GamesCom 2013

[username_2093396]

Nuking anything that made its way into the Web is pointless. Whatever is there stays forever. So for CDPR it is probably better not to waste time with this, and decide how to turn this situation to their benefit. Releasing a short HD portion of this demo would be good. The leaked video is on the web to stay, but at least they can supersede it with their own version where they will control quality and content.

I think it does make a bit of difference. If they send out requests to the main videogame websites not to post the leaked footage, most of them would probably comply because they don't want to risk missing out on exclusives later on.

That would keep people from casually stumbling across the leaked footage if they were just skimming news headlines, so it would minimize the potentially bad influence of the footage on people who might possibly buy the game when it comes out but don't currently care enough to go searching for the footage. That's the group of people who might be swayed to buy the game later if they see something really awesome about it, so it's best not to give them a bad first impression with crappy-quality footage.

Of course people can still find the footage by searching for it, but chances are the people who care that much are already planning to buy the game anyway so it doesn't make much difference whether they see it or not

 

[ViZ7]

new interview

http://gematsu.com/2013/08/interview-cd-projekt-reds-adam-badowski-on-the-witcher-3

"Shifting gears a bit, I would like to talk about regeneration and combat.

Badowski: Geralt is going to regenerate up till a certain threshold unless he receives critical wounds. In that case, taking medicine or potions with healing properties is necessary."

Oh, I'm actually quite liking this regeneration system, interesting.^^

 

[Garrison72]

new interview

http://gematsu.com/2...n-the-witcher-3

"Shifting gears a bit, I would like to talk about regeneration and combat.

Badowski: Geralt is going to regenerate up till a certain threshold unless he receives critical wounds. In that case, taking medicine or potions with healing properties is necessary."

[font=Arial, Helvetica]"Well, Mr. Sapkowski spent some time reading our script as we were writing and developing [/font]The Witcher 1[font=Arial, Helvetica] and shared his opinion on it. We adjusted the script accordingly to his suggestions and afterwards he said ‘yes, that sounds great, continue in that direction." [/font]
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[font="Arial, Helvetica"]Wow, I didn't know this. So Sapkowski collaborated a bit on TW1. No wonder it turned out so good.
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[Geralt_of_bsas]

[font=Arial, Helvetica]"Well, Mr. Sapkowski spent some time reading our script as we were writing and developing [/font]The Witcher 1[font=Arial, Helvetica] and shared his opinion on it. We adjusted the script accordingly to his suggestions and afterwards he said ‘yes, that sounds great, continue in that direction." [/font]
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[font="Arial, Helvetica"]Wow, I didn't know this. So Sapkowski collaborated a bit on TW1. No wonder it turned out so good.
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I think i actually heard that once before this article, probably in the making of videos for the first witcher.

It'd be interesting to hear what was the purely original first script CDPRED thought before Sapkowski gave them suggestions.

 

[GuyNwah]

Nuking anything that made its way into the Web is pointless. Whatever is there stays forever. So for CDPR it is probably better not to waste time with this, and decide how to turn this situation to their benefit. Releasing a short HD portion of this demo would be good. The leaked video is on the web to stay, but at least they can supersede it with their own version where they will control quality and content.

The thing about exclusives is that you owe that exclusivity to the journalists you gave it to.

The scoop, a story you have and the next f'lah does not, is the stock in trade of journalists. It is what gets you big lineage as a writer and big advertising as a publisher. You go to the expense and trouble of events like this because you are going to get a better story than anybody else out of it.

Then some joker leaks a bad bootleg copy of the exclusive. Now it is not only no longer an exclusive, it is in the public eye as an affront to the developer who sees his work shown badly and an affront to the journalists who lose a profitable story and have to deal with their own ethics being defamed.

The developer, as well as those journalists who have more ethics than will fit in a flea's navel, are bound to police up the leak to prevent further damage to their own reputation, even if it is not practically possible to pull a Hearst and buy up all the copies of Citizen Kane.

 

[Senteria]

I guess I missed the leak of the presentation. Oh well, it wasn't meant to be released to the public anyway.

Edit: nvm, I found it anyway. Curiousity killed the cat. Interesting. I have to read the last 6 - 7 pages here to catch up.

 

[triptrap]

I'll do it. i'm staying strong, no i won't watch anything, won't ask anyone. then when it finally reaches us in all its HD-super-awesomness i'll let myself be blown away

(and you can't even imagine how hard it was writing this post instead of starting a hysteric search for anything leaked!!!)

 

[Senteria]

I'll do it. i'm staying strong, no i won't watch anything, won't ask anyone. then when it finally reaches us in all its HD-super-awesomness i'll let myself be blown away

(and you can't even imagine how hard it was writing this post instead of starting a hysteric search for anything leaked!!!)

Good. I feel regret that I did look for it. I mean what I could have seen if I were patient would probably a lot better. Besides it was never intended to be shown to us.

 

[tommy5761]

Well I missed it . Seems all the good stuff happens when i`m at work ! Come to think of it i`m mostly always working . Anyway not going out of my way to see something that wasn`t intended to be viewed at this time . I would rather wait and be blown away when the time is right .

