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Aes Sídhe

Aes Sídhe

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#661
Feb 9, 2015
slimgrin said:
Certain sites have writers who just don't like the way CDPR approaches topics.
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Is that what this is then? Must admit I'm confused by the articles chosen personality style, I don't know the site, nor do I wish to after reading what appears to be at the very least unnecessary cheekiness, behind the back two faced cheekiness at that, seemingly not making an appearance until post-interviews, after what seems to be a perfectly cordial meeting with one REDling (yes, I have decided to start referring to individual REDs with an endearing diminutive inspired by their own creations... GOGlet is waiting on the sidelines for next month), and a similarly respectful & detailed email from another of these extremely busy hard workers. Work btw that doesn't involve being nasty for no good reason, from half a world away at that.

They’re the kids let loose in the candy store, but they’re also the kids who’ve been told that they have to do stocktake after every sugar-binge. Their excitement is infectious, but they're also here to sell a game, and you can tell when they're toeing the party line.
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Excuse me Mr. Article-bot (with SlightlyNastyStyle[SUP]TM[/SUP] mod) exactly what do you expect from employees of a company... Ed Snowden levels of whistleblowing? And what relevance has this got with the game? What good does this do readers & customers to state something so ubiquitous and expected in any business today? Tell me again how many companies allow, for instance, their employees full access to the company twitter account to post whatever they like? I guess the widespread adoption of strict rules about this sort of thing a few years ago due to widespread fubars happened while you were offline. Your employer may want to check your "party-line" circuits next downtime too, as using - repeatedly - a pejorative phrase with communist political connotations in this circumstance leaves me with the impression I've just witnessed prejudice.

Well Program, since they failed to do your job for you by whistleblowing, what did you do to tease further info from these people who have given you some of their precious-to-millions-of-gamers attention? In fact they again seem to be doing all the work, providing you with plenty of information you can spool out later, all in rather long & personalised sentences delivered with emotion to be considered obviously typical PR "soundbites". All I see from you - when you bother to include your input at all - are generic questions along the lines of "is Wild Hunt an 'adult' story?". You fail to even define what you mean by "adult", do you mean "mature" or can your program only handle age ranges? As those of us who have investigated & discussed this topic in detail know very well, theres a definite requirement for specificity here.If only they had paid for a Research mod instead of that faulty attitude one that was trendy & cheap.

Philipp seems to be conscious of the discussions around Wild Hunt and the Witcher series' attitude to sex and sexuality, too (the first game's approach to sex was notoriously juvenile).
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More proof your program had been offline for 10 years, since all you appear conscious of is TW1, although you fail to be specific again, and so tar every applicable aspect of that game with the same brush, when the only consensus you might find regards the optional card collecting and not the female characters themselves. But then the impression given is that you are just regurgitating something you heard from someone else and don't have actual hands on experience to draw from (oops forgot Programs have no hands, and don't hear other people, just get whatever opinions typed into them by the pressing of buttons).

TW2 is clearly not a part of your program. No mention.

TL / DR; Fellow Forumites: that gameplanet link was to rubbish unworthy of your time. I've only quoted a minimum of examples of the kind of unnecessary personal comment added to an otherwise uninformative interview. If only it had been a Journalist, preferably someone who had experience with the prior games and detailed knowledge of the deep issues that matter to us gamers interviewing the REDs who themselves seemed very friendly and open, didn't hold back, and were clearly up for it. Wasted Opportunity.
 
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Damariel

Damariel

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Feb 10, 2015
 
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DukeAlmighty

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#663
Feb 10, 2015
Too many quest spoilers..
 
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EliHarel

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Feb 10, 2015
Damariel Alunnar said:
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I thought they were gonna talk with CDPR solely about this, but it turned out to be two Eurogamers talking about their experiences from the hands-on events. Oh well, no worries. It's an interesting topic and one which I think is really important in determining how TW3 will be remembered in the genre's history. If it manages to consistently deliver quality side quests with good stories and dialogues to each, they'll do something that I think was never accomplished in open world RPGs. Hell, it's something that's not always accomplished even in regular, hub-based RPGs.
 
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BlackWolf500.298

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#665
Feb 10, 2015
eliharel said:
I thought they were gonna talk with CDPR solely about this, but it turned out to be two Eurogamers talking about their experiences from the hands-on events. Oh well, no worries. It's an interesting topic and one which I think is really important in determining how TW3 will be remembered in the genre's history. If it manages to consistently deliver quality side quests with good stories and dialogues to each, they'll do something that I think was never accomplished in open world RPGs. Hell, it's something that's not always accomplished even in regular, hub-based RPGs.
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To be honest, by now I think all I expect from them is making the game better than TW2 in most aspects. If they accomplish this, especially if they manage to have non-repetitive content and fill the world as much as they did in TW2 then I am already satisfied.
 
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EliHarel

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Feb 10, 2015
BlackWolf500 said:
To be honest, by now I think all I expect from them is making the game better than TW2 in most aspects. If they accomplish this, especially if they manage to have non-repetitive content and fill the world as much as they did in TW2 then I am already satisfied.
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Sounds like your hopes have been deflated a bit?
 
