Im about halfway through chapter 1 in the first game, it took some getting use to but im having some fun with it for sure.
The combat is kinda neat once I got the hang of it, and the character leveling looks like its pretty involved which I like.
So far id give the first game a favorable rating
Once I beat it im gonna move on to the 2nd game just because I dont like playing two games in the same series at the same time, so ive def decided to get it.
You can turn off the QTE's.
Once you learn how to play Witcher 2 properly, even playing on hard difficulty is easy.
This game has a horrid combat system. I stopped playing after many, many attempts to kill the first boss (Kayran). Its riddled with bad visual angles, QTEs, and directed/timed actions that ruin the entire first boss experience.
It's probably a good thing you stopped then. From that boss fight on, the game only gets harder. Seriously, the Kayran battle is actually the EASIEST boss battle in the entire game, assuming you know what to do (and it's not hard to figure out, considering the woman, what's-her-name, is YELLING at you to use the YRDEN, then there's a quicktime event, then it's over.) It takes like two minutes tops. Seriously, it's not that hard.
Poor choice of word on my part. DammitI read that as "attracted"
Good news is Geralt is willing to attach himself to just about anything, so you're in luck!
Google for Kayran battle. There are thousands of complaints, tutorials, walkthroughs for that bullshit battle. Your condescension is insulting. Youre no help, but im happy to learn that something i consider difficult is so amazingly simple for you. Congrats on your superior skills and knowledge in life.
Is there an "Adult version" of this game? I hate this US "telling me what I cant buy or not. So I bought TW1 from the UK. LOVE the gritty language. the red-headed dwarf.. the first time I met him. WOW. I thought I was on shore leave with some sailors.
Reading some of the reviews here, glad to see that I was NOT the only one who tried multiple times and could not FINISH TW1. Running everywhere. SO much loot.
Ugh.... Do i need another game? Sure!!!!
TW2 is uncensored here, no special edition needed.
And don't listen to these naysayers. They just get too frustrated to easily, probably because they are playing wrong. The first battles have been tweaked now, but were completable just fine as they were. The first boss battle was frustrating, although they have helped with that, but once you knew what to do it was actually VERY EASY! Christ, you guys whine about games being to easy and consolized these days and then when someone actually develops a PC game with depth and some effort needed you complain even more.
Uh, no, you cant.
Once i learn to play "properly"? I suppose the same could be said for Dragon's Lair, which is the same combat system for boss battles in this game. Oh, by "learn" you mean play the battle scene a million times until i "learn" the split second timing of key strokes? Wait...wait...NOW! I loved Dragon's Lair as a kid because i did not know any better, that was a long time ago.
It's a frustrating piece of ass shit. There's this part at the beginning of chapter 1 where you have to fight a small army of enemies that come at you from all sides, and you have to fight them all in a very small area.
Nothing works.
Every attack the witcher does is followed by a brief period of stun lock in which you can and WILL be chopped up. That's right, your enemies don't even have to do it themselves, YOU stun yourself for them.
You can't be anywhere near an enemy, because you're going to get hit, unless you barrel roll just in time, but you have no choice, since the fighting space is so confined.
Your special attacks , like throwing shit are awkward to use because they have a 1 second + "charge period" (I just like to call it stun lock, because that's what it is) and you have to face directly toward the mob that you have to kill, which doesn't sound out of the ordinary, but, in this game, and especially in confined spaces, you don't aim with your mouse, because you don't have time to slalom around, doing wide turns, or you'll enter they enemy's attack range; You pretty much have to turn using the wasd keys, and that's how you'll aim in situations that warrant split second decisions.
Oh, did I mention AoE attacks also hurt you if you stand in the .. AoE (which you'll have to more often than you'd like)? Yeah, have fun with that.
And good luck trying to actually lock on to the target you want to hit. Especially useful when you're trying to fight unreasonably high numbers of enemies. And by useful, I mean hair-tearing, keyboard-breaking annoying.
Your first attempt at using skills won't do jack, because you're stuck with only one useless skill tree until the stone pixie god decides that you've wasted enough points in abilities that don't change the outcome of anything. The most useful starting skills might seem to be those that increase your blocking abilities, but in a big fight, you'll have more luck with winning the fight by telling bad chuck norris jokes than by actually blocking.
In other words, the combat is completely broken. You might find the game easy at first, but that's just the developers lying to you. In reality, it's unplayable. I see that some posters said the game is good once you get used to it. People, you do realize that's not actually a plus in the game's favor, right? Driving a sports car with your teeth might get good eventually, but you'll also lose your teeth.
I can't believe I spent 50 euros for this garbage.
OP, don't make the same mistake. You want a challenging action RPG? Play Risen instead. It's hard for all the right reasons, not because it's a broken down pile of crap. Or, better yet, play Gothic 1 and Gothic 2.
This. I don't understand how so many people like this game.
Great graphics + great story + great voice acting + shit gameplay = shit game in my book. Gameplay > *
Any action you take in combat locks you in a long animation and you are unable to move or do anything until the animation completes. I HATE that. Combat basically consists of waiting until an enemy breaks away from the group a bit, attack, quickly roll away, and repeat. You can't attack any enemy that is near another because the attack animations are soooo slow that even if you hit him, all the other nearby enemies basically get a free shot on you.
The combat in Oblivion was way better than this.
Challenging combat =/= crappy combat
I finished Risen on the highest dificulty level and loved it (minus the ending). That's what I would call ass kicking challenging combat.
This, on the other hand, is crappy combat.
This. I don't understand how so many people like this game.
Great graphics + great story + great voice acting + shit gameplay = shit game in my book. Gameplay > *
Any action you take in combat locks you in a long animation and you are unable to move or do anything until the animation completes. I HATE that. Combat basically consists of waiting until an enemy breaks away from the group a bit, attack, quickly roll away, and repeat. You can't attack any enemy that is near another because the attack animations are soooo slow that even if you hit him, all the other nearby enemies basically get a free shot on you.
The combat in Oblivion was way better than this.
Oblivion was a dumbed down console game,remember Morrowind where you actually had to use your brain and find stuff with no auto navigation hold you by your hand like in Oblivion,get real will you.
Oblivion combat was simple again, these games are more for exploring and storyline, Oblivion had the shortest storyline of any RPG I had ever played it was a joke in that area.
Yea I will second the crappyness of oblivion AND morrowind character development system and combat. In the end all characters were the same and fights were bleh. I generally prefer wticher story (or understand it better ) than oblivion/morro; but i have to say the ending in witcher 2 was one of the worse - problem with series; worse than books as the wait for the next part is even longer....
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Anyways explorating in those game was ok; but i did not find it all that exciting. Maybe I'm getting dull on these games but it has been a while since I've had a really great 'wow' experience in rpg. Actually while dragon age combat sucked the presentation was fantastic.
The ending in Witcher 2 was sort of left opened,I did play on both sides and to be honest going king side with humans had the better quests/storyline IMHO,ending wise I thought it was ok ,I've seen worst endings in quite a few RPGs.
Witcher 3 should be interesting to see how the story develops and how much they port over from W2 to tidy up those loose endings/storylines.
The ending to Witcher 2 left me wanting more but at the same time satisfied. I hope CDProjekt do what good games use to do is have expasions that play on the continuation of a story, so instead of having to wait for Witcher 3, maybe we'll get a meaty expansion to play. At least that's my hope.