Is the gameplay better in Witcher 2?

Just finished Witcher 1 this afternoon and it was a really good game. I can see why people on this forum always spoke highly of it. At this point I am considering going for the sequel right away but had some questions for how they improved the gameplay or if it is the same.

Specifically, I thought the traveling was extremely tedious in Witcher 1. My left hand got so damn sore from constantly holding down the W key during several hour play sessions. Have the improved this? Also, the combat system was OK in Witcher 1, but i didnt think it was very interesting. How is the combat different or is it the same? I guess another very minor concern is the whole loot issue. I found that 90% of the loot I picked up in the game was completely useless and ended up being a big waste of time.

Just finished Witcher 1 this afternoon and it was a really good game. I can see why people on this forum always spoke highly of it. At this point I am considering going for the sequel right away but had some questions for how they improved the gameplay or if it is the same.

Specifically, I thought the traveling was extremely tedious in Witcher 1. My left hand got so damn sore from constantly holding down the W key during several hour play sessions. Have the improved this? Also, the combat system was OK in Witcher 1, but i didnt think it was very interesting. How is the combat different or is it the same? I guess another very minor concern is the whole loot issue. I found that 90% of the loot I picked up in the game was completely useless and ended up being a big waste of time.

mkaliaz

Witcher 2 points :

1-no more tedious backtracking and pointless walking around. Fun to explore the environs

2-Much much much better loot. You can find weapons (that actually work now), armor, daggers, diagrams to craft weapons e.t.c

3-combat is much better, but it requires some practice to get the hang of it. YOU MUST USE EVERY ITEM/POWERS AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO WIN FIGHTS

4-meaningful side quests

5-DAT GRAPHICS!

6-DAT TRISS

7-WIN

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Just finished Witcher 1 this afternoon and it was a really good game. I can see why people on this forum always spoke highly of it. At this point I am considering going for the sequel right away but had some questions for how they improved the gameplay or if it is the same.

Specifically, I thought the traveling was extremely tedious in Witcher 1. My left hand got so damn sore from constantly holding down the W key during several hour play sessions. Have the improved this? Also, the combat system was OK in Witcher 1, but i didnt think it was very interesting. How is the combat different or is it the same? I guess another very minor concern is the whole loot issue. I found that 90% of the loot I picked up in the game was completely useless and ended up being a big waste of time.

malebog123

Witcher 2 points :

1-no more tedious backtracking and pointless walking around. Fun to explore the environs

2-Much much much better loot. You can find weapons (that actually work now), armor, daggers, diagrams to craft weapons e.t.c

3-combat is much better, but it requires some practice to get the hang of it. YOU MUST USE EVERY ITEM/POWERS AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO WIN FIGHTS

4-meaningful side quests

5-DAT GRAPHICS!

6-DAT TRISS

7-WIN

^^ u make me QQ with pride lolz nicely said

Cheers guys. I think i will pick this up soon.

Most of the travel in Witcher 1 was OK, but i really got sick of it in Chapter 4 in particular because there was about 4-5 zones (with some sub-zones) and no way to get anywhere in them except on foot. One thing i really did like though was it always felt like there was about 4-5 things i needed to do, which kept me playing for hours on end. I found myself really enjoying the dialogue a lot in the game too and that kept it interesting. All told I played about 50 hours in less than one week.....pretty addicting game.

There's endless walking around and tedious backtracking because the quests are often very vague and objectives are obscure. Destroy the nekker nests and then you have to find them all yourself...in a forest. All the navigation tools aren't very helpful either. As mentioned the combat is more like a real time third person action game. This might have been addressed but when I played the game the combat was broken because of the unbalanced difficulty settings.

There's endless walking around and tedious backtracking because the quests are often very vague and objectives are obscure. Destroy the nekker nests and then you have to find them all yourself...in a forest. All the navigation tools aren't very helpful either. As mentioned the combat is more like a real time third person action game. This might have been addressed but when I played the game the combat was broken because of the unbalanced difficulty settings.

biggest_loser

navigation would have been alot easier if there was a NORTH arrow on the compass...

It's a piece of trash IMO. I can sort of understand why the combat is bollocks, but there are two decisions which truly baffle me:

- the map using the glagolitic alphabet. WTF

- the potion system makes no sense. You can't drink potions in combat anymore, you're supposed to use them before. But you don't know when and if you need them! I think they're trying to mimic the first game's opening cutscene, but there's a big difference: in that cutscene and in the books, Geralt knew what monsters he would face. In The Witcher 2, it's all about guessing. It's not choice and it's not planning, it's simply guessing.

I stopped playing two hours in, I'm too old for this ****.