But that will only be an issue after they've finished balanced the game. But good point, should bring it up nevertheless.
Considering how little we've seen... yep. Even in this unpolished state it looks like a huge step up from W2.
The excessive use of dash and the absence of pirouettes have been mentioned a lot, so no worries, you're not alone in this concern. As for the animations - somehow I'm not bothered about this because I can't see a scenario where they don't have the number of animations they stated they recorded. So it's probably just a simple tweak, or seeing more combat.
We don't want Geralt spinning like a top. If the most efficient way to dodge isn't a pirrouette then they should use dashing instead of trying to be fancy.
Well... we have seen demos which are months apart, and if they are showing it then this is most likely how the end result will be, I actually preferred the rolling over the megaman dash, when they said side steps would be a big thing I imagined geralt actually doing footwork and stepping or hopping to the side, and when they said pirouettes I imagined geralt spinning around his opponent. I know people here hate it when we say AC but the series proves that these kinds of animations can be done. Like someone already said here, the dash is just a replacement for the roll, because we see the same " hit twice and get away" type of gameplay which pissed so many people off in W2
That's some slick gameplay. It does seem more fully animated. I think From has nailed it, and it looks much better than a roll. Kinda tired of the roll in video games tbh. Witcher has much faster enemies so Geralt's dodges will need to be swifter. It's just a matter of polishing things in TW3, they're super close.
I agree that the animations in the AC series are absolutely amazing for the most part. But, - and this is a huge BUT - that doesn't change the fact there's absolutely no challenge in that combat system. Which is kind of a big deal for many, and understandably so.
I recall they did mention this, that upgrading in the skill tree would add new sword attacks, just like it was in TW1. So we might be seeing level 7 sword attacks cycle and at level 25 Geralt will be a whirling dervish of death.
I'll give you that, TW2's passive buffs were pretty boring.
It's the only logical and satisfying approach to progression in Swordsmanship skill tree if you ask me.
'New Game +' might help that (with much harder difficulty of course).
But the combat will still feel stale compared to the later game though, I didn't like it in TW1 either.
Well TW1 did this right though. You already had a lot of badass moves in the beginning, that only got more badass later on. I wonder how many different types there were but I suspect it was way more than TW2. As for the repetition we're seeing now, I think It's more likely they just haven't tweaked the cycling yet.
No he`s not but then again the only way around it if you were to know everything from the beginning would be like some games where you never level up . Most of which get very repetitive in a hurry .
