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On Fri, 22 May 2015 09:26:16 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 21 May 2015 16:25:56 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
><rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 21 May 2015 14:00:01 -0400, DMP <D...@nodomain.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 5/20/2015 6:32 AM, Werner Punz wrote:
>>>> Hi I was just asking, because I have started to play the game yesterday
>>>> and I like it a lot.
>>>>
>>>> It even plays nicely on my low end rig (NVidia 660). Even on low
>>>> settings the game looks really good. (I have to play with the settings
>>>> further today, according to a friend of mine with a rather similar rig,
>>>> you can raise some of the settings to high without impact, the hair
>>>> however needs to be turned off that is a frame rate killer on low to mid
>>>> range cards)
>>>>
>>>> I have played for two hours yesterday and I am still in the starting
>>>> village doing sidequests. From what I could notice is that even the
>>>> sidequests seem to vary a lot and seem to be hand scripted.
>>>>
>>>> The game is really huge, btw.
>>>>
>>>> The only downside so far I noticed is, there are lots of NPCs you cannot
>>>> talk to they just mumble 1-2 sentences, however that is to be expected I
>>>> guess. And yes the in game fonts could be bigger.
>>>>
>>>> Werner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I've gotten to the first village as well. My problem is that I'm easily 
>>>distracted by stuff/quests in the environment.
>>>
>>>I haven't decided yet on kb/mouse or controller. I think the controller 
>>>is tougher on my RSI'd thumbs.
>>>
>>>I enjoyed the interface on the 1st Witcher better; the fonts don't 
>>>bother me and FWIW patch 1.03 out earlier today seems to have helped 
>>>some players a good deal. Right at the moment I'm not as enamored with 
>>>the game as I thought I'd be. I don't know how to describe it, but the 
>>>whole thing seems "clunky" to me. I haven't given it much of a chance tho'
>>>
>>>d.
>>
>>Yes, there's a clunkiness to it that's hard to describe.  Just feels
>>unpolished, half-baked, and over sold as a AAA title.
>
>Yeah, some gripes of mine include:
>
>- I wish I could zoom in a bit closer to Garret as well. It doesn't
>have to be first-person view but the camera is a bit further out than
>I'd like. 
>
>- The range at which you can interact with items is pretty small and
>finicky too. You have to be practically on top of an item before you
>can use item and even then it sometimes just doesn't work.
>
>- There are hot-keys to take you into specific menu-screens (I for
>inventory, M for Map) but nothing that takes you directly back to the
>game; you have to press ESC several times to go through subsidiary
>menu screens before you are back in the action. 
>
>- Can't just press ESC to quit a conversation.
>
>- While walking down the street NPCs are barking information at me all
>the time, but I have a hard-time telling who is saying it and
>following those conversations. None of this information (so far) is
>vital but these longer discourses really should have been put into
>proper conversation trees that can be initiated by the player rather
>than just hope they stumble on them. 
>
>- Still hate the combat. Its too much dependent on user-reflexes,
>especially the parrying/riposte. And all the leaping and tumbling
>looks ridiculous, like bad wire-fu.
>
>- Don't like the "witcher senses" for much the same reason I didn't
>like the Detective Mode of the Batman games: it's too useful not to
>have on all the time but using it ruins the visuals (instead of a
>colorful and well-rendered world you wander around in a wobbly grey
>mess). And I hate having to hold down a button constantly to use it.
>
>
>Probably could think up some more if I put  my mind to it, but I think
>you get the idea. Yeah, all of these are fairly minor issues but they
>add up and each one makes the user experience just slightly less
>pleasant.  Its definitely a game that could have used much more
>iteration in its game design, but I guess CD-ProjectRed doesn't have
>the resources for that sort of thing; its very time-consuming.
>

Per your post in the c.s.i.p.g.action, I wish I had just bought it on
Origin, where it would have been easy to get a refund.

I'm more interested in this game at the $20 level after they have the
bugs worked out.