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The Witcher |OT| Damn all dissonances
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Minamu said:Really?Source please.
This isn't where I first remember hearing it, as I think it was mentioned in one of ther dev videos released, but this does the confirmation just fine.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-23-the-witcher-2-hands-on
Jay Shadow
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Rest of the game is Trade Quarter free.jett said:
Has Yaren Bolt (the lumberjack dwarf boss) gone missing from the swamps for anyone else? I need to speak with him one last time to finish the quest, but he's not at his waypoint or anywhere near by at any time of the time. It's not a major quest but it drives my OCD side crazy to see it unfinished like that.
Snuggler said:
I just ran into this. Got that notice from Triss at the end of chap 3 saying that I should finish all those quests up, went around to do them, and couldn't complete that one because he was nowhere to be found. PISSED. ME. OFF. It was the last one too! after running around the swamp like an idiot, I just said fuck it and finished the chapter.
On that note, the beginning of chapter 4 is such a beautiful change of scenery.
Tacitus_ said:
The game is a direct sequel, right? God, man, I hope they do. There's nothing that makes me feel more invested in a series than allowing me to actually 'build' the universe as I progress. ME2 was the first game to hit me like that, and honestly because of it, it's one of my favorite games of all time. Actually...on that note, does anybody happen to know of any other PC series with a well-written narrative that use a similar system?
EviLore said:
Equipment too? Nice. Funny thing is though, none of my current equipment is anything special. In fact, I've almost written it out of the game. I'm getting on through capter 4 now and I've only changed my combat equipment once, and that was to reforge my steel sword with some meteorites.
While I'm hoping that there is more of an incentive to upgrade in 2, I'm kind of digging this simplicity. Allows me to focus on other things such as the alchemy.
EviLore said:
No mention of combat pieces, I'm cool with that. More armor equips will do just fine. Here's to hoping that Geralt's appearance changes depending on the armor equip.
On a side note, I fear for the writers over at CDPROJECKTred. Is it even possible to do that many endings justice? Seriously...
indigo-cyclops
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Miri said:
It does, there's even hoods in the game.
Yes, I only changed weapons once, exactly as you up to that point. I don't want to spoil anything, but there is something you can easily miss:Miri said:
Search the Fields map, there is a place with wyvenrs and royal wyverns. Kill them and you'll find a steel sword lying around. For some reason it's more powerful than the best meteorite sword I've managed. You'll also get a super silver sword but you can't miss that one I think.
I think the substitute for a large array of equipment choices were meant to be the potions. I'm really regretting playing through the game (I'm almost at the end now) in normal mode. I only had 3 tough fights in the game, everything else was easy clicking.
Having to pay attention to the recipes, collecting the appropriate ingredients and questing for powerful formulas would have been great and fitting, but when the game asks you at the start it sounds a bit daunting since you haven't seen what it's all about.
How many endings now? That's insane. And I was having trouble with the choices in the Witcher so far... I already love this game, I can't think of a way that it won't be incredible.EviLore said:
Gully State
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Well into Act III and the combat is finally jiving with me. Once you level up the combos, his flurries look a lot more visceral. My biggest moral dilemma right now is who I should give the child too (I suppose it's not really a moral dilemma) as I've already
. It's strange but this is the first game where I just want to be as neutral as possible instead of skewing good or evil. That in and of itself speaks volumes of how good the choice/consequence system is.
bed Triss (multiple times) but Shani seems a bit on the possessive side
Jay Shadow
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They're not 16 completely unique endings. Some of them are just minor changes, like who is present in the ending. Some of them are determined early in the game too, so you may do something in act 1 and now you're down to 8 possible endings.Miri said:
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
jett said:
I never had that issue. It doesn't even seem as if that was a common occurrence, but here is a possible solution for you. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080224135241AAQU3v2
Gully State said:
Let us know who you end up going with.
Triss/Shani spoilers:
I didnt entirely trust Triss especially after the person in the mirror conversation that she tried to brush off. Id rather leave the young boy with the sweet nurse and not the shady witch. You are right about Shani though.
Ill be doing a second play through soon and mixing up my chocies. Im curious to see how things will change.
Gully State
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WanderingWind said:
Thanks for the tip. I've definitely had that issue but I can go through hours without it crashing or it'll be as fast as 10 min.
I made it to chapter 4 in my last session (35 hrs in). Best environment, yet, wow. I love the view at Lakeside, what a gorgeous place. I was exploring and I came across the most disgusting and terrifying enemy I've seen in any RPG, though, goddamn. You probably know what I'm talking about, yuck.
GillianSeed79
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So, I'm nearing the end of Ch. 5 and I realized that I must have missed a book/conversation that will give me journal/bestiary entry needed to complete a signboard quest for the giant leech acid exploding monsters in the swamp cemetary area. Is there any way to get that entry this late in the game?
It's been a crash fest for me too. I've read tons of suggestions from the steam forums so far nothing worked.jett said:
I tried turning off auto-save, deleting save files so I have only a few, turning off AA, playing with Steam off-line, and more that I can't remember.
From what I've read it's like it hates some PC setups for unknown reasons. Lots of people have the same problems with crashes that nothing will fix. I'd have finished the game by now if not for this constant torture, I just lost 20 mins of playing just now.
I hope there is nothing similar with the sequel as well.
Gully State
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poisonelf said:
I've gone OCD with pressing F5 thanks to this game. And for sure this is not a Steam related issue as I have the boxed copy.
Currently replaying The Witcher via the Steam version and I've had two crashes so far with 31 total hours clocked.