JackalJ

JackalJ

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#667
Feb 10, 2015
eliharel said:
Sounds like your hopes have been deflated a bit?
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Well I agree with @BlackWolf500 If they manage to avoid pretty much the only downside from DA:I, then they have a real jewel in their hands. I am really looking forward to exploring the world of TW3, and with good written side quests that will help me stay immersed and interested in the world and game.

I don't know if BlackWolf500's hopes have been deflated but I never expected any more than just a better TW2. (Never expected to see a huge jump in graphics or gameplay, just a lot more solid and polished.)
 
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Jimbob_2.1

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Feb 10, 2015
Not sure if this is the right place for this but here you go:

 
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Snake9027

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Feb 10, 2015
 
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DBag

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Feb 10, 2015
~Sn@ke~ said:
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Well directed series of vids, just a shame that they chose such an ill-suited narrator.
 
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KingHochmeister

KingHochmeister

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#671
Feb 10, 2015
DBag said:
Well directed series of vids, just a shame that they chose such an ill-suited narrator.
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217529/



But I agree, he is too .... Melodramatic, let's say :p
 
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Kinley

Kinley

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#672
Feb 10, 2015
PC Gamer - Show Us Your Rig: The Witcher 3's Marcin Bawolski

Not really Witcher 3 related per se. Still a fun article though.
 
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BlackWolf500.298

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#673
Feb 10, 2015
jackalj said:
Well I agree with @BlackWolf500 If they manage to avoid pretty much the only downside from DA:I, then they have a real jewel in their hands. I am really looking forward to exploring the world of TW3, and with good written side quests that will help me stay immersed and interested in the world and game.

I don't know if BlackWolf500's hopes have been deflated but I never expected any more than just a better TW2. (Never expected to see a huge jump in graphics or gameplay, just a lot more solid and polished.)
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Nah, nothing deflated for me.

I think in the development of a game you anticipate there are moments of hype and moments of panic, and moments of coming down from the hype and getting less extreme. I have now reached that phase I think.

After playing TW2 again I can say it is SUCH an amazing game in comparison to a lot of other games I played recently that all I want is that CDPR slightly improves upon it. My 3 main issues with TW2 were actually that the game set you in a kind of small "fight area", something like an arena, when fighting enemies, which IMO caused most of my character deaths in the game, and of course those 1 or 2 QTE moments as well as the (relatively) short length of the game. I think aside from that there is nothing that I would really criticize explicitly in TW2. Yes, potion durations were too short and alchemy was a little dumped down, but that didn't really hurt me a lot, I was fine with how most things were in that regard.

All in all I'd just say I would be happy if the Witcher 3 just contained the best of both worlds (TW1 and TW2), improved a little here and there, and aside from that just keep the atmosphere and amazing story on the same level, and create another (in my eyes) masterpiece.
 
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Lieste

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#674
Feb 11, 2015
Didn't find this one on a quick search:

Interview with Jonas Mattesson (Senior Environment Artist).

[video=youtube;hz3g-xuKmQE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz3g-xuKmQE[/video]
 
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Aes Sídhe

Aes Sídhe

Forum veteran
#675
Feb 11, 2015
BlackWolf500 said:
All in all I'd just say I would be happy if the Witcher 3 just contained the best of both worlds (TW1 and TW2), improved a little here and there, and aside from that just keep the atmosphere and amazing story on the same level, and create another (in my eyes) masterpiece.
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I get your point, and it rings true to me too as someone who loves TW2 having played it to the end more than any game in my 30 years of computer gaming.

We are all in No Mans Land at the minute, we don't really know what we're going to get. This is as it should be, we don't want spoilers, and our eventual experience will be highly subjective too. But as someone who was bitten by the Open World freedom & sense of actually being there bug way back with the original Elite and who also loves a deeply engrossing story driven more by external factors such as other people & events outside of personal control (again resembling real life), if they manage to even maintain the narrative strength of TW2 while improving on the Open Dead World format we are used to by even breathing some semblance of life into it, then they will have scored a major success.

Edit: This post btw is in addendum to my last, because the absence of any mention of, or recognition of the improvements around sex, in TW2 was one of the things that got my heckles up by that article, I hit post before explaining that any article that ignores the series evolution, particularly for obvious ideological motivations, is no article at all. How anyone who considers themselves a professional in this business can ignore the last game in a series - obviously because doing so would weaken their vacuous polemic stance - is beyond my ken. Why do I feel this wouldn't happen to the massive franchises with the intimidating advertising power ?

Also wanted to say that I think, though I could be mistaken, that the two REDs involved were @Benzenzimmern; & @GingerEffect;, whom regular readers will know already themselves without any argument from me, have contributed to this forum with words that make a mockery of any claim of enforced silence (beyond the necessary stipulations to protect the integrity of the unpublished game) on their part. The fact that these are two non-Poles working for a Polish company is what really got my prejudice bell ringing, as if they were not behaving professionally exactly as any employee would because they were now living under a jackboot, or something.

