>playing the first Witcher
>looks dated and gameplay is a little slow, but it's ultimately a good time
>starts getting really good after chapter 2's slog is over
>finish the game with no regrets
>start up Witcher 2
>it's boring and unlikable
Am I missing something? How did you guys get through it?
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did you go iorveth or roche?
also did you get past the prologue yet
I finished W1 a week ago and kinda wanted to take a pause before firing up W2 but there's something about it that looks so bland
Its funny how everyone loved TW2 before 3 came out. Now its the bland and boring one
It's just boring in comparison to tw1. It still has some great characters, though. Despite its casualization for the console audience, it's a solid western rpg and one of the only cinematic rpgs I've found enjoyable e
3=1>2
Witcher 2 was really jarring and easily the worst of the 3 games.
Iorveth at least made the game tolerable though; I slogged through it for him.
Treat it as an interactive political fantasy novel
Roche, because there was literally no real reason to side with Iorveth.
I stopped once I got to chapter 2.
>He chose Roche.
There's your problem.
I really had to force myself through 2, and the amount of 3 that I played. I really wanted to like them, but goddamn what trash.
wrong. it had the same complaints of it not being as good as tw1 since it came out.
Roche is objectively a better choice tho
It's a great game and mechanical/graphical improvement over TW1 so yeah, when it launched it was praised as slav magic.
I personally like it the least because it trades the atmosphere, weird slav shit and freedom for plot full of politics.
Same reason why I like first two books (stories) better than the saga.
>Witcher 2
>casualized
>compared to what's basically a QTE combat system
I swear, people only push this idea that later Witcher games are dumbed down because the first is a PC exclusive and not an action RPG. It's the hipster's choice.
>But there's one minor feature where you match red ingredients with red ingredients, black with black, and white with white!
That's hardly a deep layer of complexity and difficulty. I'd say that having to maneuver around and actually react to the things that are going on around you dwarfs that little feature by a pretty wide margin.
>Am I missing something? How did you guys get through it?
I haven't. Played and finished TW1 back in 2012 and still haven't finished the fisrt chapter of the second.
>objectively a better choice
Where is proof?
It becomes harder, yes.
He meant that they changed rpg combat to full action, the approach and design were simplified.
Witcher 2 isn't really that good, I prefer the original one because you actually got attached to the story due to it being about personal witcher stuff unlike Witcher 2 where you're forced to care about shitty politics and kings when Geralt is supposed to be pretty neutral about that sort of thing.
Good choice user
If you have the tatoo it will appear in 3
>roche is the better choice
>stopped playing after chapter 2 cos he chose roche
lmao u fucken stupid
>preferring 1 to 2
>Am I missing something?
Yeah. Taste.
Reality is the exact opposite, though
>Play W1
>It's a meme perpetuated by Sup Forums
>Has MMO controls, but it's a singleplayer game
>Drop it
>Try TW2
>It's incredible
>Story is engaging from the start
Sucks to be a nega-human, op.
You're not making any sense.
How is 2 boring but 1 isn't? It's ultimately the same game with different combat and level progression. And Witcher 2 isn't even that combat heavy once you get past the intro.
Not an argument.
I had the same feeling OP, they changed a LOT about how the game played. Its combat style is completely different in 2 and the default FOV was a console abortion. I'd recommend fixing it. Also they added the goofy batman vision.
Its a lot to take in going from 1 to 2, but if you stick with it you should eventually grow to like it for what it is.
How exactly is a third person action game simplified compared to "press the button at the right time to win"? The first Witcher was hardly Diablo 2.
The phrasing that you're looking for is "they switched to a more mainstream genre of gameplay", which most certainly isn't synonymous with dumbing down.
Isn't there some heavily recommended mod for W2's combat? Or is it as controversial as the series itself?
since when was the witcher series "controversial"? but yh there is a mod like that.
>not roleplaying in a roleplaying game
There is literally no reason for Geralt to suddenly fight in revolutionary uprising
have no desire to ever play the witcher games
other than you know being framed for murdering a king
You are not alone in this OP.
Many people felt as you did when first transitioning from TW1 to TW2, me included.
Today TW2 is my favourite of the three games.
TW2 is very different atmospherically and in scope to TW1, but rest assured it's a 10/10 game. You just have to learn to appreciate it, which will take probably several playthroughs and long stretches of time in between.
Yeah, joining the scoi'atel(who we're seen nearby when Foltest was murdered) will help his case.
> play witcher 3
> its utter garbage and Witcher 2 instantly becomes Vidya kino
its like pottery it rhymes
>Roleplaying game.
>Assume character has a preset identity you can't deviate from.
You retarded, son.
you're looking for Triss and Iorveth is most likely to have information on her
>fight in revolutionary uprising
that's not what following iorveth means. My first time around I went with him because he seemed to have more information on Letho than Roche did
FCR2 is honestly required for TW2 but its fucking perfect unlike FCR for the first Witcher
It seems you forgot that we are talking about Witcher game, where you play a fucking boring as shit cuck who wants nothing but to kill monsters like a dumbass, you have literally no impact on him
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Witcher 2 when you're near the battlefield really is rather boring, if I were you I'd just rush through the main questline to get to the final chapter, to then go play Witcher 3, which is fucking awesome
Do you really enjoy running around massive empty world, going from quest mark to quest mark that much ? In W2 they had perfect sealed off levels, why did they have to ruin in in W3, was it just to push their engine to its limits with the money they got ?
Does the Punished "Venom" Roche ending pays off in 3?
Who cares vote In my Witcher waifu poll instead
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>going from quest mark to quest mark
you don't have to play it like that you absolute retard
Roche is canon though, Iorveth isn't even mentioned in witcher 3 while they treat Roche as a bro.
>Iorveth
>Yeah, we can head up river right now and you can start finding Triss.
>Roche
>dude fuck your problems help me with my politics
>Iorweth requires me to give a singular fuck about Triss
I think I found the problem.
Where can I get Full Combat Rebalance without an account somewhere?
>help this bitch rise to power
>don't even get a thank you fuck, let alone romance option
I just wanted to rule the North with my waifu. Fuck Toussaint.
>since when was the witcher series "controversial"
For the past several years there have been daily Witcher love or hate threads.
Up until recently Witcher 1 was universally disliked (mostly due to the rhythmic combat) and Witcher 2 was generally liked.
The rythm-based combat in 1 is literally the best
My nigga, just imagine a threesome with her and Ciri
I wish people didn't meme so hard against it during TW2's creation. Elaborate and deepen the first game's sysstem, and you'd have a much better combat going on, rather than TW 2-3's generic action RPG. I enjoyed that fine as well, but there was something enjoyable about the weirdness of 1, which is gamemaking gold if you can turn it into its own thing.
Ciri or Anna need to win