The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

[icarusfall]

I'm just waiting for the console release.

[Frogacuda]

I hope people still care when the console release rolls around. I'm kind of glad they pushed it back so it wouldn't have to go head to head with Skyrim.

I do not expect Skyrim to be as good as The Witcher 2.

[Compass]

That's like saying you don't expect a bag of shit to be as good as a bag of gold.

[Frogacuda]

But that bag of shit is going to sell like a beast, so yeah. Glad The Witcher 2 won't launch in its shadow.

[bVork]

You mean BAG OF GOLD. But yes, it's good for both games to not be anywhere near each other. Hopefully the distance will prevent the dumber members of the gaming press from making pointless apples-to-oranges comparisons between the two, to the detriment of both games.

[Compass]

You mean apples-to-shit.

[Frogacuda]

Man, fuck getting this game on Steam.

For serious.

I tried to fire this up to enjoy 2.0 and I get a big pile of fuck you as it downloads 1.2 and like 3 gigs of patch installers to update the game 3 times, none of which work. So no 2.0 for me. Or even 1.3.

What the fuck is up with that? I know people were upset that patching the usual Valve way by replacing changed files resulted in big downloads, but surely that has to be better than this stone-age bullshit.

[epmode]

I honestly didn't mind the massive downloads. But that's only because most American ISPs still haven't figured a way to rip us off with cell-phone-style data plans. Europeans understandably hate it.

The patches worked for me though. Maybe starting Steam as an administrator will help? Or editing the Witcher 2 launcher's compatibility settings so that it loads as an administrator.

[Diff-chan]

pc gaming

[Frogacuda]

pc gaming

Honestly I haven't had any kind of patching issue in like... 8 years or something. PC gaming totally got past that, but this game's patches are fussy for some reason and the game in general doesn't play nice with the usual Steam patching system.

The patches worked for me though. Maybe starting Steam as an administrator will help? Or editing the Witcher 2 launcher's compatibility settings so that it loads as an administrator.

I'm running in an administrator account already anyway.