Set to be announced in March's issue of Game Informer magazine. The game will run on CDRed Engine 3, will feature a map 20% larger than that of Skyrim, and it will release on "all top-of-the-line consoles." General belief is it'll be PC, PS4, and the next Xbox.
http://gamingeverything.com/39177/witcher-3-confirmed-is-next-gen-featured-in-game-informer/
I wonder if this will be the first actual next gen game. I'm still playing through the Witcher 2, one thing I am hoping for is that the combat is overhauled. It's kind of annoying in TW2. I have no doubt that I'll enjoy this more than Skyrim though. Can't wait.
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- 96 animations for Geralt’s combat moves (last game had 20)
- Combat system: three big changes to solve the problem of being locked into long animations
- Every button prss mapped to a single strike
- Each move takes a roughly equivalent time to perforom
- Can always interrupt your current action to immediately dodge or block
- Can block/dodge when out of stamina, but you’ll be staggered
- Team wants to make the combat “more intimate”
- “You don’t run – in the Witcher 2 you were running constantly. You walk, but your attacks are very fast. Your opponents also walk but they have charges and things like that.”
- Geralt’s dodge roll replaced by a pivot move
- It retains its defensive utility without game-breaking mobility
- Attacks faster than in The Witcher 2
- Enemy AI completely rebuilt
I am very happy.
This is great, CD Project Red has been pretty much the only studio that I was always happy to support since the witcher 1.
I hope the witcher 3 can gain at least half the amount of numbers that skyrim did. I doubt it will be as much since not having character creation limits your audience quite a bit I feel like.
Also I'm very much looking forward to the resolving of the witcher 2's storyline or rather my storyline.
Really? I've never heard of character creation limiting fanbase. Only thing I can think of is the whole allowing to choose between male and female, but that doesn't limit fanbase, just gives fans grounds to bitch over what gender the protagonist REALLY is. Such as with Mass Effect. (as awesome as FemShep is, John Shepard is the canon) I don't know of any gamer who'd outright refuse to play a game cause it lacks character creation. I know there's misogynistic assholes out there who refuse to play games where you play as a female, but I refuse to acknowledge them.
^ I believe it does that said I only have circumstantial evidence, many of my female friends have played skyrim due it having a lot of sims like aspects. They loved the extensive character creation and later realisation of what they wanted to be in that big open world. What kept them going was pretty much their connection and attachment with their own character.
I doubt they'd be interested in witcher 3. I very much doubt geralt can compete with the appeal of everyone's personal avatar.
Also worth mentioning is that most of them aren't actually very big gamers as in playing every big game of the year. Skyrim had for various reasons a lot of reach to a lot of people that nobody thought it could have.
I've heard that "looking at Skyrim etc…" comment for more than a single company now. (Which, doesn't upset me at all, just making an observation). CD Pro. just said it for The Witcher 3, and BioWare has said it for Dragon Age III.
How did you all find Witcher 2 as a game?
Like I said in my earlier post, I'm actually playing through it right now. The only thing I have an issue with is the combat, which is getting overhauled for this game. Having a skill tree instead of actual stats isn't really to my liking either but it's fine still. I like the atmosphere and character interactions.
I loved it, while I recognize that the game has a lot of systems that are pretty inaccessable. Many of my friends dreaded the first 5-10 hours until they got enough points into their trees. After that they loved it mostly because the quests were incredibly well done as were the choices.
Common complaint was that in the beginning the combat is way to restricted also that it's often very confusing to know where to go for quests(man people gotten to used to quest arrows always pointing to the right place…). Ah, I also played in on my pc(mouse and keyboard) which was capable of running it at max settings on my old tft monitor.
As for the skyrim thing, witcher 3 seems to try to take away the open world and that makes to me a lot more sense for the evolution of the witcher games than for dragon age. In the witcher you're mostly alone with the occasional companion travelling with you in dragon age you have a party of 4 that are very much vital to the experience, that makes designing for open world a very different beast. If DA 3 can pull open world off(although I don't think that they stated that they wanted to go that way) with that I'm going to be very impressed. GTA5 seems to try to do something very different in that space but with a similar underlying concept.
Here's some screenshots: http://www.swiftpic.net/511199fa9e6ec3.72684051
Looks like a small bit of improvement over TW2, but not an amazing amount. I'm still impressed they're able to keep this graphical level while being open world and all the mechanics they're putting into the game. I'm pretty sure this is maxed out with ubersampling on though, so almost nobody is going to be able to play the game at this level when it comes out.
^ Well it's not like TW2 looks old by now, on a capable pc its visuals still trump I dare say 95%(pulling numbers out of my ass of course but if it gets the point across) of all the current titles. So I'm fine with marginal improvements.
