It's kind of hard to explain, but it's more like the deepness and richness of the color. I think what you have an issue with is the bloom intensity, which causes that blurry glowing effect where the light hits.n4meless1 said:Hmm, I'm not an expert in the matter, but isn't the saturation like the intensity and 'spreadness' of light/colors?
227 said:It's kind of hard to explain, but it's more like the deepness and richness of the color. I think what you have an issue with is the bloom intensity, which causes that blurry glowing effect where the light hits.
Great reviewgregski said:http://gamingbolt.com/the-witcher-2-enhanced-edition-xbox-360-review
Interesting review.
Aesieru said:I'm not sure if I said this yet, but I now ignore the review and opinion of every single major reviewer due to the whole Mass Effect 3 debacle. I need people not on the advertising-budget of gaming companies and publishers to review things if I'm going to trust anything.
With that said, Witcher 2 could get 70 perfect scores and like ME3 I would not care because they aren't trustworthy anymore.
Yasha08 said:That happened before ME3 lol. Gears of War 3 recieved 10s and 9s all around the globe, and it is a good game, but definetly not worth a 10. Me3, Uncharted 3, God of War 3, CoD games, basically - every big installment in a well known franchise will recieve a high score (sometimes - ridiculously high), so if youre wondering whether or not to buy a fresh game in a well known and promoted franchise from a really wealthy publisher, reviews from your friends and common users is what you should be looking for, reviews of game-critics and magazines more often then not are just payed to write a good review and give it a high score...
However, when a game from a relativly unknown developer, with no blow-your-mind-advertising around the globe recieves alot of praise, you know that that game's probably pretty good. For example, Dark Souls, Catherine, The Journey, or your favorite Witcher 1\2. So, it's safe to say that this reviews are mostly genuine and the people who praise this game really did enjoy it and think it's worth the 9's and 9.5's that they gave it.
Unlike reviews for such big, loud names as ME or CoD, just compare the critics scores vs users scores on metacritic, you can clearly see that the critic score those games recieved is mostly bought by EA's\Activisions PR managment xD
Aesieru said:I've played Witcher 1, that game in my eyes deserved a 6.5 - 7, much like Mass Effect 3 does, and the reason is because of the incomprehensibly large and prohibitive bugs , crashes, and errors. Even with the DIRECTORS EDITION with all the bug fixes, my game crashed every 30 minutes on the dot on a new-gen system. It was ridiculous and it destroyed the game for me. I also found issues in the game and the game itself to be lack luster in my eyes. This in itself made the game terrible to me. The fact I even tried Witcher 2 still surprises me.
As for Witcher 2, in regards to the PC version I played before all these patches, it deserves an oscillating 8.
I have never encountered a game that deserves a 9, nor should any game in existence receive a 10, EVER, because that will be the last game ever created in history because every other game pales in comparison to it for eternity.
The highest I can give to any game in existence is an 8.5 and I rate highly on story and replayability and immersion. That being said, sometimes DLC can be sufficiently advanced and capable that it changes the game from an 8.5 to a 9, but that's more like saying the game got an expansion for it to be that quality and when that happens you're no longer just rating 1 game, you're rating 2 games really that when totalled equal 9.
Yasha08 said:You just rate games too strictly. So your scale doesn't match that of most people and critics. your 8 is probably about 9.5 of the average man if your 8.5 is the highest rating a game can recieve (which basically means it's a 10).
Overall, you can't take away that Witcher 1 was a really good game for many many people, while being developed by an unknown (to most) studio and having a lot of problems because it was their first game (the combat was a rythm-game, the graphics were pretty poor, the RPG aspect was pretty narrow, ans so on and so forth).
But many people liked it because it's amazingly well done story, it's atmosphere, it's characters and great dialogues, it's unorthodox take on fantasy world and character motives, and so on and so forth.
And just for the record, I've passed W1 like 7 times (on 3 different systems, started with the one that couldn't handle it above medium, ended with the one on which it run with 80 FPS on max), and I'm really amazed you had such problems running it on your PC, it run really good for me (except the frame drops in ACT 3 in the market district, which was a common problem and it was fixed in the EE for the W1). Really, I don't remember the game crushing on me even once, so it's safe to say that your experience was something abnormal, rather then a thing that happened to all.
Anyway, this is a little off topic, cheers.
n4meless1 said:^ On Win7 there's a problem with auto save function, so it needs to be turned off, and the game needs to be installed on other partition than that where the OS is at, or else it'll crash a lot..
And, yeah, aside from voice acting, combat and graphics (and I don't understand the hate for TW1 graphics in the last couple of posts, because the game looked great for 2007, and still do).. TW1 is still a better game than TW2, IMO..
yayodeanno said:If it weren't for TW1 I wouldn't be here today, neither would the vast majority of the regulars. Enough said?
yayodeanno said:Yeah, I agree on the reused character models, but the animations are not that big of a deal. You have new games with the same or lower quality of animations (skyrim, fallout 3/NW, Risen). And there were some copy pasting in areas, but also there were ton of unique, beautiful locations, so it was not an issue like in DA2, Mass Effect..
Ganishka said:Just for the record - animations is really a big deal man.
n4meless1 said:Skyrim has shitty animations, but that didn't stop it to sell 15 mil of copies, and receive all those glowing reviews (criminally undeserving). And, don't get me wrong, I love good animations..
Also, ME3 is basically a TPS, and just look at this joke..
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