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i don't think the level you left off in the first witcher will have any affect in the 2nd.lawlessx

True, but I did want to reach that level anyway.

What bugs me is what about the armor & swords you earned from the first?

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]

[QUOTE="lawlessx"]

im going to replay it again at some point in april and try for a different ending.

lawlessx

I'm running one of the extra adventures right now.

I've already got a great save with Geralt at Level 40 (Master Witcher) ready to go. You really have to work at it to get Level 40.

[QUOTE="lawlessx"] i don't think the level you left off in the first witcher will have any affect in the 2nd.topsemag55

True, but I did want to reach that level anyway.

What bugs me is what about the armor & swords you earned from the first?

Forget about witcher 2..

Risen 2 is our new graphics king:

:o

lawlessx

So glad to be a PC gamer.

Its probably good that they dont import your stats cause i never actually found the ignii sign :oops:ferret-gamer

Really? Here you go, but hidden for those who haven't played:

[spoiler] It's in the beginning, go into the crypt where the dead lady was. Take your first left. The sign is there, but you might have to fight the ghouls first. [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="topsemag55"]

[QUOTE="lawlessx"] i don't think the level you left off in the first witcher will have any affect in the 2nd.lawlessx

True, but I did want to reach that level anyway.

What bugs me is what about the armor & swords you earned from the first?

I agree. Money wasn't a problem, but...

[spoiler] I think they should have Leuvaarden pay Geralt those two payoffs he promised Geralt. [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"] Its probably good that they dont import your stats cause i never actually found the ignii sign :oops:topsemag55

Really? Here you go, but hidden for those who haven't played:

It's in the beginning, go into the crypt where the dead lady was. Take your first left. The sign is there, but you might have to fight the ghouls first.

Was kinda fun though, i had to be inventive with my strategies because i had no damage dealing spell. that tentacle thing in the epilogue was absolute hell to beat though.

ferret-gamer

Yeah, Igni was handy for him. I used Strong Silver and the blade was coated with the top Rune. I posted a video of it here.:P

[QUOTE="lawlessx"][QUOTE="topsemag55"]

I'm running one of the extra adventures right now.

I've already got a great save with Geralt at Level 40 (Master Witcher) ready to go. You really have to work at it to get Level 40.

ferret-gamer

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"][QUOTE="lawlessx"] i don't think the level you left off in the first witcher will have any affect in the 2nd.lawlessx

[QUOTE="lawlessx"]

Forget about witcher 2..

Risen 2 is our new graphics king:

:o

mitu123

So glad to be a PC gamer.

[QUOTE="lawlessx"]

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"] Its probably good that they dont import your stats cause i never actually found the ignii sign :oops:ferret-gamer

don't feel bad..i didn't a single bomb in my playthru because i never bothered to read those stupid books

lawlessx

I didn't use but one bomb that I found, I focused on potions. I had one pure albedo, one nigredo, and two rubedo so I could have all of the effects.

Towards the end all potions were albedo if I could manage it.

I got the best version of that epic rare armor.

[spoiler] Kalkstein's [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="ferret-gamer"][QUOTE="lawlessx"] don't feel bad..i didn't a single bomb in my playthru because i never bothered to read those stupid books

lawlessx

looks real good. just a bit under crysis levels of amazing. if this were 2006 i would be dumbstruck.

[QUOTE="ExESGO"]Head = Implode KingsMessenger

Why implode? Normally it would EXPLODE from being filled with too much awesomeness. Unless if was filled so quickly that they awesomeness created a black hole. But in that case you should have said

Head = Spaghettify

The awesome was too great, that it created a black hole in my mind.

Let's be honest, the Witcher 1 wasn't a good game. It's unrealistic to put so many expectations onto a game and make it appear as the second coming of Half-Life when the first game was... none of the aforementioned. It was highly flawed; I have played the game approximately up until I had to conduct an investigation of certain characters and I stoppped playing... again.

The starting area is painfully horrendous. I will admit that Ostagar itself isn't too great either, but you can juggle that problem a bit by switching Origins, whereas the Witcher was completely linear. I myself thought the Outskirs area was somewhat longer than Ostagar too, probably because of the sheer amount of backtracking. I don't understand the hype for a game that was near broken when it was released and with bad writing, I might add.

None of the characters I have met up until that point I considered memorable: truthfully, I had met a great deal of them and I was about to see some of them again. Most origins in Dragon Age, on the contrary, were much more memorable and often with sad endings. Not once have I seen an outstanding character up until the point I stopped playing. What are people expecting out of this game?

