Are you finding The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings rather tough going? You and everybody else, apparently. But according to the project’s senior producer, Tomasz Gop, that’s kind of the point.<\/p>\n
“Obviously we have been inspired by hardcore games, by difficult games, and maybe that might be the reason why it was not that obvious to us,” he tells Eurogamer.<\/a><\/p>\n “But we didn’t want the game to be a piece of cake at the beginning like, you know, an interactive movie. That wasn’t what we were aiming for. We definitely wanted to introduce at least some level of difficulty.<\/p>\n “I think the most common misunderstanding is that most people compare our ‘normal difficulty’ to other games’ ‘normal difficulty’. Since we are a hardcore game, we do require a hardcore approach on the ‘normal’ skill. The ‘easy’ skill is basically for the guys who want to take it light.”<\/p>\n Gamers were warned beforehand, though. Back in April already, Gop revealed that the game was inspired by the notoriously bastard-class hard Demon’s Souls.<\/a><\/p>\n There’s also a big update in the works over at CD Projekt HQ, and the company is “aiming toward this week” for a launch.<\/p>\n “It’s going to be a huge one and we’ve taken this last week really seriously and we’re trying to fix if not all then most of the important things,” says Gop. “It will definitely satisfy a huge number of gamers who are angry out there.”<\/p>\n