WetTreeLeaf
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Is it just me or has Geralt's voice acting in the last few trailers has been very sub par?
Witcher 3: Official Gameplay Trailer
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Maybe. Bioware games have always had really crummy animations so thats probably half true.
StrongBlackVine
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I know that is why I said last gen was the reason. They could have done more with current gen, but that would have been too much work I guess
I know a number of people have expressed in the thread they didn't think very highly of of it, so you're definitely not alone.
Personally I think his voice acting has overall been fantastic in every piece of footage we've seen, but being a "Cockle Geralt" fan, I'm absolutely bias.
The actual models? That includes everything --textures, shaders, geometry, etc. Your comment makes no sense.
The hair is easily some of the best looking hair we've seen in a game. You can't say something completely opposite of reality and expect to hide behind excuses of "subjectivity".
It's like going into a thread about Crisis 3 and saying "these graphics are terrible"..."no need to get defensive, it's just my opinion". Sure, it might be your opinion, but that doesn't mean that anybody is going to take you seriously. Not all opinions are valid.
TGO
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WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
Ive beat both previous Witcher games and I dont remember thinking his voice acting was bad, but in these trailers he does sound pretty bad.
Almost certainly too much work. Animation isn't some sort of graphical effect that can be easily toggled.
Go back and play them again. I'm sure it is just your current impression.
Well I dunno, all I can say is I don't agree. He was pretty terrible in TW1 in general due to a complete lack of direction, but everything we've heard in recent trailers seems perfectly on-par with his performance in W2, if not better (Like that conversation with Vesemir in the 15 minute footage really hit home perfectly for me).
For your sake hopefully it's just these few isolated bits of dialogue in trailers, but on the whole he will still be great.
He is dreadful in TW1, as Daverid alluded to likely because of no direction. All the VA's in that game were pretty terrible.
Jay Shadow
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Dandelion was the most uncharismatic bard in the history of barding.
Haha, true.
Makes me more sad because Dandelion's character is fucking great, and CDPR clearly know how to write him, they just don't know how to get the performance out of the VA.
Like The Witcher 2 he was much better, but he was still a little too dry/flat IMO. It sounds like they're injecting even more humour into 3 though, so hopefully that includes letting Dandelion's VA go a little more... Quirky? I dunno, just more witty, charismatic and amusing like he should be.
jim2point0
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Slaughtering With Signs: The Magic of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04...he-magic-of-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-ign-first
Jesus that video is so fucking annoying, what the hell were you thinking IGN? couldn't you just let the video play without your stupid editing and wub wub music? seriously wtf...
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04...he-magic-of-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-ign-first
Jesus that video is so fucking annoying, what the hell were you thinking IGN? couldn't you just let the video play without your stupid editing and wub wub music? seriously wtf...
I have a headache today and that video was getting to me. So fucking terrible.
Dear IGN stop making stupid shit...sincerely me.
iNvid02
Member
it was worse than i expected lol
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
I beat Witcher 1 once and yes the voice acting was far worse than these trailers, but I've also beaten TW2 4 times so Im pretty sure it's not just my first impression. In the 30 min xbox One gameplay segment the voice acting in it was fine, same as in TW2; just something in the way he says thing in this trailer thats rubbing me the wrong way.
The Dutch Slayer
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Waiting for Danny's report on Gamespot because he and Andy will do an awesome job!
I don't even want to think of IGN's target audience.
Super Stardust
Member
lol at that ign video, the music and the editing are so out of place
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
I didnt watch this because anything story-wise I want to go in blind and the first 15 minutes of the game seem pretty important.
I hope youre right, like I said before on the 30 min demo they showed he seemed just fine like the Witcher 2.
Net_Wrecker
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Foliage issue is visible in some new footage and shots. It gets hit flatly by the light a lot, seemingly lacking much shadowing or contrast. Frostbite seems to give them stronger and cleaner shadowing so they look more dimensional, and they don't face the camera as blatantly. I'm curious if this is art or dynamic lighting making the difference, or both.
Does anyone know how W3's foliage is animated? Is it all constant scripting or is the wind something that comes and goes? It seems to move really heavily which is nice.
I think Inquisition foliage is on a constant animation loop. It has a more dimensional look in the light and shadows. The W3 shot above is from the developer, these below for Inquisition aren't official but are just from a high res gallery capture http://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-5k-screenshot-gallery/:
I was responding to a comparison with Frostbite foliage, not saying the game looks bad in general. I appreciate that the game looks very good, but that doesn't mean refusing to acknowledge any graphical compromises the game makes.
That's comforting as a PS4 player for third party games.
Does anyone know how W3's foliage is animated? Is it all constant scripting or is the wind something that comes and goes? It seems to move really heavily which is nice.
I think Inquisition foliage is on a constant animation loop. It has a more dimensional look in the light and shadows. The W3 shot above is from the developer, these below for Inquisition aren't official but are just from a high res gallery capture http://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-5k-screenshot-gallery/:
I was responding to a comparison with Frostbite foliage, not saying the game looks bad in general. I appreciate that the game looks very good, but that doesn't mean refusing to acknowledge any graphical compromises the game makes.
