Yeah. I felt the same. Didn't enjoy it at all. I don't how why it scored so well with reviews and gets such high praise. I stuck it out until about half way through but ended up trading it. Just didn't like it.
Opinions on The Witcher 2?
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Yeah. I felt the same. Didn't enjoy it at all. I don't how why it scored so well with reviews and gets such high praise. I stuck it out until about half way through but ended up trading it. Just didn't like it.
I really wanted to like this game too but I just couldn't get into it. I know we like games to feel like their own experience but this game played way different than I was used to. Of course I love Skyrim and Dragons Dogma and felt the Witcher should have been kind of similar. Maybe the third will be better and offer a more polished and better executed experience. The controls and graphics were lacking.
I'm not saying it's nothing like the books. I just didn't care for that much politics. Sometimes it was hard to follow. I always put subtitles on and that helped. I want to read the book. Now that you tell me it's heavy on the politics, I'm reserved on my purchase.
This exactly. You will need to give the game time to lay out its cards before it can truly show you everything there is to see. I personally did not enjoy my first five hours with the game, but as the story opened up and the quests became more interesting, I found the game nearly impossible to put down.
It's a great title if you give it the chance it deserves.
I could never play it past the first hour. Early exposition of the narrative was not effective, and surprisingly, there was a lack of polish just about everywhere in the game. Sound design was totally off, visual effects are thrown on the screen and never blend right, voice acting does not sound right, UI is not responsive, etc. I still have no idea why the game got that much of a great score. Maybe it has something I'm not seeing, but anyways I don't see anything.
I'm surprised so many found it so slow to start. I started enjoying it right from the get go. I guess I'm partial towards it because I feel like it's the closest to a video game version of Game of Thrones that isn't an actual Game of Thrones title.
Probably not as heavy as you're thinking. It's still mostly character-driven. Politics are involved as part of the setting, since they impact various things about the world Geralt lives in. If you decide to read them, keep in mind that The Last Wish is kind of a side-story book, and not part of the main series of books. For the stuff that heavily involves Yennefer and Ciri, then you should start with The Blood of Elves, followed by Time of Contempt. Those are the only two that have been translated into English so far, with Baptism of Fire coming Spring 2014.
Like I mention, you need to give it time. Its not a pick & go game. There are good reasons it was so highly rated, but the reasons do not shown up unfortunately in the first to maybe 10 hours depends on how fast you play.
The tutorial stage(there wasn't even one on the PC version) was heavily criticise for being NOT helpful, & admittedly the combat learning curve was a little too much for most people, & never really explain well. The alchemy & skill tree interface can be much much improve.
There are a grocery list of very awful game design, & you will see almost all of them within the 1st hours. I guess that's why many people give up. But once you start to understand the combat, the gameplay, & start able to live with the micromanagement of the inventory, you discover one of the deepest, best RPG on the generation.
