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Posted May 18, 2011
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revial: I had no crashed, and only one bug that required reloading a previous save. ;p

The bug was entering a door before an NPC I was supposed to follow. This apparently broke his script so that he was "stuck" waiting for me to appear and thus refused to move onward. After that, just to be safe, I made sure I actually followed every NPC, even though the issue hadn't sprung up on some previous NPC follows I had done previous to that specific one. :p

My only real gripe outside of consolizing the UI that uses a scrolling list designed around small screen resolutions was that the game was pretty short. But, shortness is a complaint us old fogies have had for years now, and I'm well aware the days of me spending 50-100 hours to finish a game are long gone so I'm mostly ok with that (took less than 20 hours while missing five quests on hard). I consider myself a pretty good gamer though, so like anything related to time to completion, it's pretty relative. Some other metrics for recent RPGs to put it into perspective for me was 35 hours for Dragon Age Origins the first time through and about 18 hours for Dragon Age 2 doing everything except the (at the time) bugged wounded coast quest in the last part of the game.

Otherwise, I loved...LOVED how much more in tune with the novels the game was this time around, which easily overcame any issues I had with the game mechanics and length.
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MADPADDY: Less than 20 hrs WHAT im on 22.32 hrs and im not past the Act1 yet.
Wow that's interesting, haven't done first act 1 either.

Are you doing all the quests you can find, talking to npcs?
Posted May 18, 2011
I just witnessed the famous bathing scene. It was beautiful. But yeah it comes with choices to make and it's a pain.
Posted May 18, 2011
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MADPADDY: Less than 20 hrs WHAT im on 22.32 hrs and im not past the Act1 yet.
If you know it THAT precisely, you must have found the hourglass in the game - where is it? Feel really stupid, asking the same question over and over again and nobody answers it... :(
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Frostbeast: Im not rushing it. It took me an hour to find all fu..ing nekkar hives.
Dragon Age 1 48 hours and DA2 28 hours finish time (without dlc).
I guess I have 2-3 times more fun than you, then. ;) I think my first DA:O playthrough was about 120 hours, second around 100.
Did you even read the journal? I admit, I didn't read ALL the codex entries in DA, but not all of them were interesting - in TW the entries contain valuable information.
Posted May 18, 2011
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MADPADDY: Less than 20 hrs WHAT im on 22.32 hrs and im not past the Act1 yet.
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greenfish: Wow that's interesting, haven't done first act 1 either.

Are you doing all the quests you can find, talking to npcs?
Yeh talk to everyone, walk not run most of time, explore everywhere,and just wondering around killing everything that moves lol.theres lots of secrets and locked doors that i still havent found keys for.
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MADPADDY: Less than 20 hrs WHAT im on 22.32 hrs and im not past the Act1 yet.
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AudreyWinter: If you know it THAT precisely, you must have found the hourglass in the game - where is it? Feel really stupid, asking the same question over and over again and nobody answers it... :(
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Frostbeast: Im not rushing it. It took me an hour to find all fu..ing nekkar hives.
Dragon Age 1 48 hours and DA2 28 hours finish time (without dlc).
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AudreyWinter: I guess I have 2-3 times more fun than you, then. ;) I think my first DA:O playthrough was about 120 hours, second around 100.
Did you even read the journal? I admit, I didn't read ALL the codex entries in DA, but not all of them were interesting - in TW the entries contain valuable information.
Hour glass ermm no lol,is it a quest in act 1 ??.
Post edited May 18, 2011 by MADPADDY
Posted May 18, 2011
Oh okay, good to know you still have a few doors to visit then :)

next question: is it possible to max out all skill trees on one playthrough? Or is it meant to be played more than once, example 1 time you spend most of the stuff on magic, the other combat etc.

Also do you know if your original witcher 1 save have anything to do with all the games endings?

Thanks!
Post edited May 18, 2011 by greenfish
Posted May 18, 2011
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greenfish: Wow that's interesting, haven't done first act 1 either.

Are you doing all the quests you can find, talking to npcs?
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MADPADDY: Yeh talk to everyone, walk not run most of time, explore everywhere,and just wondering around killing everything that moves lol.theres lots of secrets and locked doors that i still havent found keys for.
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AudreyWinter: If you know it THAT precisely, you must have found the hourglass in the game - where is it? Feel really stupid, asking the same question over and over again and nobody answers it... :(



I guess I have 2-3 times more fun than you, then. ;) I think my first DA:O playthrough was about 120 hours, second around 100.
Did you even read the journal? I admit, I didn't read ALL the codex entries in DA, but not all of them were interesting - in TW the entries contain valuable information.
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MADPADDY: Hour glass ermm no lol,is it a quest in act 1 ??.
I wouldn't have the patience to walk all the time if i m given the ability to always run ^^;.
Posted May 18, 2011
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MADPADDY: Yeh talk to everyone, walk not run most of time, explore everywhere,and just wondering around killing everything that moves lol.theres lots of secrets and locked doors that i still havent found keys for.


