I have a http://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-17.3-Inspiron-17R-Laptop-PC-with-Intel-Pentium-Dual-Core-P6000-Processor-and-Genuine-Windows-7-Home-Premium/14663165, now I know it's a laptop, but it played Oblivion well enough without no probs but wouldn't play Witcher for crap, which was very disappointing. I know that 1 is good and 2 will be very good and hopefully that one they make for consoles, eventually, is as good.

Man, I can't believe I waited this long to play this game, I got it cheap on Steam during the summer sale, and I loved it, just loved it. Geralt is awesome, no other words will fit, imagine finding a way to distill pure awesome, then make a man out of it, you'd get Geralt...or a messy kitchen, whatever, I enjoyed the game.

I sided with the Scoiatel on the first playthrough, but I might go back and play through it again as a neutral witcher, as I hear that's more fitting with Geralt's character. I'll never side with the order, it was the same in Dragon Age, I hated the Templars there and I hated the Order in the Witcher, granted I didn't mind Siegfried at first, at least not when he was paying me, but in general I have a problem with religious orders in games, they always seem to be fanatics. The Scoiatel are terrorists, but in my eyes their cause is more justified by far than the Order's, besides, the Order is butting into my line of work damnit, if they kill all the monsters, how will I afford books (That Dwarven book salesman robbed me, I know it) and hokers?

Anyway, the second one looks awesome, but I'm worried I won't be able to run it well on this computer, it's a new laptop with an i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and 1GB of GPU memory, but I still couldn't run the Witcher at full settings, maybe as it's an older game it has trouble with quad core processors though, I don't know, I've heard of games being like that before, some insight on that would be nice.

Anyway, I just started a playthrough and I'm determined to be neutral, as hard as it may be, few games have had characters I've despised so much as the reverend from the outskirts, or the [censored] professor...I'd be happy with the Kikimore queen for that, but that part was a nightmare to get through, that's really my only major problem with this game, that level was just unfair.

Granted, it wasn't to hard when I knew what to do, the issue was being trapped by the smaller kikimores, thus not being able to move fast enough to Aard the pillars in time, and I had so many saves (Quicksave apparently takes a different slot each time, I had over 800 saves after my first playthrough) and loading after I died took about ten minutes...I'm hoping the developers learned from that encounter, it wasn't implemented well I thought. Otherwise, great game.

Heh. Yeah, I thought it was a terrific and engrossing game. I had it sitting unopened for months until I decided to try it, because I was thinking that I didn't like a pre-made character. But then as I played, I felt like I did create the Geralt character I wanted. I have also usually sided with the Scoiatel - but they are bastards and self-righteous. Just more tolerable to me than the order, and also, having read some of the short stories, you know he is friendly with some elves, so it didn't seem wildly out of character to lend them some aid. I did do a neutral play-through - you are forced at a few points to make a choice, but it felt pretty true to the character.

The load times were always a problem on this game from early days, but still, clunky. The devs have said that they learned alot from the first game. so lets hope that was one of the things.

Anyone read the books? I would like to give them a try, but if the translation (or book itself) is bad, then I wont bother.

I read The Last Wish and Blood of Elves - both were pretty good.

Few years ago I've read two tomes of stories and all 5 novels - I loved them. World of The Witcher is not like another fantasy world - elves are not peaceful and proud beings, not everything ends happily, I've even read in few places that Geralt may be considered a tragic hero, but I won't post any spoilers. I have no idea about the English translation, though.

Resurrection v.2.0 - some goodies to :drool: over (in case you have not seen those yet...)

