Well SORRY, I don't get to play many games. I'm sorry if that's the only console RPG I've been able to play and able to base an opinion on.
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Well SORRY, I don't get to play many games. I'm sorry if that's the only console RPG I've been able to play and able to base an opinion on.
Stupid dick
Do you have a PC? The Witcher games are 66% off on Steam at the moment (though not so on GOG, oddly enough). Even if you won't have time to play them in the near future, they're unlikely to get much cheaper.
Sentenza
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Seriously?
I do have a PC but there's no way I'll be able to add the credit card info to pay for the games, and I'll be unlikely to be allowed to use pre-paid vouchers or anything. TW1 and TW2 are another game I've added to my imaginary backlog of the hundreds of current gen games I missed out on. And I'll play all of them when I'm rich and independent.
Then it'll be bad, let's hope it's nothing like FFX.
Louis Cypher
Banned
I can't wait for Suteki Da Ne to play when Geralt and Yennefer swim in a pond.
Terra_Ex
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Really glad they're doing some serious work on the facial animations, my only gripe with the second game. Based on that hidden text and link http://www.thewitcher.com/KillingMonsters in the trailer I'm guessing that the press only CG trailer she's referring to will eventually go live there, can't wait, everything is sounding awesome so far.
Yup, seems like every quest in a western RPG you try to do the "proper" way usually ends in making shit worse. Witcher 2 it was surprising when you were successful with a quest and you DIDN'T get backstabbed.
Sentenza
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To be fair The Witcher saga is pretty much an exception in this sense; most of the RPGs I can think of usually have a way to do the quest "right" and few options to screw it up to various degrees.
This feeling of "You are somehow losing something, no matter what" and "there are rarely very happy outcomes" is more a The Witcher's distinctive trait than the norm in the genre.
Louis Cypher
Banned
More realistic
Screenrave.com has an interview with CDPR and there is some new info:
- Novigrad is inspired by medieval Amsterdam
- No Man’s Land is a swampy area inspired by the Slavic lore known from The Witcher 1. NPCs have an Irish accent.
- Scenery is inspired by movies such as... Snow White, Robin Hood (2010), Brave Heart, Game of Thrones
- Enemies use environment against Geralt. eg. tear out trees
- Mounted fight probably won't be included in the game after all, apart from maybe cast-signing.
- 100 hour claim is for a single play-through.
If they do decide to add them, I hope you can turn them off and actually be able to play the game that way (looking at you, Skyrim).
Up there with David Wise returning to Donkey Kong Country as Best News of Show.
This I like!
I can believe the game taking up to 100 hours to complete if you're one for secondary content (side-quests and the like); I got a good ~75 out of the original game.
I have 57 hours played on Witcher 1 but I think I played through it twice for the 2 different factions/endings. I'm not saying that the numbers are completely false, but they're just spinning the numbers by telling the theoretical maximum and biggest numbers they can get.
Yep, I got a similar playtime. 70 hours for my first playthrough iirc.
Lucent
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I hope this is the case. Don't need it to be Dragon's Dogma low with like 5 kind of monsters with 5 color variations and slight tweaks. Got boring after awhile despite being the best fighting in a game of it's genre. I hope TW3's fighting is much improved as I didn't like how the fighting felt in TW2.
Black Republican
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never played the series but really enjoy what im hearing and seeing
Sentenza
Member
Which is pretty much standard practice, anyway.
That said, I don't take an issue with it simply because those numbers mean nothing to me.
Take the world size as an example. I already posted about it in another thread so forgive the self quote:
In the end, even if they said "20% bigger than Skyrim" I'm far more interested in knowing the game will be good. If they end making a great game which is "merely" 50% *smaller* than Skyrim, completely under-delivering on the initial claim, I would pretty damn happy with it anyway.
Well, to be fair, CDPR has been rather upfront about the 100-hour figure being split down the middle between story-related content and secondary content. I like to subtract 25% from developer-touted playtime figures to account for overstatement, but considering just how big a game the original Witcher is, in the case of TW3 I wouldn't be surprised if I did squeeze 100 hours out of it.