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[Dave of Canada]

Khayness wrote...

But trying to see with the eyes of a freshcomer to TW2, I think the personal story of Geralt is waaaaaaaaay overshadowed by the kingdom intrigues.

Personally, I disagree. You're able to define Geralt throughout the entire experience while dealing with your friends, relationship with Triss and the conflict between being a Witcher (which you slay monsters) or being a "person" (which you do the "right thing").

While true that Geralt's personal story isn't really as explored as in TW1, the themes which drive it still remain. When you encounter the ghost in the burned down asylum, the choice might seem simple but you're defining Geralt with how you approach the situation.

Shame fresh players won't get to see the Herd of Pigs dialogue, however. Probably one of my favorite scenes in the first game.

[slimgrin]

I'm just glad combat is more balanced. Maybe it's just my current build, but parrying seems to have been buffed.

Also, a nifty new mod that scales the font up. I've always thought the font in TW2 was too small, even for a PC game. This is an improvement.

http://witcher.nexusmods.com/mods/272

Modifié par slimgrin, 25 avril 2012 - 01:36 .

[KnightofPhoenix]

forsaken gamer wrote...

I finished an EE Iorveth play through.  Now I'm doing Roche's path.

I think Dethmold's English VA does arguably the best voice work in the game.  Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen's VA does a heck of a job too.  Overall the voice acting from the main characters is really good, actually.  Such a huge step up from TW1.

Except for a few, the English voice overs in TW1 were mediocre at best.

There is only one VA that I find weak in TW2 and that's Triss unfortunately. But the VA in general is very good even when it comes to random NPCs.

[Rip504]

Damn her eyes really?
Harsh.
I also enjoy the VA,thusfar. Saskia is my fav VA at the current moment.

I'm in Act 3,(Obviously) escorting...

Modifié par Rip504, 25 avril 2012 - 04:10 .

[AxisEvolve]

forsaken gamer wrote...
I find Dandelion's voice irritating.  I wonder if anyone else here does.

Agreed. His voice actually ruins the entire character for me, it's a shame. 

[slimgrin]

Yes. Both sound too American. Doug ****le can pull it off, but whoever voiced Triss and Dandelion can't. I encourage all gamers to at least check out the Polish VO's, for the simple reason that the cast for the main characters is arguably better than the English cast. Both Triss and Geralt sound awesome.

Modifié par slimgrin, 25 avril 2012 - 04:35 .

[Brockololly]

Even though Dandelion is supposed to be pure cheese, his voice actor is pretty unconvincing at times. Same with Triss- its like you can just see her voice actor reading off the script.

[AxisEvolve]

Yeah, the American accents feel out of place. I've gotten much more used to them since the first time I played, but still....

Geralt's accent? Perfectly acceptable for me. Triss? At first it threw me off but I'm fine with it now. But Dandelion's still makes me cringe... Haha. Oh well. How many great voice actors have WE had in our English language that were poorly translated to other countries? Probably a lot. It's not an easy job.

[Rip504]

Can someone point me in the right direction,So I can find this arena?

[KnightofPhoenix]

forsaken gamer wrote...

I find Dandelion's voice irritating.  I wonder if anyone else here does.

I find it irritating as well, but surprisingly do not mind it that much as I think his character is a jackass that is supposed to be irritating. But an improvenment would be welcome.

Strangely, I didn't mind his VA for the extended cutscenes, in fact I thought he was good.

[Mr.House]

Triss and Dandelion's VAs where horrible just ugh.

[TobiTobsen]

Mr.House wrote...

Triss and Dandelion's VAs where horrible just ugh.

Try the german VA sometimes and you will learn to appreciate their english counterparts 

[Mr.House]

TobiTobsen wrote...

Mr.House wrote...

Triss and Dandelion's VAs where horrible just ugh.

Try the german VA sometimes and you will learn to appreciate their english counterparts 

It's worse?!

[TobiTobsen]

Mr.House wrote...

TobiTobsen wrote...

Mr.House wrote...

Triss and Dandelion's VAs where horrible just ugh.

Try the german VA sometimes and you will learn to appreciate their english counterparts 

It's worse?!

Sadly german voice acting is always worse then the english counterpart, if you ask me. Not convincing nough, not enough emotions, sounding like they just read the text from their paper. We need people that actually take VA serious, like Jennifer Hale for example. But at the moment that is still lacking.

I will never ever play a game in german, if I have the option to play it in english.

