He told he started on normal and upped it to the next level 25% into the game.
Kotaku said that as well. Kevin's recommended fix is playing on a higher difficulty level than you were planning too. So I guess I will do that.
That's actually pretty common with review copies too. They usually are not the version that gets shipped.
That is not the case. IIRC they said a few months ago that permanent death is a toggle option when you start a new game, not it's own difficulty.
I doubt it. What is or isn't a "fetch quest" is largely subjective. To a degree, every quest in every RPG ever is a fetch quest. But what makes them interesting is the coating around them. For some RPGs it's because you're role-playing a character, for others it's the combat system, for others it's the story. For The Witcher 3 it should be a mix of all three.
Thanks for the clarification, I must have missed that
That's the deal with glitches; the ones that have survived to the review build of the game are those that aren't consistent. Some people get them, others don't, based purely on luck and some obscure actions on the player's part that are hard to track and figure out. So someone can go through the game almost glitch-free, while someone else runs into every single game-breaker there is.
Same thoughts as well. Going to be running around the country side completing side quests & general sandboxing, upscaling should of been done for the main quest only if anything so if you run around the country side before the main quest it wouldn't seem so 'watered down' when you do it.
Also, I wonder how much more over-powered than the main quest-line you get to be if you reach 50+, even on Death March. Not that I'm too fussed since I'm confident they'll be plenty of high level monsters and quests
I wouldn't put too much stock in that. Vince obviously came into the series on TW2 and likes that game the best. This is his opening paragraph.Don't know if anyone posted it in here but:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/05/12/the-witcher-3-the-wild-hunt-review
Personally, I didn't like TW2's story as much as TW1 (I could care less for a briskly paced story with linear quest structure that doesn't take the time to set up it's themes for people who haven't read the books.) I'm sure TW3's story will be fine. It's just not based on heavy-handed politics like TW2. Now that I think about, Vince is probably a huge Game Of Thrones fan and wishes TW3 had more in common with that series.
In my own personal universe I think of glitches and bugs differently. Glitches are usually bizarre visual or sound effects that crop in every open world game ever. Bugs are things that break gameplay, like consistently spawning in a tree or not getting the right loot after a quest, or worse. One I can live with (in moderation) the other needs to be fixed. There is just nothing like a million people playing your game to dig up every little blemish.
I haven't read every review, but so far that is the only one I've seen say that. Usually the opposite. Has this come up in other reviews?
The definition of 'fetch' quest is highly subjective. If you stripped away enough context, any 'quest' in an RPG can be whittled down to a 'fetch' quest. What we've seen here today is that many reviewers have different opinions about the content of questing in the witcher ('fetch' vs meaningful). I take this to mean that the quests are indeed substantial, but how much you value them is based on how involved you are with the context of the quest. So you have reviewers like Kevin VanOrd who got deeply immersed in the ambiance of the game, therefor loved the questing. And on the other hand, other reviewers did not allow themselves to be immersed, or just genuinely find them interesting.
I think our ign reviewer may have confused two concepts: the structure in which the quest is given, and the content of the quest itself. For me it doesn't matter that much if the quest is given in the formula of "do this for me" as long as what I actually DO for him/her is intriguing and complex. Quests like this may have a similar starting formula as a fetch quest, but are definitely not fetch quests in their contents. That ign guy equivocated "fetch quests" with "doing favor for people" which are very different ideas.
Wasn't that the review from the editor of Playstation Uk? I wouldn't put any stock in that review at all and the people in the comments said as much too.
