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Witcher 3 Online Event 5th June [*concluded*]
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Can't wait.
Jay Shadow
Member
They could show an extended combat sequence. I remember seeing a combat sequence before Witcher 2 came and and thought "huh...well that's quite a lot of rolling."
But there's still 8 months left so enemy AI and animation transitions still might not be totally ironed out.
It's more than that. Things like input response, enemy behavior, control design, and most importantly, whether attacks are randomized will not show on any footage, no matter what. And those are pretty big things.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
I am having trouble breathing.
And premature ejaculation
Orthogonal
Member
Wow, the week leading up to E3 sure is having a lot of killer announcements.
sti4thewin
Member
I'll be going to the event tomorrow. Not sure what to expect.
You can expect to give us minute-by-minute updates.
Reanimator
Member
Yeap, we hear ya. And I`m already looking for the most expensive car as we speak, thank you!
MasterLeePhD
Member
We can only hope.
maquiladora
Member
Forgot this was today. Yessssssssssssssss.
Krappadizzle
Member
Me too. The Witcher series is one of the best rpg series to date.
DemurOnion
Banned
I really hope this engine runs well and uses more than 800MB of my graphics memory FFS. I am right into Witcher 2 right now and yes it hits basically every bell I have. What an amazing team over there. 3 is going to leave jank behind you can tell. And after all those fabulous combat rebalance fixes I think they finally are going to make the game they want to.
I just hope it runs well. I am sure it will I should say that I mean without crazy pop-in everywhere. They NEED to fix that stuff. The foliage mod barely lets me escape with 50-60FPS at 1080p. But then again the engine is using such a paltry amount of RAM it makes me sick sometimes.
So looking forward to whatever this developer does. Best in the business imo.
I just hope it runs well. I am sure it will I should say that I mean without crazy pop-in everywhere. They NEED to fix that stuff. The foliage mod barely lets me escape with 50-60FPS at 1080p. But then again the engine is using such a paltry amount of RAM it makes me sick sometimes.
So looking forward to whatever this developer does. Best in the business imo.
DemurOnion
Banned
I just had sex with her in some Elven Ruins. She had better be there!
It finally looks like they have more or less completed their engine to a point the jank will pretty much gone. Going to be GOTY for me no doubt.
pettson3816
Member
Can someone make a countdown timer in the OT? I get so confused by all this GMT, PST times..
Baaaah, they should have tessellated the moon.
DarkLordMalik
Member
Witcher 3 is anything but a system seller. The majority of its audience originated from PC and that's where it will sell most of its copies. Not to mention it is the final entry in a trilogy of series, which is missing on PS4/XBO but available only to the PC.
Nestunt
Member
This game looks so far apart from that first one
It will grab the attention of the non-hardcore, sell a lot, and people who dont want to play games on the pc will buy a PS4/XB1 to play this. Like Skyrim sold consoles (origins on the pc)
That's probably one of the reasons they redesigned the logo. It makes the "3" less obvious and puts more weight on the Wild Hunt.
Beeblebrox
Member
That sounds like the content of their standard edition. Do you remember Witcher 2? Its standard edition had beefy manual, game guide (both in black and white, sadly), making of DVD, soundtrack CD, beautiful map, some in-game-like letter/bounty thingie, couple of papercraft models, and a beautiful cursed coin. All that for standard price. I love CDPR.
Sentenza
Member
You must have missed how many awards and online polls this game won, how much press coverage it got already and so on, while the previous ones went mostly ignored by people.
"System seller" is a bit of a silly concept, for a game that is supposed to be on EVERY system powerful enough, but I have virtually no doubt this game will eclipse the previous chapters in terms of sales.
I swear to God E3 and all E3 related conferences have the worst timing ever this year, I'll be working nightshifts during this one and during all the big ones on the 9th and 10th. I hope someone will be liveblogging this and I hope there will be no time-limited numbered edition like with Witcher 2 because there's probably no way I could preorder it tonight via mobile and it might be all gone till tomorrow morning.
Although it would look cool together with my #2869 copy of TW2 CE
DemurOnion
Banned
What a comment.... but just because this game only had one mediocre, it was actually a decent port to last gen, release means nothing. If this can't sell systems then gamers are fucking imbeciles imo. This will sell systems.
It's a crapload more content than any Darksouls game with story simply UNMATCHED by any other game in existence at this point. 2 Makes Skyrim hilarious in comparison when we talk about believability. I can't really put my foot on one thing that NOT make 3 the perfect system seller besides the fact it is an end to a trilogy.
Sentenza
Member
I have no idea of what point you are trying ot make and what would be the issue with my comment in your eyes.
Sleepy Buddha
Member
Yep, she has to be. Otherwise my Geralt will be seriously pissed off.
They're going to show the CE but I don't think pre-orders will be immediately available for it. From the wording on the page it seems they'll have GOG pre-orders immediately and those will also have some exclusive extras.
Well, Triss is not going to be as prominent as she was in previous installments. I can't find it, but I watched/read interview with CDPR folks in which they said that since Geralt regained all of his memory, he's now aware of Triss's lies and deception.
I sure hope so. I am not a fan of her in the books.
I hope they show Yennefer and/or Ciri soon. D:
Turin Turambar
Member
But Triss > Yennefer
.Agreed with Ciri, she could be an awesome element to add in the game.
Sentenza
Member
On a side note, I'm guessing CDPR will have a hard time "selling" to the players Yennefer as a character they would be supposed to care about, considering how despise being the "big love" for Geralt in the books she was barely mentioned in the previous games.
Adry9
Member
This. You just can't care as much for a character you barely know and haven't experienced anything with.
Turin Turambar
Member
They should deal with her with Geralt meeting her without having recovered his memories, that way the player and Geralt are at the same level: someone says to him that was his past lover, and he is intrigued for it, but now he doesn't really know her.
Night Hunter
Banned
As it should be. CDPR deserves all the money for being one of the few consumer friendly developers out there (who also make kick ass games)
EDIT: And yes I know, most developers are consumer friendly, but they are also shackled to a not so friendly publisher.
This will most definitely be a problem, glad I read the books. I'm already curious how they wrote her because in the books she was a pretty big asshole most of the time.
She may not be around so much but she didn't exactly do much wrong either. If you count her working for the Sorceress you can't fault her so much since Yennefer was part of that as well and did the same things. Hell Yennefer was her superior in fact and could order her around.
Basically Geralt has had to deal with their little plans and schemes for some time, but they always try to help if not save him when they're able to do so.