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On Mon, 23 May 2011 23:12:24 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
<rstowleigh@gmail.com> wrote:

>This historically has been part of my problem with RPGs.. I tend to
>run into one confusing element like this (who knows why I missed it
>the first time around), and I feel like if something like this is
>going to get by me only to surface later in the game, then I may be in
>for harder, more unexplainable issues down the road. 

Deal with it, that's definitely going to happen. :p 

I don't think there's any way to get everything 'right' during a
normal playthrough without spoilers. For one thing, you often don't
see any immediate consequences for your actions. You'll do something
and won't see it's affects until several hours of gameplay later. If
you try to play this game as a perfectionist, I think you'll get
terribly frustrated. One of the things I like about the game is that
there are consequences to what you're doing, and you can't get around
those with a simple save, reload, 'lets try a different dialogue
option'. 

> I guess part of
>it is that I'm not so much into the story aspect, so I tend to scan
>the dialog subtitles reading only enough to get the basic idea, then
>clicking to advance before the voice dialog is played.  It's probably
>part ADD-sort of thing, but also just in trying to get as much actual
>play time in as possible (if I want cut scenes I'll just go watch a
>blu ray on the couch in the living room).

From what I'm seeing so far, skipping cut scenes isn't a problem.
They'll put anything important in your journal. Not reading the
journal tends to be a problem for me. I'm used to playing games where
that kind of thing is just fluff. This isn't one of those games and
for me at least, that took some getting used to. 

I'm a fan of Mass Effect 2 which is about as streamlined as you can
get and still be called an RPG but I had to change gears before I
could get into the witcher 2. The pacing is completely different and I
can see where some people won't enjoy it. But for me, warts and all, I
really like this game. 

>I uploaded an image here that shows the issue, but you'll probably
>need to zoom in on the image to really see what I'm talking about.
>

I haven't seen anything like that. 

Rgds, Frank

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  Re: Witcher 2  question JAB <nochance@nohope.com> - 2011-05-22 07:48 +0100
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    Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-23 09:46 +0200
  Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 19:50 -0400
    Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-23 11:31 +0200
      Re: Witcher 2  question Sheldon England <sheldonengland@netscape.net> - 2011-05-24 14:37 -0700
        Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 18:30 -0400
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              Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-26 11:30 -0400
                Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-26 23:08 -0500
    Re: Witcher 2  question Frank E <fakeaddress@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-23 07:18 -0400
      Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-23 18:05 +0200
        Re: Witcher 2  question Frank E <fakeaddress@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-23 14:05 -0400
          Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 16:29 -0400
            Re: Witcher 2  question khaight@lefDELETEtistME.org (Kyle Haight) - 2011-05-23 15:57 -0500
              Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 17:43 -0400
                Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-24 08:15 +0200
                Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 09:37 -0400
                Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-24 16:51 +0200
                Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-24 19:10 -0500
          Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-24 08:09 +0200
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        Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-24 01:28 -0500
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            Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-27 20:52 -0400
              Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-27 23:41 -0500
                Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 02:34 -0400
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