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Witcher III - It's a thing.
« on: February 05, 2013, 02:03:32 am »

Witcher III has been announced. Planned to be released "sometime in 2014".
The biggest changes include: Open-world, bigger world (40x of W2), more in-line with the novels,  greater focus on "Witcher work", new engine, next gen blah blah.
Slightly outdated full list of changes here.

The change from the game being semi-open chapter based to full open-world is one that both excites me and worries me. It worries me because it's quite hard to craft a game which has an open-world that feels alive and responds to player interaction. An example of a game that completely balls'd this up this aspect is Skyrim (or any modern Bethesda game really), although it has decent exploration  the world felt completely flat and lacking any player interaction on the world at a macro level.
The Witcher III seems aware of this and apart from the common stuff like weather/day-night cycles affecting monster spawns, plan to implement stuff like quests having deadlines/endings that can end with changes to the world such as bandits invading a village. There's also a storyline dedicated to playing imperial politics!

Combat seems to be getting an overhaul. The developers want to move away from roll spamming that was so common in W2 to a more finesse model focusing on parries and pivots.
There also seems to be a greater focus on "witcher work" which has me extremely excited. I like the idea of having the study the various monsters in the game to understand their weakness, behaviour and interaction with other creatures. This is much more like the novels which had had Geralt having to study the monsters ahead of time so he can use his knowledge to access the threat, it also makes that first play-through extra special.

I personally get a Monster Hunter/Dragon Dogma/Gothic/Skyrim vibe from the current planned features. Let me tell you it's quite an awesome vibe indeed.

The most important and best features by far are as followed:
No level scaling.
Geralt has a manly beard.
« Last Edit: February 05, 2013, 02:05:20 am by Catastrophic lolcats »
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Re: Witcher III - It's a thing.
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2013, 02:05:07 am »

Geralt has a manly beard.
You have my $50, CDPR
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Re: Witcher III - It's a thing.
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2013, 05:34:34 am »

With mod support i presume :D.
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Re: Witcher III - It's a thing.
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2013, 11:02:29 am »

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If anyone can pull off a detailed open world (apparently larger than Skyrim, however one measures that in game terms) that feels alive and avoids Bethesda style cardboard worlds, it's probably CD Projekt.  Colour me hopeful.
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Re: Witcher III - It's a thing.
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2013, 12:25:40 pm »

With mod support i presume :D.
Safe assumption since REDkit is out in beta for Witcher 2, and this is an evolution on that engine.
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2013, 01:41:45 pm »

I am excite
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2013, 01:59:12 pm »

So, no longer will we have to circle the town just because of a half meter wall blocks the way? good, very good.

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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2013, 02:25:39 pm »

That combat system in W2 put me off, I enjoyed the first, but the second felt quite different, I somehow couldn't really get into it. (Don't ask anything about that, I don't remember)

Sounds real nice though, if they live up to their promises.
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2015, 03:41:14 pm »

2 hours, 19 minutes...
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« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2015, 03:44:26 pm »

I have not played any of The Witcher games, though someone did gift me a copy of Witcher 2 (or I got it for free somehow), and I did get a free copy of Witcher 3 when I bought my 970...
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« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2015, 04:41:12 pm »

All is not happy in toon town: http://i.imgur.com/b4TnCh2.gif

The game, quite frankly, looks like complete shit. Not to harp on graphics as the most important thing, but the PC visuals have clearly suffered due to having one unified build for both consoles and PCs.

So I guess I'll wait a year or two until the mod community addresses this. S'ok. I barely got anywhere in Witcher 2.
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« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2015, 04:45:28 pm »

So it's watch dogs all over again from graphic point of view?

Here is a PC max vs PS4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUGFmmikn4

They look almost the same....
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« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2015, 05:00:07 pm »

That definitely looks better than another side-by-side comparison I looked at.

Really though, comparing what they look like now is kind of irrelevant. What we should be looking at is what it looks now vs. what it would have looked like unbound.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight.
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Re: Witcher III - It's a thing.
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2015, 05:40:53 pm »

All is not happy in toon town: http://i.imgur.com/b4TnCh2.gif

The game, quite frankly, looks like complete shit. Not to harp on graphics as the most important thing, but the PC visuals have clearly suffered due to having one unified build for both consoles and PCs.

So I guess I'll wait a year or two until the mod community addresses this. S'ok. I barely got anywhere in Witcher 2.

I'm about 90% certain you're drinking some troll's koolaid.

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« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2015, 05:43:22 pm »

I dunno. I glanced at a coworker who was watching a Twitch stream of it on his laptop, and even from 5 feet away unmaximized, it did not look good. I assumed if he was running it at crap spec, it would have been mentioned. Like I said, that youtube side-by-side just posted looks way better than either other examples I've seen.
« Last Edit: May 18, 2015, 05:46:09 pm by nenjin »
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Cautivo del Milagro seamos, Penitente.
Quote from: Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight.
Quote from: Eric Blank
How will I cheese now assholes?
Quote from: MrRoboto75
Always spaghetti, never forghetti
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