blurred background looks insanely good. The creature is majestic, and the illusion of life-likeness is perfect. But as soon as you hit the creature's head, if not the characters, everything becomes so sharp and smooth that if feels incredibly artificial. Those models don't look like people, they look like dolls. Like digital actors dropped into a real life picture.
This screen:
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7209/witcher2201105161414003.jpg
The individual details are near perfect. The skin textures on the creatures, clothing, sharpness, it's all good. The sum of parts is, in my opinion, a trainwreck. It's too goddamn clean, and it looks like all parts where modeled individually, and when put together... it looks like a diorama of a real scene, instead of the scene itself. Those character don't look like they're standing on that wall - they seem shopped in. The individually perfect elements don't mix together at all, and while this is probably valid for 90% of games right now, the "perfection" of the image quality makes the breaking of the suspension of disbelief even more painful, in an "uncanny valley" sort of way.
It's forgivable given CDProject's relative youth, and some things are even cute - like the proportions of the wood textures on the bridge. Maybe the world of the Witcher IS a diorama
.AppleSmack
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Darklord said:
this is how it looks like for me. Sorry for the bad picture.
Darklord said:
The GOG download is just the game at the moment. your total 9 GB download consists of only game content. Tomorrow when the game goes live, we will have separate downloads for all of the extras.
Steam and D2D dont have this option so theyre stuck with the game plus the extras in one giant download.
EDIT: Beaten again by Minsc. Youre a roll today!
Minsc
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VisanidethDM said:
Not a bad analysis, but my first thoughts are the camera/people/dragon are all probably moving so fast in those two scenes you'd probably never notice any of that.
pahamrick said:
Missing a cover though, so they'll probably upload another version soon. In the meantime, that's fine with me.Edit: Damn, in my excitement, I had The Witcher 1 artbook confused with The Witcher 2 one, since they're both listed in a row on my games list! Oh well, back to waiting.
It all used to be listed as 1MB though, that's what confused me, when they started totaling out some of the items... sorry
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