Last Hearth
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I hope this game is not Skyrim with Geralt. I have never liked any Elder Scrolls game.
The Witcher 3 | Review Thread
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Also, the highest difficulty features perma-death.
IAmRandom31
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After watching the video reviews it sounds like this is another Skyrim. Awesome exploration with a subpar main storyline. But with some compelling side stories and quests you come across.
My kind of game really. Just hate hearing about all the fetch quests and collectithons occuring.
Will see if I can get lucky and get it from gamefly. Doubt it though. If I do I will knee deep in FFX and Witcher 3 for a long time
My kind of game really. Just hate hearing about all the fetch quests and collectithons occuring.
Will see if I can get lucky and get it from gamefly. Doubt it though. If I do I will knee deep in FFX and Witcher 3 for a long time
The texture work here looks pretty poor honestly, but given the scale of the world it's understandable. I just preordered a copy and I hope I like it >_<After some thinking about this, I'm going to post this screen - looks great and CD Projekt RED even posted one official shot from this area
Succinct Verbosity
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any pre-order crap with this or can I just walk into a store and buy it without worrying about content?
hermeslyre
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You can use a rental service, like Redbox, or Gamefly. A couple bucks and no +1 on the sales chart. Borrow from a friend. Watching a couple hours of the game streaming is better than nothing, and in my mind better than waiting for someone else to tell you why they don't like the game, as accurate and detailed or embellished and exagerated as player opinion can be. Things that bother one person might not bother another at all, but they can still be convinced it will if the person is persuasive enough.
In my mind, you're still waiting for those cynical voices to pop up and convince you that you made the right choice in not playing the game. Those voices and opinions will always be there, for every game. You'd never play a game again, if you want a consensus of player opinion. My only point is your opinion is the only one that matters to you, and you can't have an accurate one without giving the game a shot in my opinion.
robgrab
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I quit playing games day one a while ago. I like to wait a few months until new video drivers and game patches have been released that address game-breaking bugs and performance issues. Especially on games of this size and scope (Skyrim, anyone?)
My only recent exception was Dragon Age: Inquisition, and while I played through it relatively bug-free, performance was spotty at best. I jumped back into to it recently, post patches and video driver revisions, and it's smooth as butter now. Wish I would have waited because the experience would've been much more enjoyable.
My only recent exception was Dragon Age: Inquisition, and while I played through it relatively bug-free, performance was spotty at best. I jumped back into to it recently, post patches and video driver revisions, and it's smooth as butter now. Wish I would have waited because the experience would've been much more enjoyable.
swazzyswess
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game looks similar to DA:I, but with no canned lighting.
unfortunately, the trees also constantly move like they're always being whipped by vicious wind. looks ridiculous.
unfortunately, the trees also constantly move like they're always being whipped by vicious wind. looks ridiculous.
No they removed that. The highest difficulty does low experience gain and severely scales down the amount of bonus stats you get from leveling, so that may help with the overleveing issue some reviews have mentioned. I doubt it will solve it though when the gmes quests max out at 50 and Geralt maxes out at 60.
Bruno
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It's not. I love me some elder scrolls but witcher is it's own glorious beast.
>-Baron-Spamedi-<
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I'm excited for this now. I hope Gameseek get it here early.
Bloodborne got excellent reviews and it turned out to be excellent.
I hope it's the same with Witcher.
I don't really mind needing an early patch to iron out a few wrinkles (seems to be commonplace now that games are getting bigger) and I hope they keep fixing problems as they're are found. CDPR seem to have a good attitude on this stuff and the game sounds like an absolute tour de force, so I think it's natural to expect a few hiccups at first.
Bloodborne got excellent reviews and it turned out to be excellent.
I hope it's the same with Witcher.
I don't really mind needing an early patch to iron out a few wrinkles (seems to be commonplace now that games are getting bigger) and I hope they keep fixing problems as they're are found. CDPR seem to have a good attitude on this stuff and the game sounds like an absolute tour de force, so I think it's natural to expect a few hiccups at first.
hermeslyre
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I played both Witcher 1 and 2 around when they both came out. They both, though W1 more than 2, had shitty flaws or even game killing bugs before patching. I really hope I don't run into any with 3, I will be playing at release, but only because I got the game free with my graphic card.
Definitely a good idea to wait for those reasons.
Wait for Pascal!?!? I have A PS4, not three PS4s! But seriously, I haven't had much use for my PS4 especially with so many games being multiplatform and my Wii U is perfect for that "niche" action.
Pascal is just Nvidia's next line of GPUs, there will be a die shrink and a new VRAM technology so we should be in for some massive performance gains.
If you want the best of both worlds, check out the 750 ti, is on sale constantly for ~$100 and generally outperforms the PS4.
Thanks for the Pro-Tip!
How many reviews do we need saying the game has excellent combat, much improved from the Witcher 2, for some of you to stop making these "concern" posts?
Is everyone going to love it? No, we're never all going to agree on what constitutes good combat, or on anything else about games. Plenty of people don't like the Souls games combat, for example. If you don't like it, fine, move on to something you do like.
Dynasty8
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In Witcher 3?
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Is this game set up just as well for newcomers? I met grab Wild Hunt, but I don't have time to go through the first two games as well.
I remember CD Projekt Red saying something like it would be great for newcomers, but not sure where.