Also you often have to see the stuff in motion to really get how it looks. Many titles look twice(or even more) as good when in motion.
Excited for sure. I got Witcher 2 on 360 and played it for a few hours but I had other stuff on my plate. Since I recently got a pimp-ass gaming PC I just snagged the $10 sale on Steam, hoping to dive back in soon.
I bought Witcher 2, was very impressed with the world and the polish, but I had problems with the gameplay. I'm not sure that's a criticism of the Witcher as much as it is my own adaptability, though. There was also an oddness to the flow of the quests–it was almost like Skyrim quest structures in a much less open world--but they were still pretty decent.
It was pushing my PC when I played it, so unless I'm rebuilding in the near future, probably have to pass on this for now.
The biggest complaint about The Witcher from most IS the gameplay.
Okay, a lot of my friends work at CD Projekt RED. The one thing I hate about current games is the lack of expressions! I was SO happy when I saw the first trailer for Street Fighter IV, I hoped other companies would see that showing your characters emotions on his face can vastly improve the feel of the game. And what do I see many years later? Yeah, Skyrim was almost unplayable for me (I'm a huge fan of RPG, but it looked like I was the only one role-playing in Skyrim), and I see the same about Witcher 3 (look at Geralt when the horse stands up). It's only one character, the MAIN character, at least make HIM show some emotions.
Also - did any of you read the books? They are pure classic fantasy here, The Witcher books and The Hobbit were probably the main things that got anyone interested in fantasy or Dungeons & Dragons in Poland. I only heard that they translated them into english after the first game, is that right?
They seem to be changing the combat quite a bit which makes me happy. Having more animations, changing the roll into a pirohuette, apparently being able to target specific areas of your enemy, not having Geralt run around like a retard during battle, etc. Should be much better.
@Aru:
Okay, a lot of my friends work at CD Projekt RED. The one thing I hate about current games is the lack of expressions! I was SO happy when I saw the first trailer for Street Fighter IV, I hoped other companies would see that showing your characters emotions on his face can vastly improve the feel of the game. And what do I see many years later? Yeah, Skyrim was almost unplayable for me (I'm a huge fan of RPG, but it looked like I was the only one role-playing in Skyrim), and I see the same about Witcher 3 (look at Geralt when the horse stands up). It's only one character, the MAIN character, at least make HIM show some emotions.
I find it weird too that facial features and emotions aren't more common. Source games have always done it best, HL2 was released in 2004 and still has some of the best facial animations in the industry. And that's all hand animated, not mocapped.
Yeah, I have a huge problem with that. It's actually perfect that after Street Fighter X Tekken we'll get a Tekken X Street Fighter. We can see then the SF characters without any emotions and see how much of a change it is, I loved the animations of guys from Tekken in SFxT.
And now? When you create a huge game and you only have one main guy? It's perfect to show emotions! We have freaking space-technology-computers in our cellphones and we still have the same expressionless characters opening their mouths like we did 10 years ago? Oh come on!
So yeah, I still didn't finish The Witcher, The Witcher 2 also waits (bought it at Gog.com) so I can't really tell how well they did imitate Sapkowski's style. One thing I know is that he himself doesn't consider these canon and actually hates them a little and how many people started to read his books because of the game. But he's an ass, so I'll just have to play the game and see for myself if CD Projekt is good enough to emulate Sapkowski's assness.
@Aru:
And now? When you create a huge game and you only have one main guy? It's perfect to show emotions! We have freaking space-technology-computers in our cellphones and we still have the same expressionless characters opening their mouths like we did 10 years ago? Oh come on!
Thankfully for PC players, some pretty talented modders actually got this covered. Albiet, not perfect, but still pretty cool
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I suppose Bethesda expected most players to just stick with 1st person, they probably didn't put much investment into expressions aside from exaggerated arm movements.
Bethesda doesn't put much investment into anything.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/02/08/designing-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt.aspx
Interview with some of the devs with a little bit more info. No level scaling, which a lot of people hated in Skyrim and really seem to hate in general, and there's apparently going to be 3 entirely different epilogues. What this means I don't know but I imagine it will be similar to in TW2 how in the middle of the game you made a choice and depending on which choice you made (with two decisions), the game split into two different second and third parts. I don't know if it's going to be as involved as that but I imagine it'll be similar. It really seems like they're taking everything they've learned from TW2 and fixing it in TW3, also taking fans into consideration.
http://thenexusnews.com/the-witcher-3-announcement-intimidates-ea-bioware-and-dragon-age-iii/853568/
I'm not sure how credible this site is but it's a funny thought nonetheless.
Good! Work faster Bioware and push out DA3 asap! Lord knows we all loved Skyrim's quest breaking glitches. Maybe you too can produce something so glitch ridden that even Bethesda would blush in shame.
