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UNKN0WN Jan 5, 2018 @ 11:34am
why is there so much hate for EW2?
Just for the record i have never played the 1st game but i did finish the 2th one. I really enjoyed it and its been a hell of a ride for me. after reading many of the threads here im getting the impression a lot of people didn't like it.. why?
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Kain Jan 5, 2018 @ 11:40am 
Apparently the performance is poor and some people consider it a "casual" game compared to the first. I confess I thought the first one was a slog, but some people consider it to be superior. To be fair TW2 is a GOOD game, not great, not awesome, just good. Although I thought the first one was terrible I can see why some people would praise it over it, it seems they mistook the awful controls and subpar gameplay with difficulty. This is as nice as I can be talking about the first game.
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Bankai9212 Jan 5, 2018 @ 11:58am 
Opinions.
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bradams Jan 18, 2018 @ 4:21am 
I personally like this one 1000% percent more already and iv barely played it. The first one honestly felt like there were 2 teams involved in its developement, the first team came up with neat, unique ideas for a horror game, and the second teams job was to find any mechanic they could that would not work at all with the first teams ideas.

An example is that it wanted to do survival horror with limited ammo and clunky aiming so you never feel completely safe. Cool, i liked the first resident evil games for that reason, it added tension. Which they then proceeded to add an absurd ammount of "hold out" rooms where you are fighting tons of enemies so it feels like you are playing destiny, except with limited ammo and aggrivatingly clunky aiming...

Another example is nearly every single boss fight in the first one had its "mechanic" for how you weakened it or whatever, but it RARELY worked. (there is a girl who is weakened by fire so you have to shoot valves in her face to slow her down but 90% of the time she just walks through the flames completely unaffected)

The first one was just objectivly bad. Not saying people cant like it, but from a technical standpoint of how well it worked and how its mechanics and gameplay aspects worked together, it was a red hot garbagefire. This one, while admittedly im not very far into it, actually seems to have its core gameplay aspects focused in 1 direction, rather than 5 different conflicting ones. It actually feels like its built to allow the player to choose to fight everything or not, rather than the first one that tried to make you feel like you couldnt, then forcing you too at every turn anyway.

But as with any series with multiple entries, once one is way different than the one before, many people who liked it the first way are going to hate the second, even if the newer one is objectivly and mechaniclly better in every way.
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Taffer9876 Jan 18, 2018 @ 2:14pm 
because the FPS dropped to 59.
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Taffer9876 Jan 18, 2018 @ 2:15pm 
I am very happey with the game.
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Gladius Jan 18, 2018 @ 3:20pm 
I couldnt like the first title but i love the second
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HAPPY Jan 18, 2018 @ 6:32pm 
Originally posted by UNKN0WN:
Just for the record i have never played the 1st game but i did finish the 2th one. I really enjoyed it and its been a hell of a ride for me. after reading many of the threads here im getting the impression a lot of people didn't like it.. why?
its not about hate user score is around 90 %... few ppl hate open world or some other things but only reason why are gamers here angry is that the game has fps drops problems and devs dont give a damn and dont even react... also story of first one was better and so were characters and monsters
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Bankai9212 Jan 19, 2018 @ 5:46am 
Originally posted by HAPPY:
Originally posted by UNKN0WN:
Just for the record i have never played the 1st game but i did finish the 2th one. I really enjoyed it and its been a hell of a ride for me. after reading many of the threads here im getting the impression a lot of people didn't like it.. why?
its not about hate user score is around 90 %... few ppl hate open world or some other things but only reason why are gamers here angry is that the game has fps drops problems and devs dont give a damn and dont even react... also story of first one was better and so were characters and monsters
The open segments take up a small portion of the game and doesn't break the flow. The first game plot just had a more interesting villain that got more development then the rest of the cast unless you played the dlc and even then only kidman got any development.
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ace Jan 19, 2018 @ 7:09am 
I'm enjoying the second game so far. I'm a filthy console peasant, i admit, that's why i'm playing it on PS4 (30 FPS, 1080p and all that) because my Laptop can't handle this game. The advantage is that i rarely have issues with performance drops, therefore one less reason to dislike the game. The first one, though, performance-wise, was a nightmare. Both games have their pros and cons. The first one was kind of a mess in terms of focus, but it was challenging and it made you feel tense all the time. Also, the game is highly replayable, since you'll propably want to play in higher difficulties just to see if you can beat it again and brag about it later. The second one is less tense and easier than the first game, but it's a good game nevertheless. Gameplay is refined and less clunky, no more stuttering (finally), the pacing is kinda slow but i enjoy exploring and watch the story as i'm playing. I'm not done with the second game yet, so i can't say if the story is that good, but i'm enjoying anyway. Both games are good in their own ways.
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Dr. Gori Jan 20, 2018 @ 1:48am 
Its the internet, people defend everything here. EW1 was a hot mess in every possible way, be it performance, plot, pacing, gameplay, letterboxing, etc.
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hahaisfunny Jan 20, 2018 @ 5:28am 
because we played different game...
gtx 770 at the highest setting
just smooth like wind
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HAPPY Jan 20, 2018 @ 8:27am 
Originally posted by Dr. Gori:
Its the internet, people defend everything here. EW1 was a hot mess in every possible way, be it performance, plot, pacing, gameplay, letterboxing, etc.
nope story in TEW 1 was amazing... one of the best and really complex
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Bankai9212 Jan 20, 2018 @ 9:22am 
Originally posted by HAPPY:
Originally posted by Dr. Gori:
Its the internet, people defend everything here. EW1 was a hot mess in every possible way, be it performance, plot, pacing, gameplay, letterboxing, etc.
nope story in TEW 1 was amazing... one of the best and really complex
Not really, it's told poorly to make it seem complex the plots as basic as they come.
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HAPPY Jan 20, 2018 @ 10:12am 
Originally posted by Bankai9212:
Originally posted by HAPPY:
nope story in TEW 1 was amazing... one of the best and really complex
Not really, it's told poorly to make it seem complex the plots as basic as they come.
nope it was awesome... even enemy design, locations and everything else had its meaning. All that was part of the story. Amazing and deep... definitely more complex than witcher 3 (for example) with its "have to save the world and girl" trash cliché story
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JocularJosh Jan 20, 2018 @ 10:14am 
Originally posted by HAPPY:
Originally posted by Bankai9212:
Not really, it's told poorly to make it seem complex the plots as basic as they come.
nope it was awesome... even enemy design, locations and everything else had its meaning. All that was part of the story. Amazing and deep... definitely more complex than witcher 3 (for example) with its "have to save the world and girl" trash cliché story
That's some very, very basic summarize of the witcher 3's plot, isn't it?
Hell, let me do the same thing for TEW:
"have to find and stop the bad guy".
Done.
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