 

[triptrap]

Well I missed it . Seems all the good stuff happens when i`m at work ! Come to think of it i`m mostly always working . Anyway not going out of my way to see something that wasn`t intended to be viewed at this time . I would rather wait and be blown away when the time is right .

hehe, i've got the same feeling. i wasn't even away from the internet though, i was indeed just writing on a paper for university^^

 

[Senteria]

Once we receive official footage of the game, it will blow us all away. I was pretty surprised with the stormy forest but at the same time chuckled seeing Geralt jump. It reminded me of the jumping in Dynasty Warrior 5. Still for pre-alpha it's nice. I had a good read with that interview btw on page 20.

now going to bed and do more work for school as I did not get enough done today.

 

[Cs__sz__r]

I got to the page the video was on then I asked myself, wwGd? And closed the tab.

 

[Krisk7]

Looks like there was a leak during one of the demos. The forest with the wind looks really stunning and it's still pre-alpha.
http://gematsu.com/2013/08/the-witcher-3-first-gameplay-footage-leaked
Enjoy while it lasts.

 

[Agent_Blue]

One should be careful here.
I remember when official SKyrim footage was made available some 5 months, not 14 mind you, before release. Every single mention of its shortcomings was met with the proverbial «Beta» comeback. Specifically, some people seemed to believe the quantic rain that went through rooftops would be gone in the final game.

It wasn't.

TW3 already looks good and it will certainly improve over the 14 months or so left. It'd be unrealistic though to expect every single quibble and shortcoming to be a thing of the past by the time it finally comes out.

 

[Krisk7]

One should be careful here.
I remember when official SKyrim footage was made available some 5 months, not 14 mind you, before release. Every single mention of its shortcomings was met with the proverbial «Beta» comeback. Specifically, some people seemed to believe the quantic rain that went through rooftops would be gone in the final game.

It wasn't.

TW3 already looks good and it will certainly improve over the 14 months or so left. It'd be unrealistic though to expect every single quibble and shortcoming to be a thing of the past by the time it finally comes out.

I am sure the environments in TW3 will be stunning. What I can only hope for is that the face gesture system will be much improved to come closer to L.A. Noire. Anyway whatever happens CD Pojekt are doing marvelous job and I will enjoy TW3 next year.
Respect to the moderators. You are lightning-quick.

 

[secondchildren]

I'll do it. i'm staying strong, no i won't watch anything, won't ask anyone. then when it finally reaches us in all its HD-super-awesomness i'll let myself be blown away

(and you can't even imagine how hard it was writing this post instead of starting a hysteric search for anything leaked!!!)

Don't bother. For the few things I've seen so far, the quality really sucks and you have to struggle with the not stable camera.

I want to enjoy it HD, with less damage possible to my fave devs company.

 

[CostinRaz]

What I can only hope for is that the face gesture system will be much improved to come closer to L.A. Noire.

Now that is extremely unlikely given that L.A. Noire used mocap to record both the face and body at the same time.

Don't get me wrong I fully expect CDPR to improve facial animations, but it's not going to reach anything close to L.A. Noire level.

It wasn't.

TW3 already looks good and it will certainly improve over the 14 months or so left. It'd be unrealistic though to expect every single quibble and shortcoming to be a thing of the past by the time it finally comes out.

It's not 14 months more like 10 to 12. But that is more then enough time to sort out all the issues.

 

[Agent_Blue]

I am sure the environments in TW3 will be stunning. What I can only hope for is that the face gesture system will be much improved to come closer to L.A. Noire. Anyway whatever happens CD Pojekt are doing marvelous job and I will enjoy TW3 next year.
Respect to the moderators. You are lightning-quick.

Facial animations are reported to be undergoing a major overhaul, which apparently wasn't ready for prime time around E3. On the other hand, running, sprinting, leaping and jumping animations seem to be more a matter of iterating until they're nailed. No one except perhaps for toddlers leaps like Geralt does in the leaked demo so I would expect the animation to be greatly improved in the final game. Body language is of great importance and they do need to hone the craft.

On a side note, CDProjekt seems to have given up on taking the leaks off the air. There are now no less than 4 clones on a mainstream video hosting site.

It's not 14 months more like 10 to 12. But that is more then enough time to sort out all the issues.

Release date is not known for sure. I'm expecting late Q4, November 2014, hence 14 months. My point is even with such an extended period of time to hone the game, one can be sure not all issues will be sorted out. That's just the way it is.

 

[AsTheDeath]

Well, having watched the leak I can understand why CDPR does not want to show this to the public yet. While the graphics and environments are looking good, the main reason to show such a video to the public would be to show the new gameplay, i.e. either the combat (which is clearly still a work in progress) or the conversations (for which the facial animations still need some work).

So really, CDPR doesn't have gameplay to show us yet - which is fine, we'll see it when we'll see it. And I hope they get the leaker.

 

[wichat]

has it been posted before?

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