The Witcher 2: Judgement Day

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  • BeezelBeezel There was no agreement little morsel..Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    my friend insists on calling it THE KRAKEN
    all caps. Every time.

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  • AlegisAlegis Impeckable Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Is this image old?

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    Will be getting the box version after my exams to place right next to the big enhanced edition witcher 1 box. Ahh what happened to all our lovely boxes?

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    saw that on another site, makes me wish i did go retail but oh well, i probably will when i get more cash.

    anyone know where to get a troll tongue? without
    killing the troll
    i need it for a quest but its looking like ive messed it up now anyway since ive used all my death dust and i cant find anymore wraiths..

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  • The Count Of Midget FistoThe Count Of Midget Fisto Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I think my game is bugged.
    I'm in the beginning.
    I'm at the part where you have to run from the dragon while carrying the king. obviously I have to run down but when i do Geralt has a slight lean to the right and after the first part where the dragon breaths fire Geralt catches the right wall. This slows him down and the dragon catches up kills us. If I try to do a quick course correction to the left this slows us down and the dragon catches up. I've done this part more then 30 times and I'm at a loss of what to try.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Turning on easy QTEs may help, if my faulty memory serves as faithfully as it did the day of the Lincon assassination.

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  • Hank_ScorpioHank_Scorpio Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    When you compare The Witcher 2 with Dragon Age 2 it really is unbelievable. Every single thing about TW2 is better, even the combat. The game costs $15 less. The production values are higher, which is really insane because Bioware is rich and famous while CD Projekt doesn't have a fraction the renown/money they do. I could go on, but it's pretty easy to see DA2 as a cash grab when you look at the quality and content in TW2 along with it's price point and especially the company that made the game.

    I mean, shit. DA2 recycled areas over and over. TW2 starts off with scenery and action more epic than everything in DA2 combined. And it was only $45!!!

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Holy crap, i start searching google, see if anyone else as found out how to do a quest with out killing someone and i stumble upon a lets play of some insane guy, playing on insane (the ironman mode one) and doing it blind.

    Thats pretty hardcore, hes balls deep into chapter 1 too and hasn't died yet o_O

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  • Grey PaladinGrey Paladin Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    My save folder has swelled to 900 MB. Anyone knows how to delete save files in-game, rather than manually?

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    My save folder has swelled to 900 MB. Anyone knows how to delete save files in-game, rather than manually?

    you cant, but only the autosave makes a new file everytime, quicksave overwrites.

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  • DerrickDerrick Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Wolfprint wrote: »
    Evangir wrote: »
    Man, those wraiths at the asylum are kicking my ass.

    Specter Oil helps if you picked it up. They don't seem to be fully stunned by attacks, so you'll be hit-and-running almost constantly. Just dodge by their attack, hit them twice, and dodge away. Once you get one down, you can push the other up against a wall and light attack them down. Just play it patiently, and keep Quen up at all times.

    The first encounter is the hardest. The others you'll generally be able to isolate them.

    Roll, roll, roll and roll. Learn to anticipate their attacks - they will usually rear up a little to swing - and do the mid-roll trick and stab them in the back.

    Stab stab stab.

    I do it very differently. I decided to go mainly with signs in the game.

    When I fought 2 wraiths, I would Axii one of them and watch them obliterate each other (this is with an unupgraded Axii). And then Axii the other one before the first charm effect wore off. Roll up and get the kill when one was almost dead.

    For fighting just one, I would pillar hump and throw down the sign ground trap (I forget the name.... Yerden?) Strong attack-weak-weak-Strong. I'm pretty damn sure you can still do combos in this game if you time your clicks correctly, and that will actually put them in stun. So, you know, don't just jam on the mouse button.

    I think the mark of a strong RPG is completely different tactics in combat still leading to success.

    Oh, I also noticed that grapeshot bombs ruin their shit pretty well. I'm sure anyone going alchemy should go that route.

