The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Gravoth_iii]

Huh, i was hyped for this two pages ago, but now i watched 30 minutes of gameplay and i dont see why i was. Oh well, still havent gotten through even 20% of 2, will probably never get to even start with 3.

[Xant]

Thanks for the public service announcement. Could've said what you thought was wrong with it or something.

[Gravoth_iii]

Thanks for the public service announcement. Could've said what you thought was wrong with it or something.

Oh i didnt realise you were on the development team looking for feedback in these forums.  Anyways i think it still looks like 2 a lot which i thought was ok but it wasnt really something that kept me playing for much longer than an hour. Combat looks slightly changed into even more flashy moves, i thought it was decent in 2, but lacked something. Doesnt look like they added that something in 3. I guess there are more pixels all around, but just another story driven game with lacking gameplay in general. Atmosphere seems decent though, cities are lively.

[Molly]

To be fair - it makes more sense to post a reason too.
This is a forum after all - a place for discussion.

If anything - without having seen the 35 min video yet - but from what I saw, I don't like the speed up on the combat with rather little changes to it. I can't really put my finger on it but combat seems very arcady... dunno if that is a good thing.
Atmosphere, world density, story telling will probably be once more top notch - still a must-have for me.

[Tibe]

Witchers combat has never been anything spectacular. Aslong as it doesnt straight up unbearably suck, other parts of the game will definately more than compensate. And from the gameplay it appeared to be alright.

[Xant]

TW3's combat looks good to me. They got rid of those long, un-interruptable attack sequences. And no more rolling; pirouettes instead.

[Banok]

developer: "whats unique about witcher is it takes fantastical things and grounds them in reality"

so when 4 bandits try to rob a guy but that guy kills 3 of them by shooting magic fireballz out of his hands, wouldn't the last bandit you know try and run away?

anyway gameplay video looks decent and expected to me. more witcher 2 good quests, bad combat but in a better more open world.

[Molly]

Well, from my understanding is that statement aimed at the World and it's environment.
You got Dwarves and Elves but not as shinning heroes, unbeatable and strong as 12 but frowned upon with racism, them being drunkards, rapists and the like.

And iirc they actually did run in Witcher 1. Not sure about Witcher 2 tbh...

[Xant]

so when 4 bandits try to rob a guy but that guy kills 3 of them by shooting magic fireballz out of his hands, wouldn't the last bandit you know try and run away?

The definite answer is: not necessarily. It's really stupid to speculate on the psychology of fictional bandits. You could easily craft a scenario where the last bandit wouldn't run. Would it be nice to have there be a chance of them running? Sure. Necessary? Nope.

[Banok]

it kind of irks me in games when you are the only one running around throwing magic around like harry potter and nobody else even seems to notice or care. sure there are games where people do make a big deal out of it or its legit common since your enemies are using it too. but then there are so many others that do it wrong, witcher is definitely by no means the worst.

bioshock anoyed the shit out of me. oh right ok its not magic its explained by these potions laying around everywhere but simply nobody else wants to use.

[Xant]

it kind of irks me in games when you are the only one running around throwing magic around like harry potter and nobody else even seems to notice or care. sure there are games where people do make a big deal out of it or its legit common since your enemies are using it too. but then there are so many others that do it wrong, witcher is definitely by no means the worst.

bioshock anoyed the shit out of me. oh right ok its not magic its explained by these potions laying around everywhere but simply nobody else wants to use.

Magic isn't magical in the Witcher universe, there are sorcerers and wizards, crazy monsters, the Wild Hunt, etc. It's pretty much the same as some US soldier having NVGs, a Taleban fighter isn't going to completely freak out over it.

[Falka]

Huh, Platige Image, creator of most of the Witcher's cinematic trailers, such as Rise of the White WOlf or the last one, Killing monsters, announced that they're gonna make full movie based on the Witcher's story  "Platige Films and Tomek Bagiński are working on feature live-action movie "Wiedźmin". Project is currently in development. The script will be based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski." Starring Mads Mikkelsen as Geralt 

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okay, jk with MM as Geralt

PS. I loved made by PI teaser for Vikings season 2 

[Molly]

Excellent choice on the actor right there. He certainly gonna make Gerald a believable character.

[v/onMega]

As I put combat into perspective...:

Witcher 1 boring as hell.
Witcher 2 roll much? Apart from that a major step forward
Witcher 3 Just everything I ever wanted from W2!!!

They changed the right things imho! Somewhat believable moves, no more rolling - added gore!
Now if blocking has any importance too, it would be v nice.

Very much still locking forward to the game!

[Nessaj]

Great choice of actor! One of the Great Danes in acting (we only have 3 who's good enough to act internationally; Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Ulrich Thomsen)

That Vikings teaser is terribad though with even more terribad music not fitting at all for anything viking related, frankly I find it insulting 8)