Pidesco Posted April 13, 2011 Posted April 13, 2011 "In other news, lobster is better than grapes." Please don't cheat the system. Very rude. Let's be clear about one thing - lobster, by its very nature, is absolutely disgusting! Sorry. "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist I am Dan Quayle of the Romans. I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands. Heja Sverige!! Everyone should cuffawkle more. The wrench is your friend.
Minchi Posted April 13, 2011 Posted April 13, 2011 Oh yeah from what i heard that witcher 2 won't have any major system hindering drms at all....Whoa by then it would be really kewl to have on copy and be able to install it on to friends pcs and other things o.o;; That one is the first step of non drm style though... Aweshum right?
greylord Posted April 13, 2011 Posted April 13, 2011 Oh yeah from what i heard that witcher 2 won't have any major system hindering drms at all....Whoa by then it would be really kewl to have on copy and be able to install it on to friends pcs and other things o.o;; That one is the first step of non drm style though... Aweshum right? ??? NOt certain what you are saying...but I'm glad that I'll at least be able to INSTALL it on my PC (Legit copies of game with DRM don't install since my gaming rig is normally NOT connected to the internet...so me is happy that I can actually have a PC game that will install).
Majek Posted April 13, 2011 Posted April 13, 2011 Oh yeah from what i heard that witcher 2 won't have any major system hindering drms at all....Whoa by then it would be really kewl to have on copy and be able to install it on to friends pcs and other things o.o;; That one is the first step of non drm style though... Aweshum right? Well if you buy at gog.com it won't have any drm at all. 1.13 killed off Ja2.
MechanicalLemon Posted April 14, 2011 Author Posted April 14, 2011 A VERY favorable preview from Destructoid. There are some minor spoilers about the beginning of the game. A few snippets: 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. This makes me so giddy. HYPE! 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. It's a refreshing take on the old narrative structure we've grown accustomed to in RPGs, for sure. 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!
HoonDing Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 (edited) It beats DA2. What an achievement. Example of a village in TW2: Edited April 14, 2011 by virumor The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
RPGmasterBoo Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 So how's about we get some money together to get Ray and Greg a copy? Imperium Thought for the Day: Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life
Majek Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 Why should they care? They're making money. 1.13 killed off Ja2.
RPGmasterBoo Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 Why should they care? They're making money. Dunno, perhaps they'd like to play a real game while they're making money. Imperium Thought for the Day: Even a man who has nothing can still offer his life
Azdeus Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 Rock Paper Shotgun preview Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Morgoth Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 Atmosphere and production values are great, but I can't quite get used to the blatantly medieval setting. I like my fantasy in my fantasy RPG. Rain makes everything better.
Malcador Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 It's low fantasy, no ? Combat looks decent, on paper at least. Lack of manual save is a bit strange. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Volourn Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 The Witcher series is definitely high fantasy, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
Enoch Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 Yeah, I'd say that there's a bit too much 'deciding the fate of kingdoms' and such to call TW "low fantasy." It's the flavor of high fantasy that sells itself as "gritty" and "dark" (read: castles have privies and people swear a lot) rather than "epic" and "heroic," but you're still slaying dragons and rescuing princesses. (You just get to see their **** afterwards.)
Malcador Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 (edited) Whoops, yeah I'm wrong about that. Well at least I think I am, never really remember the difference, heh. Edited April 14, 2011 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
HoonDing Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 If it has dragons, it must be high fantasy. (in your face, GRRM) The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Lexx Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 (edited) Some livestream stuff going on on GOG. Don't know yet if it's about the Witcher 2, but I'll guess it will be. /Edit: And it is. Edited April 14, 2011 by Lexx "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
Azdeus Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 The Witcher 2, non GOG DRM details. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
Dermi Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 It's low fantasy, no ? Combat looks decent, on paper at least. Lack of manual save is a bit strange. There is manual save. In one of first previews on recent press-build some Polish journalist first claimed that there is only autosave, then he corrected himself that he didn't read thoroughly key bindings he got with preview build (sic!) and with F5 (or F6) you could quicksave anytime you want. Plus, I think devs said there will be normal, manual save through the menu, too.
Gizmo Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 Minimalist UI is good, less things invading the screen that way, hard to pull off though. But it's not like TW had a really complicated UI, and now with the removing of the group stance and the general change in gameplay that makes less use of hotkeys (best example : the spells and the bombs), they could gain some room.I was worried about that; Seems the worries were founded. The game looks (visually) fantastic, but it looks like they've changed the gameplay away from the original.
Humanoid Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 I think it was the first game's quicksave feature that didn't distinguish between quicksaves and regular saves and used a new slot every time? Swamped my SSD full of hundreds of saved games. L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G
Dermi Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 I think it was the first game's quicksave feature that didn't distinguish between quicksaves and regular saves and used a new slot every time? Swamped my SSD full of hundreds of saved games. Yup. And not only quicksaves, autosaves too. Even after the latest patch their size was a bit large, e.g. 15MB per save. I finished up with manually controlling number of saves, deleting the oldest ones from disk, and yet at the end game I had over 200MB save files. Wonder it they changed this behaviour in TW2.
Hassat Hunter Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 Pfff, I have had 2+GB of Deus Ex saves. THEY were large... ^ I agree that that is such a stupid idiotic pathetic garbage hateful retarded scumbag evil satanic nazi like term ever created. At least top 5. TSLRCM Official Forum || TSLRCM Moddb || My other KOTOR2 mods || TSLRCM (English version) on Steam || [M4-78EP on Steam Formerly known as BattleWookiee/BattleCookiee
Dermi Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 Pfff, I have had 2+GB of Deus Ex saves. THEY were large... Since we started to compare "who's got bigger one" () I'll say that I've read some people complaining their Witcher saves were around 4 to 5 GB (that's a bit extreme for me, looks like someone was spamming quicksaves like there was no tomorrow). As for DX I can't say much, because I played it a very long time ago and don't remember much of it's save sizes. Maybe I should get back to it and actually finish the game this time.
Oner Posted April 16, 2011 Posted April 16, 2011 During the first mission in DX1 I had saved more than 80 times, the file was around 700MB. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
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