The Witcher 3

Dipped into the witcher 2 last night to see what all the fuss is about, I wasn't expecting it to be so menu and inventory heavy, seems like there's a lot to manage between crafting, combat , traps, thrown items, signs , meditation etc . It was late when I started so I'll have another look later And see if it starts to gel a bit.

Captain Chaos wrote: »

It's usually the other way round imo with torrent sites and all.

Some of the latest biggest 'leaks' have been on console, actually. GTAV leaked on torrents site for last generation consoles a week before official release I remember reading.

Also, someone criticising Kotaku's review of TW3 https://medium.com/@adrianchm/the-boy-who-cried-white-wolf-on-polygon-s-the-witcher-3-review-f7ac8d7f0a5

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

To save you a click , it's more gamergate nonsense. That stuff needs to die in a fire.

In fairness he has a point. It's a bad review because the biggest fault the reviewer had with the game is that it's misogynistic, because some women get killed. Does he think Cod or Battlefield or the hundreds of other games were men get slaughtered are oppressively misandirst?

Don't review a game if you're going to let your biases prevent you from being objective.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Your 'chosen medium' is a product of the real world, of creators with their own histories and motivations, of an incredibly diverse playerbase who will all perceive a game differently and respond accordingly. To demand it be a mere escape is to devalue it, to limit its potential and ignore the aspects that can enhance our understanding of it. Games, like any medium, cannot entirely divorce themselves of their social and political contexts, especially when they opt to directly address or portray them within the gameworld as The Witcher 3 by all accounts seems to do. Therefore creators and players both need to be willing to engage, confront and challenge them, even if this will inevitably lead to differences of opinion. And that's what's needed for your chosen medium to grow and develop, to become something more rewarding than mere escapism. You don't have to agree, and there's no shortage of alternative opinions out there about the game already. But people shouldn't be discouraged from voicing their own response to a game because some people aren't interested or reject the conclusion.

I think you've picked me up wrong, I don't care if my games / movies /books / whatever are seen as misogynistic, femininist, racist or progressive. I 'll evaluate and enjoy them for their own merits and failings, I just cringe when I see others using them to push their own ideals or using them as an opportunity to take a shot at someone else's moral standing. It's a form of grandstanding to a community being perpetrated by both sides.

anyway, if I wanted to get mired down in this craic I'd go to the other thread that was floating around. I came to hear about the witcher!

Lahinchians wrote: »

What exactly is European hair?

Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

I was trying to poke fun....

We know. No point in getting pissy at us because you failed..... :P

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Witcher 2 on Xbox had a fair amount of Irish actors providing voiceovers.
Remember one part walking through a castle courtyard and hearing a coup!e of strong Dublin accents.

The different kingdoms had different accents; Kaedwen were Irish, Temeria were southern England, Redenia were northern England, Aedirn were Welsh, the dwarves are scottish and I think Nilfgaard were supposed to be German, at least the ambassador Fitz-Oesterlen is in any case.

Skerries wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUGFmmikn4

They both look excellent to me. PS4 seems to have better AA, PC has better texturing and lighting though. You'd have to be a real arse to complain tbh.

Now we just need the world to be as fleshy as promised

Digital Solitude wrote: »

They both look excellent to me. PS4 seems to have better AA, PC has better texturing and lighting though. You'd have to be a real arse to complain tbh.

Well, I think the point is that it shouldn't be a toss up between the two.

It should be like night and day.

I'm playing through the Witcher 1 again, so I'm hardly that bothered by the graphics, but it's irritating that you're seeing the PR goons trying to pretend like they aint dun nuffin.

Rockstar, despite their patchy recent endeavours in PC versions, have apparently knocked it out of the park with GTA5 on PC.
They made enough money off the console version to drown a village in caviar and heroin.
Then took their sweet time on the PC version and, despite people moaning about delays to the tune of a year, it sold like hot cakes again on PC.

It's a bit of a different situation, with the sales of GTA5 being more than CDPR could ever even imagine, but I think it validates the idea that you don't have to make games to the lowest common technical denominator and that bad press about delays won't kill a game.

It'll probably make a killing on PC, so the devs or at least the money men in charge of them won't give a ****, but it'll be disappointing that they didn't deliver on all they promised.
Impressive if they've managed to include as much content as has been suggested, but disappointing on the technical (and PR) side of things.