*gasp* Really?!
Was that due to you not liking the game, or due to you being inexplicably bad at it somehow?
The Witcher 2 is such a good game. The lore is so damn interesting, even for people like me who have never played the original. The characters are diverse and feel like they're more than just assets, the story is original and unfolds in an exciting way and the locations you go to are utterly breathtaking.
Having said that, I am very excited for The Witcher 3.
It was a few things that bugged me to much.
I bought the game at it's release, and put in in the hardest difficulty, played for as while, died, realised it was perma death. And changed to the second hardest difficulty. Played that for a while. Story was good, I felt like my actions did have some consequences and so on. But the combat was always bugging me, it's so (imo) bad for being a third person rpg.
Thing was, you had evade manoeuvres, you needed some skill to parry, and so on.
But the light attacks were "all" leap attacks. Hence, if I pressed LMB, my character was stuck in a stupid attack animation for 1-2 seconds, without me being able to do anything.
That just removes the whole purpose of "skilled" combat, every time you attacked you pretty much "stunlocked" yourself, and the enemy's were free to attack you. Divine divinity has the same problems, were your "normal" attack is a leap attack, and you can't dodge or parry during it.
So that was the first thing that was bugging me.
The second thing was the Lockon mechanic.
So the game automatically locked you against the closest enemy in your vision. You could Force-lock it by pressing Alt, but there was no way to easily change the target.
All this made me get so annoyed with it.
Lets say I was up against three guys, 2 shielded and 1 with a 2h weapon.
I wanted to kill the guy with a 2h weapon, since he would be the easiest to kill, so I aim at him, the game lockson, I press LMB and my character jumps towards him and attack, once the attack is done, he get pushed away a bit, and the game auto lock on 1 of the shielded guys since now he's closer, continuing to pressing LMB Gerald would proceed to just jump around the battlefield attacking whoever he seemed fit. It felt like I wasn't playing the game.
And I despise not having control over my character, I hate when a game does things for me.
And if the game now insist of taking control from me, since apparently it's to "difficult" to do everything yourself, then I see no point in playing.
This have been the case of a lot of games recently, hence I've a hard time finding new and fun games.