The Witcher 3

Shiminay · 16-06-2014 5:27pm

I just started playing 1. Got out of the starting/tutorial area at last so am now seeing how the game actually works. It's interesting.

Mickeroo · 16-06-2014 5:35pm

Shiminay wrote: »

I just started playing 1. Got out of the starting/tutorial area at last so am now seeing how the game actually works. It's interesting.

Just don't lose faith when you're stuck in the misery of Chapter 2

Sarky · 16-06-2014 6:35pm

Shiminay wrote: »

I just started playing 1. Got out of the starting/tutorial area at last so am now seeing how the game actually works. It's interesting.

Save regularly. That swamp is frustrating. It's the one spot of the game that became something of a chore. the rest was pretty glorious, loads of good storytelling, but... that f*cking swamp, man.

Kiith · 16-06-2014 7:24pm

Shiminay wrote: »

I just started playing 1. Got out of the starting/tutorial area at last so am now seeing how the game actually works. It's interesting.

I hope to god it's the Enhanced Edition, otherwise you'll have to fight the toughest boss fight ever. Stupid dog made me quit the game the first two times i played the game.

Shiminay · 16-06-2014 7:51pm

Yea, it's the Enhanced one. Got it and number 2 for a Fiver some moons ago and never got around to playing.

jc4517 · 16-06-2014 10:08pm

Don't think you can even buy the non-Enchanced Edition, or if you can it's very rare..

16-06-2014 10:45pm

Thinking it's time I played through the original game again, not done so since it was released and never really put much time into the second one. Figure that once I finish Wolfenstein, a replay of Far Cry 3 and Watch Dogs I'll put aside a month and just go full on Wither.

Somnus · 17-06-2014 12:36am

I just started the first one as well. Bit into chapter 1 now. Have to say, I'm really enjoying it and not finding it that hard to get into at all. Loads of the stuff I'd read said it will be so hard to get into if you're coming from the second one. It's good so far!

Knowing the world a bit from having played the second game probably helps, but I'm definitely enjoying it so far.

Love the little saucy portraits whenever you have a night of passion with the various women

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 17-06-2014 9:04am

Somnus wrote: »

Love the little saucy portraits whenever you have a night of passion with the various women

i think you mean you find them offensive, immature and indicative of a culture that devalues the contributions of women.

Somnus · 17-06-2014 10:46am

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i think you mean you find them offensive, immature and indicative of a culture that devalues the contributions of women.

No I don't really mean that, but then again I'm not taking it too seriously. I'm sure the studio has women who's input they value.

Genghiz Cohen · 17-06-2014 11:50am

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

i think you mean you find them offensive, immature and indicative of a culture that devalues the contributions of women.

Not sure if srs

Skerries · 17-06-2014 11:53am

Somnus wrote: »

No I don't really mean that, but then again I'm not taking it too seriously. I'm sure the studio has women who's input they value.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 17-06-2014 12:17pm

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Not sure if srs

was that a ****redditsays pun?

cos if so, bravo

Genghiz Cohen · 17-06-2014 12:19pm

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

was that a ****redditsays pun?

cos if so, bravo

You're saying words, and individually they make sense.

Yeti Beast · 23-06-2014 12:02pm

Ruh-roh.

Huge Witcher 3 leak reveals ending details, monsters, plot - EuroGamer

Haven't dared read the story, but apparently details of the game have been leaked to the usual spots (reddit, 4chan etc). So this is really just a warning to anyone who wants to avoid spoilers - be extra vigilant! And obviously, please keep this thread free of these details until next February at least. :pac:

Kiith · 23-06-2014 12:19pm

Ohh, if someone dared to spoil this on me, i'd...i'd...i'd get very upset.

Mickeroo · 23-06-2014 12:20pm

So Geralt was dead the whole time? :eek::pac:

Kiith · 12-08-2014 8:20pm

The Witcher 3 is 35 times bigger than the 2nd game :eek:

Sephiroth_dude · 12-08-2014 8:27pm

I need this game now.........

Sarky · 12-08-2014 9:04pm

Gbear · 12-08-2014 9:16pm

Wasn't in any way arsed about this but I saw 1 and 2 for a pittance in the steam sale and heard they'd been improved.

I've nearly finished 1 now, it's extremely polished and I really enjoyed it.

That's one extra sale CDPR can count on... I wonder how many others there are.

Of course, hopefully that means they're implementing all the good ideas straight out of the box this time, rather than a "Good Edition" years later.

MadYaker · 12-08-2014 9:23pm

2 is even better than 1. I can't fooking wait for this.

ShadowHearth · 12-08-2014 10:01pm

Gbear wrote: »

Wasn't in any way arsed about this but I saw 1 and 2 for a pittance in the steam sale and heard they'd been improved.

I've nearly finished 1 now, it's extremely polished and I really enjoyed it.

That's one extra sale CDPR can count on... I wonder how many others there are.

Of course, hopefully that means they're implementing all the good ideas straight out of the box this time, rather than a "Good Edition" years later.

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".

Skerries · 13-08-2014 7:51am

just be aware that the 3rd act of Witcher 2 is short

Kiith · 13-08-2014 8:59am

It's not as short now though, is it? Didn't the pad it out with the Enhanced Edition that they released a while ago? I just started playing it again last night, so we'll see how much longer it is in about 30 hours time.

Taylor365 · 13-08-2014 1:18pm

For someone who knows nothing of Witcher, What is this game like? Skyrim or DMC type?

Mickeroo · 13-08-2014 1:19pm

Taylor365 wrote: »

For someone who knows nothing of Witcher, What is this game like? Skyrim or DMC type?

More Skyrim than DMC, more dragon age than either of those but better than all of them, particularly the 2nd one.

Sarky · 13-08-2014 1:24pm

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

ShadowHearth · 13-08-2014 1:35pm

Look at it this way:

Skyrim - a fast food.
Witcher - fine steak.

Skyrim is a lot bigger and has a lot more stuff in it. It's open world game. At the same time it is its weakness as it's does not have depth and a lot of copy paste stuff.
Witcher is not open world and a bit more focused experience. It's not as big as skyrim, but the stuff it has in it is very high quality. Specially in witcher 2 quests are interesting and memorable.

Mickeroo · 13-08-2014 1:49pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Look at it this way:

Skyrim - a fast food.
Witcher - fine steak.

Skyrim is a lot bigger and has a lot more stuff in it. It's open world game. At the same time it is its weakness as it's does not have depth and a lot of copy paste stuff.
Witcher is not open world and a bit more focused experience. It's not as big as skyrim, but the stuff it has in it is very high quality. Specially in witcher 2 quests are interesting and memorable.

Yeah even the side quests feel like they're worth doing where as in Skyrim it's a real chore to do anything outside of faction or main storyline imo.

It's looking like the new game is very much open world though, which could be a good thing if they can maintain the level of depth.

EoinMcLovin · 13-08-2014 3:06pm

new gameplay

Sephiroth_dude · 13-08-2014 3:26pm

That's looks brilliant

McSasquatch II · 13-08-2014 6:12pm

Really looking forward to this.

CD Projekt.

Gbear · 17-08-2014 8:33pm

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".

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: »

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?

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 5:06pm

35 min demo

ShadowHearth · 19-08-2014 5:30pm

Gbear wrote: »

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.

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 5:41pm

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 6:43pm

That looks absolutely brilliant.

MadYaker · 19-08-2014 8:47pm

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 3:07pm

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 3:52pm

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 6:13pm

Pre-ordered this. Looks great.

jc4517 · 27-08-2014 8:05pm

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 8:31pm

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 8:32pm

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 8:52pm

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

The Witcher 3

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