The only VA I like in the german version is Geralt's, but I'm not sure if he hits Geralt's dead pan attitude because he knows how to do it, or if he just isn't trying at all.

Modifié par TobiTobsen, 25 avril 2012 - 05:58 .

[Eski.Moe]

forsaken gamer wrote...

I find Dandelion's voice irritating.  I wonder if anyone else here does.

YES! YES! YES!
It just felt out of place and too pronounced.

[Rip504]

Wow... I just seen a real ending. I had almost forgot.

[Addai]

slimgrin wrote...

Yes. Both sound too American. Doug ****le can pull it off, but whoever voiced Triss and Dandelion can't. I encourage all gamers to at least check out the Polish VO's, for the simple reason that the cast for the main characters is arguably better than the English cast. Both Triss and Geralt sound awesome.

Geralt sounds great but that Triss sounds too old, at least compared to the English VA- which I didn't mind.

Just had one of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite quests in TW1- "Argh, Kalkstein, you need to get out more.  Where am I going to find a virgin's tear?"

[KnightofPhoenix]

Rip504 wrote...

Wow... I just seen a real ending. I had almost forgot.

It is a rarity these days apparently.

What did you think of the game? :happy:

Also, what did you do with Letho?

[Nordicus]

slimgrin wrote...

I'm just glad combat is more balanced. Maybe it's just my current build, but parrying seems to have been buffed.

I think it's been. You put 2 points into Parrying and then only the very toughest of opponents can get any damage through your block, even in Hard difficulty. Even then it requires you to be in low Vigor, as 50% damage reduction at 0 Vigor makes the attacks of common mooks worthless

I mean, even if Kayran deals about 100 damage per hit, with armor class of 20 you'll need to be at 20% Vigor or lower for the damage to get through (attack presumed blockable)

Modifié par Nordicus, 25 avril 2012 - 07:15 .

[Corto81]

KnightofPhoenix wrote...

I personally kind of already decided how it was going to be.
In TW2, my Geralt loved Triss and he told her that whatever happens, he does not want to lose her. He didn't touch any other woman throughout. But as he gradually recovered more and more of his memory and started to remember Yennefer, he couldn't stop but change his feelings, which even he didn't realize was the case.

Until Act 3, when his friendship with Roche, the political situation in the North and the culpability of the Lodge (made him suspicious of Triss) overpowered his desire to save Triss (and he did want to save her and thought he might do both, just that helping Roche felt more urgent to him). And when he met her in the Temerian encampment, it's at that point he realized that he doesn't love Triss anymore. He still cares for her as a friend, but he broke his promise of never letting her go. Not out of malice, or because of a grudge or anything like that. But because his feelings for Yennefer are resurfacing again.

In TW3 he wil either go with Yennefer, which is likely, or realize that Yennefer changed or that he is forcing himself to love her when in fact he doesn't, in which case he'll either go with Triss or just go freelance.

Epic stuff. See Khayness? I personally do put effort in role playing Geralt and enjoy it a lot 

My Geralt is sticking with Triss.

It's been that way since TW1, so not changing anything. Triss is hot, and just "bad" enough to not be boring.

[Aeowyn]

Is the music that is played during the cutscene between the acts and in the epilogue in the OST?

[hangmans tree]

Costin_Razvan wrote...

Addai67 wrote...

Costin_Razvan wrote...
Yes everyone meets him. Just like everyone meets Thaler's messanger.

Ah, well.  I think the idea of importing things from one game to another is overrated.  I've never seen it done particularly well and I'd rather the devs spend time crafting new quests and narrative rather than engineering plot flags.  TW3 will already be complicated enough with all the world states that can result from TW2.

Then I'd rather have them not even try instead of half assing it like in TW2.

You miss the point where as BW games were apparently made with sequels/import in mind The Witcher was not.
The import thing surfaced after the game was out and I think they back-tracked the whole thing to make it possible. IIRC it was implemented with some late patch.

Might be wrong though.

And I would rather see the political events play out on their own with little changes here and there, just story of characters taking greater impact based on our choices. This is what I always liked about Witcehr, the world goes its own course, Geralt is not all and mighty, he cant change political states and whatnot. His actions can influence people though.
So the history wheel grinds without some hero to save the world, take on armies, battle the Great Arch Enemy or wake a God.
Sometimes it might feel a little deus ex machina but not in a way ME3 was handled.

[hangmans tree]

oh, and a little OT