chaosapiant: This game is IMPOSSIBLE to complete in one play through. It's a good thing, not a bad thing. This is why Oblivion sucked: a character could do everything everywhere whether it was relevant to the character or not.

charleswang95: I hope CDPR make tw2 a open world game. I am not the kind of guy who would play the same game more than one time. I m not saying I don't like non-linear story, I just don't want to miss anything from a great game like this. I was in act 2 and I cjeck the guide and there is so many side quest and minigame i miss in act 1. A open world game allow me explore and do all the side quest anytime, so i won't miss anything.

mutishev: I am with you on this. I always try to finish as many quests as possible on not open world games like Witcher.
I wont play it two times just to see what will happen if I insult some one in chapter (random number here) for example.
I am a huge fan of open world RPGs like TES, Fallout 3- NV, Gothics and Fable series. Thats why I rarely buy other RPGs on the first day. They are one shot only for me, only one play through and then I am out.
Just don't like to grind through same quests more than once. No matter what people say about some games how the story changes with your actions, yes it changes but only like 20% of the game. Every new play through one have to grind the same old 80% of quests again.

The Witcher 2 (and yes I bought it on day one, but I so much love Geralts attitude and the overall setting) is a great game but still I will play it only once, thats why I wait for patches and scope the forums for slight spoilers to see if I have missed something before venturing in to a new chapter.

kyogen: TW2 changes more like 50+ percent of the game, which is unusually extensive. You are in completely new areas with completely new quests. I can understand wanting everything available at once, but I don't see how you could do that with the kind of story CDPR is telling. Ah well, even if it's not completely your thing, I hope you have fun with however much you play.

hulahula32: I disagree completely and absolutely.

The entire point of this game is that it's an RPG game. You play a ROLE! Look at the genre of this game. Your decisions and what you do have consequences.

An open world game where you can do whatever you want, do whatever quest you want is not an RPG game. That's just a lame sandbox game for you to throw sand and toys around without consequences.

You are limited to what you can do in Witcher 2 based on the decisions you made. And this is what separates Witcher 2 from some of the recent competition. Other RPG games in the past claimed to have consequences and decisions, but they don't. They are like your suggestion, open world, with one outcome and you run around doing whatever you want, because what you do ultimately has no meaning. That's boring. If it's an open world do whatever you want, that eliminates any impact a decision can have. And as said before, that's boring.

This is also why I don't consider some of the recent competition not rpg games. They are just action cinematic games, examples like Mass Effect series and Dragon Age series. Those are not RPG games. They are interactive action movies in which your decisions are predetermined by the developer and the story unfolds the way the developer wants it. The game is not yours to discover, it's for the developer to reveal to you. It's hardly even a game at that point.