Kalfear: Obsidian made that TERRIBLE Alpha Protocol that (from what I read) ALOT of people got stuck on the starting computer puzzle and Obsidian basically said "to bad, we have your money already so were done"
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Alpha protocol is an extremely well written game with repetitive and too easy gameplay. The hacking minigame is a tad difficult, but there are actually in-game mechanisms to skip it.
If you are into stories, and not completely averse to somewhat shooterish gameplay it is well worth the money.
Now back to TW2:
[not affiliated with Obsidian or GOG, of course. Just kidding.]
Actually there is not for the very first one and if you read the posts from people you will find many many many players (including myself) couldnt get past the first hacking screen so were stuck in that early room unable to proceed, game over!
I have no doubt the story is good, thats why I bought the game, I loved KotOR2 more then K1 for the story by Obsidian. Unfortunately the game play is not as good and 10 minutes into game your game ends!
If it was just me id probably mark it up to my failing eyesite. But when game released the forums were FILLED with this same complaint over and over and over and Obsidian did nothing then and still nothing to date to fix it.
But back to TW2
Im going to dispell some myths by some players far to impressed with themselves because they got LUCKY!
Furst off you CAN trap the middle tenticales, its just way harder and you gotta contend with getting sprayed with sticky guck! On my very first attempt I trapped and killed the middle 3 tenticales, took a ride on the waving tenticale twice, and then died to the stones as had no clue where to go! So can we please stop with this myth you cant trap them, YOU CAN!
So there is no magical Triss sequence that points out the side tenticals, every tentical has the red bulb for which you can attack.
So thats falsehood number one, you got lucky, thats all. There was nothing in the story to suggest you trap the side tenticales. So stop being so impressed with yourselves cause no one thats played the game buying it!
2) So I did What I didnt want to do. I watched a walkthrough video of the encounter and after that I defeated it first try.
There was no hints before the encounter or during the encounter and no imaginary video clip as some claim suggesting you go to far left, run up a platform and drop a bomb you didnt even know you had into the boss mob so again, stop BSing.
Im pretty sure a few people lucked into it and everyone else looked up the encounter exactly as I ended up doing. Im just willing to admit it!
This encounter was TERRIBLE development, TERRIBLE.
I dont like playing games via walkthroughs and cheats and it pisses me off I was FORCED to here. I played DA:O, ME1&2, TW, and many many other games with out walk throughs yet now im suddenly stupid (according to some posters), sorry dont buy what your selling.
3) When you play on easy mode your saying 1 of 2 things (and in my case both). 1) I dont like your twitch based combat and am not having fun in the combat sequences so im on easy to bypass the combat sequences. If you ever want to introduce adult combat with stratagy and tactics, count me in 2) I play for Story mainly and ALL COMBAT is a secondary aspect so Im not looking to be challenged combat wise, I just want to see the story unfold!
This Idea your less a player because you dont have twitch reflexes are so stupid and unfortunately those saying it wont realize how wrong they are till they no longer 15-20 and reach maturity in their mid 40s of life and later.
I started the game on Normal and I got physically ill with the crap they trying to pass off as combat! Oh I wasnt dieing once I got hang of it so it wasnt hard, IT WASNT FUN to anyone looking to challenge their mind rather then their jerk off hand! So I set it to easy to bypass the combat mostly, so being stuck for 3+ hours on a boss thats poorly designed is just crappy development!
Sorry but thats the god honest trust. I love every thing about the Witcher 2 except for Combat and Bosses (and the "gotcha" style encounters that you have to fail because your not given enough info up front).
Closing, so yeah, im pass the encounter, I did what I know 90% of the players will do and what 90% of these posters here saying other wise actually did themselves, I looked it up online and cheated myself outta the encounter because there was no imaginary speach from Triss (Yeah triss spoke but you heard her all wrong and got lucky if it even played out that way poster saying she details fight before hand), there was no imaginary cutscrene showing you the ramp (I watched that cutscreen more times then anything else in game, the patern wasnt there), and Im still trying to figure out where this bomb I didnt craft and didnt have in my inventory came from.
Passed the event, back into a very rich and rewarding story.
I just hope all the bosses not so crappily designed.
PS: Alot of us older players play RPGs because they are not traditionally twitch based events/combat. Brains use to matter more then quick button pushing!
Sadly that seems to be changing and I guess ill have to stick to MMORPGs from now on as not going to waste money in the future on stupid twitch based encounters that dont promote thinking and stratagy what so ever!
That or developers just getting lazy as making one of these twitch based encounters much easier then trying to out think a community of thinkers and challenge them tactically and strategically!
TW1 had some twitch to it as well but it also had some thinking and planning to it. TW2 is just mouse bashing with some flopping and signs thrown in. Hell the signs so random at getting a finisher you cant even stratagize that out in the combat, you just gotta hope you get lucky.
Perfect game would be The Witcher 2 with Dragon Age: Orgin Combat! Thats a game I could learn to love and respect!
Welcome to the new modern era of dumbed down whack and jerk combat/events.
