EGX 2014 Witcher 3
We came early and saw the first showing of the Witcher. We were one of the first people in the que but sill had to wait around 45 minutes to see the presention. Room was big maybe 100 people were inside at one time even. It was the same 35 minutes video as recently shown on Youtube. Not sure if it was the same game built version. Damien sister was sitting in the corner of the stage with 360 controller. She definitly played it before and knew what to do and when.. It was a fun well presented demo.
Damien was funny. He pose for the camera showing of his back side.
We spoke for few minutes after the demo, I told him this pic will end up on the forum so there it is
( you guys can use it as you wish, I don't think he will mind)
DEMO:
There was a moment when you meet "Tree Spirit" Damien asked everyone should we kill it or let it live.. I shouted as much as I could from the front row to let it live (just to see what would happen next) but he still went with kill it option.
One of the things I havent seen before was one dialog option when you first talk to "Johnny" and he asked you to follow him. Other option was chosen, Geralt talked about things like "it must be hard to live in this area, with big monsters running around swamps" and Johnny flexed is muscles and mimicked "I am a big monster" (small funny moment)
Damien said few things while presentation was taking place:
When you start the game you can basically run everywhere when you are level 2 big monsters like "fiend" will definitely kill you. Also The big tree in the distance shown in the Griffin video.. he didn't want to spoil anything but said there is something big out there but you dont want to go there until you are around level 15-17. And every time you kill one of the big monsters you can expect to find some sort of reward for the efford. Animals can be Axii and they will follow you like pets, not sure if all animals or just things like chickens or gooses.
I've notice few glitchy things in the demo.
- Water didn't render ...well. When Geralt entered the Novigrad on the horse, puddle on the ground was still rendering and water didnt look as smooth as it should be.
- Camera locks and you loose sight of the target if you side step quickly in cirlces, I think there was glips of that in the YT video when you fight Werewolf (it makes you almost face Geralts front and combat might becomes difficult for one sec)
- Gooses are still made out of iron (stops Geralt from running, sort of invisible wall... be we knew that already)
- Crossbow focus shot isn't final or at least doesn't feels that way, It looks difficult to aim at something if its not directly in front of you or if it moves fast. Maybe it would be more practicle to just shoot things when you lock on at the target without focus/bullet time.
- Also when Geralt was aiming at Hyrpies camera glitched once and it went under Geralt feet (under surface)
Nevertheless it was a great presentation. Everyone loved the demo applaud afterword and congratulated Damien doing great job.
We received gifts: 1x poster each and 1x Witcher clip. ( I really wanted the t-shirt but it was for staff only )
We came early and saw the first showing of the Witcher. We were one of the first people in the que but sill had to wait around 45 minutes to see the presention. Room was big maybe 100 people were inside at one time even. It was the same 35 minutes video as recently shown on Youtube. Not sure if it was the same game built version. Damien sister was sitting in the corner of the stage with 360 controller. She definitly played it before and knew what to do and when.. It was a fun well presented demo.
Damien was funny. He pose for the camera showing of his back side.
We spoke for few minutes after the demo, I told him this pic will end up on the forum so there it is
( you guys can use it as you wish, I don't think he will mind)
DEMO:
There was a moment when you meet "Tree Spirit" Damien asked everyone should we kill it or let it live.. I shouted as much as I could from the front row to let it live (just to see what would happen next) but he still went with kill it option.
One of the things I havent seen before was one dialog option when you first talk to "Johnny" and he asked you to follow him. Other option was chosen, Geralt talked about things like "it must be hard to live in this area, with big monsters running around swamps" and Johnny flexed is muscles and mimicked "I am a big monster" (small funny moment)
Damien said few things while presentation was taking place:
When you start the game you can basically run everywhere when you are level 2 big monsters like "fiend" will definitely kill you. Also The big tree in the distance shown in the Griffin video.. he didn't want to spoil anything but said there is something big out there but you dont want to go there until you are around level 15-17. And every time you kill one of the big monsters you can expect to find some sort of reward for the efford. Animals can be Axii and they will follow you like pets, not sure if all animals or just things like chickens or gooses.
I've notice few glitchy things in the demo.
- Water didn't render ...well. When Geralt entered the Novigrad on the horse, puddle on the ground was still rendering and water didnt look as smooth as it should be.
- Camera locks and you loose sight of the target if you side step quickly in cirlces, I think there was glips of that in the YT video when you fight Werewolf (it makes you almost face Geralts front and combat might becomes difficult for one sec)
- Gooses are still made out of iron (stops Geralt from running, sort of invisible wall... be we knew that already)
- Crossbow focus shot isn't final or at least doesn't feels that way, It looks difficult to aim at something if its not directly in front of you or if it moves fast. Maybe it would be more practicle to just shoot things when you lock on at the target without focus/bullet time.
- Also when Geralt was aiming at Hyrpies camera glitched once and it went under Geralt feet (under surface)
Nevertheless it was a great presentation. Everyone loved the demo applaud afterword and congratulated Damien doing great job.
We received gifts: 1x poster each and 1x Witcher clip. ( I really wanted the t-shirt but it was for staff only )