It's fine that people are looking for the next RPG. It's fine that other RPG's are getting attention. But all the hype, I believe, is a little unwarranted because -- let's stop pretending, mkay? -- the first game... was not good.

SkyWard20

[QUOTE="lawlessx"]

Forget about witcher 2..

Risen 2 is our new graphics king:

:o

mitu123

So glad to be a PC gamer.

Wow... Nice stuff... I loved Risen (PC of course), and didn't know a sequel was in the making. Got a link?

I hope they fix the combat from Witcher. It was... seasoned. I realize that its a PC RPG, but there is no reason why the hit-detection/clipping(or lack thereof) should be that terrible.Vadamee

Combat rebalance mod for Witcher 1 makes the combat a lot better (and harder). In addition, the combat in Witcher 2 is said to be improved quite a bit. Read this.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Let's be honest, the Witcher 1 wasn't a good game. It's unrealistic to put so many expectations onto a game and make it appear as the second coming of Half-Life when the first game was... none of the aforementioned. It was highly flawed; I have played the game approximately up until I had to conduct an investigation of certain characters and I stoppped playing... again.

The starting area is painfully horrendous. I will admit that Ostagar itself isn't too great either, but you can juggle that problem a bit by switching Origins, whereas the Witcher was completely linear. I myself thought the Outskirs area was somewhat longer than Ostagar too, probably because of the sheer amount of backtracking. I don't understand the hype for a game that was near broken when it was released and with bad writing, I might add.

None of the characters I have met up until that point I considered memorable: truthfully, I had met a great deal of them and I was about to see some of them again. Most origins in Dragon Age, on the contrary, were much more memorable and often with sad endings. Not once have I seen an outstanding character up until the point I stopped playing. What are people expecting out of this game?

It's fine that people are looking for the next RPG. It's fine that other RPG's are getting attention. But all the hype, I believe, is a little unwarranted because -- let's stop pretending, mkay? -- the first game... was not good.

Birdy09

"... the Witcher had a sole, your "insert other name for special kind of jedi, spectre, gray warden" here idea is done to death"

"Geralt has a massive backround and lore and its the centre of the plot in a far more plausible way than a mindless shell of me..."

>> Geralt, the witcher.

>> your "insert other name for special kind of jedi, spectre, gray warden" here idea is done to death.

priceless.

A monster hunter is nothing like The Keeper of The Galactic Peace.

[QUOTE="Birdy09"][QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Let's be honest, the Witcher 1 wasn't a good game. It's unrealistic to put so many expectations onto a game and make it appear as the second coming of Half-Life when the first game was... none of the aforementioned. It was highly flawed; I have played the game approximately up until I had to conduct an investigation of certain characters and I stoppped playing... again.

The starting area is painfully horrendous. I will admit that Ostagar itself isn't too great either, but you can juggle that problem a bit by switching Origins, whereas the Witcher was completely linear. I myself thought the Outskirs area was somewhat longer than Ostagar too, probably because of the sheer amount of backtracking. I don't understand the hype for a game that was near broken when it was released and with bad writing, I might add.

None of the characters I have met up until that point I considered memorable: truthfully, I had met a great deal of them and I was about to see some of them again. Most origins in Dragon Age, on the contrary, were much more memorable and often with sad endings. Not once have I seen an outstanding character up until the point I stopped playing. What are people expecting out of this game?

It's fine that people are looking for the next RPG. It's fine that other RPG's are getting attention. But all the hype, I believe, is a little unwarranted because -- let's stop pretending, mkay? -- the first game... was not good.

SkyWard20

"... the Witcher had a sole, your "insert other name for special kind of jedi, spectre, gray warden" here idea is done to death"

"Geralt has a massive backround and lore and its the centre of the plot in a far more plausible way than a mindless shell of me..."

>> Geralt, the witcher.

>> your "insert other name for special kind of jedi, spectre, gray warden" here idea is done to death.

priceless.

Looks pretty good but are there dragons in the Witcher 2?

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

Uhh, no, the game which buzzworded those terms and kind of screwed it up was Dragon Age. The Witcher actually did it properly, probably because its world isn't utterly contrived and derivative.

using less known folklore doesn't mean it hasn't been done before: monsters in the witcher are still taken from various cultures.

Utterly.

Oh, and yes, Oblivion has other strengths, like the ability to become good at everything as long as you're willing to grind enough, unlike an ideal RPG in which the skill progression is always limited.

LOL, you could spend hundreds of hours in the game; there's nothing wrong with being able to max everything out. I *want* that possibility for the type of game Oblivion is.

