The witcher 1 better then the witcher 2

[emann538]

The witcher 1 better then the witcher 2

I just finished playing the Witcher 2, Roche's path i like the game but for some reason I'm not motivated enough to play it again with Ioverth Path, the ending didn't feel like a a proper ending, i felt the game was too short compared to the the first title which took me a good 35 hrs to beat. i don't know why but i like the first witcher better, yea the combat wasn't as good, and the graphics weren't great, but idk there something about it that just makes it better, Also liked the soundtrack in the Witcher 1... am I the only one???

 

[Corylea.723]

There's a poll -- plus a very long thread -- here about which game people prefer. Right now, the poll numbers show

145 votes for "The Witcher 1 is better"
116 votes for "The Witcher 2 is better," and
163 votes for "Both are equally great."

So whichever game you liked best, lots of people agree with you ... and lots of people disagree.


Personally, I thought TW2 was a stunning achievement in many ways, but I also thought TW1 had charm or heart that TW2 didn't have.

 

[Garrison72]

 

[chromie92]

but I also thought TW1 had charm or heart that TW2 didn't have.

Totally.

They're both great games Witcher 1 was longer but had a lot of pointless stuff like Muddy Waters (it didn't need to be an entire chapter) and fedex quests, it had a bad combat system imo and incredibily easy difficult but it had an great story that introduced me to the franchise.

Witcher 2 improved on nearly everything but sacrificed in some areas like the monster variety and monster quests, number of sidemissions, boring QTE barfights but it had a the best politics I've seen in a game and thats why I like it more also the engine. Witcher 1 still runs like crap for me and Witcher 2 doesn't.

I think Corylea can agree though that 2011 Witcher 2 was probably one of the better releases of that year. Right?

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

It seems that authors worked on the story more thoroughly in the Witcher 1 (or at least longer). So the storyline there came out to be more intricate and with a lot of background information. Witcher 2 feels shorter which is probably caused by bigger focus on the graphics rather than on length of the storyline. Developers wrapped it up as a fast paced settings in which Geralt has no time for sidetracking, but in the end - it became less deep. Let's hope Witcher 3 will make up for that and will bring the depth of the Witcher 1 with the great graphics (or better) of the Witcher 2.

Also, having a long story requires paying more to the voice actors (and for them it's a real acting work and effort). So expenses are naturally heavier. Witcher 2 could have more constraints about voice acting, which caused the story to be shorter, also reducing the amount of long side dialogs which are far more common in the first Witcher.

They're both great games Witcher 1 was longer but had a lot of pointless stuff like Muddy Waters (it didn't need to be an entire chapter)

Do you mean the Murky Waters? It's actually one of my most favorite chapters in the Witcher 1 I especially like the soundtrack there.

 

[Sirnaq]

What witcher 1 did better (in my opinion):
atmosphere
music
story (in second half of the game)
bestiary
alchemy system
little choices

What witcher 2 did better:
gameplay mechanic
combat
more polished
graphics
branching storyline
more consistent quality (sorry but act 1 in original witcher was meh, act 2 was utterly terrible and first half of act 3 also was meh, while second half of the game was one of the best gaming experience in my life, and this is why some people quitting in act2, i know that i quitted there on my first playthrough)
characters
more replayability

Also witcher 2 feels shorter because it has branching storylne, you get completely different story in each branch and there is less mindless backtracking than in tw1.

 

[gibb_geralt]

It seems that authors worked on the story more thoroughly in the Witcher 1 (or at least longer). So the storyline there came out to be more intricate and with a lot of background information. .

Oh hell no. The amount of planning and time it would have taken to implement two coinciding storylines that weave together without a hitch would have required much more effort. There never was anything intricate about TW1's plot, it was very straightforward; save for the Alvin revelation.

I feel TW1 did atmosphere and music better (TW1 has the best soundtrack of all time imo), but everything else TW2 improves upon exponentially.

 

[Corylea.723]

I think Corylea can agree though that 2011 Witcher 2 was probably one of the better releases of that year. Right?

I said it was "a stunning achievement in many ways." There aren't very many games I say that about!

