The Witcher 3 Leaked

Why not? When the devs kept saying it would?

I mean if we cannot trust footage that is supposed to be ingame anymore what's the point of wowing us in the first place?

No it should be said once and if it turns out this way CDPR should be called out on it like any other dev, seems pretty standard to me.

Get judged if you don't show gameplay / in-game videos early on, get judged if you do and end product isn't 1:1. How devs are supposed to win or just play until you lose just slightly? Very few games have been 1:1 with early on gameplay / in-game videos when they have been released.

CDPR has been called out on it for maybe months now and basically in every possible thread that has anything to do with Witcher 3. For someone like me who likes to follow Witcher 3 discussions, like maybe is apparent :D, it gets tiresome when threads gets pages of that stuff.

I'm not saying dev, no matter who, shouldn't get some backslash if they over promise by quite noticeable margin, but at some point community just should ask themselves at which point it just turns into, for lack of better word, bitching and becomes beating dead horse.
 
People getting upset about downgrade talk are puzzling me. Especially when believing a downgrade has occurred doesn't necessarily mean that you think the game looks awful now (though that foliage man, it's awful).

And this isn't bitching or complaining or whining, it's simply pointing out that downgrades occurred for some elements while other elements were upgraded. If you don't like graphics talk, great. Fantastic. Don't let it bother you and continue to talk about something else.
 
Does anyone know about the environments? We've seen forests, caves, towns/castles, some sailing.

What about snow, desert, maybe even some fantastical type forests with crazy colors? Just curious as to what we can expect.
 
Xbox One footage:

http://www.gameondaily.com/the-witcher-3-xbox-one-footage-crow/

No major spoilers as far as I can see but the game looks lush. Not as impressive as the E3 showing mind you


Major props for this!!! I actually disagree and think it looks better than the e3 footage, but it's defintiely not worthy of an argument.

I hope some more spoiler free footage on the XBONE shows up pre launch :).....but if not at least most of my concerns are wiped away. Great job by the devs to maximize the lowly HW!
 
i can confirm that the xbox one ver looks and performs excellent. especially playing it on your own TV. don't think anyone should worry really.
 
Man I'm never lucky enough to come across these stores that break Street date

Then again that's what happens with the fall of mom and pop shops I guess
 
In a way, because they have to. Because the game isn't done two years before the release date, when the marketing need trailers to show off. A real game is barely functional one year before release date, forget about two years before! But people don't really know how video games are done, what is their real aspect a few months before everything starts to fall in place. So when we see a super slick and polished trailer that seems from a finished game like the one at VGX?; yeah that HAS to be fake.

Even if they have it running in an early engine, it's hard to know what the final build will be like. I mean, they could have a nice fire with smoke effects going, or whatever, and then realize once they also add enemies and foliage and whatever that they need to limit draw distance to keep it chugging at a respectable pace. That is, until you have everything working at once, you can't always judge what you'll need to turn down a bit after running out of ways to optimize it.

It isn't so much 'lying' as it is 'how it works', in many ways. I mean, I suppose they could say 'turn everything down and make it look ugly just in case the final build won't be this good'... but that clearly doesn't make sense.
 
Get judged if you don't show gameplay / in-game videos early on, get judged if you do and end product isn't 1:1. How devs are supposed to win or just play until you lose just slightly? Very few games have been 1:1 with early on gameplay / in-game videos when they have been released.

CDPR has been called out on it for maybe months now and basically in every possible thread that has anything to do with Witcher 3. For someone like me who likes to follow Witcher 3 discussions, like maybe is apparent :D, it gets tiresome when threads gets pages of that stuff.

I'm not saying dev, no matter who, shouldn't get some backslash if they over promise by quite noticeable margin, but at some point community just should ask themselves at which point it just turns into, for lack of better word, bitching and becomes beating dead horse.

You guys do realize I'm merely criticizing the fact that CDPR kept saying the game stayed the same and would look even better? I just don't like to be taken on a ride, kinda like when they said we won't see ultra till we have the game installed on our rigs, etc...

And I agree with you it gets tiring but it's the way of forums, everyone wants to say their piece. I for one was tired of the constant whining about no PS4 footage but I acknowledged some needed it since they're getting that version.
 
Yeah, it's just your average 60fps open-world game.
Open world games can be 60fps on pc. Add in the fact that it's crossgen as well and it's no wonder it isn't pushing the bar. ACU(probably Victory too since it's gonna be revealed Tuesday), Batman, FFXV, The Division etc etc look a lot better. It's still a nice looking game tho. Especially with rain effects.

Neither is The Witcher bar Hairworks.
Materials, animation and physics in Witcher 3 look amazing though. Hair physics especially are great even without hairworks.
http://www.gameondaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Video-2.mp4
 
Open world games can be 60fps on pc. Add in the fact that it's crossgen as well and it's no wonder it isn't pushing the bar.