A few screenshots and a poster:

http://www.otofotki.pl/img15/obrazki/pk6595_The-Witcher-2-Screenshot-39.jpg

http://www.otofotki.pl/img15/obrazki/ir8501_The-Witcher-2-Screenshot-42.jpg

http://www.otofotki.pl/img15/obrazki/ko2384_The-Witcher-2-Screenshot-43.jpg

http://www.otofotki.pl/img15/obrazki/dg9605_The-Witcher-2-Screenshot-45.jpg

http://www.otofotki.pl/img15/obrazki/bp9998_The-Witcher-2-Screenshot-46.jpg

http://img1.vpx.pl/up/20100818/thewitcher2hqrender04geralt_monster_192044.jpg

20 minutes of gameplay (contains some spoilers for prologue):

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_gc_the_witcher_2_presentation-9826_en.html

...and last but not least http://kotaku.com/5617866/whats-inside-the-best-press-kit-at-gamescom/gallery/

Leydenne's gonna get ever more excited over her boy "new and improved". Hopefully he'll have plenty of amorous exploits for her.

Someone should tell Geralt that there is a huge zeugl behind him.

Other screens, purrrdy.

She's not the only one.

I have tried to play the witcher EE many times now. I just can't get into it.

The horrible, horrible, horrible dialogue and terrible voice acting ruin it for me. Same goes for the spastic arm movements that everyone does. It feels like I'm in a room of people having seizures constantly.

IDK. It's also really stuttery. Can't play the game without some sort of lag. Lowest settings. My specs are good enough. IDK. I've tried and tried to play it. Just can't. :shrug:

Next year is shaping up to be an unusually good year for the RPG genre but the Witcher 2 is definitely the game that I anticipate more than anything else.

Is it 3rd person camera view only? I can't get into games like that.

Yea, no first person. Also that looks amazing.

*swoons* Almost shirtless Geralt! :twirl:
He's sooo dreeeeamy in that scary-I-can-kill-you-with-a-look sort of way. :wub: Still not digging the pony tail though.

@raistlinmajere8 That's perfectly okay. For me Oblivion was simply tedious, tons of people enjoyed it though... :shrug: Whatever works for you.

@miltos33 I concur - 2011 can't come soon enough. I'm really looking forward to TW2 and Mafia 2. Not decided about DA2 yet.

@Leydenne His hair are still in alpha version, while ponytail will probably stay, they will improve it (I hope). And shirtless Geralt you say? :disco: http://images.gamersyde.com/image_the_witcher_2_assassins_of_kings-13561-2006_0008.jpg

I hope they've improved the gameplay a bit, the story was absolutely fantastic but the gameplay mechanics were a bit awkward, they were fine when I got used to them, but nowhere near great. I'm also a little put off by how they hail quicktime events as a groundbreaking new feature, apparently they haven't figured out that almost every gamer in the world hates them.

But yeah, it looks great and I'm looking forward to it a lot.

You know, when I first loaded up the EE I raised my eyebrow to the so-called "improvements" to the dialogue. To my ear it actually sounded worse. Then I finished the Prologue, and it was all good again. I'm really not sure what happened there, but I figure I can put up with some lousy dialogue in the first hour for the improvements it makes to the later game.

They're releasing a much cheaper version of the enhanced edition http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/PC-Games/The-Witcher-Enhanced-Edition-Best-Of/8048029/ which I will be pre ordering

http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/PC-Games/The-Witcher-2-Assassins-of-Kings/6002358/

I just got finished my play through of the game. It was quite a trip down memory lane, and I chose neutral this time. With time it seems my perceptions of the world have changed, and it was amazing. I even played it on hard, and I still say those damn giant centipedes are the hardest monsters in the game if they manage to surround you.

Edit
I wonder how the import feature is going to work?

http://gamescom.gamespot.com/story/6274227/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings-impressions/?tag=picks;title;3

Something stood out:

16 endings, ouch!

I can't wait for this game!!!!?!! :twirl:

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,770624/Witcher-2-Tech-stuff-from-the-best-game-at-Gamescom-2010/News/. May be spoiler-y, so read at your own risk, The presentation at the end has a lot of screenshots. Mmmmm, shirtless Geralt. :wub:

I hope this game will be awesome like the first one. Mmmmm...awesome game. :wub:

hee. Oh...yeah, that too! This may be my most anticipated 2011 game.

Just a reminder to people who have seen videos of the Witcher 2, the voice actors are placeholders and will not be in the final product.