The Witcher 3

EoinMcLovin · 13-08-2014 03:06PM

new gameplay

Sephiroth_dude · 13-08-2014 03:26PM

That's looks brilliant

McSasquatch II · 13-08-2014 06:12PM

Really looking forward to this.

CD Projekt.

Gbear · 17-08-2014 08:33PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Wait until you finish first one. Keep attention to stuff, it will leave you with "my mind is blown". I actually went googling about the ending.

Witcher 2 is fantastic too. Real definition of " you make your own decisions".

Spoiler

Something stayed with me that Triss said - "Alvin could've travelled anywhere through space or time."

Then he appears in the final Ice level but otherwise we don't hear from him again.

The grand master is found with an aged version of the amulet he was given - I also don't remember if we saw him before he turns up in the swamps.

There's obviously some shenanigans going on here and presumably the obvious conclusion is that the Grand Master is Alvin but I'm not really sure why or what that means. Did the way you "raise" him effect the Grand Master's behaviour later?

I've only played it through once so I'm not sure how much the story can change.

shootermacg · 17-08-2014 10:34PM

I actually thought the Witcher 2 was really really really short.

Somnus · 18-08-2014 11:20AM

shootermacg wrote: »

I actually thought the Witcher 2 was really really really short.

I thought it was a good length for a non-open world game like this. All though it feels short after the first game.

I'm definitely looking forward to the open world aspect of Wild Hunt though. It'll be nice having quests in more varied locales

Steviemoyne · 18-08-2014 11:52AM

Gbear wrote: »

Spoiler
There's obviously some shenanigans going on here and presumably the obvious conclusion is that the Grand Master is Alvin but I'm not really sure why or what that means. Did the way you "raise" him effect the Grand Master's behaviour later?

Spoiler

It would seem that way, the grandmaster has different dialogue depending on different things you tell Alvin earlier in the story. Some "light" reading: http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Alvin#Speculation_about_Alvin

EoinMcLovin · 19-08-2014 05:06PM

35 min demo

ShadowHearth · 19-08-2014 05:30PM

Gbear wrote: »

Spoiler
Something stayed with me that Triss said - "Alvin could've travelled anywhere through space or time."

Then he appears in the final Ice level but otherwise we don't hear from him again.

The grand master is found with an aged version of the amulet he was given - I also don't remember if we saw him before he turns up in the swamps.

There's obviously some shenanigans going on here and presumably the obvious conclusion is that the Grand Master is Alvin but I'm not really sure why or what that means. Did the way you "raise" him effect the Grand Master's behaviour later?

I've only played it through once so I'm not sure how much the story can change.

Spoiler

Thats the thing, the whole game just drips and drops with Alvin and Grand Master lore, but it never goes "THIS IS WHATS HAPPENING"
As Steviemoyne said, your actions do influence Grand Master actions and Dialogue.
I really damn love Witcher 1.

Really felt that you actually part of the story and you are not spoon fed information. Alvin and Grand Master thing was Briliant

Genghiz Cohen · 19-08-2014 05:41PM

Sarky wrote: »

It's looking like what Skyrim would be like if it had better combat and characters that weren't insufferably boring.

"Skyrim if Skyrim were good."

Kiith · 19-08-2014 06:43PM

That looks absolutely brilliant.

MadYaker · 19-08-2014 08:47PM

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

"Skyrim if Skyrim were good."

Ah Skyrim was good. The next ES game needs to be on a new engine though, that should improve the combat.

On topic: this looks amazing, but id say ill have to upgrade my PC to play it at decent settings. My rig struggled with 2.

McSasquatch II · 26-08-2014 12:08AM

Q&A from a few days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgHj2Eu34s

Steviemoyne · 26-08-2014 03:07PM

Just finished reading The Last Wish and I'm wondering if reading Blood of Elves is going to spoil The Witcher 3 storyline or not. Anyone have any ideas?

ahnowbrowncow · 26-08-2014 03:52PM

Steviemoyne wrote: »

Just finished reading The Last Wish and I'm wondering if reading Blood of Elves is going to spoil The Witcher 3 storyline or not. Anyone have any ideas?

