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I played regular W2 and can definitely recommend it, while my favorite of the three still remains W1 EE. It's not as highly polished as the other two titles obiously, but the whole theme is just so much darker and more authentic. If you didn't play it yet, you should DEFINITELY have a go at it. After all, there is a story spanning all three titles.

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Nice, well found a copy for £5 so will go and grab that. Are there are fan made mods for the gfx or gameplay..?

Yes there was some initiative with a developer made SDK. I'm not sure what's up with that but a lot of the mods are bound to change the game significantly. I'd leave them for the 3'rd playthrough.

 

The most famous one seems to be Full Combat Rebalance mod. But I didn't like it much after Witcher 1. You can find it here if you want to: http://redkit.cdprojektred.com/index.php?c=mod&m=show&p=77

But be careful though, in my opinion the most balanced game is the original un-modded one. Quest mods though should be interesting, although they are limited in number. It seems a lot of people just went straight to Witcher 3.

Witcher 1 had it's own share of peculiar scenarios as well that few people actually touched.

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"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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A friend of mine played all parts of Witcher and recommended it for me. So when part three came out, I bought the first two, since I prefer to experience the whole story. I can also definitely recommend all parts (as far as I have played them). I have so far only one playthrough and lived with the decisions I made. I am really excited, how big the influence on the third game will be...

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A friend of mine played all parts of Witcher and recommended it for me. So when part three came out, I bought the first two, since I prefer to experience the whole story. I can also definitely recommend all parts (as far as I have played them). I have so far only one playthrough and lived with the decisions I made. I am really excited, how big the influence on the third game will be...

You should like it as well. I have yet to get to the third game, no time to play but I read the books in 2014. This is definately deeper than Game of Thrones. Postmodernism with taste. The sex has more taste, the people are more conscious of the reality. As a side by side comparisson, thus far - witcher is the more authentic world both in games and in books. Doesn't have forced or artificial story elements (with some exceptions of over-sexualization of women, cards in W1 - which are probably why it never refused it's postmodernist influences).

The whole series had a profound impact on my life.

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"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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I'm in the same boat as STiFU, while W2 is recommended just on the grounds that it's the Witcher, it's def. the weakest one in the series. It sort of requires you got replay the game at least once to get the full picture. Because the game is wider rather than longer, then, it felt a bit less exciting than W1 for me. A lot of the crafting is also useless since you can just find better stuff on your travels.

 

I've read through The Last Wish and I have some of the other books laying around, but I'll go out on a limb and recommend the prose too. Very pleasant.

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I'm in the same boat as STiFU, while W2 is recommended just on the grounds that it's the Witcher, it's def. the weakest one in the series. It sort of requires you got replay the game at least once to get the full picture. Because the game is wider rather than longer, then, it felt a bit less exciting than W1 for me. A lot of the crafting is also useless since you can just find better stuff on your travels.

 

I've read through The Last Wish and I have some of the other books laying around, but I'll go out on a limb and recommend the prose too. Very pleasant.

Speaking of that. Specifically Sword of Destiny and The Last Wish are structured like short stories. But who would've thought that after them, the other 5 books are totally different and actually have a much more connected story.

So the actual saga is in Blood of the Elver, Time of Contempt, Baptism by Fire, Swallow's Tower and Lady of the Lake.

Everything else is basically stories of Geralt's life scattered like Sherlock Holmes's stories, or Edgar Allan Poe's. Just for you knowledge.

They did serve to me as a nice introduction to make this less intimidating. I'm wasn't a big reader prior to these books.

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"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

- 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe.

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Nice, well found a copy for £5 so will go and grab that. Are there are fan made mods for the gfx or gameplay..?

There are actually FMs. :) There are definitely also some gameplay mods, but to be honst, I wouldn't mess with the gameplay for now.

 

As far as graphicsmods are concerned, I actually still have W1 EE installed and pimped with some mods including sweetFX. However, I can't find out from my installation which mods I actually have installed. :D It's been a while since I did that. But you'll find them sourself. Just browse a little e.g. here: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/?tb=mod&pUp=1.

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