That's comforting as a PS4 player for third party games.
I agree with both of you. AC Unity is a very impressive-looking game overall. In fact, maxed out on my PC I can't think of any other open world game that looks better. However, it is fairly inconsistent. All games are, to some extent, but Unity was a little more inconsistent than usual.
In my opinion, the character models in The Witcher 3 are somewhat better than those in AC Unity. In particular, the geometry, skin shaders and facial/head hair. I also think secondary characters and random NPCs look better in The Witcher 3. That's expecially impressive when you consider that previewers have said that no two NPCs in TW3 are the same. AC Unity has constantly recycled NPCs. It does have a hell of a lot of NPCs, so that's somewhat understandable, but still, The Witcher 3 has a lot more quality and consistency in this regard.
Jay Shadow
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Really seems to be a lot of mime hate in these screenshots.
Racism runs rampant in this world. Duh.
Yeah they need to stop using terrible PS2-era models
sorry about that I quoted the wrong person. oops.
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Anyone know how customizable the HUD is on PS4?
It's opaque and over-colored, with every enemy having a big red health bar, damage numbers and effect names popping over your head with every move, their name in red, their level, and then the opaque bars and minimap. I hate lots of color-coding with various primary colors and totally opaque. Information overload, and lack of artistic restraint.
It's opaque and over-colored, with every enemy having a big red health bar, damage numbers and effect names popping over your head with every move, their name in red, their level, and then the opaque bars and minimap. I hate lots of color-coding with various primary colors and totally opaque. Information overload, and lack of artistic restraint.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
So have we actually seen hair-works in action yet?
I remember seeing it on some fur armor I believe in a trailer, but I haven't seen it on any human heads, or any animals either aside from the wolf presentation.
I remember seeing it on some fur armor I believe in a trailer, but I haven't seen it on any human heads, or any animals either aside from the wolf presentation.
I don't know about changing the opacity, however based on comments from the developers it seems like just about every HUD element can be turned on/off. So presumably that includes everything from damage numbers to HP bars (Both Geralt's and Enemies), level icons, mini-map etc. The HUD can also be scaled smaller/larger (Probably as a whole and not individual element scaling though).
Consoles will have the same amount of HUD/UI customization as PC.
It was definitely active in the 35 minute demo. If you keep close eye on the Horse's Tail & Griffin's Head as Geralt rides into Novigrad, that's Hairworks in action. Although we don't really have a more recent example of it, at least not to my knowledge.
jim2point0
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Heh. Those are my screenshots from PG Gamer
Welcome to share the link and I'll add it, just found them on another forum
EDIT: Got it http://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-inquisition-5k-screenshot-gallery/
Thanks. I appreciate opacity sliders too, so hope that's involved. Opaque multicolored picture HUDs are gross. Skyrim and The Order were pretty nice. Disappearing HUD that's only on for combat is good too.
I think it's also present on the wolves in the new screenshot.
Compare the fur on those wolves to the fur on the wolves in this previous screenshot:
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
I think it's also present on the wolves in the new screenshot.
Compare the fur on those wolves to the fur on the wolves in this previous screenshot:
Nice. Looks great here.
Looking back at the 35 minute demo I do see it, although I guess I was expecting it to be more impressive on NPC's, since it looks great on animals and armor.
Looks like well done hair on Geralt and NPCs, but nothing amazing, and certainly wouldn't of guessed it was done by a specific and exclusive technique called "Hair Works"
Maybe it has improved since then though.
Sadly it's real. Then again this is also real, but at least this doesn't include fucking dubstep.
I'm just hoping this was purely IGN's doing, and nothing CDPR gave to them and like officially approved. Hopefully they just let IGN take some footage and then let them make some videos with it, but it was purely IGN's doing as to the fucking abhorrent nature of this one.
KyanMehwulfe
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Damn those new wolves...
I wish my wolf mount for my orc warrior in World of Warcraft looked like that haha
I wish my wolf mount for my orc warrior in World of Warcraft looked like that haha
I think it's mostly art.
Witcher 3 seems to go for a more natural look, if only slightly more natural. It looks reminiscent of an actual European landscape you might see in a photo, but doesn't look very moody to a lot of people and might come off as flat to some. ArmA 3's foliage looks somewhat similar.
Dragon Age on the other hand looks a lot more like a video game -- what people are used to seeing. It wants to make use of all its fancy shadows and lighting and make sure you notice them.
Darryl M R
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I think it's also present on the wolves in the new screenshot.
Compare the fur on those wolves to the fur on the wolves in this previous screenshot:
I can't see the images
firebranded
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mumbles365
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Hey guys I have a question.
I'm gonna get this game on the PS4, I have a Japanese ps4, but wanna get the Asian release of the game because it'll be a bit cheaper,
but if I want to download the DLC, will I need to use the Hong Kong store? or can I do it from the US because I have a US account as my PSN.
I'm gonna get this game on the PS4, I have a Japanese ps4, but wanna get the Asian release of the game because it'll be a bit cheaper,
but if I want to download the DLC, will I need to use the Hong Kong store? or can I do it from the US because I have a US account as my PSN.