Two Worlds expansion Tainted Blood is now available to download for free for PC, as we were promised a few days back.
"Players can now go on the hunt for a crazy Necromancer, unsolve the mystery of a massacre in a woodcutters' camp, deal with a rebel knight (permanently) and lots more.
"The new add-on doesn't only give you a new series of Quests - it also opens up the doors to an all-new Business and Training Center! The town of Tharnburg offers you a large traders' district - and various arenas in which you can try out your newly-learned combat techniques right away", we're told.
I agree with you, sort of, on The Witcher. But Two Worlds is an utterly terrible game that doesn't even come within a billion miles of The Elder Scrolls in gameplay terms. Yes, Oblivion was shallow and buggy but Two Worlds? Doubly, Triply, Quadruply so.
The expansion would only be worth it if they paid you to play it.
European sales figures and European review score and Two World forums show you are not correct sir.
I put about 15 hours into the game before giving up. Forgive me for basing my views on personal experience rather than obscure German websites, or wherever it is you're getting your (ahem) 'information' from.
If we're going to cite review scores, it gets 50 out of 100 on metacritic. Hardly the mark of a good game by any stretch of the definition.
To say it was 4x times as buggy is to ignore how many mods most PC Oblivion owners use to make the game 'work'.
I played vanilla Oblivion for a good 70+ hours before I started dicking about with mods (and expansions), and the game is nowhere near as buggy or "broken" as some people seem to think. It's a fantastic, if far from brilliant, immersive experience that Two Worlds could only dream of approaching.
If you could actually remember what Oblivion was like 'out of the box' (which no one does, it's human nature) you would not be so hard on Two Worlds.
See above. I remember what both of them were like out of the box. Neither were perfect, but Two Worlds was the more broken of the two by a very wide margin. Measured in light years.
At worse, I would see TW as a sort of 'backward shareware', in that the free add-ons that TW and The Witcher are going to give us later in the year, that will greatly improve graphics
TW's biggest aesthetic flaw wasn't the graphics though, it was the p**s awful voice acting reading from a script that sounded like it had been crayoned onto a bathroom wall by a four year old.
and add content (with regards TW) would normally be an expansion - not free. Therefore, if my money has allowed TW to be improved for new purchasers in the future and new, better titles for me next year, I am happy with that.
That's cool, sure. I feel the same way as you do about The Witcher (which was already a good game to begin with). And you know what? If they fix alot of problems with TW I might give it another bash, though I doubt it.
The above model is a lot more preferable to the way Bethesda works - one new title every 5 years that requires an expensive upgrade to play, followed by 'pay for' armour mods and new quests and a larger interest in graphic and a lesser interest in content with each Elder Scrolls release.
Can't argue with you there. Sacrificing Morrowind's depth for entirely graphical improvements was as bitter a pill to swallow for me as it was anyone else.
I know which one will help kill PC gaming and which one may give it a chance.
The Witcher was a far superior title, one which I recommend to anyone with an interest in CRPG's. I finished Two Worlds, having bought it on PC. I also put 60ish hours into Vanilla Oblivion, and out of the two, Oblivion was the far better game, much as those before me has said. As for having to have the 'uber' pc of doom to play Oblivion, I played it on a Sempron 2800+ with a ATI 9800 Pro, which I had purchased for around 250$ combined. I remember random crashes about every 3 hours, so I learned to save, and playing it on Medium.
Two Worlds, on the other hand, didn't look as good as Oblivion did, but I was playing it on a recently bought 8800GTX and a Core 2 Duo. Something about the character did not actually seem to fit in the world, and the story was pretty weak at best.
I see no reason to pull this game out and reinstall it for a content update.
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