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  • DrunkMcDrunkMc Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I think my game is bugged.
    I'm in the beginning.
    I'm at the part where you have to run from the dragon while carrying the king. obviously I have to run down but when i do Geralt has a slight lean to the right and after the first part where the dragon breaths fire Geralt catches the right wall. This slows him down and the dragon catches up kills us. If I try to do a quick course correction to the left this slows us down and the dragon catches up. I've done this part more then 30 times and I'm at a loss of what to try.

    Try to run a bit diagonal, but really only for a split second. And only when you absolutely need it, like you're going to def. run into the wall. I think I had to do one split second of a diagonal to the left and that's it.

    This was on Normal.

    I also want to thank this forum for their tutorial on Combat. Once I started switching spells (constantly) during a fight and dodging like mad waiting for my point of attack this became extremeely exciting. Every fight it's possible (and likely) that you're going to die.

    My only compliant with this game so far is the total lack of a good combat tutorial. I had to figure out what my spells did by selecting them, casting them and having the little tutorial panel pop up. I just passed the prologue and am having a great time! Love this game!

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  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Are the "hidden" abilities totally missable?

    I stabbed people in the back all prologue long and never got a backstab ability.

    And The encumberance... if I'm past the prologue will that no longer increase?

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  • Quake MattQuake Matt Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Quake Matt wrote: »
    Polish voices are now available for download! But the download server's melted! One step at a time, I guess.

    Where? I'm looking under DLC right now and I just see the English ones and Troll Trouble.

    Huh. It was there for me last night, and I got some 20% of it downloaded (it's 800MiB!) between the repeated disconnects. Maybe they took it down while they smooth out the problems?

    Anybody got a good combat video to watch? I've listened to the tips here and I'm doing okay so far - only really struggled with the courtyard fight in the prologue - but I feel that I might still be missing something.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Use moar signs.

    That's the thing here. The game's designed around the player having all these nifty special abilities that are not his swords and using them.

    I'm restarting today just so that I can go through the earlier fights now that I know what's up.

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    massive heads up.

    if you hit ESC and the menu is taking longer and longer to come up you need to dump off some of your old saves.

    My folder was over half a gig in chapter 1; It lags because its reading the screen shots and massive save data in for the list when you hit load....... You only need keep the most recent ones in the actual saves folder....

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  • DerrickDerrick Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    mojojoeo wrote: »
    massive heads up.

    if you hit ESC and the menu is taking longer and longer to come up you need to dump off some of your old saves.

    My folder was over half a gig in chapter 1; It lags because its reading the screen shots and massive save data in for the list when you hit load....... You only need keep the most recent ones in the actual saves folder....


    Yeah. It seems a little silly they don't overwrite and just keep building up. I'll have to prune them when I get off work tonight.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Neat. Lets seee-

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    Oh.

    Well then.

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  • Dr_KeenbeanDr_Keenbean Dumb as a butt Planet Express ShipRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    DaemonSadi wrote: »
    Are the "hidden" abilities totally missable?

    I stabbed people in the back all prologue long and never got a backstab ability.

    And The encumberance... if I'm past the prologue will that no longer increase?

    You get Assassin in the prologue by ... (prologue spoiler, derp)
    finding the dead AC assassin on the hay cart near the ballista.

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    It also affects all menus, not just the ESC menu as the UI is all in one. For mouse and keyboard you cannot jump from Inv to journal- but on the controller you can. Meaning all ui elements load at once regardless of whether you just go to the inv or the main menu.

    Point being... mange your saves. They will lag your game horribly.

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  • DrunkMcDrunkMc Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    DaemonSadi wrote: »
    Are the "hidden" abilities totally missable?

    I stabbed people in the back all prologue long and never got a backstab ability.

    And The encumberance... if I'm past the prologue will that no longer increase?

    You get Assassin in the prologue by ... (prologue spoiler, derp)
    finding the dead AC assassin on the hay cart near the ballista.

    I stumbled across that, but how do I find out what that ability is and how to use it?

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    You use it by stabbing people in the back.

    ctrl, meditate, left option, swap panes for information on your attributes and perks.

