Post by Dan @ 11:17am 25/05/11 | 33 Comments
Kosta has been adventuring all over The Northern Kingdoms for the past week and has many good things to say about the game in today's review.
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Posted 12:10pm 25/5/11
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Posted 12:39pm 25/5/11
the game itself is absolutely fantastic though.
the animation is great save for jumping from forwards to diagonal when running, they got lazy there for some reason.
the story is ridiculously rich with history and back stories. I find myself skipping through huge parts of dialogue because I'm not that invested in it but for people that like being completely immersed in a game world, this is a good one to do it in.
single other gripe is with the doors/climbing/jumping/looting left click system. annoying to have to get your position just right to operate but it's not game breaking by any means.
definitely deserves 9/10
Posted 01:11pm 25/5/11
Posted 02:45pm 25/5/11
The copy protection is casusing a 40 to 50% slowdown in FPS, if you use the GOG (DRM free) version or a cracked version you will get MUCH better fps. There is a thread about it on GURU3D where the Developer posted saying they will fix it in a future patch.
But for now if you want to play try and research the top (cant post links to such stuff) and you will find how to fix it.
Also...
Get the latest Nvidia Beta drivers 275.23, these fix issues and give better perf.
These drivers also enable SLI by default, and if you have DRM free version they will activate SLI... DRM also has issues with SLI...
Remove/uninstall 3D Drivers from the PC (nvidia related) to get better perf too.
Posted 03:18pm 25/5/11
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Posted 03:43pm 25/5/11
looking forward to getting home and playing more tonight.
Posted 03:47pm 25/5/11
Posted 03:53pm 25/5/11
I would recommend playing through the first if you can, as it helps a lot.
You can even import a save from the first like you could in ME2, but I haven't tried it as I played through a long time ago.
Posted 04:07pm 25/5/11
It's like Assasins Creed on PCP with 100x more s*** and a wicked dark sinister undertone.
9/10 fo sure
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Posted 06:09pm 25/5/11
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Posted 04:08pm 26/5/11
Posted 05:32pm 26/5/11
I think if you played the first you would know how to play as a lot of stuff is tweaked, e.g. they took away "group style" but along the sword upgrade path are talents that let you hit multiple opponents, im not sure that would have been totally apparent to someone who hadnt played the first? One think that was annoying me was the block key seemingly wouldnt work, didn't realise it took stamina to use it, it was probably shown in a two second popup somewhere...
The inventory is pretty crap, the alchemy could be heaps better.. e.g. i make a potion and it auto chooses diamond dust as an ingredient, rather than the 100 trash mushrooms i have, so if i want to make 5 potions i have to change that each time.. and check all the other ingredients just in case they are rare that i might need for crafting or something.
Apparently you can transmute your abilities somehow with mutagens, i think i saw that in a 1 second popup, but i have nfi how.. maybe its unlocked later on? I know theres an alchemy skiill that improves this talent, which is good but still...
The game is still good despite these faults, but youd have to be pretty oblivious to not notice them or discount them out of hand.
Posted 11:12pm 26/5/11
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Posted 05:27pm 27/5/11
It took a bit of adjusting to get used to the controls for me, though I think that learning curve was just because I expected it to be more like the first game. I didn't like the fact that every time I got swarmed by a group of monsters - even weaker varieties like nekkers - I'd drop dead in a matter of seconds. Once I'd upgraded my skills and had better equipment, this happened less, but it made me pretty damn apprehensive about going into any caves that required me to jump off a ledge into them. I didn't have any technical issues with my game aside from two random crashes, and my computer eats games for breakfast so it ran beautifully on the highest specs. I wouldn't attempt this with a lower-end PC... it will probably explode at the mere thought of running W2.
I've only played it through once going down the Roche path in the second chapter, and I'm working on my second play through now to side with Iorveth. I love that the game can go anywhere based on your choices... I'm deliberately doing the opposite to what I did the first time around and there are variations I didn't even expect, such as deciding to let Aryan La Valette live and the story that progresses from there.
I was left with a sour feeling in my gut at the ending because I felt that it was cut off quite abruptly and I think a game should transition smoothly into an ending. When the credits started rolling it was quite unexpected... I wasn't really left with that satisfied feeling you get when you complete a game, it was really a 'What the hell?!' moment for me.
All-in-all... easily in my top favourite games. And I assume there will be a sequel, so I guess I'll twiddle my thumbs for another five years waiting for that.
Posted 11:44am 28/5/11
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Posted 02:11pm 01/6/11
1. You get the best armour / weapons in probably the last 1% of the game, you have like 5 fights total with it, really sad.
2. Boosting alchemy in order to boost mutations doesn't effect skills which are already mutated + no respecs = f*****g retarded, apparently the only way you can respec is a reward from a quest for 1 side and i went with the other.
3. Insane difficulty can be at times.. f*****g insane and bat s*** frustrating, fighting multiple mobs and getting knocked down once is basically a death wish, especially when you're short attack basically does 3 flips before u get to them and they hit u before u hit them :\ Making you stay in closer then you want to.
But yer 9/10 sounds about right :p
Posted 02:29pm 01/6/11
Posted 03:38pm 01/6/11
Now for insane difficulty.
Posted 03:39pm 01/6/11