 

[nandusso]

I can't do the comparison, but I agree that The Witcher 1 has one of the best soundtrack of the games I played. I still remember the moment I've "fallen in love" with it in the streets of Vizima . Something like when you reach the new locations in "The Night of the Raven" (the expansion for Gothic2).

bye

 

[FoggyFishburne]

Witcher 2 was better in every way. I love The Witcher but the Witcher 2 just blows it out the water. I'm not interested in going into detail of why, this post would end up being 15 pages long. They're both great games but Witcher 2 cements CDPR as a high quality producing video game developer.

Oh and, there's been a couple of people complaining about the length of TW2. Well, I remember vividly saying to myself while playing TW: "wow these fucking quests are so boring." I'd rather have quality quests and choices that actually carry weight and have an impact on how the story unravels. And Witcher 2 delivers big time in that regard.

 

[emann538]

Witcher 1 Best soundtrack ever and don't really even pay attention to soundtracks in games, My favorite is the Lakeside music at night, that song is beautiful.

 

[Aver]

I'm pretty sure that in future I will play from time to time TW1 again, but I'm not sure about TW2, even tho TW2 has far more superior gameplay and characters. Somehow TW2 is lacking atmosphere that TW1 had. I would bet that it's because of locations. Somehow only location that I liked in TW2 is Flotsam - rest of them are cool, but nothing special.

Also lack of dialogs with our companions is big disadvantage. I loved idle talks with them in TW1. In TW2 there are like 4-5 dialog options with each one per act and most of them are about situation around and not about their personal problems/stories/etc.

 

[datirishguy]

Off topic here, sorry OP, but I just remembered, being solely a console player, that it's an almost certainty that I won't be able to import my playthroughs to The Witcher 3, seen as the 360 and PS3 will be obsolete by the time The Witcher 3 comes out ..... damn.

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

I actually hope CDPR's support for consoles won't hurt the design of the Witcher 3. Witcher 2 had suffered from consolization in comparison to the Witcher 1 which had a really brilliant interface (that's one of the points which wasn't mentioned in this thread yet).

 

[chromie92]

Do you mean the Murky Waters? It's actually one of my most favorite chapters in the Witcher 1 I especially like the soundtrack there.

Yea lol I always think of Murky Waters as Muddy Waters the musician.
It was fun but it was largely unnecessary and didn't need an entire chapter not that I mind.

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

It sets a different mood. Geralt points out that he regrets leaving the special atmosphere of the Murky Waters to return to Vizima. Murky waters while having its own dangers is not as depressing and gloomy as for example the swamps or Old Vizima and etc.

 

[chromie92]

Like I said I found it unnecessary and anything that happened or was said during that chapter could have been shortened instead of dragging it out. It's not like Geralt can't do a little soul searching in Vizima.

 

[Blothulfur]

Heart of the game for me: We finally get to experience the order and the scoiatael moving against each other rather than the periphery of the conflict, we unknowingly shape the main antagonist, we meet Berengar and thus learn of another side to the witchers life, we escape Addas wrath (because let's face it she'd have seen us doing the gallows jig if we'd stayed in Vizima,) we experience the culmination of those vodyanoi prophecies hinted at by Vaska and we finally find a place and people that are worth fighting for.

For me it's a nice lull in the storyline, a chance to gather ones breath before the headlong rush into the denouement, good pacing.

 

[Corylea.723]

Heart of the game for me: We finally get to experience the order and the scoiatael moving against each other rather than the periphery of the conflict, we unknowingly shape the main antagonist, we meet Berengar and thus learn of another side to the witchers life, we escape Addas wrath (because let's face it she'd have seen us doing the gallows jig if we'd stayed in Vizima,) we experience the culmination of those vodyanoi prophecies hinted at by Vaska and we finally find a place and people that are worth fighting for.

For me it's a nice lull in the storyline, a chance to gather ones breath before the headlong rush into the denouement, good pacing.

I agree. I loved Chapter 4, and while it seemed like a distraction from the main story at first, it turned out to be a crucial element. And after two very long chapters in the Temple Quarter and the Swamps, I ready to KISS the Fields!

 

[KnightofPhoenix]

I agree with Bloth, I liked Act 4, it made sense within the story, plot and the general pacing of the game.
It's Act 2 ad 3 that, imo, should have been merged. Also, Act 5 could have had less swamp.