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Why doesn't TW2 get discussed more in game difficulty threads?This game is punishing, and can be frustrating to no end.About 2 years ago I started a game, and got to about Chapter 2 on DARK. As a glutton for punishment I wanted to take on that challenge. It was hell, and eventually I started to get the hang of things.

Witcher 2 Arena Dark Mode Guides. Three videos I made of the Arena on Dark Mode, waves 1-18. Will make vids with the other waves soon enough. I had already done vids for the first 30 waves of the arena, but the channel I posted those on got taken down, so redoing them.

For reasons that I don't remember I stopped playing.Now, with TW3 sitting on my shelf, I wanted to run through TW2. To speed things up a bit I elected for normal difficulty. I don't know how to got as far as I did on Dark, because this game is still brutal.

I am lvl8 exploring the burnt hospital and the wraiths are still one shot killing me (when I don't have quen up.)At least in FROM games, there is a semi save system. You resurrect, and can pick up relatively near. You can recollect your progress and move on. In TW2, progress may be reset large chunks at a time. Leaving you to replay the same place over and over again.

To make matters worse, I somehow was killed during an unplayable scene.forcing me to reload. I don't want to save every few steps, but not doing so will punish you if something random happens.

This is the first time I've read about someone thinking W2 is hard. I have the 'Madman' achievement where you 'Finish the game while playing at the Insane difficulty level.'

I never touched Dark mode since you mention that as being hard, but Insane was pretty easy. I died once on the tutorial my first attempt, but I breezed through the rest of the game and got it my second try. For anyone unaware, if you die on Insane, your save file is deleted. And I had only played through the game once before this.

I remember the QTEs being the only part that made me nervous about dying, and if a QTE is all I'm worried about, that's really bad. Weird, I honestly found The Witcher 2 pretty easy, I played on Hard most of the game and rarely used Quen. I probably could've bumped it up to Dark halfway through and been fine. I mean, you have one of the most broken rolls I've seen in a single player game, it's so easy to abuse it and get around behind enemies.The Witcher 3 on the other hand I feel like I can die at any moment if I'm not bringing my A game, and I'm Blood and Broken Bones.I also don't know why this series keeps getting constantly compared with Souls and Assassin's Creed, the combat is completely different, and the games don't even have combat as the main focus. I agree with a lot of your points there for Witcher 2.

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I was getting frustrated with it early on as well but only because I was playing it like a Souls or a 3rd person hack and slasher (DMC comes to mind). This is a game that almost forces you to utilize all your tools in combat. Pop potion buffs, use oils, set traps, etc, not relying solely on weapons.I remember distinctly one section early on in W2 where you're surrounded by a large pack of soldiers and dogs.

Of course I got surrounded easily if I just hacked at everything. I was getting so frustrated and almost dropped the game entirely because of that section.

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Then I started using the magic traps, threw some bombs, and even buffed and then the fight became more manageable. Once I stopped treating it like Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry it became much more enjoyable.The UI sucked ass though and still does in W3.