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Yeah always best to wait with these things until they get fixed.
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I bought this a long time ago from GOG, because I really enjoyed the first game, but I've only just got around to playing it.
I've just reached Flotsam and met up with Dandelion and Zoltan. Graphically it's very nice, the combat's fine(ish) and it's presented very well.
BUT>>> So far it has been really really linear. Anoyingly so. In the first game they pretty much gave you a bunch of quests, and then gave you the freedom to roam about and explore; letting you complete storylines/missions as you felt like it.
Does this get any better? Right now I just feel like I'm being led from one cut scene to the next, with the odd bit of combat thrown in to keep me interested. Where's the roleplaying?
I've just reached Flotsam and met up with Dandelion and Zoltan. Graphically it's very nice, the combat's fine(ish) and it's presented very well.
BUT>>> So far it has been really really linear. Anoyingly so. In the first game they pretty much gave you a bunch of quests, and then gave you the freedom to roam about and explore; letting you complete storylines/missions as you felt like it.
Does this get any better? Right now I just feel like I'm being led from one cut scene to the next, with the odd bit of combat thrown in to keep me interested. Where's the roleplaying?
Think it's important to remember you are playing Gerald, making decisions on his story. There are important choices to make later on. In fact you will have a big decision to make at the end of flotsam, which will result in you not being able to experience a whole area of the game without a 2nd play through.
Although I agree it is a tad more linear compared to Witcher 1 and I think CD Project Red have realised this as the Witcher 3 is going completely open world.
Not really but it's a very good game in it's own right so I would if you can pick it up cheap.
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Based on what I've played of the second one I'd say that it isn't essential to have played the first game, but it helps.
Witcher 2 certainly doesn't waste time on exposition for the Characters returning from the first game (though if you read through all the journal notes it adds in a bit of the backstory).
Thanks for the fast reply, I already happen to have the game
As a family member got it for a pound or so and thought I may like it. 
Can I ask if the gore is quite bad or acceptable? As it looks a darker game than I usually play. (I'm a carebear!
)Thanks for the fast reply, I already happen to have the game
Can I ask if the gore is quite bad or acceptable? As it looks a darker game than I usually play. (I'm a carebear!
Don't watch the extended intro video then
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Final Fantasy vs the Witcher would be like comparing Phantom Menace vs Aliens.
As odd as my statement was, that's the sort of different I was hoping it was
Aka same genre but darker
Don't watch the extended intro video then
Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll get and give it a go.
I'm not all that bothered by gore as such, I just don't like excessive gore in games / films. As some films recently (in my opinion) have gone too far trying to make things "look real", as I doubt blood / guts squirt out quite so dramatically in real life.
As odd as my statement was, that's the sort of different I was hoping it was
Aka same genre but darker
It's not the same genre. The two games are nothing alike in the slightest.
It is a fantasy RPG yes however it is a western style RPG, the Final Fantasy series of games are JRPG's, the two genres share very little in common beyond fantasy settings.
I love both FF and The Witcher 1/2, however I enjoy them for completely different reasons.
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