The official Witcher 3 thread

Frankly I am sick and tired of the gender equality and race card bullshit. The game is made the way it was made by the developers and the way they foresaw their creativity. Get over it, it's a fucking game!

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Originally Posted by BeoTeK

Frankly I am sick and tired of the gender equality and race card bullshit. The game is made the way it was made by the developers and the way they foresaw their creativity. Get over it, it's a fucking game!

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For some people everything is political and must have an agenda... :/

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Originally Posted by StaggerLee

For those of you who haven't played or finished the first two games, or even if you have and just want a recap:

http://kotaku.com/a-beginner-s-guide...her-1704506152

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this recap is really good. i enjoy the playful style of writing :) and the level of info and detail is spot on.

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Originally Posted by Hiro

this recap is really good. i enjoy the playful style of writing :) and the level of info and detail is spot on.

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I also thought it's quite a good recap. They don't into unnecessary detail but give you all the info you need to understand the background.

Kotaku had a piece on the Dragon Age story that I found really useful having not played any of the previous DA games.

[MENTION=96]Isengard[/MENTION]

What the status of your Takealot order? Mine still shows the release date as the old one in February. I would've thought they'd be getting ready to ship by now.

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Originally Posted by The_Imp_ZA

[MENTION=96]Isengard[/MENTION]

What the status of your Takealot order? Mine still shows the release date as the old one in February. I would've thought they'd be getting ready to ship by now.

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It's currently showing as 'Ordered from supplier'. I expect it will go to 'Ready to ship' on Monday morning.

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Originally Posted by The_Imp_ZA

I'm probably the most hyped out of everyone here, and I agree with most of this. There's obvious differences between the 2014 35-minute footage and the final build, in terms of global lighting, water and vegetation. There's an interview which I can't find, where the lead technical designer says they had to cut global illumination, and replaced it with a system they built in house which mimics it. Really sucks because I don't think we'll be getting proper global illumination on a multi-platform title, this gen. The tech looks so good!

On the flip side, this has cost them at least 30 million USD to make, after all the delays. They need the money from the console versions, so they can't come out and say that it's their fault that these things were scrapped. I don't think it's as bad a situation as Watch Dogs, and I don't think they aimed to mislead people. Ironically, TW2 actually got better looking as they developed it. I think they were just over ambitious.

Regardless, the game still looks gorgeous. In comparison to earlier footage though, it does look worse. I think once they've finished all the expansions and released the Enhanced Edition, that the game will actually look better than it does now. If DX12 is even half as good as people are saying it's going to be, there's a chance they might be able to add some of the cut features back in, on PC anyway. That, or the mods will do it.

Honestly, I'm not going to be giving two shits about this when I'm playing the game. It's getting almost unanimous praise, which makes me very happy.

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Look I know I'm gonna enjoy the game a lot, I've spent a small fortunate getting my pc ready for this game.
It's just a worry to see that at the end of the day pretty much all developers are going this route including my beloved CDPR.

As far as DX12 goes, I'm not sure it'll make much or any difference, because developers will still continue to make content for the lowest denominator. People ask me why I hate consoles and the answer is simple, I don't hate consoles I hate Sony and Microsoft...They throw money at developers just so the games look the same on each platform and as far as I'm concerned that is holding the gaming industry back.

So yeah FUCK YOU Microsoft and FUCK YOU Sony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLCy_FgAWqE

Found this review to be very good. And man I'm getting hyped as fuck for this...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-H3VTmhLQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfweWkMFQs

I made the mistake of going to check out my CE today. So damn beautiful (and massive). Made the wait worse for myself.