Hey how does Witcher 2 on PC play with a 360 controller?
Menus and everything perfectly fine with a controller?
The game isn't very well optimized for the controller, unfortunately. Menus in particular require some getting used to. There's also a weird glitch where when you go through a door the camera tends to spin around Geralt for a second.
During normal gameplay it's mostly fine but it's not the ideal option for this game.
Ok so i have just now finished playing through The Witcher Enhanced Edition for the first time, and enjoyed it on the whole i guess or though it hasn't aged extremely well. I was a bit lost at times in the story but just to summaries from what i understand....
The Grand Master hires Javed and the Professor along with Salamandra to attack the Witchers hideout and steal their mutagens so they can build an army of super soldiers to command and rule over humans in the forth coming ice age that the Grand Master has foreseen. Geralts is given a mission to track down Javed, Professor and Slamandra to find out what they want the stolen mutagen for, bring it back and eliminate Salamandra in the process.
The game has a habit of not completely explaining the mechanics to you and as a result i hardly made any potions, came across numerous unknown herbs, didnt know how to obtain or use mutagens to unlock some skills in my skill tree and never really used more than 2 magic spells/signs (Aard & Agni) let alone levelling up any of the other spells past level 1 and speaking of levelling up, i think i only got 2 gold tokens and that was in the last hour of gameplay so not sure how one is supposed to max out all your stats....or maybe you cant!?
Also there appears to be a lot of stuff left unexplained and characters that just seem to be ignored for the rest of the game, take all the witches at the start i never see them again. Was it ever explained why Geralt was presumed dead and missing for ages?, a lot was made of this at the start of the game and then was bought up at a few other occasions in branching conversation with certain characters but that just seemed to be forgotten about around half way through the game!. And just who was the assassin who tired to kill the King at the end of the game were we supposed to recognise who that was?. I was under the impression after the credits had rolled i would be allowed to finish of the remanded of my quests to get more answers about Geralts disappearance and unlock some more skills but this doesn't happen which is a bit of a disappointment.
Whats peoples views on the 2nd game is it much improved over the first game?, as if not im not sure i could endure another 30 hours or so of similar mechanics?, im guess this was a excellent game in 2007 just that time hasn't been very favourable to it but im glad i played it
The second game is completely different when it comes to combat. It plays like you'd expect a game like this to play. Closest thing that comes to mind is a faster paced Dark Souls. Gameplay isn't as good as DS, mind you, just trying to give you an idea, but yeah, they completely dropped the system they used in the first game.
TW2 is 4 years old but visually it has aged very well, graphics and animation are still great, I know that the dated animation of the first game can be jarring but don't worry, this is one of the biggest jumps in tech you've ever seen between a sequel and its predecessor.
As for the ending, that's the start of the plot of the second game, you weren't supposed to understand what happened, it's just the trigger for TW2's plot .
To identify the herbs you need to read herbology books.
For the second game I recommend using the quen sign a lot, it's a shield.
You can get through both games by just slashing your way through which is a bit of a shame, there are semi-official combat mods that fix that though. For example, specters become impossible to kill without applying specter oil to your blade.