I would really hope so since people on Playstation never got any previous Witcher game.
Dynasty8
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Read up on the lore. Watch the videos too, but the Wiki will explain things much better IMO.
Mainly the kingdoms, characters, and the history of Witchers.
WordsintheWater
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If I am not mistaken the Gametrailers review said it does a good job of setting up the story for newcomers with flashbacks and animated shorts or something like that
GoonerTRON
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I know right, what a sexy blue and white sweater.
Dude you've made at least 3 comments in this thread about the Xbone frame rate.
Just stop it ok?
As someone who hasn't played either of the first two games, and who ended up despising DA:I despite the similarish review scores, can someone quickly break down for me how these games stand out from the typical WRPG formula? Hearing a lot of praise for the writing and maturity of the series compared to to similar games but is the overall gameplay more satisfying? Got pretty sick of Skyrim and DA:I after 30ish hours (though exploring Skyrim was pretty fun for a while), hoping TW3 bucks the trend a bit.
Fake edit: Guess I'm asking more in terms of exploring the world. Doing infinite amounts of shitty fetch quests is getting tiresome. Hoping the whole "your actions/decisions affect the world" ends up holding true.
Fake edit: Guess I'm asking more in terms of exploring the world. Doing infinite amounts of shitty fetch quests is getting tiresome. Hoping the whole "your actions/decisions affect the world" ends up holding true.
whatsinaname
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I posted this in the DA:I impressions thread too I think, but fetch quests/monster hunts are not the problem. Most quests can be boiled down to that anyway. The way they are presented in the world and involve the player character is what makes good side-quests. In DA:I, there were some fetch quests that were good. (e.g., the professor in one of the areas who makes you fetch stuff and gives you info about dragons). But some random NPC repeating "this will be helpful" and giving you list of 20 minerals to get is boring.
Witcher 2 was able to incorporate the fetch quests well and make interesting side-content. If there are boring fetch quests in Witcher 3, I hope they are easy to ignore.
I need to short before the RPGCodex reviews hit.
Witcher 2 was able to incorporate the fetch quests well and make interesting side-content. If there are boring fetch quests in Witcher 3, I hope they are easy to ignore.
You sound like metacritic is the stock exchange
I need to short before the RPGCodex reviews hit.
Primethius
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How the hell is that a concern post? He's wondering how much the combat is better.
Like, I get it, you enjoyed TW2's combat and you don't see much wrong with it. But that doesn't mean his post is a "concern" post. And you really need to come up with a better example then the Souls games when you invoke this whole "people don't like the combat" shtick when the actual discussion about Witcher's combat usually revolves around more concrete matters such as Geralt's responsiveness instead of opinionated stuff.
Bl@de
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The World of the Witcher is a very grey one. Morality is not clear in Black and White sense. You may decide to do something because it seems like the best thing to do then hours later suddenly find out the choice you made gets a ton of villagers murdered in a war that should never have started but you thought you were doing the right thing.
Somethings could have small local effects and others can have far reaching ones.
Captain Tuttle
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Of course the PC version will be superior by every measure. I was addressing his statement about the Xbox version and how the Xbox version isn't being reviewed because it's framerate is worse than the PS4. It may be worse but we don't know.
Right on thanks, that's encouraging to hear. Have an itch for a setup akin to Chrono Trigger where there are only a handful of sidequests with multiple parts, developing the characters and the lore without the fluff. Can't see a huge game like this without your typical fetch quests but as long as I have some meaty ones to hit up instead, I can deal ^_^.
ioriyagami
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lol!
Senpai noticed him.
Is there any jokes in the game a la the dead assassin who missed the haystack?
Besides the Monty Python one.
Good wallpaper material:
Oh my god, Yennefer. I'm so gonna murder that ass. Triss, you two timing hussy, you are gonna get yours once Yen knows what you been doing behind her back.
Some cool reference there
A vicious streak a mile wide
AyaisMUsikWhore
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Yay! Can't wait until May 19th
There is a reference/dig at Skyrim's arrow to the knee in gwent.
Now that sounds promising. If they've pulled this off with the previous games, then consider me sold. Can't think of any other series that made good on the promise that your actions will noticeably affect the world around you. Much appreciated buckaroo.
Well, one of the Gwent cards has a description along the lines of "I always aim for the knee", a clear reference to Skyrim. There was a Russian interview with Marcin Blacha (one of the story writers) who said they didn't want to pollute the game with easter eggs, but that there are still some to find.
I think he's asking if the PC version is affected by the performance issues pre-patch as the console versions are
How have they not been stopped? lol they are literally streaming under The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
RandomSeed
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Review thread, aka, spoiler pics thread.
CaptainGyro
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Am I missing something? I'm confused. You say this as if it happening every 18 months is something that happens at a really frequent rate, so often that it almost becomes commonplace and meaningless.
I mean say if a person names a video game as one of the best of all time every 18 months, after 30 years you only get 20 games that the person has named as being among the best of all time. That doesn't strike me as a lot, considering how many thousands of video games have been made in that span. Calling them among the best games of all time seems fair
Performance on PC is relative to what hardware you're running it on. Unless the game has some huge engine-level frame latency spikes (which is quite rare) it's simply a matter of using the right settings for your hardware in order to get a smooth framerate.
Or you have a gsync monitor like I do and you're pretty much guaranteed to get a smooth framerate at all times.
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