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Posted May 18, 2011
The game was really nice but i got some heavy pc crashes (reset button ftw) and to play in window mode was no big fun :(
Posted May 18, 2011
Did you sleep? Did you skip quests? How long was it?
Posted May 18, 2011
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.
Post edited May 18, 2011 by revial
Posted May 18, 2011
i bet he played it on easy haha
Posted May 18, 2011
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fastlane88: i bet he played it on easy haha
Lol

I'm like 10 hours in and still in Chapter 1

If you did finish on hard...you could always try the impossible mode :D
Post edited May 18, 2011 by BlazeKING
Posted May 18, 2011
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fastlane88: i bet he played it on easy haha
Even if he did, so what? I often play an rpg on easy the first time through just for the story and then replay on hard for the mechanical challenge.

EDIT: But yeah, if he played on hard, he sure didn't sleep much. Must be that European-style coffee or else he's got witcher's potions of his own.
Post edited May 18, 2011 by kyogen
Posted May 18, 2011
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fastlane88: i bet he played it on easy haha
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BlazeKING: Lol

I'm like 10 hours in and still in Chapter 1

If you did finish on hard...you could always try the impossible mode :D
Chapter (Act) 1 is the longest Chapter (well, ok, I didn't actually time it, but I'm pretty sure it was since I got 18 of my 28 levels there and the prologue). Chapter 3 is very short. Chapter 2 is...somewhere in the middle.
Post edited May 18, 2011 by revial
Posted May 18, 2011
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BlazeKING: I'm like 10 hours in and still in Chapter 1
I still wonder where you find the info about play time. No, not real life hours, but net time. How do certain reviewers claim that the game is so and so long, if they have no way of knowing??

I've been playing a while (who knoes how long, since yesterday evening on and off) and I just arrived in Flotsam. How can one rush through the game, not looking left or right and not even comprehending the story or thinking about their choices - and in Witcher, you usually DO think about your choices - just to be able to yell "First!" a day after release? It's cheating oneself of the experience. I mean, how is that roleplaying, when you "beat it" (terrible, TERRIBLE expression!) like a jump 'n run?

Anyway, I even had 60 hours net on DA2 and I expect TW2 to entertain me a lot longer. :D
I even made my first little mod and I can't wait to share it (can't upload it here, sadly). Now I have more hours with a proper White Wolf. ;)
Posted May 18, 2011
It took me 26 hours on normal with most of the sidequests to finish it. And i dont drink coffee :p
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).
Post edited May 18, 2011 by Frostbeast
Posted May 18, 2011
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Frostbeast: It took me 26 hours on normal with most of the sidequests to finish it. And i dont drink coffee :p
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).
Tea is also very nice. If you've ever been to Emden, they do black tea very well, indeed. A bit funny about what to do with the spoon, though.
Yes, slogging about in the mud looking for Nekkar nests. Witcher's work. :)
Posted May 18, 2011
I beat DAO in 100 hours so I expect this to last awhile.
Post edited May 18, 2011 by chautemoc
Posted May 18, 2011
I started out at the release and am almost in chapter 2 now. But then again I'm a slacker and like to walk around aimlessly forever. :P
Posted May 18, 2011
Gametime = when you play the game and a new situation arises

Gametime isn't where you leave your computer on for 2 weeks and claim you beat the game in 400 hours...

The devs told us the game was shorter than the first one, but 25-28 hours, damn..... :/

Was this on normal or hard difficulty?
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.
Less than 20 hrs WHAT im on 22.32 hrs and im not past the Act1 yet.
Posted May 18, 2011
Disappointing to hear that the game is this short :/ Was expecting a longer game then again at the moment it doesn't matter because I don't have a computer good enough to play the game but it's good to know for the future when I do.
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