Comments on: The Witcher 2: Some Questions Answered

By: stormbringer951

stormbringer951 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:31:59 +0000

@ Lukasz: I’m a big fan of the game, but the sex cards did strike me as very crude. Also, the contact is repitition incarnate, but I wasn’t too bothered about that. You are right that the Polish EE acting is brilliant though. I recommend that to Stick most definitely.

By: Lukasz

Lukasz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:32:23 +0000

@BlazerKnight.

you played the original version right? Play the EE with polish voice acting and subtitles. because dialogues are far from bland and uninteresting. one of the better one in video game, topping kotor2, BG1 and fallouts (one and two. not a challenge with number 3)
and you do not to sleep with anyone in the game so if you don’t like sex cards don’t have them. what is the big of a deal. it is jut an option.

By: Alex Norris

Alex Norris — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:23:11 +0000

I made the horrible mistake of taking a break after playing through the rather arduous acts I and II, so I went and played something else once I’d done Triss’ magical sonar quest.

Problem being I did something else for about six months. Every time I load my save, I stare dumbly at my journal and alchemy list thinking “I should really restart” before remembering how much of a chore the first two acts were. I still love the game to bits, but they could definitely have cut off a little content in places – it felt like MMO-level of using the same location sometimes.

By: BlazerKnight

BlazerKnight — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:51:50 +0000

Warning Dissenting opinion ahead! Get ready your pitchforks and torches!
I like RPGs. I heard The Witcher was good. So I bought it. Could not get into it at all – first, an opening cutscene with some kickass action, but seemed to go on too long. Then, some shoddy performance issues. I had to turn all the graphics settings down. Then the gameplay itself. The combat felt like the mind-numbing grinding of MMORPGs, except that you have to click for each repetitive slash. What happened to the awesomeness of the opening cutscene? The interface had an overwhelming amount of menus and little help was offered to navigate them. The collectible sex cards – ugh. The bland dialogue and uninteresting, unengaging characters.
Overall, I couldn’t see anything worth slogging through for. Died in a cave to some ghouls and haven’t started up the game since.

By: Stick

Stick — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:29:15 +0000

Blatantly ignorant blurting:

Publisher schmublisher, “just” chuck it on Steam and Stardock’s wotchamacallit, Impulse.

Who needs boxes? Etcetera.

(Now for someone to explain to me why it isn’t this simple. :)

By: Griffin

Griffin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:16:45 +0000

The Witcher is hard to get into a first. But after awhile it really grows on you. this is my third attempt at finishing the game and i am definatly going to do it this time. The previos attempts i stopped at the second chapter. you have to give the game awhile before it gets good. Im in murky waters at the minute

By: ZeeKat

ZeeKat — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:33:04 +0000

Appreciating The Witcher took me a while, but the more I play, the more I love it (even voice acting stopped to annoy me – some dialogues are pure gold). Amazing they’re making the sequel.

By: Pemptus

Pemptus — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:04:35 +0000

It sort of resembles the old Polish comic book look: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/witcher/images//thumb/7/75/Komiks_Geralt_okladka.jpg/250px-Komiks_Geralt_okladka.jpg

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:36:03 +0000

Hair+Face=dead

By: Lintman

Lintman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:06:36 +0000

I’m looking forward to Witcher 2. The Witcher EE was great, but I’m wondering if 2 is going to need as much post-release work and improvement as The Witcher did, to get to that state.

By: Blast Hardcheese

Blast Hardcheese — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:35:41 +0000

Yes but…

Is it the witchiest?

By: Sonic Goo

Sonic Goo — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:25:35 +0000

Maybe they’re just holding out, creating some hype to get a better deal?