that shot looks better then the last one but still its not the awesome ones that were in witcher 1, guess we'll have to see.. that image tho is a pretty big fucking spoiler though.
that shot looks better then the last one but still its not the awesome ones that were in witcher 1, guess we'll have to see.. that image tho is a pretty big fucking spoiler though.
Just a hunch, spoilered just in case
isn't that from before the start of witcher 1 where Geralt is thought dead from some peasant revolt?
ok.. what the hell is that anime looking screenshot? if theyve replaced the hand drawn cutscenes with fucking anime heads will roll.
It appears that instead of using watercolour illustrations to depict key moments in the story, CD Projekt has decided to use some form of *edit comic art style instead. It's not a confirmation though, and I could be wrong, we'll have to see.
that shot looks better then the last one but still its not the awesome ones that were in witcher 1, guess we'll have to see.. that image tho is a pretty big fucking spoiler though.
Just a hunch, spoilered just in case
isn't that from before the start of witcher 1 where Geralt is thought dead from some peasant revolt?
so. finished chapter 3. that last gameplay bit with the kikimore queen was incredibly easy, and yet also incredibly mishandled.
the good:
-environment interaction to win against an overwhelming opponent
-well-telegraphed instructions
-lots of foes
the bad:
-having tons of enemies stack up TEN DEEP surrounding you so you literally cannot move, THEN put an insta-kill boss behind you that will track to your location
PICK ONE. lots of surrounding enemies OR insta-kill boss that follows you around. NOT BOTH.
normally the witcher combat is a joy, and that last bit had a good concept, but they completely dropped the ball on execution.
i'm happy that chapter 4 seems nice and relaxing in comparison to 2 and 3.
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so. finished chapter 3. that last gameplay bit with the kikimore queen was incredibly easy, and yet also incredibly mishandled.
the good:
-environment interaction to win against an overwhelming opponent
-well-telegraphed instructions
-lots of foes
the bad:
-having tons of enemies stack up TEN DEEP surrounding you so you literally cannot move, THEN put an insta-kill boss behind you that will track to your location
PICK ONE. lots of surrounding enemies OR insta-kill boss that follows you around. NOT BOTH.
normally the witcher combat is a joy, and that last bit had a good concept, but they completely dropped the ball on execution.
i'm happy that chapter 4 seems nice and relaxing in comparison to 2 and 3.
i love that bit
where you finally get to wipe that smile off the professors face
Why did I click that link? Shouldn't I know better than to click links to official forums by now?
Yennefer in game with Triss having a secret affair with eskel, while the witcher tries to choose between who is the lesser "******", cause one mad sorcerer is no better than two . . . and here goes another side quest that will end up with the witcher bed banging the chicken
Is Chapter 3 where you deal with the Tower on the swamps? I can never remember where I'm at.
That would be Chapter 2 , the events of Chapter 3 takes places primarily in Vizima's Trade District.
so. finished chapter 3. that last gameplay bit with the kikimore queen was incredibly easy, and yet also incredibly mishandled.
the good:
-environment interaction to win against an overwhelming opponent
-well-telegraphed instructions
-lots of foes
the bad:
-having tons of enemies stack up TEN DEEP surrounding you so you literally cannot move, THEN put an insta-kill boss behind you that will track to your location
PICK ONE. lots of surrounding enemies OR insta-kill boss that follows you around. NOT BOTH.
normally the witcher combat is a joy, and that last bit had a good concept, but they completely dropped the ball on execution.
Umm.. it's not that bad. Just use the Aard sign to collapse all the pillars without waiting for the Kikimore Queen (until you get to the final room), the workers & warriors will immediately burrow so you won't get swarmed.
I don't even
Also shipping. So much shipping.
edit: Fuck it, I'm using the phrase "bed banging the chicken" from now on.
Yeah, the shipping is definitely excessive. Some of the posters are taking the romance a tad seriously. The posts are an interesting read though.
Why did I click that link? Shouldn't I know better than to click links to official forums by now?
Yennefer in game with Triss having a secret affair with eskel, while the witcher tries to choose between who is the lesser "******", cause one mad sorcerer is no better than two . . . and here goes another side quest that will end up with the witcher bed banging the chicken
edit: Fuck it, I'm using the phrase "bed banging the chicken" from now on.
to be fair triss was having an relationship with eskel in books, and some of the stuff you overhear from her at the start of chapter 3 does sound like she might be playing geralt and taking advantage of his amnesia.
I liked DA2, I liked it a lot, and preferred it to DA:O.
