This game's bosses are insanely difficult, even on normal.

About time something was made for the hardcore gamer. I could give a crap about you casual gamers, mainly because you ruined a lot of games for me ... (cough, cough, DA2). And yes, it is your fault, you shouldn't have wanted to play video games in the first place.

Thank you CDPR for this great game. Sure, I have my gripes with it, but they are very minor, and as a customer, I am 100% satisfied with my purchase.

For some reason I worry that CDPR will see some of the comments and make a dumbed down version of the game for W3, or an upcoming patch. PLEASE DON'T!

i'm pretty they won't make it easier with a patch

Agreed

I don't see any reason why they would. There's always easy for the casual gamers...

From reading some of the comments on this forum, easy is too difficult for some.

I for one usually play a game on Hard or the second to highest difficulty when starting off. It's a rarity that I play on normal. My logic being: I'm a gamer, I have a better grasp of how to play games than the average person.

Not so much the case with W2, which is awesome.

F*** the casual gamer, you screwed alot of possible good games and nintendo you SOB.
and thank you CDPR for screwing them up.

I'm prettier!! It took almost 4ys for a follow up to TW2 alot can happen The next generation Witcher will be playable on the WII.......oh my!!

I love the game as it is ^^ But i must say that i found the game too easy after the tutorial (i played the dragon part first and always died because of the flames. ) And i played it in hard mode all the way.
Maybe alchemy skill tree is a bit overpowered, leaving traps in the ground (the ones you pick up in the forest in act 1) that do 100 aprox each and are reusable. And the bombs... you can send a group of enemies to burn once and again (130 damage to each enemy per bomb with the armor you get from the succubus) or use an AXIA area (cant remeber the potion's name) That combined with the +30%armor +300%resistance from the first potion, +4 health regen from the second and +17% damage from the third potion + 20%damage from the oil... every enemy went down without being touched.

In act 3 iorveth's path at the very begining, i crafted 100 bombs and killed every order of the rose knight just by pressing "r" once and again ^^ It was a lot of fun though.

The only one i am not able to kill, is the "reptile man with a metal mask" the one that lets you respend all the skill points again. I die too fast =P

game is easy, period !

It only took 4 years because they created a new engine. Hopefully it won't be as long until the TW3.

While this is a very harsh way to put it, I basically agree. :p

Anyways, there's a Eurogamer article in which they bring up player complaints about difficulty.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-24-cd-projekt-defends-witcher-2-difficulty

Based on CPR's response, I have faith that they won't cave, though in all fairness, the game already gets progressively easier as you progress through it, and once you've finished your first playthrough and start with your second, you're likely wishing for a difficulty setting higher than Hard but without the save game wiping aspect of Insane.

What did the casual gamers ever do to you? A well developed game will always have multiple options for difficulty, especially RPGs. Casual gamers can play on easy and you will just play it on hard, so whats the big deal here?

Most people, casual or not wont play in easy mode because they have too much pride even if they cant win. That's probably why most normal mode now are so easy in most games.

So if you go play minigold you want to get spit on by professional golfers? When you normally drive your car you should get banned from streets because you are no formal 1 driver?

Very childish such an agressive opinion. And no, it is not their fault, the developers made those games, nobody else.

I cant say I completely agree with you but thats a good point. Some smart game developers use tricks such as set the lowest difficulty to normal and create a new difficulty level like epic or godlike to scare those causal gamers off :)