The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Jarrastafari · 17 May 2015 at 23:01

Craterloads said:

I beleive thats a PC (I imagine) vs PS4 comparison, no? Look at the button prompts in the bottom right corner of the 2015 image. I assume the outrage is from console fans who expected glory from their relatively inferiour hardware choice.

I have played none of these games but am looking forward to blowing through them all during the summer break. So much so that I visited CD Projekt while in Poland recently. Really cool studio!

Jono8 · 17 May 2015 at 23:06

They are still using in game footage of the version that does not exsist anymore, on their website:

http://thewitcher.com/witcher3/

That is pretty low. CDPR have really gone down in my estimations over this.

bull**** footage playing in the background of the page where people can buy the game.

Jono8 · 17 May 2015 at 23:15

Jarrastafari said:
I beleive thats a PC (I imagine) vs PS4 comparison, no? Look at the button prompts in the bottom right corner of the 2015 image. I assume the outrage is from console fans who expected glory from their relatively inferiour hardware choice.

I have played none of these games but am looking forward to blowing through them all during the summer break. So much so that I visited CD Projekt while in Poland recently. Really cool studio!

The 2013 and 2014 versions of the game they showed do not exist anymore, on any platform.

dmcg · 17 May 2015 at 23:16

how are people playing it already? can you use vpn to unlock it early or something

Haggisman · 17 May 2015 at 23:18

I've just been playing a bit of The Witcher 1 to get warmed up for Tuesday - IMO it still looks pretty good, particularly for a game which is 8 years old!

I wonder if TW3 will still look as good comparatively in 2023?

Matson · 17 May 2015 at 23:24

dmcg said:
how are people playing it already? can you use vpn to unlock it early or something

No one is playing it apart from console owners who got a copy from shops early and you tube streamers who were given permission my CDPR and keys to allow them to stream and play it early for review purposes.

Witcher1979 · 17 May 2015 at 23:30

Haggisman said:
I've just been playing a bit of The Witcher 1 to get warmed up for Tuesday - IMO it still looks pretty good, particularly for a game which is 8 years old!

I wonder if TW3 will still look as good comparatively in 2023?

Witcher 1 holds up very well but a couple of mods will make it even better if you are not already using them:

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/662/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/259/?
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-perfect-blood-mod
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-perfect-rain-mod
http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-witcher-texturen-mod/downloads/the-witcher-texturen-mod
http://www.moddb.com/mods/witchercharactermodels
http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/37/?

Pretty much what I use on my playthroughs, none affect the vanilla game.

ColdAsIce · 17 May 2015 at 23:33

neoglow said:
This game does look stunning...

Oh no wait, thats the old version that no longer exists, instead we get this...

Wow, it looks so next gen

ROFL choose 2 completely different scenes and then make some bs comparison, well played *** leave the insults outside ***

Chisharpe · 17 May 2015 at 23:38

Haggisman said:
I've just been playing a bit of The Witcher 1 to get warmed up for Tuesday - IMO it still looks pretty good, particularly for a game which is 8 years old!

I wonder if TW3 will still look as good comparatively in 2023?

Same here where have u got up 2?

pmc25 · 18 May 2015 at 00:05

Weirdest thing about the graphics is the wind effect for vegetation. It looks absolutely awful - as if the plants and trees and shrubs are having epileptic fits. It looks like a comedy mod. Surely they're going to patch this ... it completely spoils the immersion?

Jarrastafari · 18 May 2015 at 00:09

Jono8 said:
The 2013 and 2014 versions of the game they showed do not exist anymore, on any platform.

I'm not sure what you mean really. I wouldn't expect them to ship old versions from what I know of the development pipeline. Could you explain a bit?

Witcher1979 · 18 May 2015 at 00:10

This trailer has been forgotten:

MatsyLR · 18 May 2015 at 00:16

Jarrastafari said:
I'm not sure what you mean really. I wouldn't expect them to ship old versions from what I know of the development pipeline. Could you explain a bit?

He means the one we have been shown before with better graphics, we ain't getting that on PC or console.
But lets wait till Tue

razorpakk · 18 May 2015 at 00:35

I think it's time to put the past aside and think about what we're about to get.
So far that means an open world RPG which has received pretty awesome reviews.

I'm also quite disappointed, but it's time to step back from a few old videos and remember why I was refreshing Amazon's store last year to secure a Collector's Edition (it was a new Witcher, that's all I needed).

opethdisciple · 18 May 2015 at 00:42

Despite all the uproar at the graphics downgrade, this is still going to be a fantastic game.

Fingers crossed the game play will make up for the slight downgrade in graphics.

Vinno · 18 May 2015 at 01:33

The only real problem I see with the graphics is that the grass looks a bit rubbish, lol.

Other than that I'm sure it'll be just as or even more brilliant than the first two. Quite looking forward to it!

MatTheCat · 18 May 2015 at 02:13

kinger8938 said:
I remember watching the early gameplays and thinking it looked amazing, but tbh rewatched them after all the moaning and the frame rate etc is terrible, obviously it was early on but surely the change was part of the optimization so we could actually play it at an acceptable rate.

Clearly this is the case.

It is all very well ramping up insane levels of eye candy for cinematic trailers but to have a functioning smooth playing RPG game looking like that...well, frankly GPU tech just aint there yet. If it was, then it that is how the game would look either on Ultra settings or via some high grade texture pack.

I don't buy the idea for a minute that CD Projekt Red have taken backhanders to downgrade the PC version in order not to make the console versions less appealling. Pure nonsense on toast.

The game will be awesome and look and play miles better than any other RPG no matter what.

UltraDad · 18 May 2015 at 05:06

I hope this game is a success so they can afford to hire someone who can animate trees and grass in The Witcher 4

muon · 18 May 2015 at 05:11

Wasn't it Crysis Warhead which had it's top settings initially removed making it look worse than Crysis?

Didn't a massive patch then fix that.

sprite1275 · 18 May 2015 at 07:08

Well I've had a go of witcher 2 this weekend as I've got 3 on pre order. Not really into it much tbh from the 2 hours I played. I can never remember what each symbol does for your powers and I think the fighting is a bit clunky. Also spent half the time just watching cut scenes.

Does it get better? Any tips how to get into it?