If you’re not already following it or massively excited about it, watch the 5 launch trailers.
https://www.computerandvideogames.com/301424/news/the-witcher-2-gets-five-launch-trailers/
If you are, you should know it’s released on Tuesday (tomorrow)!! Now I just have to hope the postman turns up with my pre-order…
I wasted my money on Brink. I will buy it next month.
Looks amazing…
It’s a [COLOR=‘White’]Pol[COLOR=‘Red’]ish game, just for everyone to remind ^^
A game from a poor country, I guess it’s not worth trying then.
Actual ingame screens taken by someone who already got it
https://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2613/witcher2201105161343492.jpg
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Dat graphics
QFT 
Well, the first one is pretty good, but so unsmooth. Just like any eastern-european games, actually.
We like it rough.
Just gonna bump this so I can ask for some review from people who bought it. Reviews seem to be very positive.
Do I need to of played the first one in order to enjoy/understand this one?
You don’t need to have played the first game, as it introduces the world and characters very well, but obviously like any series, you will pick up on some stuff if you’ve played the first. The story and characters though are some of the best I’ve ever seen (including Enslaved). The characters are so well-written and so believable (even some of the minor characters who are just plain rude or nasty) that the world feels real.
The combat is also very intelligent, and quite realistic as well. You have fast attacks and powerful attacks, but the majority of the combat, especially on the higher difficulty levels, requires you to block, dodge and counter-attack to make sure you don’t get hit. Even on the easiest level, if you try to fight without defending yourself, you will die very easily and quickly. However, if you haven’t played the first game, I’d advise against trying it on hard first time round, because you will NEED to use alchemy to survive.
The graphics are stunning, if your PC can handle it. The attention to detail in the environments is brilliant because the world looks and feels alive. In one dev diary video they even showed how for outdoors environments they consider stuff like where the sun falls, especially in forests, as to where they put plants and paths, and it shows.
However, it can be demanding on your PC. My gaming laptop has an Intel i5 2.66 Ghz (that boosts to 2.93), 4GB RAM and ATI HD545V (1GB VRAM), and it runs fine… so long as I don’t put the resolution higher than 1024 by 768. I think the problem is with my graphics card not being able to handle the extra work required for higher resolutions, rather than the game, but it’s just a bit odd. I can have basically all the options on or on high, so long as I don’t push the resolution. However, for people on here who are more likely to have proper desktop gaming rigs, you should easily be able to get the kind of graphics in the screenshots that The can posted.
TL; DR: don’t need to have played the first game but you might miss some references, believable story and characters, difficult but fair combat, stunning graphics if your rig can handle it.
Looks great but I keep dying on the first level. It’s pretty hard I guess just spamming attack in this game won’t get you far. I like it.
What specs are needed to max this thing out? The GFX look very impressive.
I would get it now, but recently I’ve been kind of apprehensive about buying games that I can’t at least try through a demo first…a shame, because otherwise, these guys have been doing absolutely everything right.
I’m getting it soon, I’ll make a post about it after some play. Very excited, loved the first Witcher.
Playing it now and its quickly becoming among my top 5 games ever played.
played and loved the first game, despite its shortcomings which personally were easily overlooked.
do you need to play the first game to enjoy the second? ultimately no but you’ll want to do some reading up in the in-game journals to get caught up with who’s who but even if you don’t you can get the overall gist.
the game itself is absolutely beautiful even when graphics aren’t maxed. Ive got a relatively low end laptop, for today’s standards, running it on minimum graphics and its still amazing how good it looks. will be getting a new desktop soon, but couldn’t wait to play.
i’m loving the combat too, its difficult enough to force you to stay on your toes and use everything you’ve got available to you in order to be successful, but not so hard you feel cheated
the thing i love the most about the game though, is the atmosphere and tone of the game, the whole setting is very realized and fleshed out and makes for a great experience. pretty much, if you like RPGs this game is one i’d highly recommend, of all the games released so far this year, i’d put this as best yet.
What difficulty are you playing on? Impossible is a hardcore mode, right? So if you die once it’s a complete restart? How hard is hard? (If you’re playing on it) Because I generally play games on the hard difficulty, but I’ve heard Witcher 2 is tough.
Yea I’d recommend the normal difficulty or else you you will die so many times and pull your hair off
I’d advise against Impossible because the quick-time events at one point in the opening section are too hard, and it can be a lot of work to get back to the same place. Trying to avoid spoilers: you’re running across a bridge away from something and there’s supposedly two quicktime events (the same action, but about 20 seconds later). However, the button prompt doesn’t always appear. It has appeared for some people, according to some forums, but not for others, and it didn’t appear at all for me. If you fail you die instantly (even on easy), and I only got through by memorising the exact animation. I don’t know if there’s similar points later in the game. However, if you haven’t finished the first game on the hardest difficulty, there’s not much point in trying, because you need to do stuff like gather ingredients for alchemy to make lots of potions, which you will need a lot.
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