Here's a detailed explanation why a drill wouldn't suffice... IN SOOOONG:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-kn0JG5p4

Makes perfect sense "if you'd rather have an intellect second to a fern" then I say GO FOR IT!! ROFLMAO!

I might sound like this after a couple more patches.

I have also enjoyed TW2 playing. The game is amazing, excellent graphic and deep epic story. I was really surprised about games stability (TW1 crashes time to time). I replayed TW1 before TW2 an read all the books about Geralt again. There is so much references to the books in the game and they increasing enjoyment. Of course there are some annoying bugs as a resolution limitation (I have switched from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200 during gameplay, because 1920x1200 is even closer to 16:9 than 1600x1200) and stupid gui which was crippled because of console conversion. Even that it is splendid game. When these bugs will be fixed and some other story added, than this game will be superb. I can't believe that events in Loc Muine could be an end of story. Hoped that there will be some expansion soon.

I thing that guys from CDP did great job and patch 1.3 will accent it.

In full agreement with the OP.

It is indeed awesome. After the first playthrough I was telling people "hey this game is pretty sweet". After the second playthrough I was telling people "goddamn you gotta play this!"

Agreed - and great to see some positive attitude for a change.

I played through most of the game from the original install, I thought I'd updated to 1.2 but turned out I hadn't. I had the occasional crash and the game doesn't run that great but thats due to my machine. Overall the game crashed a lot less and had fewer problems than most other modern games I've played in the first 6 months of release - so I really struggle to see how people's little niggling issues are such deal breakers. I've experienced genuinely unplayable games out of the box over the 20 years of gaming - Witcher 2 was very solid on release :)

And with 20 years of gaming, this game is definitely the best RPG I've ever played, and possibly the best game fullstop (time will tell). Not to mention the best value, Australian copy was cheaper than most new releases and packed with bonus content.

I finished the game twice both Iorwerth and Roche path.. But there isn't anything else for me to play.. Damn the game is so awesome i don't want it to end..

Addd tonnes of sidequests i be happy! and add more places to visits more monsters to fight!

I am glad there are others that enjoyed the game as much as I did :-).
And I am going to enjoy it several more times yet.

Well after 4 playthroughs...man, with most games I have to convince myself to finish even the first playthrough !

I very much agree. When I compare my "on launch" situation of Witcher 2 with:

Fallout 2, Arcanum, Bloodlines, Witcher 1, Gothic 3...

Witcher 2 is polished like a diamond compared to those games (and hell, I loved all those!) :-).