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[Sirus]

Assuming "surface experience" means what I think it means, you might be right. I went into the Witcher pretty much blind and I found that neither the setting nor the characters appealed to me much.

[Neonivek]

Assuming "surface experience" means what I think it means, you might be right. I went into the Witcher pretty much blind and I found that neither the setting nor the characters appealed to me much.

But the Witcher has a Gravely voice and has lots of sex! Clearly his character is made of gold!

[burningpet]

I quit the witcher 2 the second i found out i cant jump over a half meter fence and have to bypass it by walking quite a lot.

[nenjin]

The Witcher series is on sale. You can get 1 and 2 for just over $10. Any opinions on them?

Skip the first and get the second.

W1 has its moments. So far it's the one I prefer. You really get the vibe of being a monster hunter. Researching your target, preparing bombs and potions and blade coatings, planning your strategy. Combat is boring for the most part because it's so easy, but at least you can get through it. The story is decent, the Vizima Investigation being the best part of it. It completely tanks the story in the end, but most games do that. It's like a Bioware RPG with way less talking and character interaction, grittier, where sex is always an option.

Witcher 2...I don't know what to make of yet. Combat is more active and engaging, but it's really awkward to me and hard to handle at times. I like the scenery, styling and atmosphere way more. I'm not a fan of the story so far though. I don't care about Squirrels and the "intrigue" and hard choices have been "meh" at best.

The best advice I have for playing the Witcher 1 is to sink all your skills into magic like ignii

If you do Aard, you'll basically trivialize most of the game's harder monsters. The other powers are, for the most part, totally unnecessary and not super useful except in corner cases.

A lot of them drag on for little reward and you'll be swimming in money if you loot everything anyway.

I dunno, I did every quest in the game and I never felt like money ran out of usefulness until the last chapter. (Armor sets are very expensive, as is forging, buying ores and reagents, and so forth.) I was never "omg I'm broke", but I always had something pricey to save my money for, for the most part.)

Maybe not that much fun if you're not looking for a new surface experience?

That's pretty fair. It's really the setting that makes the game. Mechanically, it's a little hit or miss. The character leveling mechanics I enjoyed, odd as it is. How combat handles and the "logic" of it though was just kind of annoying and/or cheap.

[Neonivek]

Combat is boring for the most part because it's so easy

Let me put it this way... Witcher 1's combat is actually just a large Quick Time Event.

[nenjin]

Combat is boring for the most part because it's so easy

Let me put it this way... Witcher 1's combat is actually just a large Quick Time Event.

You say that like you're telling me something I don't know.

[hemmingjay]

This is why I never played more than 30 minutes of Witcher

[Darkmere]

Quick Time Event.

There. That was all the needed to be said. Pass.

[Lightningfalcon]

Combat is boring for the most part because it's so easy

Let me put it this way... Witcher 1's combat is actually just a large Quick Time Event.

Give it a bit more credit then that.   
Combat, at it's core, consist of using two different styles (I've never found a use for group style) Fast is good for quickly taking down fast enemies, or a group of weak ones, while strong can take out stronger stuff.  You click on the enemy you want to attack, and wait until the prompt comes up to eithe attack the enemy with a stronger attack with a bonus of some sort or to attack another enemy, continuing to combo.  When facing large groups, it's possible to whittle them down by attacking one at the edge an quickly getting out of range, or by hitting them with the igni.  You can also brew things like potions to help efeat enemies.  So it's much less about having a good trigger finger an more about the story, along with planning out your attacks, or knowing when not to attack. 

[Neonivek]

Give it a bit more credit then that

Sometimes you have to make sure you hit the button at the right time fast enough because an enemy has a damage aura that will constantly drain your health.

I've never found a use for group style

It is a faster method of taking down annoying enemies and is actually pretty dang fast.

I actually think strong stance is the useless one. Since once you are good enough, you can easily make up for strong stance and most of the toughest enemies dodge strong stance all day (with their lovely damage aura)

[Catastrophic lolcats]

If I remember correctly group style would scale damage and defence with the amount of monsters surrounding you. Was great for taking down the hordes of drowned dead and generic bandits that attack you.

[Neonivek]

If I remember correctly group style would scale damage and defence with the amount of monsters surrounding you. Was great for taking down the hordes of drowned dead and generic bandits that attack you.

It is also extremely fast. If you can get all the prompts you can out damage strong style pretty quickly.

Well except against enemies who specifically have additional defense against styles that aren't the strong style... But most enemies don't have that and the ones that do tend to be rather pathetically weak.

[Sergius]

So basically Group Style is like a law of conservation of Ninjitsu, in reverse.

[Vector]

>____>

You can pare pretty much any game down to a series of QTEs, if you really want to get into the nitty-gritty.  I think the bad ones are the ones where it puts a flashing button on the screen and goes "PRESS X TO NOT DIE" or whatever.

Like, Mass Effect 2 had obvious quick-time events.  But they were great, because they were cutscene interrupts.

[olemars]

I liked the Witcher :\
My only problem was that it wasn't very hoarder friendly. Kept running out of inventory space carrying around all the slimy, smelly alchemy ingredients I found.