OdysseusVA
Banned
Great read from Eurogamer - The Making of The Witcher 2
And pretty much confirms that W2 will not be heading to the PS3
And pretty much confirms that W2 will not be heading to the PS3
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The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition |OT| Bow low, you stand before a head crowned.
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OdysseusVA
Banned
Old articles, but I would imagine they'd rather focus on their two next-gen "AAA+" titles that will be multiplatform.
j0hnny_385
Member
agreed. PS3 gamers are out of luck on this one but hey, that's life. :/
Next <many As> game is the one I'm looking for.
Dries
Member
Jay Shadow
Member
Dark Mode graphic activates anytime you pull one of the dark swords out. If you don't have the complete set the swords drain your health when they're out. There's one set per Act, and they're expensive to craft. You can wear just the armor by itself without penalty. It's just the swords that have the penalty without the full set.
Vasilisk 2038
Member
The creator of that mod is a gaffer
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=37377609&postcount=4317
:O. GAF > Internet> GAF. If he reads this, great mod! XD
OdysseusVA
Banned
Im really enjoying this game, but no one warned me about all the fetch quest crap. Im currently stuck in the Dwarf village doing all kinds of stupid errands.
Is the rest of the game like this? I hope not. I really like just running around, meeting new characters and fighting mosters in the woods.
Is the rest of the game like this? I hope not. I really like just running around, meeting new characters and fighting mosters in the woods.
Dries
Member
Clear, thanks. Thinking about doing a Dark mode run, but the difficulty worries me. My latest gaming achievement is beating Uncharted 2 on crushing.... I'm afraid Dark mode will crush me, so does anyone have some good tips? Most of all I want to know: which skill tree should I focus on?
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
Jay Shadow
Member
I just did Dark Mode for the first time and early on I found Daggers to be majorly helpful on some of the stronger guys in groups because they can't really stop them. Then when the other trees opened up I picked up bomb damage for area control. After that it starts to get easier like it does in regular difficulties so whatever preference you want really. You should be pretty trained at avoiding attacks by then. I went up swords mainly with a little magic backup at the end, but a lot of people pick mostly signs instead. I actually went through the whole game without upgrading past the default 2 squares of vigor.
Dries
Member
So you went through Dark mode without even doing the alchemy skill tree...... and lived? To me it seems like alchemy would be most important.
Great read just got game the other day really cool. Will support these guys in future for sure. Remind me of bioware pre EA days.
Jay Shadow
Member
Basic Alchemy is enough when you're a whirling dervish of sword carrying death.
My build ended up like this
don't fear dark mode....you get more monsters and therefore more drops of things that are good. Dark pushed me to the edge of my ability but then the 30 traps I was carrying were a trump card that I know would make the regular difficulties trivial. I tried easy first and realized this is no fun as I could mash x and win right from the start in a game I was told got easier as you expand your tree......no thanks.....Dark was a very balanced mode for me and I recommend it to even those that like me are usually inept at these types of things....if you were able to do crushing on u2 you can do Dark on tw2.
Side note....still can't touch demon's /dark for combat playability....I hope that me playing on a gamepad on PC, and a medium settings at best laptop did not make the controls the reason for my opinion, but I really wish all other games learned from the souls series....I realize cdpr said they were giogn for a batman souls mix...but they didn't come close to the fluidity I feel playing the souls....and wished all the way through for better move sets for different weapons.
Still enjoying the game overall, but finding it hard to go back and do flotsam again, in order to try to get to iorveth path.
j0hnny_385
Member
Isn't Quen essential for Dark Mode? Hell, even for Normal? I find it almost close to cheating.
Jay Shadow
Member
Not essential at all, but still good to use occasionally in big battles as a safety net in case you screw up.Isn't Quen essential for Dark Mode? Hell, even for Normal? I find it almost close to cheating.
Actually come to think of it, that safety net felt very important to me in one of the last fights of the game.
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
Remember the new track that played during the last conversation with Letho? It was nowhere to be found so I recorded it and posted on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XKnz8daxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XKnz8daxg
Jay Shadow
Member
No, it's just a stand alone story. Takes place at least a decade before the games. The Witcher started out as a series of short stories, so the comic is done in that style.
Dries
Member
Currently I'm reading The Last Wish and really enjoying it. Geralt is such a badass!
Jay Shadow
Member
Yeah, I should go back and read that one again while I'm waiting for fans to translate the last book.
Complistic
Member
Thought this one was too awesome not to share.
jim-jam bongs
Member
I grabbed the TV series so I could get my fix. It's, uh, well it's something that's for sure.
jim-jam bongs
Member
You're a bigger person than I am. A while back, I looked the series up, said "Fuck that shit. That's not Geralt" and never looked at it again. I'll stick to the books and whatever goodness CDPROJEKTred pumps out. The digital comic had a 'To be continued' at the end of it, iirc, so they definitely plan more for the series in that way.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Finished my second playthrough tonight.
