No need for me to "calm down", I couldn't be bothered by whatever you or most people on this forum think, but you can easily invoke negative reactions from other posters. I just prefer it if this thread doesn't get derailed.
no. it's impossible to sail to an area where there is no water. from skellige you'd have to sail eastwards along the yaruga until Riedburne then head south through the mountains to get to Toussaint. that's not in the game world but the world in the books.
it's bad enough sailing between islands in Skellige in the game. you wouldn't want to sail from skellige to velen because the distance is too large and it would mean they need to add a lot of land area such as Cidaris/Bremervoord/Kerack/Brokilon and maybe Cintra.
The in game world is heavily condensed together and each map is separate from each other except Velen/Novigrad. They are essentially the same map but you can select either area to go to the top/bottom of the map. If you want to go to a different map you need to select it and go through a loading screen but the skellige/velen maps are so big it doesn't feel too bad and you usually aren't going back and forth too much during the game.
here is an image showing the rough location of each map in the game to give you an idea of what's been left out. the red is base game maps and blue is the new Toussaint map in B&W:
They have this cartoony look about them that looks like fable and the animation work is especially reminiscent.Yup.
Cool of you to concentrate on just the npc closeups when they indeed have a cartoon vibe like fable and animate just as poorly. The looks of a game has lots to do with it's animation quality and artstyle which in this case is similar between fable and witcher. I just don't get why this is so hard to understand.
Someone could try to mod those assets into the main games, where applicable.
The hyperbole is real.
OK, this literally made me laugh out loud. Looks like Fable?! Ha ha ha, good lord.Yup.
Seriously. Guy is mental.
This is character animation in Fable III. Which is a substantial improvement over Fable I. Meanwhile,this is the witcher 3. Your post holds no weight whatsoever dude, please just stop.
You dont think PS4k will pull it off?
if PS4k cant pull off Witcher 3 Ultra setting then I think its a no go for me sadly
Compressed to hell and back jpgs are absolutely wonderful for graphical discussions. If only consoles had an option to take higher quality pi--oh wait a minute.
Well they did technically have the same settings. Ծ_Ծ
I just replayed it not that long ago and took these shots from the XB1 version. It had bad spots sure, but it also had good spots. And the compression in your pictures doesn't help
I feel like you're entire argument is "open world is more impressive". I don't agree. Open world introduces some technical challenges but being open world does not inherently make a game more impressive than something like UC4 (which likely streams as much or more data).
With UC4 specifically I think it's because of the insane amounts of hyperbole. Unlike a large part of last gen open world games don't have to make anywhere near the same amount of sacrifices to achieve comparable or sometimes better graphical fidelity than linear games this gen. So when you see something like someone saying "UC4 has unparallelled attention to detail that no other dev comes to to." It's makes one wonder if they've seen some of the shit devs have accomplished with open world games this gen. Like UC4 has that madagascar sequence, but AK has a city that's just as destructible in terms of just how many things can be destroyed but on the scale of a open world sandbox, or say the npc scene in UC4, this gen we got both the AC games and TW3. Just to name two examples.
I could agree that Batman stacks up well against Uncharted 4 in a number of ways. It was an insanely good looking game.
...but what is it about linear games that you find inherently less impressive? It seems like you're being wowed by the fact that the world is large but that's not really a huge accomplishment anymore. Being open world is not inherently impressive.
