I'm more than halfway through chapter 2 and I'm not liking it very much so far. Should I just cut my losses and start playing the second game or will I be missing out?
The Witcher 1
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Justin Edwards
You won’t really be missing out. I like the game but you have to enjoy the rpg stuff and the alchemy. It’s janky and iirc you can just make most choices at the start of a Witcher 2 play through. That said, I don’t think you can get aerondight if you don’t play the first game, and it is quite rewarding to take it with you through three games.
Gabriel Gray
Second game is goddamn disgusting piece of shit compared to the absolute excellence that is TW1. In fact, 2 can be skipped altogether, and you'd miss nothing.
Keep playing. Chill down and explore a bit.
Most agree that the 1st and 2nd chapters are the weakest, and that the game picks the hell up afterwards.
I personally loved it from the get-go, but the later episodes do have some legendary shit.
Gavin Nelson
TW1 > 3's DLC > 3 > 2.
Elijah Perez
All of the witcher games are shit
Matthew Collins
2 is boring
1 is good I would stick with it
I would say the story of 1 is better than 3. Gameplay is the only unfun part.
Jordan Wilson
You'd be missing out on the only GOOD game in the whole series, and opting to play one of the worst examples of extreme consolification and casualization in the history.
Tyler Williams
>Gameplay is the only unfun part
I've said it before, and I shall say it again: Witcher 1 has the absolutely best, most varied gameplay of the series. You can actually do some proper ROLE-playing in it, not just swing your sword for EXP and track pre-placed tracks with a Batman-vision ripoff.
Hudson Hill
It's been a while since I played it but what I remember is that you just take a lot of damage and it's difficult to understand why. The combat system is just not intuitive.
Leo Jones
The best game in the series is the final Witcher game, Blood and Wine. The idea that the earlier ones are better is beyond retarded. They are some next level jank saved by the fact that their writing.
Unironically B&W > Hearts of Stone > TW3 > TW2 > TW1
It's not even a fucking debate, I cannot believe there are people who argue it with a straight face. You are not missing anything by only playing 3 (maybe consider playing 2 and then 1) because it's a soft-reboot of their attempt at the games. They actually use the characters from the books instead of building something around the side characters that are mentioned in passing in the books.
Jackson Adams
Wrong.
Kevin Cox
if it doesn't charm you in chapter 1 I don't see anything down the line that will.
congrats you got filtered
Jackson Carter
idk where you're at but if it's the swamp, i can feel your pain. The swamp is the worst part of the game. It is very rewarding though to do at least one playthrough, especially if you plan on playing the other two games. It's not required but there are so many little nods and stuff you'd just miss out on otherwise. Personally I think W1 is a very good game despite all the eurojank you have to wade through.
W2 I didn't really care for, it's still a good game, it's just different. W3 is ofc excellent.
Ethan Richardson
its literally the best game. 2 is fuckin trash,
Daniel Perry
You're just wrong witcher 2 has this terrible political story, nothing is relatable about it. It is really boring.
Witcher 1 has a very exciting story with crime and mystery. Fast purposeful character dialogue, cool drama.
Jeremiah Peterson
You can say it all you want, it doesn't make it true. The gameplay is shit.
Zachary Edwards
Press on. Game gets pretty kino after the first few chapters. Just gotta get past the swamp.
Landon Morales
Daniel Clark
Almost like the first one was designed with a mouse and keyboard in mind and the other 2 were made for spic hands holding a console controller
Jason Ortiz
>if it's the swamp
It's the swamp.
What makes 2 so bad? Is the gameplay trash, the story, or both?
Eli Stewart
the combat is shit because of retarrded hitboxes
Ryan Lopez
Is it actually somehow worse than witcher 1's combat? Does the gameplay at least get better by witcher 3?
Brody Stewart
Nothing is worse than witcher 1's combat.
Cooper Smith
Chapter 2 has a lot of tedious walking back and forth investigating a mystery I never quite understood in the first place. Perhaps try the Meditate Anywhere mod so you don't have to keep walking back to the fire.
Parker Collins
Fucking hell, that inventory menu looks bad. What the hell were they thinking?
Charles Williams
>swamp
oof, just power through, use cheat engine if you have to, I promise you it gets better if you can make it through that fucking swamp.
W2 is a good game but unlike W1 and W3 it's a product of its time. There's people that (clearly) hate it and there's people that think it's the best of the trilogy. It really depends on what you want out of a game. It's far more linear, the combat is a bit more involved, there's pretty decent choices to be made that affect the game. It's more kind of classic book Geralt.
I have to say though it still looks damn good and the story is the best part and introduces one of the more compelling characters in the trilogy. I think it's worth a playthrough for sure. It's just a different feel than W1 and W3.
Logan Brown
Witcher 2 is fine, there's just no eurojank nostalgia around it like Witcher 1, and there's no appreciation for it because Witcher 3 did everything better in every way. it still is a great game,
I really like how aesthetically dark it is. it's incredibly kino. it's the most political. has the best hard difficulties out of the 3 games.
Matthew Nguyen
>W2
>the combat is a bit more involved
roll roll attack roll roll roll quen roll roll attack
Ayden Price
W2 combat is pretty much the same as W3, just tuned slightly differently with different weight / momentum behind movements
Ian Gonzalez
>it's the most political
are you talking political in a way that makes sense in-universe like deus ex, pathologic 2, etc.
or are you talking political in the faggot contemporary way?
Thomas Evans
in a narrative way.
Matthew Myers
What's the combat actually like in W2 and W3? From what I've seen on video, it looks similar to the snap-to-enemy button mashing combat from the batman games. I hope I'm mistaken
Liam Rodriguez
i used a mod that rebalnced it and required a lot of blocking and bomb/trap strategy and planning. I really couldn't say how the vanilla experience is but it appears much more involved than W1 at least.
yeah, I would say everything about W2 has more weight to it. How you move, the story, the combat. It can be a bit sluggish but it feels heavy in almost every way that W1 completely lacks. I take specific issue with the level design though, it's just punishes you in very small ways whereas W1 is just so eurojank it's charming and W3 falls over itself to reward you every 5 steps (which i prefer)
Owen Nguyen
Alexander Hernandez
typical dodge + roll + counter-attack, it's pretty fluid and feels good. there's options for manual or auto sword switching, and being locked to a target vs. not.
Gavin Gomez
witcher 2 combat is literal opposite of fluid
Caleb Hill
like I said I consider it to be almost identical to W3 but with different weight/momentum to it. mechanically it's the same which I think it's pretty fluid.
not fluid would be something like skyrim.