The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings Thread

[Frizz]

Also you might enjoy this.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110520/Capture003.jpg

I lol'd .. this game officially beats Demon's Souls in terms of difficulty .

 

[ShiBDiB]

Playing with a xbox controller, having alot more fun with this then i did DA2.. but its f'ing hard on hard.

Need to remap the autosave to a button on my controller so i can hit it every 12 seconds

 

[MilkyWay]

The worst thing is dying and getting sent back to a save a while back so i will have to quick save a lot more often.

Im in the jungle/forest and its amazing, i like this game a lot more now. You really get thrown in at the deep end when you begin the game but it gets better trust me it really does.

I just resigned myself to the fact every battle or fight takes ages once i did that the game got a lot easier for me, still kicks your arse on medium though. AARD sign to stun and then you can one hit kill if your lucky. Also throws enemies off walls and sides, i threw a guy of a canyon side using that sign!

 

[WhiteLotus]

I am thoroughly enjoying this game.

Though yea... it is a bit hard! But it's great, you really have to use the signs, and by god how i love aard and quen

 

[pantherx12]

Playing through my witcher 1 again before I get round to this one.

Bloody hell the controls are crappy XD

I completely forgot.

 

[Frizz]

@Pantherx12 that is the exact reason I stopped playing the first one, it was unbearable for me haha. I wiki'd the plot tho, win

I myself am finding this alot more enjoyable as opposed to the recent games that has been released, the environment is beautiful and the story makes me feel immersed. I am having fun with the signs too, I am getting the hang of battle a bit more it takes more thinking instead of raw skill.

 

[WhiteLotus]

@Pantherx12 that is the exact reason I stopped playing the first one, it was unbearable for me haha. I wiki'd the plot tho, win

I myself am finding this alot more enjoyable as opposed to the recent games that has been released, the environment is beautiful and the story makes me feel immersed. I am having fun with the signs too, I am getting the hang of battle a bit more it takes more thinking instead of raw skill.

And you can't win by pure hack'n'slash

you really have to use everything in your arsenal to win in a fight with 5 other guys

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah I read a quote from a dev back when that said the combat system will be "easy to use but hard to master". This is fine, especially after the first game.

And you can't win by pure hack'n'slash

you really have to use everything in your arsenal to win in a fight with 5 other guys

Yeah in the first one you'd just choose Group Style and you'd hit all 5 with wide arcing slashes time and time again until they fell (which wasn't long).

 

[the54thvoid]

And you can't win by pure hack'n'slash

you really have to use everything in your arsenal to win in a fight with 5 other guys

Which includes a whole lot of heroic tactical retreats

RUN AWAY!!!!

 

[AphexDreamer]

OMG I THOUGHT I JUST SUCKED!

But the game is pretty hard on normal! Its not your normal hack and slash RPG. You have to actually think about what your doing, or just let your Teammates go in and do some damage first. Usually just doge hit, doge hit.

First level and I died like 20 times before I made it to a flaming bridge where I got caught reading the pop-up tutorial message and then realized the game had told me to run across said flaming bridge or face death due to it collapsing.

It was another 30 deaths before I got to that bridge again.

 

[ShiBDiB]

This game is retardedly hard at some points... I hate easy games but this is borderline stupid

 

[the54thvoid]

This game is retardedly hard at some points... I hate easy games but this is borderline stupid

I am sooo happy it's not just me. Still, it beats wanky chop chop RPG's where you kill anything with a sneeze. I'm trying and failing so far to kill the Kayran (river monster).

 

[Marineborn]

installing now and preparing to be irate picked it up for 25pnds at blockbuster and it was the lmiited edition one to with allt he stuff inside, fucking score

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

I am sooo happy it's not just me. Still, it beats wanky chop chop RPG's where you kill anything with a sneeze. I'm trying and failing so far to kill the Kayran (river monster).

I am playing on easy but I still killed the Kayran without the silver sword.

