The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Kafein]

No, that's not it. What I'm saying is that it's silly to defend or criticize the exact same bullshit depending on who says it.
I like both Witcher games and I'm sure I will like this one too. I just don't get the "they are right no matter what" attitude.

This.

I'm quite sure TW3 will be an excellent game, and I will probably like it much more than the two previous ones. TW1 gameplay felt clunky and fragile, TW2 is better but still not very well thought out. They haven't avoided the #1 problem with systems involving traps and potions, which is that it's a lot of clicking on menus and not a lot of playing. It's tedious and uninteresting. The encounters are unbalanced, the questing system involves too much "follow the map marker" and when it doesn't it's "make an exhaustive search of this area". While the writing and basically everything cosmetic is on point, the game design problems repeatedly halted my progression.

Anyway, I don't even really care about the graphics downgrade, and I didn't even watch any of the preview material. All of that should be considered PR bullshit and dismissed as such. I will probably give my opinion of the game after it has been released, when I played it a decent amount of time. Talking about it earlier than that is pretty much 100% irrelevant and unproductive and something I have been trying my best to avoid. I think everyone in this thread should do the same, considering the extent of what we have achieved here so far can be safely summarized as epistemological cancer.

The only thing I'd like to point out is that there seems to be a double standard here. If you care about a graphics downgrade when Ubi does it, then you should care about anyone doing it. The only right answer to that problem is obviously what I've been saying in the previous paragraph, but I let each of you decide for himself.

[darmaster]

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/05/18/the-witcher-3-dev-talks-modding-weather-crowds-and-graphics-to-make-it-look-more-like-the-trailer-from-2013/

However, remember that we had a reason to change it (and these effects have nothing to do with performance). Sharpening only looks good on screenshots and short videos. If you stare at the game like that for a long time, the eyes really start to hurt.

I seriously didn't get what they meant there, a too good graphic hurts your eyes? Anybody with better english skills can help?

[Teeth]

It seems they are talking about sharpening effects. Basically what these do is exaggerate brightness differences that are normally subtle, creating really sharp and crispy edges and lines everywhere. The very hard edges and lack of subtle colour transitions make the eyes strain more though, which is fine for a two minute trailer, but should probably be avoided in a game that people will play for hours at a time. We had a sharpening filter in cRPG, not sure if its still in. I liked the look of the effect, but it didn't feel good on my eyes after a while and I turned it off.

[Asheram]

If you have the game pre loaded it is playable right now 4-5 pm pst the 18th

[SirCymro_Crusader]

Make sure you update your drivers folks.

They've just released a new set 3 hours ago - covers my GTX 760

[Xant]

Bought this from Nuuvem for 25 euros, gives you a GOG key. Awesome site, bought three games from there and saved ~100 euros.

[lombardsoup]

GOTY

Like the save builder so I don't have to replay earlier entries.  First two games are still good but a bit tedious

[SirCymro_Crusader]

Played 2 hours. Not done much, a very small part of the main story, got distracted by helping an old lady look for her frying pan 

[Xant]

The graphics are weird. They're really good, but at times the color scheme makes them look bad. Just using the 2013 stuff would make it look a lot better.

[Xant]

Yeah, after playing more, graphics indoors and in conversations look fantastic. It's the colors that make the outdoors look crappy at times. Wonder if it could be fixed with a simple filter?

[Patoson]

I turned graphics to Ultra at first and in the middle of the cutscene at the beginning, in the tutorial, my monitor lost signal. :/ I'm playing with High settings now, and most of the other visual settings on, and it's constant 60 fps. The optimisation is amazing.

And the menus... I love them.

[Vibe]

You guys using KB/M or controller?

[Xant]

Best part for me so far has been combat. Ten times better than TW2 and the first bossfight played and looked good and was intuitive

[Molly]

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Everything except HairWorks on - that one just eats my frames, hardly surprising on a Ati - and the rest all on high... keeps frames between 40 and 50 for me. I'm happy

Playing with controller and it feels good so far. Sometimes a bit clunky tho, it's kinda weird once every 5 minutes for a sec... dunno... dun really care... loving it already... found the frying pan... ez...

Atmosphere is awesome with the wind in the bushes, trees aching, twigs breaking, wolves howling now and then...

[Overdriven]

Can't help but think the trees and grass look terrible though.