Why The Witcher 2 Needed an Enhanced Edition

[Kahunaburger]

I for one prefer someting a little unpolished, yet superior in content.

+1

And now that it is superior in content and polished, so much the better

 

[Kahunaburger]

So, better or worse than Dragon Age 2?

Which one had its expansion canned again? I would say that one was worse.

Haha that was a nice moment. The way all of the major gaming outlets that had pretended that DA2 was a good game handled that story was incredibly entertaining.

 

[Thoric485]

The 5/5 for DA2 will forever stain this site's credibility.

The EA ad revenue's probably worth it though.

 

[Susan Arendt]

The 5/5 for DA2 will forever stain this site's credibility.

The EA ad revenue's probably worth it though.

And all the players who said they liked the game...were they also paid by EA? I'm curious. A good swath of the people in this very community really loved DA2, so are they also on the payroll?

 

[GoldenShadow]

Dragon age 2 wasn't bad on your first playthrough. You just realize that nothing you do has any consequence on your second playthrough and that pissed people off.

 

[MetalDooley]

Christ can we not have an article about a fantasy RPG on this site without someone bringing up the damn DA2 review.It was over a year ago and it's a game that a lot of people enjoyed.Get over it FFS

 

[Greg Tito]

What does TW2 have anything to do DA2?

A thousand times this.

 

[Susan Arendt]

The 5/5 for DA2 will forever stain this site's credibility.

The EA ad revenue's probably worth it though.

And all the players who said they liked the game...were they also paid by EA? I'm curious. A good swath of the people in this very community really loved DA2, so are they also on the payroll?

I like Final Fantasy XIII. Some people are just freaks.

Seriously, there appears to be a disconnect. If ME 3 is any indicator of what DAII was like, I can understand why people would have a problem with it. The terrible characterizations and corny, boring dialogue were almost too much. The games were released at the same time and DAII was a massive to many disappointment and TW2 wasn't.

So you're saying that someone who likes DA2 is a freak? Sorry, but that's just bullshit. As is the idea that you're a freak for liking FF13.

I understand why people take issue with DA2, sure. But what I don't understand is this refusal to accept that some people didn't have those same issues.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

There's nothing mature about The Witcher. There's a lot of content unfriendly to a child, but there's nothing at all mature in the product.

 

[Thoric485]

The 5/5 for DA2 will forever stain this site's credibility.

The EA ad revenue's probably worth it though.

And all the players who said they liked the game...were they also paid by EA? I'm curious. A good swath of the people in this very community really loved DA2, so are they also on the payroll?

The question isn't whether this site is recieving money from EA - looking at the presence of EA ads, it obviously is. It's whether it has allowed that to influence its journalistic integrity, and in the case of DA2, I believe it did. It's a widely reviled title with multiple, serious flaws and can't be objectively given a perfect score.

And if reviews here are all opinion, with no objective weighing of aspects like graphics, gameplay, story - what does the score represent? Luck, that it fell to the right reviewer for it? Should we put every review from the User Reviews section up on Metacritic so it can too influence developers' bonuses and payrolls?

 

[El Luck]

There's nothing mature about The Witcher. There's a lot of content unfriendly to a child, but there's nothing at all mature in the product.

How so?

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

It's a widely reviled title with multiple, serious flaws and can't be objectively given a perfect score.

Objectively?

Newsflash: art is subjective and a review is the personal opinion of the individual giving it. No score is any more or less valid than any other. Just because you feel one way doesn't mean you are right. Simple, really.

 

[Soods]

So, better or worse than Dragon Age 2?

How dare you ask such a question?
I will find you, and I will hurt you. A lot!
I mean... In my fine opinion, The Witcher 2 surpasses Dragon Age 2 in almost every aspect imaginable.

 

[Susan Arendt]

The 5/5 for DA2 will forever stain this site's credibility.

The EA ad revenue's probably worth it though.

And all the players who said they liked the game...were they also paid by EA? I'm curious. A good swath of the people in this very community really loved DA2, so are they also on the payroll?

The question isn't whether this site is recieving money from EA - looking at the presence of EA ads, it obviously is. It's whether it has allowed that to influence its journalistic integrity, and in the case of DA2, I believe it did. It's a widely reviled title with multiple, serious flaws and can't be objectively given a perfect score.

And if reviews here are all opinion, with no objective weighing of aspects like graphics, gameplay, story - what does the score represent? Luck, that it fell to the right reviewer for it? Should we put every review from the User Reviews section up on Metacritic so it can too influence developers' bonuses and payrolls?

You didn't actually answer my question.

 

[ms_sunlight]

Mass Effect 3 was much, much better than Dragon Age 2. Take that any way you like.

And yet, I really liked Dragon Age 2 and didn't enjoy Mass Effect 3 anywhere near as much (and I'm talking about the meat of the game, not the ending).

Enjoyment of games is highly subjective, people!