So do you automatically leave Flotsam after you [sp] fight Letho? [/sp] That is where I am right now... I need the troll part to finish the M's Heart quest as well..
[QUOTE=digitalforce;30018775]So do you automatically leave Flotsam after you [sp] fight Letho? [/sp] That is where I am right now... I need the troll part to finish the M's Heart quest as well..[/QUOTE]
[sp]You stay there for just a little bit longer. Not much though.[/sp]
[QUOTE=aydin690;30010828]Go play it again. Remember, 16 different endings.[/QUOTE]
How different are the endings? Just beat it myself, was waiting for a sum-up or something of that nature. [sp]All I got was Triss and Geralt walking away from Letho's corpse. Figured there would be a cinematic at the end or something of that nature. Hell I didn't even get to see some of the characters again, like Ves. Great game, but the ending was a bit abrupt.[/sp]
[QUOTE=DX_V;30020280]How different are the endings? Just beat it myself, was waiting for a sum-up or something of that nature. [sp]All I got was Triss and Geralt walking away from Letho's corpse. Figured there would be a cinematic at the end or something of that nature. Hell I didn't even get to see some of the characters again, like Ves. Great game, but the ending was a bit abrupt.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Yeah. I had the same kind of ending, too, where nothing was really tied together at all. It's really disappointing.
On the plus side it definitely keeps your mouth watering for more.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;30013602]pretty accurate assessment in the comments[/QUOTE]
TBH I listen to their podcast and I don't honestly think he does.
he just has a really skewed idea of what is most important or game breaking in a video game, where most people would consider such things to be either minor annoyances or "would benefit, but not required". If said game doesn't have such things then he marks the game down as if its majorly broken. It's a fair opinion, but his reviews tend to always be alittle skewed because of it - either abnormally high (if it gets all the "textbook" things right in his head that he views as basic needs) or abnormally low (if it doesnt, or the game is in a genre he doesn't really play all that much).
Really I think genre comes down to it the most. I don't think Jim Sterling has ever been known to be a fan of western RPGS - for this genre tends to gravitate towards JRPG's that have good quality to them like Lost Odyssey (he hates FF13 for example). Ironically which has many of the same "issues" that witcher 2 has (and noticably worse), but yet is a JRPG on the console.
Jim is also a console player at heart, but yet happens to be the only person on active duty staff at dtoid who has a PC, so therefore almost all the PC games get reviewed by him. While this normally wouldn't make a difference, it's hit or miss if a PC-focused game works for him. DA:O he prefered on the PC for example, but I doubt he'd like something such as ArmA. Witcher 2 falls in that same boat.
[QUOTE=KorJax;30020591]TBH I listen to their podcast and I don't honestly think he does.
he just has a really skewed idea of what is most important or game breaking in a video game, where most people would consider such things to be either minor annoyances or "would benefit, but not required". If said game doesn't have such things then he marks the game down as if its majorly broken. It's a fair opinion, but his reviews tend to always be alittle skewed because of it - either abnormally high (if it gets all the "textbook" things right in his head that he views as basic needs) or abnormally low (if it doesnt, or the game is in a genre he doesn't really play all that much).
Really I think genre comes down to it the most. I don't think Jim Sterling has ever been known to be a fan of western RPGS - for this genre tends to gravitate towards JRPG's that have good quality to them like Lost Odyssey. Ironically which has many of the same "issues" that witcher 2 has (and noticably worse), but yet is a JRPG on the console.
Jim is also a console player at heart, but yet happens to be the only person on active duty staff who has a PC, so therefore almost all the PC games get reviewed by him. While this normally wouldn't make a difference, it's hit or miss if a PC-focused game works for him. DA:O he prefered on the PC for example, but I doubt he'd like something such as ArmA. Witcher 2 falls in that same boat.[/QUOTE]
who cares about what some high-throned game reveiwer thinks
it's about the customers. a reviewer can call a title garbage and rate it 0/5 while everybody else who has purchased it rates it 5/5 because it's simply the most amazing thing ever and the reviewer just has a biased opinion solely because one or two minor flaws
they're all crooks. they're as bad as politicians and bloggers
name one person who's bought the witcher 2 and doesn't regret their purchase. i bet you won't find any. it's just THAT good.
[editline]24th May 2011[/editline]
if i was a high-throned game reviewer with a valued opinion i would say this:
I hate RPGs. I hated Witcher 1 because it looked and felt like some shitty JRPG knockoff. A guy with white hair and swords? No thanks.
Witcher 2 started looking the same way, too, until suddenly that white-haired guy turned from this ultra gay femboy to, like, the Solid Snake of RPG characters. Huh. Interesting.