Seriously though? I don't think Bioware has anything to worry about in terms of competing with Witcher 3. As great as Witcher is, Bioware has the Dragon Age name going behind it and that'll at least guarantee a healthy amount of sales.
Eh. I'd say it guarantees a certain amount of sales, but certainly not the amount that DA2 got. Most of DA2's sales came from preorders based on DAO's reputation especially since there wasn't too much gameplay shown of DA2 before its release. Then, we take into account DA2's sales plummeted once the first week was up and its poorer reputation overall. As it is, DA3 pretty much has to stand on its own legs to get its sales.
The witcher vs dragon age discussion is stupid, so utterly idiotic… I'm sorry but I lived through that shit when I thought it was a good idea to hang around the bioware forums... so I can't really laugh about it.
In any case 2014 does not mean 2014. I don't think we know what quarter the witcher was announced for(or maybe I just forgot)? So that report doesn't seem credible, especially the way how it reports the stuff.
Pretty excited about this game looks like ciri is going to show up.
No need to mention Dragon age that series is a lost cause after DA2 so now they are going to just ape everything that's popular now.
with their track record I respect everything that is said, that said a lot of statements here could be very dangerous with the wrong perspective.
Bethesda doesn't put much investment into anything.
Cool story, bro! (Even though it's complete bullcrap).
Apparently they're doing something right. Otherwise, BioWare wouldn't want to take A LOT of inspiration from them (Skyrim) for Dragon Age III, and CD-Red for The Witcher III.
Bethesda has put more effort into one of their games then BioWare has put into any of their games in the last 5 years. (We're BioWare! Lets take a stock image from Google, tweak it a bit, and make it Tali's face–one of the most beloved characters in the Mass Effect series! Let's have a deus ex machina, space magic ending to Mass Effect 3 because we backed ourselves into a corner due to crappy storytelling)!
I like how every open world type RPG game is being compared to Skyrim.
I like how every open world type RPG game is being compared to Skyrim.
Don't know. Just know CD-Red and BioWare said they are taking inspiration from it for The Witcher III and Dragon Age III respectively. Not sure why either (probably because of the critical response it received, and the profits it took in).
What inspiration is CDPR taking from Skyrim? The only thing they've really said about it is that their world is larger. Unless you're talking about how they're snow and stuff in TW3, which is how that part of the world in the book is described. I had an image that I saved showing that some of the tables in Skyrim are just bookshelves buried in the ground but I can't seem to find it at the moment. And on top of that pretty much ever TES game is released with the intention of letting the community fix Bethesda's shit.
And also, CDPR has confirmed that TW3 is PC lead (in the Twitter screenshot below), and that it won't appear on this gen's consoles, which is also on Twitter if you want to check. No word yet if a WiiU version is planned.
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The amount of ignorance of some of these skyrim statements makes my head hurt…
As for what kind of inspiration they might take, first of all talking about inspiration feels a lot like a misnomer (look the word up to see what I mean), but seriously it's not hard to see that there is a lot to learn from looking at the game.
For example map/terrain design, density of point of interests(cities, ruins and what not), how ai behaves, how weather is set up and organic soundtrack change when travelling and a houndred other things that designers take notice of that I don't.
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Cool story, bro! (Even though it's complete bullcrap). Apparently they're doing something right. Otherwise, BioWare wouldn't want to take A LOT of inspiration from them (Skyrim) for Dragon Age III, and CD-Red for The Witcher III. Bethesda has put more effort into one of their games then BioWare has put into any of their games in the last 5 years. (We're BioWare! Lets take a stock image from Google, tweak it a bit, and make it Tali's face–one of the most beloved characters in the Mass Effect series! Let's have a deus ex machina, space magic ending to Mass Effect 3 because we backed ourselves into a corner due to crappy storytelling)
More like their head writer for ME left so they either had to retcon things out (like the original reason for the Reapers invasions) or create something new on the fly which I don't consider the Crucible or Star Child to be a by product of. Petty criticisms of Mass Effect 3 aside I can't wait for this game or more details concerning certain aspects of the game itself.
A few new screenshots, though at pretty terrible resolutions. We should be getting better ones soon since there's supposed to be a magazine article about it soon I think.
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So was this ever confirmed to be coming to PS4?
Yep, it was confirmed since the announcement of the PS4. Still hasn't been confirmed for the Xbone though. It's most likely going to be on it as well though.
I just remembered I had W2 GOTY Edition for 360 so if this has save carry-over I might actually have to buy an XBOne…..well shit
I don't see how they'd be able to do that since the Xbone has no backwards compatibility at all. CDPR releasing something allowing the save game to transfer themselves would be the only way I see that happening. I can't remember if transferring saves is in the game at all actually. I'll have to go look for some info on that.