BUT I can't help but feel that the DA2 writers were trying to pull off Witcher-type storytelling and not quite pulling it off. Rewatching the trailer (with the bits of the assassin and the ending line "it's a long story") really got me pumped up to get my Witcher on.
WOOOOOOO WITHCER BOOYEA
I kind of thought the opposite. Origins was Bioware pulling a Witcher, but being all Bioware about it. DA2 felt more like a Black Isle legacy game. The direction the writing took was decidedly Avellone-ish.
Maybe in that everyone is assholes, rather than half the people being assholes and the other half having halos, but other than that...:?
so. finished chapter 3. that last gameplay bit with the kikimore queen was incredibly easy, and yet also incredibly mishandled.
the good:
-environment interaction to win against an overwhelming opponent
-well-telegraphed instructions
-lots of foes
the bad:
-having tons of enemies stack up TEN DEEP surrounding you so you literally cannot move, THEN put an insta-kill boss behind you that will track to your location
PICK ONE. lots of surrounding enemies OR insta-kill boss that follows you around. NOT BOTH.
normally the witcher combat is a joy, and that last bit had a good concept, but they completely dropped the ball on execution.
Umm.. it's not that bad. Just use the Aard sign to collapse all the pillars without waiting for the Kikimore Queen (until you get to the final room), the workers & warriors will immediately burrow so you won't get swarmed.
yeah but there's a thing to loot after you collapse the first supports and by the time you take the 2 hot seconds to hit "take all loot" button every damn bug is back. they all appear in the final room and stack up 12 deep at the entrance, creating a nice un-flip-over-able wall of bodies that neatly keeps you pinned while the queen lumbers up behind. it's an example of the combat system working against itself.
another thing that doesn't help is geralt's insistence on automatically sheathing his sword at every damn opportunity. can't flip or move fast unless it's out and waving around.
don't get me wrong, it's not like actually doing it is especially difficult, but it's just a poor design decision that stands out in a string of decently made ones.
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so, looking through some of the latest screenshots taken by some of the eastern european review sites....
let's just say that for every sex card in the first game, there looks to be an equally distinct, fully modeled and animated scene in the second game. :winky:
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Why do I have a feeling we're gonna get a censored version again in the US only to have it patched out in a year or two.
I mean, in the end a bit of nudity here and there isn't a big deal but come on. Just leave it how it is.
Anyway, tomorrows conference will determine whether or not I need to cancel my Witcher 2 preorder on Amazon (and switch it with Portal 2 since I have a gift card applied) and buy it on GoG instead or not. I hope they're going with no DRM anywhere or at worst some very light stuff on the boxed copies but it might be out of their hands.
so, looking through some of the latest screenshots taken by some of the eastern european review sites....
let's just say that for every sex card in the first game, there looks to be an equally distinct, fully modeled and animated scene in the second game. :winky:
so, looking through some of the latest screenshots taken by some of the eastern european review sites....
let's just say that for every sex card in the first game, there looks to be an equally distinct, fully modeled and animated scene in the second game. :winky:
links?
i'll link you to the gallery that contains the new screenshots; you can browse to the NSFW ones on your own :P
Interesting ... well, sex scenes are certainly an upgrade from sex cards. Nicely done, CD Projekt. Let's see how the US and Australia reacts : P
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited April 2011
When Geralt starts getting his pimp on, our version will just cut to a black screen that says, "And then the Witcher and his love lady friend had a nice cup of tea and discussed the values of Keynesian economics all through the night."
holy shit i wasn't expecting that kind of detail in the sex scenes.
and theres another comic/anime looking shot again.. its the only thing im not liking so far but ill have to see it in motion and it will probably grow on me like the inventory, doesnt look too great static but i saw the inventory in motion and it looks pretty sweet.
lack of censorship is why i'm getting the GoG version. they have COMPLETE control over release and distribution through that channel.
Not to mention it's like you're getting a digital version of a disk, with no hoops to jump through. I love GoG so much.
Unfortunately, I've still not given up on the $130 Collector's edition if it's uncensored. I'll see tomorrow whether I'm switching to GOG edition or not.
Nobody knows yet, but you definitely can't just burn it to DVD and install whenever like GOG version.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited April 2011
Yeah you can. Steam allows you to make backups since forever -- the sister restore process is the same thing used for boxed retail copies of Steamworks games.
Yeah, but you don't need any external program to install and run the game once you download it from GoG. That of course means you miss out on full Steamworks integration and achievements (although, I don't think Witcher 2 has those), but you can install the game on a PC that is not connected to the internet.