Wow, what do you know? I don't have time for games but I end up spending two days off just to get caught up in it? Obviously somebody is doing something right. I don't need some paid reviewer to tell me that a title is shit because of this and that. You know what's shit about Witcher 2? Knowing that at some point it's going to end and you're going to want more.
Jimmy boy can get his group of circle-jerking reviewing buddies and ten year old fanbase to believe what they want. The customers have already spoken.
Game needs some optimization, have it on medium with all special effects disabled and frame rate is terrible in Flotsam..
[QUOTE=Dantai;30020680]Game needs some optimization, have it on medium with all special effects disabled and frame rate is terrible in Flotsam..[/QUOTE]
Tell me about it, I've got everything set as low as it can possibly go, and I still have never gotten over 30 FPS, and then the animated cutscenes stutter like crazy.
I think I'm just going to forget about this game for 6 months until I either get a new grpahics card, upgrade my RAM, or just get a new bloody computer.
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Well I just had an interesting and rather unsettling experience.
So I'm on my second play-through in Flotsam, wanted to see how different decisions might change things, and I'm having a hell of a time finding the last Nekker nest. I decide to take this opportunity to explore the forest as far and wide as it will let me. I stumble across a broken piece of bridge which allows me to cross over a river which I had hitherto though impossible. It was getting pretty dark at this point and I was wary of Scoi'atel but I was too far outside of town and too intrigued by this new area. Oddly enough a group of bandits attacked me, and I dispatched them without incident. Next a constant stream of drowners came, and one Drowned Dead almost got me.
So I lick my wounds and, with great trepidation, continue exploring this eerie swampland I have stumbled across. It is then when I look up and find two people hanging from a tree. I back up a bit out of shock, then check my medallion to see if anything of note is around. Nothing. Deeper into the swamp I found a shack which is serving as the bandits HQ. Again, I put them down. Even got a nice stun kill on the last one. Brimming with curiosity I strode forth to the hideout's front door only to find it locked. I doubled checked the bodies to see if any of them had a key but found nothing.
Disappointed, I began making my way back to the broken bridge. I had forgotten about the hapless elven couple hanging from the tree, but that was promptly remedied. An unearthly scream emanates to my left and I jerk round to see what the fucking hell just ruined my new leather trousers. A wraith, head uncovered, was screaming with eyes of fire staring straight at me. Her name was Liara.
I put myself at a safe distance and cast Yrden and Quen. Nothing doing, she ceased screaming and vanished. I looked around to see if she might appear beside me and find out what my soul tastes like, but she was completely gone. I checked my medallion one last time, then, quite shaken, got the hell out of there.
Anyone know what this was all about? Wasn't able to find anything about it online and I don't know if it was part of a quest or just a random piece of the level to screw with intrepid explorers. I could probably take a few screenshots of the area if you like.
Spoilers for chapter 1
[sp]The Kayran fight is fucking hard, the hell am I to do after it starts throwing shit at me?[/sp]
[QUOTE=Adius Shadow;30022359]Spoilers for chapter 1
[sp]The Kayran fight is fucking hard, the hell am I to do after it starts throwing shit at me?[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]Run to the pillar that fell on it. You can run up there and it stops throwing rocks at you.[/sp]
Game is so beautiful, looks even better in motion
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chapter 2 q:
[sp]I've found "catacombs key" on the body of dead dwarf in the tunnels. Says it opens a secret passage in the catacombs but I can't find it. Where is it? I have a suspicion it opens locked stone gate not far from kaedweni camp though... [/sp]
Is this game capped at 20 Frames per second or something... No matter what settings I use, and whether I have a shit load of stuff on screen or just the sky, the framerate sits at the same low ass framerate. Even without Vsync
[QUOTE=TheTalon;30022681]Is this game capped at 20 Frames per second or something... No matter what settings I use, and whether I have a shit load of stuff on screen or just the sky, the framerate sits at the same low ass framerate. Even without Vsync[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a CPU bottleneck.
[QUOTE=KorJax;30013436]After dusk aka at night time. Not when the game says its dusk
[editline]23rd May 2011[/editline]
Not really, Jim just has REALLY wierd things he finds as gamebreakers to him. Often really great unnotticed titles will get a good score from him, but I find jim is way to harsh with judging small design errors, such as a lack of a good tutorial. Since this game does all the things wrong that Jim Sterling always hates in video games, other great points such as great visual fidelity, solid combat and gameplay overall are rated as less importance by him.