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http://www.shacknews.com/article/78032/witcher-3-to-support-save-game-imports
Looks like save importing is in for limited changes but it's only confirmed for PC at the moment, and like I said above I don't know how it would work on the Xbone.
^Would be pretty awkward if it weren't.
If what wasn't? Save importing in general or it not being on the Xbone version?
Well both but if transferring the saves weren't possible on the XBone I wouldn't mind much, game looks way too good to pass up.
Well if the console isn't backwards compatible there's really no reason to have a way to transfer saves over to the console and if you can't do that I don't know how you're going to be able to import it into the game. In any case it's not going to change much anyway.
Damn, it's always a great thing for me to read anything about Geralt on other forums than polish. I mean - The Witcher book series was our countrys pride and joy as far as fantasy goes, I don't know the quality of the translation of the books, but I heard after the release of the games some people did indeed read them and enjoyed Geralts adventures.
I can't wait for W3, CD Projekt was always about PCs and they were always telling people the truth, so it seems I'll be sticking to the PC version of Witcher and not buy one for PS4. Funny thing how I can play any game on a console, but if it's an open world RPG - I'll always stick to the PC because of the mods and graphic quality.
I am truely grateful of getting Witcher 2, not only it was an amazing game but more importantly it introduced me to whole Witcher saga, the whole setting on world of Geralt is amazing. I had to knew more so day after I got witcher 2 I went to local library and borrowed both Sword of Destiny and The Last Wish. Finnish translation was amazing and finnish translator was awarded in Poland for great translation and books were truely something else.
Now I have been reading fantasy books all my life but Witcher books were worlds apart, while most fantasy is directed to teens and younger people, the witcher books took much more mature approach and whole setting, dialogue and charecters are much more realistic and crisp. After reading those two books who were collections of small chapters of Geralt's life as witcher I finally saw first book of Ciri's saga series. It was first book of longer coherent story line of Witcher and I had to buy it when I saw it.
Elven Blood was easily best fantasy book I have read for a few years and perhaps best book aswell. Ciri is my absolute favorite charecter and how her was portrayed in books made her so much fun to read, not that other charecters such as Geralt,Yennefer, Dandelion or rest were any bad either quite the contrary I really love them all. Now finally at this summer second part of saga is coming translated, Age of despise and boy if I am not excited about it, I already reserved it and I cant wait to get my hands on it.
Witcher 2 of course spoiled some events to me since Witcher games are happening after Second Nilfgaard invasion whitch is happening in Ciri saga. I dont know why there was no mention of Ciri at Witcher 2 but I have to wait for books to learn what have been happened.
Of course there should be 4-5 books out as other languages but I dont want to spoil myself, I dont mind reading books in english but this time translation is so good so I want to read them first at finnish even though I dont need subtitles when I watch english movies.
Bravó Sapkowski… bravo indeed.
New trailer. Prerendered unfortunately.
I'd watch the shit out of a movie with fight scenes like that.
I just love how he spares one of the guys and basically leaves it up to her to decide what to do with him as a test of character. So that he can know whether he did the right thing or not. God I love this game.
HOW COME LUFFY NEVER KILLS AN ENEMY?
ODA:ITS BECAUSE IN THAT ERA EVERYONE USES THEIR LIVES TO FIGHT FOR THEIR DREAMS. FOR AN ENEMY WHEN THEIR DREAM HAS BEEN SHATTERED,IT IS AS PAINFUL AS DEATH,I BELIEVE FOR A PIRATE NOT TO KILL AN ENEMY , IT'S GIVING THEM A SECOND CHANCE TO FIGHT FOR THEIR DREAMS.
I just love how he spares one of the guys and basically leaves it up to her to decide what to do with him as a test of character. So that he can know whether he did the right thing or not. God I love this game.
Um, I don't think that's quite right…
I just love how he spares one of the guys and basically leaves it up to her to decide what to do with him as a test of character. So that he can know whether he did the right thing or not. God I love this game.
Pretty sure he hung the guy himself and just left with that girl still standing there stunned.
Sure she can cut him down if she wants, but doubt Geralt cares.
Geralt was not interfering until they abandonded simply hanging her and wanted to torture her instead… so it too much for Geralt and he interfered. But if they would just simply hanged her then he would just rided on.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v602797805cJnEDbP
Some leaked gameplay footage. I love the strong wind blowing the trees, and it looks like most water reflects things, which is pretty rare. Swordplay looks pretty good, though I'll have to wait till better quality video and more fighting to say for sure whether it's a straight upgrade from TW2.
Hang in there, Kierkegaard.
