A place for people to share their experiences with the insane difficulty level.

I finished The Witcher 2 on normal a week or so after it came out and after a short break decided to play through again on insane. After a two attempts to get past the prologue I made it into Chapter One pretty comfortably and really enjoyed how on edge this difficulty level forces you to be. I just had my third death around ten hours in trying to complete "In the Claws of Madness" which is just dripping with irony.

I was just wondering how other people have fared on insane? So far there is only one guy on the site with the Madman achievement so I guess anyone else who's trying this is finding it equally challenging.

I dare not try it on Insane because of the slightly unresponsive skills.

I was planning to play on insanity before the game came out.
But having played through the story 2 times first on normal then on hard, my urge to play on insanity is at the moment diminished.
Maybe at a later date when the expansion comes out.
 
As it stands insanity feels a bit cheap due to a number of instant death scenarios present in the game. And I don't want to juggle saves since it would feel like cheating and kind of defeat the purpose of insanity.
If it was not for those, I'd consider it more.

I'll try once, but this sounds really heavy to do in the earlier parts. The game's not really hard after you finish Chapter One (apart from fighting Golems, I swear to God, the only reliable way to kill those bastards was spamming Grapeshots). The earlier parts, however, sound crazy unless you do everything in the proper order, because I can't imagine attempting missions like Malena without dying at least once.

Group therapy for people who have outdated PC's and are unable to play Witcher 2 would have been a more interesting topic.

I'll try once, but this sounds really heavy to do in the earlier parts. The game's not really hard after you finish Chapter One (apart from fighting Golems, I swear to God, the only reliable way to kill those bastards was spamming Grapeshots). The earlier parts, however, sound crazy unless you do everything in the proper order, because I can't imagine attempting missions like Malena without dying at least once.

Was thinking bout playing insane but i'm giving it some time before i play the game again.  I usually give like 6 months to a year before i replay a good RPG so that the second time around doesn't feel like i'm rushing the experience because i know plot points.

I would join but im afraid someone will stab me because only crazy people play on insane!

@Ghostiet said:

I'll try once, but this sounds really heavy to do in the earlier parts. The game's not really hard after you finish Chapter One (apart from fighting Golems, I swear to God, the only reliable way to kill those bastards was spamming Grapeshots). The earlier parts, however, sound crazy unless you do everything in the proper order, because I can't imagine attempting missions like Malena without dying at least once.

Don't roget the draugir/wraith battles in chapter 2 when you are stripped of your skills.You get caught by those fire arrows even once and its gg.

@Ghostiet: @Tennmuerti: Chapter 2 will definitely have some pretty tough parts, I want to focus on magic this time so being stripped of all magic skills for a good chunk of the second act doesn't sound like much fun.

I'm starting to lean towards playing it on hard for the second play through and might come back to it after that..

I'm not playing on insane. I play this game for fun and even though I like a good challenge, I don't want to see however many hours wasted because I died randomly. Instead, I just play with mods. Using this and this mod together helps balance the game, making the beginning easier and the late-game harder, just the way it's supposed to be.

Will try this game on insane tomorrow, just got my PC fixed again  ^^

                   

 So far there is only one guy on the site with the Madman achievement so I guess anyone else who's trying this is finding it equally challenging.

                    

               

Full disclosure: I'm the guy with that achievement. I did not acquire it through legit means. 
 
I tried, it was just WAAAAY to frustrating.

Maybe I'll never play on Insane, but I will definitely play on Dark.

I'd rather chop my wee wee off. 

I remember the first time when I played it on normal it felt like it was insane :D