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Introducing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by Gamespot
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Phat Michael
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I really they fix the shitty menu and inventory system. I also hope this is focused and not some DA:I thing where there are hundreds of hours of fetch quests.
qa_engineer
Member
still on the fence about this game, but from what little I've seen it does look good. For those of you who are wondering what the PS4 version looks like you can get a glimpse here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqmGT9mkOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNqmGT9mkOg
the image compression is terrible. whatever phone this person used: pre-order canceled...
Very excited for the Witcher III though. like it's less than a month away. holy shit.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Huh? That's just the PC gameplay trailer uploaded to the Playstation YouTube channel. Not a PS4 rendered version of the trailer.
Though as I said, I expect the PS4 version will look VERY similar to the PC version aside from IQ/Resolution and HairWorks.
The developers said they hate fetch quests.
It's just a reuploaded trailer.
Vulcano's assistant
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Gamespot rising the bar
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
You expect it to look similar aside from IQ? Lol
The Dutch Slayer
Member
Its just what Danny and Andy can do with a budget and time.
This is what more bigger websites COULD do if they can live on it and just be a like bate websites that just wants hits at low cost.
Denton
Member
nelsonroyale
Member
similar gives a fair margin for interpretation so...obviously.
qa_engineer
Member
Not the best example of gameplay obviously but there are a few shots of the PS4 menus, character armor and weapons screens in there. Maybe its the same trailer with PS4 button prompts?
UnrealEck
Member
That looks like the same trailer they showed a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure that's PS4.
The 'PS4' at the end of the video title just tells you what PlayStation system it's going to be released on.
batman2million
Member
is there a youtube link for this? Work and all...
And view distance, and LOD, and frame rate, and according to at least one hands on report, textures and foliage.
So basically NOT very similar.
My vote is for: "somewhat, kind of similar". I feel that's more accurate
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Yes. I own both versions, and I fully expect the game to look relatively the same on both platforms.
The resolution will be higher on some PC's (Mine), the AA will be better, and probably the LoD settings/pop in. Aside from that and hairworks, I don't see the two looking that drastically different.
This reminds me of when people here said that The Witcher 2 was beyond what we should expect out of PS4. Look at us now.
Has Nvidia said they are using anything other than hairworks for the witcher? I seem to remember a slide somewhere.
Who the hell said that? Witcher 2 was a DX9 game (wasn't it?). Just all kinds of stupid.
I wouldn't worry about it too much considering how well the 360 version of the second game turned out. Not to say that they won't fuck up the console versions this time around, but it's clear they're capable of getting a lot out of a console.
"In summary then, it's clear that The Witcher 2 has the performance to match the spectacle. This may well be a PC conversion, but the level of technical accomplishment
we see here is more in line with what we'd expect from a top-tier first-party studio designing a game directly for the strengths of the host console hardware."
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-witcher-2-tech-analysis
UnrealEck
Member
Yeah that's a bit weird. As far as I can tell it's literally the exact same trailer frame for frame just with different buttons then.
qa_engineer
Member
Not all of it is PS4, but there are some shots of PS4 gameplay or at least game play with PS4 button prompts. See my post above.
9 times out of ten "gameplay" with PS4 buttons or "gameplay" with Xbone buttons is PC gameplay with [insert console] button prompts.
... well, ok 8 times out of 10.
UnrealEck
Member
I really don't know what you expect from the same game. It's like you expect the game to look completely different.
What do you expect from better graphics from one platform to another, realistically?
qa_engineer
Member
Yeah I know. It's easier to use the same video assets with super imposed buttons or splice in smaller sections with prompts for a specific system.
Denton
Member
Witcher 2 came out May 17th.
I finished it May 23rd, without encountering any significant bugs or crashes.
They delayed TW3 twice to ensure it is as flawless as possible out the door.
There will definitley be an enhanced edition, with new content and tweaks. That's just how they roll, well how a lot of PC game devs roll.