Hour glass ermm no lol,is it a quest in act 1 ??.
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Hawat: I wouldn't have the patience to walk all the time if i m given the ability to always run ^^;.
Yeh but you dont look as bad ass running about lol ;-).I gotta swagga man,plus running in the marshes is a good way to get group raped by some nekkars ETC :).
Post edited May 18, 2011 by MADPADDY
Posted May 18, 2011
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MADPADDY: Hour glass ermm no lol,is it a quest in act 1 ??.
No, I am asking where is the play time? In the savegame description is only the real world time, not playing hours time. Since you said you were exactly at 22.32 hours, I thought you must know where to glean that from.
Posted May 18, 2011
I have witcher potions of my own. Pepsi and Coke.
Posted May 18, 2011
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MADPADDY: Hour glass ermm no lol,is it a quest in act 1 ??.
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AudreyWinter: No, I am asking where is the play time? In the savegame description is only the real world time, not playing hours time. Since you said you were exactly at 22.32 hours, I thought you must know where to glean that from.
No i just added up how many hours from 8amTue morning ive been playing and added the 32mins because thats about all ive played over the last hour because ive been on here lol,its not exact but near enough.
Posted May 18, 2011
Remember, there are 16 different endings, and there is a ton of content that you cannot see in one play through. Almost all of Act 2 changes from play through to play through depending on the choices you made prior to Act 2. So even if you beat the game in 25 hours, play the game again, making different choices and you will see ton new content through your game. This is not like Witcher 1 where there was very few difference made through out the whole game depending on your choices.
Posted May 18, 2011
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AudreyWinter: No, I am asking where is the play time? In the savegame description is only the real world time, not playing hours time. Since you said you were exactly at 22.32 hours, I thought you must know where to glean that from.
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MADPADDY: No i just added up how many hours from 8amTue morning ive been playing and added the 32mins because thats about all ive played over the last hour because ive been on here lol,its not exact but near enough.
That's still the gross time, not the actual in-the-story-time. I often rewatch longs scenes or redo dialogs, or repeat fights, obviously. So if I'm at a fight for half an hour before I finally win it, it's still only five minutes game time. The 60 hours in DA2 are actual 60 hours game time, while I played for much longer. So even starting a timer before playing doesn't get me game time. I thought that was a standard feature. Just like keys doing what they say in the manual (which some don't). ALL promised features being present. Or screenshots...


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eisberg77: Remember, there are 16 different endings, and there is a ton of content that you cannot see in one play through. Almost all of Act 2 changes from play through to play through depending on the choices you made prior to Act 2. So even if you beat the game in 25 hours, play the game again, making different choices and you will see ton new content through your game. This is not like Witcher 1 where there was very few difference made through out the whole game depending on your choices.
First, I don't beat games, I play them, they are not the enemy. ;)
Second, it is not about the life time, but about the game time.
And I played TW half a dozen times and did things differently every time and learned new tricks every time. Of course I will play TW2 more than once or twice. But I still want a clock that tells me my first playthrough was longer than my first DA2 playthrough. :D

Although... I don't think that people who "beat" the game as fast as possible, have that much interest in re-playing...
Post edited May 18, 2011 by AudreyWinter
Posted May 18, 2011
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MADPADDY: No i just added up how many hours from 8amTue morning ive been playing and added the 32mins because thats about all ive played over the last hour because ive been on here lol,its not exact but near enough.
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AudreyWinter: That's still the gross time, not the actual in-the-story-time. I often rewatch longs scenes or redo dialogs, or repeat fights, obviously. So if I'm at a fight for half an hour before I finally win it, it's still only five minutes game time. The 60 hours in DA2 are actual 60 hours game time, while I played for much longer. So even starting a timer before playing doesn't get me game time. I thought that was a standard feature. Just like keys doing what they say in the manual (which some don't). ALL promised features being present. Or screenshots...


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eisberg77: Remember, there are 16 different endings, and there is a ton of content that you cannot see in one play through. Almost all of Act 2 changes from play through to play through depending on the choices you made prior to Act 2. So even if you beat the game in 25 hours, play the game again, making different choices and you will see ton new content through your game. This is not like Witcher 1 where there was very few difference made through out the whole game depending on your choices.
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AudreyWinter: First, I don't beat games, I play them, they are not the enemy. ;)
Second, it is not about the life time, but about the game time.
And I played TW half a dozen times and did things differently every time and learned new tricks every time. Of course I will play TW2 more than once or twice. But I still want a clock that tells me my first playthrough was longer than my first DA2 playthrough. :D

Although... I don't think that people who "beat" the game as fast as possible, have that much interest in re-playing...
Well too me it doesnt matter if im stood still reading or talking or just looking at the scenery its still time that im playing the game,so there one of the same.You cant really judge game time because some people just run from start to end asap and others like me take there time,i didnt say it as a benchmark i just said i cant understand how someone could finish in 20hrs.
Posted May 18, 2011
Completing a game like this in one day is quite an achievement, comparable only to completing a sex session in less than a minute. Congratulations!
Post edited May 18, 2011 by Megarelix
Posted May 19, 2011
Time to wait for the big patch. i dont like to play with alot of crashes and window mode. when its fixed. i will play it on hard. hurry! bring me the patch!
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