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The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition in April

[Jan 26, 2012, 9:47 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

GOG.com announces plans for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, following in the footsteps of the acclaimed Enhanced Edition of the first installment in their action/RPG series. They say the Enhanced Edition is due on April 17th. that anyone who buys The Witcher 2 between now and then gets the upgrade for free, and as further incentive, that the game is currently on sale for 15% off. Here's word on the new edition:

New major adventures set in new locations. These consist of an underground system of chambers beneath Loc Muine and a temperate coniferous forest in the Loc Muine mountains, and a secret cave passage. These new adventures will add several hours of story-based gameplay to the game.

New major characters to the Witcher story. One of them is Brigida Papebrock Dame. This noble woman comes from the Temerian family Papebrock and is a 30 year old lady-in-waiting of the Temerian court. The other characters are secret--for now!

All new animations and cut scenes, including a new, three and a half minute pre-rendered cinematic depicting the assassination of King Demavend of Aedirn. BAFTA Award winner and Academy Award nominee Tomasz Baginski brings this key historical event to life, setting the stage for the story told in The Witcher 2.

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Re: The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition in April

Jan 30, 2012, 08:55

Verno

Satoru wrote on Jan 27, 2012, 22:25:
No offense but this flies in the face of how the game actually is on the PC.

The forced door openings were on the original Witcher, and then you got a loading screen. Again what's the difference as you have to transition between internal and external environments no matter what.

I'd challenge you to look at even the basic inventory screen and attempt to navigate that with a dpad without gonig bonkers. Youd have to shift focus from 3 different areas (item sort, item selection, character model selection)

You could obviously see that Skyrim was based around a dpad type interface. But the Witcher is obviously designed with a mouse in mind.

Again no sorry, the interface is clearly multiplatform. The inventory sorting, quest tracking, action binding and so on are all very multiplatform in nature. There is very little about The Witcher 2 that is clearly PC only. None of that makes it a bad game but calling it a PC only title when they made numerous and obvious concessions to multiplatform development is a bit disingenuous.




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Comment [quote="Verno"Jan 30, 2012, 08:55][quote="Satoru"Jan 27, 2012, 22:25]No offense but this flies in the face of how the game actually is on the PC. The forced door openings were on the original Witcher, and then you got a loading screen. Again what's the difference as you have to transition between internal and external environments no matter what. I'd challenge you to look at even the basic inventory screen and attempt to navigate that with a dpad without gonig bonkers. Youd have to shift focus from 3 different areas (item sort, item selection, character model selection) You could obviously see that Skyrim was based around a dpad type interface. But the Witcher is obviously designed with a mouse in mind. [/quote] Again no sorry, the interface is clearly multiplatform. The inventory sorting, quest tracking, action binding and so on are all very multiplatform in nature. There is very little about The Witcher 2 that is clearly PC only. None of that makes it a bad game but calling it a PC only title when they made numerous and obvious concessions to multiplatform development is a bit disingenuous. [/quote]

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