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The Witcher 3 PS4 gameplay
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M_A_C
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very high quality PS4 stream: http://www.twitch.tv/thisislijoe
Geez. The load times after death are insane. This is Bloodborne (pre-patch) levels of slow. I counted up to 53 seconds when he died in that tavern! Are those playing right now experiencing the same?
He got killed through the door lol.
endlessflood
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Yes but it was a vey high quality door
yes the loading times are insane and take over a minute sometimes
flipswitch
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I wonder how the PC ver will fare in loading times.
Kenzodielocke
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How many hours did it it take you to complete the main quest?completed the main quest,really liked itnow to start on death march and do all quests and collect everything
BigTnaples
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On an SSD, probably decidedly quicker.
Not a huge issue IMO. A little long death load is more than a fair trade for not hitting a loading cell for every building, cave, city, side of street, etc like we are used to last gen.
It adds soooo much to immersion being able to see inside and outside of a building in games like these. Taking shelter in an in during a storm is an entirely different experience.
I have it preloaded on my PC SSD, so I will know soon enough, also have it on my PS4, a friend will be playing, so I should have a good grasp of the differences soon.
no idea,i had it since wednesday and played A LOT each day without doing any side quests
kriskrosbbk
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Isnt there a log?
Isendurl
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completed the main quest,really liked it
So better or worse than Witcher 2?
Save file sometimes says how many hrs you logged in.this is my first the witcher game
and i can't find a log
Agreed. I didn't realize how much it added to the immersion until I saw someone streaming and I could see everyone going about their business out the window as he walked by it. It really creates a believable world.
What? I thought you could go anywhere without load times.
Hmm, maybe it's just early days and it hasn't quite kicked in yet or something! At one point I "reached the end of the map" in an area and the fast travel screen came up.
Lifejumper
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I think youre in the prologue area.
That would make sense then, did think you were supposed to be able to go anywhere without load times so was a bit confused.
Haha, the stream has turned into a Bloodborne vs. Witcher discussion.
Isendurl
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this is my first the witcher game
Ok, so on scale 1 - 10 how good is main story? And did you got everything or were there parts were you felt lost because you didn't play previous games?
i had no idea who half of the people where,you are able to understand the story but not who all these people are that you talk to and meet from prev games.you had some beef with people and i had no idea why because i never played the other games
7/10 for the story but it would be like a 8/10 or 9/10 if i played the other games
Isendurl
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His Majesty
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You've got two extremely large areas Skellige and No Man's Land which require a boat to travel between. None of them have loading screens for buildings or caves. Besides that there are some smaller areas which mainly serve introductory or story purposes. How is this not open world?
Denton
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Sounds great, it seems for me it will be 10/10, since I read all the books several times and played previous games, so meeting all the people I know will be amazing.
MatrixMan.EXE
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Actually if you check your detailed character statistics, you can see how many hours you've played at the bottom of the screen.
Tells me I've played 15 hours or so since yesterday, which doesn't sound right at all haha unless I was more engrossed in the game than I thought.
NoHeDidn't
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I cheked out that 1080p youtube footage that was posted earlier but why is the gameplay so slow against those boat gaurds?
I replayed the video but it was still slow hopefully it was youtube issues and not bad frame rate or slow gameplay/combat.
I replayed the video but it was still slow hopefully it was youtube issues and not bad frame rate or slow gameplay/combat.
1 day 16 hours 48 mins 51 seconds to finish the main quest without side quests
What is your final say in regards to framerate? Solid? Is there a lot of stuttering when navigating the world?
MatrixMan.EXE
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Ah so you've finished? 36-37 hours then. Doesn't sound too bad at all. Think it's going to take me a lot longer than that, though. Christ.
So about 40 hrs for main quest.
You going to do another run through later? It's been said that stuff that happens in side quests effects the main quest.
Turin Turambar
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Good length. What difficulty?
a combination of normal and easy,so its gonna be a lot longer on harder diff,because you are gonna need to grind lvls
i am doing everything now on death march
BigTnaples
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Damn. They weren't kidding about the campaign length...
This is fantastic news.
This game is going to own me. PC downgrade be damned.
GOTY I am guessing. Unless Halo 5 or an unannounced PS4 game really blows me away.
hemo memo
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completed the main quest,really liked it
Already? Wow. Total time?
Edit: answered already
mother of god
BigTnaples
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Yeah, I am going with Blood and Broken Bones for my first playthrough.
Hopefully on PC on an SSD the load times are not as bad. Like I said earlier though, small price to pay for not having to load buildings, caves, cities/sections of cities. Overall, even when dying a lot, you'll spend less time looking at loading screens than you would in say Skyrim of Fallout 3:NV. And as a bonus you will be much more immersed.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
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Has anyone played this with a hybrid drive inside their PS4? I am curious if it helps with load times.
Raven Prime
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It helped with Bloodborne, it helps with pretty much every other game. So I'm assuming it will help with The Witcher 3 too. I'll probably find out in the upcoming week.
Jimmyfenix
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has anyone who has the game tried it with remote play?