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  • Foolish ChaosFoolish Chaos Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    When you compare The Witcher 2 with Dragon Age 2 it really is unbelievable. Every single thing about TW2 is better, even the combat. The game costs $15 less. The production values are higher, which is really insane because Bioware is rich and famous while CD Projekt doesn't have a fraction the renown/money they do. I could go on, but it's pretty easy to see DA2 as a cash grab when you look at the quality and content in TW2 along with it's price point and especially the company that made the game.

    I mean, shit. DA2 recycled areas over and over. TW2 starts off with scenery and action more epic than everything in DA2 combined. And it was only $45!!!

    Not to keep beating this horse, but yeah!
    That dragon shit in the first hour or so of the game?

    That made dragons way fucking scarier than anything I have ever seen in a game. Running under those burning shelters is just the most epic scene ever.

    The skyrim team is probably playing that scene over and over again just going

    Oh shit oh shit oh shit

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  • l_gl_g Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The lack of game configuration that you can do in-game is kind of bizarre. Sometimes I don't even want to re-bind keys, I just want to remember what a key for something is without facerolling my keyboard. Mouse can't be inverted in-game. Saves can't be deleted in-game. There's probably more that I can't remember offhand.

    Do I have to wait for bodies to melt into loot bags before I can loot them?

    The way the mouse cursor is tracked is sometimes annoying; I've had times where I loot something, hit spacebar automatically, but since my mouse cursor wound up being on a specific loot item, spacebar just loots that particular item, and I either reposition my mouse or mash spacebar. It's a tiny thing, but whenever it happens it's always momentarily jarring.

    The part of the character stat screen where it's a huge mess of text detailing all these different stats like crit percentage and resistance to whatever is hilarious.

    Some enemy encounters seem to change significantly when you load game, maybe to make them easier when you die, but sometimes I wish it didn't do that. I'm only in Chapter 1, but there are a bunch of times that that happens in the Prologue. One time, while taking the ballista in the Prologue, after having cleared away some goons and wound the ballista, more goons come. The first time, it was 3 greenshirts, 1 guy with a shield, and 1 armored guy with a 2-handed sword all in a group together. I got careless and died. Upon reload, at the same point, I got 2 green shirts and 1 2H sword/armor guy, and they were not all grouped together. Maybe the game thought I couldn't handle the first version, but it was kind of anti-climactic to have that encounter's difficulty more than halved.

    The trap spell seems really strong early in the game because enemies just don't avoid it. They always come in a straight line at you. As a result, I think it's way more effective than the ranged stun/knockdown since it works so much more reliably.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Finally started playing this goddamned game, thanks for the postload Steam.

    Turns out my nearly five gigs of Witcher 1 saves only went up to like chapter goddamned 3, and no way am I replaying that just to get to the endgame, so fuck save importing.

    All of you already know how gorgeous this thing looks, so I won't waste too many words on it. Ultra-ish settings (no AA or ubersampling, everything else maxed) on an comparatively ancient GTX 260-216, and it runs at a respectable clip and is blowing my retinas off.

    I've heard of "ballista" and "dragon" in hushed tones in this thread, something to inspire fear and dread, and I got through them with minimal fuss. A couple of deaths here and there to get to grips with the system, but that's to be expected. If this is the sort of thing that I have to look forward to, then I think me and this game is gonna get along just fine.

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  • DerrickDerrick Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The trap spell is definitely the business. I justify it being awesome by thinking that the visual effect is only seen by Geralt (like the amulet jazzy).

    Igni is... well it's okay. Nothing to write home about yet (unupgraded, but with +10 in signs and I think +4 through a moon upgrade in weapon). Aard isn't impressing me except it seems to have a HIGH rate of stunning drowners, which is an insta-kill.

    Quen is servicable but since I kinda like having vigor to cast signs, I don't use it often. Axii is amazing and it's probably the sign I'll pump up first.

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Does Witcher 2 involve as much endless running back-and-forth as Witcher 1? And do you get jumped by drowning dead every 5 metres outside of a city? These are the two main things I hope to see gone from the first game.