Every PC RPG I've ever played has crashed multiple times over the course of a playthrough, so that's in line with expectations. Makes me a compulsive quicksaver.
Every PC RPG I've ever played has crashed multiple times over the course of a playthrough, so that's in line with expectations. Makes me a compulsive quicksaver.
I had almost no crashes with Two Worlds 2 or Risen as far as I remember, perhaps a couple over the entire playthrough on Two Worlds as you say, but nothing close to the Witcher. Being a compulsive 'saver' is always good though.
The other thing with the Witcher is that most crashes take place when loading, and since there are loading screens for everything, fucking everything, there is little to do to avoid the crash. One more reason to be excited for the sequel, no loading screens
However all of the above are a testament to how great this game is, I wouldn't have subjected myself to this for almost any other game.
The other thing with the Witcher is that most crashes take place when loading, and since there are loading screens for everything, fucking everything, there is little to do to avoid the crash. One more reason to be excited for the sequel, no loading screens
However all of the above are a testament to how great this game is, I wouldn't have subjected myself to this for almost any other game.
I've had several crashes in 35 hours, the majority of them happened in the final gameplay part before the end of chapter 3. That part seemed a bit unstable, but the rest of the game wasn't problematic.
I'm also OCD about saving, though. I didn't realize that it creates a new save everytime I hit F5 so it takes forever to load my saves since there must be hundreds of them.
I'm also OCD about saving, though. I didn't realize that it creates a new save everytime I hit F5 so it takes forever to load my saves since there must be hundreds of them.
Minsc
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2-5 crashes over the entire game sounds about right for me. It was a pleasant surprise, and I didn't hit many weird bugs either.
I also cleaned up my Witcher folder every once and a while, my running total of Witcher saves if I didn't delete them would probably max out a NGP game card I think. Hopefully for Steam's cloud sake a hearty few dozen of TW2 saves don't take up multiple GBs.
A lot of the non-major loading screens (enter a building / leaving the building) were nearly instantaneous which was nice, and I ended up preferring auto-save on, rather than off, as it came in handy a few times, and didn't really alter my experience either way.
I also cleaned up my Witcher folder every once and a while, my running total of Witcher saves if I didn't delete them would probably max out a NGP game card I think. Hopefully for Steam's cloud sake a hearty few dozen of TW2 saves don't take up multiple GBs.
A lot of the non-major loading screens (enter a building / leaving the building) were nearly instantaneous which was nice, and I ended up preferring auto-save on, rather than off, as it came in handy a few times, and didn't really alter my experience either way.
Finally finished Witcher last night. Despite it being not as indepth with its character building as some other western RPGs I greatly enjoyed it. Some quick thoughts:
- My major choices in the ended up being:
- Played on normal but maybe I should've played on hard since I seemed to be overpowered most of the time (with the exception of fighting Javed)
- Chapters 2 and 3 began to drag for me after a while. I think it was due to running back and forth between the swamp and town most of the time
- This is one of the few games where I really had to sit down and think about my decisions. Even now that I'm done with the game I feel like I've made some wrong choices
- Love the sense of humor this game has. Though one drunken night I had to stumble all the way from one side of town to the other to find a fireplace. Took about a good 5 -10 minutes of stumbling.
- I'm not really big into game stories these days but the one told here was done much better than most.
- Ending spoilers: It was pretty vague about it (at least in my ending) but is the game suggesting that
- Loved the music in the game. Especially in chapter 4 and beyond. I really liked the tune that plays at night when you're running through Murky Waters.
- Liked that the game doesn't have some big reveal
. Seems like they're saving that for the sequel.
- Game crashed pretty often. Seemed like every gaming session resulted in at least one crash.
- My major choices in the ended up being:
- Triss
- Tried to stay neutral but I think I ended up siding with the Scoia'tael
- Chose to finish the Grand Master myself
- Tried to stay neutral but I think I ended up siding with the Scoia'tael
- Chose to finish the Grand Master myself
- Played on normal but maybe I should've played on hard since I seemed to be overpowered most of the time (with the exception of fighting Javed)
- Chapters 2 and 3 began to drag for me after a while. I think it was due to running back and forth between the swamp and town most of the time
- This is one of the few games where I really had to sit down and think about my decisions. Even now that I'm done with the game I feel like I've made some wrong choices
(mostly with how I handle the Order and the Scoia'tael)
- Love the sense of humor this game has. Though one drunken night I had to stumble all the way from one side of town to the other to find a fireplace. Took about a good 5 -10 minutes of stumbling.
- I'm not really big into game stories these days but the one told here was done much better than most.
- Ending spoilers: It was pretty vague about it (at least in my ending) but is the game suggesting that
the Grand Master is Alvin
- Loved the music in the game. Especially in chapter 4 and beyond. I really liked the tune that plays at night when you're running through Murky Waters.
- Liked that the game doesn't have some big reveal
of Geralt's memories
- Game crashed pretty often. Seemed like every gaming session resulted in at least one crash.
Gully State
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Enk said:
"Beware the Witcher! Hide your women!"
Ferrio said:
I thought that was a interesting little twist and one I didn't see coming. I didn't really get a sense from the Grand Master that he had ties in the past with Geralt. Kind of makes me want to go back and rewatch some of the interactions between Geralt and the Grand Master to see if there was anything I missed.
Do the choices you make in the conversations with Alvin early on have an effect on the Epilogue?
Do the choices you make in the conversations with Alvin early on have an effect on the Epilogue?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Miri said:
I know I'm really late on this one, but this article is very, very well written. Pleasant surprise.