HoonDing

The game's bit of a buggy mess. My Geralt started with Aerondight, the dragon flew off with Aerondight, yet Geralt still had it on his back in any cutscene thereafter... then when I arrived in Flotsam a finished quest appeared out of nowhere in my journal, mentioning Geralt had gotten a new silver sword from the local Dwarven blacksmith which he hadn't even met... and this new silver sword was none other than Aerondight. I don't get it. It has also happened many times that after doing combat inside a town, Geralt is stuck in combat mode forever unless he gets killed by guards or I reload a save.

I'm dividing my time between Witcher 2 and Fable 3. I'm having more fun with Fable 3 so far. I don't like all the streamlining, but it looks great, runs great, plays great and it is occasionally hilarious. It's fun, while I really need to drag myself through the Witcher 2's bad combat.

Use Quen. It's pretty retarded how Foltest, Triss & Roche can just run through unharmed, though. In fact, Quen seems to be WIN!-button in the game, along with those stun bombs.

Sure, why not? Heavy Rain & LA Noire are two examples of story-driven console games that did or are doing alright.

I died once in the prologue, during the dragon QTE... then I turned QTE off. Killing Aryan (lol) La Valette and his cronies really badly showcased the combat system. Somehow soldiers with shields take several seconds to turn around after you roll away from their attack leaving them completely open for a couple of heavy strikes. Blocking a strike makes an enemy stagger for two seconds, making them sitting ducks. Monsters are a bit tougher, but not by much. One on one combat is a joke, I'm guessing this is why they come in groups 90% of the time.

Nice. You must have been one hell of a prosecutor. Prosecutor during the day, masked avenger during the night.

I'm playing on Normal and all I do in combat is dodging and spamming Heavy attack. The AI seems to go bonkers if you move around a lot, giving Geralt a couple of free hits. Trying to do anything other than attacking one opponent at a time seems a ticket to a quick death, with the clunky controls and **** camera. Closed spaces are a problem, but that's what signs are for. Enemies don't really attack intelligently either, they just lumber around, flailing their weapons like morons. Frankly, the combat is one big disappointment for me, along with the butchered alchemy system.

Has anyone managed to beat the final arm wrestler?

I imported a level 30+ Geralt who killed drowners and ghouls by just glaring at them at the end of TW1, but now my Geralt is a noob again. Maybe CD Projekt should've had Geralt himself assassinated in the beginning, ME2 style, and have the Lodge of Sorceresses revive him or something. It doesn't make sense.

I'm a pretty princess

Everytime I bring up the launcher, I get a "connection error". I can't register my game nor redeem my preorder DLC "special item" code.

Call me when it's better than Case of the Serrated Scalpel.

Will Mike Laidlaw still be in charge?

Strange, I didn't know about this until today.

I'm guessing the demo's going to feature the first level up til the witch. I'm also guessing it's going to feature only Lucas.

The doctors really don't seem to care much anymore. Muzyka is more interested in poker, and Zeschuk has always played second fiddle.

I just installed and according to the launcher my PC meets High requirements.

So Katarina has a sister Wasn't Lucas her brother?

Dark heroic energy. The Reapers are coming. etc.

The golem form would've been useful in SoA. But in ToB every peasant and his grandmother carries a +3 weapon.

Good one.

I've been playing the First Templar and while it's been bashed for "lol outdated graphics" and "bad facial animations lololol" it ran silk-smooth and without any bugs and crashes whatsoever. Not to mention, it was a damn fun and addictive game. The same goes for the Drakensang games. Hell, even Two Worlds 2. I'll be picking up the Witcher 2 tomorrow and it will probably run like **** and crash like there's no tomorrow. Not really looking forward to it.

Can you kill them?

Demo starring Katarina & Anjali, please. Kthxbai