Uhh, no, if they did it properly they wouldn't allow you to be come the leader of a Mage guild... as a warrior. The reason almost no RPG allows for maxing out/getting near to maxing out of all skills is because it not only unbalances the game in your favour really badly, it also takes away the WHOLE POINT of character building. If every playthrough has you as some kind of demigod then where the hell are your roleplaying choice? Most RPGs would do "Knight, Thief, Archer, Mage" or something along those lines, in terms of what each playthrough character would be like. Not "God, God, God, God".

You don't max out your character from the start. It takes a good while to do so.

Oh, and the ability to explore a lot of samey old caves. Oh, and a leveling system which makes the endquest harder to complete as you level up.

Then you haven't leveled up properly.

So what? "Not levelling up properly" in other RPGs that don't use full level scaling still make it easier on you at level 10 than at level 5.

Clearly these advantages make up for the awful writing.

Oh, and yes, that's one cliche that the Witcher uses (then again, you're ignoring that it's NECESSARY to justify why the player has to learn those skills AGAIN,

It's not. You can just say he lost those skills because he died.

And how does one lose skills? Oh yeah, memory loss.

So if I don't play piano for a year and don't quite remember that song, I have amnesia and don't remember what I did before that or my friends/family too?

unless you want to be able to overpower everything at the start of the game. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case). It's hardly anything compared to Dragon Age which is practically made out of typical fantasy folklore

you're saying that like it's a bad thing. taking monsters from european folklore doesn't automatically make the game better.

Yes, but we're talking about which game is more derivative here. Obviously if the Witcher makes use of monsters that are less known and less utilized in other fiction, it is "better" in this regard.

with a few twists here and there.

Barbariser

I don't understand how anyone could play through Witcher more than once. It's incredibly linear and the 'choices and consequences' gimmick sucked.

I do recall YOU saying that the quality of games is subject to opinion. Why does that not seem to apply now?

When did I say it wasn't?

Looks pretty good but are there dragons in the Witcher 2?

ScreamDream

This footage shows a dragon. Whether it is still there is another question.

A monster hunter is nothing like The Keeper of The Galactic Peace.

Baranga

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

[QUOTE="Barbariser"]

Uhh, no, the game which buzzworded those terms and kind of screwed it up was Dragon Age. The Witcher actually did it properly, probably because its world isn't utterly contrived and derivative.

using less known folklore doesn't mean it hasn't been done before: monsters in the witcher are still taken from various cultures.

Oh, and yes, Oblivion has other strengths, like the ability to become good at everything as long as you're willing to grind enough, unlike an ideal RPG in which the skill progression is always limited.

LOL, you could spend hundreds of hours in the game; there's nothing wrong with being able to max everything out. I *want* that possibility for the type of game Oblivion is.

Oh, and the ability to explore a lot of samey old caves. Oh, and a leveling system which makes the endquest harder to complete as you level up.

Then you haven't leveled up properly.

Clearly these advantages make up for the awful writing.

Oh, and yes, that's one cliche that the Witcher uses (then again, you're ignoring that it's NECESSARY to justify why the player has to learn those skills AGAIN,

It's not. You can just say he lost those skills because he died.

unless you want to be able to overpower everything at the start of the game. Come to think of it, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case). It's hardly anything compared to Dragon Age which is practically made out of typical fantasy folklore

you're saying that like it's a bad thing. taking monsters from european folklore doesn't automatically make the game better.

with a few twists here and there.

cobrax55

I don't understand how anyone could play through Witcher more than once. It's incredibly linear and the 'choices and consequences' gimmick sucked.

Its far less linear then Dragon age, and unlike that game, the choices in the Witcher actually effect the game.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

I don't understand how anyone could play through Witcher more than once. It's incredibly linear and the 'choices and consequences' gimmick sucked.

topsemag55

Once I reached a certain point in the story, I was able to complete quests in almost any order I chose to.

Would I be correct in guessing you won't be buying Witcher 2?:P

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[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

I don't understand how anyone could play through Witcher more than once. It's incredibly linear and the 'choices and consequences' gimmick sucked.

SkyWard20

Its far less linear then Dragon age, and unlike that game, the choices in the Witcher actually effect the game.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"][QUOTE="cobrax55"]

Its far less linear then Dragon age, and unlike that game, the choices in the Witcher actually effect the game.

DragonfireXZ95

What do you mean by 'taking over'? They only destroy Lothering after you complete 1 main quest and after you've completed everything there's not much of a reason to visit those areas right before the final battle ( don't remember if you can or can't do that ).

[QUOTE="Baranga"]

A monster hunter is nothing like The Keeper of The Galactic Peace.

SkyWard20

A monster hunter that travels from village to village looking for a job is nothing like James Bond in space, like a Jedi or like a medieval Jedi. Is it more clear now?

