Is this game too easy??? (possible SPOILERS)

Elevoros · Post by **Elevoros** » Thu May 29, 2008 7:56 pm

I have finished the Witcher, playing on Hard setting in all the possible ways and I absolutely loved it

...In the begining of the game,especially during the first chapter I encountered several chalenges (until I learned wich potions and oils to use etc) But moving towards the end the game was becoming unsufferably easy...the last boss fight for instance, was great in terms of storyline,but it was hardly the chalenge I was expecting (one willow and swallow potions,a rune on your Dwarven Sihil and a couple of swings with your sword...and aurevoir Jaques :/ ) Then there is the Striga encounter(playing tag around the sarcofagus Aaarding and Quening)... The Kokchay,Javed and the Beast were descent battles however....
I can't help but remember good old Demogorgon from ToB or even that awe aspiring encounter with Lord Firkraag in BG II...even that big bad Bunny//Shadow King from NWN2

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:50 am

Hmm... I find it kind of okay. Not hard but not that easy either. Once you do get the hang of the combat, it makes life easier, but there are still certain times that I died thanks to using the wrong sword or there were too many enemies.

Stabbath · Post by **Stabbath** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:56 pm

I'm not too far in the game, just helped the prostitute in the city in ch 1 I think it is and talked with the detective. So far it's been tooooo easy. Man I hope it gets harder.

demigame · Post by **demigame** » Mon May 25, 2009 1:21 am

i don't think there is a difference between easy and hard mode when you fight with only a enemy whoever is a boss or a dog.
but when fight with a pack or a horde of enemy, player might easy to be killed.
i had die 3 times while fighting with 4 swordmans, 1 axeman , and 1 bowman. in the beginng of CH2. (even if i active the cheat mode, i just die in one second , i can't see who kill me)

whitetail · Post by **whitetail** » Mon May 25, 2009 4:03 pm

game

You played this game 1 time and u have it all fgured out?
Did u save Leo at the begining ?
Did u make it through the kikimores caven and out your 1st try?
Did you have all gold on everything by the end of chptr 4?
Did you pick the most effective swords in game as soon as possible ?
do you know the most effective poitions on your first try?
Did you have sex with every woman your first try?
What poition last longer petri or full moon?
I could go on .
What you have conjected about this game on your fisrt try and know it all and as you say to easy proves beyond a doubt that you have know idea about the complexities of this game.
No, it is not the hardest game that I have played but it is far from the easiest :mischief:

demigame · Post by **demigame** » Mon May 25, 2009 7:42 pm

Did u save Leo at the begining ??
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How do you do this ? i don't know i have chance to save him? i think it is just a movie show...

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Tue May 26, 2009 3:52 am

demigame wrote:Did u save Leo at the begining ??
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How do you do this ? i don't know i have chance to save him? i think it is just a movie show...

It is, if I'm not totally mistaken. At least there is nothing that affects wether Leo dies or not, as the only choose you make about between laboratory and frightener doesn't affect the outcome of that specific cinematic.

demigame · Post by **demigame** » Thu May 28, 2009 11:37 pm

Kipi is right.
i paly again , and choose killing frightener.
the result is the same. Leo have to die in the cinematic.
i cann't cheat to create that potion for him.(some ability is lock by tutorial.)

darikas · Post by **darikas** » Sun May 31, 2009 7:04 am

if you think its to ease try flash mod on insane

Elevoros · Post by **Elevoros** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:36 am

whitetail wrote:You played this game 1 time and u have it all fgured out?
Did u save Leo at the begining ?
Did u make it through the kikimores caven and out your 1st try?
Did you have all gold on everything by the end of chptr 4?
Did you pick the most effective swords in game as soon as possible ?
do you know the most effective poitions on your first try?
Did you have sex with every woman your first try?
What poition last longer petri or full moon?
I could go on .
What you have conjected about this game on your fisrt try and know it all and as you say to easy proves beyond a doubt that you have know idea about the complexities of this game.
No, it is not the hardest game that I have played but it is far from the easiest :mischief:

No...if you had actually read my post you could understand that I have played this game more than once and that in the begining it was hard, but progessively Geralt was growing too overpowered! (3 times actually from start to finish)..."Complex" doesn't necessarily means "hard". You may have one million combos and potions but if those are overpowered by only a couple of moves, then they are useless...

Yes, I have made most of what you are saying on my second run. ( I can be really obsessive when I am playing an rpg) oh, and the kikimores cavern is really a "riddle" not a "battle", so no... I didn't make it on my first time...so what?

In order to effectilvely go through most of the battles, you only need a couple of potions and that only if you're playing on the HARD setting.

My broader point was that games are getting easier and easier in order to satisfy the market by appealing to larger audiences( with some bright exceptions like the Night of the Raven expansion for Gothic 2)...but apparently you only wanted to...flame!

GoldDragon · Post by **GoldDragon** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:32 pm

Leo can not be saved, unless you have a glitched/modded game. He ALSO appears (as a ghost) later in the game, depending on your choice. He holds a useful meteorite in that encounter, however.

IT is also impossible to have sex with every woman in the game, unfortunately. Your choices will preclude you from several.

kormesios · Post by **kormesios** » Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:55 pm

After one playthrough I thought the game was way too easy overall, combat-wise. This isn't the same thing as saying I "did" everything, in the sense that whitetail mentioned, but that's not the point of RPGs to me. Besides, most of them would make the combat easier.

I don't normally like having to reload, but I think I died maybe three or four times after chapter one, two of them in the Kikimore queen cave. That's too few challenges. At least a few encounters where I needed to plan ahead, scout an area, use that "trap" sign to control the terrain, etc., would have been worthwhile. And I seemed to have an infinite supply of potion ingredients--I never came close to running out.

I do think the real problem is balancing single character games. There are only so many tactics the PC can try, so combat gets too easy or too hard pretty rapidly.