shadownight

Couldn't have said it better oldspice 2625 the game lacked much guild wise and story also. in Morrowind and even Oblivion there was much replay value, and a payoff to a degree to completing the game. But in this one although the world is huge in comparison to either of the aforementioned games, it seems Bethseda concentrated more of the size of the world and ingored the deepness and richness the world needed to go with that size.

I agree the end was lame and dull. There was no special armor or weapons as a reward, and of course even though you are the Dragonborn and saved the world from the world eater and brokered a truce between the Imperials and the Stormcloaks there is no option to become High King or Emperor. All and all the game was disappointing from the lack of depth on some of the guild faction quests to the ever repeating statements when becoming Thane in each major city. to 50% of the game npc's being voiced by a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator.

Well my problem is both sides suck. They are whiners and unlikable. Myself I killed the Emperor Via Dark Brotherhood. From there I did many faction quests and side quests. I never chose to either join the Imperials or the Stormcloaks. I finished the main quest line killed aldeulin received nothing for it as a reward, and the ending was lame. From there you can then join either side at that point for the civil war, which made all my work to stay neutral and broker a truce of peace with the Greybeards pointless, not to mention even though you are Dragonborn and saved the world, you still cannot be Emperor or High King. So I've shelfed the game so to speak till some mods come out or a patch or expansion that gives you the option to become High King or Emperor if you stay neutral and bring peace to the civil war prior to finishing the main quest line.

The Game is huge for one. The world is massive in scope, and the quests are pretty much endless. The combat is fluid, and character development is well thought out. I spent over 180 hours and 2 characters and still have not done everything in the game.Now that I got some of the main positives out the way let me point out the bad points..... SPOILERS...... AHEAD....... First the game has many bugs since release. part of the reason i'm on my 2nd character already is that I found out the hard way when three fourths through the game that if you don't do things in a certain order in this game you will break some of the quests and will be unable to finish them, even on my 2nd character I have run into this issue on some minor quests. But for a completest like myself this is a horrible thing. There is a bug like when taking out a rival thieves guild and when you burn the banner if you watch it to long in that same cell area your game will freeze and you will be forced to shut your system completely down and restart. Now before people start saying thing upgrade your system, that is not the issue. I'm running I5 2500k cpu 16gb memory, GTX 570 SC, AND GTX 560 SC for Physics. The problem is like many games today released my developers the are released unfinished or in still beta stages. Although patches are common for games the extent of the issues games today are having on release are not, it is just laziness on the developers part to release the game when they can make the most money and to hell with the initial experience we will just fix it later after we get our money. In this story your character is Dragonborn like Uriel Septim and so on. Your are the hero, master of the voice that is to save the world from the world eater. Many like myself was hoping in the end of the main quest that you would get some special armor, weapon and if you bartered the peace between the Imperials and The Stormcloaks around the Greybeards Round Table like I did when you returned they would crown you Emperor and maybe have one final battle where you drive the Thalmor from Skyrim, and perhaps later in a expansion take the Dominion on in a final war. But no that does not happen, you get no special armor or weapon for completing the main story, and you are still faced with the position of taking a side between the Imperials or the Stormcloaks, and lets face it anyone making it that far in the game know that both sides are horrible choices and completely unlikable. Many were disappointed in Oblivion because you were unable to become Emperor in that game, but in this game it lead you on till the end that you might be able too, and by all rights you should have had the choice. My last main Complaint why do 50% of the characters you have to encounter have to sound like a bad Arnold Schwarzenegger, once it was funny, after around 100 or so encounters it just gets annoying. Bottom line the game is a beautiful world in which to explore, and the combat is solid, and the amount of quests is more than enough. The story on the other hand was a bit weak, end of main story was lame, Imperials and Stormcloaks unlikable and whiners, not enough of variety with voice actors, buggy game, and would have liked the choice to become Emperor. PS. I also hate being forced to play this game on steam, if I wanted to play this on steam I would have purchased the download from them VS. buying the retail game disc. Also a sign that the game was not really ready for release besides the bugs is that the creation kit was not ready for release with the game. Despite all this the modding community has been great and fixed many issues and oversights that the game developers have failed to address despite missing a creation set AKA TES Toolkit.

There should be a mod or they should add it to the 1.3 patch that in stating a new game you can import a Witcher 2 game save and start with all your stuff from that save.

Overall I loved TW2. Outside of the dice poker, I found the mini games dull and boring. The boxing was to repetitive, and took way too long to knock someone out. It may have been ok if there was more freedom and variety to the boxing, but clicking combinations of WASD for 10-15 per match was dull, and the arm wrestling was OK but very easy, the only match I lost was the Big Numa, and was forced to take steroids to beat him. All in all the could have made the game world larger, adding more quests and interactions with more NPC'S, and kept the dice poker, and maybe a better revamped boxing, and it would have been perfect. Instead you spent more time trying to complete the boring mini games than actual game world exportation like in TW1. A big thing that made dice poker, and boxing worthwhile in TW1 was playing against the king at the end or fist fighting an epic bonus character near the end of the game. you don't really get that big payoff for the mini games in TW2.