You know you've played Witcher too much when you read 'Social" on AT Forum as "Scoia'tael" D:
Also, I was disappointed that Geralt didn't "plough" Saskia
On a side note i'm having issues in chapter 2 where map markers and quest locations are in the wrong locations on the mini-map and some other odd stuff like doors not opening. Reload resolves some of this stuff, but never everything at once.
I dunno, I thought 1/2/3/4 worked well for signs in the first game. I also didn't like how you had to meditate to drink potion since I sometimes get pulled into cutscene then to boss fight and die without getting a chance to sit and drink potion. But overall, its pretty minor complains.
Witcher 2 is what DA2 tried to accomplish but failed utterly.
There was a quest I need to talk to Zyvik to complete. He was incorrectly marked on the map, and he literally disappeared. Meditating did not work. Instead of reloading I just continued on with other quests. Fortunately after I traveled to Vergen thru the fog for the curse quest and came back, he reappeared. Other than that I didn't encounter any quest bug.
btw I just finished my first play through, I can't wait to play TW3. At least ME3 should be coming soon...
TW2 gives you a list of your save files from TW1.
i actually thought the meditation to drink potions made a little more sense. as in, you have to carefully think about what combinations of potions you want to get the effects you want and prepare for battle.
sometimes switching enemies is a downright PITA during battle though. that's probably my biggest complaint.
just bought this game (from B&M). was told if i like bioware rpg's that i'd be dumb not to get it. read a couple reviews and agreed. did not play the first game.
that said- i don't want to have to explore forums, faqs, lore, et al just to be able to play the game, and i don't want to have to fuck with patches and workarounds just to make it work properly.
should i just shelve this until it gets patched up a little better? besides that, any tips to keep a new player from throwing what's probably a really good game right out the window?
was going to start a thread when i saw this enormous one. have not been keeping up with PC gaming...gonna go start reading the rest of this behemoth now to see if i can learn anything useful. anyone who wants to give cliff's would be awesome.
hell, i'm still running the install program- have not played the game yet.
performance, if an issue, should not be hard to manage. i'm just reading more generalized articles about the game and hearing general chatter, and i just hear too much about game-breaking bugs and patching issues.
when a game i was really looking forward to doesn't work right, usually, it turns out, if i had been delving deep into the community i would have heard about these issues. when this happens to me, i usually completely abandon a game and never return to it- see empire: total war. i don't think they ever did fix that game. usually this blacklists a company for me- CA only won me back by releasing shogun2 and saying 'see?! we can totally go back to being awesome!'
does that make sense? seems like in my previous post i may have inadvertantly said the game was crap while all i meant to say, sadly, was 'gee, i hope this is enough of an unbroken, complete, finished game to be worth playing.' unfortunately, we've been conditioned to believe that that's too much to ask for from most modern PC games.
I finished the game without encountering any game breaking bugs even before it got patched. Easily one of my all time favorite RPGs.
However, I played through and beat the first Witcher, I have a monster pc. So that made my experience much more complete.
It helps to know the background, because the complexity of the plot, character development would leave you a little clueless if you have no idea whats going on. There are bugs in this game, but none of them that degraded my experience. Quite of few of them are patched in the new release.
Arrrrrgh, I'm CTDing frequently now, usually when quicksaving or at a transition. Anyone else?
derp...first issue...
dll file not found when attempting to launch game. faq says run ms c++ redistributable on disc...i am amazed by the easy solution. however, it errors me for 'windows installer' not being accessable...grrr.
going to return to this later when i actually feel like troubleshooting it.
Know if it's possible to plough Sile? Thought I had a chance at seeing those titties in Chapter 1, but i've lost any clue now that i'm chaper 2.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3443-The-Witcher-2-Assassins-of-Kings
He didn't get very far, not even past the Kayran. Kinda sad.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/3443-The-Witcher-2-Assassins-of-Kings
He didn't get very far, not even past the Kayran. Kinda sad.
I don't know, that "review" tells me that he can't really appreciate any games that really requires tactics/brain usage.
I actually have very little respect for Yahtzee anymore because he's extremely uncoordinated in most games, and rather than recognizing how bad he is, he blames it on the game itself. Also, whenever he reviews a PC game he installs it on his shitty laptop and then complains about it running too slow. He's apparently de-evolved into a casual gamer now.