I've been lurking here for a while, but might as well start posting. hey guys
what made me go "wow" was when geralt was walking in the swamp, the plants seemed to move as he walked through them. I don't see that too frequently in other games and it's a really important detail in making the world more immersive.
Welcome to the forums! I recently joined after lurking for a few years myself. I also noticed that certain Flora reacts when Geralt comes into contact.You are correct,it is not as common in games as one would hope for or think. A really cool detail that without a doubt adds to the realism and immersion.
I know some people aren't into gore, but I must say I was quite excited by the attention to detail when the drowner's blood interacted with the water. Again, the facial animations are amazing, I can't get enough of it.
I loved that as well.There was another detail involving the blood that impressed me. I imagine it will be even better by release - It took a few times watching this clip,slowing the play speed down to notice that the blood also gets on Geralt's boots, legs & hair while dodging in between the drowners in the water.
There was a similar effect in Witcher 2, I do not remember it interacting like that before except on Geralt's face,If it was there in W2 someone please correct me and let me know, I may have somehow missed it or I'm officially going blind :geek:
IIRC, I watched the same swamps clip played out a little bit differently - when igni was used there was fire on bodies,the ground and on a tree. when Geralt uses the area of effect Aard sign in the water it splashes extinguishing the fire! Little details like that truly add so much to the game.
It seems like they are going all in,leaving no stone unturned with Witcher 3. Agreed, the dialogues and facial animations look superb! They are some of the best I've ever seen.
I must add that the brief glimpse that we saw of the main menu screen looks gorgeous. I will assume it will either follow a similar style like Witcher 2, displaying different menu background images depending on where we are located or they very well might be random.
Curious what the achievements will be all about? Looks like the tutorial will be either separate to the game or that you will be able to replay it.
I am sincerely hoping that the settings will include the graphics setting options in-game! That would be perfect! It was a pain exiting/loading to change graphic settings.A little inconvenient but more so it just made it difficult to compare the changes you made.
Another interesting thing I recently noticed - Immediately after the menu screen, at the start in the swamps if you pause at the right moment you will notice it is a different time of day. I made out Full moon and underneath it shows what appears to be 20+ damage and Lessmeen/iessmeen....Thought Leshen at first but doesn't look like it. BTW is that area beneath time of day/weather - The trophy buff / monster quest you are currently on?or the type of monster likely to be in the area? Those are my 3 guesses,anyone know for sure if it's been confirmed what that is exactly?
You get to see a very small glimpse of the differences in time of day and how it affects the atmosphere.
If anyone has not seen what I am talking about here is the link ,pause between 0:55-0:56.
* If this has already been talked about and shown,My apologies in advance.
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