Materials, animation and physics in Witcher 3 look amazing though. Hair physics especially are great even without hairworks.
http://www.gameondaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Video-2.mp4

Don't get me wrong it looks great but it is not jaw dropping like the SOD trailer.
Will be interesting to see people's reactions in here if The Division doesn't live up to its early reveal (another game that impressed me with its early trailers).

I mentioned MGS V cause seeing the early trailers and comparing to Ground Zeroes it hasn't lost its shine so I'm fairly confident for the final game. In fact it looks even better since they released the PC version. Nice and smooth, that's the way to do it IMO.

In any case I'll say it again I'm looking forward to get the game on my PC, I'm disappointed in CDPR communication but I'll let it rest on that considering there's a thread dedicated to it.
 
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Don't get me wrong it looks great but it is not jaw dropping like the SOD trailer.
Will be interesting to see people's reactions in here if The Division doesn't live up to its early reveal (another game that impressed me with its early trailers).

I mentioned MGS V cause seeing the early trailers and comparing to Ground Zeroes it hasn't lost its shine so I'm fairly confident for the final game. In fact it looks even better since they released the PC version. Nice and smooth, that's the way to do it IMO.

In any case I'll say it again I'm looking forward to get the game on my PC, I'm disappointed in CDPR communication but I'll let it rest on that considering there's a thread dedicated to it.

A carefully orchestrated scene, likely staged in-engine, versus the actual dynamics of an online game. There's no chance it'll be on the level of the reveal.

Though I'll be extremely pleased if proven wrong on that count.

Edit: Not the thread for it.
 
Don't get me wrong it looks great but it is not jaw dropping like the SOD trailer.
Will be interesting to see people's reactions in here if The Division doesn't live up to its early reveal (another game that impressed me with its early trailers).

For what it's worth, I've had the game demoed on Xbox One in front of me and it looks great. The only issue for me was the resolution which looked sub 900p even, but this was back in August. Looks great though, as I say.
 
They said the it fits the character better.
Probably much better for animation too. Can you imagine him doing shit like this with those shoulders without ridiculous clipping issues?
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Nah, not with these things.
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Unless they included a scene of him taking them off before a fight or something.
 
Probably much better for animation too. Can you imagine him doing shit like this with those shoulders without ridiculous clipping issues?
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Nah, not with these things.
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Unless they included a scene of him taking them off before a fight or something.

If Geralt can don heavy armor why can't the King of the wild hunt? :)
 
Luckily, it seems that only the console versions were leaked,which greatly limits the distribution of the leaked copies.
If the PC version had leaked, the entire internet would have been filled with spoilers.
 
have they said what pc specs are needed to match the consoles? I have it ordered on ps4 because I figure my 670gtx wont cut it but im curious.


Xbox One footage:

http://www.gameondaily.com/the-witcher-3-xbox-one-footage-crow/

No major spoilers as far as I can see but the game looks lush. Not as impressive as the E3 showing mind you

looks like the ps4 version, possibly less LOD pop in close up(at least in that video) but its impossible to tell.
 
have they said what pc specs are needed to match the consoles? I have it ordered on ps4 because I figure my 670gtx wont cut it but im curious.

They have not, but just like it is the case with every other game that was tested so far, I would be willing to bet that i3+750Ti will give out very close performance to PS4.

670GTX should give significantly better experience, although not twice as good (so probably not 60fps at PS4-like settings).
 
I am merely expressing my point of view, not 'defending it tooth and nail.' As the final product still looks outstanding. To be perfectly honest, I never expected it to look exactly like this:

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Especially on PS4. But it is certainly close enough for me.

Is that the ps4 version?
 
Luckily, it seems that only the console versions were leaked,which greatly limits the distribution of the leaked copies.
If the PC version had leaked, the entire internet would have been filled with spoilers.

What are you talking about? The first pc copies come with missing exe so they wouldn't be able to share it with others and then why would there be more spoilers? Console people can't talk?Stream?
 
My friend got the GOG version, I wonder if I copy pasted his game into my Steam folder if it would circumvent the censorship? Could work, I swapped files with Freespace 2 before.
 
almost all footage has been

little window = looks pretty good

full screen window = uhhh ... not so good.

I'll wait till its on my TV screen though, or there is much higher quality videos out there before passing final judgement
 
Probably much better for animation too. Can you imagine him doing shit like this with those shoulders without ridiculous clipping issues?
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Nah, not with these things.
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Unless they included a scene of him taking them off before a fight or something.
Are you sure that the top one is the King of the Wild Hunt? Could be just a knight
 
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