Plus, they are sweetening the deal by giving out a sort of in store credit to non-US customers.
The australian version of the first game wasn't censored. Maybe we'll be lucky. Not that it matters for me though, thanks to GoG. CD Projekt are pretty much my favourite developers ever.
Overall, my 7 hours or so with The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings left me very impressed. Again, I didn't play The Witcher as much as I would've liked, but the difference between the two games feels like the difference between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2. Everything from the gameplay to the consistently high quality of cutscenes and the voice acting just feels like a labor of love by CD Projekt RED.
I looked back on my experience with Dragon Age II afterwards, and BioWare's fantasy RPG now feels like it's in almost every way a mere toddler in the shadow of The Witcher 2. That's not to say DA II sucked, but a single village in The Witcher 2 already has more personality than all of Kirkwall. Moreover, the politics now run deep without treating you like a child for once. Characters feel human and treat you like an adult, the player is expected to deal with temporal jumps in narrative to keep up with the story, choices actually carry weight, and oh my god the breast textures!
"If you were one of those people that complained about Game X and said "I'll wait for Witcher 2 instead," then congratulations: you were right."
"Though the new graphics engine looks fantastic, the camerawork and the production values of the in-engine cutscenes might be even more impressive."
Combat is now a far easier affair than in the last game. Geralt automatically attacks the nearest enemy when you click to attack, so you can just mash the mouse buttons (for quick and heavy attacks) to hack and slash your way through combat if you please. You'll see Geralt making acrobatic leaps and rolls to cross the distance before he slashes down his foe. That is, until you encounter shielded and heavier enemies who will destroy you if you don't block incoming blows, or dodge out of the way to attack them from behind.
Alternatively, you can use various types of magic to set your enemies on fire, lay traps for them, blow them out of the way or buff your defense. Holding down the control key slows the game down and lets you select magic or weapons with a cursor. Or you can just use the keys centered around the WASD control scheme to do all of that. It works well and it's pretty easy to get the hang of.
After waking up next to the lovely Triss Merigold -- who happens to sport the best areola and shaven vulva textures of any game to date
Now it looks like we finally have a game that tries to do it all, and in doing so might blow anything away that we've grown to kind of accept in recent years.
Even minor characters show personality before they speak a word -- their posture, brief hesitations, and clothing often communicating more than mere words could ever do
Instead of having a tiresome chain of events explained to you, the game expects you to figure out what exactly is going on by just dealing with present events and by paying attention to key characters that shed light on the situation at hand
You quickly find yourself in a miniature world of humans, non-humans, and all kinds of social and political themes reflecting both interracial relations and internal divisions within a race.
The Witcher 2 attempts to weave a magical tapestry of non-linear interactive storytelling throughout the entire game.
The moment you first lay your eyes on the inventory system is when you start to understand just how deep the game will go. It's a hardcore, but still pretty accessible game that attempts to offers both a polished and extremely immersive world while seemingly not restricting you in your freedom.
I looked back on my experience with Dragon Age II afterwards, and BioWare's fantasy RPG now feels like it's in almost every way a mere toddler in the shadow of The Witcher 2. That's not to say DA II sucked, but a single village in The Witcher 2 already has more personality than all of Kirkwall. Moreover, the politics now run deep without treating you like a child for once.
Sorry Hawke, but your cardboard persona is about to be witched in half. And Shepard? I still love you and I know you star in a different kind of RPG. But I'm really, really glad that your third space adventure is scheduled six months away
Yeah, but you don't need any external program to install and run the game once you download it from GoG. That of course means you miss out on full Steamworks integration and achievements (although, I don't think Witcher 2 has those), but you can install the game on a PC that is not connected to the internet.
Plus, they are sweetening the deal by giving out a sort of in store credit to non-US customers.
Oh sure, I'm not disputing that the best way to buy this game is through GoG, hands down.
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edited April 2011
"best areola and shaven vulva textures of any game to date"
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edited April 2011
Am I the only person who really doesn't care how well animated and detailed and explicit the sex scenes are? Is CGI porn really a thing people have been desperately waiting to have in their computer games?
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
edited April 2011
No, and that line from Destructoid is juvenile as all hell (like I'm surprised), and neither do I demand my games to have explicit sexual content omg. But on the other hand, if the content fits then game, then why should developers shy away from it? That whole mindset that video games are for children and games can't have any adult content whatsoever is what brings you that Fox News Mass Effect debacle.
