Exactly my experience with Two Worlds. Only it was a Stone Dragon near the end game area (I had only just crossed the main dividing river, heh).

Flynn

I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to add that, I have not played a game where I had so much fun at the beginning, just sneaking around (without fighting or leveling up, once I got some initial quests done), and stealing horses from every enemy I could. Sneaking around like that can be very dangerous, and it has you looking around all the time. When you find a horse, you may need to figure out a strategy that works to get you and the horse out of harm's way before one of you dies, but then you have all those beautiful horses to ride and use as mobile storage chests to sort and store your loot. I haven't found all the horses yet, but I've found quite a few of them, and they come in quite a variety.

Oh, I also try to get the basic training in all skills early on - finding enough loot to sell to pay for them all, and then finding all the trainers and gaining access to some of them early on, is another challenge by itself. Also, getting into places without picking door locks takes some patience and RNG luck, but can be done (being impatient can land you in trouble with the locals).

I know, you're very concerned about your sister (or, should be), but I figure, if you're not prepared for the journey, no sense starting out on it, so I don't talk to Gandahar till I at least do those things (and some quests that open up other travel options).

Just to add my 2 cents: My playing of TW1 was very fun. I enjoyed it from the first minute up until the end. The controls were easy to understand and easily executed, and that made it addictive immediately. TW2, on the other hand, was for me horrible, so much so that I uninstalled without finishing. The UI and controls were much more user-UNfriendly and along with a game-breaking bug I encountered, made it unplayable for me.

So, my opinion is to play TW1, and skip TW2.

I could have said this:)

That means i had similar experience and did same played Two Worlds to end and more and thought Two Worlds 2 was awefull uninstalled it never played it again.

Played Two Worlds again and still think its great game!

Buy Two Worlds its awesome.

Avoid TW 2 is terible console port.

Just thought I'd add to this old thread, I actually loved both games. I understand what people mean when they say about TW1 that "it's so bad it's good" but my favourite part about it was the stealth exploration and the fact that from the very beginning you are free to go wherever you want and do whatever you want completely ignoring the plot if you so desire.
As for TW2 I like it just as much and for mostly the same reasons but also for the (IMO) excellent controller support (for TW1 I used Pinnacle Game Profiler to emulate a Gamepad) But by far my favourite paart of TW2 was the gazillion side quests.
I've just started playing Witcher 3 a couple of days ago and you know what, it reminds me of TW2, a lot. It's like a more polished version with a deeper story line and more detyailed side quests, so far.

Throwing my opinion are there as well.

I mostly really enjoyed the first Two Worlds. It has a huge open world, a great (if super simple) melee system, a fun and unique magic system, the ability to upgrade an item by combing two identical items is genius, and the amount of unique loot to be found is absolutely staggering!

I wouldn't say that the story is particularly good, the voice acting is hit and miss (often miss) and most of the quests are pretty "by the numbers" RPG filler quests, and the towns themselves are poorly thought out and a few seem really out of place. I certainly wouldn't call it a bad game, though the lack of interesting quests and the poor story makes me hesitant to call it anything more than just a bit above average overall.

Two Worlds 2 is what I'm on now. The leap in production values is amazing, graphically it's beautiful, the voice acting is much much better and the music is actually good! However the new melee system isn't nearly as fun, the UI is terrible and the loss of a true open world is really saddening. Plus it retcons the ending of Two Worlds, which is always a bit annoying, granted that ending did catch a lot of flack. Overall Two Worlds 2 *should* be a much better game, but it really lacks the charm of the first game, in my opinion.

Yeah, I just want to also chime in and say Two Worlds (the first one) is a great game. The bad reviews are bullshit, someone pissing on their Cheerios in the morning most likely.

Just finished TW1, the ending is extremely disappointing. Overall, I felt TW1 is like Morrowind, but boring. They should have done more with the story. It's not a bad game, but not very memorable to play again.

They're fun. TW1 you can play almost entirely in 1st person IF you use only magic. If you melee then you switch to 3rd person again.

The 1st person is well, a hack that they kinda supported for TW1 and I LOVED it.

Sadly in TW2 they removed that, and since both games are VERY UNFORTUNATELY relatively OBSCURE there's not much of a workaround.

Trying TW1 again tonight my SOUND(music) is missing now from the menu screen(w7x64 pro), IIRC it still worked last time that I tried it not long ago as I LIKED the music looping or not.