Witcher 2 shots are sweary, beautiful

Published 5 April, 2011

Siege the day.

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  • Bradach #1 1 year ago

    the screens look good but i'm not impressed with the sample of dialogue on the first shot. Not exactly medieval / fantasy dwarf talk imo :)

  • Haloboy #2 1 year ago

    Stay around to get your fuck Sheldon! I would!

  • makememoo #3 1 year ago

    please don't let the combat suck.

  • ZizouFC #4 1 year ago

    Poor man's Dragon Age!

    /Doesn't own a gaming PC

    =(

  • Skandalle #5 1 year ago

    ....proper fucked?

  • kinky_mong #6 1 year ago

    Well that's a no-brainer, I'll be staying around to get my fuck!

  • richarddavies #7 1 year ago

    If im honest im hard pressed to think of a game that's better looking than that. Shame my pc would struggle to run pong.

  • space_ace #8 1 year ago

    ok who cranked up the colour saturation?

  • richarddavies #9 1 year ago

    @Words over guns

    All you've done there is make me want a medievil rpg with swearing in just like that. It would make me piss.

  • jonbwfc #10 1 year ago

    If you want another example, try catching 'Spartacus : Gods of the Arena', currently on Sky I think. Romans spouting dialog that is 50% Shakespeare, 50% Tourette's syndrome.

    Jon

  • UncleLou #11 1 year ago

    I just don't understand what they were thinking with all the swearing in a fantasy RPG.

    Why not? Obviously it shouldn't be overdone, but Tolkien's ultra-clean escapism surely is as far removed from "realistically medieval" as it gets when it comes to language. I am convinced there was more cursing and foul language in taverns a few hundred years ago than there is now. :p

  • michaelius #12 1 year ago

    "I just don't understand what they were thinking with all the swearing in a fantasy RPG. It's not like the CoD chavs are going to be playing it and impressed by this so I don't really understand why they thought it add to the game. I mean imagine if Lord of the Rings went like this: "

    How about you go are read Witcher novels before commenting on language that is used in game? And fantasy doesn't end with Tolkien primary school friendly books. I wouldn't exactly call "Game of Thrones" a foul language free book.

  • StooMonster #13 1 year ago

    Fuck, the fucking fuckers have fucking fucked up the fucking fucker.

  • Mockerre #14 1 year ago

    @Words_over_guns

    It's a 'Sapkowski thing' - the book series this is based on drips with swearing, nudity, sex scenes etc. CD Project is just faithful to the source material ;)

  • kinky_mong #15 1 year ago

    "I would love to throw a fuck in that"

  • Yossarian #16 1 year ago

    How many of the people complaining about the language played the first game?

    Show of hands?

  • HenryFitz #17 1 year ago

    Never mind the swearing. Who the fuck says "Right on"? Game's not set in 80s California, is it?

  • Paul_cz #18 1 year ago

    For all the retarded fuckers that complain about swearing:

    The book saga of which this game is continuation is FULL of swearing, because its author Mr. Sapkowski wanted to make it feel real, wanted to capture how people really talk in the real world. So yes, there is a lot of fucking, pissing and shitting, just like there is around any normal human being in real world.So the game is perfectly true to its source material. Not to mention it is intended for ADULT audiences.

    So get the fuck over it, fuckos.

  • hiddenranbir #19 1 year ago

    Isn't fuck an old viking word anyway?

  • MMMMMM7 #20 1 year ago

    I totally agree with @Bradach about the sample of the dialogue.

    What is this MAFIA II where those criminals with an IQ of
    a monkey and a vocabulary of a cow just sweared in every
    sentence they said.

    I personally think that swearing and dirty words in games
    actually degrade them and certainly ruin their medieval and
    fantasy atmosphere they struggle to create.

    I can only say I'm disapponited us I never expect to find such a word
    (f...) in a FANTASY game that until now I highly respected.
    Edited by MMMMMM7 at 06/04/11 @ 08:54

  • michaelius #21 1 year ago

    Yes because obviously common folk and simple soldiers in middle ages always talked the same way as knights and lords did in all those arthurian tales ;)

  • UncleLou #22 1 year ago

    @MMMMMM7

    Someone already mentioned it - ever read A Song of Ice and Fire, arguably the finest fantasy series around?

  • michaelius #23 1 year ago

    You can doubt it all you want but it's most popular fantasy saga in Poland and has tons of fans in Czech Republic and Russia (and probably few other countries where it was translated).

    And the first game more than doubled previous best selling game numbers on our local market ;)

    So yeah I'd say that worked quite well ;)

  • UncleLou #24 1 year ago

    Whatever excuse or justification you make it still sounds shit. Maybe it worked in the books ... but i doubt it.

    Sounds like you just have a very narrow-minded, twisted view of "fantasy".

  • 5h1nj1 #25 1 year ago

    Nice screenshots but they look a bit unreal. Some stuff has these strange patterns on them, the colors are off, fov is weird - not ingame screens. Probably shopped and adjusted but I still believe the game will look good, of course. :)

    As for the language, no, Mr.Sapkowski never wrote those lines because he doesn't write his books in english. And it's kinda hard to transfer the right feeling of the original work when using another language, especially regarding swearing. Even the first game struggled with that a bit. Yes, there is a lot of swearing in the original books but it still feels like the right language for the setting. The writer used a very sensitive approach to that and made sure not to cross a line. The game-writers (or translators) are...not so subtle.

    edit: typos
    Edited by 5h1nj1 at 06/04/11 @ 11:23