mothra on 9/12/2013 at 16:40
I am sure there are enough engines out there to rival this but atm this trailer shows me that the art direction for TW3 is top notch
and none of the scenes look "empty" without drawing too much attention to themselves.
A comment on youtube summed it up pretty nicely, it went something like this:
"when others do fantasy they look at fantasy, with CDPR it looks like they opened a history book"
I just love that style. Additionally CDPR promised the same variety and density in quests and reactivity on small and large scale.
So hopefully not only "dem graphics" but also "dem branches" ;)
PS: A HD link for the trailer : (
http://wpc.4d7d.edgecastcdn.net/004D7D/www/thewitcher/files/download/The%20Witcher%203%20-%20VGX%20Trailer_h264_1080p30_5.1.mp4) http://wpc.4d7d.edgecastcdn.net/004D7D/www/thewitcher/files/download/The%20Witcher%203%20-%20VGX%20Trailer_h264_1080p30_5.1.mp4
I removed that blurry mess from my original post. You can see ppl working in novigrad on the houses rooftops now :D
Thirith on 29/1/2014 at 16:43
I love how much these feel like paintings of/from the 16th and 17th century. I just hope they won't mar that impression with their less-than-funny anachronisms, which bothered me about the first Witcher game. Still haven't played the second one...
Yakoob on 30/1/2014 at 05:49
Beautiful. And agree with above comment, one of the reasons I liked the first game and the books as well, they somehow felt more genuine and believable fantasy than most. But I'm also biased being Polish and growing up with this history/folklore.
Tony_Tarantula on 30/1/2014 at 07:47
Quote Posted by Renzatic
If anything, we elitist gaming snobs should be embracing the coming generations. Since we're coming to that point when each new platform will only be marginally better graphically, what else will the AAA studios do to compete with each other for our hard earned dollars?
The more likely outcome is that they run increasingly more expensive and invasive ad campaigns, hire more celebrities to do VO work, work harder for shock value, and propose a lot more "social" gimmicks that serve as justification for always-online DRM.
june gloom on 14/5/2014 at 19:29
WTF is this obsession with flaming sparks on everything, jeez...
Beleg Cúthalion on 24/5/2014 at 10:38
For the sake of completeness (and those who haven't seen it), the April 1st video: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvrQt6s7a-0)
There's also a 45-minute gameplay show scheduled for the E3.
EvaUnit02 on 24/5/2014 at 15:28
So I just installed an older GOG version of Witcher 2:EE that I had lying around, v3.0. The game's auto-updater is incrementally downloading and installing each patch up until presumably v3.4. What the fuck is this, a game from 2005? People hate Steam that much to the point that they'd prefer putting up with this shit when SteamPipe's delta patching is infinitely superior? Good Lord. What's more I had to keep pressing fucking Okay for 5 incremental patches that it downloaded. Uplay IIRC does incremental patches too but guess what? It applies them automatically.
I love GOG for the extra mile that they go to support older games but they seriously need a MUCH better patch delivery system, especially for the "modern" games on their platform. It's virtually non-existent (and for a majority of releases it IS non-existent).
Assuming that the boxed releases of Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 come with a heap of physical goodies, I'll be getting those. Since we know that both will be DRM free I dearly hope that CDPR have vastly improved their auto-patcher in the mean time (incremental? Get the fuck outta here with that inefficient bullshit!).
