The Witcher series should be much more popular

[LarenzoAOG]

And the things I like should be considered the pinnacle of human triumph!

 

[Rack]

I don't think fans of Witcher 1 are doing it any favours, for all it had a pretty good storyline if you perservered it was rough as hell. So Witcher 2 getting lauded makes it seem like "more of the same" as opposed to dramatically improved in a way that makes Assassins Creed 2 look like a yearly CoD update.

 

[Darth IB]

Well, micromanaging and tactics being the point of the combat, maybe you should've just left well alone... I'm being serious by the way. The point of the game was that it was challenging. If they expected you to cake walk the whole thing they wouldn't have bothered making the combat about tactics and instead just let you run around twatting everything.

Be that as it may, since I really liked Origins otherwise you can perhaps understand why I was happy that it was simplified for DA2?

Except, it didn't... If you genuinely went round for nice cups of tea and a friendly chat this might be more believable, but essentially you find yourself going to people's abode to tell them how much you hate them, how shit their plan is, why you are awesome and generally be as big a dick bag as possible. Yes, you could be nice, but you can just as easily not. Somewhat removing the point of being able to do it. Afterall why not just tell Anders he's a dickhead in the street? In fact the game goes so far as to reward you for alienating people in the form of a rivalry, instead of Origins where if you pissed someone off they tried to kill you (or at least fucked off). I grant the issue of some topics best being discussed behind closed doors and whatnot, but the characters are all such one dimensional, bland stereotypes it all seems rather pointless that they suddenly want some privacy.

If you choose to play a dick-hawke who goes to peoples houses to be an ass to them, then that's your choice. What is important is that you *could* go there and be a nice. The fact that you didn't need to play it that way enhances it rather than diminishes it, because it gives you the option to choose.
And as for the Rivalry, it's not always about being just a dick, but sometimes about tough love. And there are circumstances in which (some of) the companions actually do leave you.

This isn't my "if you disagree with me you're inferior" tone. This is my I'm going to tell you exactly why this game is shit tone. I have nothing against you personally, I just take issue with the game. I just found it odd that before you claimed to like the conversation wheel despite citing one of it's biggest flaws aswell. It may not have been a deal breaker for you, but considering you spend half the game locked in dead eyed conversation I would've preferred it to actually have some degree of depth.

The thing is, you seem to be of the opinion that "this game is shit" is a fact, as opposed to the opinion it actually is.
And I said from the start that the dialogue wheel was imperfect. I liked it as in I like the idea, and found that it worked well much of the time, but I did feel that it needs improvement. It did not work as well as it did in Mass Effect, for instance.

 

[Vrach]

I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time hearing you over how shit the gameplay, controls, UI, polish, story deliverance (fact it's a translation isn't an excuse) and just about everything else is in Witcher and Witcher 2.

Sorry, but I just can't stand the game. It just feels awful and trudging through it for the mediocre story just isn't worth it.

Did you just list polish as being a reason not to play this game? Seems a little contrived. Also, I'm sure there are plenty of games that come out of places like Japan with shittier translations than this that don't get as much flak. For some reason people just tend to find those funny rather than game breaking.

I don't play Japanese games (that I know of). Neither does most of the mainstream audience. The ones who do are used to how Japan does things and that's just it actually, Japan has it's own way of doing things. The guys who made Witcher made it not to stand there as a Polish product, but a product to stand shoulder to shoulder to any other Western game and try its best not to stand out (in terms of where it came from).

I'm comparing this game to the usual triple A titles like the OP did and it just doesn't hold up on any level. It has TONS of potential and trust me, I put a lot of effort in trying to like it, but when bad aspects are jumping out on every corner and there's nothing rewarding for pushing through it, I just can't find myself willing to play it. The story doesn't draw me in at all, combat's the most God awful thing I saw (and it would take SO little to 'fix' it, in fact I hear it works as intended with a controller, so maybe it's just a keyboard&mouse issue, but we're talking about a very PC title here) and everything about the game screams "this is a great idea that would've been done so much better by someone else"

 

[Susurrus]

SNIP

I agree. The combat was lame and repetitive, and I was glad when I stopped playing it.

 

[Joccaren]

It all depends on what people like in a game. There is no lack of knowledge about the game, yet I do not feel inclined to play it. Its playstyle just doesn't seem my type. I'll probably eventually get around to it, but ATM, I really don't need to.