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Witcher 2 initial impressions by Rafiki 07/12/2011, 5:55pm PDT I was playing Witcher 2 yesterday and it looks gorgeous. It autodetected me at medium settings. Ultra must be some kind of religious experience. Characters say "ploughing" instead of "fucking." Except when they actually say "fucking" and "fuck." So one moment I hear how someone will get their ploughing heads cut off, and the next I'll hear"fuck you." But then "plough you" would just be silly. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting how "ploughing" is used. Where is didcot :( The gameplay is kind of reminding me of Batman: Arkham Asylum. I never played the original Witcher, but if I had it would probably remind me of that. I haven't figured out the timing of attacks, blocks, and counter-attacks yet so it's kind of frustrating because I'm dying a whole lot right in the beginning. Me vs. those FUCKING keybindings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The game has a launcher for configuring graphics settings and keybindings, among other things. This is because not only can you not configure them in-game, you can't even look at them. This is really aggravating as far as keybindings are concerned, because this is one of those games that doesn't update the tutorial text to reflect any changes you made to the bindings. So it will tell me to press the right mouse button to do something, but I remapped it and I can't check the options for what the key is, so I have to press all of the buttons until one of them does what it asks. Or it will tell me to enter "Meditation Mode" to do something, but there wasn't a button for "Meditation Mode" so I have to mash buttons until a menu pops up that has "Meditation" as a selection. Thanks, game. Then when I pop up the quick-menu with Meditation and other options I can use the mouse and left-click an option to select it, exactly the way you would expect. But when I'm in a conversation and get a list of dialog choices, I get a mouse cursor, and I can hover over options to highlight them, but left-clicking does nothing. So then I double-click, single-click really slowly, and then angry-click where you lift your finger up and make it super stiff and then slam it down on the button really long and hard like maybe they invented the pressure sensitive click. It turns out you have to press the "action" button, which by default is the left mouse button. But I remapped it. And the quick-menu still accepts a left-click, so hooray for confusing inconsistency. The solution to my problem is probably to flip my keyboard out the window and just plug in my Xbox controller like I did with Batman :(

Witcher 2 initial impressions by Rafiki 07/12/2011, 5:55pm PDT