The Witcher 2 reviews start hitting, get rounded up

My god it’s like war out there!!!!!!Disappointed DA fanboys trolling and pissing all over it!On the other hand,some of them(frustrated with DA2)giving it 10 all over the place,(just look at the GameSpot user scores and “reviews” http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/thewitcher2/players.html?tag=scoresummary%3Buser-score ) it’s madness I tell ya MADNESSSSS!!!!

Wow,Thats sounding amazing,my gtx 580 is shouting buy me at this game already.just hearing uncharted and this in the same sentence is enough for me,If only naughty dog would do them for pc,Dream on.Uncharted 2 dx11 would be a dream though but this will do.LOL !

GamesRadar Review
http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings/review/the-witcher-2-assassins-of-kings-review/a-201105171466879070/g-20100323131251436086

I am going to pick this game up for sure

Oh man, woe is my poor old laptop.

/wants
/can’t have

Looks like picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

I tried the game on my laptop, but as expected..it runs like crap. It’s do-able with everything, absolutely every single setting on low but still not that nice to play. It still looks damn fine with everything on low though.

If only i had the money for a new pc, hell…i’d do it. This is the game i am sure to love to death. I’m sure if i want to be able to play it on high settings…i’d need to buy/build a complete new pc..and the costs would be around 1000 euros..wouldn’t surprise me.

It’s times like this i’m glad I invested £1,700 in a good laptop.

I was going to get Brink and La Noire, but i’ve decided to get this game instead. Can’t wait!

£1700?!

/faints

£1700? I could build a comp that will run it at max for quarter of that price.

@57 I’ve recently built a ~800 euro rig; Witcher 2 is running smoothly at ultra settings.

@58 £1700 is a bit too much even for a high end gaming computer. I’m sure you are using it for other purposes.

@60 Well yeah, it kind’ve goes without saying that gaming laptops are hideously overpriced.

This game btw is a new graphical benchmark. Games like Crysis looks like garbage. I won’t mention console games, because they are not even close to Crysis anyway.

Just try to get to the forest.

THE BEST forest in videogames. Hands down. Not just graphicaly, but design of it is pure genious.

@ 61 really? Wow…800 is do-able, not bad at all. If this game doesn’t ever come to consoles i might do that.

Are there videos of the afore-mentioned forest? I like a nice bush.

This makes me think MS/Sony have waited too long to put out new hardware. It would be nice if future hardware could be easily upgradable. I know system add ons havn’t always been glowing in the past. But expanding system ram and graphic ability makes a lot of sense. If it could be done for a reasonable cost.

But I guess putting out a new system that is 100% Backwards compatible is a lot like achieving the same type of thing.

Its just that next to a growing selection of PC games, the current crop of current generation games on consoles are lacking.

Not trolling, its just obvious. Consoles are aging at this point. Ten year life cycles are too long imo.

@66 Allowing upgrades to consoles just causes fragmentation of your audience, its bad enough with different platforms, controllers and harddisc options.

Expanding ram and graphics for a console isn’t as easy as it might sound, this article is interesting as it shows how difficult it is just to pick the right hardware for a console, never mind make it upgradable:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/digitalfoundry-in-theory-mapping-the-next-gen-xbox

Frankly making upgradable consoles for a market that has shown raw power isn’t the major selling point just seems like madness to me.

A good read RT.

@64 The computer is at the moment a mid toward high end rig; according to some standards I’ve found on the internet.
You could make get it a bit cheaper if you buy the components in the US/have them bought there. Roughly; the equivalence was 1 euro : 1 dollar for most of the parts.

@ moonwalker
Have you tried to turn off the “uber” something in graphic option ! I read it on RPS user comment, and they said Its help a lot to make his witcher 2 run smooth on its 3 year old rig!

@bpcgos

Well i’m looking at the advanced settings now and basically i got everything set to low and minimal. Texture downscaling is at low, i can choose ‘none’ maybe i should try that. Also….i can lower the resolution.