The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

kinger8938 · 16 May 2015 at 21:16

I like how they havent really showed much of the main story etc in gameplays, so im wondering how prominent the Wild hunt will be!

I wonder if you can witness it while just roaming around unscripted

ICDP · 16 May 2015 at 21:29

kinger8938 said:
I like how they havent really showed much of the main story etc in gameplays, so im wondering how prominent the Wild hunt will be!

I wonder if you can witness it while just roaming around unscripted

The thing with most open world RPG games is that the main story always stops if you wonder off to explore. Even plots that require you to believe the world will end soon due to an invasion by demonic/alien/arch enemy hordes unless you stop them.

I expect Witcher 3 to continue this tradition.

kinger8938 · 16 May 2015 at 21:34

ICDP said:
The thing with open world RPG games is that the main story always stops if you wonder off to explore. Even plots that require you to believe the world will end soon due to an invasion by demonic/alien/arch enemy hordes unless you stop them.

I expect Witcher 3 to continue this tradition.

Yea i know what you mean, theres always the main path and the sode stuff. I hope the side stuff in this has more impact than other recent rpgs. Dragon age was just filled with rubbish to pad out the clock and make the map feel busy.

Choices have been a big part of this series before so hopefully that works well

YB2ndBEST · 16 May 2015 at 21:38

kinger8938 said:
Yea i know what you mean, theres always the main path and the sode stuff. I hope the side stuff in this has more impact than other recent rpgs. Dragon age was just filled with rubbish to pad out the clock and make the map feel busy.

Choices have been a big part of this series before so hopefully that works well

Some of the reviewers that actually have 100+ hours in have specifically said most side quests that seem insignificant can have a noticeable change in the world around you. Pretty sweet!

Paul_cz · 16 May 2015 at 21:39

*checks the thread after few days*

*sees the discussion is still going in circles about downgradeathons*

*closes the tab*

ICDP · 16 May 2015 at 21:41

kinger8938 said:
Yea i know what you mean, theres always the main path and the sode stuff. I hope the side stuff in this has more impact than other recent rpgs. Dragon age was just filled with rubbish to pad out the clock and make the map feel busy.

Choices have been a big part of this series before so hopefully that works well

Yeah, DAI was one so called RPG I truly tried to like but ultimately it was a grind. The side quests were pure filler and the main quest was hackneyed and tedious. It was single player but the missions were almost pure MMO grinds.

ICDP · 16 May 2015 at 21:43

YB2ndBEST said:
Some of the reviewers that actually have 100+ hours in have specifically said most side quests that seem insignificant can have a noticeable change in the world around you. Pretty sweet!

That is great news. When I first read that side quests could change the world around you I assumed it meant IF you chose to do them.

kinger8938 · 16 May 2015 at 21:50

ICDP said:
Yeah, DAI was one so called RPG I truly tried to like but ultimately it was a grind. The side quests were pure filler and the main quest was hackneyed and tedious. It was single player but the missions were almost pure MMO grinds.

Wasnt just me going mental then

Yea i retried it recently but just couldnt do it what with this on the way so just passed it on

As the last few comments have mentioned i think the side stuff actually branches off in to more substantial storys and can have an affect on the ending etc so thats something atleast. However i do imagine at its core most of the objectices will be the usual stuff, fetching, killing and so on but if it has more meaningful context it will feel better as theres a reason to do it

mid_gen · 16 May 2015 at 21:51

slick rick said:
What I don't understand is why developers make these beautiful assets with lots of geometry and wonderfully crafted textures and effects only to remove them before release, that must be an awful lot of wasted time and resources, right?

Same with Watch_dogs or Colonial Marines.

Master assets are often made higher quality than they are ever expected to be used, the asset pipeline then processes them into the appropriate quality for the target platform.

ValiantUK91 · 16 May 2015 at 21:56

YB2ndBEST said:
Some of the reviewers that actually have 100+ hours in have specifically said most side quests that seem insignificant can have a noticeable change in the world around you. Pretty sweet!

Sounds good i know that if you clear villages from monsters or whatever then the villagers will come back which in turn creates more places you can buy/sell items

slick rick · 16 May 2015 at 21:58

mid_gen said:
Master assets are often made higher quality than they are ever expected to be used, the asset pipeline then processes them into the appropriate quality for the target platform.

Thanks for the explanation, I really had no idea that was how it worked.

benjii · 16 May 2015 at 22:04

mid_gen said:
Master assets are often made higher quality than they are ever expected to be used, the asset pipeline then processes them into the appropriate quality for the target platform.

Indeed. Then if you have money grabbing publishers, they repackage them for PC and sell them as an HD texture pack!

spoffle · 16 May 2015 at 22:30

VincentHanna said:
3840x2160 isn't 4k but everyone uses that description.

Yeah, and they're using it incorrectly. There is such a thing as 2K, but it's not 1920x1080. It's 2048x1080.

People are going K mad for some reason. 2560x1440 is being called 2K, and 3200x1800 is being called 3K. It's ridiculous.

Heisenberg said:
off topic but how is 3840x2160 not 4K? Is the 4k not meant as 4 times the amount of pixels as 1920x1080?

I know very little about it tbh

If that's what it meant, it'd be 4X. The K represents "thousand", as it's based on "kilo" which is derived from the Greek word "chilioi" which means "1000".

So 3840x2160 isn't 4K.

rwm24 · 16 May 2015 at 22:31

Gameplay with i3 3220 + GTX 660 high settings.

Gameplay video so it will obviously contain spoilers

Looks like it runs well on high, even with an i3 and 660. Well optimised I guess.

spoffle · 16 May 2015 at 22:32

mid_gen said:
Master assets are often made higher quality than they are ever expected to be used, the asset pipeline then processes them into the appropriate quality for the target platform.

It's funny, because higher quality assets is usually something people use as an argument to claim modern games are an order of magnitude more expensive to produce because of things like higher quality texturing and modelling as well as other assets.

Heisenberg · 16 May 2015 at 22:52

spoffle said:
If that's what it meant, it'd be 4X. The K represents "thousand", as it's based on "kilo" which is derived from the Greek word "chilioi" which means "1000".

So 3840x2160 isn't 4K.

Yeah, I did a bit of reading up about it and found the '2\4K' represents the horizontal pixels. Learn something new everyday. 4K UHD sounds a bit better for 3840x2160 than 2160P though tbf

neoglow · 17 May 2015 at 00:26

rwm24 said:
Looks like it runs well on high, even with an i3 and 660. Well optimised I guess.

Or the graphics engine had a massive downgrade and it looks like poo! So a 660 is adequate to render the same graphics as a console.

Witcher1979 · 17 May 2015 at 00:30

neoglow said:
Or the graphics engine had a massive downgrade and it looks like poo! .

Do you have the game already with the day one patch so you can share your screenshots of the game maxed out?

Digital X · 17 May 2015 at 01:14

Gameriot on youtube does. He gets to review games early.

Heisenberg · 17 May 2015 at 01:18

digitalx said:
Gameriot on youtube does. He gets to review games early.

On the xbox one so is not relevant to the pc version. We've seen and spoke about ps4 and xbox one graphics previously. We are hoping the pc version looks a bit better in release.