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="SkyWard20"] I don't think you have played the game. You can go pretty much anywhere in the game world after Ostagar.SkyWard20

What do you mean by 'taking over'? They only destroy Lothering after you complete 1 main quest and after you've completed everything there's not much of a reason to visit those areas right before the final battle ( don't remember if you can or can't do that ).

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="SkyWard20"] I don't think you have played the game. You can go pretty much anywhere in the game world after Ostagar.SkyWard20

What do you mean by 'taking over'? They only destroy Lothering after you complete 1 main quest and after you've completed everything there's not much of a reason to visit those areas right before the final battle ( don't remember if you can or can't do that ).

Here is the map I took of my save game. I can't access half of the map anymore. That's another problem with DA, they should put random quests in areas for later just so you do have a reason to return there. It doesn't have to be a big quest, just a small side quest would do; instead of charging you for all of this stupid DLC that's probably only a couple hours long anyway.

[QUOTE="ScreamDream"]

Looks pretty good but are there dragons in the Witcher 2?

Tresca_

This footage shows a dragon. Whether it is still there is another question.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"][QUOTE="Baranga"]

A monster hunter is nothing like The Keeper of The Galactic Peace.

Baranga

A monster hunter that travels from village to village looking for a job is nothing like James Bond in space, like a Jedi or like a medieval Jedi. Is it more clear now?

And it is misleading when you say that they're just 'looking for job', considering that in the first few hours of the game you are being given the possiblity to kill a mage, a 'frightener' ( huge, giant insect ), and save a village from hellhounds before possibly slaughtering all the villagers if you wish to.

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"] What you said has nothing to do with what he posted. And you can't go anywhere in Dragon Age, in fact, half the map is pretty much closed once the Darkspawn start taking over.DragonfireXZ95

What do you mean by 'taking over'? They only destroy Lothering after you complete 1 main quest and after you've completed everything there's not much of a reason to visit those areas right before the final battle ( don't remember if you can or can't do that ).

Here is the map I took of my save game. I can't access half of the map anymore. That's another problem with DA, they should put random quests in areas for later just so you do have a reason to return there. It doesn't have to be a big quest, just a small side quest would do; instead of charging you for all of this stupid DLC that's probably only a couple hours long anyway.

There's nothing to do there after you're done. Those zones are not taken by darkspawn; they're greyed out because there's nothing to do there any longer, though I'm pretty sure you can still go to some of the zones near the city hubs: thaigs, dalish forest, etc., just not directly. Even so, there's not much to do there anymore.SkyWard20

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"] How so?

What do you mean by 'taking over'? They only destroy Lothering after you complete 1 main quest and after you've completed everything there's not much of a reason to visit those areas right before the final battle ( don't remember if you can or can't do that ).

SkyWard20

Here is the map I took of my save game. I can't access half of the map anymore. That's another problem with DA, they should put random quests in areas for later just so you do have a reason to return there. It doesn't have to be a big quest, just a small side quest would do; instead of charging you for all of this stupid DLC that's probably only a couple hours long anyway.

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="lawlessx"]

Forget about witcher 2..

Risen 2 is our new graphics king:

:o

milannoir

So glad to be a PC gamer.

Wow... Nice stuff... I loved Risen (PC of course), and didn't know a sequel was in the making. Got a link?

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RyuRanVII

[QUOTE="RyuRanVII"]

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mitu123

[QUOTE="SkyWard20"]

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]

Here is the map I took of my save game. I can't access half of the map anymore. That's another problem with DA, they should put random quests in areas for later just so you do have a reason to return there. It doesn't have to be a big quest, just a small side quest would do; instead of charging you for all of this stupid DLC that's probably only a couple hours long anyway.

DragonfireXZ95

The game is quite long without there needing to be more quests for older areas. I can't say I wouldn't like that, but there isn't a dire need for that.

Pre-Beta Video. Ten minutes of pure awesomeness. Amazing graphics and soundtrack!

Download the low compression video here (678mb): http://dl2.worldofplayers.de:81/dl/080775cb3e8e5520723dfccadff84041/4d6920b2/wop/witcher/witcher2/videos/ingamevideos/ingame4.zip

Pre-Beta Video. Ten minutes of pure awesomeness. Amazing graphics and soundtrack!

Download the low compression video here (678mb): http://dl2.worldofplayers.de:81/dl/080775cb3e8e5520723dfccadff84041/4d6920b2/wop/witcher/witcher2/videos/ingamevideos/ingame4.zip

RyuRanVII

OMFG.

Mind = blown. The Witcher 2 will be the best RPG since the first! GOTY right there.