Does The Witcher get better?

I played about two hours of it and I think it's kind of mediocre. Does it get better?

Also, I think I'm going to spend years of my life bashing this franchise and annoying people because I didn't like two hours.

Just kidding :P, , haha.

So, does it?

Yes it gets better. Give it awhile.

It gets better after ten hours and a dumb boss fight. Have fun running in circles in the first area.

Bored, are you?

Bored, are you?

SkyWard20

Yes, it gets much better. Sadly, The Witcher 2 just got worse, and worse. millerlight89

It does get a LOT better. By the way, some of the UI and alchemy stuff is a bit wonky, and the textures are a bit dated by now, so if you head down to http://www.moddb.com/games/the-witcherthere are a few fixes that make the game more enjoyable. The texture mods in particular make everything stand out extremely well and give it a more modern look, if your PC can handle it. Aside from that there are a few revamps and an Alchemy mod that is quite good.

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Bored, are you?

GeneralShowzer

It does get a LOT better. By the way, some of the UI and alchemy stuff is a bit wonky, and the textures are a bit dated by now, so if you head down to http://www.moddb.com/games/the-witcherthere are a few fixes that make the game more enjoyable. The texture mods in particular make everything stand out extremely well and give it a more modern look, if your PC can handle it.

jobano

Of course my PC can handle it. I'm rich, after all. I've spent 1500$ on my PC though, only to go back to my PS3 and Marvel vs. Capcom to play it casually.

[QUOTE="jobano"]

It does get a LOT better. By the way, some of the UI and alchemy stuff is a bit wonky, and the textures are a bit dated by now, so if you head down to http://www.moddb.com/games/the-witcherthere are a few fixes that make the game more enjoyable. The texture mods in particular make everything stand out extremely well and give it a more modern look, if your PC can handle it.

SkyWard20

Of course my PC can handle it. I'm rich, after all. I've spent 1500$ on my PC though, only to go back to my PS3 and Marvel vs. Capcom to play it casually.

Yes, it gets much better. Sadly, The Witcher 2 just got worse, and worse. millerlight89

This, witcher 2 was so fun at first, then it just went down hill.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

[QUOTE="jobano"]

It does get a LOT better. By the way, some of the UI and alchemy stuff is a bit wonky, and the textures are a bit dated by now, so if you head down to http://www.moddb.com/games/the-witcherthere are a few fixes that make the game more enjoyable. The texture mods in particular make everything stand out extremely well and give it a more modern look, if your PC can handle it.

GeneralShowzer

Of course my PC can handle it. I'm rich, after all. I've spent 1500$ on my PC though, only to go back to my PS3 and Marvel vs. Capcom to play it casually.

The tutorial and first section is god awful. But after you enter the main city it picks up from there.

[QUOTE="jobano"]

It does get a LOT better. By the way, some of the UI and alchemy stuff is a bit wonky, and the textures are a bit dated by now, so if you head down to http://www.moddb.com/games/the-witcherthere are a few fixes that make the game more enjoyable. The texture mods in particular make everything stand out extremely well and give it a more modern look, if your PC can handle it.

SkyWard20

Of course my PC can handle it. I'm rich, after all. I've spent 1500$ on my PC though, only to go back to my PS3 and Marvel vs. Capcom to play it casually.

Sweet, I also have a good rig. We should get together sometime on my yacht, put our machines together, and start our own space program. BTW I found the gameplay in Witcher to be not-so-phenomenal but the game is a lot of fun nonetheless, and it sucks you in after a point. I always play games on the hardest difficulty to start but on my third or fourth witcher playthrough I found it was actually a lot more fun andless painful just setting it to Easy and blasting through for the lulz. Alchemy and combat are the worst parts of Witcher 1 (even though its somehow still a good game) so get rid of that crap and you're left with something that'll take as long as it should, and not excessively padded with flowercollection and clickathoning. My advice is to blast through it, keep your save file, and hop over to Witcher 2. There are some neat things it does carry over even though its not as well done as some other games.

