The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

kinger8938 · 28 Apr 2015 at 17:48

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
And the button icons come up on screen like a cheap console port??

Its good controller support, most pc games do this with a 360 pad plugged in! Wish it mapped the ps4 icons though

xaldub · 28 Apr 2015 at 18:24

jkb said:
I just broke my never pre-order rule and pre-ordered this on steam.

Please be as good as 2

Oh no, you've jinxed us all now ... it's going to be a bad game

kinger8938 · 28 Apr 2015 at 18:41

To the book discussion previously, if you want to take in the stories but dont fancy the read, someone has uploaded the official audiobooks to youtube! Thought i would try one out at work today and listened to 5 hours of the one i was halfway through last year

so now i am caught up to where i left it and may just keep listening as i dont have much time to read

The reader is not bad at all, except his geralt sounds like ned stark

http://youtu.be/H0VVFuMHpNw

Thats the last wish, and check his page for the rest

Neil79 · 28 Apr 2015 at 19:50

http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/28/8507405/witcher-3-wild-hunt-world-building

Like Grand Theft Auto meets Game of Thrones

Dirk Diggler · 28 Apr 2015 at 20:14

Pre-order rule broken for this one as there's no way I'm not going to be giving this one a go!

Bought on Steam with 25% off.

ValiantUK91 · 28 Apr 2015 at 20:23

To the Pad/KB+M discussion above, ive recently started playing witcher 2 on PC (first played on xbox 360 before i got into gaming on PC) i found pad for combat and KB+M for everything else worked very well for me, only games i use a pad for on PC are Fifa, GTA, and Dying light(sometime KB+M if im at my desk) as i play these games mainly on my TV some games just lend themselves towards a pad

Amatsubu · 29 Apr 2015 at 14:24

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-m...c-ultra-runs-at-1080p-60fps-on-gtx--31923616/

I really hope I was wrong and they did a fair bit of optimisation for the game since the last presentation, I'll be chuffed if a GTX 970 at 1500mhz can at least get close to ultra.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Apr 2015 at 14:30

They've had plenty of time to polish, I think we'll be surprised on how well it'll run. Hoping my TX @ 1400MHZ won't dip below 30fps and average around 40/50FPS @ 4K Ultra.

Pighardia · 29 Apr 2015 at 14:59

I have no doubt it will be well optimised tbh...What worries me most is the the God-awful menus. CDPR simply can't do them!

We're gonna be using them for upwards of 100 hours, and they are very badly designed.

Amatsubu · 29 Apr 2015 at 15:12

I'm quite tempted to preorder this now but on the other hand I want to see how well it runs on a 970 beforehand... Must resist

MatTheCat · 29 Apr 2015 at 16:26

String said:
Pre-order rule broken for this one as there's no way I'm not going to be giving this one a go!

Bought on Steam with 25% off.

So you got it for the same price as you could have got it on GOG, or 25% more than you would have paid had you just bought the DVD version.

Slick move bro!

Daftbrown said:
I don't know about 'cheap'; this is what you would want if you were using a controller.

Yep...

I use gamepad for practically all single player games these days.

a) Most AAA PC games are made for console and so are designed specifically with gamepads in mind

b) I much prefer sitting back on a leather armchair for a few hours with a gamepad in my hand, with the game running on my TV, than sitting hunched over a keyboard and mouse at a desk for hours.

ONLY games that I play where mouse n keyboard is obligatory are online FPS shooters....or should I say an online FPS shooter (BF4).

Devrij · 29 Apr 2015 at 17:17

A game like this where you are going to be playing it so long you'll need a poo hole in your chair is going to be better with a pad, purely for the comfort factor. I'm very much a m&kb guy, so I'll be trying both, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I played DA:I on pad.

I paid full whack for this on steam ages ago. Not even fussed. If it's as good as we all hope it is, then I'll be happy to have funded a good developer!

jkb · 29 Apr 2015 at 18:51

xaldub said:
Oh no, you've jinxed us all now ... it's going to be a bad game

Have faith, it will be as good as we are all hoping for

kinger8938 · 29 Apr 2015 at 19:03

Ive made the choice to order on ps4 just as i cant justify an upgrade right now but need to play the game

ill still poke around this thread though as im a big fan and its bigger than the one on console section

Bishie · 29 Apr 2015 at 20:18

Just clocked this on the Witcher 3 forum. Compromises are an inevitability, but talk about a stark contrast!
Note: The bottom part is the game running on ultra with an i7 4790K and GTX 980.

Images over 1,280 pixels wide should be placed in spoiler tags as I've done for you.

Cheers

Surveyor

norm · 29 Apr 2015 at 20:24

Bishie said:
Just clocked this on the Witcher 3 forum. Compromises are an inevitability, but talk about a stark contrast!
Note: The bottom part is the game running on ultra with an i7 4790K and GTX 980.

The youtube screenshot is suffering very bad compression look how smeary the grass is and the horse has loads of artifacts on it.

I won't make a judgement til we see uncompressed screenshots.

Dirk Diggler · 29 Apr 2015 at 20:27

MatTheCat said:
So you got it for the same price as you could have got it on GOG, or 25% more than you would have paid had you just bought the DVD version.

Slick move bro!

Err yea, whatever. :rolleyes:

kinger8938 · 29 Apr 2015 at 20:42

I prefer the more realistic colour palette that it used to have over the orangy contrasty look it has now, either way it looks nicely detailed

Dirk Diggler · 29 Apr 2015 at 20:45

The DVD version is useless to me considering I have a 100Mb broadband connection and no DVD drive in my system.

Look at my signature, do you think I care if I paid a tenner more than I could have?

Now, stop trolling... It's boring everyone.

monkeyspank · 29 Apr 2015 at 21:13

Omg the pc forum is awful