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  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    When you compare The Witcher 2 with Dragon Age 2 it really is unbelievable. Every single thing about TW2 is better, even the combat. The game costs $15 less. The production values are higher, which is really insane because Bioware is rich and famous while CD Projekt doesn't have a fraction the renown/money they do. I could go on, but it's pretty easy to see DA2 as a cash grab when you look at the quality and content in TW2 along with it's price point and especially the company that made the game.

    I mean, shit. DA2 recycled areas over and over. TW2 starts off with scenery and action more epic than everything in DA2 combined. And it was only $45!!!

    $60 for DA2 on the PC, rushed out in about ayear, in which that extra $10 gives you the privilege of buying little costume pack DLC for your game, versus $45 for this game that has a free addon straight out the gate and the promise of more free shit.

    Fucking Bioware man, I don't even know about them anymore. And playing this game, right now, I don't even care.

    Zxerol on
  • DemonStaceyDemonStacey TTODewback's Daughter In love with the TaySwayRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Shit 20% backstab dmg is a lot.

    Hmmm, is it worth going back for? Probably over an hour of replaying....

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Axii actually usable now? Quen came in handy for the early soldier scuffles along with Aard. Igni I can see being ruthless with the dragon breath bomb, though admittedly, I have yet to try it.

    In other news, GOTY. Possibly my most favoured rpg ever.

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  • Dr_KeenbeanDr_Keenbean Dumb as a butt Planet Express ShipRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zxerol wrote: »
    When you compare The Witcher 2 with Dragon Age 2 it really is unbelievable. Every single thing about TW2 is better, even the combat. The game costs $15 less. The production values are higher, which is really insane because Bioware is rich and famous while CD Projekt doesn't have a fraction the renown/money they do. I could go on, but it's pretty easy to see DA2 as a cash grab when you look at the quality and content in TW2 along with it's price point and especially the company that made the game.

    I mean, shit. DA2 recycled areas over and over. TW2 starts off with scenery and action more epic than everything in DA2 combined. And it was only $45!!!

    $60 for DA2 on the PC, rushed out in about ayear, in which that extra $10 gives you the privilege of buying little costume pack DLC for your game, versus $45 for this game that has a free addon straight out the gate and the promise of more free shit.

    Fucking Bioware man, I don't even know about them anymore. And playing this game, right now, I don't even care.

    You're just blinded by that new game smell. Also boobs, maybe. Boobs can do that.

    Bioware gets a free pass on DA2 after the likes of KOTOR, ME1 & 2, and DAO. DA2 was not terrible, it was mediocre. You're allowed one mediocre game. Plus Old Republic is looking pretty boss. It's not Bioware's fault that EA adopted their 'project 10 dollar' shit and forced it on them.

    On the topic of Witcher 2. I restarted last night because I didn't realize that you needed to keep formulas in your inventory to keep making potions and such. WTF is this shit? Geralt must have made about a million vials of Swallow when I played through Witcher 1. Why does he need a damn recipe now?

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    yeah this game is tits.

    I find I am just taking it in at a slow pace. Random stuff will crop up and I do it. And just soak in the scenery, and atmosphere. they nailed it.

    Spoiler alert- and then CDProjekt were bought by activision and witcher 3 = Paid DLC out the wazzo on a 8 month development turnaround. DUN DUNNNNNN DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Does anyone else want to play a game that follows a different Witcher? Vesemir, Berengar or one of the others.

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  • Dr_KeenbeanDr_Keenbean Dumb as a butt Planet Express ShipRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Big Isy wrote: »
    Does anyone else want to play a game that follows a different Witcher? Vesemir, Berengar or one of the others.

    I want an open-world game where I make my own witcher and roam the countryside on horseback (perhaps with a lecherous minstrel) finding rural towns with monsters to stab.

    Basically I want RDR, with AssBro's combat system, set in the Witcher universe.

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  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zxerol wrote: »
    When you compare The Witcher 2 with Dragon Age 2 it really is unbelievable. Every single thing about TW2 is better, even the combat. The game costs $15 less. The production values are higher, which is really insane because Bioware is rich and famous while CD Projekt doesn't have a fraction the renown/money they do. I could go on, but it's pretty easy to see DA2 as a cash grab when you look at the quality and content in TW2 along with it's price point and especially the company that made the game.