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Of course my PC can handle it. I'm rich, after all. I've spent 1500$ on my PC though, only to go back to my PS3 and Marvel vs. Capcom to play it casually.

SkyWard20

I'm not a minor myself 18 years old and guaranteed government sponsorship for college...Bright future ahead.

That working out for you?

But for the meantime I'm just going to judge everyone that have a better PC than me, while I die out of jealosy :P

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]Yes, it gets much better. Sadly, The Witcher 2 just got worse, and worse. GeneralShowzer

[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"][QUOTE="millerlight89"]Yes, it gets much better. Sadly, The Witcher 2 just got worse, and worse. millerlight89

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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"] Aw common, the graphics are better and the combat is better. Why would you say that.Brean24

[QUOTE="Brean24"][QUOTE="millerlight89"] Easy, the game got worse and worse as it went on. Pathetic number of side quests, then let's not forget act 3. What a pile of **** that was. Never in my life have a I seen so much lameness thrown in at the last minute. Act 3 is super boring, short as hell, terrible boss fight, and one god awful ending. I truly have no idea what they were thinking, other than **** this Act, let's finish the game and make monies." Highly disappointed in that game. I had to replay the first to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

millerlight89

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[QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"] Aw common, the graphics are better and the combat is better. Why would you say that.Brean24

The bossfight was optional. It wasn't tacked on because you have a strong reason to fight the guy or leave him alone. He caused you no end of grief and killing him is arguably for the better good and falls in line with Roche's path. If you spare him it shows you don't care about that sort of thing and just wanted to clear your name and get answers which falls in line with the Elfs path.

The biggest flaw that the game has is the 'middle of a trilogy syndrome'. Now I don't know how many Witcher games there will be but they are setting up for something.

The first game established the world and focused strongly on the characters that you can relate to throughout with some details on the problems in the world. The second one ditched the character heavy approach and went for something more epic feeling. It payed off because we see more of the world and get a sense of the bigger problems. The issue here is that the characters were well developed but they felt less important then the mechanical workings of the world that CD Projekt wanted to show us.

The sequel will probably be a more personal story focusing on Geralt, Trish, and Yennefer. Sure Nilfgaard will play a part but I don't think the next game will have the epic scale that this one does. The setting up is done and they can spend the entire next game focusing on the characters and plotlines like the Wild Hunt.

I played about two hours of it and I think it's kind of mediocre. Does it get better?

Also, I think I'm going to spend years of my life bashing this franchise and annoying people because I didn't like two hours.

Just kidding :P, , haha.

So, does it?

GeneralShowzer

hello yea, this is my forth playthrough

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]Yes, it gets much better. Sadly, The Witcher 2 just got worse, and worse. James161324

This, witcher 2 was so fun at first, then it just went down hill.

Yeah I'm bored with the game, never found the graphics to be that impressive (only when FOV is in the scene) and thought the combat is extremely broken, also hate how things arnt explained, be nice to have you spells in English so I actually know what they do. I had fun playing but its not the masterpeice everyone says it is.

I'm of a similar opinion as others in this thread. I felt TW1 got better as the story progressed. TW2 starts off with a bang, but becomes less interesting as the game progresses. The first and second chapters are really good, but the third just seems to taper off into crap.

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]Yes, it gets much better. Sadly, The Witcher 2 just got worse, and worse. James161324

This, witcher 2 was so fun at first, then it just went down hill.

Yup. Heck, even starting out, TW2's is already worse due to its crap console based design.

Far as TW1, it starts out slow and kind of dull. But the story picks up and when you start getting some abilities gameplay becomes great fun.

[QUOTE="Brean24"][QUOTE="millerlight89"] Easy, the game got worse and worse as it went on. Pathetic number of side quests, then let's not forget act 3. What a pile of **** that was. Never in my life have a I seen so much lameness thrown in at the last minute. Act 3 is super boring, short as hell, terrible boss fight, and one god awful ending. I truly have no idea what they were thinking, other than **** this Act, let's finish the game and make monies." Highly disappointed in that game. I had to replay the first to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

millerlight89

Would of it been better if they called it episode one? Personally, I liked that they released us some thing rather than have us wait a few more years.

