The Witcher 3 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Gerrard]

These game screenshots (without the logo) look like taken from youtube or some stream. They're blurry as shit.

 

[Comrade Goby]

This game betta be gud

 

[WhiteGuts]

First 15 minutes of the gaem :

http://me.ign.com/en/the-witcher-3-...irst-15-minutes-of-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-ig

 

[Bubbles]

Looks better than Witcher 2.

 

[dragonul09]

How the hell did those polish bastards achieve something like this with 15 mils, yet every retarded major studio can't do jack shit with 50-60 mils ?
Looks pretty but first let's see those 200h worth of content...

 

[pippin]

How the hell did those polish bastards achieve something like this with 15 mils, yet every retarded major studio can't do jack shit with 50-60 mils ?
Looks pretty but first let's see those 200h worth of content...

Wódka?

 

[darthaegis]

It reminds me quite a lot of Assassin's Creed with the first mission being "follow this guy". Fortunately Vesemir doesn't seem to be slow as fuck in horseback like most people in Assassin's Creed Missions. Let's just hope there aren't that many "follow" missions.

 

[Cyberarmy]

I'm OK for "follow" missions.
However them escort missions... Had enough of that fucking nightmare in Dragons Dogma.

 

[Grotesque]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/06/the-first-15-minutes-of-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-ign-first

In this video, I see they remade the inventory interface. I hope they keep this one, I like the black background. it gives an oldschool feel.

PS: those tumbles...

 

[Gerrard]

>game plays better with a controller
>guy has trouble riding and looking to the side at the same time

 

[Paul_cz]

Looks fucking great atmosphere wise. RDR vibes, except this is much more ambitious than RDR.

 

[GloomFrost]

Ah a quest which reminds people of assassin creed and rdr. Just exactly what I wanted from "the most anticipated RPG of the year".

 

[Nryn]

Concerning to see all those icons light up on the minimap like a christmas tree. They initially referenced the Gothic series a lot when it came to the open world design, and there are cool things like the bandits apparently having some sort of NPC schedule, but it would be a waste if they designed it around the minimap like a Ubisoft Collect-a-thon.

Otherwise it was encouraging to see a shitty village (I mean this as a compliment) like in Witcher 1 as one of the first places to visit. I also liked to see the deliberately unsophisticated writing style from Witcher 2 make a return in the notice board quests.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Makabb]

and that was on xbone, gotta buy dat r9 390

 

[Perkel]

Unicorn ? Heh looks like Yennefer didn't loose her memory.

Thoughts on video:

- As per usually stellar writing
- Combat is waaaaaay faster than in any other video they showed and looks waaaay better than in TW2
- They reworked UI. It isn't anymore that yellowish UI but purely black and seems to have Geralt 3d model to see what you equip in it. On other hand they could create 2 different UIs one for PC and one for consoles...
- It was taken from PC version. Looks v good
- Ton of limb cutting. Decapitations, hand leg cuts, in half from horseback.
- Geralt mostly does sidesteps when he fights but also rolls
- loot galore but it seems that there is finite GRID based inventory (looks like they listened to compains about TW2 list based inventory)
- fight animations are really well done. They seem to mash waay better than in TW2 and they completely lost those ankward moments where Geralt did nothing between animations (especially if you used signs). He cast signs and mixes it with swordfighting without ankwardness.
- that shitty small village had more NPCs, buildings and it was bigger than any other "city" in Skyrim

and that was on xbone, gotta buy dat r9 390

It was on PC. Dev on twitter confirmed. Mix if high and ultra.

Either way aside from IGN shitty vid quality it looked v good.

 

[Makabb]

It was on PC. Dev on twitter confirmed. Mix if high and ultra.

Either way aside from IGN shitty vid quality it looked v good.

i see xbox icons everywhere, but if this was PC i'm not impressed.

 

[GloomFrost]

It was on PC. Dev on twitter confirmed. Mix if high and ultra.

Either way aside from IGN shitty vid quality it looked v good.

i see xbox icons everywhere, but if this was PC i'm not impressed.

Sorry about that.

 

[Makabb]

 

[randir14]

I like the fighting animations. From the little things like kicking his opponent away after a parry, to slicing people in half.

 

[norolim]

Aha, CD Projekt finally outdid Bioware:

Spoiler

 

[Makabb]

A peak into the mind of Norolim

 

[moon knight]

Concerning to see all those icons light up on the minimap like a christmas tree. They initially referenced the Gothic series a lot when it came to the open world design, and there are cool things like the bandits apparently having some sort of NPC schedule, but it would be a waste if they designed it around the minimap like a Ubisoft Collect-a-thon.

Otherwise it was encouraging to see a shitty village (I mean this as a compliment) like in Witcher 1 as one of the first places to visit. I also liked to see the deliberately unsophisticated writing style from Witcher 2 make a return in the notice board quests.

It was confirmed that the quest markers can be turned off.
What remains to see is the quality of the journal, in terms of writing.

 

[moon knight]

It was on PC. Dev on twitter confirmed. Mix if high and ultra.

Either way aside from IGN shitty vid quality it looked v good.

i see xbox icons everywhere, but if this was PC i'm not impressed.

Foliage seems odd and the LOD is bad, but it is an Open World.
The quality of the main characters is impressive.

 

[CyberWhale]

Looks better than Wasteland 2.

More importantly...