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RedSwirl said:
You're completely insane. The Witcher is more detailed and better looking than a lot of stuff released in recent years.
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The Witcher 2 - April High Quality New Screens, Boxart and Sex pic
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You're completely insane. The Witcher is more detailed and better looking than a lot of stuff released in recent years.
Giriath_89
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Exuro said:
I thought that was a man with flowers on his head gazing "adoringly" at a sleeping Geralt.
Minsc
Gold Member
No more stuck getting a censored The Witcher 2, as GOG is letting you change your location settings on the fly, and no longer tracking you by Geo-IP, so you can get whatever deals you want just by selecting the region you want to purchase from. Pretty sweet if you were worried about a censored TW2 I guess, just set yourself to the region with the best deal/price that is uncensored.
Minsc
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Salaadin said:
Yup, timing seems very intentional too. So now AUS gamers have four choices, import retail (if that sort of thing flies there), get it gifted from another region on Steam, buy from GOG under another region, or just use a hacked/fixed version when one is available.
Or just ignore the tiny little change altogether, which doesn't even effect the game, and go about business like usual.
Minsc said:
That´s fucking awesome of them. I use "fuck" to emphasize how fucking awesome that is.
I wish Steam would do that, but they´re too busy laughing all the way to the next treasure vault when the old one is full. Still angry that I couldn´t buy the new AvP game AT ALL when it was super cheap.
Complistic
Member
After the complete and utter letdown Dragon Age 2 was for me, I can not wait to play a great new RPG again.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Hahaha the narrator, oh god.Sn4ke_911 said:
This helps in explaining their 8 million dollar budget, they aren't wasting money on voice actors for trailers. (not that they should).
The effects (fog and the day/night transition and the light in the forest) look out of this world.
Some of the indoor stuff is a mixed bag though.
Gram Negative Cocci
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Kyaw said:Woop new Ripten uncompressed (minimal compression) shots:
The textures in this game are in-fucking-credible.
Complistic
Member
SneakyStephan said:
That'd be Thomas Gop, he's the project lead I think.
Castor Krieg
Banned
SneakyStephan said:
A bit of a Polish accent, but other than that it's perfectly fine (I'm Polish). Let's see how you try to speak a foreign language.
SneakyStephan
Banned
Probably a lot like him (I'm not English, I have an accent too, a Belgian one even which is just as bad as a Polish one).Castor Krieg said:
I'm not ripping on them for using him as a narrator, it would be a useless waste of money to hire a professional one.
It's not really his accent either, it's the way he talks , like he got some lessons in how to speak for an audience and is clumsy about it, it sounds forced.
edit: and in general I prefer to hear someone involved in a game's development talk about it, rather than some outsider reading some PR bullshit.
Complistic
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WEGGLES said:
Try playing it again. I played the first game for a couple hours, lost interest, then came back to it like a month later and absolutely loved it.
Gully State
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In general I believe that playing certain game isn't absolutely necessary to get into its sequel (I played KOTOR2 before KOTOR/Played MGS4 without ever having touched MGS3 or 2). I will say though that you're missing out by not playing the Witcher not b/c of the Witcher 2 but rather that the original is a slow burn of a game that really pays off in spades as a memorable experience..
Castor Krieg
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SneakyStephan said:
From the sound of it they simply translated what they wanted to say in Polish word-by-word, at least that's what it sounds like to me.
WEGGLES said:
Someone posted infinite HP/Energy hack, use that and just enjoy the story.
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Deleted member 17706
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Definitely finish the first one if you can. I bought it back in 2008, and restarted multiple times over the years. I always tended to lose interest in the swamp area, or somewhere in Chapter 3. Most people seem to hate the tutorial area and the outskirts of Vizima, but I actually enjoyed those parts. It was most of the stuff inside Vizima, and especially in the swamp area, that I didn't really enjoy.
I finally picked the game back up last week and was determined to beat it before TW2 was released. I loaded up my last save from a year ago where I left off near the end of the swamp area and ended up finishing the game on Saturday. I think the game really picks up near the end of chapter 3. Chapters 4, 5, and the epilogue are particularly excellent.
