no wary near....TW2 is much more compelling story wise even if more focused ›››

My first playthrough was a real torment. The mechanics were all changed and new, Geralt would die too easily, and you had to roll like crazy to avoid damage all the time. After i managed to complete it once, i abandoned it thinking i would never touch the stuff again. But as soon as those patches, updates and renovations started flying by, i immediately put it back, found out that i had totally adapted to the new gameplay mechanics, and my runs were a breeze, leading to me getting seriously addicted and stuck, unable to stop playing. Now that i am typing, it is my 15th playthrough. Normal, 9. Hard, 1. Dark, 4. Before.

Although i have made all different choices and a great deal of all possible combinations of choices in total, i still enjoy it like almost no other game. There is a saying that goes like: "You do not understand what you had until you lost it". Play another game or two, and upon returning to it, you are in for quite the (pleasant) surprise. ›››

Impossible to say, it probably differs for each person. I played TW2 10+ times (I lost count), and I still play it in between new games, like I am re-playing it now. I played first two times right away, different paths, to see the entire picture. If you really liked the story, I would recommend doing it, without skipping any quests, and trying to get all memories and flashbacks. I believe a single playthrough was meant by CDPR as only a half of a game, with a lot of questions left unanswered. So to really see what TW2 has to offer you would need to do it twice - for Roche and for Iorveth. ›››

If we really want to mete out justice on all wrong-doers, the only right thing is to nuke all of them - Iorveth who murdered women and children picking berries, Roche who sadistically tortures every subject to death disregarding the main principle - torture is not a punishment, but an information-gathering technique, Radovid, who started a massacre in Loc Muinne, sorceresses who approved and helped out with extermination of two armies, and so forth. Picking and choosing whom to kill, and whom to befriend, by the principle whose tits, arses, faces, or jokes we like or don't, is not a good way to do it. This is simply not fair, and, thus, wrong. ›››

Because you do not become a kingslayer. You do not kill Henselt. You simply allow Roche to. You might seemingly aid Letho's agenda by doing this, but that is not the case. Henselt is a pig. By killing him, you prevent that pig from ruling all of Aedirn. His hatred against nonhumans is so big, that it is mentioned, both repeatedly and extensively, inside the game, quite a few times. And most importantly, both for us and for "Geralt", there is no right choice. There never was, under the lore's setting. The lesser evil is our only right, sorry, rightful, choice. And not all of us conceive the same things as the lesser evil. Geralt acts out of emotion. Remember the events in Rivia... He couldn't stand the persecution of the nonhumans and went off to scare the persecutors; scare them not by shouting "BOO", but by turning them into mincemeat. About rage is another matter though. You have to be correct, he mustn't have been known to act upon that emotion...

The reasoning... Plough the executions, as Henselt said, it was his "duty" to prevent enemy spies from wreaking havoc in his and his country's affairs, even if only their chief was into the plot. But raping Ves? What would Geralt do if Triss was raped? Let it fly? Remember in the prologue, the crinfrid reavers talking to Geralt about the past, and of their failed effort to rape Yennefer, that momentarily slipped from their tongues? Thank god he has amnesia, the poor stooges would die horribly otherwise... Should they had succeeded in doing that, would Geralt not have slaughtered them just fine even back then?

Anyone can beg to differ. But he also was conspiring with Nilfgaard. He called Shillard. He wanted to negotiate with the Nilfgaardians. He "stole" Annais. He was planning to hand her over to the Black Ones... He was planning to steal Flotsam from Temeria. Calling the invaders and the conspirators whose only mission was to wreak havoc in the entire north to actively participate in their political affairs and aspirations, make him the worst possible scum and the lowliest of traitors. Death was a blessing, a gift, for a stupid pig he was.

I could never find it to my heart to let that man live. I would never forgive my gamer's consciousness... Plus his life is one its ending i owed to poor old Foltest. Trying to plunder and shred to pieces a dead man's kingdom... And to surrender his only remaining child (if you killed striga in 1) to the enemies of the entire north... ›››