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Am 18.05.11 07:54, schrieb Werner Punz:
> Am 18.05.11 00:52, schrieb Rin Stowleigh:
>
>> As far as the game itself goes the reviews are looking great on it, so
>> I'm looking forward to playing. Its downloading now but it might be a
>> couple of days before I get time to properly jump in and play around
>> with it.
>
> The game is absolutely awesome, gives Dragon Age 1 a run for its money,
> however two things (no spoilers)
> the difficulty settings really mean what they are. I was playing the
> intro on medium and literally got my a** spanked.
> Secondly the only weakness of the game is that the in game hints are
> realtively easy to overlook so better give the manual also a chance.
> Outside of that no severe bug awesome graphics and a wonderful story and
> gameplay. The game however is very on the action RPG side.

Just to add the information, if you play on normal the game is really 
hard in the intro mission until you got a hang of the fighting (which i 
have not entirely since i overlooked several aspects)

You can change the difficulty setting on the fly fortunately. But I 
personally would recommend start off with easy and once you feel 
comfortable enough go for normal. Normal is where hard is on most other 
games. While easy is too much press the button switching.
Normal forces you into tactical strategy planning because with simple 
button switching you definitely will be roasted especially in one of the 
intro missions (no spoilers there)

So before you go for normal, make sure you know how to apply potions 
(you only can do that in mediation mode, the game is not too clear here)
how to change the signs and how to use them and how to use bombs etc... 
in combat and learn the different combat moves like rolls etc.... 
Reading the manual for all that is vital, because the game is rather 
unclear with its help texts and the help texts in combination with dense 
action are not really that helpful.

I personally like this, CDProject simply did not care about mass appeal 
here and throws the player directly into the action. I guess they will 
hear a lot of moaning of people who think they stupiditly can press the 
button and will die constantly on everything above easy. But I 
personally love it that this game forces you on and off to different 
strategies there and that it does not do too much handholding.
Also feel free to run away makes sense in a lot of situations :-)

Feels sort of like the pc games of the 90s and until mid 2000s before 
the consolish handholding and mass apeal streamlining (aka making the 
games soulless and dumb) overtook.

Btw. another hint, for the intro missions if you play them in sequential 
order you will get a grip easier, if you are in for a treat play them in 
non sequential order :-)

Either way CD Project, with this game you got your rank in the games 
hall of fame along with Origin and others :-)
Best (Action) RPG of the last years, an absolute classic. I dont think 
there will be any RPG this year which can beat this game.

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The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 19:46 -0400
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs jnh@VictorTangoEleven.net.invalid (Jordan) - 2011-05-16 03:30 +0000
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 00:09 -0400
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs "Matt v3.3" <ethers.tragic@paradise.net.invalid> - 2011-05-16 20:04 +1200
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 08:36 -0400
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs WDS <Bill@seurer.net> - 2011-05-16 08:13 -0500
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 09:39 -0400
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs WDS <Bill@seurer.net> - 2011-05-16 08:58 -0500
            Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 10:25 -0400
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 08:46 +0000
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-17 23:08 +0200
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 08:44 +0000
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-16 23:54 -0500
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 08:41 +0000
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-17 23:07 +0200
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 18:06 -0400
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-18 00:12 +0200
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 18:52 -0400
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-18 07:54 +0200
            Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-18 09:20 +0200
              Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-05-18 17:25 -0400
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-19 10:14 +0200
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs "Andrew Rybenkov" <arybenkov@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 14:53 +0400
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-19 13:21 +0200
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Frank E <fakeaddress@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-19 07:57 -0400
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs JAB <nochance@nohope.com> - 2011-05-19 20:29 +0100
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-19 17:56 -0500
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs JAB <nochance@nohope.com> - 2011-05-20 18:45 +0100
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-20 09:12 +0000
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-19 23:38 +0200
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Florian Schaetz <iryan@gmx.de> - 2011-05-19 23:49 +0200
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 19:29 -0400
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Florian Schaetz <iryan@gmx.de> - 2011-05-20 11:53 +0200
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 07:07 -0400
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs noman <no_m_an@zzzyahoo.yycom> - 2011-06-08 00:27 -0700

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