As for which game I prefer, I'm on the other side maybe because I need good gameplay in my games. The Witcher 1 gameplay was a mindless and boring click fest. The Witcher 2 gameplay is far from perfect but, it's leaps and bounds better than the first game.

I didn't like the Witcher 1 so to the TC the game doesn't get better. I found it got more boring the longer I played and I went as far as chaper 3 after 3 different tries.

The Witcher 2 on the other hand I had no problem finishing it about 2 weeks. Love every minute of it and didn't mind the ending. I also probably the one of the few that liked chapter 3 because it had the hardest boss in the game who I whooped. I liked the challenge from that boss though he was also quite cheap.

So to the TC I would say give the Witcher a few more hours but, if you're like me and need better gameplay go for the Witcher 2. Better graphics, better game play, and better story.

Edit: gamespot for some reason always ignores my spaces

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]Yes, it gets much better. Sadly, The Witcher 2 just got worse, and worse. GeneralShowzer

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"][QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"] Must be nice owning a nice PC and multiple platforms and not being stuck on an old 8800 GT like me :( Really need to get a job one of these days instead of watching anime, haha :P.GeneralShowzer

I'm not a minor myself 18 years old and guaranteed government sponsorship for college...Bright future ahead.

That working out for you?

But for the meantime I'm just going to judge everyone that have a better PC than me, while I die out of jealosy :P

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'M 15 AND PC WILL BE BETTER THEN YOURS CRY CRY!!!

hehe just kidding..... sorta

[QUOTE="Brean24"][QUOTE="millerlight89"] Easy, the game got worse and worse as it went on. Pathetic number of side quests, then let's not forget act 3. What a pile of **** that was. Never in my life have a I seen so much lameness thrown in at the last minute. Act 3 is super boring, short as hell, terrible boss fight, and one god awful ending. I truly have no idea what they were thinking, other than **** this Act, let's finish the game and make monies." Highly disappointed in that game. I had to replay the first to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

millerlight89

Don't see what was wrong with the ending. This game is obviously the "empire strikes back" of a 3 part storyline.

For me, the first two acts were nearly unbearable. The last acts make up for it, but it's a 7.5 game for me. There's way too many things I didn't like for it to make up for.

And while I thought the choices in the game were pretty good, I didn't really care too much about the characters. There's very little character involvement compared to some other games.

So now the game is bad? But I thought us pc gamers liked everything that isn't consoles. Now comes witcher 2, and it's not good enough. :(

So now the game is bad? But I thought us pc gamers liked everything that isn't consoles. Now comes witcher 2, and it's not good enough. :(

TailBlood

The third and fourth chapters are by far my favourite parts of The Witcher.

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So now the game is bad? But I thought us pc gamers liked everything that isn't consoles. Now comes witcher 2, and it's not good enough. :(

topsemag55

Also. All games have flaws. But I've been hearing from witcher 2 "Game was awful, game sucks". 2 different things.

[QUOTE="topsemag55"][QUOTE="TailBlood"]

So now the game is bad? But I thought us pc gamers liked everything that isn't consoles. Now comes witcher 2, and it's not good enough. :(

TailBlood

Also. All games have flaws. But I've been hearing from witcher 2 "Game was awful, game sucks". 2 different things.

the witcher 2 was so fun at first, but I am noticing that a lot of you guys also think it begans to lose its fun factor. Does the game pick up at all? I just got out of the first town after the prologue, at the military camp now. Is it worth playing if I have lost my ability to want to come back and play this early?

I tried to get into it, but idk wtf is going on. I don't understand the story, and I don't want to play the first game. I read up the wikipedia and it fogged everything up even more. hahaclyde2525