As to not burn out, I'll be taking a break before beginning my third. Definitely looking forward to it
My bro Roche wouldn't have hestitated to kill me if given the order :'(
As to not burn out, I'll be taking a break before beginning my third. Definitely looking forward to it
New player just starting out on 360 (never played the original, don't have a PC that will run it decently). I think I understand the gameplay systems and so far I love almost everything about the game outside of some minor quirks with the UI/inventory stuff, but two questions:
-Is the lock-on super loose, or is it just me? It doesn't seem like "traditional" Z-targeting where you strafe around someone evenly, it seems like when I lock-on to someone it's very loose and I'm still running around almost free form and I'm even able to run away with my back turned to the enemy I'm locked onto. Is this just something you get used to? Right now that's definitely the thing holding me back in combat.
-I'll also echo the sentiment about not knowing when to use potions; does it just become something where you'll probably have to get into a situation and die before you know you're going to trigger something around the corner and you should drink some first?
-Is the lock-on super loose, or is it just me? It doesn't seem like "traditional" Z-targeting where you strafe around someone evenly, it seems like when I lock-on to someone it's very loose and I'm still running around almost free form and I'm even able to run away with my back turned to the enemy I'm locked onto. Is this just something you get used to? Right now that's definitely the thing holding me back in combat.
-I'll also echo the sentiment about not knowing when to use potions; does it just become something where you'll probably have to get into a situation and die before you know you're going to trigger something around the corner and you should drink some first?
The game's pretty good about letting you know when you're going to get into shit, and signaling you to prepare accordingly. You never really turn a corner into getting fucked - not at all, actually. Geralt's the damn witcher and knows when trouble is afoot. He'll even mutter when the medallion's going off.
Is there any issue with buying The Witcher 2 (360) used? No online codes/passes one has to deal with?
Looking for it that way but no problem buying it new if I have to. Trying to decide between it, Kingdom of Amalur (PS3 or 36) or possibly caving on Diablo 3. Rather not get Diablo as I'm trying to cut my PC gaming in general outside of MMORPGs and Starcraft 2's coming expansions.
Looking for it that way but no problem buying it new if I have to. Trying to decide between it, Kingdom of Amalur (PS3 or 36) or possibly caving on Diablo 3. Rather not get Diablo as I'm trying to cut my PC gaming in general outside of MMORPGs and Starcraft 2's coming expansions.
Thanks.
I've been kinda iffy on Amalur do to the difficulty issues. Though from the demo I was left cold by it. The mechanics seemed sound but didn't feel anything else positive regarding it. I just have a gift card I want to get rid of so I can cut ties with Best Buy and TW2 is one of the games on the list that could get bought. Though I didn't finish The Witcher 1. Got tired of the click to attack combat pretty quickly sadly.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Amalur's fine in its own right - just make sure that if you play it, you read about how not to break the scaling system.
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
I understand you found your answer.
Dries
Member
Hehe, no, actually. The TW2 journal recounts nothing from before TW1.
Jay Shadow
Member
There's a 5 year time gap between the books and games. Only info on that area in between with Yennifer and The Wild Hunt is the flashbacks in Witcher 2. Other then his death, the flashbacks are not a retelling of a story that's already known, they're new. So we're as in the dark as Geralt is.
Dries
Member
What I wanted to know. Thanks, bro.
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
I think I'm gonna make a thread about The Witcher series as a whole just to separate questions like "Who is Yennefer?" "What is Wild Hunt?" away from this thread. What do you think?
Press conference coming. May 30th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4pfnruvA0c&feature=g-all-u
Press conference coming. May 30th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4pfnruvA0c&feature=g-all-u
Hmm. If one needs to be mindful of that then I'll take a pass on it unless it's extremely cheap which it looks like it won't be for some time. The Witcher 2 it is then.
Vasilisk 2038
Member
The majority are in the third act.
I apologize if this has been asked before in the thread... but I have played through the original Witcher 2 with both Roche and Iorveth... d/led the update and just wanted to do the quests that were added to the Enhanced Edition, rather than replaying the whole game. Is there a list of these quests? I'd just continue from my save games if possible. Thanks...
Jay Shadow
Member
On PC it's a toggle with the bumper button. On 360 it's a hold with the trigger. I actually kinda wish we had the hold on PC, because I rarely use the target lock while it's a toggle.
The quests are Secrets of Loc Muinne and Lilies and Vipers. One per path. Both are in the 3rd chapter, so theoretically you could just go to saves at the start of those chapters. But due to backwards compatibility problems they may not actually work correctly.
I didn't get a reply in the other thread, so I'm posting it here:
Is this supposed to be an improvement? The lighting has changed in my EE, where some of the glow effects simply aren't there anymore. Take a look at this:
My playthrough a year ago during release:
My new playthrough of the EE:
It's the same thing with fire effects/spells, it's like they've lost all illumination. Should I try to re-install or is there some graphic options I should turn on/off?
Another example:
EE:
Vanilla:
Is this supposed to be an improvement? The lighting has changed in my EE, where some of the glow effects simply aren't there anymore. Take a look at this:
My playthrough a year ago during release:
My new playthrough of the EE:
It's the same thing with fire effects/spells, it's like they've lost all illumination. Should I try to re-install or is there some graphic options I should turn on/off?
Another example:
EE:
Vanilla: