It was beautiful, I would happily watch a full length animated movie of that quality.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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It was beautiful, I would happily watch a full length animated movie of that quality.
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Ah it was just £15 on G2A but now it's sold out 
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One of the few real quality devs left.
I almost feel like i want to hand my money over to them regardless of whether i'd enjoy the game simply because teams like this need supporting.
I almost feel like i want to hand my money over to them regardless of whether i'd enjoy the game simply because teams like this need supporting.
That's great. You have to give them credit for doing that.
On the other side though it could all just be content that they could have easily included in the game and there ''giving it away'' as a DLC just to look like there being charitable.
Good marketing
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On the other side though it could all just be content that they could have easily included in the game and there ''giving it away'' as a DLC just to look like there being charitable.
Good marketing
.
Soldato
Even if they are "giving away" content that they could have included, they are saying the right things.
CD Projekt rock - I love their attitude and I love their games.
CD Projekt rock - I love their attitude and I love their games.
On the other side though it could all just be content that they could have easily included in the game and there ''giving it away'' as a DLC just to look like there being charitable.
Good marketing
That's exactly what it is!...still good though.
Meh, it just shows how low the industry has sunk that people are praising a developer including crap like skins in the game instead of charging 99p for it. Though you have to remember the game's RRP is a good £10-15 higher than most new AA PC games.
It's clever marketing, nothing more.
It's clever marketing, nothing more.
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Seeing as you can buy it for under £20 it is a bargain.
After finishing the Witcher I was looking forward to playing through The Witcher 2 and then 3 when it came out. But having started with 2 I'm really not getting into it, I'm only and hour or two in but I'll put what turned out to be a rather lengthy rant in spoilers just in case.
I stuttered getting into the first, not long after getting into the Trade Quarter in Vizima I went for a while without playing it and when I came back to it couldn't remember the controls or the potions and their effects, but eventually I did get back into it and I very much enjoyed it. Throughout the Witcher I felt comfortable with my answers, sure as with any game you could only choose the options you were given but for the most part I thought they did a good job of saying what I would have expected, but I'm finding the text options in 2 really quite annoying, I'm not sure what it is they are supposed to represent, the sentiment? Like when you reason with the prince at the beginning, a rather insulting and undiplomatic "Drop your weapon, fool" translates to the effort of reasoning with "Don't be a fool, this is no game... your men don't need to die." or when Vernon offers to shake your hand while you are shackled, the quite benign response of "Funny..." translates to Geralt telling him "**** you!". I mean given that these sort of interactions played a big part in shaping the story in the Witcher, I feel I have no idea of what I'm about to blurt out as a response from one conversation to the next.
Early on there is that stealth section in the dungeon which I found to be clunky and terrible, thankfully made bearable by the guard AI being completely naff. When you do get into combat I found the invisible walls that block you into a makeshift arenas quite annoying. And what's with only being able to drink potions while meditating? Are you supposed walk around permanently tanked up? I read that your potions will tick down even through lengthy cutscenes, not sure if that is still the case, but pretty dumb if they are going to place such limitations on potion taking, it's not as if you could spam heal potions in the first and I think a better toxicity mechanic could have been used to stop repeated use of White Honey if that was the issue.
I found the timed answers annoying, Jesus, I must be a slower reader than I thought, I find the indicator quite subtle and a good deal of screenspace away from the answers that it takes me a moment to realize a particular question is being timed. I don't think I'll ever like these but at least I could live with it if I felt it was actually applied to something that might require you to think quickly.
I Thought the writing to have Geralt move away from King Foltest as not to "scare the children" or some crap, so he can be subsequently killed with ease was appallingly low brow, it gave me flashbacks to Star Wars Episode I and "Stay in that cockpit", it was that lazy.
The uber gear from the first game carrying over was a nice touch but all of a sudden it's crap? Would it have been so bad to play the early part of the prologue through with it being decent, which is a memory sequence after all, then strip the character of them through the story, reuniting him with them at the appropriate level. It already looked like the dragon flew off with Aerondight stuck in his gob as it was, but apparently not. I mean really, if you sit down as a design team and ask the question "How do we handle the player starting with Raven's Armour, D'yaebl and Aerondight" how does "Let's make them crap!" possibly come out on top?
I've played some dice, but two or three times I lost because I couldn't move the ****ing dice at all and had to drop them outside the play area, just a bug, fair enough but it just compounds my lack of enjoyment so far.
I don't like that the result of choices is random, like intimidate, you don't judge it based on the character, it's basically a flip of the coin. also, questions seem to disappear from the ask list without any obvious either/or relationship to the one just asked. I had some folk thank me for saving their family, one said "take this" but it didn't tell me what "this" was that I could refuse. It may sound trivial but getting into character I'd take grandma's old pick-me-up tonic recipe but I wouldn't take a few coins off some poor old sod. Even when I did reload it and say yes the message flashed on the screen for about half a second before being bumped off buy the quest text so that I still don't know what the **** I was given.
When I'm buying from a trader, is there anyway to stop the damn description of a potion and effects constantly scrolling by, and if you're buying a weapon is there a way to compare it to something you already have equipped?
Disappointment is always likely to be heightened when you've just come off the back of playing the first in a series and really enjoyed it, but really, it's not the combat changes or menu changes that bother me, more that this version seems to have been handed off to a fourteen-year-old who played too much Gears of War and Assassin's Creed. Can't help thinking of the oft alluded to bald space marine in the ol' days of Digitizer/Game Central as the antagonist (thus far) of the game.
So far what I have enjoyed is some of the dialogue, such as where Vernon carries Triss while she maintains the barrier and he talks about at least dying hold a great arse or something like that, and also when Geralt asks her about being shacked up with the soldiers it's quite amusing.
But in general, playing The Witcher 2 has been such a jarring transition, I'm just wondering if there is any point in my playing it any further. It's obvious that there are people who this sort thing doesn't phase them at all, but is there anyone who felt even remotely the same and stuck with it? Was it worth doing so? Because at the moment it seems that The Witcher 2 just isnt' for me, and likely that will go for the Witcher 3 as well. I'm not one to usually watch any of a gameplay trailer before playing a game, but does what has been released for The Witcher 3 give any insight into these things?
If you made it past the wall of text, any thoughts appreciated.
Early on there is that stealth section in the dungeon which I found to be clunky and terrible, thankfully made bearable by the guard AI being completely naff. When you do get into combat I found the invisible walls that block you into a makeshift arenas quite annoying. And what's with only being able to drink potions while meditating? Are you supposed walk around permanently tanked up? I read that your potions will tick down even through lengthy cutscenes, not sure if that is still the case, but pretty dumb if they are going to place such limitations on potion taking, it's not as if you could spam heal potions in the first and I think a better toxicity mechanic could have been used to stop repeated use of White Honey if that was the issue.
I found the timed answers annoying, Jesus, I must be a slower reader than I thought, I find the indicator quite subtle and a good deal of screenspace away from the answers that it takes me a moment to realize a particular question is being timed. I don't think I'll ever like these but at least I could live with it if I felt it was actually applied to something that might require you to think quickly.
I Thought the writing to have Geralt move away from King Foltest as not to "scare the children" or some crap, so he can be subsequently killed with ease was appallingly low brow, it gave me flashbacks to Star Wars Episode I and "Stay in that cockpit", it was that lazy.
The uber gear from the first game carrying over was a nice touch but all of a sudden it's crap? Would it have been so bad to play the early part of the prologue through with it being decent, which is a memory sequence after all, then strip the character of them through the story, reuniting him with them at the appropriate level. It already looked like the dragon flew off with Aerondight stuck in his gob as it was, but apparently not. I mean really, if you sit down as a design team and ask the question "How do we handle the player starting with Raven's Armour, D'yaebl and Aerondight" how does "Let's make them crap!" possibly come out on top?
I've played some dice, but two or three times I lost because I couldn't move the ****ing dice at all and had to drop them outside the play area, just a bug, fair enough but it just compounds my lack of enjoyment so far.
I don't like that the result of choices is random, like intimidate, you don't judge it based on the character, it's basically a flip of the coin. also, questions seem to disappear from the ask list without any obvious either/or relationship to the one just asked. I had some folk thank me for saving their family, one said "take this" but it didn't tell me what "this" was that I could refuse. It may sound trivial but getting into character I'd take grandma's old pick-me-up tonic recipe but I wouldn't take a few coins off some poor old sod. Even when I did reload it and say yes the message flashed on the screen for about half a second before being bumped off buy the quest text so that I still don't know what the **** I was given.
When I'm buying from a trader, is there anyway to stop the damn description of a potion and effects constantly scrolling by, and if you're buying a weapon is there a way to compare it to something you already have equipped?
Disappointment is always likely to be heightened when you've just come off the back of playing the first in a series and really enjoyed it, but really, it's not the combat changes or menu changes that bother me, more that this version seems to have been handed off to a fourteen-year-old who played too much Gears of War and Assassin's Creed. Can't help thinking of the oft alluded to bald space marine in the ol' days of Digitizer/Game Central as the antagonist (thus far) of the game.
So far what I have enjoyed is some of the dialogue, such as where Vernon carries Triss while she maintains the barrier and he talks about at least dying hold a great arse or something like that, and also when Geralt asks her about being shacked up with the soldiers it's quite amusing.
But in general, playing The Witcher 2 has been such a jarring transition, I'm just wondering if there is any point in my playing it any further. It's obvious that there are people who this sort thing doesn't phase them at all, but is there anyone who felt even remotely the same and stuck with it? Was it worth doing so? Because at the moment it seems that The Witcher 2 just isnt' for me, and likely that will go for the Witcher 3 as well. I'm not one to usually watch any of a gameplay trailer before playing a game, but does what has been released for The Witcher 3 give any insight into these things?
If you made it past the wall of text, any thoughts appreciated.
You have hit on one of the things that really annoys me about the Witcher 2(and games in general)... Inconsistency. Geralt wearing the legendary ravens armour, can be killed in two swings of a wooden stick by some fat farmer, whereas it takes Geralt, the legendary fighter, 5 swings of his massive sword to kill the farmer, who is practically naked!
Caporegime
I am SO MOIST for this!!! And will pretty much be all SPLOOSH when Cyberpunk is released!
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Good decision to delay. AC Unity, Drive Club, BF4, and Advanced Warfare were all released before being finished. Some of those were obviously released just to hit the holiday season to get more $$$$. I think the developer of TW3 should be supported in that decision.
Is there any online component planned for this?
I'm debating whether to get it for PS4 or PC as well. I played W2 on PC with the 360 controller and it is was far more enjoyable. I'm thinking unless you want bleeding edge gfx and maybe sooner updates not much other reason to go PC.
I'm debating whether to get it for PS4 or PC as well. I played W2 on PC with the 360 controller and it is was far more enjoyable. I'm thinking unless you want bleeding edge gfx and maybe sooner updates not much other reason to go PC.