Which makes it so often his reviews either hit the mark in a way that no other reviewer dared to try, or completely miss the point that everyone else caught onto. If you notice he says he thought the game itself was good. But he gets really attached to negative things like cliffhanger endings, odd difficulty curve, lack of clear explanation of a few things, etc which most people would find to be minor annoyances, so games that oversight such things tend to get really oddly scored by him.[/QUOTE]
Somewhat true enough, I do have to thank him for getting me to try Deadly Premonition, Two Worlds II, Enslaved and other stuff which I found surprisingly fun and worthwhile. Though most of the time his criticalness to minor stuff tends to drag on his reviews, resulting in me not taking him seriously most of the time. Though whenever I read any of his reviews I always take it with a grain of salt, taking account to his way of scoring, so a 5 from him is probably gonna turn out decent a game when I try it myself.
Though I was actually expecting him to score it at least a 7 or 8 due to how he praises the game's visuals, details and stuff. But yeah his criticalness and shizz puts me off a lot.
I think ending is always on same place and there are only 2 main paths to choose from, that's it, not 16 completely different endings and turns of story.
Anyone knows a way to disable the annoying widescreen bars?
For those with 20-30 FPS on lowest settings, what GPU are you running? I have a super high end laptop with an i5 processor and 8 gig of RAM, but the ATI 5650 in the laptop has old drivers and won't even go over 15 FPS in Witcher 2 with lowest settings. It runs almost every other game ok but not this one.
Stupid question for TW1:
Order of the Burning Rose (or however they're called in English) or Scoia'tael? Impact on the sequel when importing a safe is also important for me.
[QUOTE=digitalforce;30025009]For those with 20-30 FPS on lowest settings, what GPU are you running? I have a super high end laptop with an i5 processor and 8 gig of RAM, but the ATI 5650 in the laptop has old drivers and won't even go over 15 FPS in Witcher 2 with lowest settings. It runs almost every other game ok but not this one.[/QUOTE]
I have 5650 as well, I get average 25 fps on High-Med with 1366x768 res
HD 5750 is performing surprisingly well at MyPc, constant 30 fps at all high(except ubersampling)
[QUOTE=digitalforce;30025009]I have a super high end laptop with an i5 processor and 8 gig of RAM, but the ATI 5650 in the laptop has old drivers and won't even go over 15 FPS in Witcher 2 with lowest settings[/QUOTE]
'super high end laptop'
'ATI 5650'
lol
spoiler, it's not the drivers, it's you being fooled into thinking the 5650 is meant for gaming
[editline]24th May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=proton_woman26;30025057]Stupid question for TW1:
Order of the Burning Rose (or however they're called in English) or Scoia'tael? Impact on the sequel when importing a safe is also important for me.[/QUOTE]
order of the burning rose are douchebags, pick scoia'tel, though I don't think it has much bearing on the second game
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;30025263]'super high end laptop'
'ATI 5650'
lol
spoiler, it's not the drivers, it's you being fooled into thinking the 5650 is meant for gaming[/QUOTE]
We don't have 1920x1080 res on 15,6 screen so it's pretty cool for gaming. Also it overclocks great while staying under 75C
An i5 with 8 gig of RAM and a 5650 is pretty nice for a laptop rig. It runs every game except for Witcher 2 fine... But it must be a driver issue because I have the Intel/ATI dual GPU and the drivers are only available through HP.com and they are from December. Either way, no matter what settings i change, I only get 10-15 fps. Suxx0rs.
On my gaming rig, an i5 2500k with a GTX 570, everything runs at 50-60fps on all maxed out except Ubersampling.
WAIT TILL HE DROPS HIS FUCKIN GUARD
I hate how blocking requires vigor
[QUOTE=Diet Kane;30025664]I hate how blocking requires vigor[/QUOTE]
Yeah doesn't make sense to me, especially since rolling does not require vigor. Makes combat unncessicarily hard.
I understand they don't want you to be able to block 24/7, but there has to be a better way to do it then to make it so it uses vigor.
If they do that, and make it so quen is less OP that would balance out a lot of the difficulty curve the game has. Makes it so early game fights are more manageable slightly, and maybe makes it so quen isn't so OP that if you use it, you'll never die.
IMO quen should just reduce damage by half, with a critical chance of negating all damage to an attack (which it would do an effect for). Mix this in with a better blocking mechanic and it won't be so crazy.
A little elf was skipping down the path.. PLOUGH EM ALL PLOUGH EM ALL.. Along came a dwarf and kicked him in the arse.. PLOUGH EM ALL PLOUGH EM ALL.. Oh you are fucked, dirty rotten scum.. PLOUGH EM ALL
PLOUGH EM ALL.. DO THAT AGAIN, AND I'LL FUCK YA MUM.. PLOUGH EM ALL PLOUGH EM ALL
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