The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

Excellent game, hours of fun!!!

Here i am getting smasshed by drowners early on, must not have done the quests in the right order. I dont have a silver sword. Now i have to back track. Not enough autosaves. And no roach(mount), atleast not yet.

GOOD! Wonderful! very good!!!!

The game is awesome, I played it a few times already. Story, characters, plot development, all excellnt, even some variation in the consequences for your choices with branching paths, so playing it twice at least is necessary and the playthrough will be quite different and you may be even tempted to play a few more times for other more minor variations or combinations. The one complaint is the controls, I don't remember them being this junky, but memmory is fickle, after playing modern games maybe my bar got rised, or maybe it's one of those game where a good PC isn't necesarily better. For example, mouse settings are such that an old ball mouse would work better than a modern laser one with high DPI (lower sensitivity and create a low DPI profile for this game, otherwise it's unplayable). Regardless, I'd give it an 8 now and a 9 when it got ou. It's an amazing game that it's still a very fun run. TW1 EE, is a bit harder to get into it for me, thou it was also up there in it's time, still leaving some specific quests, TW2 is better than TW1 pretty much all around and the same can be argued for 3 vs 2. CDPR is unique I think in getting each sequel better than the predecesor. Which is no small feat.

If you don't know how good The Witcher series is by now, I'd advise you to crawl back into whatever cave you've been living in the last 20 or so years. While the first game was a PC only release and despite the fine graphics and voicework for its time, the first game lacked a compelling combat system so the games really didn't hit their stride until the second title made the right adjustments and polished up everything into the mirror sheen of a AAA Masterpiece despite its inception from a then fledgeling CDProjectRed. And while the 2nd outing lacks the impressive Rockstar or Bethesda standard open world of the 3rd game, this title has level and world design more reminiscent of Dark Souls in which you are free to move about in large open ended sandboxes you are usually confined to one place while you play out the events chapter to chapter. It works well in part to the narrative design of the game and heavy story beats. While Dark Souls is entirely driven by environmental storytelling and inventory text splashes, The Witcher, being based on a best selling Polish book series, is obviously character driven and full of tales of swords, sorcery and political intrigue. Of course, it would be recommended to pkay through the first game for the throughline of the story as you'll meet manyfaces throughout the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, titles, but it is entirely possible to enjoy the narrative of each on their own merits without having played the previous ones. I recommend any fan of modern RPG's, especially western ones, give each game in the Witcher series a fair shake, but thanks to the relatively low system demands of the first and second titles, and the fact that GoG probably has them on sale for less than a bad cup of franchised coffee, recommending these games becomes a no brainer... Even when your pockets hang heavy with the weight of Drowner brains and not orens. ;)