There are a couple of twists near the end that kind of make me want to go back and replay the game, but make different choices. In fact, I really wonder how the game plays out if you side with the Order of the Flaming Rose instead of the Scoia'tael.
I finally picked the game back up last week and was determined to beat it before TW2 was released. I loaded up my last save from a year ago where I left off near the end of the swamp area and ended up finishing the game on Saturday. I think the game really picks up near the end of chapter 3. Chapters 4, 5, and the epilogue are particularly excellent.
There are a couple of twists near the end that kind of make me want to go back and replay the game, but make different choices. In fact, I really wonder how the game plays out if you side with the Order of the Flaming Rose instead of the Scoia'tael.
I'll give it another shot.Complistic said:
Some how with work a happy accident occurred that I ended up with 6 days off in a row. I'll give it another go then.
Should I start all the way over, or continue where I left off? I vaguely remember clearing out some sort of castle and needing a plant for someone I think? Steams says I've only played 61 mins of it.
Gully State
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Zefah said:
Don't forget there's a neutral side as well...
Gully State
Member
WEGGLES said:
Just keep going from that point. You're still in the prologue/tutorial.
Castor Krieg
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Zefah said:
Spoiler if you want:
You got to fight Scoia'tael in Vizima in Chapter 5 obviously, get to kill Yeavinn as well. Person running with you through chapter 5 is Siegfried, who then becomes the Grand Master.
The ending talks about how the former Grand Master was portrayed as a hero, and pogroms of non-humans occured.
The ending talks about how the former Grand Master was portrayed as a hero, and pogroms of non-humans occured.
GoncaloCCastro
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WEGGLES said:
In my opinion the first part of the game is somewhat slow starting. There's a lot of backtracking and somewhat boring fetch quests, but after that it picks up. Also there are a lot of secondary quests which can be time consuming, if you feel bored doing those just do the main quests, when I reached Chapter 5 I was fed up with side quests and only did the main ones.
loganclaws
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purg3 said:
You should get an SSD, W2 streams the environments so an SSD would greatly reduce load stutter.
Flying_Phoenix
Banned
If you don't like load times then a SSD is a must.
brotkasten
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TW2 is only 8GB?Salaadin said:
SneakyStephan
Banned
Sure seems like it, the game files are already floating around at the usual places and are 8GB there.brotkasten said:
Well is that when it's installed or just the download files? Who knows how much compression they did for downloading.SneakyStephan said:
Edit: It did say that in the requirements I would assume that it is after installation. That sounds way to low with the texture resolutions we've seen.
Complistic
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Horsebite said:
They put it on hold so they could focus on the PC. I think they intend to port a version eventually.
nelsonroyale
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Zefah said:
Technically, I don't think it is...hell, the original Dragon Age is built on much better tech
â Narayan
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I don't think he's talking about technical details. As far as textures go, The Witcher is an extremely detailed and varied game. I think it's better looking than Dragon Age. It certainly isn't more technically sound than DA, however.nelsonroyale said:
Complistic
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What on earth do you mean by that?
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Deleted member 17706
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How is it even technically inferior to Dragon Age?
The Witcher uses lots of shaders (reflective and interactive water, bump mapping, environment mapping, etc.), as well as light maps, dynamic shadows, blur effects, etc...
You also have real time day and night cycles, where the lighting and shadows adapt realistically, as well as dynamic weather effects.
Obviously the art direction and texture detail is impressive in The Witcher, but that's not all that go to make it a good looking game. It's no slouch in the technical department, either.
Really, what is it missing? Does it need SSAO, sun shafts, and tessellation for you to consider it a "technically good looking" game?
The Witcher uses lots of shaders (reflective and interactive water, bump mapping, environment mapping, etc.), as well as light maps, dynamic shadows, blur effects, etc...
You also have real time day and night cycles, where the lighting and shadows adapt realistically, as well as dynamic weather effects.
Obviously the art direction and texture detail is impressive in The Witcher, but that's not all that go to make it a good looking game. It's no slouch in the technical department, either.
nelsonroyale said:
Really, what is it missing? Does it need SSAO, sun shafts, and tessellation for you to consider it a "technically good looking" game?