The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Discussion Thread

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Tarcxy

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Was suprised to find no thread for Witcher 2 and even the first one here. Not many RPG fans out here eh? :p
The game is set to release on May 17 for the PC alone :eek:hyeah: - ok atleast for now.

The new engine looks wonderful. CD Projekt claims its the best RPG engine and it definitely looks awesome. We will have to wait and see how Skyrim's engine comes up. Witcher 2 wont release in India probably. I am waiting for my pre-load to unlock in gog. Anyone interested in the game here?
BTW, I am just playing the first one. Cant believe I missed it all this time. GOG has it for $4.99 now.

Some videos.


 
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I tried the first one but didnt liked the controls and the camera angles much.Anyways i will try it again some other time.

Has anyone read the books it is based on?
 
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Yes Yes Yes but where is the game available in INDIA. I already bought the Witcher standard edition, had it registered (now waiting for net to upgrade it to the Limited Edition). Hoping this game is just as engrossing as the first.

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but the devs got soo horny they have a full featured porn movie inside the game.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I call that more of artisitic liberties :bleh:.
 
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^^I had emailed intencity and flipkart about it. Didnt get a reply from either of them. Probably, it wont release here for the time being. But, I may be wrong. Will update if I get any reply.
 
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I will wait for reviews. After what happened with Brink, (and my recent disaster called Crysis 2), I'll hold on to my pocket money a bit longer.
 
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Dont know how I missed this thread! Witcher 2 has been my 2nd most anticipated game for sometime now. 1st one being Diablo 3 obviously. :p

Anyway, me too pre-loading now. But my sucky BSNL connection has picked this week only to be retarted again. Only downloaded 1.4GB till now :(
 
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Tarcxy said:
^^I had emailed intencity and flipkart about it. Didnt get a reply from either of them. Probably, it wont release here for the time being. But, I may be wrong. Will update if I get any reply.
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Thanks bruv, you deserve a rep. Plus that is why there are
torrentz
, I will not mind buying Witcher 2 again for 1399/- as long as the story is great and same with gameplay. And then playing the original edition all over again.

comp@ddict said:
I will wait for reviews. After what happened with Brink, (and my recent disaster called Crysis 2), I'll hold on to my pocket money a bit longer.
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Bruv, you really crack me up daily dose of digital entertainment, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... disaster = Crysis 2 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... sad what happened to Brink but so were my hopes dashed while playing Operation Flashpoint Red River EPIC PHAIL I REPEAT EPIC PHAIL inbound :facepalm:.
 
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. sad what happened to Brink but so were my hopes dashed while playing Operation Flashpoint Red River EPIC PHAIL I REPEAT EPIC PHAIL inbound .
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yeah moment I read reviews of Hydrophobia Prophecy, I was like "OMFG WTF"

here read it Impressions: Hydrophobia Prophecy | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

But this gets much worse. Start the game and the first thing you can do is look at some sleeping pills on a table, by hitting E. Once looked at, the only way to zoom in on the object is to press Enter. You can’t just mouse click on the option for Enter. You have to grow that third hand to navigate the menus, because this game is absolutely not optimised for the PC.
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But how about the game?

It’s horrible. It’s weirdly horrible. The whole game appears to have been designed with a sense of contempt. It hits so many of the most obvious frustrations – random deaths, dodgy jumping, invisible barriers, bad checkpoints, no saves, shoddy combat, crappy interface, and inane story – that it’s hard not to take it personally.
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But then there’s that thing about how annoying water sections are in any game. This whole game is that annoying section. You’re only ever running down identikit dull corridors, except in this game with the constant frustration of having to wade or swim to get to the only unlocked door. For the first hour or so this sogginess is tolerable, the game focusing mostly on climbing and crude acrobatics to negotiate. But then you stumble upon your first gun, and the whole thing becomes just miserable.
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The game’s misdirection seems misanthropic at times. One very early area has you climb an elevator shaft. There are pipes on the wall which you can ascend via the game’s simple point-to-climb system. Midway up you’ll grab the broken ladder, and see a short cutaway of the lift above you sliding slightly. There are more pipes on the next wall, so you climb those, reach back for the ladder once more, and the elevator car falls on you and you die. Oh. So you try again, this time more quickly. Nope – the falling seems to be triggered by grabbing the ladder. So maybe I jump from it at the last moment? No, still dead. So what if I climb higher? I can’t, and the lift falls anyway, and I still die. So it turns out what I was meant to do was break my neck by looking behind me midway up and notice the grey elevator doors, rather than climb up the bright red pipes in my immediate view. It appears to be deliberately designed to be as annoying as possible.
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the BEST PART:

And on a more personal level, there’s only so much time of my life I want to spend with a game that has the words “KILL YOURSELF” written across all its walls and video screens. I’m not contemplating suicide, I’m quite content with life and plan to continue living it, but I find myself to be a little bothered by this instruction everywhere I look. Sure, it’s the philosophy of the terrorists you’re ostensibly fighting against (by, er, killing them all – it’s surely what they want?), but it’s also a really quite stunningly grim sentence to read every minute.
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That trailer looks epic! I feel this will be a game which will push your PCs to the limit. I hope my 2 year old 4870 keeps up :p
 
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What a awesome trailer even better than ME2 which i felt had the best launch trailer
 
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^Get it from GoG.com na, you'll get one more game also free. But Steam has TF2 hats! Sorry, if I'm sounding like a fanboy :p
 
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How much does it cost there and one more thing

my sis is in us so iam planning to ask her to buy the game for me suppose i gave her my steam id and password and make the purchase in my account can i still play the game here?

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Right now it costs $45 in both GoG and Steam. Will be $50 after release. Sadly, no hopes for an Indian release i think.

Also, if you buy a game through steam online, then you can always play it anywhere. That region lock problem comes only if you buy a steam game in retail and then register it afaik.
 
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