Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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CD Project Red relased a Cinematic Launch Trailer for this game. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-l29HlKkXUIn other Witcher 3 news, The Telegraph, a british newspaper, has a review 5/5 for this game. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/vi...ally-dense.htmlA small excerpt: If you pay attention, there’s foreshadowing everywhere, Chekov’s guns waiting to go off, if you would only investigate in the right direction. And investigation is a large part of what makes Wild Hunt so compelling. Not only in the mechanical ‘Witcher Sense’, which focuses the camera over Geralt’s shoulder and highlights clues in a lurid red, but also in terms of tracking down leads and gathering information. Where previously a monster hunt would be just a marker sending you to the location of your target, and then the consequent fight, now they’re murder mysteries, with the first task often being to figure out exactly what you’re dealing with. Destructoid also has a review 8/10 for this game, please follow this link: http://www.destructoid.com/review-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-291344.phtmlA quote: In general, choices feel like they carry more weight in The Wild Hunt, and the characters are more fleshed out as a whole. I felt like the second game had way too many "Would you like to do option A or option B?" black and white choices, but the third iteration brings back some of the ambiguity from the original. There is immediacy to your decisions, but there are lasting consequences in some cases, with individuals that I actually cared about. I like Ciri in particular, and was inspired to press on to find out what happened to her. More importantly, the game is designed as a large collective of little choices compared to a few sweeping options in The Witcher 2. Having a bit of control over nearly every aspect of your personal story is a much more desirable design. Now I'm worried that my 1½ year old computer might not be strong enough to play this game....
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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Well I am downloading Witcher 3 as I type this. It is a huge download, almost 22 GB. GOG had a pre-download and it's been downloading now for about 8 hours and I'm only 50 percent finished. Maybe when I wake in the morning it will be finished. I've read that it's 35 times bigger than Witcher 2. My machine meets the requirements but my GeForce GTX 660 barely squeeks by with the minimum so I'll see how it plays. Here's hoping. Here is some interesting info on the game.
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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I'm taking my exterior drive in to my grandson's where they have a smoking fast internet connection. This would take as long as 2 weeks for me.
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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Sounds like a good idea, Drac. Let us know how it plays for you, Oldman.
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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Well it is downloaded and installed and I've played through the tutorial. I've been to the first town and done a couple of quests and the game is playing fine on my machine so far.
The controls are pretty much the same as in Witcher 2 and the graphics are really great. I'm not sure how difficult the combat will get but so far I've been able to survive (and I'm pretty much of a combat wuss).
There will be a lot to learn for me in this game like potions and leveling up etc that I haven't gotten to yet. I was so used to and familiar with the original witcher system of all that. Oh well, I guess I'll get it learned.
Should be a really good game but I'd rather have the controls of the first Witcher with the graphics of this one. But then again I'm an old dog that has difficulty learning new tricks.
Oh and I understand that I'll be running into Dandelion and Triss later on and maybe some more of the original cast. Looking forward to that.
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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Eurogamer has written a review of The Witcher, calling it 'essential. Please follow this link: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-18-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-reviewA quote: There's a bigger picture than that, though: simply living the life of an itinerant monster hunter, plying his trade across a vast and richly drawn fantasy kingdom. There is - and this is where it stands head and shoulders, I feel, above the vast majority of open-word games - no part of The Witcher 3 that doesn't play into this fantasy in a meaningful and entertaining way. There's nothing that feels tacked on (apart, perhaps, from the perfunctory horse races); no map icon that turns out to be nothing more than a collectable doodad, no system that is just a free-spinning hamster-wheel of makework. Quite a nice review, I find
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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Now that I'm further into the game, I'm really liking it. I still haven't mastered how to get the ingredients for potions and even figure out what are needed but I guess it will come.
I just finished a quest where I needed a boat and it took me the longest time to figure out how to steer. There was no help in options and I couldn't find anything in the manual or on line and, finally, with experimentation, I discovered that the arrow keys were the answer.
Afterwards had a nice little romp with a witch called Keira and had to answer carefully to keep from killing her after. There are choices constantly in this game that change outcomes instantly.
I got my game from GOG and the manual that you download is really lacking in info.
The graphics in this game are so good and gameplay has been flawless I'm really impressed. Still miss easy potion making and leveling up in the original Witcher but over all this game is so much better than Witcher 2.
Got a lot of gameplay ahead and several side quests to get to so guess I'll get going.
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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Thanks Debra I finally figured it out. I have bombs made and swallow and tawny owl. One of the nice things about this game is that once you have a formula made every time you meditate it fills all your potions up as long as you have alcohol.
It's like everything else it seems complicated until you figure it out and then you wonder at how easy it really is.
I'm moving right along. I've met Triss, although we haven't gotten "close" yet and I'm getting closer to finding Dandelion. A lot of the characters from previous Witchers are showing up in this game.
The more I get into this game the more I'm liking it.
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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CD Project Red has released patch 1.04 for this game for PC. Here a few of the changes: -Rebinding of all keys is now available after switching on the ‘Unlock Bindings’ option in the Options\Key Bindings submenu.
-Corrects an issue in the dialogue system that might have caused dialogue looping in certain scenes.
-Fixes an issue with incorrect behavior of Wild Hunt warriors after they were affected by the Axii Sign.
-Corrects a bug that caused spontaneous combustion of gas clouds.
-1280 x 720 resolution is now properly displayed as a valid resolution option.
-Fixes boat stuttering in cutscenes.
-Texture rendering quality for the high and ultra presets has been improved.
-Further improvements made in NVIDIA Hairworks performance.
-A few additional gwent cards are now available in the Prologue area.
source: http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/40585-Patch-1-04-for-PC-out-now! The whole changelog can also be viewed here. CD Project Red has also released 2 of the 15 free DLCs for this game: A new mission is now available for free download, as is the alternate character appearance. The first is a new contract quest titled Missing Miners, while the other is an alternative look for Yennefer, seen in the image above.The mission description is pretty straightforward, telling us that miners from a small Skellige village are disappearing. Geralt agrees to investigate, and it's up to the player to take it from there. source: http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/24877...w-available.htmFrom different sources it seems that there will be an expansion released in October 2015.
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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Thanks, Karsten. Exciting!
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Re: Witcher 3 Launch Cinematic Trailer and 2 reviews
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I think I've read somewhere that it seems the whole .exe (i.e. the whole game) has been overwritten. Which means something like this could happen? Oldman, can't you load up a save game before you've installed the patch?
Do you mean that you installed the patch 1.04? and the two free dlcs? I tried a previous save and the runes were gone in it as well and the good steel sword I had has disappeared. I had installed the 1.04 and actually 4 free DLCs. I was planning on starting a new game anyway to catch up on things I'd missed on the first go around so this seemed like a good time to do it and I'm now back at level 6 again and working my way forward carefully. I did back up all my saves from the game I quit though.
You laugh because I'm different I laugh because you're all the same
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