    I mean, shit. DA2 recycled areas over and over. TW2 starts off with scenery and action more epic than everything in DA2 combined. And it was only $45!!!

    $60 for DA2 on the PC, rushed out in about ayear, in which that extra $10 gives you the privilege of buying little costume pack DLC for your game, versus $45 for this game that has a free addon straight out the gate and the promise of more free shit.

    Fucking Bioware man, I don't even know about them anymore. And playing this game, right now, I don't even care.

    You're just blinded by that new game smell. Also boobs, maybe. Boobs can do that.

    Bioware gets a free pass on DA2 after the likes of KOTOR, ME1 & 2, and DAO. DA2 was not terrible, it was mediocre. You're allowed one mediocre game. Plus Old Republic is looking pretty boss. It's not Bioware's fault that EA adopted their 'project 10 dollar' shit and forced it on them.

    On the topic of Witcher 2. I restarted last night because I didn't realize that you needed to keep formulas in your inventory to keep making potions and such. WTF is this shit? Geralt must have made about a million vials of Swallow when I played through Witcher 1. Why does he need a damn recipe now?

    bioware have two mediocre games, granted though the time span between the two is far enough away.. (nwn1 without addons)

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  • LuqLuq Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zxerol wrote: »
    When you compare The Witcher 2 with Dragon Age 2 it really is unbelievable. Every single thing about TW2 is better, even the combat. The game costs $15 less. The production values are higher, which is really insane because Bioware is rich and famous while CD Projekt doesn't have a fraction the renown/money they do. I could go on, but it's pretty easy to see DA2 as a cash grab when you look at the quality and content in TW2 along with it's price point and especially the company that made the game.

    I mean, shit. DA2 recycled areas over and over. TW2 starts off with scenery and action more epic than everything in DA2 combined. And it was only $45!!!

    $60 for DA2 on the PC, rushed out in about ayear, in which that extra $10 gives you the privilege of buying little costume pack DLC for your game, versus $45 for this game that has a free addon straight out the gate and the promise of more free shit.

    Fucking Bioware man, I don't even know about them anymore. And playing this game, right now, I don't even care.

    You're just blinded by that new game smell. Also boobs, maybe. Boobs can do that.

    Bioware gets a free pass on DA2 after the likes of KOTOR, ME1 & 2, and DAO. DA2 was not terrible, it was mediocre. You're allowed one mediocre game. Plus Old Republic is looking pretty boss. It's not Bioware's fault that EA adopted their 'project 10 dollar' shit and forced it on them.

    On the topic of Witcher 2. I restarted last night because I didn't realize that you needed to keep formulas in your inventory to keep making potions and such. WTF is this shit? Geralt must have made about a million vials of Swallow when I played through Witcher 1. Why does he need a damn recipe now?

    bioware have two mediocre games, granted though the time span between the two is far enough away.. (nwn1 without addons)

    Don't forget Jade Empire. I liked it, but for most it was a lame version of KOTOR set in a higher fantasy version of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

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  • WMain00WMain00 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    In the claws of madness was good fun!

    Pro tip: Get some oil :P

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  • WolfprintWolfprint Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Getting used to the combat is putting me more on the Sword path. Currently pimped out with Hunter Armour and Jagged Blade, runed out.

    What is an effective tactic for Signs? I almost only ever use Aard. Yrden only hits one enemy, while I roll around often enough to not need Quen so much. Does Axii ever fail?

    Wolfprint on
  • DecoyDecoy Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Well, I broke down and played this well before even getting close to beating the first game. I was just tired of looking at the icon after hearing/reading so many glowing reviews.

    I'd like to believe one day I'll go back and play/beat the first, but sadly, it probably won't happen.

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  • WolfprintWolfprint Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Also, the pants-less thing is apparently a bug. Who knew. I thought everyone in Flotsam just liked going commando.

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Okay, replaying the prologue now, and I took to heart the advice not to button mash like a monkey.

    Comboing heavy and light attacks, I'm actually lopping off people's arms.

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