No it shouldn't, the first witcher game is set around 5 years after the end of the last book.

This is the chronological order of the books

The Last Wish
The Sword Of Destiny
Blood Of Elves
Time Of Contempt
Baptism Of Fire
Tower Of The Swallow
Lady Of The Lake

http://www.gog.com/forum/the_witcher_2/fan_translation_of_the_witcher_stories_and_novels/page1

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16494-Our-Community-Fan-Translations

I've read them all using the above links for fan's translations.

Zapp Brannigan · 26-08-2014 06:13PM

Pre-ordered this. Looks great.

jc4517 · 27-08-2014 08:05PM

How do you reckon it's going to look on PS4? Might just wait until I can build a PC to play it on..

Kiith · 27-08-2014 08:31PM

It won't look at good as on a top of the range pc, but it will still look pretty great. Witcher 2 looks good on the old consoles (from what i remember).

ShadowHearth · 27-08-2014 08:32PM

jc4517 wrote: »

How do you reckon it's going to look on PS4? Might just wait until I can build a PC to play it on..

As a PC gamer, I am really confident that PS4 version will be very good. CD Project Red will pull it off!

Steviemoyne · 27-08-2014 08:52PM

Consoles are reacting pretty badly so far, they have it running which is good at least and they expect it to run well on consoles by release...even if that means sacrificing a bit of quality in favor of performance which isn't a bad thing at all.

They expected it not to run at all because there are so many independent objects like the below link says.

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2014/08/22/the-witcher-3-may-not-be-1080p

jc4517 · 27-08-2014 09:48PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

As a PC gamer, I am really confident that PS4 version will be very good. CD Project Red will pull it off!

I have a lot of faith in CDPR, they seem like the kind of guys who would never sell out by doing **** like console exclusives and that sort'o carry on

Gbear · 20-09-2014 10:29PM

Just finished Witcher 2 there.

A little bit bummed by the gameplay to be honest. Everything else apart from the combat was brilliant but I just found the combat itself completely tedious.
I started off with the vanilla version and then installed the combat rebalance. Neither were up to much. Buggy, unintuitive, grindy and wildly inconsistent in difficulty.

Eventually I turned it down to easy to get through it. It definitely diminished my enthusiasm for W3.

Skerries · 08-10-2014 01:29PM

Can be got here pre-order for €20.56 on PC

Kirby · 08-10-2014 04:15PM

Gbear wrote: »

Just finished Witcher 2 there.

A little bit bummed by the gameplay to be honest. Everything else apart from the combat was brilliant but I just found the combat itself completely tedious.
I started off with the vanilla version and then installed the combat rebalance. Neither were up to much. Buggy, unintuitive, grindy and wildly inconsistent in difficulty.

Eventually I turned it down to easy to get through it. It definitely diminished my enthusiasm for W3.

Agreed but don't let that dampen your desire for W3. They have changed the combat quite a bit. I'm confident it will be much better.

Kiith · 08-10-2014 04:41PM

Game of the year - 2015

I've a lot of faith in CD Projekt Red, and it looks bloody amazing.

Steviemoyne · 08-10-2014 06:01PM

Kirby wrote: »

Agreed but don't let that dampen your desire for W3. They have changed the combat quite a bit. I'm confident it will be much better.

Late to the party with this but there's also a semi-official mod that overhauls the combat for TW2: http://redkit.cdprojektred.com/index.php?c=mod&m=show&p=77

Sarky · 09-10-2014 11:12AM

I quite liked the combat in 2. Didn't find it a slog apart from the occasional troll or boss fight.

Kiith · 24-10-2014 06:12PM

Games intro has been released. Sure enough, it's pretty awesome.

Skerries · 24-10-2014 08:35PM

looks like Yennefer finally makes an appearance

Robert ninja · 25-10-2014 04:43AM

So obviously it will detect your save game from W2 too, right? I'm wondering will W1 save matter at all?

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