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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Riceninja said:
that grass look nasty as hell. a far cry from earlier screenshots and goes way beyond a "sharpening filter" as the devs claimed.

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That better be a console pic lol, the bottom one I mean.
 
Riceninja said:
that grass look nasty as hell. a far cry from earlier screenshots and goes way beyond a "sharpening filter" as the devs claimed.

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very disappointed by the texturing as well. going DSR/VSR isn't going to change that.

the overall feel/atmosphere is just too...vibrant. i was expecting something more bleak.
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GTA 5 vegetation > TW3 downgrade
 
sze5003 said:
Just watched some ps4 streams and it doesn't look very good on console. I'll be better off on PC I think, despite I would it enjoy it more on console.
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I think it looks better than DA:I and I thought that game looked fabulous to begin with. Both on Console and PC.

sze5003 said:
Then I'll get it on PC, missed playing witcher 2 so this one is on my radar for sure. I was thinking console but looking at streams, it looks bad.
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Streams are bad quality to begin with in my experience. I've never seen a single stream that was at full video resolution. There's always huge compression artifacts.
 
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cmdrdredd said:
I think it looks better than DA:I and I thought that game looked fabulous to begin with. Both on Console and PC.



Streams are bad quality to begin with in my experience. I've never seen a single stream that was at full video resolution. There's always huge compression artifacts.
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Guess it also depends on the connection of the stream and your connection too. If I do get it on PC I'll just use my xb1 controller.
 
My memory is a little hazy but in Witcher 2 at the ending, is there more than one outcome? I can't remember if there was and if so what is canon before the events of Witcher 3? Maybe the events you have an option for don't matter for the overall story, I really forget.
 
cmdrdredd said:
My memory is a little hazy but in Witcher 2 at the ending, is there more than one outcome? I can't remember if there was and if so what is canon before the events of Witcher 3? Maybe the events you have an option for don't matter for the overall story, I really forget.
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There are 16 permutations of the major choices in TW2: http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/The_Witcher_2_ending

However one of the choices doesn't affect the ending, so only 8 possible endings.

At the start of TW3 you are allowed to "build an import" with the choices you want from TW2 if you don't have an actual save to import.
 
Puppies04 said:
There is a fine line to tread here, we all know PC's thrash consoles but if developers start joining the "PC is so much better" bandwagon and post screenshots to prove it they risk losing sales on consoles. It is a lose lose situation.
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Why is that? If they get same game they were going to get on consoles anyways why do they care what a few developers say? So this is not a video game industry but a gamer industry?

And where did the developer ever say that consoles suck and that PCs are superior to everything else?

Furthermore I would like to know very much how not downgrading the PC versions of every multiplatform game is going to risk the loss of console sales and that type of crap. Would you say this is a question of not brushing by the psychological complexes of any console gamer then?
 
cmdrdredd said:
My memory is a little hazy but in Witcher 2 at the ending, is there more than one outcome? I can't remember if there was and if so what is canon before the events of Witcher 3? Maybe the events you have an option for don't matter for the overall story, I really forget.
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My guess is there are all sorts of minor decisions throughout that could lead to events--most likely small side quests that exist or not (depending on if you chose to kill some NPC or let them live for some reason)...But I think there are 3 major paths, rather choices that matter the most:

--killing the dragon/saskia or letting it live
--killing the kingslayer or going separate ways
(both of these at the very end, and can be made regardless of anything)

then, I suppose there is the decision of whether or not you followed The elf dude or the special forces dude...though it seems like they both live in the end, anyway, and neither really seems to hate you, which is strange. but whatever.


...maybe letting prince-then-king douchebag live/not go to trial (whatever happens at that moment--I have no idea if he can be killed) could be huge
 
norseamd said:
Why is that? If they get same game they were going to get on consoles anyways why do they care what a few developers say? So this is not a video game industry but a gamer industry?

And where did the developer ever say that consoles suck and that PCs are superior to everything else?

Furthermore I would like to know very much how not downgrading the PC versions of every multiplatform game is going to risk the loss of console sales and that type of crap. Would you say this is a question of not brushing by the psychological complexes of any console gamer then?
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I could never quite figure out that reasoning, although it does seem the devs are reluctant to show up consoles. But if the PC looks better someone who wants to play the game will either play the console for some reason (it is good enough, they dont have a powerful PC, their freinds play on console, etc.) or they will get the game for PC. In either case the game gets sold. In fact, they might sell a few extra games to PC gamers who will not play console or a poor PC port. Now I am talking about game devs here. I suppose what is more likely is that either Sony or Microsoft pressure game developers to tone down PC graphics in order to sell more on the console.
 
frozentundra123456 said:
I could never quite figure out that reasoning, although it does seem the devs are reluctant to show up consoles. But if the PC looks better someone who wants to play the game will either play the console for some reason (it is good enough, they dont have a powerful PC, their freinds play on console, etc.) or they will get the game for PC. In either case the game gets sold. In fact, they might sell a few extra games to PC gamers who will not play console or a poor PC port. Now I am talking about game devs here. I suppose what is more likely is that either Sony or Microsoft pressure game developers to tone down PC graphics in order to sell more on the console.
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It's due to MS and Sony, not because of the devs. It has happened before where the console companies pay to make a version worse than theirs, etc. There is almost zero risk of a console gamer ditching a console and buying a PC version just because the PC version looks better. It is all about buying an image.
 
ImpulsE69 said:
It's due to MS and Sony, not because of the devs. It has happened before where the console companies pay to make a version worse than theirs, etc. There is almost zero risk of a console gamer ditching a console and buying a PC version just because the PC version looks better. It is all about buying an image.
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when did this happen?
 
Tomorrow somebody run it on max settings and let me know if I'm buying this thing or waiting for a sale. Can't believe it's gotten to this point, why CDPR why ?
 
Another Preview vs Review(day 1 patched) comparison. (the lighting/colors certainly look better IMO)
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