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Witcher 3: Official Gameplay Trailer
- Thread starter erawsd
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Choice is yours, as for myself I couldn't care less about those "issues". I want a good game.
See above.
Every game has combat more fun than the Elder Scrolls.
chromatic9
Member
I had to.
Ha. Nice.
Trailer looked like console spec settings but impressive overall. This and GTA V, tasty indeed.
Crossing Eden, you should definitely use /s next time. Most of your other posts on this forum read like sarcasm too but they're actually serious. So I hope you can forgive me for making this mistake.
That's true, but Azar was from Zerikkania IIRC, which is not included in the game (and is something only vaguely described in the books).
HighResTomato
Member
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's 1000x less janky and more fleshed out than elder scrolls. People actually react when you hit them.
On a story level? Yes. The Witcher 2's story blows most games out of the water.
That's the sad part. I wanted to love the elder scrolls, but the hit detection is a joke. Fallout is the same way. Might as well be turn-based.
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
Theres also no asians, RACIAL DOWNGRADE!
I think the guy saying its better than BB is crazy. However, its way better than Elder Scrolls.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
No... It's not.
Fans of open worlds games are not going to agree with this at all, but I don't like how this gameplay trailer is all about things you can do rather than how you do them. I see a list of tasks rather than pure gameplay fun.
That said it still looks like a really cool game and I'll certainly give it a go.
That said it still looks like a really cool game and I'll certainly give it a go.
Combat has always been really bad in Witcher (worst in W1, W2 was just sort of Elder Scrolls boring), but hopefully they fixed it up this time since you're going to be playing it for a million years. It looks decent in the trailers but you never know till you try.
usp84
Member
This is by far the most stupid thing i have read in here.
I don't know if you're joking but I miss my turn based Fallouts.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT| Two Girls, One Sacrifice
Let's do this.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
No it's not.
eso76
Member
sounds reasonable. people were speculating it would be like DA;inquisition.
Glad to know it isnt
It has two regions, each about the size of or bigger than Skyrim, plus sea exploration. Yes, it is open and absolutely massive.
The Shogun
Banned
Have you ever played a Witcher game?
HighResTomato
Member
Gotta hype TW3 brah. This trailer is a world beater, yet no love at the Gaf. Definitely hyperbole much, but u r too serious to understand and have any fun.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
As far as I know, it is. There are several large, unconnected chunks of land. But those chunks are open world, you just must fast travel between them.
Much like DA:I, but with less segmentation.
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
But seriously where are my night elves?
Never played them back in the day, but the hit detection on the modern fallout/skyrim games are the worst.
Eh? The combat system is the greatest thing about BB/Souls and is by far Witcher's glaring weak point.
Every game shits on Skyrim though.
Aangster
Member
If we're going to critique the claims relating to realism in The Witcher series, bear in mind that it's not a simple matter of upholding historical or literal realism in the saga.
Take a look at these particular videos from MrBtongue:
#realismtalk
Uncomfort
Take a look at these particular videos from MrBtongue:
#realismtalk
Uncomfort
Denton
Member
Which is why I hoped nobody would take the bait, but someone always does.
I dunno why.
Indeed it does. Leave that shit by the road, please. The game is not discriminating against anyone.
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
I know its a trailer and I really don't expect it to be 100% like that but if its even close... I will be so happy to play my first witcher game!
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It certainly is when you consider what the setting is based off of. Not everything every fantasy is gonna be like Dragon Age.
Raven77
Member
Seems we have different definitions of fantasy.
I think you're confusing "definition" with "opinion". They have one view of what makes something fantasy, you have another. Doesn't mean either of you are wrong. I would have loved to see human characters of different race populating the game world but I wont let it bother me much at all. The game looks fantastic as is.
nero2082
Member
BTW - they changed some things when it comes to graphics: thx for the captures EliHarel from the Witcher forums
From one older trailer:
From the new one:
His Majesty
Banned
Actually you have two huge maps (Skellige and No Man's Land) which are seperated by water. Put them too close and it's geographically unrealistic, too far and travelling by boat takes too long. So that's why they decided to go with fast travel between these two maps.
The other maps (prologue, Kaer Morhen, ...) are smaller in size and are geographically far away so they also require fast travel.
This is one of those games I'm super excited over yet have no real reason to be - and it's not that it doesn't look really cool , it's more that I've only ever played about 3 hours of the first game and perhaps 15 minutes of the second game.
I just flat out don't have the time for this big sprawling videogames anymore and it's kind of sad because I really do want to play Wild Hunt but I feel like I have to finish the other 2 first.
I just flat out don't have the time for this big sprawling videogames anymore and it's kind of sad because I really do want to play Wild Hunt but I feel like I have to finish the other 2 first.
Vire
Member
Because YouTube reaches the greatest audience imaginable? With all due respect to my favorite guy Blimblim, no one gives a shit or knows about Gamersyde except GAF and other superfan gaming sites.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Seems we have different definitions of fantasy.
Nah. You just don't understand the concept of internal consistency within fantasy.
Fantasy doesn't just mean, "Who gives a fuck, just add blank in, its just fantasy right?"
"Why aren't there sharks with laser beams on their heads in Game of Thrones?"
"Why arent there Plasmids in Fallout 3?"
"Why arent there Asian People in Elder Scrolls?"
Etc etc
Not every fantasy lore needs to include every conceivable thing in it just for the sake of having it. That is, as you tried to frame it, not what fantasy is for.
I absolutely love The Elder Scrolls series and Skyrim completes my top 3 favourite games of last generation, but The Elder Scrolls must have one of the (if not THE) most boring and flawed combat of all AAA games. So yes, The Witcher 2 and 3 combat is considerably better. Which by the way doesn't mean The Witcher 2 is great. It's pretty sub-par and repetitive, but nothing is worse that The Elder Scrolls' combat.
TL;DR. Combat in both games are not good, but Skyrim's melee combat is close to shit-tier.
On an off-topic side note, Bethesda should ask Arkane to look at the combat for TES6. They've done a great job on first-person combat with Dark Messiah and Dishonored.
Its definitely open world. There are two major land masses, each one is roughly the size of Skyrim. There is a loading screen when you travel between them. It sounds like this is where 90% of the game takes place.
In addition to that there are half a dozen smaller areas that are tied to story progresses.