I can not believe that some people claim that this "game" is superior to Biowares RPGs. The Witcher 2 is a benchmark tool and simulation of sex. This is not an RPG. People who are behind this "game" have shown incredible incompetence. The official site has not worked exactly at the time when the game was released for sale. The engine is a mild horror. This game works equally poorly in the lowest and highest settings. Of course, you'll know this if you manage to start the game and there's a good chance that you will not be able to do that. The game itself is below the minimum standards of the genre. The story is surprisingly bad and full of stereotypes and clichés. The main character is extremely repulsive and is surrounded by a crowd of equally annoying and poorly conceived characters. The fact is that author of novels that have served as inspiration for this "game" is just a plagiarist. "Mr." Sapkowski copied a number of well-known dark fantasy novels, most notably the famous "Elric of Melniboné" series. His work probably would never got beyond the borders of his homeland. Get some dating or sex simulation if you want to, buy some benchmark tool if you want but do not buy this "game".
18 months in and we may already have our worst RPG of the decade. The failings of this cheap Polish Dragon Age ripoff are many. The PC-first mentality of CDP makes the game completely inaccessible. The romance options attempt to match the deep, emotional romance arcs of BioWare games but fall flat due to unsatisfactory uncensored sex scenes. There is far too much variety. Games should be like chess, not Mario Party. The graphics aren't too horrible, but the game takes the "Screw optimization, PCs can run anything we throw at it!" route by being nearly as unoptimized as Crysis DX10. Like many games nowadays, it allows you your actions to change the storyline, and like many games, those changes are either too trivial or too black-and-white. You'd be far better off if you skipped TW2 and bought BioWare's Dragon Age 2, a much more polished, cinematic, well-written game with titillating gay and straight romance options (I nearly gigglesquee'd when I first saw Anders) which will remind you of such classics as Baldur's Gate and Dungeon Siege. Buy it. Now. We won't fail you.
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Man, the stuff in my inventory is really starting to pile up. I've got dozens of little monster bits that all have the subtitle "Alchemy ingredient/Crafting component" and I keep worrying that if I sell them all off, they'll turn up in a new crafting recipe somewhere. Maybe that's unlikely, but why else would it have that subtitle?Resist that impulse. Doing that in the first Witcher made it an absolute pain in the ass.
I am still dying over and over and over, and I think that if I hadn't warmed up with playing the shit out of Magicka last month I'd be in "throw shit at the wall" mode.
Cyro, I have to ask you how your games went, because I am desperate to find out the alternative outcomes of some of the choices. Did you import a Witcher 1 save? Speaking of the Witcher 1, I bought that one too and now I finally got the joke about 'doing it witcher and striga style' that the whores are telling over and over.
It would be a bit much for Geralt to personally gutstab what is essentially the grim reaper.