Yeah, these type of failed articles disgust me on many levels, and since I've had nothing to play since D:OS last summer, and nothing in sight until TW3 release, I'm in the mood to turn monsters into giblets whenever they dare raise my ire by attacking good people. I long for some good journalism critiquing this game fairly and thoroughly, I'll praise such a thing if I see it, and I'm here for the duration.
 
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RockPL.516

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Feb 11, 2015
All* footage given to us by the studio CD Projekt Red.
* or almost all

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Trailers & Gameplay & World Setting
 
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GHOSTMD

GHOSTMD

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#677
Feb 11, 2015
I don t know if this one was already posted.
Be aware Spoilers ahead! But no big ones, specially if you read the books.


But here you go: http://www.examiner.com/article/cd-projekt-red-on-ciri-gameplay-her-relationship-with-geralt-the-witcher-3
 
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arkblazer

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#678
Feb 12, 2015
GHOSTMD said:
I don t know if this one was already posted.
Be aware Spoilers ahead! But no big ones, specially if you read the books.


But here you go: http://www.examiner.com/article/cd-projekt-red-on-ciri-gameplay-her-relationship-with-geralt-the-witcher-3
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So Ciri is going to be sugar, spice, and everything nice?

...im ok with that.
 
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Shavod

Shavod

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Feb 13, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSU1yF-7e0Y
http://gry.onet.pl/zapowiedzi/wiedzmin-3-dziki-gon-juz-gralismy/wyev9
http://pclab.pl/art61452-4.html

I gathered a new info from this polish Q&A (made by the guys who played the game, without RED's participation) and articles from unrelated websites for the sake of clarification about certain subject matters. Some of it you may already heard about, but I'm sure there will be some new things for you as well.

- there are many different types of additional weapons that you can pick up. What's interesting, you need a higher level in order to be able to use it

- weapons (including swords) will not last forever and can end up dull if used too much, which will result in minimal damage. You need to regularly pay a visit to a craftsman to maintain it

- HUD is very customizable. There are several options available, including turning off minimap and all sorts of notifications if you so desire

- all graphical settings are present in in-game menu

- enemies will parry crossbow's bolts with a shields

- skill tree is really massive. There are 5 trees (according to witchersite there was 4, so I'm not sure who is closer to the truth), each has 5 tiers and each tier contains 5 skills. Every skill has 3 or 4 levels to unlock. Even though later Geralt will gain more skill points per level it's still will be impossible to unlock all of it

- after unlocking the skill it needs to be activated. You do that by putting it into separate tree, which contains a limited number of slots (it will increase with character's progress). Activated skills affects Geralt's fighting style. Activating set of skills from the same category will increase it's effects. It adds another layer to preparations and tactical planning, as you have to choose an appropriate set of active skills depending on what kind of opponent you going to face (for example, if you going to fight with heavily armored knights, you can activate Igni upgrade that allows you to melt armors)

- there are four slots for mutagens, which also affects your abilities

- temporary companions are quite helpful and even use different fighting styles. For example, one woman that accompany them waited for a right moment while enemies were focused on Geralt to backstab them for massive damage

- game is pretty difficult, as you can die even on easy if you're not careful

- some details about dynamic weather: there will be snow, different phases of day/night, different stages of cloudiness, storms, a few types of rain and even a morning mist

- enemy AI is really good. Wolves and bandits spread to cut off all of Geralt's escape routes. If you kill their respective leaders, they end up completely disorganized. One enemy can use himself as a living bait to give the rest of his squad a chance to put Geralt in a corner If you set up a trap or Yrden sign in front of the enemy, he will avoid it

- NPC's models are very diverse and interior of every hut looks different, so there will be no feeling of deja vu

EDIT:

Now there are some details I forgot to mention. Nothing major, but still something that I think was pretty interesting.

- in gry-online video about combat one journalist said that Geralt still can quickly beat the distance between him and enemy by jump attacking him like in The Witcher 2, but difference is that he's not doing that automatically this time around. You do that by holding light attack button, which is useful to catch fleeing enemies, if you choose "no survivors" policy. That's pretty cool, as it gives you a more control over character without taking anything away.

- in the pclab interview REDs also mention that this time you can throw away the quest items. To make sure that you won't accidentally get rid of something important and thus make the game unwinnable, this things will always remain in a game world where you left it, while regular stuff will vanish after some time. I know some people complained about lack of this option in The Witcher 2, so there you go

- there is one thing I'm not sure about. In the Onet article there is a sentence: "For example Igni sign has four levels, each with unique perks, one of them is armor melting". It may be my misinterpretation, but I think it means that each skill level is like a different skill and you can switch between all unlocked levels of a skill for other bonuses, like one level of Igni allows you to melt armor, but another gives it a wider range and so on. Again, that's just my interpretation of this one line of this one article, so don't quote me about it

- and finally we have confirmed return of another Witcher 2 character. Don't click SPOILER if you don't want to know who it's going to be.

ODRIIIIN!
 
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Geralt_of_bsas

Geralt_of_bsas

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Feb 13, 2015
That sounds amazing !!!, thanks a lot for the info @Shavod
 
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