Is The Witcher 2 worth it?

What should that mean? Opening sequence, you mean the tutorial? Too hard or just bad?

^ This reaction isn't an over-exaggeration.

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Sadly, I bought it on steam and shortly after it was up on gog for the same price. I would have prefered the gog copy. D:

Um.. What? The games have almost nothing to do with the books.

So yeah, go away.

My mind played the tricks on me again. Glancing over your avatar I read "Every pony"

The second one has vastly different combat, more action-oriented and abit stream-lined gameplay, but very fun. Also if you don't like long games, The Witcher 1's playthrough took me about 40-50 hours, whereas Witcher 2 was more like 25-35 hours BUT it has 2 distinctly different stories in Act 2 which pretty much force you into a second playthrough.

Yes, they are very different. If you didn't enjoy the first game because of the combat, it is hugely different and more action-oriented than in the first game, while still remaining tactical and quite challenging at times. There are only subtle (although amusing) notions from the first game in the second game's story, especially when you import a savegame but nothing compared to, say, the Mass Effect series, where you pretty much have to import a save game.

wow! that's better put then any of the comments combined.

Of course its not Skyrim or Morrowind... they dont even compare, its like saying DA:O is a bad game because its not open world... its an RPG and TES gets our expectations so high they shouldnt even be in the same genre... They are story driven RPGs that might get somewhat boring if they dragged on forever like The Elder Scrolls... it pushes you somewhat to get though the game while throwing some awesome stuff to do along the way...

This was the kind of reply I was looking for.

Thank you. (:

But the thing is, in Elder Scrolls games, you have a huge ass world with nothing extremely interesting to do, while in the Witcher the world might not be all that huge, but the quests are expertly crafted and hooking. (Sidequests included)

Nitpicking on the combat of W2 when it's going up against the Elder Scrolls series? What?
Witcher games require some sort of finesse. ES games? Ew.

The only thing Elder Scrolls games have on the Witcher, is the huge world to explore.

everyone has a different opinion. i find the original witcher game to be much better than the second, and as for open world games like skyrim, well... those things are great as exploration games, but they arent so great when it comes to characterisations and story... witcher, on the other hand, and to a lesser degree, witcher 2, are great on characters and story, but just cant be compared to exploration type games, because they just arent the same type of game. Play skyrim for an open world exploration game, play witcher 1 and 2 for fantastic characters and story. Personally, just my opinion naturally, i loved the first witcher game more than the second. No other game i've played has been as satisfying when it comes to atmosphere and world creation.. nothing in skyrim has been so emotive to me as walking through the slums or the swamp in the original witcher game.

now im not saying skyrim is bad, i love the game.. just saying you cant compare the two, they offer completely different experiences, and each one has its own strengths and failings, and dispite its lack of open world exploration, i find the witcher franchise to deliver a fantastic experience well worth the purchase.