Some people insist that games are art, right?. Art should be provocative and not be reigned in because it makes some people feel guilty. (Yes, I know just associated fucking with artistic expression -- please pretend that doesn't sound completely stupid.)
Besides, I severely doubt the game is actually more explicit than some nekkid bodies like you might see in an R rated film anyway. We're not talking Japanese [strike]h-fucking-games[/strike] dating sims here.
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Just a hunch, spoilered just in case
If I'm wrong please don't tell me :P
Damn.....
Yes. It's the end of the 5th novel.
the good:
-environment interaction to win against an overwhelming opponent
-well-telegraphed instructions
-lots of foes
the bad:
-having tons of enemies stack up TEN DEEP surrounding you so you literally cannot move, THEN put an insta-kill boss behind you that will track to your location
PICK ONE. lots of surrounding enemies OR insta-kill boss that follows you around. NOT BOTH.
normally the witcher combat is a joy, and that last bit had a good concept, but they completely dropped the ball on execution.
i'm happy that chapter 4 seems nice and relaxing in comparison to 2 and 3.
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found it! £26.99
i love that bit
Why did I click that link? Shouldn't I know better than to click links to official forums by now? I don't even
Also shipping. So much shipping.
edit: Fuck it, I'm using the phrase "bed banging the chicken" from now on.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Umm.. it's not that bad. Just use the Aard sign to collapse all the pillars without waiting for the Kikimore Queen (until you get to the final room), the workers & warriors will immediately burrow so you won't get swarmed.
Yeah, the shipping is definitely excessive. Some of the posters are taking the romance a tad seriously. The posts are an interesting read though.
to be fair triss was having an relationship with eskel in books, and some of the stuff you overhear from her at the start of chapter 3 does sound like she might be playing geralt and taking advantage of his amnesia.
Maybe in that everyone is assholes, rather than half the people being assholes and the other half having halos, but other than that...:?
Also, there really needs to be a release date in the OP.
yeah but there's a thing to loot after you collapse the first supports and by the time you take the 2 hot seconds to hit "take all loot" button every damn bug is back. they all appear in the final room and stack up 12 deep at the entrance, creating a nice un-flip-over-able wall of bodies that neatly keeps you pinned while the queen lumbers up behind.
another thing that doesn't help is geralt's insistence on automatically sheathing his sword at every damn opportunity. can't flip or move fast unless it's out and waving around.
don't get me wrong, it's not like actually doing it is especially difficult, but it's just a poor design decision that stands out in a string of decently made ones.
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let's just say that for every sex card in the first game, there looks to be an equally distinct, fully modeled and animated scene in the second game. :winky:
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I mean, in the end a bit of nudity here and there isn't a big deal but come on. Just leave it how it is.
Anyway, tomorrows conference will determine whether or not I need to cancel my Witcher 2 preorder on Amazon (and switch it with Portal 2 since I have a gift card applied) and buy it on GoG instead or not. I hope they're going with no DRM anywhere or at worst some very light stuff on the boxed copies but it might be out of their hands.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
links?
i'll link you to the gallery that contains the new screenshots; you can browse to the NSFW ones on your own :P
BOOBS BEYOND THIS LINK
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Aww yeah dialogue (SFW):
Also the notion of Geralt sitting down and 'crafting' "superb leather trousers" is deeply amusing. Superb!
As mentioned above, Fox News: "Witcher 2 is a sodomy simulator."
Australia: "TWENTY MILLION KIDS ARE RAPED BY THE WITCHER 2 EVERY SECOND."
If you know what I mean.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
and theres another comic/anime looking shot again.. its the only thing im not liking so far but ill have to see it in motion and it will probably grow on me like the inventory, doesnt look too great static but i saw the inventory in motion and it looks pretty sweet.
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Not to mention it's like you're getting a digital version of a disk, with no hoops to jump through. I love GoG so much.
Unfortunately, I've still not given up on the $130 Collector's edition if it's uncensored. I'll see tomorrow whether I'm switching to GOG edition or not.
Plus, they are sweetening the deal by giving out a sort of in store credit to non-US customers.
Steam // Secret Satan
NSFW little doggy.
Oh sure, I'm not disputing that the best way to buy this game is through GoG, hands down.
Some people insist that games are art, right?. Art should be provocative and not be reigned in because it makes some people feel guilty. (Yes, I know just associated fucking with artistic expression -- please pretend that doesn't sound completely stupid.)
Besides, I severely doubt the game is actually more explicit than some nekkid bodies like you might see in an R rated film anyway. We're not talking Japanese [strike]h-fucking-games[/strike] dating sims here.