Spoiler

The Kayran is a bitch. Use the freeze bomb (second sign) and stay to the far left or right of the area but far enough back from the monster to be out of swing range from the last tenticle. When you find the right spot stay still for a few seconds until the monster starts to swing down at you. You can actually dive/roll twice before the monster hits and they always hit where you were standing. You only need to kill 3 of the 4 tenticles on the far sides.

I'm using the 360 controller to play this because this feels like a good game to play from the sofa. I'm not usually big on RPGs but this style of combat is really fun. I would have completely avoided this game if it were turn based fighting. Even on Easy you still die pretty quickly and I think this combat style actually lends itself to using a gamepad really well. They took the time to really iron out the controlls and if I did not know any better I'd think this was a Windows Live Game because the controls are so tight.

I'm on the second chapter now. Only played 12h yesterday. I better get back in there.

 

[AphexDreamer]

I find this a very interesting RPG where people don't lock doors or chests and your free to literally take anything lying around and from anyone.

Seriously?

I just walked into your home and stole everything from your house and your not mad?

OK

 

[Batou1986]

I find this a very interesting RPG where people don't lock doors or chests and your free to literally take anything lying around and from anyone.

Seriously?

I just walked into your home and stole everything from your house and your not mad?

OK

I always took it as accusing a Witcher of stealing might be bad for your health.

\ in the first one there where a few times where your theft of an item impacted the game.


anyone running this on something like an 9800gtx ? i don't want to buy it and have to play on uber low settings.

 

[Marineborn]

found out disabling one of your gpu's when its in crossfire bumps up your performace a rediculous amount

 

[WhiteLotus]

I always took it as accusing a Witcher of stealing might be bad for your health.

\ in the first one there where a few times where your theft of an item impacted the game.


anyone running this on something like an 9800gtx ? i don't want to buy it and have to play on uber low settings.

I'm playing on a 4850, and whilst it's not running beautifully it certainly is playable.

 

[AsRock]

I find this a very interesting RPG where people don't lock doors or chests and your free to literally take anything lying around and from anyone.

Seriously?

I just walked into your home and stole everything from your house and your not mad?

OK

HAHA, When we used to run a NWN1 with the default campaign we sorted that out so people would get mad and when you broke the chests because your lock picking sucked it would break the items in side it.

And yes it took frigging ages to change each and every check though out NWN1.

 

[douglatins]

I have no idea what I'm doing in this game. I guess I really should read the manual.

I just walk around talk to everyone, kill and steal everything.

My god this game is hard, walk into a courtyard with 2 guys with shields, 1 massive guy in armor with a sword, another guy in armor with a sword, and 3 lackeyes in leather with swords. Got it down to 2 of them left and they were really hurt, but finally died, and this is during the intro. :/

I died massive amount of times in that part, the rest of the game was not as as hard, until now...

I am sooo happy it's not just me. Still, it beats wanky chop chop RPG's where you kill anything with a sneeze. I'm trying and failing so far to kill the Kayran (river monster).

I know, this game is difficult, but it has save, so not as ruthless as demons souls.

 

[erocker]

I just walk around talk to everyone, kill and steal everything.

Ah, just like real life. Cool.

I was talking more on controls, keys, etc. I pretty much have it down now.

 

[WhiteLotus]

Ah, just like real life. Cool.

I was talking more on controls, keys, etc. I pretty much have it down now.

I tend to use the Quen sign an awful lot.

 

[Lionheart]

Hmmm Im interested in this game but judging from a mates experience and everyones comments, I think I might pass for now, unless someone can convince me otherwise

 

[AsRock]

Hard is to hard and normally is a pain some time and easy is waaaaaaay to easy.

 

[WhiteLotus]

Hmmm Im interested in this game but judging from a mates experience and everyones comments, I think I might pass for now, unless someone can convince me otherwise

The only negative thing i've heard and experienced is that it can be a bit hard. So no idea what you've been told.

I've just defeated the Kayran, that certainly took a number of goes!