Over 7x larger than Skyrim. I mean ... get ready for "Walking: The Game."
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Two areas in Witcher 3 are 3.5x larger than entire Skyrim
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Over 7x larger than Skyrim. I mean ... get ready for "Walking: The Game."
Werewolf Jones
Gold Member
Hopefully it's not as barren as Skyrim.
Give me a first person occulus supported game like that and i'd be in heaven.
Acquiescence
Member
Right on the money. Games like Skyrim and Just Cause 2 prided themselves on how huge their settings were, but in reality they were just boring, barren environments full of copy and pasted areas, ensuring that the game got more and more repetitive the more you played it. On the flip side, you have something like Sleeping Dogs, which contained a fairly small setting for a sandbox game, yet its depiction of Hong Kong always felt like a living breathing city, full of detail and ambiance, and was always a joy to explore. Give me the latter over the former any day of the week.
Daffy Duck
Member
Wasn't aware of this game, but my it sounds good.
Still to complete skyrim as I just arsed around in it.
Still to complete skyrim as I just arsed around in it.
GameAddict411
Member
The size doesn't really matter for me, rich and unique content is what's important for me. If CDP is taking inspiration from skyrim in term of content then i am not interested.
licktheenvelope
Member
Texas Ranger?
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MeisaMcCaffrey
You can ride a horse in the game afaik.
GravityMan
Member
I have doubts that The Witcher 3 will truly be THAT much bigger than Skyrim.
I'm very excited for the game, but I still get that "too good to be true" vibe and I still worry that the game may be too ambitious for its own good.
I'm very excited for the game, but I still get that "too good to be true" vibe and I still worry that the game may be too ambitious for its own good.
i think this game might use extra distance to portray a sense of journey and travel rather than use every inch for raw gameplay.
perhaps this will be an evolution of wind waker style travelling, just to evoke something fairly similar to the real world and add a bit of dread and boost immersion.
Assuming the information is accurate.
perhaps this will be an evolution of wind waker style travelling, just to evoke something fairly similar to the real world and add a bit of dread and boost immersion.
Assuming the information is accurate.
Thursday War
Banned
OldKingDoran
Banned
hopefully its not as barren as Skyrim's though.
Still, hyped for Witcher 3 and i have faith in CDProjekt Red
Still, hyped for Witcher 3 and i have faith in CDProjekt Red
Seriously? Skyrim felt smallish to me, with all those miniature mountains. Like lego land.
Size does matter, if only because it provides great scenery. As long as there's fast travel between interesting locations, bigger is always better.
Cave Johnson
Member
This is what I'm most concerned about in open-world games and it is a glaring flaw that had almost minimal addressing. The fact that the world cannot contain the player enough that they need to "fast travel" only highlights the tedious quest based design in these games. Why even make the world so big and detailed then if the effort put to make the world believable is just going to be skipped the majority of the time. Why can't the world be truly adventurous, and actually make things feel progressive even if you have to backtrack?
Braag
Member
TW2 is still my favorite RPG of the last gen, so obviously TW3 is my most anticipated game right now even though we wont get to play it before 2015 :/
I hope they understand that when you make a huge world you also need to fill that world with interesting stuff or it will feel barren and boring. I honestly felt like the world of Skyrim was just big enough, it didn't feel too big nor too small, but I understand that TW3 takes place in more than one province so I guess they have to make it feel like this is a huge place.
But I trust in CDPR. I loved their last 2 games I'm sure TW3 wont disappoint.
I hope they understand that when you make a huge world you also need to fill that world with interesting stuff or it will feel barren and boring. I honestly felt like the world of Skyrim was just big enough, it didn't feel too big nor too small, but I understand that TW3 takes place in more than one province so I guess they have to make it feel like this is a huge place.
But I trust in CDPR. I loved their last 2 games I'm sure TW3 wont disappoint.
Thank you for posting these news fellow GAFfer.
This seems to be one of those games that, once it's out I'm going to have a great time playing it. It's going to be a time sink but in a good way. Everything I've seen from it looks really nice and I can only hope for a great atmosphere and soundtrack as well. I miss playing a game like this and I can't wait to try this by myself. Hope I can manage to get it on Day one.
