Preview Witcher 2 - I Want to Quicktime a Dragon

[Jason]

Tags: CD Projekt; Witcher 2, The

<p>Gamespot has a <a href="http://beta.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/thewitcher2/news.html?sid=6307659&amp;mode=previews" target="_blank">preview</a> up for <strong>The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings</strong>.</p>
<blockquote>Further into the battle, it looked as if victory was just within our grasp. That is, until the dragon showed up. Obviously, it was going to take more than a few fireballs and a steel sword to topple this beast so we decided to flee. After dodging and weaving around a few deadly cones of fire, we found ourselves in an all-out mad dash back across the castle walls with the fire-breathing beast hot on our heels. This cinematic sequence was accented with a few quick time events as we ducked and dodged out of the way of its attacks. Finally, we managed to lodge our rusty sword in the creature's mouth and sent it packing, hopefully with a bad case of tetanus as well.</blockquote>
<p>There's <a href="http://polygamia.pl/Polygamia/1,107163,9392428,Wiedzmin_2___relacja_na_zywo_.html" target="_blank">more previewing</a> to be done over at Polygamia for those that speak potato.</p>
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[Raapys]

Noooooooooooooooo

 

[Reptilian Shapeshifter]

QTEs and dragons. Doublefuck.

 

[SkepticsClaw]

oh dear

 

[JagreenLern]

Shit. And I was looking forward to this game.

 

[Jaesun]

What were people expecting? ToEE like combat in it?

 

[MetalCraze]

I guess our naive members were expecting that they will at least play this game.

Not twitching (A)wsum button while Geralt dodges dragon's attacks all on his own. Because otherwise poor CDP would've had to actually balance the bossfight and there is not enough potato in game's budget for that.

Console shit gonna console

 

[Gakkone]

Haven't they said that all QTE's are optional? They better fucking be.

 

[Volourn]

Theya re optional - if you don't want them you have the option not to play game.

R00fles!

 

[a budda]

qte as in "BOSS" fights, same as in w1
noaw which of you fags were expecting an ?
hands up please, naivety is just a state of mind

ESPECIALLY as they already showed as a million times the fights will be even worse than in w1

 

[Raapys]

Yeah but, dragons? Seriously? Dragon Age 1 & 2, then Skyrim, then Witcher 2. This is getting ridiculous.

 

[Metro]

Not surprising. Although there is a whole cult following of Witcher here. What boggled my mind was when someone denounced another poster as a 'newfag' while he was defending Witcher. That's irony for you.

 

[a budda]

agreed, if a dragon can be slayed in a witcher it's far too far and that means NO FUCKING WAY, if it's clear enough

well, having read the books, there's NO FUCKNG CHANCE Geralt will have anything to do with slaying dragons... see?

he'll probably slay the guys that mentioned the idea the night before... see?

thank you

now read the books and make the guy who invented the whole shit we're talking about a bit more happy

 

[HanoverF]

Finally, we managed to lodge our rusty sword in the creature's mouth and sent it packing, hopefully with a bad case of tetanus as well.

butthurt detected

 

[laclongquan]

If you want to play different kinds of angels, which is huge innovashun in games, you can fight them to your heart's content in.... dum dum.........

BAYONETTA!!!

 

[deus101]

I had faith in the Easter Europeans(well The Witcher wasnt anything really phenomenal but it was decent even for an rpg in their own way).

Now...I fear for STALKER2.

 

[KalosKagathos]

What were people expecting? ToEE like combat in it?

I was hoping for good action game combat. Weren't they talking about DMC being an influence? Anyway, developers who include QTEs obviously don't know what makes action games tick. Pretty cutscenes come after a fight, not during it.

 

[Jaesun]

What were people expecting? ToEE like combat in it?

I was hoping for good action game combat. Weren't they talking about DMC being an influence? Anyway, developers who include QTEs obviously don't know what makes action games tick. Pretty cutscenes come after a fight, not during it.

Aren't there already a bunch of good action games with great combat already on the consoles?

 

[Trash]

Action rpg has action in it. More news at 11.

QTE's are lame mostly but meh. Am interested more in what stats there are and how they work. Especially as there now seem to be stats directed to npc interaction.

 

[Beautiful Clown Painting]

Yes!! Dragons!!! Fuck you Witcher 2.

 

[commie]

What a bunch of retarded fucks you all are becoming! You have no problems with cutscenes showing actiun BUT when (The HORROR), someone makes the cutscenes interactive slightly with a QTE then all of a sudden you all turn into such fucking elitist wannabe fucktards that it's fucking risible!

Read the fucking preview again dickheads: "This cinematic sequence was accented with a few quick time events", suggesting that you run away properly using your own initiative and the QTE's are just the usual 'click on the object and get a cinematic of character doing something cool', just as in ME that so many 'elitists' here seem to love and that game also had QTE's up the ass.

No one gives a good fuck if you hate the Twitcher or not. It's not like the majority of your tastes are all that elite anyway considering all the 7 times KOTOR players and console tards that suddenly raise their voices in anger at this.

 

[made]

I didn't click the link to the actual article because reading is for fags, but I am now convinced that TW2 consists entirely of slaying dragons in QTE sequences. Fucking decline!

 

[relootz]

qte as in "BOSS" fights, same as in w1
noaw which of you fags were expecting an ?
hands up please, naivety is just a state of mind

every element that stinks of console makes me very weary, i am still keeping my hope up and won't cancel my CE pre-order.

 

[KalosKagathos]

Aren't there already a bunch of good action games with great combat already on the consoles?

Sure. Which only serves to make CDPR's fail even more epic: they don't have to think, only copy-paste what works. Instead, they chose to copy-paste what doesn't.

 

[Bigot_]

I didn't click the link to the actual article because reading is for fags, but I am now convinced that TW2 consists entirely of slaying dragons in QTE sequences. Fucking decline!