We like it that way, especially since these editions are usually free or inexpensive add-ons. Witcher 2 and one were pretty damn stable. I mean patches improved performance a bit and fixed a bug here and there, but nothing game breaking that I can recall. The enhanced edition of Witcher 2 changed up some game mechanics and added a new difficulty. The enhanced version of Witcher 1 did similar things, and improved the flow of the story.
I think you're fine buying day one, and I think a dev that cares about it's fans this much deserves the support (certainly more than a lot of other devs do).
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
I haven't been a big GameSpot fan since the Greg Kasavin days, but that video was pretty good. I'll definitely be checking out the rest.
UnrealEck
Member
Yeah what I'm saying though is that the trailer is exactly the same as the one they showed before which had Xbox prompts. Literally the exact same frames with button prompts and the icons are the only difference.
I don't know what's going on with it.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
That mentality was rampant here before the official PS4 announcement. People constantly said that expecting anything beyond what the Witcher 2 was doing was unrealistic. I always scoffed at this notion.
Huh?
Not sure where you are going with this.
Some are acting as if this will be like Shadow of Mordor on PS4 vs PS3. It won't.
The game will largely have the same effects, textures, models, etc in play on both PS4 and PC. The PS4 version is also 1080p, so it will match MOST PC gaming rigs resolution. (I will be playing at whatever the highest resolution I can squeeze out of my 970 FTW is on my 4K display). Really, as I said before, I expect IQ to be the biggest difference. With some smaller differences like LoD/Pop in, Hair Works, and anything else that is Nvidia exclusive.
This was a cool feature on the game. I really enjoyed it. The Witcher 3 is shaping up to be something great.
Mookie1515
Member
It's the Danny O'Dwyer factor for sure. No one can resist that brogue.
And holy hell, my hype for this game is getting out of control, and its still a month away.
HBAO+, as well, will make a big difference for me.
They weren't perfect; you'll find people that had no issues, others that had tons of issues, and everyone inbetween. In either case, they've been great about getting patches out quickly.
Enhanced Editions are not about improving game stability, those are more about improving larger gameplay systems. For instance, people thought Act 3 of Witcher 2 was too short, so they added another 5 hours worth of content to flesh it out. EE's are free updates so theres no reason to wait (usually a year) for them like you would a GOTY edition that other games do.
Iastfan112
Neo Member
Nice video, surprised it didn't touch on CDPR almost going under from the attempt to port the first game to the 360 but well worth a watch.
UnrealEck
Member
I guess it's your definition of 'drastically different' that I'm curious about. What would you say would be drastically different in the graphics of the same game on two different platforms and would it be a reasonable expectation from the developer?
I know you've got a GTX 970 and a 4K screen. I saw you talking about them probably just after you bought them. You seemed really excited about them too.
Well, I don't remember anybody saying that, but they were exaggerating if they did.
That said, I was just playing The Witcher 2 the other day and it still looks impressive. It looks better than several games I've played on my PS4, and can compete with any of the best.
EmptySpace
Banned
going under because they're doing a port? interesting.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Fair enough. Like I said, drastically different to me would be if the textures and effects were all downgraded, lighting model was worse, geometry was lower, etc.
Basically, this scenario.
http://kotaku.com/shadow-of-mordor-is-way-less-fun-on-old-consoles-1660387779
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN--TmdjwzE
Where as I expect the difference between TW3 on PC vs PS4 to be much less by comparison.
And yes, was/am pretty excited about it. 4K has been absolutely unbelievable, even in replaying older titles like Bioshock/Inifinite and Deus Ex HR.
DarkLordMalik
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Eurogamer did a really great article on their history here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-06-seeing-red-the-story-of-cd-projekt
MAX PAYMENT
Member
Youtube link?
BinaryBear07
Member
Awesome feature. I am very excited for this game.
Primethius
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How's this done again? Do i just play the game via borderless windowed and call it a day or do I need to do some extra steps (like enable vsync in game or w/e)?