This seems to be one of those games that, once it's out I'm going to have a great time playing it. It's going to be a time sink but in a good way. Everything I've seen from it looks really nice and I can only hope for a great atmosphere and soundtrack as well. I miss playing a game like this and I can't wait to try this by myself. Hope I can manage to get it on Day one.
Madnesslink5
Member
I think this will be true.
Nymphae
Banned
Can they meaningfully fill that much space? I mean not every nook and cranny is going to have unique content, but I wonder how big these games can get before this starts turning into a negative, or a necessary evil. You want a realistic open world game? There is going to be a shitload of space where not much happens, and someone still needs to design those places.
Agreed. I don't hate fast travel, in fact I use it quite a lot. However, the fact that it's used as a solution to maps being too big and consequently empty just shows how flawed the world is. You should want to explore worlds, not just teleport everywhere, and I think that's what a lot of open world games have just forgotten. They all go for size, but forget about the details.
I'd take a smaller world which has high attention to detail, and actually feels like a living/breathing world over a far larger but empty world any day of the year.
Messofanego
Banned
Just to clarify, CDPR didn't invite the Skyrim comparisons, this Dualshockers writer Giuseppe Nelva did. This is the only mention of the size in the slides:
Yup.
Ah hope....
That's exactly what I think. No point in there being just wood and grass without anything else.
Deified Data
Banned
Ahh I see.
Confidence Man
Member
Sounds great. I'm tired of toy scale worlds.
Alebrije
Member
Yep Skyrim felt small and a closed map, you had the sea and the mountains and the in the middle small valleys.
Fast traveling should be used just for the main quest.
No, to travel 50 meters from the main town, to supposedly get to the remote Sacred Mountain of the Dragon Gods is what is terrible.
Give me huge fucking maps, and ill give you money.
I even bought that turd of FUEL to support the cause!
Sounds tedious/time wasting. Mimicking real life for things like travel makes about as much sense as taking one chop from a sword before it's game over in something like this. Decent area to explore is nice. Area so big and filled with largely nothing of significance makes me want to just say forget it. Skyrim itself had a whole hell of a lotta nothing if you think about it.
HighJumpBoots
Banned
Amazing. Gonna be my first Witcher game, but the look of this world has me intrigued. Hopefully the PS4 version will be good;
Ambience7817x
Member
Please look amazing and not melt my PS4. I really need to get a gaming rig to play this game.
ChosenPredator
Banned
sounds good but usually massively huge games are so overwhelmingly you just lose motivation, i wonder how they'll maintain the players interest constantly.
I can't believe people thought Skyrim was too big..
You're on Riverwood(or whatever it was called) and you had to "journey" to Whiterun, but oh wait! you walked 50 seconds and killed 2 wolves, and you can already see it, 500 meters away.
It's fucking silly and completely kills any sense of "journey".
By comparison, SotC was my favorite exploration game.
You're on Riverwood(or whatever it was called) and you had to "journey" to Whiterun, but oh wait! you walked 50 seconds and killed 2 wolves, and you can already see it, 500 meters away.
It's fucking silly and completely kills any sense of "journey".
By comparison, SotC was my favorite exploration game.
A Serious Man
Member
I'm fine with big for the sake of big, with a game world that has space to breathe and isn't over-designed to the point of being a roller coaster. I really don't need every single inch of each zone to be used in a quest or have some specific purpose.
Have CD Projekt Red ever announced if the settlements will be open or will they be in their own separate zones, like Skyrim's cities? That broke immersion for me more than anything else in that game. Jarring loading screens when walking into most of the larger settlements really sucked.
Preach it, i thought i was alone.
You can also see Parthunuxuxu from White Run... and the throat of the world or whatever is like a ski hill.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Don't listen to Dennis. Bigger=more screenshots.
But seriously, I don't see the point of making worlds bigger than Skyrim at all. I liked W2 because of its focused areas, not in spite of em.
But seriously, I don't see the point of making worlds bigger than Skyrim at all. I liked W2 because of its focused areas, not in spite of em.